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1. Written? Kitten! (having problems hitting your word count? This site will reward you with kittens!): (tags:kittens writing )
2. Twitter is now trying to force people to post everything on their site by deprioritising links. I suspect (and hope) it will go very badly for them.: (tags:Twitter OhForFucksSake business )
3. New study definitively confirms gulf stream weakening: (tags:Doom globalwarming ocean )
4. How one independent researcher conducted the largest-ever survey on fetishes, and what it has to teach us about sex, pleasure, and social science methodology.: (tags:research sex fetish psychology )
5. Musk is nearly done destroying what made Twitter Twitter: (tags:Twitter epicfail design viaPatrickHadfield )
6. EU launches a carbon tax on all imports: (tags:europe tax co2 globalwarming economics )
7. Ticket reselling companies set to lose more than $1million because they bought all of the tickets for an artist that not many people want to see live.: (tags:music business epicfail tickets )

1. Russia using Wagner in Africa to displace the West and erode democracies: (tags:russia africa corruption )
2. Global warming increases ocean temperatures, stripping the seas of oxygen: (tags:oxygen ocean fish doom )
3. People are publishing AI books with real authors' names.: (tags:ai writing publishing fraud )
4. Covid testing in Scottish hospitals, care homes and prisons to end: (tags:scotland pandemic )
5. Norway fines Facebook owner Meta $100k/day over privacy breaches: (tags:norway facebook privacy regulation )
6. SUSE, the German Linux company, appear to be deeply anti-semitic: (tags:Jews linux OhForFucksSake )
7. Inside Keir Starmer's plan to 'annihilate the left' and appoint 'middle-class and dull' candidate MPs: (tags:labour politics )
8. The electoral breach in the UK was all Microsoft's fault: (tags:uk hacking microsoft )
9. Complex ape-man culture, with burial practices, may have existed in Africa 300,000 years ago: (tags:africa humans evolution society culture death )
10. Gender disparity in the rate of partner abandonment in patients with serious medical illness: (tags:cancer divorce gender )

1. Voters of All Major UK Parties Support Right to Roam: (tags:UK nature rights )
2. Scottish Government backs decriminalisation of drugs for personal use: (tags:drugs Scotland decriminalization )
3. The one true way of becoming a writer: (tags:writing fairytale satire funny advice )

1. Bakhmut before-and-after: Satellite images of the city destroyed in the Russia-Ukraine war: (tags:ukraine cities war russia OhForFucksSake )
2. Post-Brexit boom in UK companies setting up in Germany: (tags:uk europe trade OhForFucksSake )
3. Damning Video Proves Greece Abandons Migrants at Sea: (tags:greece migration asylum OhForFucksSake )
4. Weapons expert cut from government event because he's against other government policies: (tags:uk censorship government OhForFucksSake )
5. Royal Navy divers help autonomous underwater vehicles clear the Baltic Sea of unexploded ordnance: (tags:navy weaponry europe drone )
6. How silverback gorillas solved an argument with cold air: (tags:gorillas society argument )
7. AI writers and seawater gold extraction have something in common: (tags:gold sea ai writing money )
8. Turning cats into kittens: (tags:cats cute )
9. Brain signals can predict how much pain a person is in: (tags:pain nerves )
10. Number of Scottish people who can speak some Gaelic doubles from 15% to 30%: (tags:Scotland language Gaelic )

1. China calls in loans to Pakistan, Kenya, dozens more (many of such loans were made secretly, on unfair terms, and used for corruption): (tags:corruption China loans economics Doom )
2. How many of these dating deal-breakers apply to you?: (tags:relationships polls )
3. Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. But why?: (tags:whales boats violence )
4. People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting.: (tags:addiction medicine )
5. The Aristotelian Monroe-Warhol Bean Conspiracy: (tags:jokes art beans )
6. Canon! Vs! Fanfic!: (tags:fanfic canon funny fiction writing )
7. How involved were the Osage with Killers of the Flower Moon?: (tags:movies history USA )
8. Pfeilstorch - how an African spear told us what happens to birds in the winter: (tags:birds migration history Africa Germany )
9. Sex Ed Books Don't "Groom" Kids and Teens. They Protect Them.: (tags:children education books sex )

1. Mourning Porn on Imgur, Mourning Trans & Kinky History: (tags:censorship lgbt history OhForFucksSake )
2. Houston's only lesbian bar denied insurance for hosting drag: (tags:insurance clothing gender OhForFucksSake )
3. Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards - the finalists for every year since 2016: (tags:animals funny photos )
4. How the use of technology in science fiction tells you what the writer is actually interested in talking about: (tags:scifi writing )
5. About as simple a guide as you can get to how the recent flock of AIs work. (It really is Searle's Chinese Room): (tags:language mathematics ai )
6. People are still massively wasting publishers' time by submitting AI generated short stories.: (tags:AI short_story publishing OhForFucksSake spam )
7. The Staircase of Global Warming Denial: (tags:globalwarming visualisation )
8. What's so great about Costa Rica?: (tags:SouthAmerica politics society history )

1. Sad that Edinburgh Lib Dem councillors voted for monarchy: (tags:Edinburgh monarchy politics )
2. Why you want writers on-set when you're filming: (tags:writing TV movies )
3. How to paint a realistic dog. (A very patient one, from the look on its face): (tags:dogs funny art video )
4. Writer memes: (tags:meme writing funny )

