Interesting Links for 07-08-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Barbie: A Strategic Analysis

(tags:movies review dolls society patriarchy )

2. Royal Mail To Issue "Terry Pratchett's Discworld" stamps

(tags:terrypratchett royalmail art )

3. UK's rental shame: tenants paying four times as much of income as homeowners on housing, while their available space falls, and most councils build no new houses

(tags:rental uk OhForFucksSake housing )

4. Turns out telling people that nobody comes to your show is great marketing

(tags:Edinburgh fringe marketing )

5. In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black

(tags:usa police faces racism )

6. At least 57 triathletes fall ill with diarrhoea and vomiting after swimming competition in Sunderland

(tags:uk pollution faeces swimming OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

#2 The stamps look lovely, and the explanatory text looks amazing. My fave is, of course, DEATH XD

2. Stamps

[channelpenguin]

On the one hand, relieved they didn't use the Josh Kirby illustrations (which I loathe with a fierce passion). On the other, really disappointed that the stamps aren't the ACTUAL stamps from Going Postal.

Re: 2. Stamps

[flemmings]

One can't lick Vetinari's bum. So sad.

Going through the motions....

[hairyears]

Canoeists will tell stories of at least one UK competition venue that confer the miraculous ability to crap through a tea strainer without trace...

Re: Going through the motions....

[andrewducker]

The people responsible for water quality should not be able to get away with this shit.