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1. The UK's last coal power station is closing at the end of this month: (tags:coal power electricity uk GoodNews environment )
2. More than 20% of people who get Covid take more than 90 days to recover: (tags:pandemic )
3. "I made a documentary about Zelensky - he is funny, fascinating and ruthless": (tags:Ukraine TV interview documentary )
4. "Debilitating a Generation": Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans: (tags:pandemic doom )
5. Evidence for sugar addiction: Behavioral and neurochemical effects of intermittent, excessive sugar intake: (tags:sugar addiction )
6. Ukrainian drones now spray 2,500° C thermite streams right into Russian trenches: (tags:drone Russia Ukraine war )
7. Amazon tells delivery drivers they can't sing along to music (or move their lips too much): (tags:driving music amazon dystopia OhForFucksSake )

1. Seismologists were able to identify 43 of the 45 songs at a Taylor Swift concert by the earth movements they caused: (tags:music earthquake )
2. The NICE evidence reviews on trans affirming care look very very suspicious: (tags:healthcare research transgender NHS OhForFucksSake )
3. Edinburgh buses produce £3.2 million dividend for councils for first time since Covid (and back to 90% of pre-Covid passenger levels): (tags:buses Edinburgh GoodNews transport )
4. New post-Brexit tariff to apply to UK cars sold to Canada: (tags:Canada tax UK trade doom )
5. It's 2029. How do you instruct an LLM to power the world?: (tags:scifi power ai )
6. Covid, lab leaks, and raccoon dogs. What does the evidence say, and how should we think about it?: (tags:pandemic statistics )
7. Russell T. Davies on Why Doctor Who's Disney Partnership Is So Important: (tags:drwho TV Disney RusselTDavies )

1. After spending 20 years simulating reality, the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used to a new one: being millionaires: (tags:games usa business money )
2. A guide to Christmas, for Jews who haven't encountered it before: (tags:satire Jews Christmas religion funny )
3. The Whispering Earring, a warning about letting AI do all of your thinking for you: (tags:short_story FreeWill fantasy ai )
4. Women in the UK Are Being Denied Medical Treatment Because They're Virgins: (tags:virginity healthcare UK OhForFucksSake )
5. The NHS has more funding and staff now than in 2019. But is treating less people. Because Covid.: (tags:NHS Pandemic Doom UK healthcare viaDanielDWilliam )
6. "All I Want For Christmas Is Creep" - a glorious cover version/mashup: (tags:music Christmas video )
7. The Snowman at 40: 'It's a story about loss': (tags:Christmas snow TV children )
8. England joins Scotland and Wales in banning plastic cutlery, plates, etc.: (tags:plastic waste uk )
9. A guide to potential liability pitfalls for people running a Mastodon instance: (tags:law regulation socialnetworking mastodon )
10. Major Scottish subsea power cable projects approved: (tags:power electricity infrastructure scotland )
11. Edinburgh University students block lecture hall to stop screening of transphobic film: (tags:edinburgh university bigotry lgbt transgender )
12. Recreating the Argonath from the Lord of the Ring in VR: (tags:lotr video virtualreality )

(3) Nobody has ever had as much fun at a party as these two are having at this party: (tags:funny video dogs children )
Bigoted BBC journalists are making malicious complaints: (tags:BBC LGBT transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake )
Second ground-breaking antiviral to be deployed to UK's most vulnerable people: (tags:virus medicine Pandemic GoodNews )
"There is something wrong with my arse and I'm tired of having to take photos of it": (tags:healthcare UK funny photography )
Why on earth would the Metropolitan Police ask Sue Gray to redact key parts of her independent report?: (tags:police party BorisJohnson )
A Fractal of Lies (a tale of sex, lies, and academia): (tags:research lies sociology sex work power psychology )
Crypto Co-Founder Revealed to Be Infamous Fraudster: (tags:blockchain fraud )
UK government finds a way to make unemployment even worse: (tags:unemployment UK OhForFucksSake work viaPatrickHadfield )
Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young in boycotting Spotify over their spreading of harmful lies: (tags:Pandemic music lies )
How the Nazis burned the first library that did research into LGBT lives: (tags:LGBT history transgender research Nazis censorship )
How much work do people really get done?: (tags:work working_hours )
The Arecibo Signal in Townscaper is the geekiest thing I've seen in some time. I love it: (tags:space games )