1. Kitkat ads made using AI satirise making things with AI: (tags:ai advertising food chocolate )
2. Iowa passes a law allowing child labour: (tags:USA children work OhForFucksSake )
3. Two-for-One: Chickenpox Vaccine Lowers Shingles Risk in Children: (tags:chicken virus vaccination )
4. Manager at radical French publisher arrested on terror charges en route to London Book Fair (for taking part in protests against French pension changes): (tags:France UK publishing wtf protests )
5. Former Wagner fighters claim they were ordered to kill children and civilians in Ukraine: (tags:murder WarCrimes Russia Ukraine children )
6. Brecon Beacons name change explained: How to pronounce the National Park's new Welsh name Bannau Brycheiniog: (tags:names wales nature mountains )
7. Prepayment meter ban could see energy firms go after struggling customers' cars and TVs: (tags:energy money business debt poverty )
8. Hundreds of years after the first try, we can finally read a Ptolemy text: (tags:history mathematics writing )

1. Sex Worker-Led Payment Platform Shuts Down After Being Cut Off by Processor: (tags:sexwork payment banking OhForFucksSake )
2. Who, really, *is* Brandon Sanderson? (Other than the biggest fantasy writer in the world): (tags:writing fantasy )
3. Sometimes card tricks look so impossible that they just have to be magic: (tags:magic cards video impressive )
4. Women comparing themselves with 'perfect' genitals in porn is contributing to a 300% rise in labiaplasty: (tags:genitals vagina surgery porn society )
5. Who knew octopi would be so clingy?: (tags:octopus cute video )
6. Epic's new motion-capture animation tech has to be seen to be believed: (tags:motioncapture impressive faces )
7. Nasal Covid vaccine shows promise in early clinical trial: (tags:pandemic noses vaccine )
8. Armed Metropolitan Police officer escapes domestic abuse prosecution after controlling 'every step' of his investigation: (tags:police abuse UK OhForFucksSake )
9. JPMorgan Chase thought it had $1.3 million worth of nickel stored in a warehouse. A closer examination revealed bags of stones.: (tags:fraud metal trade )
10. A Doctor Who game - join them together and try to reach 13. (I've gotten as far as the War Doctor): (tags:drwho games )
11. Nearly one in five people find everyday sounds intolerable: (tags:sound psychology )
12. A machine that learns to play noughts and crosses, built from 304 matchboxes: (tags:ai games )

1. Work to begin immediately on £55m music centre vision for Edinburgh landmark (the old Royal High School on Calton Hill): (tags:music school edinburgh )
2. Gary Lineker row: All the people employed or used in BBC programming who are outspoken on social media: (tags:bbc twitter socialnetworking )
3. The care worker recruitment crisis is even bigger than the NHS: (tags:jobs Doom care )
4. Why did 250,000 Britons die sooner than expected? (Austerity): (tags:uk austerity death )
5. Silicon Valley Bank seem to have managed risk unusually badly: (tags:risk banking Technology epicfail )
6. Nabokov was not a fan of many people's interpretation of Lolita: (tags:abuse children rape writing )
7. Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Thing': (tags:scifi funny music musicals )
8. The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man: (tags:Conservatives politics mistakes )
9. Trams! Invade Leith!: (tags:Edinburgh trams video transport )
10. What's Going On With Red Dwarf?: (tags:RedDwarf TV scifi )

1. How Brexit has weakened the narratives of nationalist parties across the EU: (tags:UK Europe nationalism )
2. Banning make-up, short skirts and toilet breaks is allowing misogyny to run rife in our schools: (tags:school misogyny clothing girls )
3. Buried alive in elven armour - for art: (tags:lotr archeology art death )
4. Brexit Britain doesn't even make the long list for new manufacturing investment: (tags:UK Europe manufacturing investment Doom )
5. Neil Gaiman on what it was like writing with Terry Pratchett: (tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett writing )
6. Pulsars sometimes speed up because they're slowing down, because of quantum mechanics: (tags:astronomy stars quantum physics viaPatrickHadfield )
7. China's gay conversion camps: survivors tell of abuse, beatings, and electric shocks: (tags:abuse LGBT China OhForFucksSake )
8. Catholic Group Spends Millions on Dating App Data to Out Gay Priests: (tags:LGBT Catholic gay OhForFucksSake )
9. Believe it or not, the Amish are loving electric bikes: (tags:electricity bicycles Amish technology )
10. Victorian Vampire slaying kit complete with wooden stake and holy water set to fetch thousands at auction: (tags:history vampire auctions )

1. Britons waiting twice as long for sickness benefits under Tories: (tags:uk Conservatives disability austerity OhForFucksSake )
2. Children of same-sex couples fare as well as or better than heterosexual ones: (tags:lgbt parenting )
3. We don't have a blasphemy law, but we have a system that punishes it: (tags:blasphemy uk freespeech police )
4. How the UN's ocean treaty, decades in the making, will transform the way we protect the seas: (tags:UnitedNations ocean nature GoodNews )
5. Scientists decode why people are scared of clowns: (tags:phobia fear humans faces )
6. Are modern superhero comics missing the ordinary people?: (tags:comics writing superheroes )
7. I suspect the court case over this will cost Elon Musk a small fortune: (tags:ElonMusk disability OhForFucksSake )
8. Labour retreats from pledge to nationalise energy, water and mail if it wins next general election: (tags:labour privatisation politics UK OhForFucksSake )
9. Edinburgh Council backs bid to ban vehicles from parts of Leith: (tags:Edinburgh cars transport )

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