Entries tagged with magic

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Interesting Links for 12-03-2024

1. Boeing whistleblower found dead in US: (tags:airplanes death )
2. How clickbait works: (tags:advertising internet comic funny )
3. Physics vs. Magic: (tags:physics science magic comics funny )
4. Are you The Wrong Kind Of Fan? Would you like some merchandise to help make that clear?: (tags:fandom funny )

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Interesting Links for 24-03-2023

1. Sex Worker-Led Payment Platform Shuts Down After Being Cut Off by Processor: (tags:sexwork payment banking OhForFucksSake )
2. Who, really, *is* Brandon Sanderson? (Other than the biggest fantasy writer in the world): (tags:writing fantasy )
3. Sometimes card tricks look so impossible that they just have to be magic: (tags:magic cards video impressive )
4. Women comparing themselves with 'perfect' genitals in porn is contributing to a 300% rise in labiaplasty: (tags:genitals vagina surgery porn society )
5. Who knew octopi would be so clingy?: (tags:octopus cute video )
6. Epic's new motion-capture animation tech has to be seen to be believed: (tags:motioncapture impressive faces )
7. Nasal Covid vaccine shows promise in early clinical trial: (tags:pandemic noses vaccine )
8. Armed Metropolitan Police officer escapes domestic abuse prosecution after controlling 'every step' of his investigation: (tags:police abuse UK OhForFucksSake )
9. JPMorgan Chase thought it had $1.3 million worth of nickel stored in a warehouse. A closer examination revealed bags of stones.: (tags:fraud metal trade )
10. A Doctor Who game - join them together and try to reach 13. (I've gotten as far as the War Doctor): (tags:drwho games )
11. Nearly one in five people find everyday sounds intolerable: (tags:sound psychology )
12. A machine that learns to play noughts and crosses, built from 304 matchboxes: (tags:ai games )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4099761.html

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Interesting Links for 15-07-2021

Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?: (tags:language uk history maps video )
Magic! Darkest magic!: (tags:video ViaDrCross magic )
The Ugly Carpets of Vegas are Hideously Clever Social Engineering at Work - Or Are They?: (tags:LasVegas design )
'Edinburgh Butterfly and Insect World to close doors for good after nearly 40 years (I was really looking forward to taking Sophia!): (tags:Edinburgh insects sad )
Why the government did not 'override' an Act of Parliament over overseas aid - the concerning thing is that the government acted in accordance with the law: (tags:law UK aid )
Labels keep 86% of streaming revenues, leaving a pittance for the artists: (tags:music money )
How To Fix Your Joycon Drift Permanently!: (tags:Nintendo video fail )
Racism fuelling far-right threat in UK - MI5's Ken McCallum warns: (tags:racism uk terrorism )
EU unveils sweeping climate change plan: (tags:europe globalwarming )
Is this Britain's oldest intact home? (9th century, carved out of rock): (tags:homes uk history )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4056003.html

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Interesting Links for 02-07-2021

A very impressive quick-change act: (tags:magic clothes impressive video )
The influencer who lied about having cancer: (tags:cancer fraud OhForFucksSake )
The Scottish Parliament has asked people what their priorities are. I just voted down a bunch of transphobic bigotry. Maybe you'd like to do likewise?: (tags:viaJaneCarnall bigotry scotland government )
This is basically my relationship with my phone. Except I get lots of happy things too: (tags:viaSwampers news phones video funny )
Social Skills 101: (tags:socialskills comic advice )
Lego app scans a pile of bricks and tells you what you can make!: (tags:Lego apps ai )
Leaky pipes can be better for moving water (and exchanging heat and gas with the air): (tags:3dprinting water gas air heat space )
Are Green MSPs set to join Scotland's SNP government?: (tags:Scotland GreenParty )
Calling time on The Watch? What went wrong (and right) with the latest Terry Pratchett adaptation: (tags:terrypratchett TV viaSwampers )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4035325.html

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Interesting Links for 12-05-2021

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Interesting Links for 02-09-2020

Humble Comics Bundle: Judge Dredd, 2000 AD, & more (some very cheap excellent comics here): (tags:2000AD comics )
Feline coronavirus drug inhibits the main protease of SARS-CoV-2: (tags:virus pandemic cats )
Amazon spies on staff, fires them by text for not hitting secretive targets: (tags:Amazon business OhForFucksSake )
We are living with the dark side of Clarke's Third Law: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1300654855413956609.html
(tags:technology magic society ArthurCClarke )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3898657.html

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Interesting Links for 14-07-2020

