Entries tagged with equality

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Interesting Links for 20-04-2025

1. In Gaza, we are seeing the normalisation of evil: (tags:gaza Israel Palestine )
2. On language and trans people, some tips: (tags:transgender language )
3. Life before the Equalities Act 2010: (tags:transgender gender equality rights UK law history )
4. The lead civil servant on drafting the Equality Act says the aim was to include trans people.: (tags:equality lgbt transgender OhForFucksSake law uk )
5. The Minister who introduced the Gender Recognition Bill in the House of Lords in 2003 made it clear that "a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act [the predecessor to the Equality Act] as a person of the acquired sex or: (tags:transgender lgbt law uk history )
6. Settlers of Catan - Globe Edition: (tags:3dprinting boardgames SettlersOfCatan )
7. Thousands of trans rights protesters on Edinburgh streets following court ruling: (tags:Edinburgh transgender protests )
8. Musk to Force Pentagon to Build and Then Pay Him to Use Network of Killer Satellites: (tags:ElonMusk corruption space )
9. Hungary's Orbán urges Hungarians to vote against Ukraine's membership of EU: (tags:Hungary Ukraine Europe OhForFucksSake )
10. The UK is going to have to start making choices about Europe and the USA: (tags:UK USA Europe )
11. Fusion power plants would require titanic amounts of lithium.: (tags:materials fusion )
12. "Masking Is Life": Experiences of Masking in Autistic and Nonautistic Adults: (tags:autism society psychology )

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Interesting Links for 19-04-2024

1. This is how crime reporting feels to me nowadays: (tags:crime comics journalism )
2. The "Gender Game Test" and the distribution of money: (tags:psychology gender equality money children )
3. Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text—with a twist: (tags:copyright ai )
4. EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy: (tags:privacy facebook europe regulation )
5. Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of bitcoin than the building of the pyramids of Giza: (tags:Egypt history )
6. Netflix Accused of Using AI Photos in True Crime Documentary: (tags:fraud documentary netflix crime AI )
7. U.S. blocks Palestinian request for full UN membership: (tags:USA Palestine nationality UnitedNations )
8. Sleeping flushes junk out of the brain: (tags:sleep brain )
9. The Scale of the Universe (zoom in from the largest objects to the smallest): (tags:universe size visualisation )
10. Sweden passes law lowering age to change legal gender from 18 to 16 and greatly simplifying the process: (tags:LGBT transgender Sweden GoodNews )

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Interesting Links for 25-03-2024

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Interesting Links for 10-03-2024

1. The shagging order for band members ranked, by groupies: (tags:music bands sex )
2. Countries That Close Gender Gaps See Substantial Growth Returns: (tags:economics equality gender )
3. A collaborative poem about history, colours and flowers: (tags:poetry colour history )

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Interesting Links for 07-11-2023

1. Happy Mastoversary!: (tags:mastodon socialnetworking )
2. Can solar and wind power Britain? An update of David MacKay's numbers: (tags:renewables windpower solarpower uk )
3. Dengue rates plunged by up to 97% after release of lab-altered mosquitoes: (tags:disease mosquito GoodNews )
4. It's nice to know that I'm not the only person who looks up the plots of movies too scary for me to watch on Wikipedia: (tags:Wikipedia horror movies video funny )
5. File this under "Headlines that should be satire but somehow aren't.": (tags:headline Israel Palestine wtf OhForFucksSake health weight )
6. The UK planning system is a disaster: (tags:UK planning building infrastructure OhForFucksSake )
7. Not content with scamming people out of large amounts of money for bad monkey art, NFC companies are now trying to blind them: (tags:eyesight light OhForFucksSake EpicStupidity blockchain )
8. EU equality laws to be reinstated by the UK to avoid 'gap in protections' for workers: (tags:UK Europe equality law )
9. Scottish ministers refuse to comply with UK government strike plan: (tags:uk scotland unions strike )
10. Is 'Long Covid' similar to 'Long SARS'? (If so it can persist permanently): (tags:pandemic disease )

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4087394.html

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3805932.html

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Interesting Links for 10-07-2019

MPs vote to extend abortion and same-sex marriage rights to Northern Ireland: (tags:lgbt abortion marriage equality NorthernIreland Yay )
Nerve transfer restores hand function, elbow extension in paralyzed patients: (tags:nerves medicine amazing )
In Japan, the business of watching whales is far larger than hunting them: (tags:whales tourism food )
Corbyn admits Labour could still fight next general election as pro-Brexit party: (tags:UK Europe labour )
Giant marble pyramid-shaped island complex rising from sea uncovered, revealing secrets of ancient Greece's origins: (tags:Greece prehistory archeology religion )
Beluga whale returns phone to tourist: (tags:whales phones video )
Intention to fine Marriott more than Â£99M under GDPR for data breach: (tags:dataprotection fines Europe privacy )
Restaurant reviews of places that really really aren't restaurants: (tags:restaurant review funny )
MPs back Dominic Grieve plan to make no-deal Brexit harder in knife-edge Commons vote: (tags:politics UK Europe Doom )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3759587.html

