Interesting Links for 23-12-2022

1. Glaswegian who invented chicken tikka masala dies

(tags:India Glasgow food history obituary )

2. Gender reform bill to make it easier for transgender people to self-identify passes in Scotland

(tags:Scotland transgender LGBT GoodNews )

3. Large swathes of English people use "English" and "British" interchangeably

(tags:UK nationality England britain viaDanielDWilliam )

4. Mastodon is hurtling toward a tipping point

(tags:mastodon socialnetworking )

5. A look behind the scenes at how Scotland finally passed a Gender Recognition Reform Act, and how the Tories, knowing they would fail to vote it down, tried to filibuster it.

(tags:LGBT transgender Scotland politics conservatives )

6. The law of participation inequality (that the vast majority of users of a social network read, but don't interact, some interact a bit, a tiny number provide most content)

(tags:socialnetworking )

7. Spain approves self-id transgender bill

(tags:Spain LGBT transgender GoodNews )

8. Strange, tentacled microbe may resemble ancestor of complex life

(tags:life )