Interesting Links for 04-10-2021

[andrewducker]

Cambridgeshire police officer allowed to return to work after using a spy pen to take "up-skirt" shots of children in Tesco

(tags:police corruption abuse children OhForFucksSake )

A personal history of writing computer games in the 80s

(tags:games history viaMyBrotherHugh )

If you are giving money to The Guardian then this is what you are supporting

(tags:LGBT transgender Guardian OhForFucksSake bigotry )

My mistake, The Guardian published *two* articles comparing trans women to murdering policemen

(tags:guardian transgender LGBT OhForFucksSake )

UK government says it is not responsible for preventing Christmas shortages

(tags:UK Doom Christmas trade )

Pandora Papers: Secret wealth and dealings of world leaders exposed

(tags:wealth property )

'Some people find it very unusual that I speak Gaelic' - the Gaelic speakers of African and Caribbean descent

(tags:Gaelic scotland race africa )

Paracetamol use does not lead to ADHD (but mothers using it a lot is a sign that something else is up which *does* lead to ADHD)

(tags:pain pregnancy drugs adhd )

The value of in-house expertise

(tags:software experience experts business )

Comments

[dewline]

They do that guilt-trip very well.

I will have to make a point of...what's the phrase where you're trying to get someone who's otherwise behaving very well to Stop Doing Very Specific Stupid Shit these days? Is it "calling your people in"? Whatever the phrase is, it seems proper for what we've got to do about the Guardian at the moment re: trans rights.

[cmcmck]

I'm a socialist of the old left and when I was younger I read the Guardian but they started alienating me and people like me about thirty years back and they really can't be affording to do that given the state traditional print media is in.

Ironically, I have a historical side interest in the history of diurnals, newssheets, mercuries and newspapers and they have always seemed to be very slow to learn not to do this