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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 )

1. The financial burden of tackling climate change will fall disproportionately on Scotland: (tags:scotland globalwarming )
2. The Violence Of Relentless Positivity In The Workplace (or: "Negativity is an expensive signal of honesty"): (tags:work honesty complaints )
3. Why women are at greater risk of autoimmune disease: (tags:immune_system women disease )
4. The Small Company at the Center of 'Gamergate 2.0': (tags:harassment games writing Diversity bigotry OhForFucksSake )
5. Review of "Who's Afraid of Gender?" by Judith Butler - An urgent counter to trans panic: (tags:gender society )
6. Urban humans have lost much of their ability to digest plants: (tags:humans microbiome plants food )
7. How Michael Sheen met Neil Gaiman, and the mystery they ate when they did: (tags:neilgaiman food )
8. Next-gen battery tech: Reimagining every aspect of batteries: (tags:batteries Technology thefuture research )
9. There is no EU cookie banner law: (tags:europe regulation privacy )
10. A Diversity of Novels with Transgender Protagonists: (tags:transgender lgbt fiction )
11. The Designer Who's Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge: (tags:water cities china design drought )

FactCheck: What's behind the UK vaccination slowdown?: (tags:UK vaccination )
China is building nuclear weapons. Here's why.: (tags:nuclearweapons China )
Electric cars have much lower life cycle emissions: (tags:co2 cars manufacturing )
How transphobes read Pratchett as being on their side: (tags:LGBT transgender terrypratchett )
Google encouraged employees who experienced harassment/assault to use their mental health benefits, then pressured counselors to provide records of their sessions to use in court when those employees filed lawsuits: (tags:Google assault harassment OhForFucksSake )
Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. Some were actively unhelpful: (tags:ai pandemic epicfail )
IOC admits guidelines for transgender athletes are not fit for purpose: (tags:LGBT transgender olympics )
Amanda Knox: Who Owns My Name?: (tags:murder corruption lies media TV movies OhForFucksSake )
The Winged Labrys - a pin designed for inclusive sapphic people: (tags:LGBT transgender lesbian design )
Tory chairman Ben Elliot sold access to his uncle Prince Charles: (tags:conservatives royalty money corruption UK )
10 iconic logos. 156 Americans. 80 hours of drawing from memory.: (tags:marketing design memory viaElfy )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4067583.html

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4057899.html

Why Bookshop.org is not the saviour the book world needs: I'm not actually sure there *is* a saviour
(tags:books business )
Facebook Oversight Board upholds ban on former President Trump: (tags:facebook politics )
West Midlands police are apparently both racist and incompetent: (tags:OhForFucksSake police harassment UK incompetence )
What adverts are the various Scottish parties running on social media?: (tags:Scotland politics socialmedia advertising )
EU negotiator Barnier spills Brexit secrets in new book: (tags:politics UK Europe books )
Trans Girls Belong on Girls' Sports Teams - There is no scientific basis for excluding them: (tags:transgender LGBT sports )
Are there any good films where the world starts out "okay" and the good guys are trying to make it better?: (tags:movies utopia china )
We are 'absolutely not' going to war with France, Jersey foreign minister says as Boris Johnson sends in navy: (tags:france uk fish )
What it's like when a firewatcher finds a fire: (tags:fire storm lightning )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4032538.html

Shellfish Businesses Say Government Plan To Build Purification Centres Won't Help Most Exports: (tags:trade UK Europe fish Doom )
New opening date for Edinburgh's children's hospital: (tags:Edinburgh children hospital )
97% of young women in the UK have been sexually harassed, 52% of them have been harassed at work: (tags:abuse harassment women UK )
Israel blocks shipment of Russian vaccine to Gaza: (tags:Israel vaccine Palestine OhForFucksSake )
Could 'The Simpsons' Replace Its Voice Actors With AI?: (tags:TV voices AI simulation )
Millions of websites offline after fire at French cloud services firm: (tags:Web France fire )
Five Things The COVID-19 Bill Revealed About How Washington Will Work In The Biden Era: (tags:USA politics viaDanielDWilliam )
The end of the PLC - how private equity is taking over from public corporations: (tags:business economics history viaDanielDWilliam )
Trader gets painted stones instead of $36m of copper: (tags:fraud wtf metal shipping )
Why "but we tell people to lock their cars because of thieves" can't be applied to assault on women: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1369930542649647104.html
(tags:Assault crime abuse women society )
Government accused of 'fuelling culture wars and harming trans people', as two more LGBT advisers quit: (tags:LGBT transgender UK conservatives )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4011933.html

