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1. Japanese Diver Has Been Friends With a Massive Fish for 30 Years: (tags:fish friendship )

1. The one critic Elon Musk can't counter: his daughter: (tags:ElonMusk family transgender lgbt )
2. A really simple guide to self-care: (tags:advice health mentalhealth )
3. OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us: (tags:ai intellectual_property )
4. Edinburgh theatre run of Coraline scrapped over sexual misconduct allegations involving author Neil Gaiman: (tags:neilgaiman rape theatre )
5. Friends make tasks seem easier: (tags:psychology friendship )
6. Good Omens Graphic Novel Kickstarter will not be giving Neil Gaiman any money.: (tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett kickstarter )
7. Elon Musk can't even play computer games: (tags:games ElonMusk cheating )
8. 55% of Britons support rejoining the EU. Only 30% think we were right to leave.: (tags:uk europe polls )
9. Sicko game developers keep returning to reinvent Tetris: (tags:tetris games design )
10. Waymo to test its autonomous taxis in 10 new cities in 2025, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego: (tags:automation driving )

1. Bionic Bay looks like a gorgeous platformer with fascinating puzzles and high-speed physics-based gameplay.: (tags:games video )
2. The anti-islam riots in this country are a product of the media, Tories, and Labour. All should be held responsible.: (tags:Labour conservatives media UK bigotry Islam riots )
3. Russia and Ukraine both have drones controlled by really really long fibre-optic cables: (tags:drone fibreoptics russia ukraine )
4. Tim Walz Took Historic Action To Protect Trans People, Now He's The Dem VP Choice: (tags:democrats GoodNews transgender USA politics LGBT )
5. If your workplace doesn't have a Muppet ethics AI then you are *totally* behind the times: (tags:ai muppets ethics wtf )
6. JD Vance's Wife: My Husband Only Meant to Insult People Who Actively Choose Not to Have Kids, Not People Who Are Trying but Are Unsuccessful: She did not touch on his claim that people who don't have kids are more sociopathic.
(tags:relationships politics USA EpicWTF )
7. How to Survive Mercury in Retrograde: (tags:astronomy astrology mercury )
8. In hospital emergency rooms, female patients are less likely to receive pain medication than male patients who reported the same level of distress: (tags:misogyny pain healthcare OhForFucksSake )
9. The wife of a Conservative councillor has been arrested after she called for hotels with asylum seekers to be set on fire.: (tags:UK racism conservatives )
10. Wind and solar overtake EU fossil fuels in the first half of 2024: (tags:renewables solarpower windpower electricity Europe coal gas hydroelectric )
11. COVID-19 making worrying comeback WHO warns, amid summertime surge: (tags:pandemic doom )
12. I did not know it was possible to make friends with a moray eel!: (tags:fish video friendship )
13. Scottish wildcat kitten caught on thermal imaging camera: (tags:scotland cats nature video )
14. Ukrainian forces take Russian border city that they don't want: (tags:russia ukraine war )
15. Elon Musk believes advertisers should be forced to spend money on him: (tags:ElonMusk advertising twitter wtf )

1. Duke of Edinburgh: Edinburgh council urged not to recognise Royal pair's 'illegitimate' titles: (tags:edinburgh monarchy )
2. Keir Starmer breaks another pledge - this time on scrapping university tuition fees: (tags:labour university fees tuition )
3. How do people feel about bill-splitting in restaurants?: (tags:money friendship )
4. Brain Activity Decoder Can Reveal Stories in People's Minds: (tags:neuroscience brain stories )
5. Why can you use the 60+ Oyster card as voter ID, but not the 18+ Student Oyster card?: (tags:IDCards uk )
6. AI chatbots pass next intelligence milestone after researchers fail to find a single AI that would vote for Brexit: (tags:ai uk europe funny viaMyBrotherHugh )
7. Lothian Buses Service change from Sunday 28 May (some pretty major changes, including my bus no longer going home->work): (tags:buses edinburgh transport )

1. Star Wars, The Osmonds, and Twincest Predictions: (tags:StarWars twins incest music predictions )
2. Scientists suggest way to help children get desensitised to peanut allergy (effective for 80% of them): (tags:peanuts allergies )
3. Call of the Void: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370?: (tags:airplanes crash Malaysia )
4. How damaging is the trans prisoners row for the SNP?: (tags:transgender lgbt snp scotland )
5. The kindest way to break up with a friend is to ghost them: (tags:friendship )
6. What actually helps reduce bullying?: (tags:bullying society )
7. LGBTQ: Plan to make it easier to change gender in Wales: (tags:lgbt wales transgender GoodNews )
8. I have regularly thought that more computing education should be as apprenticeships. I suspect the same is true of many other jobs.: (tags:apprentices Education uk )
9. China is building a staggering amount of solar power, here's how: (tags:China solarpower )

