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Black Bart - The Buried TV Sequel to Blazing Saddles
(tags:TV movies racism comedy weird contracts cowboy )
Drone flight captures Norfolk starlings murmuration
(tags:birds drone video )
Nadhim Zahawi and Tory MPs attack Yorkshire Post - over a totally accurate story
(tags:government UK media OhForFucksSake )
Home Office put refugees in camps so they didn't look weak
(tags:immigration OhForFucksSake asylum UK refugee )
Transphobes target Scottish Government HQ and Bute House
(tags:lgbt transgender Scotland )
How to identify which European language you're reading
(tags:language Europe visualisation flowchart )
Here's the Nordic model making life awful for sex workers in Canada
(tags:Canada sexwork OhForFucksSake )
Brexit: How much disruption has there been so far?
(tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
Silver surges as Reddit army turns to commodities
(tags:metal trade investment Reddit wtf )
Covid in Scotland: Vaccinations move to next category (over 70s)
(tags:Scotland vaccination pandemic )
Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions
(tags:music spotify emotions )
The seamstress who conserves brutality
(tags:genocide materials clothing history museums )
Men: Do not hold a grudge for decades and use it to kill people in TV shows called Jessica
(tags:names death TV OhForFucksSake )
I wish I'd had a teacher this awesome
(tags:teachers teaching awesome )
A list of landlords who are in elected positions in the UK.
(tags:property politics UK housing )
Coronavirus: Up to one fifth of staff in some care home groups refusing vaccine
(tags:pandemic vaccination OhForFucksSake UK )
The Apple app store has a scam problem
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1356011069395755009.html
(tags:Apple scam fraud apps )
What is transphobia? (mostly so I can find this again later)
(tags:lgbt transgender bigotry )
Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester
(tags:3d visualisation Manchester electricity history )
Normal life will not return 'until 2024' if virus does not disappear globally
(tags:pandemic )
Rescued Ben Nevis climbers fined
(tags:mountains Scotland pandemic )
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Interesting Links for 04-10-2020

Boris Johnson: "We need a repeat of the 2008 housing crash"
I'm actually fine with working out how we can get more people able to buy houses. But someone needs to ask the difficult questions about how we avoid 2008 happening again if we relax lending requirements.
(tags:housing mortgages regulation UK Doom conservatives )
Harvey Weinstein to Face Six New Sex Assault Charges in Los Angeles
(tags:movies abuse rape )
Manchester professor has her classes revoked because she wasn't teaching face to face in the middle of a pandemic
(tags:Manchester university pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Ex president Jed Bartlett comments on Trump getting infected
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1311917089888890880.html
(tags:TV pandemic politics USA funny )
Turnberry hotelier tests positive for coronavirus
(tags:headline Scotland funny pandemic )
Blur - Song 2, but every "woohoo" is done by Mario
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Cineworld to Close All U.S., U.K. Cinemas
(tags:cinema UK USA Doom )
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How the British government sabotaged Birmingham
(tags:UK OhForFucksSake cities )
All Women's Aid & Rape Crisis services in Scotland are trans inclusive & have been for many years.
(tags:rape abuse LGBT transgender Scotland )
Coronavirus: Ebbsfleet Covid-19 test centre shut to become Brexit lorry park
(tags:UK Europe pandemic Doom )
The perils of a cross-disciplinary PhD
(tags:phd )
More than two-thirds of young Scots now back independence
(tags:Scotland independence polls )
The British Medical Association affirms trans and non-binary rights in healthcare (and that gender recognition should be by sworn statement)
(tags:LGBT doctors UK transgender )
"An English Period Drama" (pretty much exactly what they look like to me)
(tags:TV satire funny comedy video )
A curated list of TikToks.
(tags:video )
Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It's a Set of Actions to Fight
(tags:fascism freespeech debate )
Police Scotland criticised over leadership and diversity training
(tags:police Scotland )
Man using a snake 'as face covering' seen riding bus in Greater Manchester
(tags:Manchester snake transport pandemic )
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2020-08-06 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 28-08-2019

Jeremy Corbyn and other opposition leaders agree plan to stop no-deal Brexit
(tags:labour libdem europe snp uk hope )
No, the Great Central Main Line is not an adequate alternative to HS2
(tags:trains uk )
This is currently my favourite Git UI
(tags:git ui )
Renaming the Campbell Award
(tags:scifi awards racism )
Fuck Manchester Pride
(tags:pride Manchester OhForFucksSake lgbt )
On the new Amazon "Lord of the Rings" TV show
(tags:TV lotr )
Government to ask Queen to suspend Parliament
(tags:uk government doom europe )
US border officials are increasingly denying entry to travelers over others' social media
(tags:socialmedia immigration usa )
What are children dying from and what can we do about it?
(tags:children death )
Prorogue: The government takes its shot (with a much weaker hand than they'd like)
(tags:uk government hope )
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Interesting Links for 15-02-2019

