Entries tagged with apocalypse

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Interesting Links for 10-03-2023

1. Evolution of tree roots may have driven mass extinctions: (tags:evolution apocalypse extinction trees )
2. Childcare: Full-time nursery for under-twos nearly £15k a year: (tags:childcare money uk )
3. Mice born with two fathers: (tags:mice men children )
4. Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country: (tags:LGBT USA bigotry transgender law )
5. Rotating Sandwiches - that's it: (tags:food video wtf )
6. Why It's So Hard To Build a Crochet Machine: (tags:craft automation video viaNancyLebov )
7. Visceral Femininity: A Bloodborne Video Essay: (tags:games menstruation blood horror )
8. Inside the chaos of Elon Musk's Twitter: (tags:ElonMusk EpicStupidity business Twitter doom )
9. ONS Covid infection survey paused after 3 years, leaving no official method for tracking virus: (tags:Pandemic UK )
10. The Fed's Inflation Goal Is Completely Arbitrary: (tags:inflation economics history viaDanielDWilliam )

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Interesting Links for 08-02-2023

1. This pretty much sums up how I feel about computer games that prioritise narrative over, well, being a game: (tags:games narrative writing design video )
2. As kids become teens, mom's voice matters less to their brains: (tags:teenagers voice psychology children )
3. Nintendo Switch Surpasses PS4 and Game Boy to Become 3rd Best Selling Console of All Time: (tags:Nintendo consoles )
4. What Happened On The Day the Dinosaurs Died?: (tags:video dinosaurs apocalypse )
5. I think Atari might have overestimated the level of nostalgia people have for their consoles: (tags:games nostalgia history technology consoles money )
6. Noting a chain of evidence for the next time someone claims that JK Rowling isn't transphobic: (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry jkrowling )
7. Google advertises its AI - which manages to get facts wrong *in the advert*: (tags:ai OhForFucksSake google )

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Interesting Links for 18-05-2022

1. The surreal, but also real, problem of Britain's gas glut: (tags:gas UK Europe electricity economics )
2. Getting past the anxiety/avoidance cycle: (tags:anxiety advice )
3. Doctor Who: Any Colour You Like Provided It's Not Black: (tags:racism drwho )
4. Movies that change genre halfway through: (tags:movies genre )
5. EU warns 'all measures at its disposal' if UK overrides Northern Ireland Protocol: (tags:europe uk trade doom NorthernIreland )
6. Coca-Cola introduces built-in bottle caps in bid to boost recycling and help prevent litter: (tags:coke recycling )
7. How Beatboxing Was Invented (mostly because I spent half an hour looking for this and nearly didn't): (tags:games music video funny )
8. Why I love the new labour movement: (tags:unions economics viaDanielDWilliam )
9. Statement by the EU on the UK threatening to break its agreements: (tags:UK Europe Doom )
10. Surely Thatcher would approve of this enterprising young man?: (tags:margaretthatcher vandalism funny )
11. The Open is the oldest golf tournament in the world, it has a prize pot of over $11m, and apparently they need people to work for them for free: (tags:work golf money volunteers viaLizzieCassMaran OhForFucksSake )
12. Twitter turns the tables on Elon Musk, will "enforce" merger: (tags:Twitter ElonMusk funny )
13. The trailer for Terry Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice looks like fun: (tags:terrypratchett cats movies trailer video )
14. Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a possible solution to the Fermi paradox?: (tags:fermi aliens civilization apocalypse )
15. Can your characterafford to be without a Non-Fungible Trident?: (tags:blockchain funny dungeonsanddragons satire )
16. MRI images of foetuses are terrifying: (tags:MRI babies scary )

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Interesting Links for 28-01-2022

You know Britain's current gas shortage that's pushing up prices dramatically? Turns out we've been exporting huge amounts overseas during that.: (tags:trade gas UK economics )
The world invested $755Bn last year on energy transition: (tags:electricity environment investment viaDanielDWilliam )
Why Can't You Reverse A String Containing a Flag Emoji?: (tags:letter flags computers unicode )
Humanist marriage: MPs call for legal recognition of ceremonies: (tags:UK marriage law religion )
The apocalyptic mindset that explains a lot about American right wing Christian thinking: (tags:USA religion apocalypse christianity )
Scotland's work from home guidance to be relaxed next week: (tags:Scotland Pandemic work )
Met Police seeks limits to Sue Gray No 10 parties report: (tags:police party pandemic BorisJohnson Conservatives )
Highway Code: 'Dutch reach' rule change to Highway Code comes in to force: (tags:bicycles cars uk )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4117795.html

