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1. Israeli Intelligence Ministry 'concept paper' proposes transferring Gazans to Egypt's Sinai: (tags:israel palestine egypt )
2. Hw locational pricing could save businesses (and everyone) on electricity bills: (tags:electricity location uk economics )
3. Sports (and competitions) shouldn't worry about keeping themselves simple, learning the complications keeps experienced fans interested: `
(tags:fandom sports competition viaDanielDWilliam )
4. I'm glad Neil Gaiman liked this post about Sandman, which meant I got to think about bits of it in ways I hadn't before: (tags:sandman neilgaiman dreams )
5. Edinburgh's Gorgie Farm Site: Community Consultation Questionnaire: (tags:Edinburgh farming animals community )
6. Black 4.0 Is The New Ultrablack: (tags:colour art )
7. Samhuinn Fire Festival - photos as hundreds gather in Edinburgh to mark beginning of winter at Holyrood Park: (tags:fire beltane edinburgh photos )
8. What The Goddamn Hell Is Going On In The Tech Industry? (So very very badly run): (tags:Technology business epicfail organisation )

1. Crossness Pumping Station: London's Beautiful Sewage Station: (tags:waste beauty london )
2. The Horrific Stages of a Tyranid Invasion - narrated by David Attenborough: (tags:warhammer WH40K DavidAttenborough funny video )
3. An interesting question about vampires: (tags:vampires questions )
4. Labour will use any excuse to shift to the right: (tags:labour politics UK doom )
5. Sony World Photography Award 2023: Winner refuses award after revealing AI creation: (tags:photography competition ai viaSwampers )
6. Is beauty skin deep?: (tags:beauty mathematics topology funny comic )
7. The Fediverse crosses one billion posts per month: (tags:mastodon socialnetworking )
8. I see that transphobes are now unsuccessfully trying to co-opt Judy Blume: (tags:LGBT bigotry transgender )
9. Now, you can embed Mastodon posts in Medium stories: (tags:socialnetworking )
10. DOOM maps to SVG to laser cutter: (tags:doom games 3dprinting )
11. Why don't you see more fat people in sport?: (tags:weight sports )

1. Who wants to give a tummy rub to a cute little kitty?: (tags:cats video cute leopard )
2. What did Susan Hussey say? Royal race row explained (with transcript): (tags:racism UK royalty )
3. Twitter now reinstating neo-nazis: (tags:ElonMusk Nazis Twitter OhForFucksSake )
4. "I Was Wrong About Mastodon" (and moderation and scaling): (tags:mastodon socialnetworking )
5. Labour's manipulation of selection contests reveals its emptiness of purpose: (tags:labour OhForFucksSake )
6. The Excel World Championship Is the Internet at Its Best: (tags:Excel spreadsheet competition )
7. EU Leader Uses Mastodon to Tell Elon Musk How Twitter Needs to Be Regulated: (tags:Twitter Mastodon regulation Europe ElonMusk )
8. How British colonialism killed 100 million Indians in 40 years: (tags:UK India )
9. 53% of Britons are non-religious. Who are they and what do they believe?: (tags:religion UK atheism society )
10. Learning to play the piano improves people's ability to process sights and sounds: (tags:piano music psychology )
11. Female monkeys prioritise friends and actively reduce social circle as they age: (tags:monkey friendship family )
12. UK to let safety laws lapse. Because sovereignty.: (tags:safety UK Europe law OhForFucksSake )

How South Korea rolled out its incredible fibre broadband success of 97% coverage.: (tags:internet korea economics )
Some great anecdotes here on why you shouldn't send children to university even if they remarkably smart: (tags:intelligence education children advice )
Openreach overreach? Labour's free broadband plan faces hurdles: (tags:economics business broadband UK Labour )
How Thatcher killed the UK's superfast broadband before it even existed: (tags:history broadband OhForFucksSake margaretthatcher BT )
Academics protest as Cambridge fellow told to leave Britain: (tags:UK academia OhForFucksSake immigration )
Removing competition from the UK browband market would save Â£6 billion per year: (tags:broadband money competition UK viaDanielDWilliam )
The "No Man's Sky" Archaeology Project: (tags:archeology games )
No, we shouldn't just reverse the Beeching cuts: (tags:trains transport UK )
Switch to vaping helps smokers' hearts: (tags:smoking nicotine heart )
The amazing life of Nellie Bly - who amongst other things traveled around the world in 72 days, meeting Jules Verne along the way: (tags:women travel journalism amazing history )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3841464.html

