Entries tagged with england

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Interesting Links for 06-02-2025

1. In-patient services at Edinburgh's Astley Ainslie hospital to be transferred to East Lothian: (tags:edinburgh nhs scotland )
2. The Curta Mechanical Calculator (I'd love to have one if they didn't cost so much): (tags:calculator mechanics impressive video viaSwampers )
3. AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU: (tags:ai europe regulation )
4. Scotland! Will! Not! Ban! Cats!: (tags:scotland cats wtf )
5. Time limit for child sex abuse claims to be removed in England and Wales: (tags:rape children abuse law uk GoodNews england )
6. The greatest families behind the greatest showmen - what it's like living life on the road, and how that affects the children: (tags:children family uk )
7. Probably the most sensible thing I've read about Neil Gaiman: (tags:neilgaiman )
8. Nurse who objected to transgender woman in changing room admits harassment: (tags:LGBT transgender NHS harassment )
9. Assaulted woman's divorce case was turned down by 116 Scottish legal aid lawyers: (tags:Scotland law austerity divorce assault )
10. Scientists explore how to make quantum bits with spinel gemstones: (tags:quantum materials )
11. CIA sent unclassified email with names of recent hires - at Whitehouse insistence.: (tags:usa Intelligence OhForFucksSake doom )
12. "I looked for dating advice online - and got sucked into the toxic manosphere": (tags:men relationships feminism patriarchy OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 08-01-2025

1. All 105 large developments going on in Edinburgh in 2025, on Google Earth.: (tags:google map construction edinburgh )
2. Edinburgh Development Summary 2025: (tags:edinburgh construction )
3. Five key ways to tackle child sex abuse that still haven't been implemented: (tags:children rape politics uk )
4. Cuts to England's bus network cost economy £2.6bn a year: (tags:england economics buses transport )
5. Is *your* TV too high?: (tags:tv height )
6. How a populist think tank is stoking Scotland's culture war: (tags:hungary bigotry Scotland )
7. JK Rowling Slammed After Claiming That 'There Are No Trans Kids' In Hateful Rant: (tags:jkrowling transgender bigotry children )
8. Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness': (tags:Facebook OhForFucksSake bigotry LGBT )
9. How do we know how Latin was pronounced, and how did the official church pronunciation come to be different to that?: (tags:Latin history language )
10. Landlords to be banned from demanding several months' rent in advance: (tags:rental England )
11. Stats for the Omni-Centre cycle lane in Edinburgh show that usage is up 40% in a year: (tags:cycling edinburgh )
12. 'I realised I had autism when my children were diagnosed': (tags:autism scotland )
13. Trump threatens Nato, Hamas, Greenland, Panama, and Canada in press conference: (tags:politics usa )
14. Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams in Classical Latin: (tags:music video latin )
15. Six things you must know about how the grooming gangs scandal was handled: (tags:rape children religion racism uk government )

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Interesting Links for 21-02-2024

1. Probably the best social media advice you can get: (tags:socialmedia advice )
2. England has lost 28% of local bus provision per person since 2011: (tags:England buses transport )
3. Why Oscar-nominated family friendly queer animation 'Nimona' is available for free for the next week: (tags:Oscars animation LGBT movies children )
4. Why did Keir Starmer lavish praise on an Islamophobic radical-right bigot?: (tags:Russia bigotry )
5. Yes Prime Minister, questionnaire design matters (leading questions in this case): (tags:polls TV UK )
6. Why are Scottish transgender healthcare waiting times so long?: (tags:scotland transgender lgbt healthcare OhForFucksSake )
7. The government prevented compensation payments to postmasters, and then lied about it: (tags:uk government Conservatives postoffices money OhForFucksSake )
8. More than 500 games on Steam earned over $3 million in 2023: (tags:games steam valve )
9. ADHD may have emerged in humans as an evolutionary advantage: (tags:adhd evolution behaviour )
10. BT Tower: 'Iconic' landmark to be turned into a hotel: (tags:london architecture bt hotel history postoffices )

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Interesting Links for 07-02-2024

1. Can anyone explain to me why Edinburgh is Scotland's worst-funded local authority?: (tags:Scotland Edinburgh money )
2. The UK government is running a consultation on their terrible trans children guidance for schools. Please take the time to comment on it: (tags:lgbt transgender uk england school )
3. Bluesky social network drops invite-only sign ups: (tags:socialnetworking )
4. No matter the law juries will not fine people for feeding the homeless: (tags:homelessness law GoodNews USA OhForFucksSake )
5. Elevated body temperature is associated with depressive symptoms: (tags:heat depression psychology )
6. New paper explains why females are more prone to autoimmune diseases: (tags:gender immune_system disease )
7. First 3D-printed functional human brain tissue grows like the real thing: (tags:brain 3dprinting )
8. UK pylons minister reshuffled after … campaigning against local pylons: (tags:uk electricity infrastructure )
9. 'We feel castrated': the young British men embracing right-wing, misogynistic politics: (tags:politics men feminism uk )

