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1. The US health system is now overseen by vaccine deniers. The effects are entirely predictable: (tags:disease pandemic usa vaccines doom )
2. Hong Kong children urged to get Covid jabs as 'whole paediatric ward full': (tags:pandemic HongKong china children doom vaccination )
3. An Oral History of 'Lilo & Stitch' (the original): (tags:animation movies Disney Hawaii history )
4. German court rules cookie banners must offer "reject all" button (if they have an "accept all" button): (tags:cookies surveillance germany dataprotection GoodNews )
5. It makes no sense to cut funding to mental health services when that costs you money in the long run.: (tags:mentalhealth money edinburgh )
6. How much energy does AI use?: (tags:ai electricity )
7. Owls! in! Towels!: (tags:owls cute photos )
8. Explaining a 31-month sentence for a tweet: (tags:racism riots uk law )

1. Do electric vehicles produce more tyre and brake pollution than their petrol and diesel counterparts?: (tags:pollution cars )
2. EU signs off on data transfers deal with US: (tags:europe usa dataprotection )
3. Edinburgh Aiport is getting new scanners in 2024 which will mean we can carry more liquids.: (tags:edinburgh airport flying security )
4. Webb telescope inspects the heart of the Phantom Galaxy: (tags:astronomy space viaNancyLebov )
5. Immigration policies don't deter migrants from coming to the US -- border rules only make the process longer and more difficult: (tags:immigration usa OhForFucksSake viaBenWerdmuller )
6. Labour to use AI to speed up benefit claims and match unemployed people with jobs: (tags:ai jobs unemployment labour )
7. Same-sex sexual behaviour is widespread in macaque monkeys: (tags:monkeys primates sex lgbt homosexuality )
8. Sunak and Braverman's trans jokes 'unacceptable and dangerous' says Parliament equalities chief: (tags:Conservatives bigotry lgbt transgender )

1. Russia has lost the capacity to mobilise: (tags:Russia war Ukraine epicfail )
2. An Open Letter to Bluey's Parents: Please Stop: We have totally had to play Heavy on many occasions.
(tags:parenting dogs viaSwampers animation funny )
3. Mountain Goats Are Being Airlifted Out of a National Park Because They Crave Human Pee: (tags:urine Goats headline )
4. Artist finds private medical record photos in popular AI training data set: (tags:healthcare dataprotection ai photos )
5. Just how long have men and women been switching gender roles for?: (tags:history gender newspapers )
6. Far too much fun in the snow in Northern China: (tags:China snow video fun )
7. Glasgow students without flats told to consider quitting university: (tags:housing university Glasgow )
8. Tucker Carlson accuses schools and hospitals of "sex crimes" and tells viewers they have a moral duty to dole out "instant justice" "no matter what the law says": (tags:USA murder LGBT TV school hospital OhForFucksSake )
9. The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality: (tags:death poverty capitalism )
10. US installs record solar capacity as prices keep falling: (tags:solarpower usa GoodNews )
11. $500,000,000 in funding, 10 years in development, and Star Citizen still doesn't have a release date: (tags:games epicfail )
12. For the first time the British Social Attitudes Survey shows a majority for proportional representation: (tags:reform elections voting proportional_representation UK )

1. Deaths Months After Covid Point to Pandemic?s Grim Aftermath: (tags:pandemic death doom )
2. The AI revolution is now open source: (tags:ai opensource )
3. Why Republicans Keep Failing To Pass Abortion Bans: (tags:abortion usa politics republicans )
4. UK homes among very worst in Europe for energy efficiency: (tags:uk efficiency heating homes epicfail )
5. The mathematical inspiration behind the opening sequence of Rings Of Power: (tags:lotr music TV mathematics )
6. Labour refusing to comply with legally-required disclosure relating to data affected by criminal breach: (tags:labour dataprotection law OhForFucksSake )
7. Russia is facing defeat in Putin?s gas war against the European Union: (tags:Europe oil gas Russia GoodNews )
8. An interesting quirk of English language history: (tags:English language history )
9. Prince Harry explaining very clearly the effect that the UK tabloids had on his wife: (tags:UK newspapers OhForFucksSake monarchy racism mentalhealth )
10. Rich to get twice as much cost-of-living support: (tags:uk heating inequality OhForFucksSake Conservatives )
11. 12 pictures as thousands queue overnight in Edinburgh to pay respects to Queen: (tags:queen edinburgh death photos )
12. Why King Charles will pay zero inheritance tax on the Queen?s private fortune: (tags:uk monarchy tax )
13. Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as the 'Not My King' tag grows: (tags:monarchy uk protests law OhForFucksSake )
14. Prenatal cannabis exposure associated with mental disorders in children that persist into early adolescence: (tags:marijuana children gestation mentalhealth )