1. Who wants to give a tummy rub to a cute little kitty?: (tags:cats video cute leopard )
2. What did Susan Hussey say? Royal race row explained (with transcript): (tags:racism UK royalty )
3. Twitter now reinstating neo-nazis: (tags:ElonMusk Nazis Twitter OhForFucksSake )
4. "I Was Wrong About Mastodon" (and moderation and scaling): (tags:mastodon socialnetworking )
5. Labour's manipulation of selection contests reveals its emptiness of purpose: (tags:labour OhForFucksSake )
6. The Excel World Championship Is the Internet at Its Best: (tags:Excel spreadsheet competition )
7. EU Leader Uses Mastodon to Tell Elon Musk How Twitter Needs to Be Regulated: (tags:Twitter Mastodon regulation Europe ElonMusk )
8. How British colonialism killed 100 million Indians in 40 years: (tags:UK India )
9. 53% of Britons are non-religious. Who are they and what do they believe?: (tags:religion UK atheism society )
10. Learning to play the piano improves people's ability to process sights and sounds: (tags:piano music psychology )
11. Female monkeys prioritise friends and actively reduce social circle as they age: (tags:monkey friendship family )
12. UK to let safety laws lapse. Because sovereignty.: (tags:safety UK Europe law OhForFucksSake )

1. New DNA Analysis Shows How Cats Spread Around Europe, Africa, And The Middle East - Including on Viking Ships: (tags:viking genetics cats )
2. Autistic children with imaginary friends have better social skills, just like neurotypical children: (tags:psychology imagination friendship autism children )
3. A flower woman in the style by 1500+ artists, by an AI: (tags:ai art flowers women )
4. "I'm not interested in reality, I'm interested in the images": Andrew Dominik on Blonde: (tags:movies celebrity rape history )
5. A story about the Big Bird actor that made me tear up: (tags:SesameStreet children death )
6. Ukraine ambassador tells Elon Musk to 'fuck off' after Tesla boss tries Twitter poll to solve conflict: (tags:ElonMusk Twitter Russia Ukraine )
7. Twitter's edit button is already being used for terrible, sinister, purposes: (tags:Twitter funny editing )
8. A really impressive piece of stop motion animation (with doodles): (tags:stopmotion animation video )
9. Compare detail levels between OpenStreetMap 2012 and 2022: (tags:OpenStreetMap history )

1. What leads people to believe they have been abducted by aliens?: (tags:aliens sleep psychology memory )
2. New part of the body found in the lungs: (tags:bodies humans air viaNancyLebov )
3. Boris Johnson's new nuclear plants expected to raise energy bills by over £80 a year - not be ready in time for anything useful: (tags:nuclearpower OhForFucksSake BorisJohnson electricity UK )
4. You all know about the millions of people in the Congo that Belgium killed and maimed to steal their resources, right?: (tags:Belgium Congo empire murder )
5. New 1,350 home village to be built in West Edinburgh: (tags:Edinburgh housing )
6. Five Swift Answers to The Problem of Baby-Eating Authors: (tags:satire behaviour authors writing jkrowling )
7. Fluoride in water in Scotland would save NHS a fortune: (tags:water teeth Scotland )
8. A new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.: (tags:ai art )
9. UK government: "No need for government Child Poverty Unit because we abolished child poverty targets": (tags:UK poverty children conservatives OhForFucksSake )
10. Black households three times more likely to be food insecure than the national average: (tags:race poverty food uk )
11. The fashion capital of the prehistoric world has been revealed: (tags:art craft fashion prehistory Spain archeology )
12. Germany boosts renewables with biggest energy policy reform in decades: (tags:electricity Germany renewables )
13. Long Covid cases in UK reach 1.7 million in record high. ⅓ of whom have had it for a year: (tags:Pandemic health Doom )
14. Dunbar's number, optimal group sizes, and how speaking is 2.8x better than picking fleas: (tags:psychology groups communication business organisation friendship )