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Interesting Links for 06-05-2023

1. For the first time ever, the Green Party run an English council: (tags:politics green uk england )
2. the bumbling WW2 German espionage attempt that was stopped in its tracks at Edinburgh's Waverley Station: (tags:wwii history spying germany uk viaDanielDWilliam )
3. Is there anything finer than watching the Conservatives descending into civil war?: (tags:conservatives politics )
4. The Harmful Side Effect of Cleaning Up the Ocean: (tags:ocean waste cleaning life )
5. If you can't fart in front of your partner, what the hell are you doing together?: (tags:relationships )
6. Science Fiction Movie Lettering: (tags:movies scifi font )
7. Babylon 5 animated movie on the way: (tags:movies Babylon5 animation )
8. Essays on Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies: (tags:movies font scifi viaFanf )
9. Waymo are running a successful driverless taxi service. Why is it expanding so slowly?: (tags:driving automation business )
10. Republican protesters being arrested ahead of coronation: (tags:monarchy protests OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 23-12-2022

1. Glaswegian who invented chicken tikka masala dies: (tags:India Glasgow food history obituary )
2. Gender reform bill to make it easier for transgender people to self-identify passes in Scotland: (tags:Scotland transgender LGBT GoodNews )
3. Large swathes of English people use "English" and "British" interchangeably: (tags:UK nationality England britain viaDanielDWilliam )
4. Mastodon is hurtling toward a tipping point: (tags:mastodon socialnetworking )
5. A look behind the scenes at how Scotland finally passed a Gender Recognition Reform Act, and how the Tories, knowing they would fail to vote it down, tried to filibuster it.: (tags:LGBT transgender Scotland politics conservatives )
6. The law of participation inequality (that the vast majority of users of a social network read, but don't interact, some interact a bit, a tiny number provide most content): (tags:socialnetworking )
7. Spain approves self-id transgender bill: (tags:Spain LGBT transgender GoodNews )
8. Strange, tentacled microbe may resemble ancestor of complex life: (tags:life )

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Interesting Links for 25-05-2022

1. Chimpanzees have their own language — and scientists just learned how they put "words" together: (tags:viaNancyLebov chimpanzees language )
2. There are two proposals for minority-led Edinburgh councils, and everything depends on the Conservatives: (tags:edinburgh politics snp labour green libdem )
3. Why would the government want to run ScotRail?: (tags:trains scotland )
4. The Scottish/English dispute over gene-edited crops: (tags:uk england genetics food )
5. Occlusion Grotesque - a font designed by a tree: (tags:trees font )
6. Ricky Gervais now exists only to be bigoted: (tags:bigotry LGBT transgender OhForFucksSake )
7. Cell Tower - a word puzzle game. Nicely tricky: (tags:games language viaSwampers )
8. Someone Stole Seth Green's Bored Ape NFT (And Star Of His New NFT Show). I am very very amused: (tags:funny blockchain TV )
9. How special effects used to be painted on to glass: (tags:specialeffects history movies )
10. Misogynistic philosophers through the ages: (tags:history philosophy misogyny )
11. Is it time to move on with safe drug consumption in Scotland? (well, obviously, if Westminster will let them): (tags:Scotland drugs health )
12. Gene-edited tomatoes could be a new source of vitamin D: (tags:vitaminD food genetics )
13. Mercedes Lackey Apologizes: (tags:race language scifi )
14. Invention For Destruction - a trailer for a gloriously hand-animated Czech movie from 1958: (tags:animation Czechoslovakia movies history trailer )

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4136564.html

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Interesting Links for 15-01-2022

An interesting take on a simple time management tool: (tags:time )
Covid: Are Scotland and England's isolation rules different?: (tags:scotland england pandemic rules )
Operation Save Big Dog: Boris Johnson draws up plan for officials to quit over partygate so he can keep job: (tags:politics BorisJohnson Pandemic party )
Any geneticists out there able to tell me is this is paranoid nonsense or a reasonable take on COVID?: (tags:genetics Pandemic virus conspiracy )
Old stone toilet reveals Jerusalem's wealthy elite had intestinal parasites: (tags:parasites Israel archeology )
We don't know why, but being in space causes us to destroy our blood: (tags:blood space disease anaemia )
Boris Johnson's 'wine time Fridays' - No10 staff held drinks EVERY week during pandemic: (tags:BorisJohnson Pandemic Party )
How to make friends around the world: (tags:uk history food funny comic )
Some thoughts about the Sue Gray investigation into Johnson's parties: (tags:party Pandemic BorisJohnson investigation )
Countries that have managed to almost completely suppress Covid have difficult choices ahead of them: (tags:Pandemic viaDanielDWilliam )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4090523.html

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Interesting Links for 25-09-2021

