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1. Kitkat ads made using AI satirise making things with AI: (tags:ai advertising food chocolate )
2. Iowa passes a law allowing child labour: (tags:USA children work OhForFucksSake )
3. Two-for-One: Chickenpox Vaccine Lowers Shingles Risk in Children: (tags:chicken virus vaccination )
4. Manager at radical French publisher arrested on terror charges en route to London Book Fair (for taking part in protests against French pension changes): (tags:France UK publishing wtf protests )
5. Former Wagner fighters claim they were ordered to kill children and civilians in Ukraine: (tags:murder WarCrimes Russia Ukraine children )
6. Brecon Beacons name change explained: How to pronounce the National Park's new Welsh name Bannau Brycheiniog: (tags:names wales nature mountains )
7. Prepayment meter ban could see energy firms go after struggling customers' cars and TVs: (tags:energy money business debt poverty )
8. Hundreds of years after the first try, we can finally read a Ptolemy text: (tags:history mathematics writing )

Scotland won't need to repay the UK's national debt if it's independent unless the UK does as well - and there's almost no chance of that (happy to see any well written responses to this): (tags:Scotland UK debt independence viaDanielDWilliam )
Soap dodger: meet the doctor who says we have been showering wrong: (tags:microbiome soap cleanliness )
Das Kapital in 8 tweets.: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1287862670834663424.html
(tags:economics capitalism Twitter )
Software that changes photos of you so that your friends will still recognise you but facial recognition won't: (tags:faces software recognition )
Russian Intelligence Agencies Push Disinformation on Coronavirus Pandemic: (tags:Russia pandemic )
Turns out I pretty much agree with the original meaning of "cultural appropriation" before it got twisted out of shape: (tags:culture society race cultural_appropriation )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3905176.html

Young Trans Children Know Who They Are: (tags: lgbt transgender children )
Jeremy Corbyn snubs Theresa May offer to work together on Brexit unless PM rules out no-deal: Of course, no detail on how to rule out No Deal when it's what happens automatically if nothing else is agreed...
(tags: UK europe labour )
A majority of Americans support raising the top tax rate to 70 percent: (tags: usa tax )
Hundreds of homeless people fined and imprisoned in England and Wales: (tags: England homelessness OhForFucksSake )
The BBC's article on the Gillette advert is *terrible*: (tags: BBC journalism twitter OhForFucksSake )
The Scottish government isn't funding autism support which actively saves money: (tags: NHS autism scotland OhForFucksSake )
Isle Of Man Is Now The First Place In The British Isles To Decriminalise Abortion: (tags: abortion GoodNews )
How Do People Communicate Before Death?: (tags: death language viaSwampers )
Hitachi scraps £16bn nuclear power station in Wales: (tags: nuclearpower uk Wales doom )
A question of interest: Is UK household debt unsustainable?: (tags: UK debt economics )
This is an excellent summary of the current Brexit situation and our options: (tags: UK europe )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3759200.html

Why “Just Google It” Is Now A Synonym For “Indoctrinate Someone”: (tags: Google propaganda youtube OhForFucksSake )
Salazar Slytherin - Norman conqueror?: (tags: harrypotter )
Federal Panel Of Judges Dismisses All 83 Ethics Complaints Against Brett Kavanaugh - because there is no mechanism to discipline a Supreme Court judge: (tags: law usa OhForFucksSake )
Is the US military worth the amount that's spent on it?: (tags: money usa military )
Why Can’t We Find Planet Nine?: (tags: space astronomy )
Top AI researchers talk about the state of the art, and how close we are to a general artificial intelligence: (tags: ai )
The former UK ambassador to the EU talks through the UK's epic mistakes in dealing with Brexit: (tags: UK europe epicfail )
No, Corbyn didn't say "stupid woman".: (tags: deafness language politics )
Toilet charges scrapped at Glasgow and Edinburgh stations from April: (tags: toilets trains Scotland edinburgh glasgow )
Brexit: EU reveals no-deal plans: (tags: UK europe doom )
For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the US Public Domain: (tags: usa copyright )
Aggressive behavior brings emotional pain to the sadist: (tags: bdsm pain aggression sadness psychology )
Facebook gave Spotify and Netflix access to users’ private messages: (tags: facebook privacy OhForFucksSake )
'Pause' in global warming was never real, new research proves: (tags: globalwarming )
No, Scotland is not about to have to pay for English student debt: (tags: debt scotland UK students )
Homelessness Deaths in England are up 24% in five years: (tags: homelessness death austerity UK OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3751571.html