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Interesting Links for 27-11-2021

The Highest City in the World Celebrates Its Indigenous Culture with Neo-Andean Architecture: (tags:design Bolivia architecture colour )
Boris Johnson bridge to Northern Ireland would cost over £300bn and should not be built, government review finds: (tags:uk NorthernIreland trains )
Edinburgh's tram extension: Leith Walk faces longer closure after project hits problems (still within overall budget and timescales though): (tags:construction Edinburgh trams )
Study: How Conservative Think Tanks are Destroying the Planet: (tags:globalwarming Doom apocalypse conspiracy conservatives republicans )
I'm starting to think that the UK government is *trying* to collect all the variants: (tags:Pandemic southafrica OhForFucksSake )
Disney TV channels are losing about 10% of their viewers per year. I wonder if that applies generally to broadcast TV: (tags:TV Disney broadcast )
"Count To Ten" - a short animated comic I rather enjoyed, about taking the wrong road: (tags:life comic animation video )
Visually-impaired artists share their world: (tags:art disability sight )
Novel mind-body program outperforms other treatments for chronic back pain: (tags:pain back )
The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire: (tags:internet design security )

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

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Interesting Links for 18-01-2021

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/3980932.html

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Interesting Links for 06-01-2021

Children have always been a major source of Covid infections. Closing schools is the second-best intervention we could make (I've not seen this evidence before.): https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1346362159446577154.html
(tags:children pandemic )
Mirena (the IUD) has been the subject of multiple lawsuits: (tags:law USA contraception viajoexnz )
A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?: (tags:technology apocalypse gambling thefuture predictions )
81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends: (tags:UK Europe internet )
Covid travel: Why Instagram is still full of celebrities 'on holiday': (tags:celebrity advertising holidays UK OhForFucksSake )
One In 50 People Are Currently Believed To Have Covid-19 In The UK (One in Thirty in London): (tags:pandemic uk )
Why don't all demolition devices look like dinosaurs?: (tags:dinosaurs construction )
"You can't expect Brexit not to have consequences. The UK won't be a distribution hub for the EU any more. EU businesses will need to stop relying on UK hubs.": https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1346746239874953217.html
(tags:UK Europe trade Doom )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3880048.html

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3876497.html

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Interesting Links for 23-03-2020

Please remember to..."Remain Indoors": (tags:video satire funny apocalypse )
Modern Classics Summarized: Stranger In A Strange Land: (tags:video heinlein review books scifi )
Painting! With a Chameleon!: (tags:painting animals video funny viaSwampers )
The doctor who helped defeat smallpox explains what's coming: (tags:Pandemic advice thefuture )
If you value your sanity, don't look at the #Covidiots tweets: (tags:OhForFucksSake pandemic viaSwampers EpicStupidity )
Behind the famous musical based on The Rape of the Sabine Women: (tags:rape wtf musicals )
Brits are taking social distancing less seriously than other European countries: (tags:UK pandemic Doom Europe )
Is your skin having problems after all the hand washing? Here's some advice: (tags:advice health )
New Zealand to go into month-long lockdown to fight coronavirus: (tags:newzealand GoodNews pandemic )
Insurers must be fair during coronavirus crisis, says UK regulator: (tags:uk insurance )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3874689.html

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Interesting Links for 18-03-2020

Mysterious mammoth bone circle discovered in Russia could help explain how humans survived last Ice Age: (tags:prehistory Russia )
The vast majority of companies will not be able to claim on insurance for a Coronavirus-related shutdown: (tags:disease insurance business )
No10 insists Brexit transition period will not be extended as trade talks cancelled due to coronavirus: (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
Coronavirus: Dutch adopt controversial 'herd immunity' strategy: (tags:netherlands disease immune_system )
Plaits of hair, c 350 BCE, recovered from bogs in Denmark.: (tags:archeology hair viaDanielDWilliam )
A toilet paper run is like a bank run. The economic fixes are about the same: (tags:economics fail toilets paper viaDanielDWilliam )
Facebook wrongly blocked some links, including coronavirus info: (tags:Facebook spam errors )
What it's like on Twitter for a woman on University Challenge?: (tags:TV women society Twitter )
The Romero Dawn of the Dead has come to pass!: (tags:zombies shopping apocalypse satire video )
Working from home is hard when you're a violinist: (tags:music children funny disease )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3873253.html

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Interesting Links for 13-03-2020