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Interesting Links for 18-01-2019

Ambrosia charges $8,000 to fill your veins with blood of the young: (tags: blood youth wtf )
Theresa May still does not understand the meaning of the word 'compromise': (tags: UK europe politics )
Labour will only consider new Brexit referendum if UK is facing 'no-deal disaster', says Corbyn: (tags: uk labour OhForFucksSake )
Theresa May is warned that a softer Brexit option would cause Conservative party to explode. (Yaaaaaay!): (tags: uk europe Conservatives )
Bernie Sanders Has Highest Approval Among Nonwhite Voters in Recent CNN Poll: (tags: polls usa race )
Support for staying in EU is now at 56%: (tags: uk europe polls )
Labour shares vision for Scotland with view of Welsh mountain: (tags: Scotland Wales Labour fail )
The rowdy tourists currently obsessing all of New Zealand media: (tags: newzealand abuse tourism )
If He's Sexually Aggressive in Bars, It's Not Because He's Drunk: (tags: sex alcohol abuse )
Corbyn could face string of resignations if he backs 'people's vote': (tags: UK europe labour doom )
Glasgow City Council confirms £500m equal-pay settlement: (tags: Scotland equality pay gender Glasgow snp labour )
Theresa May literally reads off a script when she has meetings with MPs: (tags: politics conservatives wtf )
Zooming out from the smallest animals to the largest: (tags: animals video size )
NHS not sustainable and Theresa May's £20.5bn funding pledge won't fix it, NAO warns: (tags: NHS fail austerity )
Ex-mayor of Ipswich denied citizenship after almost 40 years in UK: (tags: UK immigration OhForFucksSake )
The "ugly fruit" movement is ridiculous nonsense: (tags: food )
Minority ethnic Britons face massive job discrimination: (tags: racism uk jobs )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3733293.html

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Interesting Links for 19-10-2018

The secret physics of dandelion seeds: (tags: plants flight )
Get Lost in Mega-Tunnels Dug by South American Megafauna: My first thought was DR & Quinch's "Snufflegruffs".
(tags: animals SouthAmerica tunnels )
Trump: UK must dump 'unjustified' food standards for Brexit trade deal: (tags: UK USA Europe food doom OhForFucksSake )
If we hit January with no deal then there's not enough time to hold an election before Brexit: (tags: UK europe elections time doom )
How Facebook’s fraudulent data pushed news publishers to make terrible decisions on video: (tags: videos journalism Facebook fraud OhForFucksSake )
Colored filter improves dyslexic children's reading speed: (tags: dyslexia reading colour psychology )
The gender paradox is complex: (tags: gender equality personality psychology )
Girl gamers are more likely to study science and technology degrees: (tags: women gaming education science )
'I Didn’t Hate the English — Until Now': (tags: England Ireland history ignorance society )
It's Customs Union or No Deal: (tags: UK europe doom )
If Brexit happens we’d have to choose between trade with China or US, says Trump trade aide: (tags: trade UK europe USA china )
What really terrifies Shaggy?: (tags: comic meaning viaSwampers )
The UK is heading towards a frightening constitutional crisis over Brexit: (tags: UK politics Europe doom )
The Bosnian Jews who speak medieval Spanish: (tags: spain Jews language history Bosnia )
Jonesy from Alien gets his own book: (tags: alien cats books )
Gibraltar status agreement reached in Brexit talks, says Spain: (tags: uk spain europe Gibraltar )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3728645.html

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Interesting Links for 01-10-2018

You are always allowed to leave: (tags: boundaries advice society )
Ethiopian baboons are domesticating wolves: (tags: monkey wolves )
He Got Schizophrenia. He Got Cancer. And Then He Got Cured.: (tags: schizophrenia immune_system microbiome inflammation )
California has a new law: No more all-male boards: (tags: business equality women )
11-year-old girl forced to sit through classes in blood-soaked clothes after getting first period: There's a teacher who should be fucking sacked.
(tags: school menstruation OhForFucksSake )
A trade expert explains why Brexit is catastrophic: And, because of technical issues, actually gets a decent amount of time to talk about it.
(tags: Europe trade doom uk )
Jeremy Hunt rebuked by Latvian ambassador for saying EU membership is like being occupied by the USSR: (tags: OhForFucksSake Conservatives russia Europe uk )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3713903.html

