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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4057899.html

The bitcoin blockchain is helping keep a botnet from being taken down: (tags:bitcoin malware )
Firefox enables Total Cookie Protection to stop you being tracked: (tags:Firefox privacy )
Chip shortage may threaten PlayStation 5 supplies at Christmas: (tags:PlayStation CPU )
Robot lumberjacks are terrifyingly impressive: (tags:robots trees video )
It is staggeringly hard for small businesses to export to the EU: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1364137289165791232.html
(tags:trade UK europe Doom )
Why can't we unlock now the most vulnerable are vaccinated?: (tags:pandemic vaccination )
Why the high court was right to deny standing to members of parliament to bring public law claims: (tags:law UK )
Nursing home deaths spike after private equity acquisitions: (tags:death age care OhForFucksSake viaCharlesStross )
Learning to program increases your creativity, maths, and ability to reason: (tags:thinking programming education )
50 terrible terrible sets of stairs: (tags:housing stairs design fail )
Scientists create new class of Turing patterns in colonies of E. coli: (tags:patterns biology AlanTuring )
Edinburgh councillors back call for buffer zones to protect women from abortion clinic protesters: (tags:abortion protest Edinburgh GoodNews Scotland )
Slug filmed descending from vertical thread of slime in never seen before behaviour: (tags:animals )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4005428.html

The "Brain in a jar" approach to transgender theory: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1357147969049423872.html
(tags:lgbt transgender gender psychology )
Ministers refusing to open talks to solve Brexit exports crisis to make EU feel 'pain', industry leader says: (tags:UK Europe trade OhForFucksSake )
The neo-Troubles and media manipulation (what's going on with Northern Ireland right now): (tags:UK Europe trade NorthernIreland Ireland borders )
Joanna Cherry and other Alex Salmond supporters are waging civil war within SNP at precisely the wrong time: (tags:snp bigotry LGBT politics Scotland )
Why the UK is still arguing about Brexit, and is likely to continue doing so indefinitely: (tags:UK Europe NorthernIreland borders trade video )
Google doesn't want to tell Apple users how it's violating their privacy: (tags:Apple Google privacy )
Egg consumption lowers risk of coronary artery disease.: (tags:eggs heart health )
Things British people do that baffle people: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1357329669981413376.html
(tags:UK weird )
Animation shows week in life of blue whale as it tries to avoid fishing ship congestion: (tags:wales ocean visualisation video ship )
How will the global computer chip shortage affect you?: (tags:cpu manufacturing fail )
Brian Bolland on Alan Moore and the Killing Joke: (tags:art comics alanmoore history batman )
Oumuamua: Avi Loeb says it's aliens. Every other astronomer disagrees. Here's why.: (tags:space astronomy aliens )
Who fancies some Victorian superhero women (a trailer for "The Nevers"): (tags:tv women trailer superheroes victorian )
Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments: (tags:USA business government )
"Not enough dead people" say Conservatives: (tags:UK pandemic conservatives OhForFucksSake )
There's been an alarming number of infections among care home residents who have received only one dose of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine.: (tags:vaccination UK Doom pandemic )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3995443.html

Conservative Party illegally collected ethnicity data on 10 million voters: (tags:Conservatives race politics UK )
Why Are Conservatives Angry Biden Denounced White Supremacy?: (tags:racism USA republicans politics )
Why is there a slower Covid vaccine rollout in Scotland?: (tags:Scotland vaccination speed )
Grindr faces £8.6m fine for sharing user data with advertisers without permission (including their exact location!): (tags:LGBT privacy OhForFucksSake dating apps )
FDA approves first monthly injectable to treat HIV infection: (tags:hiv AIDS GoodNews medicine )
Are you a child fleeing war and destruction with no adult to help you? Then the UK thinks you should fuck off: (tags:asylum children UK OhForFucksSake )
In week after 2nd Pfizer vaccine shot, only 20 of 128,000 Israelis get COVID: (tags:vaccination Israel pandemic GoodNews )
Mother's blood test predicts a sub-type of autism: (tags:autism immune_system blood mother )
Sales Of Non-Alcoholic Beer are up significantly in the last few years (still a tiny part of the market): (tags:alcohol )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3991061.html