Colorado store closing after removing Nike merchandise over Kaepernick ad
(tags:usa politics sports )
Russian illustrations for Lord of the Rings in the style of medieval art
(tags:lotr art russia )
A Saudi app lets male "guardians" track women's movements, or even stop them from getting on a plane. Apple and Google offer it in their app stores ??? are they complicit?
(tags:saudiarabia surveillance women patriarchy Google apple )
Australian Border Force targeting women suspected of fleeing Saudi Arabia
(tags:australia asylum saudiarabia women OhForFucksSake )
Theresa May's defeat confirms that the only way to pass a Brexit deal is with Labour votes
(tags:UK europe politics )
May's latest Brexit defeat: The edifice of nonsense comes tumbling down
(tags:UK europe doom )
About an eighth of software developers work remotely
(tags:software remote work )
I just watched the trailer for "Tolkien". I can think of a few people whose heads are going to explode...
(tags:Tolkien lotr movies )
Brain function of night owls and larks differ
(tags:brain sleep time )
The British-Irish Dialect Quiz (I am, apparently, a Southerner)
(tags:language uk )
'Gunboat diplomacy' dispute upsets UK trade mission to China
(tags:uk trade china military OhForFucksSake )
Opposing Labour's fines for homeless people
(tags:labour homelessness manchester libdem )
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Interesting Links for 10-10-2018

People can spot a corrupt politician from a photo 70% of the time
(tags: politics corruption faces testosterone )
New Doctor Who slammed as ‘unrealistic’ after showing working train between Sheffield and Manchester
(tags: satire drwho funny manchester trains )
Women told 'don't use headphones' despite attacker actively starting conversations
(tags: assault police WTF advice )
Some progress seems to be being made on the UK's withdrawal deal
But is there a majority in parliament for it?
(tags: UK Europe )
We Are Not the Resistance
(tags: usa history society )
'Gay cake' row: Supreme Court rules in favour of Ashers
(tags: freespeech lgbt NorthernIreland uk )
Nearly 30% of young people in England do not drink
(tags: alcohol uk )
UK public finances are among weakest in the world
(tags: uk economy fail )
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Interesting Links for 13-08-2018

Laws and Sausages - an ongoing comic aiming to educate people about how the US political system works
(tags: usa politics comic )
At BlackRock, Machines Are Rising Over Managers to Pick Stocks
(tags: investing automation )
Bisexual Erasure and Biphobia - a guide to quickly exposing your prejudices courtesy of Graham Linehan
(tags: lgbt bigotry )
This largely sums up my politics
With the addition that what you need to keep the whole system in check are decent sets of rules, oversight, and huge amounts of transparency. I don't trust large businesses or the government. I want to see what they're up to, and keep them responsible.
(tags: politics )
Manchester Pride will say farewell to its iconic location in Canal Street
(tags: Labour Manchester pride lgbt )
The dangers of "pregnancy while fat" are tiny. Anyone saying otherwise is scaremongering
(tags: pregnancy fat weight health safety )
Northamptonshire and Barnet have pursued outsourcing and austerity to the point of collapse.
(tags: fail OhForFucksSake uk politics )
Ticketmaster to close resale sites Seatwave and Get Me In (I approve of the Irish law mentioned)
(tags: tickets concerts business )
The far-right BNP backs Boris Johnson as Britain's new Trump
(tags: uk racism politics conservatives OhForFucksSake )
Two Brexit stories this morning linked by one theme - the inability of the UK Government to make realistic decisions.
(tags: uk Europe trade doom )
The UK should stand by Canada
(tags: Canada saudiarabia rights uk )
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2018-07-19 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 19-07-2018

Astronomers can now get sharper images from the ground than the Hubble can from space
(tags: astronomy space technology )
European Commission fines Google €4.34 billion for illegal practices regarding Android mobile devices to strengthen dominance of Google's search engine
(tags: Google Europe fines )
EU signs its biggest free trade deal with Japan
(tags: europe japan trade )
Critical realism in 100 words
(tags: reality philosophy )
UK facing longest fall in living standards for over 60 years (this is *before* a hard Brexit is taken into account)
(tags: UK economy epicfail )
The 10 Phases of a 10 Minute Shower With a Baby at Home
(tags: cleanliness babies funny true viaJane )
‘Meghalayan Age’ announced as official new chapter in Earth’s history (starting 4,200 years ago)
(tags: prehistory geology )
Hackers account for 90% of login attempts at online retailers - successful 3% of the time
(tags: hacking passwords security )
Edinburgh's Leith Street to reopen after almost a year
(tags: Edinburgh roads transport )
The end of all things is upon us
(tags: UK Europe doom )
Michael Scheuer, the former senior CIA official and NYT bestselling author of Imperial Hubris, is calling for Trump supporters to kill Trump opponents
(tags: WTF civilwar usa )
Homophobic University chaplain removed after holding service to atone for Gay Pride event
(tags: homophobia religion catholicism glasgow Scotland uk )
Timeline of the far future
(tags: thefuture )
As I assumed, the Chequers agreement is totally unacceptable to the EU
(tags: UK Europe doom fail )
Labour don't have the numbers to keep the UK in the EU
(tags: UK Europe labour )
Zuckerberg defends Facebook users' right to deny the Holocaust
(tags: Facebook freespeech lies Holocaust )
Israeli defense firm demos kamikaze drone bomb that can be called off
(tags: drone weaponry military )
Do not debate holocaust deniers. If possible, shut them down
(tags: Holocaust bigotry fraud history )
Labour politician refuses to quit despite calling women ‘b***h’, ‘cow’ and ‘c***’ in misogynistic hate campaign online
(tags: Labour misogyny Manchester )
Non-religious countries experience greater economic growth, study finds
(tags: religion success economy )
Spain to introduce ‘yes means yes’ sexual consent law
(tags: law rape Spain consent )
The women choosing to love their natural grey hair
(tags: women hair age )
Chief whip Julian Smith told MPs to defy pairing deals
(tags: politics conservatives OhForFucksSake uk )
Some notes on She-Ra from the guy who co-created her
(tags: writing women children animation )
"I was right to confront Jeremy Corbyn over Labour’s antisemitism"
(tags: labour Jews bigotry )
Israel passes law enabling apartheid
(tags: israel bigotry racism )
Morrisons 'quiet hour' for autistic shopping introduced
(tags: shopping autism noise uk )
How democratic are the reformed electoral systems used in Britain’s devolved governments and English mayoral elections?
(tags: voting uk )
Looking at Test Driven Developmen: An Academic Survey
(tags: research testing development software )
Visualizing street orientations on an interactive map
(tags: design roads cities )
After a 400-Year Absence, A Rare Ibis Returns to European Skies
(tags: birds Europe GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 27-02-2018