Growing Up With Grandparents In The House Can Lead To More Negative Attitudes Towards The Elderly (but being more relaxed about your own aging): (tags:age family psychology )
Coronavirus: Can Scotland close the border with England?: (tags:Scotland England UK pandemic )
Boris Johnson sets up clash with Scotland and Wales over state aid: (tags:Scotland UK Europe Wales )
60 people who Warren Ellis groomed sign an open letter: (tags:WarrenEllis abuse )
Work begins in Lincolnshire on world's longest subsea power cable: (tags:electricity UK Denmark renewables )
Majority of British women support self-identification for transgender people: (tags:transgender polls UK LGBT )
Sexual consent lessons for students at St Andrews University after rape claims: (tags:StAndrews rape university consent )
How Conspiracy YouTube rots your brain: (tags:conspiracy YouTube videos medicine OhForFucksSake )
Why "the NHS should prioritize spending on frontline services" is a terrible idea: (tags:nhs organisation )
Gender Recognition Act: Disney and Sky urge Tories to honour reforms: (tags:UK Disney transgender sky LGBT )
Joint Biden-Sanders task forces unveil progressive platform after months of negotiations: (tags:politics democrats USA )
Lovely piece of camera magic: (tags:magic video cake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3856796.html

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Interesting Links for 08-12-2019

Brain tunes itself to criticality, maximizing information processing: (tags:brain )
The story of Britain in three polls...: (tags:UK politics polls )
William The Conqueror and the tactical assault witch: (tags:witchcraft magic history UK wtf )
Hacker who helped expose Ohio rape case pleads guilty, faces more prison time than rapists: (tags:hacking crime USA rape viaEatSoylentGreen )
When you listen to music when you're too hungry...: (tags:music funny viaSwampers food lyrics )
Edinburgh South West in GE 2019 - a choice between transphobes: (tags:politics Labour SNP transgender lgbt OhForFucksSake )
Tactical voting guide 2019: the 50 seats where it is vital to keep the Tories out: (tags:politics UK voting )
Banana artwork that fetched $120,000 is eaten by 'hungry' artist: (tags:art banana )
Patient data from GP surgeries sold to US companies: (tags:NHS privacy USA UK OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3827553.html

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Interesting Links for 30-09-2019

People are reporting collisions with Tesla's Smart Summon feature: (tags:cars automation fail )
A French Tunnel Sculpture That Took 30 Years to Complete: (tags:France sculpture history )
Margaret Beckett emerging as favourite to be caretaker prime minister: (tags:UK politics Labour Europe )
On Philip Lee, homophobia, and the Liberal Democrat party leadership not listening: (tags:LGBT libdem OhForFucksSake )
A Public Service Announcement About Bamboo Straws: (tags:advice food )
A viral fake news story linked trans health care to 'thousands' of deaths: (tags:transgender LGBT OhForFucksSake fraud )
Opposition parties pour cold water on SNP plan to bring down Boris Johnson this week: (tags:UK politics )
Vaccinations could be made compulsory for schoolchildren: (tags:school vaccination )
The Uterati Founders Disrupting the Vagina Economy: (tags:vagina health business )
China is stealing back its looted heritage: (tags:art theft history museums China )
BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? snubbed Christopher Eccleston because his family was too working class: (tags:family class history TV BBC )
Jane Eyre translated: 57 languages show how different cultures interpret Charlotte BrontÃ«'s classic novel: (tags:language translation ViaDrCross )
"What in Harry Potter did you think was magic but later found out was just British?": (tags:harrypotter UK school magic )
Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers from Seeing Job Ads: (tags:advertising discrimination Facebook jobs )
Daily Mail owner leads race to buy the i newspaper: (tags:newspapers uk )
Austrian elections: support for far-right collapses: (tags:austria politics )
We urgently need a long term plan to deal with social care in the UK. Signing this petition was the least I could do: (tags:care UK politics petition viaFrancescaElston )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3809035.html

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Interesting Links for 22-07-2019

Gorgeous prize-winning wildlife photography: (tags:nature beauty photography )
On "Remain Alliances": (tags:politics uk europe )
"Hacked Off" investigates transphobia in the British media. Finds a _lot_: (tags:transgender lgbt bigotry media journalism uk OhForFucksSake )
The Story Universe of Magic: The Gathering Is Expanding: (tags:magic stories games tv media )
On liberalism and transphobia: (tags:transgender gender libdem liberal )
This is how the Democrats need to fight Trump: (tags:racism usa politics )
The state of ABA as treatment for autistic people: (tags:autism research abuse )
Jeremy Corbyn has 56% popularity with Labour party members: (tags:labour )
UK CO2 Emissions Are Lowest Since 1888 Due to Government Intervention: (tags:globalwarming co2 GoodNews uk regulation energy )
EU prepares multi-billion aid plan to shield Ireland from no-deal Brexit: (tags:ireland europe uk doom )
Canadian cities take wooden skyscrapers to new heights: (tags:design architecture wood canada )
A Peculiarly Dutch Summer Rite: Children Let Loose in the Night Woods: (tags:scouts children netherlands )
China: The Land That Failed to Fail: (tags:china economics politics history )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3729839.html

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Interesting Links for 05-10-2018

"It's all Greek to me" around the world: (tags: language )
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple: (tags: security hacking china amazing computers )
Russian spies attempted to hack into an international laboratory investigating the chemical weapons attack in Salisbury: At what point does Russia start to be considered a rogue nation?
(tags: assassination russia hacking security )
A thread of different magical systems.: (tags: magic )
The Tories have declared war on reality itself: (tags: conservatives OhForFucksSake )
Selfie deaths: 259 people reported dead seeking the perfect picture: (tags: photography death )
Twitter-inspired "You Might Be the Killer" is coming to Syfy this weekend: (tags: movies review )
Star Wars: Mandalorian TV Show Sets Taika Waititi & Others to Direct: (tags: StarWars tv )
The story behind Turkish Delight: (tags: food turkey history women )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3718258.html

