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1. How Brexit has weakened the narratives of nationalist parties across the EU: (tags:UK Europe nationalism )
2. Banning make-up, short skirts and toilet breaks is allowing misogyny to run rife in our schools: (tags:school misogyny clothing girls )
3. Buried alive in elven armour - for art: (tags:lotr archeology art death )
4. Brexit Britain doesn't even make the long list for new manufacturing investment: (tags:UK Europe manufacturing investment Doom )
5. Neil Gaiman on what it was like writing with Terry Pratchett: (tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett writing )
6. Pulsars sometimes speed up because they're slowing down, because of quantum mechanics: (tags:astronomy stars quantum physics viaPatrickHadfield )
7. China's gay conversion camps: survivors tell of abuse, beatings, and electric shocks: (tags:abuse LGBT China OhForFucksSake )
8. Catholic Group Spends Millions on Dating App Data to Out Gay Priests: (tags:LGBT Catholic gay OhForFucksSake )
9. Believe it or not, the Amish are loving electric bikes: (tags:electricity bicycles Amish technology )
10. Victorian Vampire slaying kit complete with wooden stake and holy water set to fetch thousands at auction: (tags:history vampire auctions )

EU can shut off flow of data and 'slow down' UK exports in a Brexit trade war, Boris Johnson warned: (tags:europe uk trade doom )
Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, And It's Making Inflation Worse: (tags:trade shipping )
Scotland lockdown easing delayed by three weeks: (tags:scotland pandemic )
Two brief stories about The Muppet Movie: (tags:Muppets movies )
Pollen helps Covid spread further and faster: (tags:plants pandemic )
When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid from a Clamp, That's a Moray: (tags:headline fish )
How fairy tales start in different languages/cultures: (tags:culture stories )
Where does the "One Britain, One Nation" campaign come from?: (tags:UK nationalism )
How much has Brexit cost us so far, and how much is to come?: (tags:UK Europe trade economics )
I've never reached the end of my to-do list (or emails) - but I assume this is what happens when you do: (tags:todo comic funny )
Welsh Gov slaps down Westminster plan for children in Wales to celebrate 'One Britain One Nation Day': (tags:wales uk propaganda )
Croatian Wikipedia Disinformation Assessment-2021: (tags:croatia propaganda wikipedia )
Brexit: What if EU referendum were held today? Here's what the polls say: (tags:uk europe polls referendum )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4052811.html

Typewriter as musical instrument: (tags:music funny video )
How Lord of the Rings characters would react to you coming out as trans: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1356500602948210688.html
(tags:lotr funny transgender lgbt )
Would anyone like to look after my children for a month so I can play Mass Effect: Legendary Edition?: Overview of changes here: https://youtu.be/YdwafYDlXtU
(tags:games video trailer MassEffect )
Scalpers aren't the main reason you can't find a new console: (tags:economics consoles )
DUP aims to undermine Northern Ireland Protocol: (tags:UK NorthernIreland dup )
Students Enjoy Classes More And Get Better Grades If They Feel Their Professor Has Faith In Their Ability To Change And Improve: (tags:education psychology learning )
I found it! The stupidest plan for what Labour should do next: (tags:labour politics WTF OhForFucksSake nationalism )
Covid in Scotland: How much longer will lockdown last?: (tags:pandemic Scotland )
Why food sticks to center of nonstick pans: (tags:food cooking physics heat )
Fifteen-Hour Brexit Wait Prompts Freight Firms to Avoid U.K.: (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
No, Ireland is not economically United: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1356721295099129863.html
(tags:Ireland trade UK Europe )
Modding the Bernie Sanders Meme into a bunch of games: (tags:meme games video )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3994570.html

Ireland's mother and baby homes: 9,000 babies and children died in 18 mother and baby homes, report says - CNN: (tags:ireland history babies children death OhForFucksSake )
I did not realise how automated some production lines now are.: (tags:valve steam hardware automation factory )
Thousands of human teeth hidden inside a wall of dentist's office: (tags:teeth wtf )
A British wine importer on how much harder Brexit is making it to run a business: (tags:business trade UK Europe Doom wine )
German laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employee surveillance: (tags:surveillance privacy Europe rights )
Why this government may never regain the trust of the people: (tags:trust UK government viaDanielDWilliam )
'I was surprised by how clear it was' - Stunning photo of snowy Wales taken from Dublin: (tags:Ireland Wales photo )
If you have problems with masks and glasses fogging up then I recommend adhesive metal strip inserts which allow you to make the mask exactly fit your nose: (tags:pandemic glasses advice )
Mahatma Gandhi's killer venerated as Hindu nationalism resurges in India: (tags:India nationalism murder )
It's lit! How film finally learned to light black skin: (tags:race TV movies )
UK would be lucky to strike trade deal in Biden's first term, says former ambassador: (tags:trade USA UK )
The dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck Earth was unbelievably huge and fast (the best description I've ever read of it): (tags:viaMyBrotherMike dinosaurs asteroids extinction )
Every dinosaur may have been wiped out in a matter of hours: (tags:dinosaurs extinction apocalypse )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3986747.html

