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Interesting Links for 18-04-2023

1. Crossness Pumping Station: London's Beautiful Sewage Station: (tags:waste beauty london )
2. The Horrific Stages of a Tyranid Invasion - narrated by David Attenborough: (tags:warhammer WH40K DavidAttenborough funny video )
3. An interesting question about vampires: (tags:vampires questions )
4. Labour will use any excuse to shift to the right: (tags:labour politics UK doom )
5. Sony World Photography Award 2023: Winner refuses award after revealing AI creation: (tags:photography competition ai viaSwampers )
6. Is beauty skin deep?: (tags:beauty mathematics topology funny comic )
7. The Fediverse crosses one billion posts per month: (tags:mastodon socialnetworking )
8. I see that transphobes are now unsuccessfully trying to co-opt Judy Blume: (tags:LGBT bigotry transgender )
9. Now, you can embed Mastodon posts in Medium stories: (tags:socialnetworking )
10. DOOM maps to SVG to laser cutter: (tags:doom games 3dprinting )
11. Why don't you see more fat people in sport?: (tags:weight sports )

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Interesting Links for 26-02-2023

1. A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most: (tags:Apple speakers technology sound )
2. Supermarkets all out of turnips after shoppers told to eat them amid veg shortage (another lovely week here on normal Island): (tags:UK food Doom )
3. The NYT is apparently fine fabricating sources: (tags:nytimes fraud OhForFucksSake jkrowling transgender bigotry )
4. Britain's failure to act on Russian dirty money will see us forever labelled hypocrites: (tags:Russia money OhForFucksSake uk )
5. There is basically no research on how often to sterilise baby bottles, and advice varies *dramatically*: (tags:babies food cleaning )
6. Hilariously appalling questions that tech employees have asked at public sessions: (tags:technology work questions OhForFucksSake )
7. Food shortages in the UK - what's missing from shelves and why?: (tags:trade food uk Doom )
8. James Bond books rewrite will remove 'offensive' references: (tags:books JamesBond offensive writing publishing )

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Interesting Links for 29-01-2023

1. 2023 Oscar nominated best movies - with Muppets!: (tags:Muppets movies funny Oscars viaSwampers )
2. How has Brexit changed the UK's wine import business: (tags:UK Europe wine trade doom )
3. Unlearning How White People Ask Personal Questions: (tags:race society questions politeness )

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4102617.html

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3951636.html

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Interesting Links for 03-11-2020

Want to buy books online while supporting indie booksellers? Now you can!: (tags:books internet )
Your Scottish Covid questions answered: (tags:Scotland pandemic questions )
Baby Shark becomes YouTube's most-watched video of all time: (tags:baby sharks videos children YouTube )
Coronavirus: Scottish Police break up over 300 house parties over Halloween: (tags:Halloween pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Less than a quarter of UK voters would vote for Trump: (tags:UK USA polls politics )
Thor: Ragnarok - alternate scene introducing Hela. (I hadn't seen this before, not sure if I prefer it): (tags:Thor marvel movies video )
Liverpool to be offered new 'rapid result' coronavirus tests in city-wide pilot: (tags:UK pandemic testing )
Did you know about the first illegal prime number?: (tags:PrimeNumbers law USA copyright )
"How I talk to the victims of conspiracy theories": (tags:conspiracy UK psychology debate conversation communication )
Why Tunnels in The US Cost Much More Than Anywhere Else in The World: (tags:tunnels cost economics USA newyork )
The Hyper-Regional Chippy Traditions of Britain and Ireland: (tags:UK Ireland fish food )
The TRUTH about Article 61 of Magna Carta: (tags:law UK history )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3882160.html

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3855746.html

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Interesting Links for 10-01-2020

