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Interesting Links for 13-08-2023
Aug. 13th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Stop the 'forever wars' to end the refugee crisis
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- 2. What Disney could learn from the success of Nimona
- (tags:animation lgbt advice Disney )
- 3. There are currently no safe and legal routes by which to travel to the UK for the purpose of claiming asylum.
- (tags:asylum UK OhForFucksSake )
- 4. The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they're jacking up prices
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- 5. No regrets: Gender-affirming chest surgery in adults has long-term satisfaction
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- 6. Students left in 'nightmare' accommodation as UK cities short of 620,000 beds by 2026
- (tags:housing UK students OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Safety posters from an alternate reality
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Interesting Links for 08-04-2023
Apr. 8th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Cat jumps on imam leading Ramadan prayers in Algeria
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- 2. Human memory is hugely unreliable - within seconds
- (tags:memory epicfail humans psychology )
- 3. Extra pregnancy scan could slash number of breech births and risk to babies
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- 4. Suella Braverman and several other Conservatives to address a radical right-wing conference tied to Christian Nationalism and the US radical right.
- (tags:religion racism fascism UK conservatives USA OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Why do refugees come to the UK
- (tags:refugee UK video migration )
- 6. The longest straight line in Great Britain (without crossing a public road)
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- 7. Costa Rica regrew its lost forest. Can the world learn from it?
- (tags:SouthAmerica forests GoodNews )
- 8. Asking the EHRC about sex
- (tags:rights UK bigotry OhForFucksSake transgender LGBT )
- 9. LGBT+ Lib Dems are very angry at the EHRC
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Interesting Links for 15-06-2022
Jun. 15th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The UK is, frankly, badly run. Should Scotland stay stuck to it?
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- 2. Hate crime against transgender people at highest since Scottish records began in 2010
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- 3. When rich white authors say stupid things on TV why don't people call them on it?
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- 4. Why refugees travel through other countries to get to the UK
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- 5. My Favorite Controlled Substance Is Daycare
- (tags:children childcare funny money drugs viaSwampers )
- 6. The politics of 'Top Gun: Maverick' are... not good
- (tags:war Iran USA TomCruise movies review airplanes )
- 7. EU Launches Legal Action Against UK Over Northern Ireland Protocol Bill
- (tags:europe uk law trade doom NorthernIreland )
- 8. Edinburgh scores less than two out of ten for the state of its roads in new analysis (and badly elsewhere too)
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Interesting Links for 15-04-2022
Apr. 15th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Important things to understand about the Christian festival of Easter
- (tags:Easter Christianity Jews satire funny )
- 2. The UK isn't moving asylum seeker processing to Rwanda, it's dumping refugees there.
- (tags:UK Rwanda OhForFucksSake asylum refugee )
- 3. 12 best ways to get cars out of cities - ranked by new research
- (tags:cars transport viaDanielDWilliam )
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Interesting Links for 28-03-2022
Mar. 28th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. How's your sense of scale? Mine certainly can't cope with astronomical numbers
- (tags:scale perspective space astronomy )
- 2. Any model of sex work short of full decriminalisation puts sex workers' lives at risk
- (tags:sexwork decriminalization )
- 3. Mothers Fleeing Ukraine With Children Are Asked For Father's Consent In "Nightmare" Home Office Visa Process
- (tags:OhForFucksSake refugee Ukraine war UK )
- 4. Cosplayers being arrested is hilarious
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- 5. Lia Thomas: Trans swimmer didn't have unfair advantage, data shows
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- 6. Observations of motherhood
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- 7. Are we looking at the collapse of Russia?
- (tags:Russia Doom economy )
- 8. Is anyone *surprised* that the British army is full of far right awfulness?
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- 9. Is it time to install solar power at home?
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- 10. U.N. Investigator Accuses Israel of Apartheid, Citing Permanence of Occupation
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- 11. Dual 75" 4K - the home computing setup I need!
