Interesting Links for 20-04-2025

[andrewducker]

1. In Gaza, we are seeing the normalisation of evil

(tags:gaza Israel Palestine )

2. On language and trans people, some tips

(tags:transgender language )

3. Life before the Equalities Act 2010

(tags:transgender gender equality rights UK law history )

4. The lead civil servant on drafting the Equality Act says the aim was to include trans people.

(tags:equality lgbt transgender OhForFucksSake law uk )

5. The Minister who introduced the Gender Recognition Bill in the House of Lords in 2003 made it clear that "a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act [the predecessor to the Equality Act] as a person of the acquired sex or

(tags:transgender lgbt law uk history )

6. Settlers of Catan - Globe Edition

(tags:3dprinting boardgames SettlersOfCatan )

7. Thousands of trans rights protesters on Edinburgh streets following court ruling

(tags:Edinburgh transgender protests )

8. Musk to Force Pentagon to Build and Then Pay Him to Use Network of Killer Satellites

(tags:ElonMusk corruption space )

9. Hungary's Orbán urges Hungarians to vote against Ukraine's membership of EU

(tags:Hungary Ukraine Europe OhForFucksSake )

10. The UK is going to have to start making choices about Europe and the USA

(tags:UK USA Europe )

11. Fusion power plants would require titanic amounts of lithium.

(tags:materials fusion )

12. "Masking Is Life": Experiences of Masking in Autistic and Nonautistic Adults

(tags:autism society psychology )

Comments

[armiphlage]

11. Many elements, including lithium, can be extracted from seawater. Mining's currently much cheaper, but redox-couple electrodialysis (which I admit I'm not an expert on) theoretically could be a source if geopolitics prevents extraction from naturally concentrated lithium deposits.