Interesting Links for 04-06-2020

[andrewducker]

Victorian Engineering Connections (everyone, apparently, knew everyone)

(tags:engineering history visualisation )

Feminist action, not feminist identity

(tags:Identity feminism society )

Police corruption in the USA really does seem to be endemic

(tags:police corruption usa )

LEGO Asks Retailers to Stop Advertising Police Sets, Pledges $4M to Fight Racism

(tags:Lego police racism )

Madeleine McCann: Jailed German paedophile at centre of new police inquiry

(tags:abuse children )

Spanish porn star Nacho Vidal, who likes to advertise his aromatic candles shaped like male genitalia on Twitter, has been arrested on manslaughter charges following a man's death during a mystic ritual in which he inhaled psychedelic toad venom

(tags:headline death psychedelics )

Video of a mud slide dragging multiple houses into the sea

(tags:video Norway )

Australians horrified by the USA should look to themselves. There have been 432 Aboriginal deaths in custody since 1991 yet there has not been a single conviction

(tags:police australia racism )

A city built by slaves - remembering Edinburgh's shameful slave trade history

(tags:Edinburgh slavery Scotland )

Comments

[anna_wing]

The toad whose venom is in question is described as being a rare species. Was there a conservation offence committed as well? Were endangered animals illegally killed?

The difference between action and identity is a very relevent one. "I am a musician" requires constant musical practice to keep being an accurate statement. Being a musician is not an identity that can be sustained in the absence of actually playing music.