Loathing of Boris Johnson fueling surge in support for Scottish independence: (tags:Scotland independence BorisJohnson politics polls )
Deaths per hundred thousand people - 156 countries do better than the UK, only 10 do worse: (tags:pandemic UK OhForFucksSake )
"Oh Jeeeesus": Drivers react to Tesla's full self-driving beta release: (tags:driving automation Tesla Doom )
I'm fairly sure I danced to this at Infest: (tags:music birds video )
A New Way to Plug a Human Brain Into a Computer: through your veins: (tags:cyborg blood brain )
Coronavirus Deaths Are Highly Likely To Exceed The Government's Worst Case Scenario, According To New Sage Analysis: (tags:pandemic doom )
"Not just a virus that kills people"—WHO spotlights long-term COVID-19: (tags:pandemic Doom )
On the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn: (tags:labour UK )
"Why Biden May Be the Best Bet to Beat Trump" (prescient, from last year, explaining things very well): (tags:politics USA demographics democrats )
Gene Roddenberry on whether Kirk and Spock were lovers: (tags:StarTrek fanfic relationships )
The Biden campaign bus is being harassed by gun toting Trump supporters: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1322336226792321025.html
(tags:politics USA harassment OhForFucksSake )
Covid job losses lead MPs to call for trials of universal basic income: (tags:GuaranteedIncome UK pandemic )
What does future world population growth look like?: (tags:population growth thefuture )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3950661.html

Sainsbury's, Co-op and Asda among stores saying they won't enforce English face mask laws: (tags:shopping pandemic )
Professor Sir Geoff Palmer compares Scottish independence with independence of former British colonies: (tags:UK history Scotland independence empire )
Your regular reminder that trans people have been competing in sport and using their preferred bathroom for *decades* and the world has not ended: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1286644150520209409.html
(tags:transgender history lgbt )
The true story of the Edinburgh voluntary penguin parade and Brigadier Sir Nils Olaf III, Colonel-in-chief of the Norwegian King's Guard: (tags:penguins Edinburgh Norway military )
How far right extremists are terrorising people in the UK: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1286710702292508672.html
(tags:harassment politics UK OhForFucksSake violence )
The power of not being a leader: (tags:leadership work )
The Great Climate Migration Has Begun: (tags:globalwarming climate immigration )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3902365.html

The Miracle Sudoku - watching the impossible slowly fall into place. Very impressive: (tags:numbers puzzles )
The Best Health Care System in the World: Which One Would You Pick?: (tags:healthcare )
How do you remain compassionate in the face of unremitting awfulness?: (tags:emotion caring awfulness ViaDrCross )
UK hospital closes A&E and no longer accepting new patients due to COVID 19: (tags:pandemic healthcare UK viaJane )
Swiss companies must pay share of rent for employees working from home: (tags:Switzerland work homes )
How the "Dominic Cummings's autistic child" rumour started: (tags:internet communication politics UK )
Hospital angrily denies snake discovered in operating theatre, insisting there was only a monkey: (tags:headline animals hospital )
Ancient Egyptian coffins and mystery of 'black goo': (tags:egypt )
Scientists vs politicians: The reality check for "warp speed" vaccine research: (tags:vaccine research pandemic )
How we think about Nations. And what if we thought about Greece the same way we think about China?: (tags:nations Greece China viaDanielDWilliam )
Wikimedia enacts new standards to address harassment and promote inclusivity: (tags:wikipedia harassment society )
Coronavirus: Poorer areas miss out as £100m of emergency cash diverted to richer Tory councils with lower infection rates: (tags:UK inequality pandemic )
Dominic Cummings caught modifying an old blog entry to try and make himself look cleverer than he is.: (tags:UK politics fraud OhForFucksSake )
Michael Gove says he has driven 'on occasion' to test his eyesight: (tags:wtf politics UK driving )
Never tell a woman that you respect them *during* sex.: (tags:sex relationships funny )
Boris Johnson approval rating plunges by 20 points in four days amid Dominic Cummings scandal: (tags:BorisJohnson pandemic )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3891696.html

