"Sometimes I dream"

1. New Mexico is first state in nation to offer universal child care

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Sophia is having her evening snack while sitting on the window ledge watching the world go by.
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Yesterday I was having fun with Gideon playing with webcam special effects, and we got to one that looks like old sepia film stock with damage marks on it and judderiness and he delightedly shouted "It's footage!"

1. This is why we don't read the Golden Age of science fiction any more.

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2. Ghost sharks grow forehead teeth to help them have sex

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3. The tax-evading Princes Street shops costing Edinburgh taxpayers thousands

(tags:tax Edinburgh fraud shops OhForFucksSake )

1. K-pop Demon Hunters explained by a Korean teacher 😈🧑‍🏫

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1. Blocky Planet — Making Minecraft Spherical

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2. Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America!

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3. Edinburgh primary school mobile phone ban set to go ahead later this year

(tags:school Edinburgh Scotland phones children )

4. Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks in England

(tags:caffeine children England regulation )

5. Starmer appoints ex-director of anti trans campaign group as as comms director

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6. Dubstep artist Skrillex could protect against mosquito bites

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The kids take it in turn doing a variety of things, so that we don't have arguments every single night over who gets to choose teethbrushing things, who gets to be first to get put into pyjamas, who gets to check inside the parcel box when we get home, who gets to choose who gets out of the bath first, etc. This month, Sophia has odd numbered days and Gideon has even numbered days. Except that they swapped yesterday and today so that Gideon could have his birthday.

Except...that a few months ago we used the app Chwazi, where everyone puts their finger on the screen and then it picks someone (to be first player in a game, for instance). And Gideon loved it. So last weekend when I asked who should get out of the bath first he said "We'll play the finger game." - and I asked him if he'd be sad if he didn't win, and he said no, and then he and Sophia played it, and he lost, and I had to wash the hair of a sobbing child, who kept saying "I thought I would win!"

So this weekend, I asked him who was getting out of the bath first, and he said "Finger game!" and I said "Do you remember how sad you were?" and he said "Very sad!" and I said "So you should just choose." and he said "I have a plan, this time the person who loses will go first." And, of course, he won. And so, again, I had to wash the hair of a crying child who thought he'd found a way to beat probability.

All of which is to say that if you want to beat people at games of chance then I recommend 5-year-olds, who are both terrible at understanding it, and completely fail to learn from that.

1. My Top Five Favorite Techno Songs and Why They're All the Mortal Kombat Theme Song

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2. A historian reviews King & Conqueror (neither good nor accurate)

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3. Spineless fence-sitter thinks killing children is bad no matter who does it

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