A Surprising New Source of Attention in the Brain Raises New Questions: (tags:brain attention )
Häagen-Dazs Loves Honey Bees: (tags:bees sustainability )
The US almond harvest is killing billions of bees: (tags:bees Doom USA farming )
FactCheck: has the government pulled the UK out of Erasmus?: (tags:UK Europe politics Education )
What video game is the "Cats" of gaming?": (tags:games epicfail questions )
Imagine being told you can't chat to your grandmother about your plans for life. Not surprised Harry decided to leave.: (tags:monarchy family UK )
Women's rights, religious sensibilities. Can Israel respect both?: (tags:religion rights women Israel )
Scottish Labour to hold conference over indyref2 stance: (tags:Labour Scotland independence )
For Suicide Prevention, Try Raising The Minimum Wage: (tags:minimumwage economics suicide )
Married people talk about the stupid disagreements they have: (tags:argument marriage relationships )
Man hacking his girlfriend's favorite Disney movie might be the best proposal ever: (tags:marriage Disney impressive )
Mondo Mascots - a collection of Japanese mascots (why are mascots such a big thing in Japan?): (tags:Japan )
Understanding Japan's National Mascot Obsession: (tags:Japan cute anime viaSwampers )
The ridiculous 14 page handbook for running a 5-a-side football team: (tags:football rules wtf viaSwampers )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3839360.html

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Interesting Links for 07-11-2019

Revealed: Russian donors have stepped up Tory funding: (tags:conservatives Russia OhForFucksSake )
Transgender Laws in Transition: European Courts on Non-Binary Gender Recognition: (tags:law gender europe )
"Orbital Comics" of London to Stop Selling New Weekly Comics: (tags:comics doom UK )
The proposed ITV debate format is flawed. Other countries do it better.: (tags:uk debate politics tv )
A thread of rating every horse emoji: (tags:horses emoji )
Help me ask "Why you didn't justâ€¦?": (tags:advice questions etiquette )
If You Like to Complain About 'Decimate'...: (tags:language rome English )
Evidence That the Clitoris Is Important for Reproduction: (tags:women orgasm reproduction )
Lib Dems, Greens and Plaid agree 60-seat 'Remain alliance' election pact: (tags:politics hope UK Europe )
Former Twitter employees charged with spying on users for Saudis: (tags:saudiarabia spying twitter )
October was hottest in Earth's recorded history: (tags:globalwarming doom )
A Study of Meditation Under the Influence of Psilocybin: (tags:psilocybin meditation psychology )
The Tories are having a _terrible_ start to their election campaign. Do not be reassured by this.: (tags:elections Conservatives politics uk )
Craigslist's 'erotic services' alone reduced the murder of women in the US by 10-17%. (almost 500 women per year): (tags:women murder USA sexwork )
The Vampire Apocalypse Calculator: (tags:vampires visualisation )
People have strange internalised rules about money and food: (tags:food money psychology behaviour )
It's Time to Take Down the Mona Lisa: (tags:art history )
"I was an astrologer - here's how it really works, and why I had to stop": (tags:astrology fraud )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3680958.html

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Interesting Links for 23-04-2018

Cops used dead man’s finger in attempt to access his phone: (tags: Phone security death police )
3 Dogs Are Rebuilding Chilean Forests Once Devastated By Fire: (tags: dogs forests )
I once moderated a discussion at an SF convention. I wish I'd handled the Q&A like this: (tags: questions convention comic )
Before there was CGI Star Wars has...matte paintings: (tags: art StarWars specialeffects )
Theresa May is preparing to surrender over plans to leave the Customs Union after Brexit: (tags: Europe uk )
Matabele ants have evolved a complex system of battlefield triage and rescue: (tags: ants insects cooperation )
Experts say Tesla has repeated car industry mistakes from the 1980s: (tags: Tesla cars manufacturing )
Scottish Liberal Democrats back abortion clinic exclusion zones and decriminalisation: (tags: abortion Scotland libdem )
The toilets which should not be: (tags: toilets wtf )
Penn State's 98-Year-Old Outing Club Is No Longer Allowed to Go Outside: (tags: safety university OhForFucksSake nature )
Ken Clarke urges Tory rebels to ignore threat that customs union defeat could topple Theresa May: (tags: Conservatives uk europe )

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

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Interesting Links for 06-02-2018

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/3651360.html

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Interesting Links for 13-01-2018