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Interesting Links for 10-08-2018

How autistic adults are being let down by the healthcare system: (tags: autism healthcare )
The 20-Year Journey of 'The Meg'—the Movie the Internet Wouldn't Let Die: (tags: sharks movies )
It's taken me almost ten years, but I now have 25,000 geek points. If only I could spend them on something ;-): (tags: geekery geek )
Inside The Culture Of Sexism At Riot Games: (tags: games sexism business )
This is precisely how I feel about voting software: (tags: voting software doom comic xkcd )
Women navigate almost as well as men in countries with more equality: (tags: equality navigation gender )
Germany relaxes ban on Nazi symbols in video games: (tags: Germany games nazis )
North American diets require more land than we have: (tags: diet farming environment )
The war between Labour and Europe continues: (tags: Labour UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
Lovely stop-motion video about woodworking with Lego: (tags: Lego video stopmotion )
Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry (much, much more interesting than I thought it would be): (tags: family business counselling psychology japan )
French police accused of harassing aid workers at Calais (they deny it, because nobody has reported the police to...the police: (tags: police immigration aid France OhForFucksSake )
Make Your Daughter Practice Math. She’ll Thank You Later.: (tags: mathematics girls )
Moose are big. Really big. No, bigger than that: (tags: animals size video )
Women with partners higher in trait conscientiousness get more pleasure from sex: (tags: sex psychology behaviour )
Cable networks are speeding up TV shows to cram in ads: (tags: advertising tv OhForFucksSake usa )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3713455.html

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Interesting Links for 08-08-2018

Middle-aged men for rent in Japan: (tags: men japan )
BBC websites blocked in China after security change: (tags: security china censorship )
EU may force iPhone to switch from Lightning to USB: (tags: apple europe standards )
ICANN loses injunction bid in dispute over WHOIS data in Germany: (tags: internet privacy )
The different ways people talk (and think) about religion, and why it matters: (tags: religion )
Belief in Scottish independence protected under equality laws, Employment Tribunal rules: (tags: scotland equality belief )
Ten Years After the Crash, We Are Still Living in the World It Brutally Remade: (tags: doom epicfail economy usa investment society )
Earth at risk of becoming 'hothouse' if tipping point reached: (tags: globalwarming doom )
French study suggests younger women should stop wearing bras: (tags: breasts clothing )
Convincing evidence that someone *did* attempt to kill the Venezuelan president with exploding drones: (tags: assassination viaCipherGoth explosives drone Venezuela )
How to tell someone that a family member has died: (tags: death advice communication )
‘My illness is a feminist issue’: Woman reveals how doctors refused to treat her lipoedema because she is ‘fat’: (tags: NHS fat women OhForFucksSake )
Bad news: there's no solution to false information online: (tags: fraud internet media journalism )
Stop saying “fake news”. It’s not helping.: (tags: fraud journalism politics usa )
Historic £1.3bn Edinburgh and South-East Scotland City Region Deal agreed: (tags: Scotland Edinburgh uk )
The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat - A Fairy Tale. For Dinosaurs.: (tags: fairytale short_story dinosaurs viaSwampers )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3692550.html

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Interesting Links for 06-06-2018

Brexit poll reveals record number of voters think decision to leave EU is wrong: (tags: Europe uk polls )
Lessons learned from running gender bias workshops: (tags: gender bias society work )
Star Wars Actor Kelly Marie Tran Deletes Instagram Amid Harassment: (tags: abuse StarWars racism sexism OhForFucksSake )
Brexit: Pro-EU Labour MPs dismiss Jeremy Corbyn's latest move as 'nowhere near enough': (tags: UK Europe Labour )
There seems to be lots of confusion about the Gender Recognition Act, the Equality Act and so-called “Self ID”.: (tags: lgbt law transgender equality uk )
I want to play this game a *lot*: (tags: games StarWars music )
A fun/very silly discussion of languages in Lord of the Rings: (tags: lotr language funny )
Scotland to pass gay pardons law: (tags: lgbt law scotland )
Ten things we learned about Scottishness: (tags: Scotland UK polls demographics )
Netherlands to build world's first habitable 3D printed houses: (tags: netherlands 3dprinting housing )
Brexit: EU advises businesses not to use British components because of Theresa May’s plan to leave customs union: (tags: europe uk OhForFucksSake trade )
The Brexit Business Case: (tags: business process UK Europe epicfail )
The Home Office is now demanding DNA tests to avoid deportation: (tags: immigration UK OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3672648.html