Ireland's mother and baby homes: 9,000 babies and children died in 18 mother and baby homes, report says - CNN: (tags:ireland history babies children death OhForFucksSake )
I did not realise how automated some production lines now are.: (tags:valve steam hardware automation factory )
Thousands of human teeth hidden inside a wall of dentist's office: (tags:teeth wtf )
A British wine importer on how much harder Brexit is making it to run a business: (tags:business trade UK Europe Doom wine )
German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employee surveillance: (tags:surveillance privacy Europe rights )
Why this government may never regain the trust of the people: (tags:trust UK government viaDanielDWilliam )
'I was surprised by how clear it was' - Stunning photo of snowy Wales taken from Dublin: (tags:Ireland Wales photo )
If you have problems with masks and glasses fogging up then I recommend adhesive metal strip inserts which allow you to make the mask exactly fit your nose: (tags:pandemic glasses advice )
Mahatma Gandhi's killer venerated as Hindu nationalism resurges in India: (tags:India nationalism murder )
It's lit! How film finally learned to light black skin: (tags:race TV movies )
UK would be lucky to strike trade deal in Biden's first term, says former ambassador: (tags:trade USA UK )
The dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck Earth was unbelievably huge and fast (the best description I've ever read of it): (tags:viaMyBrotherMike dinosaurs asteroids extinction )
Every dinosaur may have been wiped out in a matter of hours: (tags:dinosaurs extinction apocalypse )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3986747.html

Brexit trade deal 'very unstable' and can easily be brought crashing down, legal expert warns MPs: (tags:Europe UK trade Doom )
Denmark launches children's TV show about man with giant penis: (tags:TV children penis )
Inside the Covid ward: (tags:pandemic healthcare awful UK )
How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus: (tags:virus gestation pregnancy mammals )
Ten scary bodies of water: (tags:water scary ViaDrCross )
WhatsApp updates its Privacy Policy to mandate data-sharing with Facebook: I use Signal as an alternative that's Facebook free.
(tags:im chat Facebook privacy )
45% of Republicans approve of the storming of the Capitol Building: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1347007675855302656.html
(tags:politics terrorism usa )
London will be overwhelmed by covid in a fortnight says leaked NHS England briefing: (tags:London UK pandemic Doom )
An interesting/unfortunate side-effect of legalising same sex marriage: (tags:LGBT marriage law USA Australia )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3981377.html

World religious leaders unite to demand ban on gay conversion therapy: (tags:LGBT religion bigotry )
Scottish government sets out plans to hit net-zero emissions: (tags:Scotland co2 globalwarming thefuture )
How Scientists Tracked Down a Mass Killer (of Salmon): (tags:fish poison USA )
All job interviews should give the questions out in advance: (tags:Jobs interviews )
For the first time in its history UNICEF will help feed children in the UK: (tags:UK poverty OhForFucksSake )
Republicans are furious with Trump for pocketing the money they need for the Georgia runoffs: (tags:republicans usa politics money )
What a 3d picture of a snowflake really looks like: (tags:snow photo )
Ultra High Resolution Photos of Snowflakes: (tags:photos snow )
COVID-19 vaccine rollout may be delayed - with IT system 'failing constantly': (tags:pandemic vaccine computers OhForFucksSake )
Academics turn RAM into Wi-Fi cards to steal data from air-gapped systems: (tags:technology WiFi hacking security genius )
Tax cuts for rich don't 'trickle down,' study of 18 countries finds: (tags:tax inequality )
Waste, Negligence and Cronyism: Inside Britain's Pandemic Spending: (tags:corruption UK pandemic )
Facebook are terribly angry about Apple giving its users control over privacy. They can fuck off.: (tags:privacy Apple Facebook )
What works enter the Public Domain in 2021?: (tags:publicdomain )
Poll shows Scottish independence support surging to joint record levels as SNP set for majority: (tags:Scotland polls independence )
Long Covid alarm as 21% report symptoms after five weeks: (tags:pandemic Doom )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3972272.html

