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1. The Strange Logic of Germany's Antisemitism Bureaucrats: (tags:Germany Jews bigotry Islam Palestine )
2. The remarkably unlikely story of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane: (tags:history war Spain UK navy politics )
3. Brits would vote to rejoin EU in new referendum, 59:41: (tags:UK Europe polls )
4. J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk Named in Imane Khelif's Cyberbullying Lawsuit: (tags:jkrowling ElonMusk bullying Olympics bigotry transgender LGBT )
5. 6% of people suffering during the ADHD medication shortage report losing their jobs: (tags:adhd jobs OhForFucksSake medication )
6. Edinburgh Trams staff back strike action over lack of toilet breaks: (tags:Edinburgh trams strike toilets )
7. Some companies aren't happy about their adverts appearing under far-right hate posts on X.: (tags:twitter bigotry advertising )
8. Dealing with Time in the Roman Calendar Is A Nightmare: (tags:Rome time date history wtf viaFanf )
9. Israeli Army Uses Palestinian Civilians to Inspect Potentially Booby-trapped Tunnels in Gaza: (tags:Israel Palestine WarCrimes OhForFucksSake )

1. How war between Russia and the Olympics is fuelling boxing's gender row: (tags:gender sports olympics russia )
2. Watch Carbon Dioxide Move Through Earth's Atmosphere: (tags:co2 visualisation video )
3. BBC removing Huw Edwards from family and entertainment content (The Dr Who episode his voice was in will be redubbed): (tags:bbc pedophilia drwho )
4. What Happens in a Mind That Can't 'See' Mental Images (a brief history of aphantasia): (tags:psychology vision imagination )
5. The nature of consciousness, and how to enjoy it while you can: (tags:consciousness )
6. A brief explanation of why the Japanese currency markets are causing issues right now: (tags:economics investing Doom video )
7. Dinosaurs Did Not Trudge Through Thick Rainforests: (tags:trees dinosaurs )
8. OpenAI has the tech to watermark ChatGPT text—it just won't release it: (tags:ai )
9. The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media: (tags:socialmedia decentralisation )
10. Chrome is about to make it harder to block ads. I recommend switching to Firefox.: (tags:advertising chrome web OhForFucksSake )
11. Three different approaches to the problem of disposable plastic: (tags:plastic environment waste )

1. Butterflies accumulate enough static electricity to attract pollen: (tags:electricity butterflies )
2. Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?: (tags:UK history names location video )
3. Neil Gaiman Sexual Assault Link Round Up and Timeline: (tags:neilgaiman assault )
4. A bit more context on the Olympic shooting competition.: (tags:olympics guns )
5. The massive transphobic fuss over Imane Khelif seems to lead back to...Russian corruption.: (tags:russia corruption bigotry lgbt transgender OhForFucksSake sports olympics )
6. "We ran out of columns" - The best, worst codebase: (tags:software development )
7. What happened to the swans in St Margaret's Loch (in Holyrood Park): (tags:swans disease Edinburgh Scotland death )
8. How to visualise (and display) incredibly long periods of time. The vast sparseness of the visualisation is overwhelming.: (tags:time visualisation )
9. Olympic women's boxing eligibility controversy is a reminder of the harm in trusting bad faith actors: (tags:Olympics bigotry Russia )

1. Olympics to ban literally every athlete in order to avoid controversy around competitors with 'genetic advantages': (tags:genetics olympics satire )
2. Seven things to know before forming an opinion on boxing's Olympics gender row: (tags:gender Olympics sports )
3. Thousands of unused affordable homes sitting empty because housing associations can't afford to take them on: (tags:housing UK OhForFucksSake )
4. Fully-automatic robot dentist performs world's first human procedure: (tags:dental automation )
5. The Untold Story of How Ridley Scott Saw 'Star Wars'—and Ended Up Making 'Alien': (tags:movies StarWars history alien RidleyScott )
6. Cycling trips on Leith Walk double - 9% of trips are now by bike: (tags:cycling Edinburgh Scotland transport )
7. Digital Apartheid in Gaza: Unjust Content Moderation at the Request of Israel's Cyber Unit: (tags:Israel Palestine socialmedia )
8. Old News, New Reality: A Year of Meta's News Ban in Canada: (tags:Facebook news Doom )
9. The Emperor Claudius and the eclipse on his 54th birthday: (tags:Rome eclipse history )
10. What are Labour and the Tories talking about on tax in the UK?: (tags:tax UK Labour conservatives )

