Interesting Links for 01-08-2018

"What Happened When I Tried Talking to Twitter Abusers"

Which shows how pointless it is to engage with vile people.
(tags: Twitter abuse )

Ministers misleading public after denying that plans to turn Kent into a giant lorry park are because of Brexit

(tags: uk europe doom )

Labour councillor quits over transgender women being allowed to use female toilets

(tags: labour transgender toilets )

Hobby Games Top $1.5 Billion - collectible games are half that, role-playing games about 3%

(tags: games business )

MoviePass Goes Black Just Days After Running Out of Cash

(tags: movies business fail )

Labour set to include pilot of radical basic income policy in next manifesto

(tags: Labour GuaranteedIncome )

Writer Greg Pak looks back at the role-playing campaign notes of his thirteen-year-old self, and is surprised at what he finds

(tags: writing roleplaying )

HBO picks up The Time Traveler’s Wife series from Steven Moffat

Season one: a beautifully written, tragic and deeply compelling time travel love story. Season 2 and onwards: the characters go back to all of the times and scenes shown in season one and high-five each other for being so compelling. Each series has a cameo where a steadily increasing number of Steven Moffats high five themselves. (Stolen from Alex)
(tags: StevenMoffat timetravel tv scifi )

Waymo pilot program shows how self-driving cars could work with public transport

(tags: transport cars automation )

Edinburgh named as UK's easiest city for travel 

(tags: Edinburgh transport uk cities )

Men are more attracted to women who are closer to them

(tags: men psychology attraction )

Abusers given power by Britain's outdated benefits system

(tags: uk welfare abuse )

The Science Behind Non-Newtonian Noodles

(tags: physics food china viaFanf )