The Widow, the Bank, and the $8 Billion Verdict: (tags: banking death law money )
From Russia With Blood: 14 Suspected Hits On British Soil That The Government Ignored: (tags: uk Russia murder )
Online shopping in Africa doesn’t work because addresses don't work: (tags: africa maps location web )
A brief translation of today's Facebook news from Facebook speak to English (tl;dr "Fuck you, pay us"): (tags: Facebook advertising )
Engineer says he quit Google after order to stop pro-diversity posts: (tags: google diversity )
Mothers who regret having children are speaking up like never before: (tags: parenting motherhood mother children women happiness )
The Clarke Gap (A useful metric for technology): (tags: magic Technology ux ArthurCClarke )
The company that runs Britain is near to collapse. Watch and worry: (tags: UK business fail )
'The desire to have a child never goes away': The Involuntarily Childless: (tags: children mother fatherhood society motherhood sadness )
Introducing the world's toughest snail: (tags: snails awesome ocean )
_Why_ Haiti is a shithole: (tags: empire racism history )
Women get prominent media jobs in wake of misconduct ousters: (tags: women media jobs equality )
Friends came to Netflix and everyone is shocked at the homophobia, transphobia and misogyny: What currently acceptable tv shows will look awful in twenty years?
(tags: tv friends bigotry history )
Delivering mail in Kabul’s nameless streets: (tags: Afghanistan mail )
In the 1880s Norwegians experienced racism in America: (tags: usa norway racism history )
"The question we came to dread: ‘Are you going for a second child?’": (tags: children life questions )
Germany's Emerging Coalition Backs Off Delaying 2020 Climate Targets: (tags: globalwarming Germany politics GoodNews )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3592813.html

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Interesting Links for 29-06-2017

1 year ago: What you will wake up to if we vote to Leave... (Turned out to be entirely accurate): (tags: europe uk epicfail predictions )
Why do England's high-rises keep failing fire tests?: (tags: health safety fire fail )
Turkish Government Seizes Fifty Churches, Monasteries: (tags: turkey religion OhForFucksSake )
Man travels between Newcastle and London via Minorca because it's cheaper than a direct train: (tags: viaDrJon trains uk travel )
The Postal Service is losing millions a year to help you buy cheap stuff from China: (tags: postoffices usa china wtf )
An easter egg for one user: Luke Skywalker: (tags: games programming StarWars funny )
Under-screen fingerprint sensor unveiled: (tags: phones fingerprints )
If you're asking 'What real poor person could be at Glastonbury?' you've never been poor: (tags: poverty society )
"Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've automated my job?": (tags: automation work questions )
Why Are Transgender People Immune To (Some) Optical Illusions?: (tags: optical_illusion transgender lgbt brain psychology )
The Detransitioners: What life is like for people who come out as transgender, and then change their mind.: A tiny percentage, but fascinating to see their viewpoint.
(tags: lgbt transgender )
Edinburgh trams make a profit two years ahead of schedule: (tags: edinburgh trams GoodNews business )
Massive HIV Treatment Study Found Zero Transmissions Between Couples: (tags: hiv medicine GoodNews relationships sex )
You'd think that if someone circumcised your child without your consent the police would take an interest. But no...: (tags: circumcision uk OhForFucksSake )
German power company wants to use giant salt caverns as batteries: (tags: germany batteries power )
Abortion reform matter for Stormont, court rules: (tags: abortion law NorthernIreland uk )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3552282.html

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Interesting Links for 15-02-2017

Nokia 3310, 'the world's most reliable phone', to be re-launched: (tags: phones nokia viaSwampers )
Explaining Vous vs Tu perfectly: (tags: france language visualisation )
With Mike Pence gone, more reasonable Republicans undo his work in Indiana: (tags: republicans usa politics )
48 Questions the FBI Uses to Determine if Someone Is a Likely Terrorist: (tags: terrorism usa questions )
A question I have asked myself many times about America: (tags: usa language )
Always assume everyone has an itchy butt: (tags: advice comic )
More and more writers are getting involved in the TV versions of their novels: (tags: writing tv books )
Humans Killed the Aral Sea. Now, It’s Come Back to Life: (tags: sea water GoodNews )
End of fillings in sight as scientists find Alzheimer's drug makes teeth grow back: (tags: teeth viaTheWeaselKing )
Arrival: Author Ted Chiang reveals how his story went from page to screen: Turns out he likes Black Mirror too
(tags: scifi writing short_story movies )
Not feeling well? What you need is worms!: (tags: Parasites immune_system health )
The Cagots were a persecuted group of families in France and Spain for hundreds of years. For no known reason.: (tags: history weird bigotry )
Philip Pullman unveils epic fantasy trilogy The Book of Dust: (tags: writing fantasy religion )
To please your friends, tell them what they already know: (tags: stories psychology )
The Amazon was transformed over 2000 years ago by people who built hundreds of large mysterious earthworks: (tags: amazon prehistory )
Ernst & Young Removes Degree Classification From Entry Criteria As There's No Evidence University Equals Success: (tags: university jobs )
If America was serious about terrorism they'd build a wall around North Carolina: (tags: usa terrorism religion )
Explaining the basics of Git in simple words: (tags: git )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3552172.html