The Times comes out for dictatorship: (tags: newspapers uk politics OhForFucksSake )
What, exactly, are the WorldCon committee up to?: (tags: conventions wtf scifi )
This is the Tories advertising for people to stand in the street tomorrow, to welcome the President of Qatar. Because we are a joke of a nation: (tags: qatar acting wtf )
Brexit: What happens if UK leaves the EU with no deal?: (tags: UK Europe doom )
Terry Crews Speaks Out In Support Of Brendan Fraser: (tags: abuse assault hollywood )
There are cultures all across the world, throughout history, who saw more than two genders: (tags: gender )
The Onion's Review of ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ is just perfect: (tags: review movies video music fun )
Offshore owners of British property to be forced to reveal names: (tags: corruption housing uk transparency )
A Complete Electron Microscopy Volume of the Brain of a fruit fly, at neuron level: (tags: brain insects scanning neuroscience )
2018’s “Board Game of the Year” award goes to… Azul!: I've played this with someone. Can't remember who!
(tags: games )
Britain only finished paying off slave owners in 2015: (tags: slavery uk debt viajoexnz )
Jeremy Corbyn to highlight economic 'benefit' of Brexit: (tags: Labour UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
First of ScotRail's new electric trains take to track: (tags: Scotland trains transport electricity )
The Genetics of Staying in School: One reason is to look at how genes and environments interact.“If you did a study like ours 100 years ago, the strongest genetic predictor of education would be how many X chromosomes you had, because society was set up in a way that it was much harder for women to get educated than men,” says Benjamin. Likewise, many of the genes that are associated with education today are likely important “because of how today’s educational system is set up. It requires people to sit at desks for hours, and listen to instructions from a teacher. People who get restless, or are less obedient to authority, will fare less well in that environment.”
(tags: genetics Education )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3708750.html

Listen and weep: Audiobooks outdo films in emotional engagement: (tags: books emotion tv movies )
How bad could Brexit be, really?: (tags: Europe UK doom )
Famous gorilla Koko who could do sign language has died at the age of 46: (tags: gorillas sign language )
Why Rank-And-File Evangelicals Aren’t Likely To Turn On Trump Over Family Separation - For Now.: (tags: religion usa immigration racism society )
First physiological test for autism has 88% accuracy in second trial: (tags: autism )
The day after: Tory MPs look at the cliff-edge: (tags: politics UK Europe )
Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant: (tags: food automaton )
Immigrant children have been forcibly injected with powerful psychiatric drugs at one of the U.S. government "shelters": (tags: drugs usa children immigration OhForFucksSake )
Roseanne officially going on without the titular character: (tags: tv funny )
Airbus warns no-deal Brexit could see it leave UK - taking 14,000 jobs with it: (tags: airplanes uk europe jobs business doom )
Guys, guys, I found the very definition of entitlement: (tags: StarWars OhForFucksSake )
Edinburgh trams profits more than £1m above forecast: Considering that it's only half of the line, I'm amazed it's making a profit at all.
(tags: trams edinburgh )
Investigating The Mysterious ‘Jumping Gene’ That Appears 500k Times in Human DNA: (tags: genetics )
Air Force certifies Falcon Heavy, orders satellite launch for 2020: (tags: Spacex )
Eurozone agrees deal to bring Greece out of financial crisis: (tags: Greece debt Europe economy )
Psychiatric disorders share an underlying genetic basis: (tags: genetics mentalhealth )
A mechanism behind choosing alcohol over healthy rewards is found (in rats, but probably also humans): (tags: alcohol brain genetics addiction rats )
Turns out Stephen King is responsible for Donald Trump: (tags: usa politics horror funny stephen_king )
The great irony of Brexit is that it is teaching the UK that it already had the best model: EU membership: (tags: europe uk )
The three legal ways by which Brexit may not take place on 29 March 2019: (tags: uk europe law )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3697254.html