In A Sports World Segregated By Gender, Figure Skating Has Often Blurred Those Lines: (tags:sports gender history )
One in three Americans have high levels of toxic weed-killing chemical in their bodies: (tags:usa hormones toxic pesticide )
COVID-19 takes serious toll on heart health—a full year after recovery: (tags:pandemic heart )
Underwater Photographer of the Year winner revealed: (tags:photography water viacmcmck )
How hard it is to get to Mars—and then to live there (very): (tags:mars spacex space )
Chalk drum from 5,000 years ago is the most important UK art find in a century: (tags:uk prehistory archaeology art )
A villain of Twitter: Redeemed!: (tags:Twitter reading pubs alcohol books )
Researchers confirm newly developed inhaled vaccine delivers broad protection against SARS-CoV-2, variants of concern: (tags:Pandemic vaccine GoodNews )
UK exports to EU plunge £20bn in first full year after Brexit: (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
Two former legal directors of the EHRC point out that it's draft guidance is unlawful: (tags:law LGBT transgender UK rights )
YouTube's Olympics Highlights Are Riddled With Propaganda: (tags:China Olympics propaganda YouTube )

I think these people have opened a door into the void. Or the elemental plane of storms. Either way: don't!: (tags:weather video )
Government passed over 171 candidates to pick Bullingdon Club 'chum' of Boris Johnson for sleaze watchdog role: (tags:corruption conservatives BorisJohnson )
The 60s. When gay men married gay women and they all raised kids together. (In case you needed reminding this has been going on forever): (tags:LGBT family history )
Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment: (tags:gold Olympics recycling materials Japan )
Linus Torvalds gives a talk on why desktop Linux sucks: (tags:Linux video linustorvalds )
These states cut unemployment aid early to supercharge hiring. It isn't working.: (tags:welfare pandemic economics work )
'Lord of the Rings' Amazon Series Sets Premiere Date - and releases its first image: (tags:lotr amazon tv )
Scotland's growing sewage spill problem: (tags:waste water scotland )
Big tech companies are at war with their employees over remote work: (tags:Technology work )
Pelicans eating things they shouldn't!: (tags:birds food )
The Green Knight has a roleplaying game that's giving me flashbacks to my youth!: (tags:roleplaying movies fantasy )
A map of culture values. Which countries go together?: (tags:maps society )
I just discovered that Tom Bombadil was a playable unit in the Battle For Middle Earth computer game!: (tags:games lotr video WTF )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4067865.html

FactCheck: What's behind the UK vaccination slowdown?: (tags:UK vaccination )
China is building nuclear weapons. Here's why.: (tags:nuclearweapons China )
Electric cars have much lower life cycle emissions: (tags:co2 cars manufacturing )
How transphobes read Pratchett as being on their side: (tags:LGBT transgender terrypratchett )
Google encouraged employees who experienced harassment/assault to use their mental health benefits, then pressured counselors to provide records of their sessions to use in court when those employees filed lawsuits: (tags:Google assault harassment OhForFucksSake )
Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. Some were actively unhelpful: (tags:ai pandemic epicfail )
IOC admits guidelines for transgender athletes are not fit for purpose: (tags:LGBT transgender olympics )
Amanda Knox: Who Owns My Name?: (tags:murder corruption lies media TV movies OhForFucksSake )
The Winged Labrys - a pin designed for inclusive sapphic people: (tags:LGBT transgender lesbian design )
Tory chairman Ben Elliot sold access to his uncle Prince Charles: (tags:conservatives royalty money corruption UK )
10 iconic logos. 156 Americans. 80 hours of drawing from memory.: (tags:marketing design memory viaElfy )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4067583.html

New 'Alien' TV Series Will Be Class Warfare With Xenomorphs (from the showrunner of Fargo): (tags:TV aliens )
Scottish Greens say SQA teaching benefits of climate change: (tags:globalwarming scotland Education )
Loch Ness falls to lowest water level in five years: (tags:LochNess scotland water )
Here's what a Falcon 9 looks like after 8 flights to space in a year: (tags:space recycling Spacex )
Drop-in vaccination clinics to open across mainland Scotland: (tags:Scotland vaccination pandemic )
Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Enable the IRS to fight tax evasion: (tags:tax USA )
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs have made themselves a home in Fukushima's exclusion zone: (tags:pigs radiation Japan headline )
What *is* classic liberalism?: (tags:politics history liberal )
Apps with 5.8 million Google Play downloads stole users' Facebook passwords: (tags:Facebook passwords apps android )
Queer readings of The Lord of the Rings are not accidents: (tags:LGBT lotr history )
Two more cis Black women banned from Olympics for their natural testosterone levels: (tags:women testosterone Olympics OhForFucksSake )
The Gulf of Mexico is on fire: (tags:Mexico sea fire oil )
High Court backs trans women being housed in women's prisons: (tags:LGBT transgender women prison UK )
A useful list of things that have to be explained in writing workshops: (tags:writing advice viaFJM )
English school planning on abusing children: (tags:school abuse UK OhForFucksSake )
When a nerd has a pH monitoring capsule implanted, what else are they going to do but intercept the signals and try to decode them?: (tags:hacks radio technology medicine )
Driver shortage crisis: Major suppliers axe deliveries: (tags:transport UK Europe Doom )
This mudslide in Japan is terrifying: (tags:earth Japan terrifying video )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4056689.html

