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Can coronavirus cause diabetes, or make it worse?: (tags:diabetes Pandemic Doom )
Rail freight boosted by HGV driver shortage and climate change: (tags:trains transport shipping GoodNews uk )
Uber prices could rise 20% after UK VAT ruling: (tags:tax UK law taxi )
As few as 1 in 10 Covid infections checked for omicron, as 'community transmission' confirmed: (tags:UK Pandemic Doom )
Two hippos at Belgian zoo test positive for Covid: (tags:hippo Pandemic )
Virgin Media O2 completes gigabit upgrade after two years (I'm on the much slower 350Mbit speed): (tags:broadband internet UK virgin )
What Whale Barnacles Can Tell Us: (tags:whales history biology )
How the Government both won and lost the Priti Patel High Court bullying case: (tags:law bullying government uk )
Robot facial expressions are getting pretty good: (tags:robots faces viaJamesNicoll )
A feel-good, time-travelling Christmas movie starring Michael Sheen, you say?: (tags:movies viaLilysea christmas timetravel )
DARPA Funded Researchers Accidentally Create The World's First Warp Bubble: (tags:physics space )
What's Putin really up to with Ukraine?: (tags:russia ukraine usa )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4121882.html

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4089494.html

Heavy! Metal! Harp!: (tags:music video viaNancyLebov )
Have some terrifying predictions about schools and Covid: (tags:children school pandemic )
I see the next generation of robot assassins is coming along nicely: (tags:robots video )
Nando's shuts restaurants as it runs short of supplies: (tags:food transport UK Doom )
Edinburgh Castle protestors claim to have 'seized' landmark as police called to the scene: (tags:Edinburgh castle wtf Scotland )
Some Scottish Covid changes could be made permanent: (tags:Scotland pandemic )
But, you ask, how does one *make* a robot assassin?: (tags:robots video )
WhatsApp shuts down Taliban helpline in Kabul: (tags:taliban afghanistan communication )
When Google lies to people about who you are: (tags:google identity photos )
New political divides opening up between countryside and city dwellers across Europe: (tags:uk europe politics cities immigration )
Anime studios and an all-star cast combine for Star Wars: Visions: (tags:anime StarWars )
There is no link between anonymity and incivility on social media: (tags:anonymity abuse socialmedia )
Apparently we're holding a superspreader event for MPs!: (tags:pandemic politics UK )
Top pro-Israel lawyer faked vandalism attack at Scots home in plot to frame Palestine group: (tags:Palestine Israel Scotland OhForFucksSake )
Scientists Grew Stem Cell 'Mini Brains'. Then, The Brains Sort-of Developed Eyes: (tags:brains eyes )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4074497.html

Students flee field as computer "fad" fades: (tags:computers history headline )
"'Mendel's Quest,' aka 'Angry Jew,' Helped Me Embrace My Heritage": (tags:Jews apps history )
Green light in Edinburgh for Scotland's largest net zero housing project: (tags:Edinburgh housing globalwarming Scotland )
Epstein-Barr virus reactivation may be the cause of long COVID symptoms: (tags:pandemic immune_system virus )
Scotland to keep face masks for public transport and shops: (tags:Pandemic Scotland transport shopping )
Lambda variant: What is the new strain of Covid detected in the UK?: (tags:UK pandemic )
How many robots does it take to run a grocery store? (Incredible video): (tags:robots shopping video )
Warhammer 40k Timeline In 20 Mins! From the 21st Century to the 41st Millenium: (tags:Warhammer history video )
Mind-controlling parasite makes hyena cubs more reckless around lions: (tags:Parasites lions brain )
Most attempts to improve the world fail. That doesn't mean they aren't important: (tags:Revolution history protests )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4057645.html

