Entries tagged with monarchy

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Interesting Links for 16-11-2024

1. LinkMachineGo - a collection of interesting links (I get regular things from them): (tags:links )
2. Why is London's phone signal so bad? (Central Edinburgh is also really bad): (tags:phones epicfail london )
3. Six inane arguments about Electric Vehicles and how to handle them at the dinner table: (tags:electricity cars transport myths )
4. Revealed: the property empires that make Charles and William millions (They pay no inheritence tax, capital gains or corporation tax and do not have to comply with property laws such as compulsory purchase orders.): (tags:uk tax monarchy OhForFucksSake )
5. I just found over 200 of my Twitter friends on BlueSky by installing "Sky Bridge" in my browser and letting it match based on username/display name.: (tags:socialnetworking twitter )
6. Israel's war conduct in Gaza "is consistent with the characteristics of genocide," including mass civilian casualties and using starvation as a weapon, UN Special Committee finds: (tags:Israel Gaza WarCrimes )
7. Valve gets the original Half-Life 2 development team back together for a huge 20th anniversary update—and the game is now free for the weekend on Steam: (tags:games half-life history )

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Interesting Links for 24-05-2024

1. New pylons to be installed across the UK in National Grid's £30bn green upgrade: (tags:uk electricity infrastructure )
2. For whom Good Omens is being written: (tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett alzheimers TV writing )
3. Football Association resists government pressure to change its transgender inclusion policy: (tags:football UK transgender LGBT GoodNews sports )
4. The next food marketing blitz is aimed at people on new weight-loss drugs: (tags:food weight drugs )
5. Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking for first time in US: (tags:marijuana alcohol usa )
6. The Suit Died, but for Good Reasons: (tags:history clothing UK monarchy class USA )
7. Managers - what are they good for?: (tags:management engineering software )
8. Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue: (tags:Reddit Google ai OhForFucksSake safety advice headline epicfail )

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Interesting Links for 11-03-2024

1. Children with lazy eyes at higher risk of developing diabetes, heart disease and other serious health conditions later in life: (tags:disease eyes heart )
2. Plastic Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques From Clogged Arteries (increases risk of strokes and heart attacks more than 4x): (tags:plastic heart stroke disease doom )
3. Really in-depth look at the past, present and future of Moore's Law: (tags:technology history thefuture cpu processor )
4. Princess of Wales: Kate image withdrawn by four news agencies amid manipulation concerns: (tags:monarchy UK fraud photo )
5. "This is just weird": BuzzFeed News' former royals reporter on Kate Middleton, Palace PR, and distrust in the media: (tags:journalism monarchy conspiracy UK )
6. "AI gives the news you need" (a short story): (tags:ai short_story scifi )
7. CaltonHillitus - this chronic condition affects hundreds of photographers.: (tags:photography photos edinburgh )
8. Lead in gasoline blunted IQ of half the U.S. population, study says: (tags:lead Intelligence usa )
9. LocaLSend - Share files to nearby devices. Free, open-source, cross-platform. (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android): (tags:sharing Technology )
10. One quarter of adult children estranged from a parent: (tags:children parents )
11. Single dose of LSD provides immediate, lasting anxiety relief: (tags:anxiety lsd )

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Interesting Links for 08-05-2023

1. Would William the Conqueror recognise the coronation of Charles III: (tags:monarchy history UK )
2. Sailing boat rescued by 18th century East India merchant ship: (tags:ships weird viaPatrickHadfield )

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Interesting Links for 07-05-2023

1. Sad that Edinburgh Lib Dem councillors voted for monarchy: (tags:Edinburgh monarchy politics )
2. Why you want writers on-set when you're filming: (tags:writing TV movies )
3. How to paint a realistic dog. (A very patient one, from the look on its face): (tags:dogs funny art video )
4. Writer memes: (tags:meme writing funny )

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Interesting Links for 06-05-2023

1. For the first time ever, the Green Party run an English council: (tags:politics green uk england )
2. the bumbling WW2 German espionage attempt that was stopped in its tracks at Edinburgh's Waverley Station: (tags:wwii history spying germany uk viaDanielDWilliam )
3. Is there anything finer than watching the Conservatives descending into civil war?: (tags:conservatives politics )
4. The Harmful Side Effect of Cleaning Up the Ocean: (tags:ocean waste cleaning life )
5. If you can't fart in front of your partner, what the hell are you doing together?: (tags:relationships )
6. Science Fiction Movie Lettering: (tags:movies scifi font )
7. Babylon 5 animated movie on the way: (tags:movies Babylon5 animation )
8. Essays on Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies: (tags:movies font scifi viaFanf )
9. Waymo are running a successful driverless taxi service. Why is it expanding so slowly?: (tags:driving automation business )
10. Republican protesters being arrested ahead of coronation: (tags:monarchy protests OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 03-05-2023