Solar's Future is Insanely Cheap: (tags:solarpower thefuture GoodNews viaDanielDWilliam )
Saudi Arabia applied for diplomatic immunity for ten man security team in Norway: (tags:saudiarabia Norway )
A Ban On "Medieval" Virginity Testing In The UK Has Passed First Commons Hurdle: (tags:virginity UK law )
Tory party urges activists to campaign like Trump by 'weaponising fake news': (tags:conservatives fraud OhForFucksSake )
Canada set to raise carbon price considerably over next decade: (tags:co2 globalwarming Canada economics )
All the Stuff Humans Make Now Outweighs Earth's Organisms: (tags:humans nature earth )
Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules: (tags:UK privacy Facebook )
Warner Bros would love you to die for Wonder Woman 1984: (tags:movies pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Master of the Pecos River: (tags:rivers water Texas USA )
To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language: (tags:language program neuroscience brain )
Pregnant women allowed partner 'at all times' as NHS changes covid rules: A few months late for us, but hopefully life will be easier for new parents now.
(tags:NHS pregnancy pandemic )
The AI in the Cyberpunk game can't drive. And hides that from you.: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1338929166301990914.html
(tags:games design driving OhForFucksSake )
Elderly patients 23% more likely to die if surgery is on the surgeon's birthday: (tags:birthday surgery death healthcare )
Child abuse gangs in the UK are mostly white: (tags:race abuse children UK racism )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3971415.html

Pfizer: COVID-19 shot 95% effective, seeking clearance soon: (tags:vaccine pandemic GoodNews )
So, it turns out we can produce a vaccine in less than a year if we really work at it. Multiple ones, even. Shame we don't do that more often...: (tags:pandemic vaccine )
If you've ever wondered why I bang on about trans rights, this is why.: (tags:transgender LGBT )
Right to scrap First Past the Post won for Welsh councils: (tags:elections reform Wales )
#DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster: (tags:Disney money writing publishing )
Openstreetmap is having a moment: (tags:OpenStreetMap data maps )
School LGBT bullying projects axed by UK government: (tags:UK school bullying lgbt OhForFucksSake )
UK-Japan deal dismantles UK's privacy protections: (tags:privacy UK Japan trade OhForFucksSake )
Unseen JRR Tolkien essays on Middle-earth coming in 2021: (tags:lotr Tolkien )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3959510.html

Number 10 Says The UK Will Have Ten Million Doses of Covid-19 Vaccine By The End Of This Year If Pfizer's Trial Is Deemed Safe: (tags:UK pandemic vaccination GoodNews )
Feral wallabies sighted in UK almost 100 times in 10 years: (tags:UK animals Australia )
Japan Trade Deal punches USA-sized hole in privacy: (tags:UK USA Japan privacy dataprotection OhForFucksSake )
Biden adviser says US-UK special relationship is diminishing because of Brexit: (tags:UK Europe usa )
People with different personalities prefer different kinds of books (and some psychologists can't tell the difference between correlation and causation): (tags:books psychology )
Do not buy Hewlett Packard printers: (tags:printing technology OhForFucksSake )
The Digital Nomads moved to exotic locales to work through the pandemic in style. But now tax trouble, breakups and Covid guilt are setting in.: (tags:technology work pandemic )
Inside Donald Trump's 2020 undoing (interviews with dozens of staff members of the campaigns): (tags:politics USA viaNWhyte )
Narcissistic People Are More Likely To Take Part In Political Activities: (tags:psychology politics )
UAE decriminalises alcohol and lifts ban on unmarried couples living together (and gets harsher on honour killings): (tags:middle_east GoodNews )
How Conservative Christians are seeing Trump's loss: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1325912364563181570.html
(tags:religion Christianity politics USA )
Exploding the myth of transgender transition regret: (tags:LGBT transgender research )
Fatigue syndrome exercise therapy loses Nice recommendation for ME / Chronic fatigue syndrome: (tags:ChronicFatigueSyndrome NHS )
long-acting injectable cabotegravir as PrEP is highly effective in preventing HIV acquisition in women: (tags:hiv GoodNews )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3955697.html

How to Piss Off Advertisers With Your iOS 14 Settings (I just did similarly on my Android phone): (tags:advertising iPhone Apple privacy viaSwampers )
Bro, This Is Not The 'Beowulf' You Think You Know: (tags:writing English translation history language review )
JK Rowling returns human rights award to group that denounces her transphobic views: (tags:LGBT transgender jkrowling )
Children are not the primary drivers of Covid-19 transmission to adults in schoolz: (tags:children school pandemic )
Chadwick Boseman: Black Panther star dies of cancer aged 43: (tags:Cancer OhForFucksSake marvel movies )
Since the invention of categories people argued over which one jellyfish fit in to.: This then led me on to read about Ctenophora - which are still being argued about!
(tags:history animals ontology )
How Bella Thorne messed up Only Fans and caused a disaster for sex workers: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1299467098100396032.html
(tags:sexwork payment OhForFucksSake )
Finally, a position I can vote for: (tags:politics media uk )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3919955.html