Spain to ban sale of fruit and vegetables in plastic wrapping from 2023: (tags:plastic Spain food )
The NSA and CIA Use Ad Blockers Because Online Advertising Is So Dangerous: (tags:CIA security advertising adblock )
UK ministers backing plans for another new nuclear power plant to help reduce carbon footprint: (tags:UK nuclearpower co2 )
England set to eradicate HIV by 2030: (tags:England HIV GoodNews )
China declares all crypto-currency transactions illegal: (tags:bitcoin China Doom )
Fossilized Footprints Reveal Human Habitation of North America 23,000 Years Ago: (tags:humans paleontology prehistory USA America )
Minority voices filtered out of Google Natural Language Processing models: (tags:Google racism LGBT language )
"The most scarily/stunningly impressive linguistic feat I've ever seen": (tags:language computers games )
Is this the religious sexual equivalent of Sovereign Citizen thought processes?: (tags:logic sex mormons religion wtf )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4086976.html

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Interesting Links for 17-09-2021

Tesla autopilot will randomly swerve towards pedestrians: (tags:Tesla automation driving murder epicfail video )
The Fellowship of the Walk: (tags:lotr video funny music )
When Republicans control state legislatures, infant mortality is higher: (tags:politics usa healthcare children death )
Scottish taxes don't subsidise English spending: (tags:Scotland UK England tax )
I look forward to the forthcoming definition of "British TV" that some poor bureaucrat is going to have to try and come up with: (tags:UK TV WTF regulation conservatives )
Are *you* ready for Autumn Spider Festival?: (tags:spiders comic aieeee! )
Giant fossilised penguin found by New Zealand school children is previously unknown species: (tags:penguins paleontology newzealand )
Study confirms superior sound of a Stradivari is due to the varnish: (tags:music violin history materials )
Massive age-related division opens up in British society on a new front: (tags:time language age UK )
Why Is Inflation Rising Right Now? A Stuffed Toy Shows Why: (tags:trade China USA doom )
Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin: (tags:google apple russia OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4034669.html

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Interesting Links for 10-05-2021

Here's Britain's beloved royal family selling access to Putin: (tags:UK monarchy Russia corruption )
Serious questions for the Electoral Commission tonight as inexplicable ruling appears to have robbed the Greens (and thus the pro-independence camp) of two seats they should have won: (tags:elections GreenParty Scotland OhForFucksSake names viaDanielDWilliam )
Gravity is a double copy of other forces: (tags:gravity physics mathematics )
Tory 'Blue Wall' in south starting to crumble, claim Liberal Democrats: (tags:England politics libdem Conservatives )
Edinburgh ghost tour guide doesn't give a fuck: (tags:Edinburgh scary video funny true )
Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid Transmission?: (tags:pandemic epicfail who virus history )
Freeport firms won't be able to export without paying huge tariffs: (tags:trade WTF UK )
Three new horror novels which take motherhood and birth as their starting point: (tags:motherhood childbirth children horror books viaClare )
Glass walkway in China loses panels in high winds, looks even more terrifying than usual: (tags:glass bridge scary China wind )
Justice League: Gal Gadot Confirms Threats To Her Career Were Made By Joss Whedon: (tags:JossWhedon OhForFucksSake movies )
The Animal is tired: (tags:age )
Buyer sought for £250m hydro scheme at Glenmuckloch: (tags:scotland hydroelectric storage electricity )
Boris Johnson being investigated over Caribbean holiday and flat renovation: (tags:BorisJohnson corruption )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4022822.html

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Interesting Links for 13-04-2021

800-year-old medieval pottery fragments reveal Jewish dietary practices: (tags:Jews diet history food UK )
The 100 Best, Worst, and Strangest Sherlock Holmes Portrayals of All-Time: (tags:TV movies lists SherlockHolmes )
Holyrood bills to be challenged by UK government: (tags:UK law Scotland )
It's too late for vaccines to save Michigan, CDC director explains: (tags:vaccination USA pandemic Doom )
Tiger! Vs! Goose!: (tags:Tiger birds video viaCharlesStross )
So, how is Tumblr doing nowadays?: (tags:Tumblr orange )
Former SNP councillor quits Alba Party amid hideous claims against LGBT groups: (tags:LGBT Scotland politics OhForFucksSake )
Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests: (tags:protests police USA murder racism )
Men who identify as more masculine are more likely to refuse to use masks, take vaccines, or act safely: (tags:pandemic gender men masculinity USA )
That's England onto the 45-50s. Hopefully Scotland soon!: (tags:UK England Wales pandemic vaccination )
Demon's Souls mo-cap footage makes foam sword fights look intense: (tags:motioncapture games sony playstation )
This is my brother. And yes, this is really what he's like: (tags:viaMyBrotherMike computers games interview )
UK Government disbands LGBT+ panel of advisers: (tags:lgbt uk Conservatives )