Anansi Boys TV show under way: (tags:TV neilgaiman )
Here's a lovely story.: (tags:LGBT love lesbians relationships )
Boycotts are terrorism now, apparently: (tags:IceCream Israel terrorism )
Tolkien, Lewis, and Gygax play Dungeons and Dragons together: (tags:Tolkien CSLewis dungeonsanddragons funny )
24 photos showing the massive changes to Edinburgh's St James district down the decades: (tags:edinburgh construction history )
Catholic priest quits after "anonymized" data revealed alleged use of Grindr (a great example of why "anonymous" data isn't!): (tags:data location lgbt religion OhForFucksSake )
No Covid is not the most infectious respiratory disease: (tags:pandemic virus infection )
Why hasn't "herd immunity" stopped Covid in the UK? (Detailed and fascinating): (tags:infection pandemic uk )
Me on an obstacle course: (tags:dogs funny video viaSwampers )
People In Positions Of Power Are More Likely To Blame And Punish Others For Poor Performance: (tags:psychology power work )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4063815.html

Report outlines 80 ways Scotland could tackle climate change: (tags:scotland globalwarming )
Food shortages down to chronic lack of HGV drivers, business leaders warn: (tags:food UK transport Doom )
Scottish Green members criticise party's talks with SNP over transphobia: (tags:lgbt transgender bigotry GreenParty snp )
Vegan spider silk provides sustainable alternative to single-use plastics: (tags:plastic silk spiders vegan )
Brexit: Another mobile company to bring back roaming charges: (tags:UK mobile_phones Europe OhForFucksSake )
Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11 with Amazon's Appstore: (tags:Windows Android Amazon apps )
Windows 11 is much more than a new theme slapped onto Windows 10: (tags:windows thefuture )
Why isn't there more pumped hydro in the UK?: (tags:UK water power )
World's first cultured meat-production plant opens in Israel (5,000 burgers a day): (tags:food manufacturing Israel )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4053576.html

Incredible new drone footage shows the scale of Edinburgh's St James Quarter as construction nears completion: (tags:drone shopping edinburgh video )
Overall, being nice or nasty has no effect on how much power and influence you have: (tags:psychology work power personality )
How to Deal With the Anxiety of Uncertainty: (tags:advice mentalhealth pandemic )
Girl Guides: Enhanced photos need labels on social media: (tags:women beauty photoshop )
The brother-in-law and the truck full of rice, a saga of modern India.: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1301521850552315904.html
(tags:India rice funny viaDanielDWilliam )
COVID-19 Can Wreck Your Heart, Even if You Haven't Had Any Symptoms: (tags:pandemic heart virus )
HS2: construction of £106bn high-speed rail line officially starts: (tags:hs2 GoodNews )
'War on plastic' could strand oil industry's £300bn investment: (tags:oil plastic )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3923326.html

How Britain Plunged Into Its Worst Constitutional Crisis in 400 Years: (tags:uk constitution law politics power history )
U.S. to leave global postal union next month: (tags:postage usa China )
What Could Happen Next If the Government Resigns Rather than Send the Letter to the EU?: (tags:UK law government viaDanielDWilliam )
Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near the White House: (tags:israel spying usa )
'Avengers: Endgame' Was Forced to Use CGI Costumes Because Real Ones Would Take Too Long: (tags:avengers movies cgi costumes marvel )
The level of unexamined heteronormativity in this article is astounding: (tags:LGBT archeology wtf )
A lot of my autistic friends are very positive about this thread. You may find it enlightening: (tags:society autism )
California bans private prisons: (tags:California prison GoodNews )
Google ditched system similar to Tesla Autopilot in 2013 - Because it was too dangerous: (tags:automation driving google )
Kickstarter fires two union organizers.: (tags:Kickstarter unions OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3823245.html

