Interesting Links for 09-03-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Oh look, some political leadership I can get behind

(tags:snp politics UK asylum )

2. Let's be clear, Suella Braverman's asylum bill is absolute moral degeneration

(tags:asylum uk OhForFucksSake )

3. LA Sheriff's Department Has Gang Members at Highest Levels

(tags:gangs usa police OhForFucksSake )

4. Legislation as an annual or biennial virility event

(tags:UK law )

5. The Tories are coming for sex education

(tags:conservatives sex education OhForFucksSake )

6. A rare photo of Schrödinger's Cat

(tags:quantum photo funny viaLinkMachineGo )

7. The jacket of women's invisibility

(tags:women society patriarchy clothing )

8. Chaim Topol dead: Fiddler on the Roof actor dies aged 87

(tags:movies obituary Jews )

9. The US Air Force Is Moving Fast on AI-Piloted Fighter Jets

(tags:military airplanes ai USA )

10. EU tells Rishi Sunak small boats plan violates international law (and thus endangers our trade agreement with them)

(tags:UK Europe asylum law )

Comments

[cmcmck]

7. My serious walking gear (brown cagoule, olive waterproof trousers and clunky brown Chris Brasher hill walking boots has this effect!

If I was wearing a pink posing cagoule- the sort for leaning prettily against caravans-and useless fashion conscious female boots no doubt it would be different!

[naath]

I have bought srs gar in purple. I have a theme... not stoes though, brown or nothing in my size.

Point 10

[dewline]

Sunak's ads are saying a "quiet part" out loud, right?

[mellowtigger]

#3 There was a time in the USA when everyone knew that policing was a corrupt institution.

[calimac]

1. Non-UK reader needs a little context here. I know who Yousaf is, I vaguely know who Lineker is, I know they're talking about the asylum bill, but who are "the freedom of speech champions" who Lineker is I presume sarcastically saying are "great"?

And what happened during the debate? I couldn't find a news report on that.

[hairyears]

I had a bag of tomatoes off that Gary Lineker.

[andrewducker]

The "free speech champions" are the people who are in favour of people being able to say horrible things. But who tend not to be so loud when people are attacking liberal commentators.