'10-year prison sentences for breaching COVID-19 entry requirements into the United Kingdom'. How Governmental Decree is undermining the Rule of Law.: (tags:UK government law pandemic viaDanielDWilliam )
Five things worth knowing about the Mars Perseverance Rover: (tags:space mars Technology comic )
Robot War Dog Company objects to their Robot War Dogs being called War Dogs: (tags:robots military marketing )
The Boston Dynamics robot dog commercial with Terminator 2 music is just perfect: (tags:music robots terminator movies video )
Why are anime titles frequently so terrible?: I mean, I could understand it in ye olden days, but surely nowadays they have decent translators involved?
(tags:translation anime japan )
This is basically how I feel about the sciences: (tags:science physics chemistry biology funny comic )
Down with Bank Holidays.: (tags:holidays )
How do Scotland and England's routes out of lockdown compare?: (tags:pandemic UK England Scotland )
Timelapse: Spectacular eruption from Italy's Mount Etna: (tags:video volcano Italy )
Is the British way of raising kids weird?: (tags:children UK USA India Japan parenting sleep )
Historic Edinburgh street to get European boulevard feel: (tags:Edinburgh transport )
Scotland reaps dividend of Covid response that diverged from England (Google the headline if the paywall blocks you): (tags:Scotland pandemic vaccination UK )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4005763.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

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3978591.html

I can think of nothing more likely to make people stockpile than telling them not to: (tags:food UK Europe trade Doom shopping )
A collection of awesome, frequently unlikely, maps: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1337489374452183040.html
(tags:maps )
Repurposing Soviet jokes as Brexit jokes: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1337837601835933696.html
(tags:jokes Russia funny UK )
Donation change to allow more gay and bisexual men to give blood: (tags:lgbt blood donations )
Haynes Stops Printing Famous Workshop Manuals: (tags:cars design books )
Suspected Russian hacking attack breached multiple parts of the US government: (tags:hacking Russia USA )
Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots: (tags:robots farming netherlands windpower )
European Union law and the United Kingdom - an obituary: (tags:law UK Europe )
Don't work unpaid overtime, even if you love your job: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1338240765605109762.html
(tags:work working_hours planning )
Sizewell C: Government in talks to fund £20bn nuclear plant: (tags:UK nuclearpower globalwarming )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3970510.html

How 700 Epidemiologists Are Living Now, and What They Think Is Next: (tags:thefuture pandemic )
Once the transition period finishes the UK will be an outsider as far as GDPR is concerned. That's going to be difficult.: (tags:UK Europe dataprotection )
"Black" is not a dirty word: (tags:race language )
Vaccines arrive in Scotland - first injections to be given on Tuesday: (tags:pandemic vaccination Scotland GoodNews )
The man who crossed Groundhog Day with serial killers is doing the same with Freaky Friday: (tags:movies murder review )
Rewatching Lord of The Rings in 2020: (tags:lotr )
When you Kickstart a game and it gets lost at sea: (tags:games kickstarter Ocean shipping )
Companies are now writing end of year reports tailored for AI readers: (tags:AI business )
Books that give you insight into various professions: (tags:books jobs )
Minimalist! Nativity! Sets!: (tags:religion Christmas christianity art )
The robot kitchen that will make you dinner - and wash up too (this is just screaming "snake oil" to me): https://youtu.be/E2evC2xTNWg
(tags:robots cooking )
Here's how Brexit will affect each ingredient of the full English breakfast: (tags:UK Europe breakfast food prices )
What will happen to closed High Street shops?: (tags:shops UK cities )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3967711.html

First 'clear evidence' of hallucinogens at cave art site found: (tags:archeology hallucinogenics prehistory USA )
Grouse shooting estates to be licenced: (tags:Scotland land regulation birds )
British coal plants fired up to meet temporary electricity shortfall: (tags:electricity coal UK )
MPs demand Amazon explain why Alexa offers messages from antisemitic websites and conspiracy theories: (tags:bigotry Jews Amazon OhForFucksSake )
Fun and games with camera tricks: (tags:illusion video )
Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging: (tags:names swearing Austria )
Claims the UK has 'maxed out' its credit card are bad economics: (tags:economics UK )
Channel 4 to focus on online audiences in shift away from TV: (tags:TV channel4 internet UK )
Leaf-cutter ants are coated in rocky crystal armor, never before seen in insects: (tags:armour ants materials )
Have a lovely Christmas story: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1332095349176086536.html
(tags:Christmas shopping food viaPatrickHadfield )
Separating deposit-taking from investment banking: new evidence on an old question: (tags:Banking investment banks )
Robots on the rise as Americans experience record job losses amid pandemic: (tags:robots automation jobs pandemic )
Government secretly deployed British troops to defend Saudi Arabian oil fields: (tags:uk military saudiarabia )
Oslo got pedestrian and cyclist deaths down to zero. Here's how: (tags:transport cities design cars safety death norway )
UK Household wealth tripled in the last twenty years. Where did all that wealth come from?: Simple overview at https://twitter.com/ianmulheirn/status/1332266121366560768
(tags:UK wealth economics tax )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3963350.html