Screaming dinosaurs and pop music. What's not to like?: (tags: music dinosaurs video )
Bitcoin’s energy consumption, explained: (tags: bitcoin electricity )
Sad poop emoji gets flushed after row: (tags: emoji faeces )
Person of the Year: Time honours abuse 'silence breakers': (tags: abuse media )
Theresa May "I have a method for avoiding a hard Irish border, but it is too large to fit in this margin": (tags: Ireland NorthernIreland UK europe politics OhForFucksSake )
Autistic social problems partially down to neurotypicals shunning them: (tags: autism communication social psychology viaJennieRigg )
Genetically mutated rats could be released in Britain to solve rodent problem: (tags: rats genetics uk )
The impossible heterosexuality of losing weight.: (tags: lgbt desire weight society viaLizzieCassMaran )
Extinct kangaroo-like lion discovered in Australia: (tags: Australia animals )
China's debt levels pose stability risk, says IMF: (tags: China debt )
What is the secret to being more assertive? Having self respect: (tags: psychology self-esteem respect )
Australian stock exchange to move to blockchain: (tags: database stocks Technology )
The Big Vitamin D Mistake: (tags: vitaminD )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3640729.html

Google 'drop everything' to fix burger emoji: (tags: google food funny )
Extract from Plato’s Republic: On That Which is Correct Politically: (tags: philosophy funny satire viaSwampers )
These books are how I work: (tags: programming funny viaSwampers )
That's nine dead Russia officials/diplomats since elections...: (tags: Russia death )
We Are Breeding a World Full of Creatures That Cannot Survive: (tags: evolution fail )
What people really don't like about the New Atheists: I think they're actually doing remarkably well. The number of people who identify themselves as religious has dropped significantly, and a lot of people who would say "Christian" when they never actually went to church (outside of funerals and weddings) have stopped doing so. Providing a public identity and face for "Not believing any religion is true" and giving a rallying point for people who are fed up with being told that they live in a "Christian country" is going staggeringly well for them.
(tags: atheism religion )
How a Facebook experimented affected news in Cambodia: (tags: Cambodia news facebook )
Math’s Beautiful Monsters: (tags: mathematics )
A Lady Logician (a tale of triumph over horrific prejudice): (tags: mathematics logic history women academia )
"Rehab" in the USA is apparently "Forced labour camps": (tags: slavery usa crime )
To achieve your goals, don't exercise willpower, avoid temptation: (tags: behaviour psychology productivity self-control )
Average UK debt at £8,000 per person (not including the mortgage): You wait until interest rates go up...
(tags: debt uk )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3630297.html

No link found between psychedelics and mental health issues: (tags: mentalhealth psychology psychedelics )
Great Ormond Street Hospital failing intersex children: (tags: lgbt sex children uk )
When you find out one of your friends is a creep: (tags: abuse society )
Stranger Danger: Drone Edition: (tags: drone children wtf )
I have always felt that the USA was a bit...untidy: (tags: usa design comic )
How to negotiate your own Brexit, a simple guide: (tags: UK Europe politics OhForFucksSake )
A “negative emissions” plant has opened in Iceland: (tags: Iceland co2 Technology )
New figures show Britain £500bn poorer than thought: (tags: UK money OhForFucksSake debt )
Were There Dark Ages?: Read the comments.
(tags: history )
More details on Britain being £500Bn poorer than we thought.: Oddly, paywalled on mobile for me, but not on desktop. No idea what the Telegraph is playing at!
(tags: money uk europe economics OhForFucksSake )
Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to eavesdropping: (tags: wifi Technology security fail )
Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination: (tags: gender biology hormones genetics )
Find a gym buddy – not letting them down may be the most powerful incentive to get exercising: (tags: exercise psychology motivation social )
Frequent hair dye use linked to increased breast cancer risk: (tags: cancer breasts hair )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3625540.html

