Interesting Links for 12-10-2021

[andrewducker]

We May Have Found Roman Concrete's Secret Strengthening Ingredient

(tags:rome concrete history architecture materials )

Why won't Sally Rooney allow her latest novel to be translated into Hebrew?

Update in comments
(tags:Jews language translation OhForFucksSake )

What support did the UK's only trans councillor get?

(tags:LGBT politics transgender UK libdem )

In the last six years homophobic hate crimes have tripled and transphobic ones have quadrupled

(tags:LGBT hate crime assault UK transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake )

This made my morning. Who doesn't want fish singing Bohemian Rhapsody?

(tags:music fish viaSwampers funny video )

The UK has had tens of thousands of avoidable deaths

(tags:uk death pandemic Conservatives epicfail )

Ladies and gentlemen, I present for your entertainment a goose on a motorcycle!

(tags:motorcycle birds video viaPatrickHadfield )

A musical of Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Peter Dinklage? Yes Please!

(tags:musicals love movies trailer video )

Apple don't want you to be able to read anything

(tags:ux ui design apple OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[matgb]

On the Rooney thing--I don't know who she actually is other than vaguely heard the name, but she's specifcially boycotting a specific Israeli publisher as part of BDS, and it's been spun massively

[cmcmck]

And this is why there isn't a party I can vote for with a clear conscience..............

Hate Crimes

[danieldwilliam]

I think the last paragraph of the article on the increase in the reporting of hate crimes is important.

“Increases in police recorded hate crime have been partly driven by general improvements in crime recording, better identification of what constitutes a hate crime by the police, and more victims coming forward.”

This may in fact be a good news story if the actual facts are that hate crimes have not risen but the proportion of hate crimes reported and then properly recorded has increased. If that were the case it would indicate that the police were serving the community better and that LGBTQ folks felt better able to report crimes against them which ought to lead to more convictions for hate crimes and fewer hate crimes in the long run.

[azurelunatic]

That goose is very calm!

I bet it thinks of the driver as part of the flock -- our geese would follow Mama around the property, then go back to within sight of the house once they were done hanging out at the shop or the garden. The (lady) goose was the explorer, and her husband followed her. After the gander was widowed, he'd follow Mama around like he used to follow the goose. Mama had to walk slowly because he had developed a foot disability.

[nickys]

Very annoying that "boycotting a nation state that commits well documented atrocities" is getting spun as "won't allow translation into X language".

The UK has had tens of thousands of avoidable deaths

[anef]

And in England at any rate we still seem to be pursuing a policy of herd immunity by default. Why is mask-wearing voluntary in shops and indoor venues, and why are we not using vaccine passports? Why does the UK have the highest death rate in Western Europe?