UK Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy: (tags:disease UK government )
Boris Johnson's hero is the mayor in Jaws who keeps the beach open while a shark eats the citizens: (tags:BorisJohnson politics death sharks )
The NHS is doing a really really shit job of testing people for coronavirus: (tags:disease NHS OhForFucksSake epicfail )
How KaiOS Is Becoming the 3rd Major Mobile OS (from 2018, but they just announced a deal with Mozilla to improve the OS further): (tags:phones mozilla firefox )
The Contagion screenwriter on watching his movie become reality. (It's an excellent movie, I recommend it): (tags:movies disease reality )
Star Trek: The Conference Call: (tags:StarTrek technology communication fail funny )
Singapore was ready for COVID-19—other countries, take note: (tags:disease singapore )
Mass events ban in Scotland. Schools to remain open: (tags:schools disease Scotland )
FactCheck: why hasn't Britain closed its schools?: (tags:UK disease school )
How to prepare the world for after the apocalypse: (tags:games apocalypse funny )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3828325.html

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Interesting Links for 03-10-2019

Johnson's Brexit plan: No viability, no decency, no hope: (tags:UK Europe NorthernIreland borders Doom )
What Really Happens After the Apocalypse | Tor.com: (tags:apocalypse behaviour society scifi )
Basic income is paving a path to freedom in Kenya: (tags:kenya GuaranteedIncome )
GOP Racial Gerrymandering. This should be a much bigger scandal: (tags:racism voting corruption USA republicans )
Labour MP faces reselection battle amid backlash over stance on LGBT+ education: (tags:LGBT homophobia labour )
Why many "leavers" are against a confirmation referendum: (tags:UK Europe referendum )
Animal slaughter ruling in Belgium stirs religious freedom debate: (tags:animals food religion Europe Belgium )
On blackface, racism, society, and swimming in a sea of racism: (tags:racism history )
Doesn't look like we'll have many trade deals when we dump ourselves out of the EU: (tags:trade Europe UK Doom )
Carbon offsets are based on planting (or protecting) forests. Most of the time this doesn't happen: (tags:fraud carbon forests )
Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet: (tags:Iraq vegetation censorship internet )
Iraq anti-government protests lead to deadly clashes: (tags:Iraq protests )
Scotland gives children the same protection from assault as adults.: (tags:assault children violence Scotland GoodNews )
Cats show different attachment bonds to humans: (tags:cats psychology )
Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths: how subcultures die.: The language is somewhat patronising, but the dynamics look right from my experience
(tags:culture organisation geek )
The Myth of Commoditized Excellence - how ideas become movements, and then disillusionment sets in: (tags:organisation ideas society )
Why Girls' Superior Reading Skills May Be Lowering Their Future Salaries: (tags:gender pay mathematics language )
Why a split anti-Brexit vote may not be as good for the Conservatives as we assume.: (tags:voting UK Europe )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3803787.html

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Interesting Links for 01-07-2019

Boris Johnson avoids Scotland as he brands Westminster an 'England parliament': (tags:England politics UK scotland )
Survival of the Richest - How the elites are planning to cope with the apocalypse: (tags:apocalypse inequality )
EU signs landmark trade deal with Vietnam: (tags:Europe trade vietnam )
World's Largest Solar Power Plant Switched On: (tags:viaDanielDWilliam solarpower middle_east )
'Sandman' TV Series From Neil Gaiman, David Goyer a Go at Netflix: (tags:TV comics sandman netflix )
Baoshang Bank collapse threatens China's economy and may trigger central bank response: (tags:Banking economy China failure )
State Street Global Advisors Battle Sculptor Kristen Visbal for Custody of 'Fearless Girl' Statue: (tags:art women finance business marketing )
No, 21 major Indian cities are not expected to run out of groundwater by 2020: (tags:statistics water india fail )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3770935.html

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Interesting Links for 07-03-2019

When TERFs aren't campaigning against Trans rights they like to focus on other important issues such as...Fighting each other for liking anal sex.: (tags:transgender sex wtf )
The Good Omens trailer is out. I'm undecided, but it's at least plausibly good: (tags:terrypratchett neilgaiman tv apocalypse )
A groove is better with rhythm and harmony, new research shows: (tags:dancing psychology )
How to destroy a perfectly good toy shop (Jenners in Edinburgh): (tags:toys shopping edinburgh fail outsourcing )
I did not know how depressing the ending to the Dinosaurs TV show was!: (tags:dinosaurs tv )
Debunking the "Blind auditions help women in orchestras" research: (tags:gender inequality research )
A Brief History of Brexit for Americans: (tags:UK europe doom video funny viaJennieRigg )
You've never had "real" Soy Sauce. And you probably never will.: (tags:food japan history )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3736648.html