Obviously THE LAST JEDI’s Throne Room Fight Scene Is About Online Dating: (tags: relationships StarWars funny )
Gatwick investigation police say always a possibility that there may not have been any genuine drone activity in the first place: (tags: drone police wtf )
JK Rowling mocks 'Saint Jeremy' Corbyn's Brexit stance: (tags: UK europe jkrowling labour )
Feeling powerful makes you less empathic: (tags: psychology empathy power )
The human life cycle is significantly more complex than I thought!: (tags: comic funny life viaMyBrotherHugh )
What was actually said in the Mermaids lecture?: (tags: transgender lgbt )
Many trans people play into stereotypes because otherwise doctors won't treat them: (tags: transgender lgbt )
Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States: (tags: usa open data )
World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin: (tags: eggs technology hormones food )
Dissecting the myth of the Labour leave vote: (tags: Labour europe uk viaMorag )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3752619.html

Ur-Fascism (by Umberto Eco): (tags: fascism history society italy )
Why We Should Teach Music History Backwards: (tags: music history )
Neurotic folk spend more time doing chores (and other effects of personality on your daily life): (tags: personality life work )
Mike Godwin has suspended Godwin's Law: (tags: Nazis internet argument )
The US Isn't Just Separating Children From Their Parents. It Also Has No Plan To Reunite Them.: (tags: usa oh children immigration )
Open letter to the young Taliban: (tags: Afghanistan society )
The Ur-Fantasy novels from different decades: (tags: Fantasy satire history writing )
Debunking myths about the USA removing children from their families at the border: (tags: usa OhForFucksSake immigration )
Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees: (tags: usa immigration republicans OhForFucksSake )
Creating lines of deplorability to ratchet the world towards being a better place: (tags: morals society )
Showing in great detail that nobody knew what Brexit would lead to. And anyone claiming that people knew exactly what they are voting for are liars: (tags: UK Europe voting referendum )
The US joins Iran, North Korea and Eritrea as the only countries that refuse to participate in the UN Human Rights Council: (tags: usa rights OhForFucksSake )
Using a drone with a flamethrower to clear debris from power lines: (tags: drone fire power )
Obama was...not good on immigration internment camps: Not as bad as the current lot, but Democrat moral failure makes it easier for Republican evil
(tags: immigration children barackobama democrats OhForFucksSake )
The Machine Fired Me: (tags: automation HumanResources OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3696461.html

How the government started the current war on immigrants: (tags: immigration UK Conservatives OhForFucksSake )
What *should* (legally) have happened to the Windrush records: (tags: history OhForFucksSake Caribbean uk )
Angry badger leaves tunnel at 500-year-old castle: (tags: badgers headline funny castle scotland )
"This story starts with my dog taking a shit on the bathroom floor, and ends with me cleaning out a meth house.": (tags: drugs crime dogs story )
Sexual Harassment Levels By Field: (tags: harassment research )
Cannabis harm to teenagers' brains overstated: (tags: marijuana teenagers brain )
Would Labour’s War Powers Act work?: (tags: war government law uk )
Labour's late general election surge driven by middle-aged centrists, not young Corbynites: (tags: labour voting demographics )
Let's Use Star Wars to Explain the Concept of Angular Size: (tags: mathematics StarWars )
Since 2016, Half of All Coral in the Great Barrier Reef Has Died: (tags: Australia globalwarming ocean OhForFucksSake )
Why Can't We Fix Puerto Rico's Power Grid?: (tags: usa power epicfail )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3679496.html

Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit: (tags: antidepressants viaSwampers )
Killing Eve review – dazzling thriller from Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge: (tags: review tv )
Phoebe Waller-Bridge: ‘I felt strongly there was no such thing as a slut’: (tags: writing sex tv movies feminism women )
Antidepressant use in pregnancy can affect babies’ brain development: (tags: antidepressants babies brain )
Samin Nosrat's 'Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat' and the Best Books for Learning How to Cook: (tags: cooking books review )
Iceland supermarkets to ban palm oil in all products: (tags: environment iceland shopping )
Apple Now Runs On 100% Green Energy, And Here’s How It Got There: (tags: Apple renewables power GoodNews )
The Internet Health Report Diagnoses Life Online: (tags: internet )
Flat-Earthism is what happens when people believe things because they're comforting, rather than because there is evidence for them: (tags: earth lies religion belief )
This is a fairly fundamental piece of understanding towards a better, happier, life: My own internal version of this is more like training a dog or a horse. You can train them to behave, but there are limits to how much you can starve them into submission before they rebel and throw you off. And you're much better off training them with love and respect than you are beating them with a stick whenever they make a mistake.
(tags: happiness advice psychology )
What is the scope of the Brexit mandate? And when will it be discharged?: (tags: uk europe thefuture )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3676839.html

