Interesting Links for 14-06-2019

[andrewducker]

Terrible erotica for millennials (the Twister one made me laugh)

(tags:funny erotica writing sex bad )

Radiohead Fans vs. Black-Market Sellers: How the OK Computer Tapes were leaked

(tags:music radiohead )

Most Comprehensive Review To Date Finds The Average Person's Reading Speed Is Slower Than Previously Thought (240 wpm rather than 300)

(tags:reading speed )

Confirmation that politics and discussion shows tell their guests to fight

(tags:argument tv OhForFucksSake radio politics Doom )

When the World's Most Famous Mystery Writer Vanished

(tags:mysteries authors relationships history )

Boris Johnson is heading for Downing Street, but he'll hate the experience as much as we will

(tags:Conservatives politics uk )

Adults Who Played Pokémon Extensively In Childhood Have A Pokémon-Sensitive Region In Their Visual Cortex

(tags:pokemon vision psychology )

A country of purists: the polling which lays bare the death of any compromise on Brexit

(tags:uk europe doom )

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

Hell yeah no compromise! Hard remain! Schengen, the Euro, the lot!

[dewline]

That would be a good outcome for the unholy mess that has ever been the Brexit.

[bohemiancoast]

I'm actually pretty bitter that "remain in the EU" is being described as an extreme position. Not just here. It's not remotely extreme. There is an extreme position, which is full on EU unification, which is not about to happen. Most remainers just want to stay in the EU with gradual alignment of systems and rules.

And before Cameron decided to stuff up the entire country on a whim, "remain in the EU with no further integration and perhaps some recognition of our quirky Britishness" - a position that would now be called "extreme" - was the most Eurosceptic any serious politician was prepared to admit to. It's been a shocking, shocking Overton window shift.