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Interesting Links for 30-10-2018

The U.S. Catholic Church is facing an unprecedented wave of sex abuse investigations: (tags: abuse catholicism usa crime )
Remainers shouldn't assume EU leaders will welcome another Brexit referendum: (tags: uk europe doom referendum )
What listening to cricket on the radio is like: (tags: cricket funny satire radio )
The OnePlus 6T Review - looks amazing, and if I didn't get a OnePlus 6 recently I'd be getting one. Ah well, next year!: (tags: phones review android )
Archaeologists find 300,000-year-old stone tools in Saudi Arabia: (tags: archeology saudiarabia )
Majority of British public support legalisation of cannabis: (tags: marijuana legalisation UK )
I would feel sorry for the children of these parents. If I wasn't planning on copying several of them...: (tags: viaJane parenting funny )
UK budget takes £400 from poorest and gives it to richest: (tags: money uk Conservatives OhForFucksSake )
Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970: (tags: apocalypse doom animals environment )
Europe's centre is not holding. People are abandoning it for the far left and right.: This is what you get when standards of living fall, of course.
(tags: politics europe )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3725908.html

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Interesting Links for 22-09-2018

All the times EU has said 'no' to Theresa May's Chequers Brexit trade plan: (tags: uk europe )
The South African mountains older than continents: (tags: southafrica prehistory earth mountains )
If you are surprised by anything that happened at Salzburg then you have not been paying attention.: (tags: Europe UK doom )
Murdered man's body found after tree 'unusual for the area' grew from seed in his stomach: (tags: murder turkey greece trees viaSwampers )
"How I Tried to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" - recreating terrible romantic-comedy behaviour for fun and journalism: (tags: funny relationships movies viaSwampers )
"England and Brexit have made a mug of Scots like me who voted 'no' to independence": (tags: independence Scotland uk europe )
Children as young as 10 denied UK citizenship for failing ‘good character’ test: (tags: children immigration UK OhForFucksSake )
Windrush generation members to be refused UK citizenship, government announces: (tags: uk immigration OhForFucksSake )
Being alone in deep space is uncomfortable, even in a computer game: (tags: games space emotion )
Ukip proposes creation of Muslim-only prisons: (tags: UKIP racism Islam OhForFucksSake prison )
Co-founder of Ukrainian feminist protest group found dead in Paris flat: (tags: Ukraine feminism death )
Delaying the antichrist through good parenting: (tags: parenting apocalypse )
Jumping bear is the best bear: (tags: bears video cute )
Study: Heavy Metal Music Is Inclusive And Governed By Rules Of Etiquette: (tags: music HeavyMetal )
The EU had the summit dinner at the same spot the Von Trapps sing "so long, farewell, Auf wiederschen, adieu" in The Sound of Music.: (tags: funny movie Europe uk )
"Sajid Javid... laid out a series of pro-business measures needed to keep the economy afloat... these included suspending environmental regulations, workers’ rights and auto-enrolment in workplace pensions.": (tags: Europe UK doom )
Salzburg: How misreading has brought Brexit to brink (fascinating and in-depth): (tags: uk Europe diplomacy )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3711833.html

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Interesting Links for 04-08-2018

Anne Lister: Plaque to 'first modern lesbian' sparks anger: (tags: lgbt lesbians UK history )
Why "tax the robots" is a really stupid answer to job automation: (tags: automation tax economics Technology )
Tokyo Medical University lowered women’s test scores because it was a “necessary evil”: (tags: japan women OhForFucksSake healthcare )
The goat apocalypse is upon us!: (tags: Goats apocalypse doom )
I will root antisemites out of Labour – they do not speak for me - Jeremy Corbyn: (tags: Labour Jews israel )
Your reminder that "No Deal" is much much worse than reverting to WTO rules.: (tags: trade UK Europe doom )
Ofcom report finds worrying stats about UK internet use: (tags: UK internet )
Incredibly impressive rendering. I'd have believed the diamonds were a photo: (tags: graphics impressive )
The Lib Dem Immigration Policy Paper is Not Fit For Purpose: (tags: libdem immigration OhForFucksSake )
Edinburgh council puts forward three visions of the city centre, to see what the public want: (tags: transport edinburgh )