Entries tagged with libdem

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Interesting Links for 13-05-2025

1. How Gandalf Proved Mightiest: Spiritual Power in Tolkien: (tags:lotr Tolkien magic viaDanielDWilliam )
2. ScotRail trials wi-fi using Elon Musk's Starlink satellites: (tags:Scotland trains internet )
3. Continuous glucose monitors reveal variable glucose responses from the same people to the same meals: (tags:insulin sugar eating food )
4. The charts showing the big flaw in Starmer's immigration plan: (tags:migration economy uk doom )
5. Moderna's combo Covid and flu mRNA shot outperforms current vaccines in large trial: (tags:vaccine pandemic flu )
6. Despair at Starmer's divisive language as he channels Enoch Powell: (tags:bigotry immigration UK Labour OhForFucksSake )
7. US Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn't always fair use: (tags:ai copyright USA politics )
8. Edinburgh traffic bans in city centre to be made permanent following trial: (tags:traffic transport Edinburgh )
9. Top UK Special Forces general oversaw blocking of Afghan war-crime witnesses to Britain: (tags:UK military crime war OhForFucksSake Afghanistan )
10. How the news feels right now: (tags:news satire doom )
11. Mass vote losses to Lib Dems and Greens would cost Labour twice as many seats as mass Reform switch: (tags:labour libdem green )
12. Getting to know 'Reform curious Labour voters': (tags:Labour politics UK )
13. Zodiac Killer Revealed by His Love of Comic Books, Author Says: (tags:comics murder usa history )
14. London, Brighton, Birmingham and Manchester Prides suspend political parties from taking part (over trans rights): (tags:lgbt transgender protest uk politics )

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Interesting Links for 11-06-2024

1. 4,000 years ago a mutation in horses made them easier to ride. Within 300 years we had spread them everywhere.: (tags:horses europe prehistory genetics )
2. No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making huge strides.: (tags:weather ai )
3. China Miéville Writes a Secret Novel With the Internet's Boyfriend (It's Keanu Reeves): (tags:KeanuReeves ChinaMieville writing )
4. How Norway's calm, cushy prisons put Britain's model to shame: (tags:prison norway )
5. The Conservatives have overseen a 400% increase in sexual orientation hate crimes and a 1,400% increase in transphobic ones: (tags:bigotry UK crime LGBT )
6. Here's a frankly great political manifesto: (tags:politics UK libdem )
7. A possible direct exposure of the Earth to the cold dense interstellar medium 2-3 Myr ago: (tags:sun solarsystem space )
8. I am currently earwormed by the song my children brushed their teeth to this morning. I would like to not be.: (tags:music teeth video )
9. UN Security Council votes in favour of Gaza ceasefire resolution: (tags:UnitedNations gaza palestine israel )
10. What's happened the previous times the Conservative Party have imploded?: (tags:Conservatives history politics uk )
11. Ed Davey says Lib Dems would fight for UK to rejoin EU single market and eventually overturn Brexit: (tags:libdem uk europe politics )
12. Before 'Fans,' There Were 'Kranks,' 'Longhairs,' and 'Lions': (tags:fandom history )
13. Inside the Lib Dem election stunt factory: 'We had to make Ed look very silly': (tags:libdem politics )

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Interesting Links for 08-04-2023

1. Cat jumps on imam leading Ramadan prayers in Algeria: (tags:cats religion video music prayer islam viacmcmck )
2. Human memory is hugely unreliable - within seconds: (tags:memory epicfail humans psychology )
3. Extra pregnancy scan could slash number of breech births and risk to babies: (tags:pregnancy healthcare )
4. Suella Braverman and several other Conservatives to address a radical right-wing conference tied to Christian Nationalism and the US radical right.: (tags:religion racism fascism UK conservatives USA OhForFucksSake )
5. Why do refugees come to the UK: (tags:refugee UK video migration )
6. The longest straight line in Great Britain (without crossing a public road): (tags:maps uk roads )
7. Costa Rica regrew its lost forest. Can the world learn from it?: (tags:SouthAmerica forests GoodNews )
8. Asking the EHRC about sex: (tags:rights UK bigotry OhForFucksSake transgender LGBT )
9. LGBT+ Lib Dems are very angry at the EHRC: (tags:LGBT transgender rights bigotry UK libdem )

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Interesting Links for 24-02-2023

1. Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here's The Evidence.: (tags:socialmedia girls mentalhealth teenagers psychology )
2. If you're looking for an alternative to Wordi because you're avoiding the NYT's transphobia, try Wordi - it's fun!: (tags:games words language )
3. American healthcare is a disastrous mess: weight loss and diabetes miracle-drug edition: (tags:obesity healthcare diabetes drugs USA OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )
4. Now companies are having to deny the lies that AI tells about them: (tags:ai lies OhForFucksSake viaPatrickHadfield )
5. Edinburgh budget: Dramatic twist sees Lib Dem spending for Edinburgh approved: (tags:libdem edinburgh politics wtf )
6. The FBI recommends using an ad-blocker.: (tags:advertising adblock fbi internet )
7. Lord of the Rings: New Movies in the Works: (tags:lotr wtf movies )

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Interesting Links for 19-07-2022