Boris Johnson to rip up purdah convention if there's an election: (tags:UK elections conservatives )
How to intervene when you see someone bring harassed: (tags:harassment advice )
Could Britain really hold an election on a Monday?: (tags:elections uk )
I have to say I'm not even slightly convinced that the Lib Dems should have accepted Phillip Lee in to their ranks: (tags:libdem politics uk )
The Most Gender-Switched Names in US History: (tags:names USA history visualisation viaSwampers )
The chair of the LGBT+ Lib Dems resigns over Philip Lee being allowed to join: (tags:LGBT libdem homophobia OhForFucksSake )
EU member states have been told by the European Commission Task Force that the UK under Boris Johnson is rengeging on its commitments to protect the all-Ireland economy: (tags:UK Europe NorthernIreland ireland doom )
LGBT Lib Dem Members Are Quitting The Party Over The Defection Of Ex-Tory MP Phillip Lee: (tags:LGBT libdem )
Moose are big, really big. You may think it's a long way to the top of a horse, but that's just peanuts compared to moose: (tags:animals huge video )
Tin Plasma Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation Makes 5nm Integrated Circuits Possible: (tags:cpu nanotech technology lasers )
Step by step the Johnson plan is falling apart: (tags:BorisJohnson politics hope europe uk )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3820379.html

Famous dance scenes from movies with the wrong music. (favourites are Saturday Night Fever Vs Metallica and Flashdance Vs Bon Jovi: (tags:music video movies dancing viaSwampers )
I did not realise you could dissolve an infinite amount of candyfloss in water: (tags:video chemistry fun )
Can *you* throw like a girl?: (tags:video women sports )
If MPs no-confidence the government then it will be forced to seek an Article 50 extension: (tags:politics law uk europe hope )
Improved seam carving with forward energy: (tags:images photoshop computing )
New York governor signs bill decriminalizing marijuana use: (tags:marijuana decriminalization newyork )
How the EU sees the withdrawal agreement, and why they hate the backstop: (tags:uk europe trade )
WouldÂ youÂ give up your best friends in search of the truth? Neither would flat earthers: (tags:belief community internet )
'Dilbert' Creator Scott Adams Tries to Sell Interviews with Shooting Survivors: (tags:guns Death business )
New trains run on Glasgow to Edinburgh route for first time: (tags:trains Edinburgh glasgow transport Scotland )
Anti trans bigots have been compiling lists of trans people and harassing them. Thankfully this is illegal on multiple counts: (tags:harassment LGBT transgender privacy viaSwampers )
A fascinating, detailed look at what it takes for fans to translate an ancient console game in to English: (tags:translation japan games nintendo )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3811264.html

A different kind of string theory: Antoni Gaudi: (tags:architecture spain design )
Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the U.S. Took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans: (tags:USA history )
This story is a rollercoaster: (tags:death relationships )
Your regular reminder that workplaces which don't have a formal structure are a nightmare: (tags:organisation work business valve games )
What Michael Gove has done to the English education system: (tags:England Education Conservatives )
Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time: (tags:quantum physics )
Greens 'would not seek alliance' in event of snap general election: (tags:GreenParty politics uk )
Irish fishermen defy Rockall warning from Scottish government: (tags:Ireland Scotland fish ocean )
Southampton theatre cancels shows after actors in LGBT play attacked: (tags:LGBT violence theatre uk )
Racist Home Office refusing visas to African researchers: (tags:UK racism research visa )
Only 2% of actors make a living.: Some advice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20140775
(tags:acting jobs )
Labour plunged into sexual harassment row after top aide allegedly played down allegations: (tags:Labour harassment UK politics )
A New Metal Foam Is as Bulletproof as Heavy Steel Armor: (tags:metal armour materials )
A True Story Of 'Copyright Piracy': Why The Verve Will Only Start Getting Royalties Now For Bittersweet Symphony: (tags:music copyright )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3797909.html