Jeremy Hunt says Covid restrictions should stay until cases fall to 1,000 a day: (tags:pandemic UK )
"How King's College Hospital Cured My Depression" (psilocybin works!): (tags:psilocybin mentalhealth depression research )
The graph of unintelligible languages is acyclic: (tags:visualisation language )
Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders: (tags:cancer faeces immune_system )
Denmark to build world's first wind energy island in the North Sea to power millions of homes: (tags:Denmark windpower )
American Mothers, On the Brink (I assume British mothers are much the same): (tags:work pandemic stress women mother children parenting )
Indyref2 case dismissed as 'hypothetical' by court: (tags:Scotland independence law )
iPhone's Adult Content Filter Blocks Anything 'Asian': (tags:OhForFucksSake porn iPhone censorship epicfail )
On sport, endogenous testosterone, and transgender participation in sport: (tags:sports olympics testosterone transgender LGBT )
The sound that connects Stravinsky to Bruno Mars (and dominated the 80s): (tags:video music history viaSwampers )
An eloquent takedown of people who try to hide their bullying behind "Only joking": (tags:sexism video jokes humour bullying )
Cambridge Analytica psychologist advising Covid19 disinformation network: (tags:pandemic lies OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3996081.html

No, trans women do not have an advantage in sport: (tags:sports Olympics women LGBT transgender )
MEPs adopt a resolution condemning the current approach to tax havens as ineffective: (tags:tax Europe )
The seditionists are now quoting Tolkien in their ridiculous legal cases: (tags:law USA coup funny WTF Tolkien lotr )
JMS remembers Mira Furlan: (tags:obituary Babylon5 acting Yugoslavia jms )
Get ready for 'Long Brexit': (tags:UK Europe Doom trade )
15 ideas to make Britain better: (tags:UK advice viaPatrickHadfield )
Pink seesaws at US-Mexico wall win design award: (tags:Mexico USA borders art viaJane )
Apparently you need a £180 certificate to send £20 of cheese to Europe: (tags:Europe UK trade food Doom )
Johann Hari spreads dangerous lies. I wish I was less surprised the Guardian supports him: (tags:dangerous mentalhealth johannhari guardian OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3988815.html

Ukip Appeared On A Quarter Of All Question Time Shows Since May 2010: (tags: UKIP media UK OhForFucksSake )
Shame about Netflix’s ‘Altered Carbon’: (tags: review scifi )
New studies zero in on roots of depression and why ketamine reverses it: (tags: depression ketamine )
How a carb-restricted diet battles fatty liver disease: (tags: carbohydrates )
Link between hallucinations and dopamine not such a mystery: (tags: hallucinations dopamine )
In Switzerland, it's now illegal to boil a live lobster: (tags: animals rights Switzerland )
Prominent Republican Donor Issues Ultimatum on Assault Weapons: (tags: guns republicans usa )
Cronenberg Valentines: (tags: DavidCronenberg valentines_day )
A Catfishing Story With a Happy Ending: (tags: relationships fraud happiness )
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England: (tags: Scotland uk england history )
Why Don't More Female Figure Skaters Wear Pants?: (tags: clothing Olympics sport women )
Body parts “fall asleep” in English. What about in other languages?: (tags: language )
‘Black Panther’ Is Not the Movie We Deserve: I also found it hard to cheer for monarchy. Particularly monarchy founded on trial by combat.
(tags: movies marvel race )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3661273.html

