Entries tagged with flags

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Interesting Links for 16-06-2024

1. The NASA Pride flag is awesome: (tags:NASA pride flags )

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Interesting Links for 13-03-2022

Ukrainians are able to defeat Russian tanks while armed only with flags: (tags:Russia Ukraine war flags epicwin )

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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/4064906.html

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3904120.html

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Interesting Links for 27-07-2020

The terrible, awful, no good flags of real life pirates: (tags:pirates flags design viaDanielDWilliam )
Poland to leave European treaty on violence against women: (tags:Poland violence women OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3898146.html

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Interesting Links for 12-07-2020

Here are the changes that will happen between the EU and the UK come the first of January: (tags:UK Europe Doom )
Vast Brexit customs clearance centre to be built in Kent: (tags:trade Europe UK )
Incredible restored video of Tokyo from 1913-1915: (tags:Japan history video )
CNN asked Black artists from Mississippi to design a new state flag: (tags:flags USA design )
Did you even know you needed 3D printed pasta?: (tags:pasta 3dprinting food technology )
How small satellites are radically remaking space exploration: (tags:space technology )
A fascinating, personal, story of transition, detransition, and transition again.: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1281537118183895041.html
(tags:gender transgender LGBT )
Scientists develop new antibody test which gives results in seven minutes: (tags:virus GoodNews )
Nearly all married women take their husband's last name - the patriarchy is alive and well: (tags:names patriarchy uk marriage )
A gold ring, a thieving Roman, and...JRR Tolkien?: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1281534833320222721.html
(tags:Tolkien archaeology rome viaDanielDWilliam )
The idea that the working class have limited interests is ahistoric, and just plain wrong: (tags:class culture history )
We have too much efficiency: (tags:efficiency society )
Why are toys such a bad business?: (tags:toys business )

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Interesting Links for 27-06-2020

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 )

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Interesting Links for 11-06-2020

Reddit Ireland turns off at midnight to stop racist trolls: (tags:racism Ireland reddit )
For Online Daters, Women Peak at 18 While Men Peak at 50, Study Finds. Oy.: (tags:age relationships gender patriarchy )
Cataloguing JK Rowling's half truths and transphobia in her latest attack.: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1270787941275762689.html
(tags:jkrowling LGBT transgender lies )
UK government was advised to have lockdown two weeks earlier: (tags:pandemic OhForFucksSake uk )
U.S. states accuse 26 drugmakers of generic drug price fixing in sweeping lawsuit: (tags:medication law USA )
NASCAR bans Confederate flag at all events and properties: (tags:USA civilwar racism flags driving )
Yeast of our worries: Marmite supplies hit by Covid-19 beer brewing slowdown: (tags:food alcohol pandemic )
How are AIs doing? (impressively well, it turns out): (tags:ai )
Our treatment of refugees dying in the Mediterranean needs to be part of the current discussion of race.: (tags:racism death immigration )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3803948.html

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Interesting Links for 03-07-2019

An astrobiologist tries cooking in Antarctica at -70ÂºC.: (tags:viaFanf antarctic cooking temperature )
I Don't Think a Woman is Electable In 2020 Because Last Time Around the Female Nominee Only Got Three Million More Votes Than Her Opponent: (tags:politics USA women satire )
Your eyes are the key to distracted driving, not your brain: (tags:driving sight )
The Cannabis Debate: Brits think UK should follow Canada and make drug legal: (tags:UK marijuana legalisation )
Liberals are rising up to oppose 'populists' like Putin, Trump and Farage: (tags:liberal libdem politics )
Straws: UK government to bring in new controls on plastic: (tags:UK plastic )
All the ways in which flag-fetishist "patriots" are actually disrespecting the symbol they claim to venerate.: (tags:flags usa )
Sean Bean finally gets the role he was born for: (tags:yorkshire tea advertising )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3800451.html

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Interesting Links for 19-06-2019