Kickstarters can go wrong in a variety of ways. This one really hasn't had a good time: (tags:kickstarter CrowdFunding fail manufacturing austria )
Boris Johnson failing to appeal to floating voters needed to win election: (tags:Conservatives uk doom )
The UK will probably never be as ready for no deal as it was in March: (tags:government uk europe doom CivilService )
Friends, Simpsons & Stranger Things living room, now available at IKEA: (tags:IKEA TV simpsons viaElfy )
Trump's post truth communication techniques cement his supporters' beliefs: (tags:society lies politics usa )
The Weather Forecaster Who Saved D-Day: (tags:weather wwii history uk )
Watch the former head of the WTO, back in 2016, pointing out the damage Brexit is going to do to the UK: (tags:UK Europe Doom trade )
Ann Widdecombe's one-woman show pulled by theatre after gay therapy remark, saying it will not 'provide stage for these vile people': (tags:LGBT )
A disabled person talks about how they came to support Scottish Independence: (tags:disability Scotland independence )
Glasgow drives huge fall in serious violent crime across Scotland: (tags:crime Scotland violence GoodNews glasgow )
Labour will not win general election unless it backs second Brexit referendum: (tags:UK Europe Labour )
The euthanasia that wasn't: (tags:euthanasia fail journalism Netherlands uk )
California has 6,000 square miles of ladybugs: (tags:insect California )
Heathrow scanners will mean liquids can stay in bags: (tags:airplanes security_theatre Technology )
The Stigma Against Women who Report Sexual Harassment: (tags:harassment OhForFucksSake )
I'm curious how they lost the ability to make good X-Men movies: (tags:movies xmen fail )
The cutting-edge of cutting: How Japanese scissors have evolved: (tags:design Japan )
Robots pretending to be humans pretending to be robots pretending to be humans: (tags:robots humans funny AI turing ViaDrCross )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3796763.html

First man in Scotland convicted under new domestic abuse law: (tags:scotland abuse law )
A few questions we could maybe ask the Tory candidates about no-deal: (tags:uk europe doom Conservatives )
Segregated cycle way to be built in Edinburgh city centre (from The Meadows to George Street, via The Mound): (tags:bicycles edinburgh transport GoodNews )
The WTO Article 24 red herring in less than 400 words.: (tags:trade europe uk doom )
Ireland bans zero hours contracts: (tags:ireland work rights )
The RITB-Warwick-Edinburgh Neoliberal Mental Wellbeing Scale: (tags:mentalhealth satire funny )
Questions for No-Deal Brexiters to answer: (tags:uk europe doom trade )
"What was the best part of realising you are autistic?": (tags:autism )
A simple guide to avoid receiving a diagnosis of 'personality disorder'.: (tags:psychology diagnosis satire )
Some thoughts on party politics: (tags:politics )
If Labour members went public with how they voted at the EU Parliament elections last week the party would have to kick out 41% of them. And the Tories are even worse.: (tags:politics uk )
If the European election voting was repeated at a general election, under FPTP, this is how the results works have turned out: (tags:voting fptp doom UK Europe )
The British Army's Guide For Spotting "Extreme Right Wing" Soldiers Has Leaked Online: (tags:military UK fascism )
The House Probably Has A Pro-Impeachment Majority Right Now (but still probably won't vote for it): (tags:politics USA )
Malaria mosquitoes wiped out with GM fungus: (tags:genetics fungus malaria mosquito )
Google's AI group moves on from Go, tackles Quake III Arena: (tags:games ai fps )
Latest polling for a Westminster election is... pretty shocking: (tags:polls UK wtf )
YouTube is just fine with homophobic harassment: (tags:YouTube homophobia LGBT harassment )
Looking back on five years of Edinburgh Trams: (tags:Edinburgh trams )
Lib Dems become most popular party closely followed by Brexit Party, YouGov poll suggests: (tags:polls UK politics wtf )
The tiny cute delivery robots that are...actually remote controlled from Colombia: (tags:robots food delivery colombia )
Immigrant stories: The minister's cleaner: (tags:immigration uk OhForFucksSake )
Opinion: Why do rich people lie, cheat and steal more than those on low incomes?: (tags:inequality psychology )
Rare Dreamcast-powered SEGA Fish Life preserved and released by MusÃ©e Bolo: (tags:history consoles fish )
Things women weren't allowed to do in the 60s: (tags:history women rights society )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3795132.html