1. Duke of Edinburgh: Edinburgh council urged not to recognise Royal pair's 'illegitimate' titles: (tags:edinburgh monarchy )
2. Keir Starmer breaks another pledge - this time on scrapping university tuition fees: (tags:labour university fees tuition )
3. How do people feel about bill-splitting in restaurants?: (tags:money friendship )
4. Brain Activity Decoder Can Reveal Stories in People's Minds: (tags:neuroscience brain stories )
5. Why can you use the 60+ Oyster card as voter ID, but not the 18+ Student Oyster card?: (tags:IDCards uk )
6. AI chatbots pass next intelligence milestone after researchers fail to find a single AI that would vote for Brexit: (tags:ai uk europe funny viaMyBrotherHugh )
7. Lothian Buses Service change from Sunday 28 May (some pretty major changes, including my bus no longer going home->work): (tags:buses edinburgh transport )

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Interesting Links for 12-01-2023

1. What are the numbers on trans use of NHS maternity services?: (tags:lgbt transgender childbirth )
2. Why Harry and Meghan might be the best people to move the conversation about the monarchy on, even if they aren't the best people: (tags:monarchy society )
3. Happy 10th anniversary Spiders Georg!: (tags:statistics funny meme )
4. What if the Open Gaming License didn't actually give you anything?: (tags:law intellectual_property copyright games dungeonsanddragons )
5. Hey, New Mom, Have You Considered Relaxing?: (tags:mother parenting children funny )
6. Tracing the "Tree Swing" design/delivery cartoons back to their origin (in the 70s!): (tags:design history technology )
7. Removing a prominent, polarizing individual can reduce the toxicity of online discourse: Evidence from President Trump's Account Deletion: (tags:politics discussion socialnetworking abuse )
8. Tolkien as a gateway author: (tags:Tolkien reading books )

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Interesting Links for 18-09-2022

1. Probably the best customer service email in the history of mankind: (tags:bakery food customerservice funny )
2. Research into who is in The Queue: (tags:Queen death polls )
3. If we don't get rid of the monarchy then can we at least get rid of its privileges?: (tags:monarchy law UK )
4. Labour MP Clive Lewis breaks ranks to criticise monarchist lies: (tags:monarchy politics uk )
5. Women's software contributions are accepted more often. Unless people can tell that they're from women: (tags:gender bias software )
6. American Dark Money, the Mercers and the Conservative Party: A Network of Influence: (tags:money conservatives )
7. Border conflict between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. I wonder about general destabilisation in the region: (tags:viaDanielDWilliam )
8. 18 incredible Edinburgh buildings we can't believe were demolished: (tags:Edinburgh history architecture viaDanielDWilliam )

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Links (Interesting (Catch-up)) for the 14th September 2022

1. The Monarchy and The Union: A Symbiotic Relationship?: (tags:scotland uk monarchy polls viaDanielDWilliam )
2. Why the broadcast of the Accession Council was informative and significant: (tags:constitution law uk monarchy government history scotland )
3. Scots law on breaches of the peace: (tags:law Scotland protests )
4. Center Parcs has won the stupid grief Olympics!: (tags:Queen death EpicStupidity OhForFucksSake holidays )
5. What's going on with the European gas market, and where will it go next?: (tags:gas Europe Russia economics )
6. What Is Existential Therapy?: (tags:Therapy psychology Life ViaDrCross )
7. I had never heard of Scotland's Pillar Box War (over Elizabeth's regnal number): (tags:monarchy Scotland UK violence viaSwampers )
8. How many trans kids should there be in the UK?: (tags:transgender LGBT UK )
9. Compare How Mark Buckingham Completely Redrew Miracleman Silver Age: (tags:Miracleman art comics )
10. When Depeche Mode took intimate photos for a fan: (tags:music photos DepecheMode history )
11. Harper's coverage of the Queen's death is just perfect: (tags:viaSwampers queen death uk )
12. 2022 Russian businessmen mystery death list: (tags:russia death murder viaDanielDWilliam )