"My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania": (tags:USA voting )
Dwayne Johnson is rebooting The Scorpion King: (tags:movies )
So, how is the USA managing its Covid-19 response?: (tags:USA pandemic epicfail )
Our Brains Have Two Distinct "Beauty Centres": One For Art And One For Faces: (tags:beauty faces art psychology brain neuroscience )
Being More Authentic On Social Media Could Improve Your Wellbeing (I suspect that being more authentic generally would do the trick, hiding who you are is exhausting and stressful): (tags:psychology happiness socialmedia )
Boris Johnson picks pro-fracking Tory MP who has campaigned against wind farms as 'climate change champion': (tags:globalwarming conservatives OhForFucksSake )
Capital gains tax: Rate should double, says government review: (tags:UK tax )
Behold! The most Irish of all films!: (tags:Ireland movies satire trailer funny )
A focus group on Trump voters finds out what they really think. (Interesting on defunding the police): https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1326210279387099136.html
(tags:voting usa )
COVID-19 Daily Dashboard for Scotland (broken down by neighborhood): (tags:pandemic Scotland visualisation viaDanielDWilliam )
The Polls Weren't Great. But That's Pretty Normal.: (tags:polls USA politics )
Good statues of women: (tags:women statue )
Japanese town deploys Monster Wolf robots to deter bears: (tags:robots wolves bears )
How Brexit will make it much much harder for artists and musicians to tour in Europe: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1326554078256656389.html
(tags:music Europe UK Doom )
New project at Oxford University explores the origins of money: (tags:money prehistory research )
Politics versus policy, and why the approach of Johnson and Cummings to exercising power is going so badly: (tags:politics government UK )
There is no evidence that suicides have increased 200% under lockdown: (tags:suicide pandemic )
Will government lockdown shopping loopholes destroy the high street?: (tags:shopping UK doom )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3956685.html

Low Stakes TV; Cleaning Drains, Washing Cars and Long Walks: (tags:tv video ViaDrCross )
New Twitter prompt gets users to read news before retweeting it: (tags:Twitter reading )
Teaching offshore robots to speak our language: (tags:robots communication viaDanielDWilliam )
Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April: (tags:technology trade UK Europe Doom viaCharlesStross )
Even Renewables Are Bigger In Texas: (tags:renewables windpower solarpower viaDanielDWilliam Texas usa )
Chimpanzee casually browsing Instagram: (tags:chimpanzees phones viaElfy )
Coronavirus: UK pledges £500m to global vaccine-sharing scheme: (tags:UK pandemic vaccine )
Stop taking people with dementia to the cemetery: (tags:dementia memory death )
On being a gay transgender man marrying in to a devout Jewish family, and the science fiction that sprung therefrom: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1298466405873049600.html
(tags:scifi writing Jews religion transgender LGBT gay ViaDrCross )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3933839.html

Canadian scuba diver in Mexico discovers vast, prehistoric industrial complex: (tags:Mexico prehistory )
Keir Starmer faces backlash from Labour's ruling committee after party defends 'racist, sexist and abusive' WhatsApp messages: (tags:Labour OhForFucksSake )
Edinburgh plans to merge buses and trams in major shake-up of public transport: (tags:Edinburgh transport buses trams )
The Seven Billion Habits of Highly Effective Robots (a short story): (tags:robots funny war short_story scifi )
When Chaos Leads to Comedy: How The Emperor's New Groove was made (one of my favourite Disney movies): (tags:Disney business movies history )
What we can learn from sexologists about persuading people to wear masks: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1279449964020719622.html
(tags:pandemic sex condoms )
A 'Viral' New Bird Song in Canada Is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune: (tags:music birds memetics USA )

