Entries tagged with racism

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Interesting Links for 02-04-2025

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Interesting Links for 13-03-2025

1. Installing solar panels in deserts improves soil quality and biodiversity by providing areas of shade and shelter.: (tags:desert solarpower environment viaMyBrotherHugh )
2. Labour are going the wrong way on getting people in to work.: (tags:work welfare uk labour OhForFucksSake )
3. If you want to fix modern society then one of the things you'll need to do is build more homes: (tags:housing society inequality )
4. Edinburgh councillors approve new site for Social Bite Village in Granton: (tags:Edinburgh housing homelessness )
5. How locational, or "zonal" pricing could give Scotland the cheapest power in Europe ... and give everyone else in GB cheaper power too.: (tags:electricity economics UK )
6. Edinburgh's Big Wheel could be in place from July to New Year: (tags:edinburgh tourism )
7. Some interesting researhc going on with plastic recycling: (tags:recycling plastic research )
8. "I Was a U.S. Diplomat. Customs and Border Protection Only Cared That I Was Black.": (tags:racism usa immigration )

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Interesting Links for 08-01-2025

1. All 105 large developments going on in Edinburgh in 2025, on Google Earth.: (tags:google map construction edinburgh )
2. Edinburgh Development Summary 2025: (tags:edinburgh construction )
3. Five key ways to tackle child sex abuse that still haven't been implemented: (tags:children rape politics uk )
4. Cuts to England's bus network cost economy £2.6bn a year: (tags:england economics buses transport )
5. Is *your* TV too high?: (tags:tv height )
6. How a populist think tank is stoking Scotland's culture war: (tags:hungary bigotry Scotland )
7. JK Rowling Slammed After Claiming That 'There Are No Trans Kids' In Hateful Rant: (tags:jkrowling transgender bigotry children )
8. Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness': (tags:Facebook OhForFucksSake bigotry LGBT )
9. How do we know how Latin was pronounced, and how did the official church pronunciation come to be different to that?: (tags:Latin history language )
10. Landlords to be banned from demanding several months' rent in advance: (tags:rental England )
11. Stats for the Omni-Centre cycle lane in Edinburgh show that usage is up 40% in a year: (tags:cycling edinburgh )
12. 'I realised I had autism when my children were diagnosed': (tags:autism scotland )
13. Trump threatens Nato, Hamas, Greenland, Panama, and Canada in press conference: (tags:politics usa )
14. Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams in Classical Latin: (tags:music video latin )
15. Six things you must know about how the grooming gangs scandal was handled: (tags:rape children religion racism uk government )

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Interesting Links for 11-11-2024

1. Some more history of the vile Israeli football fans who started trouble in the Netherlands a few days ago. (Lots of racism and violence): (tags:history football bigotry racism Israel )
2. What message did Shakespeare have for men and women?: (tags:shakespeare gender history )
3. Fine, Let's Talk About Trans Athletes: (tags:LGBT transgender sports law bigotry )
4. Israel's military has achieved all it can in Gaza war, according to former defense minister (and Netanyahu is the one holding up a deal. For months now): (tags:Israel Palestine Gaza war )
5. 'It's not close' - Israel committing genocide concludes Wikipedia ending editorial debate: (tags:genocide Israel Wikipedia )
6. Dutch journalist demands apology for misuse of her footage showing Israeli fans attacking Amsterdam locals (including by Sky, BBC, NYTimes): (tags:Netherlands Israel journalism OhForFucksSake video )
7. Dearborn's Arab Americans feel vindicated by Harris' loss: (tags:USA Palestine politics )

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Interesting Links for 04-11-2024

1. Starmer's Brexit reset is stalling - and insiders in Brussels are worried: (tags:UK Europe doom Labour OhForFucksSake )
2. 70% of the land in Britain is still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror's army: (tags:uk inequality land )
3. The Mystery of How Agatha Christie Could Afford a Maid and a Nanny but Not a Car: (tags:history economics )
4. PETA's Animal "Shelter" Continues as a Leader in Animal Death: (tags:PETA pets death )
5. AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias: (tags:ai racism sexism names jobs )
6. 60% of Britain's Brexit pain is still to come, admits Treasury minister: (tags:uk europe trade doom )
7. The 'light sabre' wielding photographer creating colourful light paintings: (tags:light art photography )
8. When you visualise spacetime curving you're probably doing it wrong.: (tags:physics visualisation )

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Interesting Links for 20-08-2024

1. NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour: (tags:space speed )
2. Why we should always be alert to the possibilities of miscarriages of justice: (tags:law uk history )
3. Labour incapable of tackling racism and Islamophobia amid far-right violence, member of party committee says: (tags:labour uk racism islam )
4. 53% of British school librarians asked to remove LGBTQ+ books: (tags:censorship LGBT UK school OhForFucksSake )
5. Investors Are Suddenly Getting Very Concerned That AI Isn't Making Any Serious Money: (tags:ai business )
6. Google's AI Search Gives Sites Dire Choice: Share Data or Die: (tags:Google ai doom OhForFucksSake )
7. Thirty six flights were cancelled and 201 delayed at a Japanese airport on the weekend after a pair of scissors went missing in a store near the boarding gates.: (tags:airplanes safety Japan )