Rwanda has fought to stamp out cervical cancer - they might just be the first country to do it: (tags:cancer women rwanda GoodNews vaccination )
An interesting observation about horror film titles: (tags:horror movies names )
Protections for women online are woefully inadequate: (tags:police harassment crime uk Internet )
Terminally ill fans granted wishes to play Borderlands 3, Three Kingdoms: (tags:games death )
Schwarzenegger and Fassbender to star in Kung Fury 2: (tags:movies wtf )
Two dead after YouTube conspiracy video claims drinking bleach cures autism: (tags:autism poison youtube OhForFucksSake )
Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory: (tags:chaos programming women history )
The grocery trip which helped transform Russia: (tags:history russia usa shopping )
Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order of Japanese names: (tags:names japan )
People Have A Hard-To-Explain Bias Against Experimental Testing of Policies And Interventions, Preferring Just To See Them Implemented: (tags:research psychology testing )
LEGO reaches 100% renewable energy target three years ahead of schedule: (tags:lego renewables )
The physical kilogram is officially dead: (tags:science weight )
The art of time well spent: (tags:time advice life )
African samurai: The enduring legacy of a black warrior in feudal Japan: (tags:race Japan history )
AMC cancels sci-fi robot drama 'Humans': Shame, I really enjoyed the first season.
(tags:ai robots tv )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3792145.html

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3790952.html

?Please, listen to us?: What it?s like being female at America?s biggest economic conference: (tags: economics harassment women usa conference )
Ministers agree to consider Lib Dem plans for new referendum: (tags: libdem europe uk referendum )
UK immigration law is fucking awful (elderly relative edition): (tags: immigration UK OhForFucksSake )
It is worth drilling down this quote thread of people describing their jobs in quotes: (tags: jobs funny )
Labour admits any deal would need Irish backstop: (tags: politics UK europe labour )
Theresa May considering altering Good Friday Agreement in most ridiculous political move of my lifetime: (tags: UK NorthernIreland Conservatives OhForFucksSake )
I finally found the perfect word to describe the behaviour of Labour and Conservatives towards Brexit: (tags: UK europe politics germany language )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3760421.html

Archaeologists discover first known temple to "flayed god" Xipe Totec: (tags: religion archeology )
England needs millions of homes to solve housing crisis: (tags: housing england )
How auto-enrolment shows Brexit is doomed: (tags: process government )
The advertising barrage women get on Instagram is, frankly, toxic: (tags: advertising women OhForFucksSake )
People With Advantageous Personality Traits Have More Nerve-Fibre Insulation (Myelination) In Key Brain Areas: (tags: personality brain )
Challenging Uber by Uniting the World's Cab Drivers: (tags: taxi transport Technology )
Impossible for Seaborne's Brexit port to be ready for March: So DfT has awarded £millions contract to a company: - with no ferries or experience - from a port that needs dredging before it can be used - with dock facilities too narrow for available vessels - to another port that won’t be ready Right. Glad we’re straight on that.
(tags: uk europe shipping doom )
Washington downgrades EU mission to US: (tags: europe usa diplomacy OhForFucksSake )
Theresa May suffers Commons defeat over no-deal Brexit: (tags: UK europe politics )
There are very good reasons why the BBC can’t just load iPlayer with archive content: (tags: BBC history rights money intellectual_property )
Q&A: Alex Salmond's legal victory: (tags: Scotland snp AlexSalmond abuse law )
Ministers discuss prospect of the break-up of the UK in the event of a no-deal Brexit: (tags: UK europe Ireland Scotland NorthernIreland )
Bees! Wearing Tiny! Backpacks! For! Science!: (tags: bees awesome )
In Unprecedented Move, U. Of Washington Fired a Professor for Sexual Harassment: (tags: university usa harassment academia )
T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers’ location data, and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters: (tags: location surveillance phones OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3756784.html

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3753025.html

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