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1. 57 different scripts that all descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs (from Latin to Aramaic to Tibetan to Javanese): (tags:language history evolution )
2. I just discovered that the blobfish only looks ugly when it's been dragged up from the ocean depths.: (tags:fish )
3. Why was the Titan's hull made of carbon fibre?: (tags:materials submarine epicfail )
4. How does raising interest rates lower inflation? Why Bank of England hikes base rate to combat rising prices: (tags:economics )
5. India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks: (tags:India science evolution education OhForFucksSake )
6. One of the best pieces of advice on making art: (tags:art advice )
7. Major report says pupils should not sit exams before fifth year: (tags:scotland school Education )
8. ID rules stopped more than 14,000 British people voting: (tags:uk identity voting OhForFucksSake )

1. Why did the Southern States secede?: (tags:USA history civilwar slavery )
2. When a Far Right Shitposter Runs a Social Media Platform: (tags:USA politics fraud disinformation socialmedia ElonMusk Twitter )
3. The Dangers of Google’s .zip TLD. Can you quickly tell which of the URLs is fraudulent?: (tags:hacking security web )
4. Alastair Campbell seems to have come around on fixing the voting system: (tags:politics voting reform labour )
5. Titanic: First ever full-sized scans reveal wreck as never seen before: (tags:titanic 3d scanning )
6. Why did the UK do so badly at Eurovision?: (tags:eurovision music UK )
7. Meet the people who carry out virtual relationships for money - two minutes at a time: (tags:relationships fraud business )
8. 94% of people don't want to be tracked online - why are sites still asking for consent to do so?: (tags:cookies surveillance web )
9. Post-Brexit India deal could cut thousands of jobs in Leave-voting areas, and hike food prices: (tags:uk europe india trade rice )
10. Edinburgh's Water of Leith nature project sees floating habitats placed to support wildlife: (tags:edinburgh rivers nature )
11. The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code: (tags:europe security software )

1. New UK rules ban subscription traps and fake reviews: (tags:reviews business internet uk law )
2. Social networks run on vibes. Do not fuck with them.: (tags:socialnetworking epicfail )
3. One tiny illustrated sci-fi story every day: More ideas than stories, of course, and some repetition. But worth a look
(tags:scifi short_story )
4. What it was like to run Twitter's Trust and Safety team when Musk took over: (tags:Twitter safety )
5. 3% of people who lack UK voter ID have applied for it: (tags:voting IDCards UK politics )

1. The Parliamentary Inquiry into English Childcare is looking for feedback. If you're in England then have your say on the state of childcare: (tags:children UK childcare )
2. Brexit has created shortage of 330,000 workers in UK: (tags:UK work migration Doom Europe )
3. What was life like for a poor family in London in 1900?: (tags:life history family poverty uk )
4. Edinburgh council starts taking work back from private contractors to improve quality of service and conditions for staff: (tags:edinburgh work outsourcing )
5. Artists file class-action lawsuit against AI image generator companies: (tags:ai images copyright )
6. What measurement system does the UK use? (ALL OF THEM!): (tags:measurement UK funny video )
7. How MPs voted on blocking Scotland's gender reform bill (Labour whipped to abstain): (tags:UK voting )
8. A look at the arguments the UK government has put forward for blocking Scotland's gender reform act: (tags:Scotland UK law LGBT transgender viaDanielDWilliam )
9. What if you could be nudged to do the right thing? (Read on beyond the fake research writeup to the short story): (tags:scifi behaviour psychology happiness augmentedreality )