Boris Johnson talking 'total nonsense' about EU, European Commission president says: (tags: Europe uk )
Russia has threatened to block access to YouTube and Instagram if they don't remove posts that show a senior government official sailing on a yacht with a billionaire oligarch, who has links with the Trump campaign: (tags: Russia censorship corruption )
What If Men And Women Skied Against Each Other In The Olympics?: (tags: gender sports olympics competition snow winter )
You've always wanted Robocop Valentine's cards: (tags: movies valentines_day funny )
In Leaked Chats, Wikileaks Discusses Preference for GOP: (tags: politics JulianAssange usa wikileaks OhForFucksSake )
This kid shattering the top of a frozen trampoline with one perfect jump may be the most satisfying thing you'll see all day.: (tags: ice trampoline awesome video )
Travelodge overbooks its rooms!: (tags: hotel OhForFucksSake )
Norwegian women drink least while pregnant, British women drink most: (tags: alcohol pregnancy )
Feminist has a T: (tags: feminism lgbt transgender )
Magic Leap One Video – Diffractive Waveguides Confirmed: (tags: augmentedreality Technology )
The crow that could count higher than Clive: (tags: crows numbers )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3660450.html

Star Wars: Aftermath - Empire's End novel reveals fate of Jar Jar Binks: (tags: StarWars )
EE shows off helium balloon mobile masts: (tags: phones balloon internet )
The best anagrams in the English language: (tags: english analysis )
Guillermo del Toro Finally Admits Hellboy 3 Is Never Ever Happening: (tags: movies )
Online daters ignore wish list when choosing a match: (tags: relationships psychology )
Conservative MP visits Northern England, discovers that industry exists (or at least, used to): (tags: politics uk )
Game of Thrones stars filming in -25C temperatures, and 100mph winds: (tags: gameofthrones weather snow )
Number of Women Protagonists in Top 100 Films Climbed to 29% in 2016: (tags: viaElfy women movies )
Teen suicide attempts fell as same-sex marriage became legal: (tags: lgbt marriage suicide GoodNews )
Paralyzed Man Uses Brain Implant to Type Eight Words per Minute: (tags: Technology brain writing )
US Customs block gay Canadian man after reading his dating profile: (tags: lgbt relationships usa immigration canada )
WW2 bomb find halts Portsmouth ferry and train travel: (tags: history explosives wwii )
As a higher-rate tax payer, I'm delighted that I'll be paying more in Scotland than I would in England/Wales: (tags: tax scotland )
Pro-Putin Twitterbots are now pushing out anti-UKIP/pro-Labour tweets: (tags: twitter propaganda labour russia wtf )
What abandoned Olympic venues look like today: (tags: olympics )
35-Year-Old Downloads The Sims to Play Out Home Ownership Fantasy: (tags: housing games fantasy )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3554658.html

Diets avoiding dry-cooked foods can protect against diabetes: (tags: cooking food diabetes )
Housebuilding slows despite growing shortage of homes: (tags: housing uk )
Microsoft Excel blamed for gene study errors: (tags: genetics research OhForFucksSake )
Stupid Questions Asked by Journalists #1: What won't Meat Loaf do for love?: (tags: music journalism fail )
Librarians show off their elite sorting skills in 'synchronised shelving' video: (tags: viaSwampers library funny olympics video )
We need to talk about why Kevin can't get a girlfriend: (tags: OhForFucksSake conspiracy relationships mentalhealth )
The brain uses backward instant replays to remember important travel routes (in rats): (tags: travel brain rats )
Rudy Van Gelder, Audio Engineer Who Helped Define Sound of Jazz on Record, Dies at 91: (tags: music history )
Dexmo exoskeleton glove lets you touch and feel in VR: (tags: VirtualReality Technology )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3497785.html

Britain’s Hardest Workers: the most gobsmacking reality TV show to date: (tags: work tv poverty )
What kind of game is No Man's Sky, and what kind of game is it not?: Framing is everything.
(tags: games space )
The Rio Games Were An Unjustifiable Human Disaster, And So Are The Olympics: (tags: olympics sport corruption inequality OhForFucksSake )
America’s First Offshore Wind Farm May Power Up a New Industry: (tags: wind windpower electricity usa )
Six ways to tackle the gender pay gap: (tags: gender pay money inequality viaSwampers )
Dragon Age Cosplay Is Better With Dogs: (tags: cosplay dogs viaSwampers )
Very cute programming game: (tags: game programming viaTheWeaselKing )
31 Essential Science Fiction Terms And Where They Came From: (tags: language scifi )
First study to explore language and LSD since the 1960s: (tags: language psychedelics lsd )
Secret Cameras Record Baltimore’s Every Move From Above: (tags: surveillance usa police )
Wasting time on the internet? There's a book for that: (tags: viaSwampers internet )
More than 400 Tb of live streaming were transferred during the Olympic Games Rio 2016 (In Brazil alone!): I wonder what percentage watched on TV vs over the internet.
(tags: video olympics Technology brazil internet )
Of kimono and cultural appropriation: (tags: japan cultural_appropriation )
Learning difficulties linked with winter conception: (tags: children time Intelligence weather )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3497404.html

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