The CIA Spied on People Through Their Samsung Smart TVs: (tags:tv spying surveillance cia )
Nigel Farage milkshake attacker pleads guilty to assault and criminal damage: (tags:assault uk politics fascism )
Why women leave academia and why universities should be worried: (tags:women phd academia )
No, most Labour voters are not working class Leavers: (tags:labour europe )
Butterless puff pastry is bad enough. But other food hacks can be fatal: (tags:foo money death )
Two centuries of rapid global population growth will come to an end: (tags:demographics growth earth humans )
Why Is Europe's Far Right Targeting Gender Studies?: (tags:Europe society gender fascism )
ITV bans all comedies written solely by men: (tags:writing gender tv UK )
The "realistic" Disney characters are great (particularly Megara, Ursula, and Frollo): (tags:Disney art )
The Flag Of Northern Ireland (of which there isn't one. Sort of): (tags:NorthernIreland flags video history )
DWP fit-to-work assessments cost more money than they save: (tags:UK welfare disability OhForFucksSake Conservatives )
This is a woman who knows how to handle a lightsaber: (tags:StarWars stunts video impressive )
Engineers boost output of solar desalination system by 50%: (tags:desalination solar )
Boaty McBoatface makes significant climate change discovery on first mission: (tags:globalwarming ocean antarctic )
Ivan Rogers: no deal is now the most likely Brexit outcome: (tags:UK Europe Doom )
Brexit: MPs take legal action to force police to act over crimes committed by Leave campaign during EU referendum: (tags:uk police fraud politics europe )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3726396.html

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Interesting Links for 23-09-2018

Nvidia have made it so you can't trust any video you see, every again: (tags: video fraud Technology nvidia )
Streaming accounts for 75 percent of music industry revenue in the US - CDs down 41% in one year: (tags: music streaming usa money )
A leading homelessness charity passed key information about migrant rough sleepers to Home Office enforcement teams. Some were subsequently rounded up and deported: (tags: homelessness uk charity OhForFucksSake )
One reason we're not able to get a withdrawal agreement: the DUP: (tags: DUP NorthernIreland UK europe doom )
"What is the most pedantic argument you have ever had with a pub quizmaster over an answer?": (tags: quiz argument )
Jeremy Corbyn says Labour will back second Brexit referendum if members demand it: (tags: labour referendum UK Europe GoodNews )
Theresa May's aides 'plan November snap election' to end Brexit standoff: (tags: election GoodNews uk europe )
Revealed: the police list of flags that could be criminal offence to fly in Scotland: (tags: flags Scotland wtf )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3674591.html

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Interesting Links for 02-04-2018

Responding To The Lib Dem Policy Consultation on Immigration: (tags: libdem immigration OhForFucksSake )
On discovering that you're not a failure - you're a penguin: (tags: penguins autism diversity )
New favourite theory about Mad Max: (tags: movies funny australia )
Check out this amazing hyper realistic painting of a cat!: (tags: cats art )
America is a dystopia: (tags: usa dystopia OhForFucksSake school )
Frodo Laid a Geas (I really ought to re-read LOTR): (tags: lotr magic )
Cuttlefish does an amazing impression of a hermit crab: (tags: animals impressive ocean )
Heavy metal imagery to help with depression: (tags: depression HeavyMetal )
Men's ideal Hugh Jackman vs Women's ideal Hugh Jackman: (tags: gender society )
Why Do Cracking Knuckles Make That Noise?: I really wish mine didn't need to do it intermittently
(tags: bodies sound )
Vince Cable on internet regulation: (tags: regulation internet libdem )
How Amsterdam is reducing child obesity: Annoying that the article leads with the exercise, rather than the advice on healthy eating, the dieticians, and the banning of junk food advertising on the subway/sporting events.
(tags: obesity children netherlands )
The flags of most countries are really new: (tags: flags history )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3655144.html

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Interesting Links for 26-01-2018

Why Tesla's Autopilot Can't See a Stopped Firetruck: (tags: automation driving )
Climate change: Sandwiches eaten in UK have same environmental impact as eight million cars: (tags: globalwarming food uk )
Brexit: MPs won't have full details of EU deal when they vote on it, Philip Hammond reveals: (tags: europe uk )
'It breaks my heart that my daughter might think she only exists because terminations were forbidden': (tags: abortion children ireland )
North Korea sends rare announcement to all Koreans, calls for unification: (tags: NorthKorea )
Seven in 10 UK workers are chronically broke: (tags: uk economy society money )
The female price of male pleasure - "An 8 on a man's Bad Sex scale is like a 1 on a woman's.": (tags: sex society pain )
Tariff Engineering (Changing your products in tiny ways to avoid taxes): (tags: tax design )
The Birds. Would like to Come In.: (tags: birds )
The democratisation of AI-powered realistic fake celebrity porn: (tags: ai porn celebrity )
Vulnerable industrial controls directly connected to Internet? Why not?: (tags: internet infrastructure OhForFucksSake hacking )
The fascinating story of the Dutch intelligence agency spying on the Russian hackers who affected the US election: (tags: hacking Russia usa netherlands spying )
Daily Mail apologises to Nicola Sturgeon over flag story: (tags: DailyMail scotland flags apology )
Alt-Right and Marxists are more conflict-oriented than the political mainstream: (tags: politics psychology )
Are religious people really less smart, on average, than atheists?: (tags: religion Intelligence )
Senator Demands FBI Director Explain His Encryption Backdoor Bullshit: (tags: encryption security Technology usa )
Why American men are getting less marriageable: (tags: marriage usa work society )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3654640.html