During Coronavirus Lockdowns, Some Doctors Wondered: Where Are the Premature Babies: What's particularly interesting is that the virus must have been affecting pretty much *every* mother in order to have this kind of effect.
*Or* being indoors during lockdown has a protective effect from something else.
(tags:babies virus pandemic viaElfy )
Government admits that NHS Test and Trace programme is unlawful: (tags:UK privacy pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Brexit: Food shortage fears as three quarters of UK hauliers face being locked out of EU: (tags:UK Europe trade doom transport )
Funding to stop female genital mutilation reduced by 76 per cent despite hundreds of new cases each month: (tags:fgm UK OhForFucksSake )
Soviet bus stops looked *amazing*: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1284808430167957504.html
(tags:buses design Russia history )
A Letter On Justice And Open Debate: (tags:jkrowling bigotry transgender lgbt )
RBS tells its staff to carry on working from home until next year: (tags:work homes pandemic rbs )
People's need for structure has a significant impact on someone's likelihood to call something fake news — an effect that was particularly strong for Republicans: (tags:psychology news fraud )
EU leaders seal deal on spending and €750bn Covid-19 recovery plans: (tags:Europe pandemic )
Russia report: UK deliberately avoided investigating Russian interference into the Brexit referendum: (tags:UK Europe referendum Russia OhForFucksSake intelligence )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3900852.html

EU court voids data-sharing pact with the U.S. in Facebook privacy case: (tags:Facebook USA Europe privacy )
A breakdown of British people's attitudes towards transgender rights (a variety of questions and demographics): (tags:transgender polls LGBT demographics )
Over 15 billion credentials are in circulation on hacker forums: (tags:security hacking )
We might be able to detect Covid-19 in the speech of asymptomatic people: (tags:speech sounds virus )
Coronavirus Success Story: How Rwanda Is Curbing COVID-19 (robots and free testing): (tags:rwanda pandemic )
What's going on with Boris Johnson and the Russia report?: (tags:BorisJohnson security politics UK Russia )
Sympathy for victims of grooming stops if the child is brown, confirm racists: (tags:racism citizenship satire news uk )
Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets: (tags:police USA wtf )
The Chronicles of Charnia - How a schoolgirl discovered Precambrian life: (tags:fossils life history )
"My Close Friend Is Being Radicalized On the Internet and I Don't Know What to Do": (tags:ViaDrCross internet bigotry )
The painstaking, hyper-granular process behind Amazon's artful "Undone": (tags:art TV )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3899543.html

Warren Ellis Accused Of Sexual Coercion: (tags:WarrenEllis abuse OhForFucksSake comics )
UK virus-tracing app switches to Google-Apple privacy-centric model: (tags:apple google pandemic apps uk privacy )
Trump Facebook Ad Openly Using a Nazi Symbol For "Political Prisoner": (tags:republicans nazis Holocaust wtf OhForFucksSake USA viaSwampers )
NHS coronavirus app to be scrapped after only detecting 4% of contacts on iPhones: (tags:privacy apple Google pandemic apps )
Masked arsonist might've gotten away with it if she hadn't left Etsy review: (tags:police review Etsy wtf )
This kind of shit is why you can't trust it when people "Just want to ask a few questions": (tags:OhForFucksSake communication fraud )
How are TV subtitles made? Are they done by a human or a machine? (I could not do this job): (tags:technology BBC subtitles )
FizzBuzz: One Simple Computing Interview Question: You'd be astounded how many people fail this. People going for computer jobs who actually can't program.
(tags:interviews jobs computers )
Vegetarian? Jewish? Muslim? Government food parcels may not be much use to you: (tags:food pork UK government )
Social progress is at the heart of community politics: (tags:politics community )
UK health ministry has no records on Turkish PPE fiasco and won't say if files destroyed: (tags:UK pandemic OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3896317.html

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