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Interesting Links for 14-02-2017

German vocational training scheme for Africa 'part of new Marshall Plan' for regional investment: (tags: africa Germany europe jobs investment )
The Spy Revolt Against Donald Trump Begins: (tags: spying usa OhForFucksSake )
The Biggest Mistakes In World War 2: (tags: wwii fail )
On breaking promises and electoral reform - a letter to Justin Trudeau: (tags: reform voting fail canada )
Every Social Media Thread On Heterosexual Online Dating Ever: (tags: dating internet comments funny )
"Azhdarchids were giraffe-sized, quadrupedal Panzer-storks": (tags: dinosaurs prehistory awesome )
You get amazing photos if you fly over an active volcano: (tags: volcano photos )
Non-Partisan Congressional Tax Report Debunks Core Conservative Economic Theory-GOP Suppresses Study: From 2012. But this kind of thing really gets to me, no matter which side does it, or when it happens.
(tags: politics usa economics )
New 'automatic online conviction procedure' to be set up by the UK government: (tags: uk law internet )
Draconian changes proposed to Official Secrets Act: (tags: secrecy uk censorship )
Four Kinds of Dystopia: (tags: dystopia )
The State of Traditional TV: Updated With Q3 2016 Data: (tags: tv analysis )
Becoming a parent rewires the parents’ brain.: (tags: parenting )
Yes-no questions in mathematics and in Chinese: (tags: china linguistics language questions logic )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3549333.html

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Interesting Links for 03-02-2017

Leaked Draft of Trump’s Religious Freedom Order Reveals Sweeping Plans to Legalize Discrimination: (tags: discrimination usa religion politics viaSwampers )
The brussels sprouts gene: TAS2R38: (tags: food genes )
Open banking standards are coming: (tags: banking standards uk europe )
The hero in someone else's story: What Rogue One has to say about defeating fascism: (tags: StarWars stories fascism )
Canada abandons promise of electoral reform: (tags: canada voting reform OhForFucksSake fail )
Basset Hounds Running! The absolute best gallery of running basset hounds on the interwebs.: (tags: dogs awesome )
Lasting autistic traits in women with anorexia: (tags: autism anorexia food women )
At last, White Paper sets out 12 key Brexit goals. Now for the 12 key unanswered questions: (tags: uk europe questions )
The Joy Of The Unsold Book: (tags: books )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3489648.html

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Interesting Links for 08-08-2016

Minds turned to ash - burnout is more than working too hard: (tags: depression psychology work stress )
The Wild Cards Are Coming... to Television: I loved the first dozen of these when I was younger.
(tags: GeorgeRRMartin tv books )
How David Malki's art on Squirrel Girl was made: (tags: art history comics )
Dancing On The Ceiling - Dancing In 80's Movies Tribute: (tags: movies dancing )
Most white Americans still deliberately ignorant about race: (tags: racism usa )
Facebook Is Not a Technology Company: (tags: facebook socialnetworking advertising )
Who wins? Cthulhu or the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40K?: (tags: cthulhu games questions )
This is now my favourite rap about tea: (tags: drinking music video funny )
It's official – Seinfield has been right about 'double-dippers' all along: (tags: disease food )
Japan's Emperor Akihito hints at wish to abdicate: (tags: japan monarchy )
Grammar schools make education inequality worse, really aren't the answer: (tags: Education uk politics )
Edinburgh Festival begins with spectacular light show: (tags: edinburgh light time geology history prehistory )