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Interesting Links for 24-01-2018

In-N-Out - the burger chain that sees the value in decent wages: (tags: food jobs pay )
Brexit and the Sewel (legislative consent) Convention: (tags: UK Europe Scotland NorthernIreland wales law )
On Mulling Over the Sutton Gas Inflection Point and Other Energy Market Changes: (tags: energy renewables thefuture )
Behold: The Capisceptic Alliance!: (tags: capitalism politics labour )
Why Infants Stop Crying When You Stand Up: (tags: viaSwampers babies )
Jeremy Hunt admits supply of EU cancer drugs to Britain could be disrupted if Brexit talks break down: (tags: cancer drugs medicine Europe uk )
Ursula K Le Guin. 1929 - 2018: (tags: death writing UrsulaKLegGuin )
Deaf mum sues Little Mix promoter in sign language row: (tags: deafness disability law uk )
MP calls for tougher laws after women groped at men-only charity gala: (tags: abuse women charity uk )
How Russia’s Hilarious, Homoerotic “Satisfaction” Became a Nationwide Meme of Solidarity: (tags: Russia lgbt meme viaSwampers )
Scholars who believe nurture trumps nature also tend to doubt the scientific method: (tags: science nature nurture personality society )
Doctors blocked by Home Office from taking up vital NHS jobs: Have I mentioned my general hatred of the home office?
(tags: NHS doctors immigration UK OhForFucksSake )
'I felt vulnerable and violated': Why rape victims fear smear tests: (tags: rape health women )
How to protect pensions when a company goes bust: (tags: pensions business uk )
Why Brexit is Enid Blyton's fault: (tags: children stories uk europe bigotry )
Fact check: Scotland's Union flag row: (tags: flags scotland headdesk )
Camels banned from Saudi beauty contest over Botox: (tags: camels beauty saudiarabia )
Mary Lee Berners-Lee obituary (A pinoeer, and one of the world's first freelance programmers): (tags: programming history women )
Elon Musk's $0 Salary Encapsulates the Legend of Tesla: (tags: Tesla money thefuture )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3609895.html

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Interesting Links for 22-08-2017

People who 'hear voices' can also detect hidden speech in unusual sounds: (tags: hearing brain psychology hallucinations )
Trans men show unusual connectivity patterns in brain networks involved in self perception: (tags: perception psychology transgender lgbt )
How JavaScript works: (tags: javascript browser technology programming )
Hunt vs. Hawking: who’s right about the NHS?: (tags: nhs facts uk healthcare )
Recognizing when two arithmetic expressions are essentially the same: (tags: mathematics programming )
The government position on betting machines is evil *and* stupid: (tags: OhForFucksSake gambling UK tax Conservatives )
Minnesota has a Confederate symbol — and it is going to keep it: (tags: USA history war flags )
Tory councillors suspension lifted over offensive tweets about Catholics and black people.: (tags: Conservatives racism catholicism )
Why I Don't Like Being Called A 'Gender Neutral Parent': (tags: gender children marketing parenting toys )
Wings Over Scotland blogger arrested over alleged harassment: (tags: scotland harrassment twitter )
Lib Dems under Vince Cable still want to legalise cannabis: (tags: marijuana legalisation uk libdem )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3246044.html

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Interesting Links for 02-03-2015

UK unveils huge lagoon power plants stretching miles into the sea
(tags: renewables sea power uk )
On rereading Starship Troopers a few decades later
(tags: StarshipTroopers scifi history )
On the antisocialness of people with mobile phones
(tags: social phones )
Union jack to be displayed on publicly-funded projects
(tags: flags funding UK )
A fascinating talk on how the browser event loop works with javascript
Very similar to the message loop in Windows (and I assume Linux/Mac GUIs too).
(tags: web JavaScript )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3114012.html

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Interesting Links for 01-07-2014

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3054388.html

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