Interesting Links for 29-09-2024

1. The Lib Dems must welcome Flat Earthers

(tags:satire libdem transgender bigotry LGBT politics UK )

2. Study links anti-trans laws to an increase in trans teen suicide attempts (up 72% in 13-17 year olds)

(tags:suicide LGBT transgender OhForFucksSake law children bigotry )

3. Moo Deng Worried Chubbier, Feistier Pygmy Hippo Coming To Take This All Away

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4. New California law means digital stores can't imply you're buying a game when you're merely licensing it

(tags:intellectual_property licensing California games law )

5. Damaged bulk carrier off UK coast a ticking timebomb

(tags:UK Russia Malta shipping explosives )

6. All the homes we will ever need - a permanent fix for the housing crisis

(tags:housing UK )

Micropost

Advantages of being educated by the Netflix: Sophia just described her Nutella as being "Like ooblek."

instagram cross-post

This, children, is how you invert the polarity of the neutron flow.

(We had fun at the open day at Blackford Observatory)
Original is here on instagram.

WTF is a Micropost?

A fair while ago I realised that little updates were going on to Facebook, Twitter, etc rather than here.

And I felt bad about that, particularly because I actively prefer here to those other sites.

But the problem is that when I write a post here links get automatically posted on the various micro-blogging sites pointing to here. Because when I write an actual blog post that's what I want to happen. And for a one line status update I don't really want to have both the update and a link to the equivalent post on here.

What's changed is that I finally got around to working out how to not post those links, providing I put a specific piece of text in the post. In this case, I've gone with the keyword "micropost".

I need to experiment with whether I can have that keyword in tags or if it needs to be in the body of the post (or the subject line).

But anyway, if you see that pop up, that's why.

Computer game nostalgia alert!

The remaster of Katamari Damacy is currently on Switch reduced by 75% to £4.

If, like me, you never owned a PlayStation, this is quite exciting.