Stanislav Petrov, the man who refused to destroy the world, has died: (tags: nuclearweapons russia history death )
Warren Buffett wins $1M bet made a decade ago that the S&P 500 stock index would outperform hedge funds: (tags: finance investment )
Amazon exert a massive amount of power over civil society: (tags: amazon society )
What It Looks Like When You Photoshop Men Out of Politics: (tags: politics men photoshop )
Kids Praised for Being Smart Are More Likely to Cheat: (tags: psychology children achievement )
'They just kept topping it up' – how one credit card user became £28,000 in debt: (tags: credit debt money OhForFucksSake )
UK debt is explosive – and it only needs a spark to light the fuse: (tags: debt uk )
The Best Health Care System in the World: Which One Would You Pick?: (tags: healthcare usa Switzerland Australia France Germany uk )
Reliance on 'gut feelings' linked to belief in fake news: Doesn't surprise me. Either you put your thoughts first when it comes to working out what to believe or you'll end up being taken in by stories because they feel right to you.
(tags: belief )
Gut Germs Appear to Play Role in Multiple Sclerosis: (tags: microbiome disease )
Top medical experts say we should decriminalize all drugs: (tags: drugs law decriminalization )
What A Doctor Calls A Condition Can Affect How We Decide To Treat It: (tags: language healthcare )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3617717.html

Why has Donald Trump's behaviour changed?: tl;dr his media handlers have changed to people who aren't as horrific racists as before.
(tags: politics USA )
Swedish politician Patrik Liljeglod raped for his beliefs: (tags: rape politics sweden OhForFucksSake )
Labour MSPs calling for 'groundwork' on SNP-Labour deal: It would be nice to see them cooperating against the Conservatives
(tags: politics scotland snp labour )
Better-off areas asked to build up to 40% more homes: Which I'm generally in favour of. If that's where people are living then that's where we should be building homes.
(tags: housing uk )
Extreme Parenting For The One Percent: (tags: parenting autism children transparentsociety )
Put your multiple personalities in Firefox Multi-Account Containers: (tags: firefox )
Build, gather, brawl, repeat: The history of real-time strategy games: (tags: games history rts )
New Poll Finds Majority Oppose White Supremacists—Even While Sharing White Supremacist Views: (tags: USA poll racism )
Writing off student debt cheaper than claimed, says IFS: (tags: student debt uk )
Public opinion in the UK is changing on immigration: (tags: immigration UK polls )
Divinity: Original Sin 2 verdict – face-robbing, limb-chomping, heart-breaking: Adored the first one. Really must make time for this.
(tags: games review )
Christians in U.S. Military ‘Serve Satan’ If They Tolerate Other Religions, Air Force Chaplain Says: (tags: religion usa military OhForFucksSake )
America's Unregulated Sex Toy Problem: (tags: usa sextoys safety )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3616870.html

A brief history of quantum alternatives: (tags: quantum history )
Neil Gaiman talks about writers’ humility, bygone bestsellers, memory loss, heroes and being exactly famous enough: (tags: neilgaiman interview )
Government debt per capita for European countries: (tags: debt Europe visualisation )
In Conversation: Trent Reznor: (tags: music interview )
Break the silence on partition and British colonial history – before it’s too late: (tags: India Pakistan history uk )
"I hacked my body for a future that never came" (Well, yet): (tags: thefuture cyborg Technology )
Tolerance is not a moral precept: (tags: philosophy society morality history )
The Messed Up Mountains of Middle-earth: (tags: geology fantasy Tolkien )
How do you find integer solutions to x/(y + z) + y/(x + z) + z/(x + y) = 4?: (tags: mathematics )
Flesh-eating bugs at the beach: What really ate Sam and why: (tags: ocean meat australia )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3605397.html

