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1. Support for Independence hits 56%, 51% of people to vote SNP (53% if it's a defacto referendum)
(tags:scotland independence polls )
2. Transphobes are now attacking...The Samaritans.
(tags:lgbt transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake suicide )
3. BBC plans to switch off broadcast TV and move to internet-only programmes
(tags:bbc thefuture streaming broadcasting )
4. Discovery of world's oldest DNA breaks record by one million years
(tags:genetics dna prehistory )
5. The Art Game and the Money Game and how the ending of Minecraft was set free
(tags:games art money copyright Microsoft contracts )
6. Sats: MPs and peers fail tests for 11-year-olds as campaign groups call for overhaul of 'high-stakes' exams
(tags:exams children politics )
7. First UK coal mine in decades approved
(tags:UK coal environment globalwarming )
8. Europe First: Brussels gets ready to dump its free trade ideals (because the USA and China both already have)
(tags:Europe China USA trade )
9. Two inhaled covid vaccines have been approved. Here's what you need to know.
(tags:vaccines pandemic )
10. AI learns to precisely manipulate individual atoms
(tags:ai atom physics research )
11. How Many Fundamental Constants Does It Take To Explain The Universe? (26, at the moment)
(tags:physics )
12. People expect identical twins to be *really* identical
(tags:twins genetics statistics )
13. Humans are surprisingly poor at picking up cues of aggression in dogs
(tags:dogs behaviour psychology )
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Scotland's first waste-to-hydrogen facility to be built beside the Clyde
(tags:Glasgow plastic waste hydrogen viaDanielDWilliam )
G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals, set global rate of corporation tax
(tags:tax GoodNews )
Companies must commit to net-zero emissions before bidding for large UK government contracts
(tags:UK government contracts globalwarming )
Watchdog supposed to scrutinise Australia trade deal still won't exist when deal is signed
(tags:Australia trade UK OhForFucksSake government )
Why Are There So Few Women in Wargaming?
(tags:wargames gender inequality )
Explainer: What is a global minimum tax and what will it mean?
(tags:tax )
Big majority of Britons worried about Boris Johnson's plan to lift all Covid restrictions
(tags:pandemic Doom polls BorisJohnson )
I love how it's possible for people who have never even met, and don't have any awareness of each others existence, to nevertheless collaborate with each other through the medium of cats
(tags:cats music video collaboration viaSwampers )
El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender
(tags:bitcoin )
The Ness of Brodgar Excavation Information Panels Are Online!
(tags:archeology Scotland viaDanielDWilliam )
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While Scottish independence would have immediate economic costs, history suggests there are long-term benefits
(tags:scotland independence viaDanielDWilliam economics )
Alba Party candidate apologises for posts mocking 'Romanian beggars' for being "fat as as big, juicy, over-fed pigs"
(tags:racism scotland politics )
Alba Party candidate apologises for calling Nicola Sturgeon 'cow'
(tags:politics Scotland )
Fake Amazon workers defend company on Twitter
(tags:Amazon unions USA fraud Twitter )
Amazon tweets trolling Congress were so bad that IT thought account was hacked
(tags:Amazon Twitter politics OhForFucksSake )
People With Depression Show Hints Of Distorted Thinking In The Language They Use On Social Media
(tags:depression language psychology )
Covid contracts still unpublished despite Boris Johnson's claim
(tags:lies contracts BorisJohnson )
Police found a mafia fugitive on YouTube, posting cooking tutorials
(tags:food videos Mafia YouTube wtf )
The cost of speaking up against China (and its genocide)
(tags:China genocide )
The USA is undergoing a widespread attack on the rights of trans people
(tags:LGBT rights transgender USA )
Scotland public funding 30% higher than England (because of higher taxes, and still less than in 2010)
(tags:tax Scotland budget )
Coyote & Crow - A science fiction and fantasy tabletop RPG set in a near-future where the Americas were never colonized, created by a team of Natives.
(tags:roleplaying kickstarter USA scifi )
"I Like That The Boat Is Stuck"
(tags:pandemic boats mentalhealth society )
How to lose $10,000,000 by doing something stupid.
(tags:business marketing startups failure )
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Interesting Links for 29-03-2021

Amazon Driver Quits, Saying Final Straw Was New AI Truck Cameras
(tags:ai surveillance Amazon driving )
Brain injuries are startlingly common among those who have committed crimes
(tags:crime injury brain viaPatrickHadfield )
Leaving Money on the Table: Why is There No New D&D Fiction Being Published?
(tags:fiction publishing dungeonsanddragons money )
How the brains of informed psychedelic users are different
(tags:psychedelics psychology )
Convicted perjurer Tommy Sheridan joins Alex Salmond's new party (both work for Kremlin-backed news sources, of course)
(tags:Scotland politics independence )
Using metric paper to double (and halve) our way to the limits of the universe
(tags:space physics quantum video )
Alba are having an all woman safe space event to discuss their policies. Any women want to attend and see what they're planning?
(tags:women Scotland politics )
Scottish pet shelters at capacity with unwanted lockdown pets
(tags:pets scotland pandemic )
Non-Fungible Muggers. Clearly the future of...well, hopefully nothing
(tags:funny cryptography art comic )
Livejournal switches to taking payments in rubles (not that I've given them any money for a few years)
(tags:livejournal russia )
What do you buy when you buy an NFT?