The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol - Here's Why!: (tags:muppets christmas viaMarrog )
Peter Molyneux's next game is a Blockchain pyramid scheme: (tags:games blockchain OhForFucksSake PeterMolyneux )
Scottish bottle return scheme will not start until 2023: (tags:Scotland recycling )
Omicron has an R over 5 and a doubling time of 2 days: (tags:Pandemic Doom )
Van Gogh Alive Comes to Edinburgh: (tags:VincentVanGogh Edinburgh art Scotland )
Testing disruption leaves UK 'flying blind' over scale of omicron wave: (tags:UK Pandemic testing Doom )
About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated: (tags:religion usa )
Star Wars: Imperial March x Carol of The Bells: (tags:StarWars viaConuly music christmas video )
The Depression Treatment That Is Turning Lives Around in Five Days (I'd love to know how long it lasts): (tags:depression neuroscience fmri )
Omicron symptoms differ from other Covid strains: (tags:pandemic virus )
HTTP/3 is Fast: (tags:web http )
Why battery costs have plunged 89 percent since 2010: (tags:batteries economics )
UK Hospitals likely to be overwhelmed by omicron: (tags:uk nhs doom )
What it's like making friends with men: (tags:men friendship comic funny )
Malta becomes first EU nation to legalise cannabis: (tags:malta marijuana legalisation )
'Harvey Weinstein would threaten to get Tarantino to direct': An oral history of The Lord of the Rings at 20: (tags:lotr history movies )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4125056.html

Thoughts about making AI "explainable": (tags:ai explanations models )
Covid in Scotland: Most councils on track for level 2 restrictions: (tags:pandemic Scotland GoodNews )
Women Who Refuse - cataloguing abuse and violence against women who say No: (tags:women violence )
London School of Dramatic Arts on Noel Clarke: (tags:abuse education acting )
UK government making 50% funding cut to music, dance, drama and performing arts; art and design; media studies; and archaeology: (tags:funding academia UK art music archeology )
Former BiFab yard in Burntisland secures first tenant: (tags:Scotland )
Why this coyote and badger 'friendship' has excited scientists: (tags:friendship animals coyote badgers video )
The difference between Kafkaesque, Kafkacore, Kafkastuck, and Kafkapunk: (tags:culture tropes genre )
Disney's writer wage-theft is far worse than reported: (tags:Disney copyright writing money OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4030623.html

Star Trek: The Original Lyrics: (tags:StarTrek music lyrics )
Facebook Is Showing Military Gear Ads Next To Insurrection Posts: (tags:facebook OhForFucksSake coup military terrorism advertising )
Indyref2: SNP reveal 'roadmap' to another independence referendum: (tags:independence referendum SNP Scotland )
How would you connect a modern graphics card to a 40-year-old original IBM PC?: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1352715917889658880.html
(tags:computers graphics history )
Seals playing in ridiculously big waves: (tags:animals Ocean play video )
In the middle of the 80s a gay man wrote a subversive parable about standing up for your chosen identity. And then the Little Mermaid saved Disney animation: (tags:Disney LGBT history identity movies )
Investigating "fat but fit" (longitudinal study of 500,000 people): (tags:obesity health weight )
How Long Does a Bottle of Wine Last After It Is Opened?: (tags:wine air oxygen )
Why have so many brands changed their logos to look bland and unrecognisable?: (tags:design branding logo fonts )
The pandemic projections look hopeful for the UK: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1353270197935812608.html
(tags:UK pandemic thefuture )
Do you suffer from friendship degradation? (I'm pretty sure I don't): (tags:friendship psychology adhd )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3989657.html

Look at all the majestic flap-flaps!: (tags:video Ocean nature )
Security flaw left 'smart' chastity sex toy users at risk of permanent lock-in: (tags:technology sextoys security fail )
Want to live longer? Make more female friends (and be a baboon): (tags:monkeys friendship LifeExpectancy )
Why Degrowth Is a Terrible Idea: (tags:growth environment technology economics )
UK media continues its sustained attack on services supporting trans people: (tags:LGBT transgender media UK )
FactCheck Q&A: Boris Johnson's offshore wind plans: (tags:windpower UK )
The tropes are hungry and the hero is in the wrong story: (tags:Shakespeare writing tragedy )
Businessman to hand over £10m following 'unexplained wealth order': (tags:money crime uk )
Projecting "peak water" and "peak grain" for the US High Plains: (tags:USA water wheat food thefuture )
Their Other Last Hurrah - Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's Cinema Purgatorio: (tags:comics alanmoore )
Star! Wars! Dance! Offs!: (tags:StarWars dancing )
Greece's Golden Dawn: Neo-Nazi leaders guilty of running crime gang: (tags:nazis Greece GoodNews crime )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3939414.html