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Interesting Links for 23-03-2022
Mar. 23rd, 2022 12:00 pm- Repetition can make even the most bizarre claims seem more true
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- I sometimes think it's a shame that in all the fuss about "We Don't Talk About Bruno" people miss how amazing a song "Surface Pressure" is.
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- Guinea! Pigs! Living! Wild!
- (tags:animals video nature cute viaLilysea )
- How White Victimhood Fuels Republican Politics
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- Government "Spooked" By Attempts To Block Medical Equipment From Regions With "Genocide Risk"
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- Facebook approved 8 paid ads inciting violence and genocide against the Rohingya
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- UK among most anti-refugee countries in the world thanks to borders bill, says Médecins Sans Frontières
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- How Tumblr is different to other social media
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- Dungeons & Dragons: Friend or Foe of Sword-and-Sorcery?
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- Guantánamo military court may seek plea deals in 9/11 cases rather than trials
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- Mercedes Drive Pilot Is The First To Take Legal Responsibility
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Interesting Links for 07-03-2022
Mar. 7th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1.5 million people have fled Ukraine. The UK has taken...50 of them. (1% of applicants)
- (tags:Ukraine war UK refugee OhForFucksSake )
- Anyone got a less stupid idea for what this is than I had?
- (tags:weird sculpture UK )
- After 1,000 years the 9 tailed fox demoness is free!
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- We Don't Talk About Fight Club (a song inspired by the first rule of Bruno)
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- The Tolkien Estate is taking on fandom
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- A letter from Ukrainian artists to the world's artists
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Interesting Links for 28-02-2022
Feb. 28th, 2022 12:00 pm- Russians troops are disoriented, hungry, and don't understand why they're invading
- (tags:Russia Ukraine OhForFucksSake )
- EU Plans To Send Weapons To Ukraine After Putin Escalates Nuclear Threat
- (tags:nuclearweapons Ukraine Europe Russia war )
- How Ikea gets you to buy more stuff
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- The salt-mining elephants of Africa
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- I would not have believed the levels of Russian incompetence if you'd told me last week
- (tags:Russia Ukraine incompetence video )
- Words known better by men women, and vice versa
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- How Putin made the EU great again
- (tags:Russia Europe )
- Sid Meier warns the games industry about monetisation (30th anniversary of Civilization interview)
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- I love the Childline "Nobody is normal" video
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- UK pledge to take Ukrainian refugees with family in Britain excludes brothers, sisters, adult children and parents
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- Tumblr will now let you be the customer, rather than advertisers being the customer. I am *delighted* and wish Facebook/Twitter would do likewise
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- What do parents' houses really look like?
- (tags:homes children parenting mess )
Interesting Links for 27-02-2022
Feb. 27th, 2022 12:00 pm- Some Russians thought they'd take Ukraine in hours. One of their own colonels sets them straight
- (tags:Russia Ukraine war viaDanielDWilliam )
- Thousands of Romanians parked at the border waiting to take Ukrainian refugees home with them
- (tags:Ukraine refugee Romania )
- Your regular reminder that the UK's Home Office are inhuman scum
- (tags:immigration asylum UK refugee OhForFucksSake )
- EU and USA move to cut off Russia from making international payments and to paralyse its central bank
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- Millions in Bitcoin pouring into Ukraine from donors
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- "I'm common as muck and spent £150 in a Michelin star restaurant to see if it was worth it"
- (tags:food review )
- Russia-Ukraine Update (not going well for Russia, but they still have a resource advantage)
- (tags:Russia Ukraine war )
- The mystery of Anthrax Island and the seeds of death
- (tags:death disease Scotland )
- Brandon Sanderson has an incredibly impressive working output
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- Brandon Sanderson's Advice for Doing Hard Things
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- How would we get ourselves off of Russian gas?
