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Interesting Links for 23-12-2024
Dec. 23rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Goths! Meet! Santa!
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- 2. A Muslim is introduced to Christmas
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- 3. We're burned out because we're absolutely terrible at taking time off - even turning our hobbies in to things we feel the need to excel at
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- 4. Astley Ainslie - Next Steps for the Edinburgh hospital site
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- 5. What happens if you kiss a sad dog
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Interesting Links for 31-10-2024
Oct. 31st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Scottish judges remove barrier for rape cases going to court
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- 2. Gamer role introduced in Scottish children's hospital
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- 3. A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a "Crime" to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital
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Interesting Links for 20-10-2023
Oct. 20th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Netflix's Password-Sharing Crackdown Is Working—for Now
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- 2. The sleep supplements that really work
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- 3. Who is responsible for the Gaza hospital explosion? The key unanswered questions
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- 4. UK is facing a record high deficit in skilled tradespeople
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- 5. Solving the Zelda Timeline in 15 Minutes
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- 6. Comparing CT scans of USB-C cables
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- 7. Plastic glitter ban officially goes into effect across European Union
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- 8. US! Marines! Strap! Rocket! Launcher! To! Robot! Goat!
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Interesting Links for 12-07-2023
Jul. 12th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh Zoo meerkats to move in to Sick Kids hospital to help youngsters connect with nature
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- 2. Michael Gove gives £1.9bn of housing cash back to Treasury rather than improving safety or building more
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- 3. More Than 20,000 Moviegoers Have Already Booked 'Barbie'-'Oppenheimer' Double Features
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- 4. Was Richard III a Bad King? Or just a disastrous one?
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Interesting Links for 22-09-2022
Sep. 22nd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Russia has lost the capacity to mobilise
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- 2. An Open Letter to Bluey's Parents: Please Stop
- We have totally had to play Heavy on many occasions.
(tags:parenting dogs viaSwampers animation funny ) - 3. Mountain Goats Are Being Airlifted Out of a National Park Because They Crave Human Pee
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- 4. Artist finds private medical record photos in popular AI training data set
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- 5. Just how long have men and women been switching gender roles for?
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- 6. Far too much fun in the snow in Northern China
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- 7. Glasgow students without flats told to consider quitting university
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- 8. Tucker Carlson accuses schools and hospitals of "sex crimes" and tells viewers they have a moral duty to dole out "instant justice" "no matter what the law says"
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- 9. The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality
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- 10. US installs record solar capacity as prices keep falling
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- 11. $500,000,000 in funding, 10 years in development, and Star Citizen still doesn't have a release date
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- 12. For the first time the British Social Attitudes Survey shows a majority for proportional representation
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Interesting Links for 30-08-2022
Aug. 30th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Children's hospitals targeted by anti-LGBTQ activists online
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- 2. Insects become airborne, slowed down to a speed the human eye can appreciate
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- 3. Scotland's new disability benefits system comes into force
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- 4. What are *your* most contradictory beliefs?
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- 5. Solving mazes with spring kinematics
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Interesting Links for 03-01-2022
Jan. 3rd, 2022 12:00 pm- Edinburgh residents fight to keep local hospital from private housing developers
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- Model Reveals A Secret Of How Plus Size Models Have Slim Faces In Photos And It's Just Slimmer Models Wearing Fat Suits
- (tags:weight fat clothing OhForFucksSake fraud viaClare )
- Pretty much all of the common mushrooms you buy in supermarket are the same single species at different stages in development
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- Looking at JK Rowling's transphobia (mostly so I can find this again later)
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- The Case Against Crypto
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Interesting Links for 28-12-2021
Dec. 28th, 2021 12:00 pm- London Covid patients up by 50 per cent as hospital admissions rise nationally
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- How much sex are Britons having? (would love to see this separated out into parents and non parents)
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- A Zimbabwean archaeologist reimagines the story of an African civilisation
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- John Major privately admitted IRA cannot be militarily defeated, newly-released 1992 memo reveals
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Interesting Links for 04-12-2021
Dec. 4th, 2021 12:00 pm- This is your regular reminder not to sit on unexploded WWII munitions
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- Daughter, 20, who sued mum's GP for millions for allowing her to be born wins case
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- The women who wove binary
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- British citizenship of six million people could be jeopardised by Home Office plans - minorities in much more danger
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- That bit in the Talmud where God agrees that they can be overruled by a majority of rabbis
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- Omicron outbreak at Norway Christmas party is biggest outside S. Africa
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- What if Twitter actually gave you decent tools for blocking people?