Anyone in Edinburgh want an a IT admin role and know both Windows and Linux?: (tags:Jobs Edinburgh computers Windows Linux )
The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture: (tags:colour sculpture history Roman greece racism )
How archeology is used for nationalism: (tags:archeology nationalism viaDanielDWilliam )
Old Government advert suggesting ballet dancer could retrain is one of several from 2019. The internet is still outraged, of course: https://mobile.twitter.com/eleanormia/status/1315586377703190528 for more of them.
(tags:advertising jobs anger technology )
Former Senate Majority Leader Confirms Federal Government Covered Up UFOs For Years: (tags:USA ufo )
Solar meets 100 percent of South Australia demand for first time: (tags:Australia solarpower )
You can buy these grapes, but there are a few rules you need to know first... (because they're patented): (tags:food rules OhForFucksSake patents )
U S. COVID Cases since June by state partisanship: (tags:ViaDrCross visualisation pandemic USA politics )
Scientists discover why mosquitoes are so attracted to human blood: (tags:blood mosquito )
Leaders Can Feel Licensed To Behave Badly When They Have Morally Upstanding Followers: (tags:psychology morality behaviour leadership )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3942648.html

Debugging Bluetooth butt plugs safely is tricky in a Covid world.: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1298096736095711232.html
(tags:sextoys bluetooth technology pandemic )
Have racists made singing along at the Last Night of The Proms racist?: (tags:racism nationalism uk music OhForFucksSake )
Prosopagnosia: The artist in search of her face: (tags:germany faces brain art children )
A Mechanist's Guide to the Coronavirus Genome (overwhelming, but the bits I picked up were fascinating: (tags:virus pandemic visualisation genes )
Humans are weird... in spaaaaaaace: (tags:scifi humans weird ViaDrCross )
Africa declared free of wild polio: (tags:disease Africa GoodNews )
I've discovered that almost every single article on the Scots version of Wikipedia is written by the same person - an American teenager who can't speak Scots: (tags:Scotland Wikipedia language OhForFucksSake )
Joint statement of the United States and the European Union on a tariff agreement: (tags:Europe USA trade )
Why do postal codes in the UK start with letters when compared with the USA zip codes?: (tags:mail location uk viaDanielDWilliam )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3918365.html

Quarantine baking: forget banana bread, here's how to make an IRN-BRU cheesecake: (tags:food Scotland viajoexnz )
Behind The Scenes Of YouTube's Secretive Top Kids Channel: I found this because I was wondering who created the videos Sophia loves
(tags:YouTube children business )
Second African locust swarm of the year 20 times bigger than the first: (tags:insects Doom Africa )
UK's coronavirus science advice won't be published until pandemic ends: (tags:Pandemic advice science UK viaSwampers )
This does a great job of explaining the American "civic religion" which looks so strange to most of the rest of the world: (tags:USA nationalism religion society )
Here's a police officer totally destroying any trust in police people might have, in full view of his colleagues: (tags:police corruption OhForFucksSake uk )
What most American liberals don't realize about Republican voters: (tags:politics USA society )
An overview of the damning Times investigation into how the government failed to take the pandemic seriously until far too late: (tags:Pandemic UK epicfail BorisJohnson )
Boris Johnson hasn't changed in 40 years: (tags:BorisJohnson OhForFucksSake )
Thinking of farming as "The food industry" is a mistake: (tags:farming food )
Just when Italy really needed some unity, the EU failed it - and continues to do so: (tags:Europe italy OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3883771.html