Defund the police? Here's what that really means.: (tags:police usa )
Message to White Allies from A Black Anti-Racism Expert: You're Doing It Wrong: (tags:racism behaviour viaMorag )
Henry Dundas descendant defends ancestor's record: I really would like to understand the right of this. Would it have passed without his amendment? Anyone know an expert?
(tags:slavery history Scotland )
San Francisco police to stop responding to noncriminal calls: (tags:police USA )
Tips on engaging with people about difficult subjects: (tags:racism behaviour discussion communication ViaDrCross )
Home DNA kits could shed light on different Covid-19 impacts: (tags:genetics pandemic virus viaPatrickHadfield )
Men: How to be friends with a woman in your fandom: (tags:fandom friendship advice )
Ben Whishaw cast as lead in BBC adaptation of This is Going to Hurt: (tags:healthcare UK TV book )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3895114.html

The COBOL Problem: (tags:programming history advice computers )
Amazing Math Bridge Extended Beyond Fermat's Last Theorem: My maths stops a very very long way before this, but I still find this kind of story fascinating
(tags:mathematics )
You can't rely on fingerprint authentication if a nation state is after you: (tags:security fingerprints )
Scientists ponder how jugglers seem to defy limits to human reaction times: (tags:juggling physics research )
British Vets Association statement on cats and Covid-19: (tags:cats virus pandemic )
51 recovered coronavirus patients test positive again in South Korea: (tags:Korea virus Doom )
What A Friend Is Upset, Validating Their Feelings Is The Best Way To Comfort Them: (tags:psychology support friendship )
Flour mills working 'round the clock' to meet demand: (tags:UK food pandemic )
Scientists create mutant enzyme that recycles plastic bottles in hours: (tags:plastic GoodNews recycling )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3881061.html

Uber and Lyft said they would ease congestion. Instead they made it worse.: (tags:transport taxi fail )
Prime numbers do not like to repeat themselves: (tags:PrimeNumbers mathematics viaSwampers )
World's first portable, low-cost MRI: (tags:MRI technology healthcare )
Brexit: Ministers refuse to release secret studies believed to show little gain from trade deals with US and Asia: (tags:trade UK Europe Asia USA doom )
Psychedelic Fiber Offers a New Twist on the Science of Knots: (tags:materials mathematics )
A380 basically doing a vertical landing in storm Dennis: (tags:airplanes wind video impressive )
Airbnb Has Devoured London. Here's the Data to Prove It: (tags:housing UK )
Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses: (tags:security cryptography communication )
What if Frasier was set in the gaming community: (tags:games funny TV viaSwampers )
Star Wars is poly-vocal, and always has been.: (tags:StarWars )
Clinical studies show no effects of soy protein or isoflavones on reproductive hormones in men: results of a meta-analysis: (tags:hormones testosterone food )
Friendship Is Crucial to the Adolescent Brain: (tags:friendship children psychology parenting )
Who wants to see "Back to the Future" With Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Holland? Because now you can: (tags:movies fake video )
We have a British government which refuses to criticise eugenics: (tags:UK OhForFucksSake BorisJohnson )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3866228.html

Vast numbers of Twitter and Facebook accounts spread fake story to undermine photo of child on hospital floor: (tags:fraud socialmedia twitter facebook Conservatives )
Why the 'Queen of Shitty Robots' Renounced Her Crown: (tags:robots confidence videos )
Scottish Power to add solar and battery power to wind farms: (tags:solarpower windpower batteries scotland )
People perceive a person's competence partly based on subtle economic cues emanating from the person's clothing: (tags:clothing competency inequality clothes )
Merriam-Webster declares 'they' its 2019 word of the year: (tags:language gender )
88% of political ads by the Conservatives are lies (Lib Dems do misleading graphs, Labour are apparently truthful): (tags:lies conservatives OhForFucksSake ViaDrCross )
Small parties urged to make proportional representation a red line for any coalition: (tags:voting UK reform )
I think I really need to read up on Berkson's paradox!: (tags:paradox )
How to Have Closer Friendships (and Why You Need Them): (tags:friendship psychology advice )
Which obsolete occupation is your favourite?: (tags:jobs history )
Parasitical toothed insects which sucked blood of dinosaurs discovered in 100-million-year-old amber: (tags:dinosaurs insects )
Ten Things Autism Isn't: (tags:autism viajoexnz )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3847861.html

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