Is this what you'd expect one hundred wind chimes all being released all at once to sound like?: (tags:sound video )
"Grassroots" anti-Amazon nonprofit turns out to be its competitors in disguise: (tags:Amazon competition business fraud )
DOJ blocked report showing white supremacists responsible for all race-based domestic terrorism incidents in 2018: (tags:racism terrorism usa )
Woman treated by doctors after her blood turned blue: (tags:blood wtf )
Clearly the best cover of a Guns N' Roses song: (tags:GunsNRoses song video cover korea )
Corbyn suggests UK could be better off after Brexit if deal is right: (tags:UK Europe Labour OhForFucksSake )
Anthony Stewart Head is just lovely: (tags:LGBT transgender )
Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D, performed on rubber chicken: (tags:music video viaJennieRigg )
Labour votes to abolish private schools at party conference: (tags:Labour schools )
Labour set to give all foreign nationals living in UK right to vote in general elections for first time: (tags:voting immigration UK )
Majority of 2017 Labour voters think Jeremy Corbyn should step down as leader: (tags:Labour politics )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3825898.html

Only one in 10 people now wear a suit to work: (tags:clothing society )
Sexist Jokes Make Men Think Sexist Behavior Is Okay: (tags:psychology sexism society )
The economic cost of the Brexit decision that Leaver voters do not get to see: (tags:UK europe economics doom viaDanielDWilliam )
Britain Enters 'Holding Hands In Toy Story 3' Stage Of Brexit: (tags:UK europe doom movies pixar toys )
Einstein's best work came from collaboration with his wife: (tags:einstein physics women OhForFucksSake )
The role of estrogen in controlling Type 2 diabetes: (tags:estrogen diabetes women )
Testosterone limits for female athletes based on flawed research: (tags:testosterone women sports competition )
Southern Baptist Convention: More than 200 ministers, deacons and others have been found guilty of sex abuse: (tags:abuse religion usa )
The Withdrawal Agreement Explained (set of slides by the EU): (tags:europe uk )
How Christian congregations can hide racism and sexism beneath a soft, warm exterior of friendliness: (tags:religion racism usa sexism )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3765642.html

£1.3bn Swansea Bay tidal lagoon electricity project thrown out: (tags: electricity wales ocean )
Die, Die, Die Against Exquisitely Animated Lovecraftian Hordes In Sundered: Just started playing it, and really enjoying it. Can be played in small chunks, which works well with my free time.
(tags: games review )
Six unconventional introductions to economics: (tags: economics )
Trump's Tariffs Are Forcing Harley-Davidson To Move Jobs Overseas: (tags: trade OhForFucksSake usa )
Today's youngsters able to delay gratification longer than those of the 1960s: (tags: self-control psychology children )
Men's testosterone levels largely determined by the environment they grow up in: (tags: testosterone environment men children )
Dislike and dehumanization are not the same thing: (tags: psychology humanity )
No, the Government didn’t just ban transgender people from public bathrooms: (tags: media lgbt transgender uk law )
"I work in Brussels alongside the EU Brexit negotiators and I find it incredible how little the UK government understands": (tags: uk europe )
The Last Jedi: what would the $200m fan-funded remake look like?: (tags: StarWars diversity satire )
The lead singer of Tool/A Perfect Circle is a rapist: (tags: rape music )
How music lessons can improve language skills: (tags: music language hearing )
You don't need to believe in free will to be a nice person: Dammit, there goes my last excuse to be a bastard
(tags: FreeWill morality )
Baking "Have I Been Pwned?" into Firefox and 1Password: (tags: passwords security )
The AI learning to play DOTA: (tags: games ai )
Why nobody ever wins that car giveaway at the mall: (tags: fraud cars lottery competition )
Women Ask for Raises as Often as Men, but Are Less Likely to Get Them: (tags: money pay women inequality )
Why One Island Grows 80% of the World's Vanilla: (tags: poverty madagascar food )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3698485.html

