Interesting Links for 02-03-2026

[andrewducker]

1. UN Human Rights Council Castigates The EHRC For Their Proposed Trans Exclusion

(tags:UnitedNations rights transgender UK bigotry )

2. How to write (and, frankly, understand what it's like to be) women

(tags:women writing )

3. New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue (in mice)

(tags:nanotech mice materials cancer )

4. Keir Starmer's statement on Iran in full as US granted access to UK bases

(tags:usa uk iran war )

5. A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator

(tags:design business video funny awful norway )

Comments

[channelpenguin]

5. is marvellous.
3. sounds promising, let's see.
1. YAY! but I dont think it will have any practical effect in the UK, sadly.
2. meh. some yeah, some no. But definitely YES to the "we dont think about these bodyparts usually", "we aren't looking for romances" and "when we are working out, we are just working out" and "its creepy to mention this stuff, why??"

[cmcmck]

2. Obviously I have, shall we say, somewhat interesting views on the topic! :o)

[nancylebov]

2. Was breaking heels off to turn shoes into flats anywhere other than Crocodile Dundee?

5. Possibly too good a video for the subject.

Doing it by hand: In Bedazzled, Dudley more is the devil. He has records going by on a clothes line so he can scratch them, and he tears last chapters out of books.

[andrewducker]

Seems to have happened in several: https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/4km03f/tomt_movie_what_is_the_movie_where_a_womans_heel/

[cmcmck]

And a lot of poor working class families when I was a kid growing up in such a family did it to give girls shoes to wear.