1. It's Not Just Loot Boxes: Predatory Monetization Is Everywhere in Gaming: (tags:games money gambling )
2. AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe: (tags:biology protein ai )
3. Drought and disease exposure led to Europeans adapting to milk consumption: (tags:milk evolution humans europe )
4. The Fallout From Apple's Bizarre, Dogged Union-Busting Campaign: (tags:apple unions OhForFucksSake )
5. Why Google Sued the Descendants of a Railroad Tycoon and a Civil War General (tiny plots of land in inconvenient places): (tags:google property law )
6. Typical UK families are £8,800 poorer than their counterparts in comparable countries: (tags:inequality uk OhForFucksSake )
7. Keir Starmer has shown his true colours as a pound-shop Blair, reheating Tory dogma about unions: (tags:unions labour politics uk OhForFucksSake )
8. Putin's occupation of Ukraine falters as bankers, doctors and metal workers boycott key jobs: (tags:russia ukraine )
9. The French Data Protection Commission bans Google Analytics: (tags:france dataprotection europe )
10. UK's only gender identity clinic for children is being replaced by eight of them: (tags:LGBT transgender youth children healthcare )
11. Scientists reanimate dead spiders as robot gripping claws: (tags:spiders death technology cyborg )
12. Edinburgh Council wants to know what you think about the licensing of short term rental accommodation: (tags:Edinburgh housing rental viaDanielDWilliam )
13. A poem about science fiction authors by CS Lewis: (tags:CSLewis poetry scifi )
14. Upscaling and an Important Note About Photo "AI": (tags:photos photoshop ai )

1. UK plan to impose unlawful steel tariffs sparks fresh clash with EU: (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
2. Texas still has anti sodomy laws. They might be about to become enforceable again: (tags:law LGBT USA Texas )
3. The Tories have always been wrong in thinking culture wars won the Red Wall: (tags:conservatives politics UK labour economy )
4. This aged well. This is the 2016 advert from Leave.eu: (tags:UK Europe history advertising lies )
5. American woman denied life-saving abortion after suffering miscarriage in Malta asked husband to punch her: (tags:abortion malta OhForFucksSake )
6. How American evangelical Christians went from pro-choice to forced-birth: (tags:abortion religion USA history politics )
7. Scottish councils given powers to run own bus services: (tags:buses Scotland government )
8. What do you do when an AI contains your personally identifying information?: (tags:ai dataprotection privacy )
9. Edinburgh around 1690 (a drawing made for Queen Anne): (tags:art Edinburgh history Scotland )
10. On the similarities between roleplayers and Christians: (tags:dungeonsanddragons roleplaying christianity religion university )
11. 35 Useful Technologies for a World Experiencing Climate Change: (tags:technology globalwarming )

Vaccinated less likely to develop long Covid: (tags:pandemic vaccination GoodNews )
Government to repeal law allowing police to arrest rough sleepers: (tags:law homelessness GoodNews )
Medieval Clip Art (building up new woodcuts using parts from old ones): (tags:art history )
The Finnish opinion on Russia, Ukraine, and NATO: (tags:Ukraine Russia Finland nato )
Covid can cause acute testicular damage in hamsters: (tags:pandemic hamster )
The jolly co-operation of translating Dark Souls: (tags:games translation japan uk )
Facebook facing order from Irish regulator to suspend data transfers to US (Which would make Facebook as we know it impossible): (tags:facebook europe usa dataprotection )
Pay Transparency: European Commission proposes measures: (tags:Europe pay transparentsociety )
Call for ban on wet wipes containing plastic (but they can't be banned without Westminster agreement): (tags:uk scotland water waste plastic )

France follows Austrian and bans Google Analytics: (tags:europe rights privacy google usa dataprotection )
The Korean court recorders were hardcore: (tags:history Korea )
Jurassic World Dominion looks amazing!: (tags:JurassicPark movies dinosaurs trailer video )
"Gay propaganda" law keeps Sims 4 wedding expansion out of Russia: (tags:LGBT games sims bigotry Russia )
Scottish Adult Disability Payment legislation unanimously approved: (tags:Scotland welfare disability GoodNews )
Leaked EHRC Guidance Reveals Plans to Exclude Most Trans People From Bathrooms: (tags:LGBT transgender OhForFucksSake bigotry UK )
The leaked EHRC guidance would be ripped apart by the courts unless the law was changed: (tags:law UK LGBT transgender )
How do you diagnose a dinosaur with a respiratory disease?: (tags:disease dinosaurs viaPatrickHadfield )
£150 cost of living payments for Scottish households: (tags:Scotland )
Limit setting for employees: (tags:work advice )
France to build six new nuclear reactors as part of carbon-neutral push: (tags:france nuclearpower )
Tiger! Cubs! In! Scottish! Snow!: (tags:tiger kittens snow )
Amazon's 'Lord of the Rings' Series Rises: Inside 'The Rings of Power': (tags:amazon lotr tv )