- (tags:gas viaDanielDWilliam Russia UK )
Interesting Links for 15-11-2021
Nov. 15th, 2021 12:00 pm- Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Why does the UK Government owe Iran £400million?
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- What makes it hard to leave academia?
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- Artist Recreates What Roman Emperors Looked Like Using AI, Facial Reconstruction, And Photoshop
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- The state of modern Britain
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- The Royal Canadian Legion sold poppy NFTs. *sigh*
- (tags:cryptography Canada war history )
- All The Major Corruption Accusations Levelled At The Conservative Party
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- Prehistoric cave paintings were animations
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- âPlease save usâ: Refugees face death at Poland-Belarus border
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- Covid Booster Vaccines For Over 40s Are Recommended By Vaccines Committee
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- Covid testing provider investigated over plans to sell on customer's DNA samples for medical research
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Interesting Links for 23-09-2021
Sep. 23rd, 2021 12:00 pm- World's largest floating offshore wind farm begins operation off the coast of Scotland
- (tags:Scotland windpower viaDanielDWilliam )
- Taiwan applies to join Pacific trade deal just days after China
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- Microplastics are coming out of our babies! (10x more than they come out of adults)
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- Warnings instead of prosecution for Class A drug users in Scotland
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- Dark Souls 10th anniversary tour. (Gorgeous and haunting.)
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- Priti Patel's asylum plan will break international law, says UNHCR
- (tags:refugee UK OhForFucksSake )
- China to stop building coal plants in developing nations
- (tags:china coal GoodNews globalwarming )
- Israel Killed an Iranian Nuclear Scientist With a Robot Sniper
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Interesting Links for 01-02-2021
Feb. 1st, 2021 12:00 pm- Black Bart - The Buried TV Sequel to Blazing Saddles
- (tags:TV movies racism comedy weird contracts cowboy )
- Drone flight captures Norfolk starlings murmuration
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- Nadhim Zahawi and Tory MPs attack Yorkshire Post - over a totally accurate story
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- Home Office put refugees in camps so they didn't look weak
- (tags:immigration OhForFucksSake asylum UK refugee )
- Transphobes target Scottish Government HQ and Bute House
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- How to identify which European language you're reading
- (tags:language Europe visualisation flowchart )
- Here's the Nordic model making life awful for sex workers in Canada
- (tags:Canada sexwork OhForFucksSake )
- Brexit: How much disruption has there been so far?
- (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
- Silver surges as Reddit army turns to commodities
- (tags:metal trade investment Reddit wtf )
- Covid in Scotland: Vaccinations move to next category (over 70s)
- (tags:Scotland vaccination pandemic )
- Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions
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- The seamstress who conserves brutality
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- Men: Do not hold a grudge for decades and use it to kill people in TV shows called Jessica
- (tags:names death TV OhForFucksSake )
- I wish I'd had a teacher this awesome
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- A list of landlords who are in elected positions in the UK.
- (tags:property politics UK housing )
- Coronavirus: Up to one fifth of staff in some care home groups refusing vaccine
- (tags:pandemic vaccination OhForFucksSake UK )
- The Apple app store has a scam problem
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1356011069395755009.html
(tags:Apple scam fraud apps ) - What is transphobia? (mostly so I can find this again later)
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- Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester
- (tags:3d visualisation Manchester electricity history )
- Normal life will not return 'until 2024' if virus does not disappear globally
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- Rescued Ben Nevis climbers fined
- (tags:mountains Scotland pandemic )
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Interesting Links for 19-08-2020
Aug. 19th, 2020 12:00 pm- Would you like to listen to some butt music from hell? (As painted by Hieronymus Bosch)
- (tags:music hell painting ViaDrCross )
- Small Pleasures Are Just As Important For Our Wellbeing As Long-Term Goals
- (tags:happiness psychology pleasure )
- The Greek government is taking refugees out to sea and then leaving them there
- (tags:murder refugee OhForFucksSake greece )
- Want to keep predators away from your cattle? Paint eyes on their butts
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- 40 Wholesome Middle-Age Success Stories
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- Belarus president: "Until you kill me, there will be no new elections"
- (tags:politics belarus dictators )
- Scientists calculate that the top 200 meters of ocean alone contains up to 21 million metric tons of plastic. And that wasn't even counting microfibers.
