Interesting Links for 22-12-2019

[andrewducker]

Cats is not Andrew Lloyd Webber's weirdest musical

(tags:musicals trains )

Future proofing the Afsluitdijk

(tags:Netherlands Ocean architecture thefuture )

Why Brussels Sprouts are suddenly more popular

(tags:food genetics farming comic xkcd )

A Storm Over the Forth. (Some awesome photos)

(tags:photos storm weather edinburgh )

We Can't See "Star Wars" Anymore

(tags:StarWars history movies )

Labour's leaked strategy for the 2019 election was catastrophically awful

(tags:Labour epicfail OhForFucksSake )

The vast majority of British women are absolutely fine with trans women. Do not let yourself be convinced otherwise

(tags:transgender LGBT UK )

French Executives Found Responsible for 35 Employees' Deaths by Suicide

(tags:France suicide work abuse )

So Maya Forstater, the woman JK Rowling is supporting, wrote a manifesto...

(tags:LGBT jkrowling transgender abuse )

The Navy Installed Touch-screen Steering Systems To Save Money. Ten Sailors Paid With Their Lives.

(tags:UX navy usa epicfail Technology )

Comments

[cmcmck]

And the number of cis women assaulted by trans women in toilets here in the UK is?

Big fat zero.................

[dewline]

I don't recall such instances in Canada either.

[cmcmck]

I dunno about these terfs,but when I go into a public loo, I generally want to use the facilities, wash my hands, maybe fix my hair and makeup, perhaps exchange a polite word with someone and leave.

[hirez]

This is also my experience.

The people I mix with while I am getting the hell on with my life are lovely.

The howling obsessives on the twitter and in the press, rather less so. However it seems that neither group are getting the attention they think is their right.

[juliansummerhayes]

Thanks Andrew for the interesting links and for sharing your links since I rejoined LJ and opened an account here on Dreamwidth. Best wishes Ju.

[andrewducker]

Thank you for your posts too. I don't comment much, but I do enjoy them.

[ninetydegrees]

"French Executives Found Responsible for 35 Employees' Deaths by Suicide"

Meanwhile, as more and more teachers have committed suicide lately and directly blamed their jobs for it, French Ministry of Education commented that the percentage of suicide was less than in the private sector (and therefore not something alarming...).