Listen to Wikipedia: (tags:Wikipedia sounds )
Humans forced to hide from sex addicted monkeys who set up HQ in disused cinema: (tags:headline monkeys sex cinema )
Nuclear 'Power Balls' May Make Meltdowns a Thing of the Past: (tags:nuclearpower technology thefuture )
Boris Johnson's 'build, build, build' speech: What he said and what he really meant: (tags:politics UK )
Here's How Our Personality Changes As We Age: (tags:personality age psychology )
Boris Johnson: Economy speech fact-checked: (tags:conservatives money government )
Trump Administration Authorizes 'Cyanide Bombs' to Kill Predators Again, Months After Backlash: (tags:USA poison animals nature republicans )
Germany far right: Elite KSK commando force 'to be partially disbanded': (tags:germany nazis military )
Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws, oaths remained on the bench: (tags:USA law OhForFucksSake )
Did you know about Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who invented rock and roll?: (tags:music history LGBT racism USA )
Petrol sold to Nigeria from Europe is 200 times worse than EU pollution limits: (tags:oil nigeria europe OhForFucksSake pollution )
Ministers urged to 'look beyond the numbers' as report reveals 39% rise in deep poverty since 2000: (tags:uk poverty )
The robots that can cook and serve your food (Interesting video. Looks like it's very close to the mainstream): (tags:food robots )
One-time treatment generates new neurons, eliminates Parkinson's disease in mice: (tags:mice genetics disease )
California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste: (tags:India bigotry jobs USA )
'Extraordinary' amber fossils reveal how ancient insects used colour for camouflage: (tags:colour insects fossils )
The EU are being really clear on the UK finance sector, and how much trouble it's going to be in in January.: (tags:uk europe finance doom )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3897471.html

Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub Takes Bitcoin Donations: (tags:bitcoin payment )
Fixers Know What 'Repairable' Means—Now There's a European Standard for It: (tags:europe standards )
Grindr breaks ethnicity filter promise: (tags:dating race apps )
Angela Merkel: UK must live with consequences of weaker ties to EU: (tags:Europe UK Germany Doom )
Debunking a Myth: The Irish Were Not Slaves, Too: (tags:Ireland history slavery racism )
Even If You're Asymptomatic, the Coronavirus Can Do Damage: (tags:disease pandemic virus )
Almost 17,000 Protesters Had No Idea a Tech Company Was Tracing Their Location (and breaking down their demographics): (tags:surveillance technology phones protests )
Mars Is Heaven (a classic piece of science fiction): (tags:scifi mars RayBradbury short_story )
'We've bought the wrong satellites': UK's attempt to build their own GPS baffles experts: (tags:OhForFucksSake incompetence GPS UK technology wtf )
FactCheck: did Israeli secret service teach Floyd police to kneel on necks? (No, they did not): (tags:facts violence police USA israel )
Union Jack or Union Flag?: (tags:flags language history )
Extraordinary 'megaflash' lightning strikes cover several hundred kilometres: (tags:lightning weather )
Stunning Video From Inside China's new robotic restaurant in Guangzhou: (tags:China robots food restaurant video )
More Details On The Robot Restaurant Complex in China: (tags:robots restaurant China )

Australia is much more interested in a deal with the EU than one with the UK: (tags:trade UK europe australia )
Any of my friends got $75,000 and want a robot dog?: (tags:dogs robots )
Mars: Green glow detected on the Red Planet: (tags:mars )
Please write to your MP about trans rights. It seems to be working so far, and anything you can do to persuade your MP will help.: (tags:LGBT transgender UK politics )
Brexit trade deal with New Zealand will have 'close to zero' benefit to UK economy, government admits: (tags:UK newzealand trade pointless )
This Simon Cowell "Choose Your Own Adventure" is both fun and full of ridiculous musical parodies. Check every branch!: (tags:music funny game twitter viaJennieRigg )
Abuse and threats aimed at wheelchair user over faked photo: (tags:abuse OhForFucksSake disability )
Trump asked Chinese president to help him win reelection: (tags:republicans USA politics China )
The Physics of Taking Down Racist Statues (From "Popular Mechanics" of all places): (tags:statue physics racism )
Diluting blood plasma rejuvenates tissue, reverses aging in mice: (tags:mice age blood )
D&D Creators Are Rethinking Race In Dungeons And Dragons: (tags:race games dungeonsanddragons )
Deaths involving coronavirus (COVID-19) in Scotland - very detailed, if you like crunching numbers: (tags:Scotland pandemic statistics viaPatrickHadfield )
DNA study reveals Ireland's age of 'god-kings': (tags:Ireland genetics archeology )
Coronavirus: 'Significant transmission' of Covid-19 takes place in households before people develop symptoms: (tags:pandemic )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3896025.html

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