Norwegian lessons for Brexit Britain - could the EEA be the answer we're looking for?
(tags: europe uk )
The Vulkan graphics API is coming to macOS and iOS, but no thanks to Apple
(tags: graphics apple )
No affordable housing is being built in Manchester city centre - and the local Labour council is not improving things
(tags: labour manchester housing OhForFucksSake )
An AI just beat top lawyers at their own game
(tags: ai law )
24 per cent drop in road casualties since 20mph rolled out in Edinburgh
(tags: transport safety speed Edinburgh GoodNews scotland )
Harry Potter wizard school will open in East Lothian this summer
(tags: harrypotter scotland )
Labour still want to end freedom of movement
(tags: Labour Europe UK immigration OhForFucksSake )
Why Remain can’t understand Leave
(tags: Europe uk empathy rules )
Brexit: Labour plan to keep UK in customs union with EU is 'an option not a commitment', says Corbyn's team
(tags: uk europe labour )
On the seraphic terror of the two scariest entities in popular fantasy literature: Tom Bombadil and The Sorting Hat.
(tags: lotr harrypotter )
Moana is an inversion of The Little Mermaid
(tags: Disney movies )
'They Don't Want to Include Women Like Me.' Sex Workers Say They're Being Left Out of the #MeToo Movement
(tags: abuse sexwork OhForFucksSake society )
Woman Who Lied to Police About 3 Black Men Raping and Kidnapping Her Faces Zero Years in Prison
(tags: racism USA fraud rape OhForFucksSake )
‘Frankenstein’ Manuscript Shows the Evolution of Mary Shelley’s Monster
(tags: history scifi horror frankenstein writing )
Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights?
(tags: sleep materials )
How Girls and Women "Camouflage" Their Autism
(tags: autism women psychology society )
Counting to one million would take me 55 days. How about you?
(tags: numbers time viaElfy )
Being motivated doesn't increase your IQ test score
(tags: motivation iq Intelligence )
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A List Of Times Doctor Who Was Ruined Forever
(tags: drwho funny )
Scientists marvel at creatures' precise body clock
(tags: time genes life )
Taiwan woman divorces husband who ignored her messages
(tags: communication relationships divorce marriage )
Is Love Racist? The TV show laying our biases bare
(tags: love relationships viaSwampers race uk )
Custos startup uses bitcoin bounties to make pirates rat on one another
(tags: piracy copyright bitcoin )
UK students should not try to pay off loans early
(tags: tax students uk )
Pay-per-mile road tax plan wins £250,000 Wolfson economics prize
(tags: tax cars transport economics viaSwampers )
Humans hardwired to lean to the right while kissing the world over
(tags: psychology romance kissing )
Manchester’s bike-share scheme isn't working – because people don't know how to share
(tags: sharing society bicycles UK manchester )
Flow battery developer ViZn Energy says it can pair solar and storage for 4¢/kWh
(tags: solarpower batteries electricity )
Generating random English place names
(tags: geography names AI England )
Doctor Who: We regret to inform you that you are still legally a man
(tags: drwho law lgbt transgender uk )
“Board game of the year” goes to Kingdomino (my copy arrives today!)
(tags: games )
A brain implant turns “loser” mice into aggressive fighters
(tags: mice brain aggression personality cyborg )
Programmers discuss "What's the worst thing your code has done?"
(tags: fail programming )
Smoking in the UK now down to 15%, government aims for 12%
(tags: smoking uk )
Advertising watchdog to get tough on gender stereotypes
(tags: advertising stereotypes gender uk )
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