Pfizer pill cuts Covid deaths by nearly 90%, study finds: (tags:Pandemic medicine GoodNews )
There Is No Such Thing as Unconscious Thought: (tags:thinking )
There Is No Such Thing as Conscious Thought: (tags:thinking )
IAB Europe cookie consent pop-ups to be found in breach of GDPR: (tags:UK privacy dataprotection cookies )
When you get offered an interview for the job you just got fired from - and decide to accept...: (tags:Jobs interview funny )
How were video games from the 90s so efficient?: (tags:games history programming )
HIV patient denied life-saving medication in UK detention centre: (tags:UK migration OhForFucksSake hiv Jamaica )
High Fructose Corn Syrup-Moderate Fat Diet Potentiates Anxio-Depressive Behavior (in mice): (tags:diet anxiety depression mice )
Adding sad violin music to your ex's terrible apology text: (tags:viaJennieRigg music funny relationships apology )
Do *you* need a distraction log?: (tags:distraction adhd advice )
Lawyer, 41, Who Sued His University Over His Grade Sues His Parents to Pay Him $500 a Week, Loses Appeal: (tags:wtf money law UK )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4109639.html

On dealing with corruption on the Chicago police: (tags:police corruption USA Chicago )
European energy crisis proves the lie of 'stable' fossil fuels: (tags:electricity fossils viaDanielDWilliam renewables )
Under GDPR you *must* be allowed to spell your name correctly. Even if your bank doesn't support accents on characters: (tags:spelling dataprotection computers )
Europe's next rule of law problem: Angela Merkel: (tags:Europe Poland Germany Hungary OhForFucksSake fascism )
Making a greenscreen dress - because why have one fabric color when you can have ANY fabric color: (tags:technology clothing video )
Jobs that Marry Together the Most: (tags:jobs marriage )
The 'Dune' Screenplay Was Written in an MS-DOS app: (tags:writing history scifi movies )
Please sign this open letter to the BBC regarding a transphobic article published by Catherine Lowbridge: (tags:LGBT transgender BBC bigotry )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4104419.html

'My landlord wants six months' rent upfront': (tags:rent uk )
China allows couples to have three children: (tags:china children )
The first complete sequence of a human genome: (tags:genetics )
Eighteen million trees to be planted around Glasgow: (tags:trees glasgow scotland )
A swimming pool. In the air. Between two skyscrapers.: (tags:swimming architecture UK )
Ever wondered what it looks like to crash into an erupting volcano?: (tags:volcano video drone )
Europe to US: Pass new laws if you want a data-transfer deal (also impacts the deal with the UK): (tags:europe dataprotection usa uk )
Swiss abandon years of EU talks and reject treaty: (tags:Switzerland europe trade )
Covid in Scotland: Army brought in to help Lothian vaccine rollout: (tags:pandemic vaccination edinburgh scotland army )
Belarus has temporarily banned most of its citizens from leaving: (tags:Belarus dictators immigration )
One-Fifth of U.S. Beef Capacity Wiped Out by JBS Cyberattack: (tags:security cows meat )
Graph of average age versus vaccination percentage for UK council areas: (tags:graph vaccination UK age cities pandemic )
Clown-face privilege: (tags:privilege video gender abuse viaSwampers )
Woman tries to look after her mental health by not doing non-core part of her job, employer is a dick about it: (tags:mentalhealth anxiety depression sports tennis OhForFucksSake )
The Edinburgh city dwellers who want a more tribal way of living: (tags:Scotland Edinburgh housing viaJane )
David O Russell is not a good person to work with: (tags:work bullying movies )
NordLink joins Norway and Germany's electrical grids: (tags:norway germany electricity viaDanielDWilliam )
Nautilus - the best sounding, most visually striking speaker of all time: (tags:speakers sound Technology )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4044942.html