What are the equivalents of "once upon a time" in other cultures?: (tags:language culture fairytale stories )
Rehearsing for death: A pre-Kindergarten teacher on lockdown drills with 5 year olds: (tags:children school guns usa OhForFucksSake )
"I Lied When I Said We Did Everything We Could": (tags:healthcare death )
Why Rent Control Doesn't Work (Build More Housing!): (tags:housing economics )
Explaining why young men are having much less sex: (tags:sex men society )
Dundee in Scotland has the best statue anywhere.: (tags:Scotland statue games lemmings )
How poor public transport explains the UK's productivity puzzle: (tags:transport uk productivity fail )
Sleep, Diet & The Brain-Gut Connection: (tags:sleep diet carbohydrates )
People Who View Their Britishness or Englishness As "Causally Central" To Their Self-Concept Are More Likely to Have Voted For Brexit: (tags:uk europe nationalism )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3780077.html

If you work at a university, here's why you should join the strike: (tags: UK university strike pensions )
Cognitive decline sets in at 45. (Ban old people from voting!): (tags: age Intelligence )
Please, please stop saying that "Autistic people lack empathy": (tags: autism empathy OhForFucksSake )
For 1300 years Europeans thought that Queen Bees were Kings. Here's how that changed: (tags: science gender bees history society patriarchy )
‘Black Panther': choose your weapons.: (tags: weapons marvel movies )
If you look at the economics, it's completely reasonable for university lecturers to strike over pension changes: (tags: pensions regulation academia uk strike )
Genetic contribution to neuroticism associated with affluence, health, longevity: (tags: genetics emotion psychology success health money )
A 19th-century painting of Narnia - or as close as we can get: (tags: narnia CSLewis art history oxford uk )
i agree with Nigel Farage: (tags: politics borders nationalism )
Starlings Obscure Sky Over Rome in Dystopic Viral Photo: (tags: birds Rome italy )
What is the evolutionary purpose of having periods?: (tags: menstruation evolution humans )
How poverty changes your mind-set: (tags: poverty psychology )
What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures: (tags: globalwarming OhForFucksSake arctic ice )
How Gun Laws Could Change Even If Republicans Don’t Embrace Restrictions: (tags: usa guns )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3663465.html

Sex education to be made compulsory in all schools in England: (tags: sex Education uk )
Tactical voting not big issue in Holyrood's 2016 election: (tags: voting scotland )
Trump’s Speech Was Quiet — And Quietly Radical: (tags: politics usa economics healthcare immigration )
Alien: Covenant Set Visit Report from the Filming in Australia: (tags: alien movies RidleyScott )
NASA Asks Twitter Users To Name Those Newly Discovered Planets. The Inevitable Happens.: (tags: names space funny viaSwampers )
Edinbugh's Leith Street to be shut for 44 weeks in 2017/2018: That's my route into work, that is.
(tags: edinburgh transport )
Lost Edinburgh: Comparing then and now: (tags: photos history edinburgh )
Our Universe is too vast for even the most imaginative sci-fi: (tags: space scifi writing viaSwampers )
Anarchist Monopoly is the best Monopoly: (tags: games politics economics comic funny )
Corbyn actively works with May to force through hard Brexit: (tags: uk europe labour OhForFucksSake )
Intestinal bacteria alter gut and brain function: (tags: anxiety microbiome faeces )
After Brexit: Jean-Claude Juncker sets five paths for EU's future: (tags: europe thefuture )
Scottish nationalism and British nationalism aren’t the same: (tags: nationalism scotland uk politics )
Over half of new-build homes in England have major faults: (tags: housing uk OhForFucksSake )
Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Fast-Charging, Noncombustible Batteries (with three times the capacity): But aimed, from the description, at cars rather than phones. When a phone that lasted three days would get _all_ of my money.
(tags: batteries )
Police are writing off crimes because they are so overstretched, damning report reveals: (tags: police uk austerity )
Theresa May's welfare cuts will drive another million children into poverty, Institute for Fiscal Studies forecasts: (tags: austerity poverty children Conservatives uk )
Journalists publicly mock Emma Watson’s breasts – therefore proving her point about feminism: (tags: feminism breasts journalism OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3556793.html

The lakes of the world are disappearing – in pictures: (tags: globalwarming industrial water geography )
The Reality Behind Magic Leap: (tags: augmentedreality )
Arnold Schwarzenegger: I am not a self-made man: (tags: advice society Arnold_Schwarzenegger inspiration )
'Everyone I owe favours to died 700 years ago,' says one peer as the House of Lords rejects reforming itself: (tags: houseoflords politics reform fail )
New and improved: Syphilis makes comeback with unexpected drug resistance: (tags: sex disease )
UW engineers achieve Wi-Fi at 10,000 times lower power: (tags: wifi power Technology viaFanf )
The Lost Art of Painting on Cobweb Canvases: (tags: spiders art history )
California man spent $1 million playing Game of War: (tags: games money crime )
There’s such a thing as collective narcissism (and it might explain a lot that’s going on at the moment): (tags: psychology narcissism nationalism )
The best review on Amazon (NSFW): (tags: sex dogs funny nsfw )
Let your kids lose: Success inhibits preschoolers’ ability to establish selective trust: (tags: children psychology trust parenting )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3532826.html