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Interesting Links for 26-08-2018

Drive-in 'sex boxes' for prostitution are a wild success in Switzerland: (tags: Switzerland prostitution )
The risks of alcohol (again) (with actual details of how dangerous, and a useful graph): (tags: ViaDrCross alcohol health )
No-deal Brexit will be blocked by at least 40 Tory MPs, former Conservative minister says: (tags: UK Europe Conservatives )
The case for abolishing private schools: (tags: school Education inequality )
It is actually fine to feed bread to swans (and presumably ducks, etc): (tags: myths birds health food bread )
What happens to British manufacturers using the CE mark after "Brexit day"?: (tags: UK Europe manufacturing electronics safety trade )
The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming: (tags: opera programming systems teams history )
Jacob Rees-Mogg suggests that after Brexit, people crossing the Irish border should be subject to 'inspections, just like during The Troubles': (tags: OhForFucksSake conservatives Ireland NorthernIreland )
The Guardian view on science fiction: The Broken Earth deserves its Hugo (totally. Read them): (tags: books Hugo scifi race awards )
Skim reading is the new normal (waffles on a lot, I found it hard not to skim read, and I'd like to see some detail on the studies and the effect sizes): (tags: reading technology )
Muslim Journalist Forced To Show TSA Her Bloody Pad During Search: (tags: Islam security_theatre usa OhForFucksSake )
The State of the Bestiary is Stable: 25 years of Magic the Gathering. (Fascinating, mathematical, personal, and analytical): (tags: games magic history )
Friends, gather round for the tale of the worst bride in the world.: (tags: wedding money OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3715537.html

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Interesting Links for 15-08-2018

People Start Hating Their Jobs at Age 35 (not me, I hated my job when I was younger, and enjoy it now): (tags: work age )
To Fix That Pain In Your Back, You Might Have To Change The Way You Sit: (tags: pain back advice )
State probe finds strapping children to chairs and placing mesh bags over their heads isn't abuse: (tags: usa torture OhForFucksSake children )
"I watched three days of nudity at the Edinburgh fringe – this is what I learned": (tags: Edinburgh fringe theatre dance nudity )
Describing a film: badly: (tags: movies funny )
Mineral created in lab that can remove CO2 pollution from atmosphere: (tags: co2 research globalwarming )
Report details sexual abuse by more than 300 priests in Pennsylvania's Catholic Church (and over 1,000 victims): (tags: abuse catholicism children rape oh usa )
"Spy Pets" (cute and funny): (tags: animals cute funny video )
And now the BBC seems to be showing anti Pakistani propaganda: (tags: Pakistan bbc OhForFucksSake )
Penn Jillette, In Conversation - Talking magic, truth, and Trump’s alleged Apprentice Tapes: Long and honest interview that's well worth a read.
(tags: magic politics interesting )
Twitch's top-ranked game streamer, refuses to have women on his streams. A woman gamer sums up how this makes things worse: (tags: games women )
Edinburgh Waverley set for revamp to help deal with huge increase in demand at the station: (tags: transport trains Edinburgh scotland )
Edinburgh office parking plan to help cut air pollution: (tags: pollution transport cars Edinburgh scotland )
Italy's government are blaming Europe. they are clearly wrong: (tags: Italy europe fraud )
Massive summer polls are sending clear Brexit message: (tags: UK Europe polls GoodNews )
Theresa May considers plan to register 3 million EU citizens alphabetically to cope with flood of applications: (tags: UK Europe citizenship OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 02-04-2018

Responding To The Lib Dem Policy Consultation on Immigration: (tags: libdem immigration OhForFucksSake )
On discovering that you're not a failure - you're a penguin: (tags: penguins autism diversity )
New favourite theory about Mad Max: (tags: movies funny australia )
Check out this amazing hyper realistic painting of a cat!: (tags: cats art )
America is a dystopia: (tags: usa dystopia OhForFucksSake school )
Frodo Laid a Geas (I really ought to re-read LOTR): (tags: lotr magic )
Cuttlefish does an amazing impression of a hermit crab: (tags: animals impressive ocean )
Heavy metal imagery to help with depression: (tags: depression HeavyMetal )
Men's ideal Hugh Jackman vs Women's ideal Hugh Jackman: (tags: gender society )
Why Do Cracking Knuckles Make That Noise?: I really wish mine didn't need to do it intermittently
(tags: bodies sound )
Vince Cable on internet regulation: (tags: regulation internet libdem )
How Amsterdam is reducing child obesity: Annoying that the article leads with the exercise, rather than the advice on healthy eating, the dieticians, and the banning of junk food advertising on the subway/sporting events.
(tags: obesity children netherlands )
The flags of most countries are really new: (tags: flags history )