Interesting Links for 30-08-2019

Why the UK's "constitution" is unfit for purpose, & how British public complacency & exceptionalism has led to tyranny.…

(tags:UK Constitution history )

I'm a medical student, and I'm gay. Work would be simpler if I were heterosexual

(tags:LGBT work NHS healthcare )

Boris Johnson Is Planning A Series Of Extreme Measures To Force Through Brexit

(tags:uk europe doom OhForFucksSake )

Northern Ireland's lost moment: how the peaceful protests of '68 escalated into years of bloody conflict

I hadn't realised how corrupt the voting system was until then.
(tags:voting rights NorthernIreland history protests violence uk )

Dominic Cummings is playing chicken with an oncoming train

(tags:UK Europe politics Doom )

Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genetic architecture of same-sex sexual behavior

(tags:genetics sexuality lgbt )

I tried to glitch the simulation and all I got was a bottle of pee

(tags:random simulation )

Protect and survive: Official advice on how to withstand a no deal Brexit

(tags:UK Europe Doom satire )

Details of the court case on proroguing parliament

(tags:parliament government democracy law uk scotland )

Humans first reached Americas by sea a thousand years earlier than thought

(tags:usa prehistory )

A very deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild (and which can attack an iPhone if it visits a compromised website)

(tags:security iphone apple )