Interesting Links for 04-10-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Here Is Your Periodic Reminder that Stars Move

(tags:space time )

2. Anti trans school guidance causes children to not use school toilets leading to worse physical and mental health.

(tags:children bigotry lgbt school scotland uk transgender )

3. What Did People Do Before Smartphones? (I carried a book at all times)

(tags:phones history boredom )

4. Common mistakes when drawing the moon

(tags:moon drawing video )

Comments

[channelpenguin]

Back in the day ? Books, Walkmans and just actually experiencing my surroundings.

Now, I actually don't need something to fill the idle time so much. Weird but true.

I have no social media bar YouTube (and when I'm job hunting, LinkedIn etc). My phone is on Do Not Disturb by default, only changed its I'm expecting a call (an infrequent occurrence). I wear a watch (though I've lost any knack I once had to use a laptop wearing it!). I often don't even have my phone with me.

I don't listen to music all the time like I used to, usually only when driving or doing mindless cooking and preserving tasks.

I can just sit or stand and wait things, looking about me. Though people aren't as entertaining as they used to be since mostly they just stare at and poke at their phones. :-)

[calimac]

3) I still do carry a book. Sometimes that book is in the form of my e-reader, and my e-reader can also connect to the internet, so if there's wifi I sometimes do. But experience has taught me that significant movement in my e-mail or web news reading takes several hours to occur, so if the time has been less than that I don't bother.

[cmcmck]

3. We lived our lives without the damn things clamped to our ears at all times!

[andrewducker]

I think I have a smartphone on my ear for about five minutes a month.

[cmcmck]

I don't own a smartphone- just a dumb one.

[bens_dad]

I rarely listened to my phone, except during a call, until I got a hearing aid. Although it is NHS it has bluetooth, and I listen to the radio on it quite bit.