"I Watched All 629 Episodes of The Simpsons in a Month. Here’s What I Learned.": (tags: simpsons society TV review women Intelligence )
Ask a computer to do something and it'll cheat like hell: (tags: ai computers problems intelligence cheating funny )
Technology Meant to Make Bitcoin Money Again Is Now Live: (tags: bitcoin cryptography money )
Live in Phoenix, Arizona? You can now fall asleep in the back seat of a driverless taxi: (tags: taxi automation usa )
If your parents keep getting your name wrong it's because they love the dog just as much: (tags: memory names family )
Two months of daily GTA causes no significant changes in behavior: (tags: behaviour games psychology )
Planting GMOs kills so many bugs that it helps non-GMO crops: (tags: genetics farming insects )
A look at a comic that touched on everything that makes Batman great: (tags: batman comics )
Decoding the Signals In The Prime Minister's Speech on the Russian Poisoning of Sergei Skripal: (tags: Russia UK diplomacy viaFanf )
Gibraltar warns it could rescind citizens rights if Spain uses veto on Brexit deal: (tags: Europe Spain Gibraltar )
No progress in finding solution to Irish Brexit border problem: (tags: Ireland UK Europe NorthernIreland parliament borders )
After Rihanna instructed her 60,000,000 Instagram followers to delete Snapchat, the company's shares plunged- causing the it to lose about $600,000,000.00 in market cap in a matter of hours.: (tags: money celebrity socialmedia )
Cyberattacks Put Russian Fingers on the Switch of American Power Plants: (tags: power Russia security hacking usa )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3668554.html

Four week deadline to use Scottish paper money: (tags: Scotland money paper )
Humans (Like P!nk) Have Nipples And People Are Apparently Traumatised By This: (tags: breasts women bodies OhForFucksSake society )
Men with higher testosterone levels are less into classical music and opera: (tags: music men testosterone )
Smartglasses that project your notifications onto your retina using lasers. I want some so much!: (tags: lasers Technology glasses )
How and Why To Write a Rude Q&A: (tags: advice questions discussion work )
The Problem With Authority Parenting: (tags: parenting children )
Is Brexit the maddest thing England has ever done? Not quite: (tags: UK England France history war )
How to deal with children: (tags: children advice )
The boy who slept next to a bear: (tags: bears )
The true story of Milli Vanilli: (tags: music fraud OhForFucksSake )
When brains go (amusingly) wrong: (tags: funny life brain mistakes )
The UK Wants To Remain In The EU’s Trade Deals During The Transition Phase After Brexit: (tags: UK Europe trade )
Congestion in Edinburgh down by 10% (still rubbish): (tags: transport edinburgh )
UK built half of Europe's offshore wind power in 2017 (turbines nearly as tall as The Shard!): (tags: windpower UK GoodNews )
The Forgotten Renewable: Geothermal Energy Production Heats Up: (tags: heat power earth )
Irish Supreme court refuses man's extradition because of Brexit: (tags: Ireland Europe uk rights crime )
Lactation hormone cues birds to be good parents: (tags: birds hormones behaviour parenting )
Why the UK government shouldn't pardon the suffragettes.: (tags: women voting politics government uk history )
No one is making a “Lady Dorito.": (tags: women food OhForFucksSake marketing gender viaSwampers )
In London, Sri Lanka's Defence Attache stood opposite peaceful protesters and repeatedly ran his finger across his throat when looking at them.: (tags: OhForFucksSake protests )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3657836.html

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