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4040389.html

How 700 Epidemiologists Are Living Now, and What They Think Is Next: (tags:thefuture pandemic )
Once the transition period finishes the UK will be an outsider as far as GDPR is concerned. That's going to be difficult.: (tags:UK Europe dataprotection )
"Black" is not a dirty word: (tags:race language )
Vaccines arrive in Scotland - first injections to be given on Tuesday: (tags:pandemic vaccination Scotland GoodNews )
The man who crossed Groundhog Day with serial killers is doing the same with Freaky Friday: (tags:movies murder review )
Rewatching Lord of The Rings in 2020: (tags:lotr )
When you Kickstart a game and it gets lost at sea: (tags:games kickstarter Ocean shipping )
Companies are now writing end of year reports tailored for AI readers: (tags:AI business )
Books that give you insight into various professions: (tags:books jobs )
Minimalist! Nativity! Sets!: (tags:religion Christmas christianity art )
The robot kitchen that will make you dinner - and wash up too (this is just screaming "snake oil" to me): https://youtu.be/E2evC2xTNWg
(tags:robots cooking )
Here's how Brexit will affect each ingredient of the full English breakfast: (tags:UK Europe breakfast food prices )
What will happen to closed High Street shops?: (tags:shops UK cities )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3967711.html

Number 10 Says The UK Will Have Ten Million Doses of Covid-19 Vaccine By The End Of This Year If Pfizer's Trial Is Deemed Safe: (tags:UK pandemic vaccination GoodNews )
Feral wallabies sighted in UK almost 100 times in 10 years: (tags:UK animals Australia )
Japan Trade Deal punches USA-sized hole in privacy: (tags:UK USA Japan privacy dataprotection OhForFucksSake )
Biden adviser says US-UK special relationship is diminishing because of Brexit: (tags:UK Europe usa )
People with different personalities prefer different kinds of books (and some psychologists can't tell the difference between correlation and causation): (tags:books psychology )
Do not buy Hewlett Packard printers: (tags:printing technology OhForFucksSake )
The Digital Nomads moved to exotic locales to work through the pandemic in style. But now tax trouble, breakups and Covid guilt are setting in.: (tags:technology work pandemic )
Inside Donald Trump's 2020 undoing (interviews with dozens of staff members of the campaigns): (tags:politics USA viaNWhyte )
Narcissistic People Are More Likely To Take Part In Political Activities: (tags:psychology politics )
UAE decriminalises alcohol and lifts ban on unmarried couples living together (and gets harsher on honour killings): (tags:middle_east GoodNews )
How Conservative Christians are seeing Trump's loss: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1325912364563181570.html
(tags:religion Christianity politics USA )
Exploding the myth of transgender transition regret: (tags:LGBT transgender research )
Fatigue syndrome exercise therapy loses Nice recommendation for ME / Chronic fatigue syndrome: (tags:ChronicFatigueSyndrome NHS )
long-acting injectable cabotegravir as PrEP is highly effective in preventing HIV acquisition in women: (tags:hiv GoodNews )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3955697.html

Labour Party in "can continue to fuck off" shock: (tags:LGBT transgender labour OhForFucksSake )
Building the Mathematical Library of the Future: (tags:mathematics computers )
Animation of Coronavirus spread in the UK - 1st Feb to 9th Oct: (tags:animation visualisation pandemic uk )
Contact-tracing data collected in pubs sold on: (tags:dataprotection OhForFucksSake pandemic )
Sexuality, Disability and the Journey to Inner Freedom: (tags:sexuality disability sex beauty society )
Covid virus survives for 28 days in lab conditions: (tags:pandemic virus Doom )
We Have Misjudged Margaret Ferrier (important stuff): (tags:horror pandemic satire politics uk scotland )
25-Year Study of Nuclear vs Renewables Says One Is Clearly Better at Cutting Emissions: (tags:nuclearpower renewables environment co2 pollution )
If the UK makes a food deal with the USA here's what that means for contamination: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1315381869479890944.html
(tags:food USA standards UK Doom )
If the UK was actually serious about Covid testing this is what it would be doing: Clarifying detail: https://twitter.com/nemoqd/status/1315596052402253824?s=19
(tags:Pandemic China testing )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3941652.html

As students were always going to hold parties, it does seem foolish to send them back to university...: (tags:university pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Thousands of Britons living in EU told their UK bank accounts will be closed: (tags:uk europe banking doom )
Twitter apologises for racist image-cropping algorithm: (tags:racism photos twitter )
Facebook Says it Will Stop Operating in Europe If Regulators Don't Back Down: (tags:Europe dataprotection Facebook )
'No play dates or parties': Government announces English childcare exemption for areas under local lockdown (and £500 self-isolation payment for people on low incomes): (tags:England pandemic children )
My friend is selling gorgeous embroideries based on medieval art: (tags:art history )
This is so horrific I have to share it. I recommend you don't click on it.: (tags:awful netherlands viaMartinPage )
'The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance' Canceled After One Season By Netflix: (tags:TV netflix )
What if bagpipes, but good?: (tags:music Scotland )
The Danish children's TV show using nudity to show what real bodies look like: (tags:nudity children Denmark TV )
Covid-19: re-opening universities is high risk (The BMJ): (tags:university pandemic Doom )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3931871.html

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