No, Corbyn did not pledge to abolish student debt: (tags: politics labour students debt )
UK military chiefs praise transgender troops: (tags: lgbt military uk viaSwampers )
Muted stress response linked to long-term cannabis use: (tags: stress marijuana )
People are terrible at judging how good their intuitions are: (tags: psychology )
FT journalists threaten to strike over gender pay gap: (tags: money journalism pay gender )
FCA keeps payday loan cap: (tags: loans UK )
Interoperable systems and data at the heart of plans to modernise UK payments infrastructure: (tags: banking money technology uk )
Book Review: Raise A Genius!: (tags: Intelligence genius review advice )
One in eight young people in the UK have never seen a real cow - 18% have never left the city: I once talked to an Outward Bound instructor who worked with deprived kids, and they'd arrive in the Lake District with no real idea that there were places that *big*. It's sad that there are children who haven't left the city they were born in, but it doesn't surprise me.
(tags: cities children viaSwampers )
Climate change will almost certainly heat the world so much it can never recover, major study finds: (tags: globalwarming )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3603514.html

The Party Establishment Wing Of Trumpworld Collapses: (tags: republicans politics usa )
The rise of the 35 year mortgage: (tags: mortgages debt )
When you're a camp counsellor and need advice about the sudden rash of horrible deaths: (tags: funny horror satire advice )
Jupiter is so big it does not actually orbit the sun: (tags: space )
Australia's Labor opposition vows republic referendum: (tags: monarchy Australia referendum )
'Valerian' Would Make a Great Silent Movie: (tags: movies review scifi )
34 criminal cases tossed after body cam footage shows cop planting drugs: (tags: police OhForFucksSake transparentsociety )
For video games, the loss of Flash is a tragedy: (tags: Flash Technology sad )
Did Airbnb Kill the Mountain Town?: Build! More! Housing! Seriously, this would all be solved if they expanded the towns.
(tags: housing rental )
Bespoke porn: Nothing is too weird. We consider all requests: (tags: porn )
Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse Global Warming: (tags: globalwarming )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3602994.html

How to view and download ransomed Photobucket gallery images, on a per-image basis: (tags: photos internet )
Labour would take Britain out of the EU single market, Jeremy Corbyn says: (tags: immigration Europe Labour OhForFucksSake )
Jeremy Corbyn: Student debt write-off not a commitment: (tags: debt students labour )
People to be allowed to pick their own gender without doctor's diagnosis, under Government plans: (tags: gender law uk )
An interesting snippet of an interview with Jodie Whittaker, in light of her casting as Doctor Who: (tags: drwho acting gender )
"My father-in-law won't become a coder, no matter what economists say": Pssssst, basic income...
(tags: employment jobs Technology )
How are things going with the Hugo Award attempts to deter slates?: (tags: voting awards hugo )
World's first floating wind farm emerges off coast of Scotland: (tags: Scotland windpower ocean )
Many of the best Scrabble players are Thais who don't speak English: (tags: language games )
'A misuse of scarce funds': NHS to end prescription of homeopathic remedies: (tags: homeopathy NHS GoodNews )
Etobicoke "park stairs" story is a perfect example of the anti-regulatory nonsense that led to the Grenfell disaster: (tags: regulation safety )
How 1967 changed gay life in Britain: ‘I think for my generation, we’re still a little bit uneasy’: (tags: lgbt UK history )
18yo arrested for reporting a bug in the new Budapest e-Ticket system: (tags: crime bug OhForFucksSake transport epicfail )
Wisconsin Company Offers to Implant Microchips in Employees: (tags: technology cyborg usa )
Why Brilliant Girls Tend to Favor Non-STEM Careers: (tags: gender science research bias )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3601573.html

