Entries tagged with ghibli

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Interesting Links for 26-05-2024

1. Lake District sewage spill runs non-stop for 42 days after decades of inaction: (tags:water sewage pollution nature regulation UK OhForFucksSake )
2. How the US military made San Francisco gay: (tags:LGBT USA history gay sanfrancisco military )
3. The BBC covers Google's destruction of its search tool (and useful web sites): (tags:Google web search OhForFucksSake )
4. An Age of Gods and Demons: The Greatness of Princess Mononoke: (tags:ghibli review criticism nature Japan history fantasy )
5. When we're banning people from shops based on facial identification, how many errors are acceptable?: Can happen without technology too, of course. I was nearly thrown out of a pub before I opened my mouth and the staff realised I wasn't the person who caused trouble there the week before.
(tags:faces identity society crime UK )
6. The most interesting thing about the Tory National Service announcement is that they're quietly cancelling the "levelling up" funds to pay for it...: (tags:UK conservatives OhForFucksSake money )

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Interesting Links for 18-07-2023

1. It is beginning to feel like Starmer is losing the Labour Party: (tags:labour politics uk )
2. It's not just phones - Steam Deck and all gaming handhelds will need replaceable batteries by 2027 due to new EU regulations: (tags:games batteries consoles )
3. How Do You Live review: a beautiful relic and the end of an era (and Studio Ghibli): (tags:japan movies ghibli review )
4. Worldless is a gorgeous Metroid-like platformer with a turn-based twist (I played the demo and it was fun and pretty): (tags:games )
5. Aspartame and cancer: Why you really shouldn't worry about this: (tags:Cancer )
6. 51% would vote to rejoin in the EU (31% would stay out) and two thirds think Brexit was a mistake: (tags:UK Europe polls )
7. Threads has lost half of its daily active users a week after launch (I logged in to grab my user name, and haven't been back): (tags:socialnetworking )
8. Italy begins stripping lesbian mothers of their parental rights: (tags:italy lesbians OhForFucksSake bigotry lgbt )

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Interesting Links for 15-07-2022

1. Unknown Vincent Van Gogh self-portrait discovered in Edinburgh gallery: (tags:Edinburgh art Scotland )
2. James Webb Space Telescope vs Hubble Telescope Comparison: (tags:astronomy )
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV series looks quite pretty: (tags:tv lotr )
4. Where's the Beef? A First-Hand Assessment of Cultivated Meat Progress: (tags:meat technology viaDanielDWilliam )
5. Should the Human Rights Act be replaced with a Bill of Rights? (The UK parliament human rights committee wants to know your opinions): (tags:rights UK )
6. How surnames work: (tags:names funny )
7. Edinburgh's North Bridge to remain partially closed for nine months longer after council discovers more repairs needed: (tags:Edinburgh bridge transport )
8. Edinburgh council gives £100 per child payments to families hardest hit by cost of living crisis: (tags:Edinburgh austerity )
9. Princess Mononoke: The masterpiece that flummoxed the US: (tags:movies ghibli USA neilgaiman )
10. UK tech talent shortage threatens to stifle growth in the industry: (tags:technology Jobs UK )
11. Keir Starmer scraps yet another pledge - this time to end NHS private sector outsourcing: (tags:nhs labour lies )
12. Researchers identify two drugs effective at treating insomnia: (tags:sleep medicine )

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Interesting Links for 08-03-2022

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4055638.html

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Interesting Links for 01-07-2021

7-8% of children who get Covid still have symptoms three months later: (tags:pandemic children Doom )
Football linked to 2,000 Scottish Covid cases: (tags:football pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Deep sea mining could start in two years, triggering terrible loss of biodiversity: (tags:ocean mining viaDanielDWilliam )
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021: Shortlist revealed (and it's gorgeous!): (tags:photos space viacmcmck )
How Twitter can ruin a life: Isabel Fall's complicated story (she wrote the sci-fi story "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter": (tags:twitter society transgender lgbt scifi )
What mRNA is Good For, And What It Maybe Isn't: (tags:genetics immune_system vaccine )
Amazon allows people to hijack your reviews and product listings.: (tags:Amazon fraud OhForFucksSake )
Methodist Church allows same-sex marriage: (tags:UK religion marriage Christianity )
Why doesn't *my* bus stop have a life size Totoro at it?: (tags:buses Japan ghibli viaSwampers )
Nissan announces major UK electric car expansion: (tags:UK Japan electricity cars manufacturing Europe )
Wet Bulb Temperature - what is it, and how is it making parts of the planet uninhabitable?: (tags:globalwarming doom )
Ever wondered what Australian Sign Language for "startled naked by a deer" was? (SFW link): (tags:nudity video sign viaLilysea )
Triggering Password-Recovery Questions: (tags:funny passwords trauma viaSwampers )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3931373.html

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Interesting Links for 21-09-2020

Studio Ghibli releases a ton of high resolution stills from their movies: (tags:ghibli movies art )
The road from Barnard Castle - government and the problem of illegality: (tags:UK law pandemic )
Trafalgar Square protests end with 32 arrests as hundreds of anti-vaxxers and lockdown critics clash with police: (tags:vaccination protest pandemic UK police )
Just how problematic is JK Rowling's new 'cross-dressing serial killer book'?: (tags:jkrowling transgender LGBT )
Mortality Rates From COVID-19 Are Lower In Unionized Nursing Homes ( 30% relative decrease): (tags:unions pandemic newyork usa )
Leaked documents involving about $2tn of transactions have revealed how some of the world's biggest banks have allowed criminals to move dirty money around the world. (London is a major hub): (tags:crime finance uk USA money )
The "WandaVision" trailer looks glorious: (tags:TV marvel )
The mystery of Boris Johnson's "trip to Perugia": (tags:wtf BorisJohnson Italy Russia )
UK scraps rail franchise system: (tags:UK transport trains pandemic )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3858687.html

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Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3135008.html

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Interesting Links for 18-08-2014

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2918950.html

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Interesting Links for 25-05-2013