This "Proud To Be British" Hoodie On Amazon Has A Small Apostrophe Problem: (tags: funny english punctuation nationalism )
Thinking of loved ones lessens our need to 'reconnect' through anthropomorphism: (tags: people psychology )
Robot tractors 'could help solve post-Brexit farm worker shortage': (tags: automation farming uk )
Nanobionic spinach plants can detect explosives: (tags: explosions nanotech plants Technology )
Modernist British safety posters from the middle of the 20th century.: (tags: safety design uk )
8 Sex Positive Things You Can Say To Your Kids That Have Nothing To Do With Sex: (tags: sex children parenting viaSwampers )
Livejournal finally gets "Like" functionality: (tags: livejournal )
Sharia councils treat Muslim women unfairly: (tags: islam women divorce religion uk )
Women running for office are judged on competence more harshly than men: (tags: politics gender )
Three low-carb meals within 24 hours lowers post-meal insulin resistance by more than 30 percent: (tags: diet insulin )
Sexual pleasure is a kind of trance: Orgasm is all about rhythmic timing: (tags: neuroscience psychology brain sex orgasm dancing )
Airline introduces child-free zones on all its flights: (tags: airplanes children )
On the Science of Changing Sex (loads of fascinating information): (tags: sex gender psychology science )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3520348.html

The SNP's foxhunting gambit will strengthen EVEL. (I suspect that's been the SNP's plan all along)
- (tags: Scotland snp voting )
Green Party set to take 10 seats from Labour in next year's Scottish Parliament election
- (tags: Scotland Labour GreenParty )
There is no correct way to talk about autism
- (tags: autism language )
Potential of blue LEDs as novel chemical-free food preservation technology
- (tags: food led )
‘RoboCop vs. The Terminator’ Is The Greatest Crossover Of All Time.
- Back when Frank Miller was a solid, fun writer. Aah, them were the days.
- (tags: terminator robocop comics )
Rape Crisis has 'concerns' over smartphone app which films sexual consent
- (tags: consent sex video phone )
There has been no rise in Scottish nationalism
- (tags: Scotland nationalism snp independence )
The UK's youngest MP made a fantastic first speech
- (tags: Scotland snp austerity politics UK )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3312360.html

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3182813.html

Could David Cameron call an early election? (No, he really couldn't)
(tags: elections uk politics )
National pride brings happiness, but what you're proud of matters
(tags: pride happiness nationalism patriotism )
Stress in early pregnancy can lead to shorter pregnancies and fewer baby boys
(tags: stress pregnancy children )
What would a Higgs boson at 125 GeV tell us?
(tags: higgs physics )
More fibre-optic roll-out updates - finally coming to my bit of Edinburgh (and most of the rest)!
(tags: internet isp bt fibreoptics broadband )
2011's Best Smartphones
(tags: MobilePhones apple nokia Android motorola microsoft )
The generation who don't believe in copyright are here.
(tags: copyright youtube media remix law )
Horrible (and terribly funny) Greetings Cards
(tags: cards TheOatmeal funny )
The music for the "You wouldn't steal a handbag.." anti-piracy ad is....used without permission!
(tags: copyright piracy music EpicFail )
Police test riot laser that can temporarily blind
(tags: police riots laser blind )
Unbreakable - photos of those who were abused holding the words their attackers said.
(tags: rape photographs )
Disappearance of the elephant caused rise of modern humans
(tags: elephants humans middle_east evolution )
Study debunks myths about gender and math performance
(tags: gender mathematics )
Modern Warfare 3 hits the $1bn mark in record time - faster than any movie
(tags: ComputerGames CallOfDuty money )
The projects Metallica considered before "Lulu"
(tags: metallica funny webcomic )
Shadowcasting in Rogue-like games.
(tags: rogue games )
A short history of tool use.
Oh Brave New World, that has such tools in it.
(tags: tools scifi webcomic )
On the trail of the offshore tax dodgers
(tags: tax uk )
Livejournal to do away with subject line in comments
(tags: livejournal )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2599188.html

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