(tags:cryptography data copyright ownership contracts )
School abuse claims could be the next UK national scandal
(tags:uk school abuse )
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Women in 20s told 'get pregnant' to ease endometriosis symptoms
(tags:pregnancy healthcare women UK OhForFucksSake )
Lying liar Boris Johnson lied to parliament over Covid contracts, court order shows
(tags:lies BorisJohnson UK contracts pandemic )
What is going on with government Covid contracts?
(tags:UK contracts corruption government )
Why I hate "The Knack" (the idea that some people are born to be engineers, and nobody else can be one)
(tags:engineering )
The amount of money that the average young person can expect to have has dropped dramatically over the last 30 years.
(tags:wealth inequality history visualisation )
Why have Harvard University's expenses gone up 45% between: 2004 and 2019?
(tags:university business accounting )
The Notorious B.I.G. raps H.P. Lovecraft's Nemesis (produced using AI speech synthesis. Impressive stuff)
(tags:hplovecraft music ai video )
NFTs, explained: what they are, and why they're suddenly worth millions
(tags:art cryptography WTF )
Someone forgot to tell Audrey Niffenegger they were making a musical of The Time Traveller's Wife (which she wrote)
(tags:books scifi wtf musicals )
Young People 'On The Brink Of Revolution' As Older Generations Book Holidays Abroad
(tags:pandemic age UK inequality )
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Interesting Links for 01-02-2021

Black Bart - The Buried TV Sequel to Blazing Saddles
(tags:TV movies racism comedy weird contracts cowboy )
Drone flight captures Norfolk starlings murmuration
(tags:birds drone video )
Nadhim Zahawi and Tory MPs attack Yorkshire Post - over a totally accurate story
(tags:government UK media OhForFucksSake )
Home Office put refugees in camps so they didn't look weak
(tags:immigration OhForFucksSake asylum UK refugee )
Transphobes target Scottish Government HQ and Bute House
(tags:lgbt transgender Scotland )
How to identify which European language you're reading
(tags:language Europe visualisation flowchart )
Here's the Nordic model making life awful for sex workers in Canada
(tags:Canada sexwork OhForFucksSake )
Brexit: How much disruption has there been so far?
(tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
Silver surges as Reddit army turns to commodities
(tags:metal trade investment Reddit wtf )
Covid in Scotland: Vaccinations move to next category (over 70s)
(tags:Scotland vaccination pandemic )
Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions
(tags:music spotify emotions )
The seamstress who conserves brutality
(tags:genocide materials clothing history museums )
Men: Do not hold a grudge for decades and use it to kill people in TV shows called Jessica
(tags:names death TV OhForFucksSake )
I wish I'd had a teacher this awesome
(tags:teachers teaching awesome )
A list of landlords who are in elected positions in the UK.
(tags:property politics UK housing )
Coronavirus: Up to one fifth of staff in some care home groups refusing vaccine
(tags:pandemic vaccination OhForFucksSake UK )
The Apple app store has a scam problem
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1356011069395755009.html
(tags:Apple scam fraud apps )
What is transphobia? (mostly so I can find this again later)
(tags:lgbt transgender bigotry )
Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester
(tags:3d visualisation Manchester electricity history )
Normal life will not return 'until 2024' if virus does not disappear globally
(tags:pandemic )
Rescued Ben Nevis climbers fined
(tags:mountains Scotland pandemic )
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Nicolas Cage: ‘If I don’t have a job to do, I can be very self-destructive’
(tags: acting movies )
Postman Pat and… the law of merchandise
(tags: merchandising law contracts )
NHS to suffer £2.7bn cuts after government miscalculation of public sector pension costs
(tags: nhs pensions Conservatives OhForFucksSake )
Edinburgh Council reveal city-wide electric vehicle plan
(tags: edinburgh electricity cars scotland )
The Financial Times 404 Error Page is brilliant
(tags: web errors 404 funny economics )
Sex worker stall at Brighton university freshers' fairs sparks row
(tags: sexwork university )
Magic Leap Review Part 1 – The Terrible View Through Diffraction Gratings
(tags: augmentedreality fail )
Ruth Davidson doesn't understand what democracy is
(tags: democracy Conservatives Scotland UK europe )
UK will enforce hard border in Ireland if there is no Brexit deal
(tags: uk Ireland Europe NorthernIreland doom )
The Conservatives think Blockchain may resolve Irish border Brexit problem. *sigh*
(tags: ConservatIves technology bitcoin OhForFucksSake uk europe NorthernIreland Ireland )
Cern physicist suspended over 'highly offensive' presentation on sexism in science
(tags: gender physics )
'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Was Targeted by Russian Trolls
(tags: StarWars russia )
We won't compromise our principles to rescue the Tory party from Brexit, Guy Verhofstadt warns Theresa May
(tags: uk Europe doom )
Traditional societal markers of age aren't applying to millennials, and this is hard for everyone.
(tags: age society )
Artificial sweeteners have toxic effects on gut microbes
(tags: microbiome food )
‘Goblin’ world found orbiting at the edges of the Solar System
(tags: planets space solarsystem )
Why Can a Machine Beat Mario but not Pokemon?
(tags: ai pokemon Mario games )
Civil partnerships: Law to be changed for mixed-sex couples (in England and Wales. Scotland investigating)
(tags: law relationships marriage uk )
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