1. Forests Now Cover 2% of Iceland (up 6x since 1990): (tags:iceland forests )
2. A new milestone in augmented reality: Functional contact lenses: (tags:augmentedreality contact_lenses Technology impressive )
3. Want to be an artist? Having millionaire parents *really* helps!: (tags:wealth inequality art )
4. Keir Starmer rules out 'any agreement' with the Lib Dems after next election: (tags:labour libdem OhForFucksSake )
5. Mint is not a necessary part of toothpaste. If you don't like it then feel free to use other flavours: (tags:teeth health )
6. The future of sports: Revealed!: (tags:sports technology funny video )
7. Ballet imposes gender roles on dancers: (tags:gender dance ballet )
8. Audiobooks or Reading? To Our Brains, It Doesn't Matter: (tags:reading audio brains psychology books )
9. Stray, a game where you play as a cat in a world populated by robots is clearly not going to make any money at all: (tags:games cats review video )
10. Scientists design contraceptives to limit grey squirrels: (tags:squirrel UK contraceptive fertility )
11. Cheese reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart failure, coronary heart disease, hypertension, and ischemic stroke: (tags:cheese health heart diabetes )
12. Heat wave kills more than 1,100 people in Spain and Portugal: (tags:heat globalwarming death spain portugal )
13. UK set to have world's biggest automated drone superhighway: (tags:drone uk )

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Interesting Links for 27-05-2022

1. Russia's Shrinking War: (tags:russia ukraine war visualisation )
2. Edinburgh City Council to be controlled by Labour as Lib Dems and Tories vote them through: (tags:libdem Conservatives labour politics edinburgh )
3. Leith waterfront development plans unveiled (right next to the new tram stop): (tags:edinburgh leith housing )
4. The time Neil Gaiman was asked to work on Young Thor: (tags:TV comics neilgaiman thor )
5. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey Is a Nightmare Reimagining of the Beloved Bear (made possible by the copyright ending earlier this year): (tags:horror movies copyright )
6. The billable hour is a trap into which more and more of us are falling: (tags:working_hours economics )
7. Over 100 ancient settlements discovered north of Hadrian's Wall: (tags:Scotland history Rome viaDanielDWilliam )
8. The TV industry might try to sell you on 8k TVs. There is absolutely no point.: (tags:TV resolution technology pointless )
9. Britain's workforce shrunk by Long Covid and Brexit, impeding the economy: (tags:UK Doom Pandemic Europe work viaDanielDWilliam )

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Interesting Links for 25-05-2022

1. Chimpanzees have their own language — and scientists just learned how they put "words" together: (tags:viaNancyLebov chimpanzees language )
2. There are two proposals for minority-led Edinburgh councils, and everything depends on the Conservatives: (tags:edinburgh politics snp labour green libdem )
3. Why would the government want to run ScotRail?: (tags:trains scotland )
4. The Scottish/English dispute over gene-edited crops: (tags:uk england genetics food )
5. Occlusion Grotesque - a font designed by a tree: (tags:trees font )
6. Ricky Gervais now exists only to be bigoted: (tags:bigotry LGBT transgender OhForFucksSake )
7. Cell Tower - a word puzzle game. Nicely tricky: (tags:games language viaSwampers )
8. Someone Stole Seth Green's Bored Ape NFT (And Star Of His New NFT Show). I am very very amused: (tags:funny blockchain TV )
9. How special effects used to be painted on to glass: (tags:specialeffects history movies )
10. Misogynistic philosophers through the ages: (tags:history philosophy misogyny )
11. Is it time to move on with safe drug consumption in Scotland? (well, obviously, if Westminster will let them): (tags:Scotland drugs health )
12. Gene-edited tomatoes could be a new source of vitamin D: (tags:vitaminD food genetics )
13. Mercedes Lackey Apologizes: (tags:race language scifi )
14. Invention For Destruction - a trailer for a gloriously hand-animated Czech movie from 1958: (tags:animation Czechoslovakia movies history trailer )

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Interesting Links for 29-04-2022

1. Labour adverts attack Lib Dems for wanting to decriminalise drugs: (tags:OhForFucksSake drugs labour libdem )
2. Japanese rail company rolls out VR-piloted robot worker: (tags:robots VirtualReality japan )
3. Children cannot avoid daydreaming but it may affect learning: (tags:psychology learning attention )
4. Covid self-isolation guidance to end in Scotland: (tags:Pandemic Scotland )
5. Solar panels installed at Edinburgh Castle to cut carbon emissions: (tags:Scotland Edinburgh solarpower castle )
6. Any academics fancy writing about Russell T Davies?: (tags:academia drwho )
7. Meet the LEGO Muppets Minifigures: (tags:Lego Muppets )
8. The prime theory for the hepatitis outbreak is *not* Covid: (tags:disease )
9. Natalie van Gogh: 'The UK is 15 years behind Holland when it comes to trans women in sport': (tags:sport transgender cycling Holland Netherlands LGBT )
10. Republicans have gone much further right than Democrats have gone left: (tags:politics USA democrats republicans )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4140579.html

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Interesting Links for 24-01-2022

How does it feel when someone uses your life as a basis for fiction?: (tags:writing relationships life viaSwampers )
The Price Cap is not responsible for the demise of UK energy companies - they were behaving riskily: (tags:electricity UK investment economics )
Endometriosis care in Scotland not meeting 'base level' - average diagnosis takes over 8 years: (tags:women healthcare Scotland OhForFucksSake )
No 10 officials admit holding back information from partygate inquiry after being frightened into silence: (tags:party conservatives bullying corruption UK Pandemic )
The funny thing all those demanding "free speech" have in common: (tags:freespeech bigotry libdem )
Shield badges for Scots to distance from Covid: (tags:Pandemic Scotland )
Is COVID's omicron variant the fastest spreading virus in history?: (tags:Pandemic speed )
Swordle: (tags:swords words comic funny games )
A fascinating bit of lore from behind the scenes of the Star Trek movies: (tags:StarTrek movies william_shatner )
What do Asian people *really* look like?: (tags:Asia humans art )
EU, US seek coordinated response to Russia over Ukraine crisis: (tags:Russia UK Ukraine USA war )