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Interesting Links for 09-11-2021
Nov. 9th, 2021 12:00 pm- Ancient wild bees found at Blenheim Palace
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- The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything
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- Portugal makes it illegal for your boss to text you after work
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- Walmart is using fully driverless trucks to ramp up its online grocery business
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- Disney Plus is upgrading Marvel movies to IMAX aspect ratio
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- Do you think Boris Johnson just likes killing people?
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- The Popularity of E-Bikes Isnât Slowing Down
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- What if Xi Jinping just isn't that competent?
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- Alan Cumming Answers Every Question We Have About The Best Bond Movie
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- âIâm Overdue for a Discussion About My Role in Inspiring âEdgelordâ Shitâ: A Conversation with Steve Albini
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- When is the revolution in architecture coming?
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- Why did ancient Egypt spend 3000 years playing a game nobody else liked?
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Interesting Links for 30-09-2021
Sep. 30th, 2021 12:00 pm- The Mystery Box Storytelling Approach Is Broken, and Here's How to Fix It
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- Covid in Scotland: Latest ICU patients largely unvaccinated and young
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- Oh lord, Will Wright's new game is built on NFTs
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- How on earth were the red flags around Sarah Everard's murderer missed?
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- The Biggest Churches in the World: Anglo-Norman eleventh-century cathedrals
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Interesting Links for 24-08-2021
Aug. 24th, 2021 12:00 pm- Penises, it turns out, are like cats (3 parts - click next - totally not work safe)
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- What do we know about vaccine efficacy dropping over time?
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- Evolution is now accepted by a majority of Americans
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- In case you were wondering how impressive New Zealand's Covid approach is
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- Queues, reclining airplane seats, and the innate sense of ownership
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- All hospital car parking charges in Scotland to be scrapped
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- Huge Edinburgh fire breaks out on George IV bridge causing major road closures
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- There was nearly a sequel to A Game of You with Wanda in it.
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Interesting Links for 05-06-2021
Jun. 5th, 2021 12:00 pm- Following a truck full of traffic lights turn the highway will really freak out your Tesla
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- UK approves Pfizer jab for 12 to 15-year-olds
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- Looks like Scottish exam grades are going to be a clusterfuck again this year
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- Why mathematics can never be complete or certain
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- Covid variants: The Greek alphabet names explained, and which strains Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta are
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- Covid patient leaves hospital after Scotland's longest ICU stay (167 days)
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- The Broken Earth gets a movie deal. Author N.K. Jemisin to adapt. (Very excited about this!)
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- 19 million years ago: sharkapocalypse
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- Denmark parliament approves artificial island off Copenhagen
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- Why companies supporting Pride gives LGBT people conflicting feelings
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- Italian Artist Sells Nonexistent Sculpture for More Than $18,000
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Interesting Links for 23-03-2021
Mar. 23rd, 2021 12:00 pm- A write up of how someone was scammed for their savings
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- Some details on why Sturgeon was found to have not breached the ministerial code
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- UK, EU and US impose joint sanctions against Chinese officials over Uighur 'industrial scale human rights abuses'
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- Drone flight over a volcano
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- Major employers scrap plans to cut back on offices
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- Edinburgh Sick Kids: The unusable hospital that is finally open
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- Making honey without bees and milk without cows
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- Abortion: Brandon Lewis to take powers over Stormont laws
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- UK and EU vaccine impasse ramps up
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- At last: Rational Villainy
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- Ed Brubaker has "mixed feelings" about The Falcon And The Winter Soldier
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- Food Exports To The EU Saw A Huge Collapse In January, With Salmon Sales Falling By 98%
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- Result from LHCb experiment challenges leading theory in physics
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- Douglas Adams' motivational note to himself should go on every writer's wall
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- What would the UK need to do to be ready for the next pandemic?