How the legend of Robin Hood went from revolutionary to monarchist: (tags: monarchy myths uk )
I just backed a Kickstarter for a comic recommended by Warren Ellis and Kieron Gillen. Looks gorgeous, take a look!: (tags: comics kickstarter )
The Leeds City Council Election was very odd: (tags: elections voting uk )
How can we have effective laws against cold callers?: (tags: privacy spam phones uk law )
Natalie Portman's move puts pressure on liberal Zionists to take a stand: (tags: israel )
Native American men removed from university tour after parent tells cops they made her nervous: (tags: racism usa academia )
Argentina raises interest rates to 40%: (tags: Argentina economics )
Local elections: 4,000 people turned away from casting their ballot in voter ID pilot: (tags: voting UK identity OhForFucksSake )
Bucking global trends, Japan again embraces coal power: (tags: Japan coal OhForFucksSake nuclearpower )
Judge the value of what you have by what you had to give up to get it: (tags: economics psychology )
Google embraces, extends, and extinguishes: (tags: Google standards competition )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3683869.html

Boris Johnson talking 'total nonsense' about EU, European Commission president says: (tags: Europe uk )
Russia has threatened to block access to YouTube and Instagram if they don't remove posts that show a senior government official sailing on a yacht with a billionaire oligarch, who has links with the Trump campaign: (tags: Russia censorship corruption )
What If Men And Women Skied Against Each Other In The Olympics?: (tags: gender sports olympics competition snow winter )
You've always wanted Robocop Valentine's cards: (tags: movies valentines_day funny )
In Leaked Chats, Wikileaks Discusses Preference for GOP: (tags: politics JulianAssange usa wikileaks OhForFucksSake )
This kid shattering the top of a frozen trampoline with one perfect jump may be the most satisfying thing you'll see all day.: (tags: ice trampoline awesome video )
Travelodge overbooks its rooms!: (tags: hotel OhForFucksSake )
Norwegian women drink least while pregnant, British women drink most: (tags: alcohol pregnancy )
Feminist has a T: (tags: feminism lgbt transgender )
Magic Leap One Video – Diffractive Waveguides Confirmed: (tags: augmentedreality Technology )
The crow that could count higher than Clive: (tags: crows numbers )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3660450.html

Men better at Scrabble because women play to have fun: (tags: gender competition psychology )
Android 8.0 Oreo, thoroughly reviewed: (tags: android )
The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by showing what the future of farming could look like.: (tags: thefuture netherlands food agriculture farming )
Documenting three good things could improve your mental well-being in work: (tags: work psychology viaSwampers mentalhealth )
To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider the Janitors at Two Top Companies, Then and Now: tl;dr - outsourcing puts a cap on people's movement, as you have to go from one organisation to another, rather than being able to rise through the ranks. It's a "divide and conquer" move, which makes it possible to crush the people at the bottom, because they aren't part of the same "us" as the people further up the economic chain.
(tags: economics jobs work inequality )
Outlawing War? It Actually Worked: (tags: war )
This is the dog I want: (tags: dogs awesome wolves )
71% of young adults are non-religious, just 3% are Church of England: (tags: religion demographics UK GoodNews )
Northern lights linked to North sea whale strandings: (tags: auroraborealis whales magnets )
'We are an example to the Arab world': Tunisia's radical marriage proposals: (tags: Islam marriage tunisia )
Wind turbines kill around 300,000 birds annually, house cats around 3,000,000,000: (tags: windpower cats birds )
'Ultimate sea view' is one of the amazing photos of the British coast: (tags: photos ocean )
The truth about our robotic future: (tags: robots comic thefuture )
Peppa Pig 'spiders can't hurt you' episode pulled off air in Australia – again: (tags: spiders tv children australia )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3613679.html