1. The facts around former PMs' £115,000 annual 'allowance': (tags:money politics uk FactCheck )
2. Tories admitted to no oversight of ballot when members pick new prime minister (pet tortoises are totall eligible): (tags:politics Conservatives voting fraud )
3. Where does JK Rowling stand on alliances with the far right?: (tags:LGBT transgender politics racism jkrowling bigotry )
4. The Conservatives are 5 parties fighting each other to death. We'd all be better off if they could split: (tags:politics conservatives UK )
5. Shooty gun games look pretty amazing (Amsterdam in this case): (tags:games graphics )
6. Queen, Bowie & Annie Lennox - Under Pressure rehearsal ,1992 .: With George Michael singing along on the sidelines
(tags:Queen video music DavidBowie )
7. The world's energy situation is not as terrible as you might expect: (tags:electricity energy )
8. Tory leadership: How secure is the online vote?: (tags:voting conservatives security internet )

1. Russia has lost the capacity to mobilise: (tags:Russia war Ukraine epicfail )
2. An Open Letter to Bluey's Parents: Please Stop: We have totally had to play Heavy on many occasions.
(tags:parenting dogs viaSwampers animation funny )
3. Mountain Goats Are Being Airlifted Out of a National Park Because They Crave Human Pee: (tags:urine Goats headline )
4. Artist finds private medical record photos in popular AI training data set: (tags:healthcare dataprotection ai photos )
5. Just how long have men and women been switching gender roles for?: (tags:history gender newspapers )
6. Far too much fun in the snow in Northern China: (tags:China snow video fun )
7. Glasgow students without flats told to consider quitting university: (tags:housing university Glasgow )
8. Tucker Carlson accuses schools and hospitals of "sex crimes" and tells viewers they have a moral duty to dole out "instant justice" "no matter what the law says": (tags:USA murder LGBT TV school hospital OhForFucksSake )
9. The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality: (tags:death poverty capitalism )
10. US installs record solar capacity as prices keep falling: (tags:solarpower usa GoodNews )
11. $500,000,000 in funding, 10 years in development, and Star Citizen still doesn't have a release date: (tags:games epicfail )
12. For the first time the British Social Attitudes Survey shows a majority for proportional representation: (tags:reform elections voting proportional_representation UK )

1. The right wing company who own hundreds of local American TV broadcasters: (tags:TV politics usa )
2. No US-UK trade deal if Boris Johnson discards Northern Ireland protocol: (tags:UK Europe NorthernIreland Ireland USA trade )
3. Monkeypox outbreak erupts; US, UK, Spain, Portugal, and more report cases: (tags:disease monkey )
4. Single progressive challenger to Tories wins seats (because of FPTP): (tags:voting uk fptp OhForFucksSake )
5. Why "Scottish" not "British" now leads Scotland's identity: (tags:Scotland UK identity )
6. SpaceX Paid $250,000 to a Flight Attendant Who Accused Elon Musk of Sexual Misconduct: (tags:ElonMusk abuse sex )
7. Hinkley Point C delayed by a year as cost goes up by £3bn: (tags:nuclearpower uk )
8. OnlyFans Star Got Her Instagram Back by Sleeping With Facebook Employees: (tags:sexwork censorship facebook sex )
9. There's a bunch of fantasy that I struggle with nowadays because it comes across like this.: (tags:StarWars fantasy genetics )

The Americans Are Not Impressed By The UKâs Threat to Invoke Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol: (tags:uk usa trade doom politics )
The secret 1930s court case that led to transgender people losing their rights: (tags:law UK history transgender LGBT ViaDrCross )
Psilocybin trial finds psychedelic is effective in treating depression - but has side-effects: (tags:psilocybin depression research )
Remember, brave soldiers fought and died for your right to wear the remembrance thong: (tags:clothes war history wtf )
White House hails vaccine mandates as number of unvaccinated drops 40%: (tags:vaccination usa pandemic GoodNews )
How Are Kids Handling The Pandemic? We Asked Them.: (tags:children pandemic psychology )
North Carolina Republicans Passed A Heavily Skewed Congressional Map. How Will The Courts Respond?: (tags:voting bias usa republicans OhForFucksSake )
Brain Implant Translates Paralyzed Man's Thoughts Into Text With 94% Accuracy at 18 words per minute: (tags:brain neuroscience writing )
What Norwegians are learning as they pioneer autonomous ships: (tags:automation boats )

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