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Interesting Links for 27-03-2018

Poll: Brits Would Rather Leave EU Than Keep Northern Ireland In The UK: (tags: uk europe NorthernIreland polls )
The defiance of an 'untouchable' New York subway worker: (tags: india usa bigotry )
Apple thinks you should have to sign up to multiple music services to get access to all music.: Make it harder for me to access music and I will stop spending £120/year on music and go back to downloading it. Frankly, I hadn't spent £120 on albums per year since I was about 25. Spotify gets me paying far more than I otherwise would.
(tags: music apple OhForFucksSake )
Microsoft Bans “Offensive Language” from Skype - can fuck off: (tags: microsoft censorship OhForFucksSake )
‘Solo’ Actor Says Phil Lord and Chris Miller ‘Weren’t Prepared’ for ‘Star Wars,’ Alden Ehrenreich ‘Just Not Good Enough’: (tags: StarWars movies )
French waiter says firing for rudeness is 'discrimination against my culture': Somehow not satire
(tags: behaviour france food restaurant job headline )
First self-driving train launches on London Thameslink route: (tags: London trains automation transport )
All the Things the Star Wars: The Last Jedi Novelization Adds to the Movie: (tags: StarWars books )
Same-sex marriage bill for Northern Ireland to be introduced at Westminster in absence of power-sharing at Stormont: (tags: marriage equality LGBT NorthernIreland )
It all made sense when we found out we were autistic: (tags: autism life )
Fitbit Versa review: What the Pebble did next: (tags: watch technology review )
G Found in 31 Non-Western Cultures: Strong Evidence That G Is a Universal Trait: (tags: intelligence psychology )
One Strange Rock is a Cosmos for the Earth-bound that’s worth watching: (tags: TV review earth science )
Does the UK’s case against Russia stack up?: (tags: chemistry weapons spying Russia uk )
Music lessons improve children's cognitive skills and academic performance: (tags: music education children )
Neuroscientists say daily ibuprofen can prevent Alzheimer's disease: (tags: alzheimers drugs )
Global carbon emissions could be cut 3 percent by following the UK's example: (tags: UK globalwarming electricity co2 )
The 30 Best Protest Signs from the March For Our Lives: (tags: protest guns usa funny )
Arizona Government Suspends Uber's Self Driving Cars from Roads: (tags: automation driving cars usa fail )
Scientists Print All-Liquid 3-D Structures: (tags: 3dprinting water )
It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying on you: (tags: surveillance advertising business )
Prenatal stress changes brain connectivity in-utero: (tags: stress babies brain )
Irn Bru sales go up after new recipe introduced: (tags: drink scotland sugar )
Science Is Getting Us Closer to the End of Infertility: And producing whole new ways of making new life
(tags: fertility babies Technology )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3651360.html

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Interesting Links for 13-01-2018

The Widow, the Bank, and the $8 Billion Verdict: (tags: banking death law money )
From Russia With Blood: 14 Suspected Hits On British Soil That The Government Ignored: (tags: uk Russia murder )
Online shopping in Africa doesn’t work because addresses don't work: (tags: africa maps location web )
A brief translation of today's Facebook news from Facebook speak to English (tl;dr "Fuck you, pay us"): (tags: Facebook advertising )
Engineer says he quit Google after order to stop pro-diversity posts: (tags: google diversity )
Mothers who regret having children are speaking up like never before: (tags: parenting motherhood mother children women happiness )
The Clarke Gap (A useful metric for technology): (tags: magic Technology ux ArthurCClarke )
The company that runs Britain is near to collapse. Watch and worry: (tags: UK business fail )
'The desire to have a child never goes away': The Involuntarily Childless: (tags: children mother fatherhood society motherhood sadness )
Introducing the world's toughest snail: (tags: snails awesome ocean )
_Why_ Haiti is a shithole: (tags: empire racism history )
Women get prominent media jobs in wake of misconduct ousters: (tags: women media jobs equality )
Friends came to Netflix and everyone is shocked at the homophobia, transphobia and misogyny: What currently acceptable tv shows will look awful in twenty years?
(tags: tv friends bigotry history )
Delivering mail in Kabul’s nameless streets: (tags: Afghanistan mail )
In the 1880s Norwegians experienced racism in America: (tags: usa norway racism history )
"The question we came to dread: ‘Are you going for a second child?’": (tags: children life questions )
Germany's Emerging Coalition Backs Off Delaying 2020 Climate Targets: (tags: globalwarming Germany politics GoodNews )