Interesting Links for 25-09-2020

[andrewducker]

J.K. Rowling plugs disgusting anti-trans online store to her 14 million Twitter followers

(tags:jkrowling transgender LGBT OhForFucksSake bigotry )

The borders of Kent are more complex than you'd think.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1309108526522994698.html
(tags:trade borders )

18% of people with COVID symptoms adhere to self-isolation, and only 11% adhere to quarantine if contacted by test and trace

(tags:pandemic doom )

Why the Supreme Court Should Have 27 Justices, Not 9

(tags:law USA viaNancyLebov )

End the Poisonous Process of Picking Supreme Court Justices

(tags:viaNancyLebov law USA )

Tempestry Project - tapestries that show how temperature changes over time

(tags:craft temperature globalwarming history visualisation )

Here's what happens when all the pubs empty at the same time, because of the curfew

(tags:alcohol pandemic London UK video )

What The French Get So Right About Taking Care Of New Mother's

(tags:vagina exercise France childbirth healthcare )

Preventing spread of coronavirus in Scottish universities (frankly they should just mandate remote learning, this is unworkable and unpleasant)

(tags:university Scotland pandemic )

PEN15's Gay Teen Storyline Is Shockingly Authentic

(tags:writing TV lgbt )

Covid-hit university students: 'Why have they sent us here?'

(tags:university OhForFucksSake pandemic )

Comments

[calimac]

The post on the borders of Kent starts out with the ceremonial county borders, which is what I'd imagine was meant, rather than the county council political borders (the political Kent can, however, be construed to include Medway, even though administratively it's a separate unitary authority; see this map). At the end they mention, but not by this term, the traditional county, which is different from the ceremonial county because it includes the parts that were hived off to the County of London. Traditional Kent goes as far in to London as Greenwich and Deptford, and here's a detailed modern map showing that.