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Interesting Links for 07-08-2024

1. Bionic Bay looks like a gorgeous platformer with fascinating puzzles and high-speed physics-based gameplay.: (tags:games video )
2. The anti-islam riots in this country are a product of the media, Tories, and Labour. All should be held responsible.: (tags:Labour conservatives media UK bigotry Islam riots )
3. Russia and Ukraine both have drones controlled by really really long fibre-optic cables: (tags:drone fibreoptics russia ukraine )
4. Tim Walz Took Historic Action To Protect Trans People, Now He's The Dem VP Choice: (tags:democrats GoodNews transgender USA politics LGBT )
5. If your workplace doesn't have a Muppet ethics AI then you are *totally* behind the times: (tags:ai muppets ethics wtf )
6. JD Vance's Wife: My Husband Only Meant to Insult People Who Actively Choose Not to Have Kids, Not People Who Are Trying but Are Unsuccessful: She did not touch on his claim that people who don't have kids are more sociopathic.
(tags:relationships politics USA EpicWTF )
7. How to Survive Mercury in Retrograde: (tags:astronomy astrology mercury )
8. In hospital emergency rooms, female patients are less likely to receive pain medication than male patients who reported the same level of distress: (tags:misogyny pain healthcare OhForFucksSake )
9. The wife of a Conservative councillor has been arrested after she called for hotels with asylum seekers to be set on fire.: (tags:UK racism conservatives )
10. Wind and solar overtake EU fossil fuels in the first half of 2024: (tags:renewables solarpower windpower electricity Europe coal gas hydroelectric )
11. COVID-19 making worrying comeback WHO warns, amid summertime surge: (tags:pandemic doom )
12. I did not know it was possible to make friends with a moray eel!: (tags:fish video friendship )
13. Scottish wildcat kitten caught on thermal imaging camera: (tags:scotland cats nature video )
14. Ukrainian forces take Russian border city that they don't want: (tags:russia ukraine war )
15. Elon Musk believes advertisers should be forced to spend money on him: (tags:ElonMusk advertising twitter wtf )

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Interesting Links for 20-06-2024

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Interesting Links for 05-06-2024

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Interesting Links for 21-03-2024

1. Diane Abbott is a political pawn in Labour's farcical disciplinary process: (tags:politics labour racism OhForFucksSake )
2. Paris Preserves Its Mixed Society by Pouring Billions Into Public Housing: (tags:Paris housing )
3. Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden: (tags:sweden rape prostitution sexwork )
4. Elon Musk's X Is Suspending Accounts That Reveal a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist's Identity: (tags:nazis twitter ElonMusk OhForFucksSake )
5. The cutest baby thing I've seen in a long time: (tags:cute babies video )
6. Vernor Vinge (1944-2024) - Author and creator of the concept of The Singularity: (tags:scifi singularity obituary writers )
7. Neuralink video shows patient playing chess using brain implant: (tags:brain video cyborg )
8. NIH Researchers Identify Brain Connections Associated With ADHD in Youth: (tags:adhd brain )
9. An Anthropocene Worth Having: (tags:ecology environment humans )

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Interesting Links for 14-03-2024

1. Did you know there was an old rifle range under Edinburgh's Waverley Station? (6 minutes in to this video): (tags:guns edinburgh history trains )
2. What's been going on with Boeing? (they seem to have forgotten that making planes requires attention to detail): (tags:airplanes safety epicfail OhForFucksSake engineering manufacturing )
3. A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major internet platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.: (tags:internet abuse crime )
4. Giant redwoods: The world's largest trees are thriving in the UK. (Except for not reproducing): (tags:trees UK )
5. The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets: (tags:food business economics )
6. The Existential Relief of Having Children: (tags:philosophy anxiety stress parenting children life )
7. The Abyss 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray UK release | The BBFC comments on its cancellation: (tags:rats abuse animals movies jamescameron BluRay )
8. Do your pets help you make food? You ain't seen nothing yet!: (tags:food cows video funny )
9. LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6% (and dramatically higher in Gen Z): (tags:demographics LGBT USA )
10. AI reveals prostate cancer has two distinct subtypes: (tags:ai cancer prostate )
11. The full version of Tenacious D's - ...Baby One More Time cover is out. And even more awesome than you'd expect: (tags:music video BritneySpears awesome panda )
12. Yes, the Tories are outrageously racist and sexist - but Labour is guilty too (writes Diane Abbott): (tags:politics racism UK Labour conservatives )
13. Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town: (tags:sand heat battery finland )
14. The only other mammals to go through the menopause live longer because of it: (tags:menstruation whales longevity )
15. New ONS figures show how Edinburgh's share of short term lets is massive by comparison to practically everywhere else in the UK: (tags:edinburgh rental holidays housing tourism )
16. New extremism definition unveiled by British government. Is very vague.: (tags:uk government language )
17. I see that J.K. Rowling is now engaging in anti-trans Holocaust denial: (tags:transgender Holocaust jkrowling OhForFucksSake bigotry lgbt )
18. Assisted dying in Canada is accepted - but the UK should tread carefully: (tags:euthanasia canada )
19. I was getting bored of running - then I found joggling: (tags:juggling running jogging exercise edinburgh )