- (tags:plastic Ocean Doom )
- Coronavirus: UK to ramp up household testing
- (tags:Pandemic testing UK )
- This is what coronavirus could do to our offices and homes
- (tags:disease work organisation architecture design )
- Looks like I fit male and female stereotypes almost entirely equally
- (tags:stereotypes quiz psychology )
- Highland polar bear Hamish to leave Scotland
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- Julian Assange: condemned by his own actions
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- How many pieces can a puzzle have?
- Of course you also get weird-shaped puzzles. I had great fun with one last time I visited my parents that had puzzle pieces carved into the shape of skulls, gargoyles, etc.
(tags:puzzles design mathematics ) - The town where it snowed chocolate
- (tags:chocolate Switzerland )
- Why a Baker's Dozen is 13 Instead of 12
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Interesting Links for 25-01-2020
Jan. 25th, 2020 12:00 pm- EU draws map for Boris Johnson of where customs checks he says don't exist will go
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- Astronauts bake space's first ever cookies - and are surprised by how long it takes
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- Hydrogen injected into UK gas grid for first time in groundbreaking UK trial to reduce carbon
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- Tesco to stop sale of plastic-wrapped multipacks in stores - saving 350 tons per year
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- The best co-op games on PC
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- Maternity ward dads: Kick them out or welcome them in?
- I was sent home at 10pm, when we'd both been up since 4am, and Jane was still recovering from the birth. I wish we'd had the option for me to stay and support her.
(tags:children childbirth scotland ) - Police begin operational use of Live Facial Recognition in London
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- For Nancy Drew's 90th birthday they're killing the beloved girl detective so that her male counterparts, the Hardy Boys, can investigate her death.
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- Man who called his shop "Singh'sbury" says 'it's just a coincidence'
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- The romance writer who saved Jews from the Nazis
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- Someone forced a bot to read over 1,000 Garfield strips and then asked it to write an episode of its own. Here is what it looks like
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- Watch as 19th century time capsule discovered in Edinburgh Robert Burns statue is opened
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- I would love to know the gender ratio of assholes
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- Boris Johnson warned chances of securing Japanese trade deal hangs on Brussels agreement
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Interesting Links for 14-07-2018
Jul. 14th, 2018 12:00 pm- The Labour position on Brexit is now slightly harder than the government’s. But neither is remotely realistic
- (tags: Labour conservatives uk europe OhForFucksSake )
- People Are So Annoying That Animals Are Becoming More Nocturnal
- (tags: environment time humans animals )
- Nokia 6.1 Review—The best answer to “What Android phone should I buy?”
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- Nasa works out precisely how fast universe is expanding – and finds bizarre result that could change our understanding of cosmos
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- Microsoft Urges Congress to Regulate Use of Facial Recognition
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- I Used A Phone Like Most People In The World And It Was Awful
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- Women won big in Mexico’s elections — taking nearly half the legislature’s seats. Here’s why.
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- Brutalist Web Design
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- Facebook touts fight on fake news, but struggles to explain why InfoWars isn't banned
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- A years-old, one-letter typo led to Aliens: Colonial Marines‘ weird AI
- HOW WAS THIS NEVER FIXED???
