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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. 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 )

1. Bigots lose Scottish court case over definition of 'woman': (tags:bigotry GoodNews scotland transgender )
2. The Information Commissioner found, two years ago, that the Scottish Government didn't use WhatsApp for discussions.: (tags:Scotland government communication )
3. Ancient roman road found in Stirling garden.: (tags:Scotland Rome archeology )
4. Peter Jackson Talks About Making The Beatles' Last Music Video: (tags:peterjackson Beatles video music )
5. Insulin less temperature-sensitive than previously thought (can cope at temperatures up to 25 degrees for 6 months): (tags:insulin diabetes temperature )
6. This Plane Wasn't Snooping On Protesters In Los Angeles, It Was Dropping Irradiated Bugs: (tags:insects radiation fertility USA airplanes )
7. Cyclists are Better People than Drivers: (tags:cycling psychology morality driving cars bicycles )
8. The TRUTH about stars!: (tags:stars space comic funny )

1. Clues to the Lives of North America's First Inhabitants Are Hidden Underwater: (tags:usa prehistory archeology ocean )
2. Early Remote Work Impacts on Family Formation: (tags:work family remote Technology society )
3. The Uniquely American Future of US Authoritarianism: (tags:usa authoritarianism )
4. "If you want to watch games on your tractor, please use your own iPad": (tags:funny Technology farming )
5. An Unusual Finding of a Ladybug on Screening Colonoscopy: (tags:healthcare insects unlikely )
6. Quarter of British renters don't report repairs over eviction fears: (tags:uk rental OhForFucksSake )
7. DeSantis, the Disney board and King Charles III: A power struggle, explained: (tags:law Disney republicans LGBT USA Florida )
8. A Greek and Roman Mythology Walk around London (I've been on one of Tony's walking tours and he's an academic who really knows his stuff): (tags:London Greece Rome history UK walking )
9. Growing a chicken in an open egg: (tags:chicken life eggs video weird )
10. Finland clears its last hurdle, will join NATO in July: (tags:Finland NATO )
11. UK-Asia trade deal to boost UK economy by...0.08%: (tags:trade UK pacific )

1. A really important thing to remember when you're wondering why you don't look like fitness coaches no matter what you do: (tags:exercise genetics video )
2. One tiny diorama, every day: (tags:art calendar )
3. Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market: (tags:cameras phones business )
4. Elon Musk's legal problems are *hilarious*: (tags:ElonMusk Twitter work rights law funny )
5. Impressive examples of working around the limitations placed on AI.: (tags:ai viaSwampers )
6. Kanye West: American Nazi: (tags:USA Nazis OhForFucksSake )
7. Are You Decorating for the Holidays with Children, or Playing the Lead in a Heist Movie?: (tags:children movies crime funny viaSwampers )
8. The cruel, dishonest and shameful story of Britain's last colony may be coming to an end: (tags:UK OhForFucksSake )
9. 'Control Freak' and the Power of the Intimate Video Game Memoir: (tags:games design biography )
10. Scotland agrees to return totem pole stolen from First Nation village in Canada after nearly a century on display in Edinburgh: (tags:Scotland Canada museums )
11. The Maddening Mess of Airport Codes! ✈️: (tags:airport history video )
12. Why China Is Still Stuck in a Zero-Covid Nightmare: (tags:China Pandemic )
13. The real reason that September, October, November, and December are numbered 9,10,11, and 12. (Not the reasons I was taught): (tags:calendars history rome viaDanielDWilliam )
14. World's first job guarantee trial 'eliminates' long-term unemployment (by creating new jobs): (tags:work Australia )
15. 98% of teenagers who use puberty blockers go on to use gender-affirming hormones (new study published in the Lancet): (tags:Netherlands hormones LGBT transgender teenagers )

1. All You Need To Know About Scotland's Legal Bid For An Independence Referendum: (tags:scotland law independence )
2. COVID-19 vaccination associated with 15% reduction in stillbirths: (tags:pandemic vaccination death pregnancy )
3. The influence of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies on cinematic portrayals of ancient Greece and Rome: (tags:rome greece lotr movies )
4. Turns out that dreaded pit beasts are a lot like cats: (tags:funny fantasy comic cats )
5. How much does it cost Facebook to look after your cat pictures?: (tags:cats facebook storage )
6. Lugo, the only town with fully intact Roman walls: (tags:history rome Spain architecture viaDanielDWilliam )
7. Where are all the heat pumps?: (tags:electricity heating UK viaDanielDWilliam )
8. If you're wondering how SpaceX coped with Musk, this will fill you in: (tags:ElonMusk Spacex management )
9. Fossil fuel power plants kill 35x as many birds as wind turbines do per GWh (and nuclear power is twice as deadly as wind power): (tags:birds death nuclearpower coal gas environment windpower )
10. European Parliament declares Russia a terrorism sponsor, then its site goes down: (tags:web russia europe terrorism )
11. How much trouble are GPs in Scotland in?: (tags:healthcare scotland )
12. Sponsian: Ancient Roman gold coins thought to be 'fakes' reveal long-lost local emperor: (tags:rome Romania archeology )