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- As things stand, the chances of defeating Johnson at the next election are miniscule (unless the economy goes horribly wrong or the opposition parties work together)
- (tags:politics uk viaDanielDWilliam )
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Interesting Links for 21-03-2021
Mar. 21st, 2021 12:00 pm- This is a decent background on the mess going on with the SNP at the moment
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- £1m-plus PPE contract handed to Tory donor's firm still kept secret one year later
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- Some fascinating developments in understanding and working with mouse and human embryos
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- Infinite Nature: Perpetual View Generation of Natural Scenes from a Single Image
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- People are sharing the useless mental health advice from their GPs
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- Giant octopus moves in to Edinburgh's Sick Kids hospital
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- Here's Google embedding sexism in its translation software
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- Why is the Taiwanese government telling its citizens to stop changing their name to "Salmon"?
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- Met Police are happy to beat up women, but anti mask idiots are free to march as much as they like
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- Visa to hike interchange fees for UK customers in post-Brexit move
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- Republicans warn that if people get their vote then they won't be able to win
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- How vaccinated is the UK, and what does the data tell us we need to watch out for?
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Interesting Links for 11-03-2021
Mar. 11th, 2021 12:00 pm- Shellfish Businesses Say Government Plan To Build Purification Centres Won't Help Most Exports
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- New opening date for Edinburgh's children's hospital
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- 97% of young women in the UK have been sexually harassed, 52% of them have been harassed at work
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- Israel blocks shipment of Russian vaccine to Gaza
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- Could 'The Simpsons' Replace Its Voice Actors With AI?
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- Millions of websites offline after fire at French cloud services firm
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- Five Things The COVID-19 Bill Revealed About How Washington Will Work In The Biden Era
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- 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
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- 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
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Interesting Links for 12-01-2021
Jan. 12th, 2021 12:00 pm- People Without Covid Are Being Treated On The Same Wards As Infected Patients Because Hospitals Are Overwhelmed
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- 'Welcome to the Brexit, sir': Drivers have sandwiches confiscated at Dutch border
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- Liberals and Conservatives Read Totally Different Books About Science
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- How disinformation reaches millions of people
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1348689248006893568.html
(tags:Twitter lies disinformation ) - Ban non-mask wearers, health secretary tells supermarkets
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- 'No show' Glasgow councillor forced from office
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- Did Man at Capitol Riot Die After Accidentally Tasing Himself In The Testicles?
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- QAnon Has Woken Up the Real Deep State
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- Which of these bedrooms do you like best?
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- Deutsche Bank will not do future business with Trump
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- How far is "local"?
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- Scotland considering crackdown on takeaways and non-essential construction
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Interesting Links for 18-09-2020
Sep. 18th, 2020 12:00 pm- Scotland's Covid tracing app reaches million download milestone
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- Statistics, lies and the virus: five lessons from a pandemic
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- Coronavirus in Scotland: 11 cases linked to Edinburgh student flats
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- Writing About Brexit: Tory MPs Vilify Their Own Withdrawal Agreement
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- Coronavirus: Woman faces ten years in German prison after going on bar crawl while waiting for test results
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- Demand for coronavirus testing outstripping capacity 'three to four times', Dido Harding admits
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- Private Firms Handed Almost £200m To Run the UK's Test And Trace Will Not Face Financial Penalties If They Fail To Perform
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- German Hospital Hacked, Patient Taken to Another City Dies
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- TUC: UK's Trades Union Congress condemns anti-trans group LGB Alliance
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- North Carolina Is Already Rejecting Black Voters' Mail-In Ballots Five Times More Often Than White Voters'
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- Non-Binary People Protected By U.K. Equality Act, Says Landmark Ruling Against Jaguar Land Rover
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- Local authority calls on care home providers to accept covid-positive hospital patients
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- Second national lockdown proposed by UK scientific advisers (second half of October)
- https://twitter.com/MattGarrahan/status/1306698937185828865?s=19
(tags:pandemic uk ) - Surfaces vs Airborne: What We Know Now About Covid-19 Transmission
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Interesting Links for 30-08-2020
Aug. 30th, 2020 12:00 pm- Edinburgh Royal Hospital for Sick Children: Report finds spreadsheet error led to £16 million opening delay
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- What it's like for a transgender person to try and compromise with transphobes
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1299561008000688128.html
(tags:LGBT transgender bigotry ) - 'Queer Eye', Jordan Peterson and the battle for depressed men
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- A call to J.K. Rowling - Mermaids
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- The truth is, people like working from home
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- Can my child's school insist they take a Covid test? (and other questions Scottish parents have)
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