Thursday, 9 October 2025

'Real People'?

Have just read this in Etsy's policies:


I don't get it. Etsy is very big on everything must be handmade or hand designed. Yet it allows you to outsource your design work to a robot? Hardly 'original items from real people'.

Writing a prompt is NOT being an artist. At best, it's being an art editor. Art editors do not claim they made the images they commissioned.

Tuesday, 7 October 2025

Overheard in the station

A dad and a two or three-year old were having this conversation, which I've recorded as best as I can from memory:

Dad: You can't run in the train station.

Wee girl: Why?

Dad: Because you might fall over the edge, so you need to be a bit careful.

Wee girl: And then if a train came along you’d be squished.
Like a pancake. 
With eyes. 
And a nose, and ears, and fingers, and legs [long list of body parts which I can't remember]

Dad: I wouldn't want you to turn into a pancake.

Wee girl: What would you do?

Dad: I'd say oh no, Martha's a pancake!