1. Automatic braking can cut crashes over 40%: (tags:cars driving safety speed automation )
2. Undetectable very-low frequency sound increases dancing at a live concert: (tags:music sound dancing psychology )
3. I *really* don't want to work at Twitter: (tags:Twitter jobs ElonMusk viaPatrickHadfield )
4. Vaccine denial probably didn't play a role in Republican midterm losses: (tags:politics vaccination death usa )
5. Bill to protect equal marriage clears hurdle in US Senate with support from a dozen Republicans: (tags:USA marriage LGBT GoodNews )
6. Pubs refuse to show World Cup matches in protest over Qatar LGBTQ rights record: (tags:LGBT football protest pubs UK Qatar bigotry )
7. The Stereotype of the Woke Teen Is 'Tárring' Art: (tags:society TV writing )
8. Creating huasi ruyi filigree jewellery the old fashioned way: (tags:jewelry video )
9. Over 1,000 songs with human-mimicking AI vocals have been released by Tencent Music in China. One of them has 100m streams. (Sadly, I can't track any of them down.): (tags:music ai china viaPatrickHadfield )
10. Appreciating the history of chainmail armour: (tags:armour rome history viaDanielDWilliam )
11. 'Florida man makes announcement': Murdoch twists the knife on Trump with New York Post frontpage: (tags:RupertMurdoch politics journalism usa )

1. Russia's Shrinking War: (tags:russia ukraine war visualisation )
2. Edinburgh City Council to be controlled by Labour as Lib Dems and Tories vote them through: (tags:libdem Conservatives labour politics edinburgh )
3. Leith waterfront development plans unveiled (right next to the new tram stop): (tags:edinburgh leith housing )
4. The time Neil Gaiman was asked to work on Young Thor: (tags:TV comics neilgaiman thor )
5. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey Is a Nightmare Reimagining of the Beloved Bear (made possible by the copyright ending earlier this year): (tags:horror movies copyright )
6. The billable hour is a trap into which more and more of us are falling: (tags:working_hours economics )
7. Over 100 ancient settlements discovered north of Hadrian's Wall: (tags:Scotland history Rome viaDanielDWilliam )
8. The TV industry might try to sell you on 8k TVs. There is absolutely no point.: (tags:TV resolution technology pointless )
9. Britain's workforce shrunk by Long Covid and Brexit, impeding the economy: (tags:UK Doom Pandemic Europe work viaDanielDWilliam )

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Why does the UK Government owe Iran Â£400million?: (tags:UK money Iran )
What makes it hard to leave academia?: (tags:academia meaning life work )
Artist Recreates What Roman Emperors Looked Like Using AI, Facial Reconstruction, And Photoshop: (tags:faces Rome history statues ai )
The state of modern Britain: (tags:UK society Europe war history )
The Royal Canadian Legion sold poppy NFTs. *sigh*: (tags:cryptography Canada war history )
All The Major Corruption Accusations Levelled At The Conservative Party: (tags:conservatives corruption )
Prehistoric cave paintings were animations: (tags:animation video prehistory art cave )
âPlease save usâ: Refugees face death at Poland-Belarus border: (tags:Poland Europe Libya Syria asylum death refugee )
Covid Booster Vaccines For Over 40s Are Recommended By Vaccines Committee: (tags:uk vaccination pandemic )
Covid testing provider investigated over plans to sell on customer's DNA samples for medical research: (tags:Pandemic privacy OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4113167.html

We May Have Found Roman Concrete's Secret Strengthening Ingredient: (tags:rome concrete history architecture materials )
Why won't Sally Rooney allow her latest novel to be translated into Hebrew?: Update in comments
(tags:Jews language translation OhForFucksSake )
What support did the UK's only trans councillor get?: (tags:LGBT politics transgender UK libdem )
In the last six years homophobic hate crimes have tripled and transphobic ones have quadrupled: (tags:LGBT hate crime assault UK transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake )
This made my morning. Who doesn't want fish singing Bohemian Rhapsody?: (tags:music fish viaSwampers funny video )
The UK has had tens of thousands of avoidable deaths: (tags:uk death pandemic Conservatives epicfail )
Ladies and gentlemen, I present for your entertainment a goose on a motorcycle!: (tags:motorcycle birds video viaPatrickHadfield )
A musical of Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Peter Dinklage? Yes Please!: (tags:musicals love movies trailer video )
Apple don't want you to be able to read anything: (tags:ux ui design apple OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4097806.html

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4056980.html

Here's the legal advice the EU is circulating about the UK's attempt to break international law: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1303968529025249281.html
(tags:UK Europe law trade )
American men who refer to themselves as 'moderate' or 'centrist' score basically the same on values and opinions as people who identify themselves as 'conservative': (tags:USA politics )
Here's the source code to the Protect Scotland Track/Trace app: (tags:scotland pandemic opensource apps )
Ireland's view on Britain's descent in to being a rogue state: (tags:law UK Ireland NorthernIreland Europe Doom )
The EU Has Told The UK To Ditch Its Withdrawal Agreement Changes By The End Of The Month Or It'll End The Brexit Talks: (tags:UK Europe NorthernIreland doom )
The government's legal position on violating international law is laughable nonsense: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1304076133827309569.html
(tags:law UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
What are the likely consequences of the UK's violation of the Withdrawal Agreement?: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1304074011626876929.html
(tags:UK Europe Doom )
They're remaking my favourite GameCube game! (The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time): (tags:games time )
How To Get Away with Murder: How contradictions in Roman law left incurable headaches for its judges: (tags:law Rome murder family history )
Those Orange Bay Area Skies and the Science of Light: (tags:fire light California USA )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3926284.html

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