'EU pension' planned for people who move between countries: (tags: pensions europe )
UK in credit splurge as pay is squeezed (unsecured debt up 10%, spending power down 2%): So, how long until the country collapses into oblivion as people frantically try and keep their lifestyles propped up despite the economy falling apart?
(tags: debt uk )
John Bercow: MPs don't need to wear ties: (tags: clothing parliament uk )
This is how sperm whales sleep: (tags: whales sleep viaSwampers )
Government U-turns on NHS abortions for Northern Ireland women: I am not looking forward to multiple years of whiplash from the government. (I am glad that this has gone through though)
(tags: abortion government uk nhs )
Buy-to-let UK property sales fall by almost 50% in a year: (tags: uk housing )
The curse of the pseudo-data: How Rotten Tomatoes is Deciding What Movies You Don't See: (tags: movies reviews data )
When whimsical wildlife photography isn't what it seems: (tags: photography animals wildlife )
David Goyer and Josh Friedman adapting Isaac Asimov's Foundation for TV: Probably won't get made. If it does then will probably be terrible.
(tags: tv asimov )
Jeremy Corbyn sacks Labour shadow ministers for voting against Brexit: (tags: Europe UK labour politics )
Female first-year students earn a higher grade when paired with at least one other female for group projects: (tags: women Education )
The German and British children who became post-war friends: (tags: children Germany uk wwii history friendship )
German parliament votes to legalise same sex marriage: (tags: lgbt marriage Germany )
Ways In Which Programming Is Like Sex: (tags: programming sex funny )
Soon after giving birth, mothers typically experience a self-esteem dip lasting at least three years: (tags: motherhood self-esteem psychology mother )
Game of Thrones' Most Beloved Relationship Was Totally Improvised: (tags: relationships gameofthrones )
Trailer for Rick and Morty season 3, streaming from July 30th: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
(tags: animation trailer awesome excellent )
How do you cut a monolith in half? (musings on distributed systems): (tags: architecture programming network )
"Hidden rules that everybody knows" is not a useful mental model of how people act: (tags: society groups psychology rules )
Germany votes for 50m euro social media fines: (tags: germany censorship )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3593177.html

Why Ever Stop Playing Video Games: (tags: games )
Check Out An Interactive Map Of Every Dinosaur Fossil Found On Earth: (tags: dinosaurs map viaPatrickHadfield )
Why Millennials Are Lonely: (tags: loneliness psychology viaSwampers )
The One Crucial Thing to Do When Your Partner Is Upset: (tags: happiness psychology emotion relationships viaSwampers )
Some very cute little animations: (tags: animation art viaSwampers )
10+ Animals That Look Like They’re About To Drop The Hottest Albums Of The Year: (tags: animals music funny )
Fox News' fake news over Sweden gets worse as they invent a National Security Advisor: (tags: sweden fraud usa fox news )
Brilliant post on how relevant Judge Dredd is to the modern day: (tags: politics 2000AD fiction democracy comics )
Groot's oldest friend, a comic: (tags: comics marvel trees friendship )
34% of straight women don't have regular orgasms. 30% of men think intercourse will give them one. *sigh*: (tags: orgasm sex fail )
If RBS Lost £58 Billion Then Why The Heck Did We Rescue It? Because It Lost £58 Billion: (tags: banking debt )
Fantastic in-depth piece on where we are with the automation of farming: (tags: automaton farming )
Who wants a pair of computers in their ears?: (tags: sound Technology )
A Holocaust Historian Explains Why Holocaust Denial Shouldn't Be a Crime: (tags: Holocaust freespeech )
'Butter: A Rich History' Tells The Epic Backstory Of A Beloved Spread: (tags: food history )
A seal with its furry seal toy: (tags: cute )
Awful Fantasy’s Awfulest Tweets of 2015: (tags: fantasy funny )
Self-Driving Cars Have a Bicycle Problem: (tags: cars automation bicycles )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3555765.html

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