How video encoding works (a very simple introduction): (tags: video Technology )
The touching effect of putting an autistic hero into a computer game: (tags: games diversity autism )
Overwatch: Bigger than the Premier League? (No. But people are trying...): (tags: games sports money competition )
Is Decentralized Storage Sustainable?: (tags: design storage internet economics decentralisation )
Greening announces 'evidence champion' for schools: (tags: Education )
Pthalates linked to chronic disease in men: (tags: pthalates plastic disease )
Government refuses to release report into Saudi Arabia’s funding of Islamist extremism in UK: (tags: saudiarabia terrorism politics uk )
Inside the World of Chinese Bitcoin ‘Mining’ (Some great photos): (tags: bitcoin china )
At 56, a ‘Light Bulb’ Goes Off and a Firefighter Emerges: (tags: fire age life )
The British View the War of 1812 Quite Differently Than Americans Do: As a Brit I have to admit that I had no idea that there _was_ a war with America in 1812
(tags: war uk usa france canada history )
The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem: (tags: facebook algorithm mother OhForFucksSake fail )
Radiohead releases a surprise ZX Spectrum program for OK Computer anniversary: (tags: music software )
Visa To Pay Restaurants To Stop Taking Cash: (tags: restaurant money Technology )
A Kingdom for a Horse: Kokpar and the Future of Kazakhstan: “There are no Kazakhs,” he says. “Stalin made us up.”
(tags: kazakhstan horses )
Scientists replay movie encoded in DNA: (tags: dna genetics movies )
"I think I am becoming accustomed to the sight of guns.": (tags: guns society UK France Scotland )
Unix Time 1,500M – Friday July 14 02:40GMT: (tags: time unix thefuture )
New corporate criminal offences of failure to prevent tax evasion effective from 30 September: (tags: law tax uk )
Post-apocalyptic Dilbert: (tags: dilbert apocalypse comic )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3596739.html

200 Word RPG Challenge: Some of the 2016 entries are fascinating
(tags: games competition )
UK launches programme to explore removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere: (tags: globalwarming Technology research )
"What I Learned About Life by Becoming a Landlord": (tags: housing business usa )
Books That Literally All White Men Own: The Definitive List (11 for me): Jane has, in fact read more of them than me. She's clearly whiter and manlier.
(tags: books society men )
Want to Stop Facebook Violence? You Won’t Like the Choices: (tags: facebook freespeech )
Liberal Democrat coalition rules: (tags: libdem coalition )
Sheep are not stupid, and they are not helpless either: (tags: sheep )
Share of people that thinks that humans have evolved from other animals vs GDP per capita: (tags: evolution belief usa OhForFucksSake )
Burning bright: Beltane festival celebrates 30 years of fire: (tags: edinburgh art performance beltane history )
I'd been wondering where last night's Dr Who was filmed. (Valencia): (tags: drwho architecture spain )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3571296.html

Microsoft's Cortana has no time for sexist bullshit
- Microsoft sexism ai
Someone has proposed a Monument Valley Lego set
- games Lego
Twitter puts video ads at top of users' timeline feeds
- Twitter video advertising
Common gene variant may lead girls to make healthy or unhealthy food choices -- depending on their early socioeconomic environment
- society genes diet
The "Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year" photos are understandably gorgeous
- landscapes Scotland photography beauty
54% of Scots would back independence if the UK leaves the EU
- Here are the breakdowns: https://www.ipsos-mori.com/Assets/Docs/Scotland/scottish-monitor-feb-2016-tables.pdf
- Scotland independence UK Europe
If you win at something, you're more likely to cheat.
- I suspect that this is because "stopping winning" feels like moving backwards, and people feel much worse about it than if they hadn't won in the first place. I suspect this is also the reason why people defend their privileges...
- cheating competition viaSwampers
Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
- mining technology recycling
A Mammal’s Brain Has Been Cryonically Preserved and Recovered
- cryonics viajohnbobshaun rabbits
Coco bonds: what are they and why have they hit bank shares?
- banking finance ImpendingDoom
Bacterial spores may be effective treatment for recurrent C. difficile (And restore microbiome)
- bacteria microbiome infection
Android app helps Iranians avoid morality police checkpoints
- Iran morality police android apps
How the movie Airplane! is like Gilbert and Sullivan
- comedy movies opera
A movie producer tweets descriptions of women from the scripts he's sent
- women movies writing
Beliefs about all-knowing gods fosters co-operation
- society religion
The Problem with Time & Timezones
- video time computers
The Russian Cosmonaut Who Crashed To Earth 'Crying In Rage'
- Please do read the story linked at the top, which adds corrections from other historians.
- Russia space history death OhForFucksSake
Why you shouldn't believe the government health advice on the dangers of drinking
- Although you also shouldn't believe the person criticizing them either: http://www.tobaccotactics.org/index.php/Christopher_Snowdon
- alcohol health advice lies

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3410775.html

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