(tags: bugs ai wtf ) - A rescue diver on what it was like to save the Thai boys in the cave
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- Trump's ambassador lobbied Britain on behalf of jailed right-wing activist Tommy Robinson
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- How The Scottish Island Where Trump's Mom Grew Up Became a Haven For Refugees
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- How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books (says article which doesn't include any evidence of increased interest in books)
- (tags: books minecraft Education )
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Interesting Links for 25-12-2017
Dec. 25th, 2017 12:00 pm- This is my other favourite Last Jedi review
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- Boris Johnson and Michael Gove attack HMRC over Brexit donor tax grab
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- Wagamama apology for 'don't be sick' staff notice
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- The refugees who brought hope to a Scottish island
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- Travelodge UK writes to its EU employees (here - Polish) in their own languages (!) to say how much they value their contribution, guarantee a refund of permanent residence application & wish happy Christmas.
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- Atomic Tests During the 1950s Probably Killed Nearly Half a Million Americans
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- Ride-Hailing Apps Are Clogging New York's Streets
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- The solar system could have formed in a bubble around a giant star
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- 2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’
- (tags: ufo flying )
- 'The difficulty is the point': teaching students how to really read
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- Britain is sliding away from Europe
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- Margaret Atwood’s Resistance Reading
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- The Nazi Sympathisers who nearly ruled Britain
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- Can you identify this (sub)genre?
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- On making the most of the Mastodon social network
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Interesting Links for 08-06-2017
Jun. 8th, 2017 12:00 pm- FactCheck: Corbyn wrong on working-class students
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- China and California sign deal to work on climate change without Trump
- (tags: globalwarming china california usa GoodNews )
- Which party manifestos were the best (or worst) grammatically?
- (tags: grammar politics uk )
- How one refugee changed the mind of his travel ban-supporting neighbour
- (tags: bigotry usa politics refugee immigration viaSwampers )
- When it comes to politicians and statistics you need to really look at the definitions
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- Electric cars accelerate past 2m mark globally - up by 60% in a year
- (tags: electricity cars Technology )
- A Vietnamese skin clinic accidentally used the Umbrella Corporation logo...
- (tags: games funny fail )
- Sony sells one million VR headsets (very happy with mine)
- (tags: VirtualReality playstation sony )
- Parents kissing their children on the lips: Threat? Or Menace?
- (tags: children parenting wtf viaSwampers )
- Genes influence ability to read a person's mind from their eyes
- (tags: eyes genetics psychology empathy )
- We need to talk about Diane Abbott.
- (tags: Labour politics uk women race history )
- 10+ Times People Failed To Send Dog Pics To ‘We Rate Dogs’ Twitter
- (tags: dogs cute funny )
- 3-year-olds consuming alternative milks were 1.5 cm shorter on average
- (tags: milk children height )
- Kansas Republicans raise taxes, ending their GOP governor’s ‘real live experiment’ in conservative policy
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- The transgenic petunia carnage of 2017
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- Portraits of Imaginary people (as drawn by a neural network)
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- Using VR to help a severe stutter
- (tags: speech VirtualReality video )
- Elections in the UK are run by an elite club. Chances are, you're not in it.
- (tags: voting uk video )
- Renewables provide more than half UK energy for first time (70.2% low-carbon)
- (tags: power electricity uk renewables GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 12-03-2017
Mar. 12th, 2017 12:00 pm- SNAKISMS - when philosophy meets Snake
- Nice discussion of what they mean at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13806228
(tags: philosophy games viaSwampers ) - On refugees escaping the USA to Canada
- (tags: canada refugee usa OhForFucksSake )
- Trump supporters protest The Man In The High Castle’s anti-Nazi radio station
- Philip K Dick would be proud. Or appalled. Or possibly just confused.
(tags: nazis politics radio scifi usa wtf fiction philipkdick viaJamesNicoll ) - VIDEO: Germans escaping East Berlin in 80s by swimming across river towards West Berlin as patrol chases them
- (tags: video history germany refugee )
- In which a little girl discovers which god she's been assigned to...
- (tags: religion short_story )
- Leaked Treasury report warns of painful economic shock if Britain crashes out of the EU without a deal
- (tags: europe uk economy )
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