Life with two children: It's too early to be this tired.

Having failed to sleep until 1am, Gideon was a grumpy pain this morning. He refused to get out of the buggy when we got to the bus stop, so we sat downstairs with him in the buggy.

After 4 stops he played very slightly with Sophia's foot. After 6 stops he got out of the buggy and, just as 30 kids got on, demanded to go upstairs.

We got the last pair of seats together, and the three of us are crammed into them. He is now awake enough to be interesting in playing, she is tired enough to be grumpy about it. And I think I've changed my mind about having children.

Interesting Links for 09-10-2023

1. Written? Kitten! (having problems hitting your word count? This site will reward you with kittens!)

(tags:kittens writing )

2. Twitter is now trying to force people to post everything on their site by deprioritising links. I suspect (and hope) it will go very badly for them.

(tags:Twitter OhForFucksSake business )

3. New study definitively confirms gulf stream weakening

(tags:Doom globalwarming ocean )

4. How one independent researcher conducted the largest-ever survey on fetishes, and what it has to teach us about sex, pleasure, and social science methodology.

(tags:research sex fetish psychology )

5. Musk is nearly done destroying what made Twitter Twitter

(tags:Twitter epicfail design viaPatrickHadfield )

6. EU launches a carbon tax on all imports

(tags:europe tax co2 globalwarming economics )

7. Ticket reselling companies set to lose more than $1million because they bought all of the tickets for an artist that not many people want to see live.

(tags:music business epicfail tickets )

A question about Labour's housebuilding pledge

I would love to know whether, when Labour say "We will build houses" they actually mean "We will give actual money to actual housebuilders to actually build actual houses" or if they mean "We will muck about with incentives and then be baffled that housebuilders aren't doing what we rather hoped we would, because it turns out that things are more complicated than that."

Because I hope it's the former, but I really worry it's the latter.