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1. The surreal, but also real, problem of Britain's gas glut: (tags:gas UK Europe electricity economics )
2. Getting past the anxiety/avoidance cycle: (tags:anxiety advice )
3. Doctor Who: Any Colour You Like Provided It's Not Black: (tags:racism drwho )
4. Movies that change genre halfway through: (tags:movies genre )
5. EU warns 'all measures at its disposal' if UK overrides Northern Ireland Protocol: (tags:europe uk trade doom NorthernIreland )
6. Coca-Cola introduces built-in bottle caps in bid to boost recycling and help prevent litter: (tags:coke recycling )
7. How Beatboxing Was Invented (mostly because I spent half an hour looking for this and nearly didn't): (tags:games music video funny )
8. Why I love the new labour movement: (tags:unions economics viaDanielDWilliam )
9. Statement by the EU on the UK threatening to break its agreements: (tags:UK Europe Doom )
10. Surely Thatcher would approve of this enterprising young man?: (tags:margaretthatcher vandalism funny )
11. The Open is the oldest golf tournament in the world, it has a prize pot of over $11m, and apparently they need people to work for them for free: (tags:work golf money volunteers viaLizzieCassMaran OhForFucksSake )
12. Twitter turns the tables on Elon Musk, will "enforce" merger: (tags:Twitter ElonMusk funny )
13. The trailer for Terry Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice looks like fun: (tags:terrypratchett cats movies trailer video )
14. Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a possible solution to the Fermi paradox?: (tags:fermi aliens civilization apocalypse )
15. Can your characterafford to be without a Non-Fungible Trident?: (tags:blockchain funny dungeonsanddragons satire )
16. MRI images of foetuses are terrifying: (tags:MRI babies scary )

Pet a dog and you'll do better for weeks!: (tags:mentalhealth stress psychology dogs viaMyBrotherHugh )
Photoshopping Paddington into movies: Star Wars edition: (tags:bears photoshop StarWars )
Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B in revenue: (tags:tax OhForFucksSake Netherlands )
Covid vaccine: UK decision to delay second dose vindicated by new research: (tags:UK pandemic vaccination )
National Trust archaeologists surprised by likely age of Cerne Abbas Giant (late Saxon): (tags:history UK art )
"Help! A Male Colleague Thinks I'm Scary": (tags:gender work scary society )
Solar and wind's competitiveness over coal is accelerating (80% of US coal plants either non-competitive or actively shutting down): (tags:electricity GoodNews solarpower windpower coal viaDanielDWilliam )
France blocks post-Brexit EU financial services deal with UK over fishing row: (tags:uk europe trade finance fish )
Richard Garfield: Getting Lucky (a fascinating analysis of the role of luck in games, and why it's so important): (tags:games luck viaDanielDWilliam )
The different ways of calculating the end of Ramadan: (tags:islam moon calendars time viaLilysea )
xkcd's "Map Projections", animated: (tags:maps xkcd visualisation video funny )
Member of the Scottish Parliament takes oath of allegiance in Welsh (also, BSL, Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, Doric, Scots, Gaelic, Canadian French, German, Welsh, Orcadian and Zimbabwean Shona): (tags:scotland wales language )
British government is lying when refusing to rescue visa-free music tours of EU, lawyers confirm: (tags:uk government lying BorisJohnson Conservatives music europe )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4035461.html

Here's Britain's beloved royal family selling access to Putin: (tags:UK monarchy Russia corruption )
Serious questions for the Electoral Commission tonight as inexplicable ruling appears to have robbed the Greens (and thus the pro-independence camp) of two seats they should have won: (tags:elections GreenParty Scotland OhForFucksSake names viaDanielDWilliam )
Gravity is a double copy of other forces: (tags:gravity physics mathematics )
Tory 'Blue Wall' in south starting to crumble, claim Liberal Democrats: (tags:England politics libdem Conservatives )
Edinburgh ghost tour guide doesn't give a fuck: (tags:Edinburgh scary video funny true )
Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid Transmission?: (tags:pandemic epicfail who virus history )
Freeport firms won't be able to export without paying huge tariffs: (tags:trade WTF UK )
Three new horror novels which take motherhood and birth as their starting point: (tags:motherhood childbirth children horror books viaClare )
Glass walkway in China loses panels in high winds, looks even more terrifying than usual: (tags:glass bridge scary China wind )
Justice League: Gal Gadot Confirms Threats To Her Career Were Made By Joss Whedon: (tags:JossWhedon OhForFucksSake movies )
The Animal is tired: (tags:age )
Buyer sought for £250m hydro scheme at Glenmuckloch: (tags:scotland hydroelectric storage electricity )
Boris Johnson being investigated over Caribbean holiday and flat renovation: (tags:BorisJohnson corruption )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4034669.html

Brexit trade deal 'very unstable' and can easily be brought crashing down, legal expert warns MPs: (tags:Europe UK trade Doom )
Denmark launches children's TV show about man with giant penis: (tags:TV children penis )
Inside the Covid ward: (tags:pandemic healthcare awful UK )
How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus: (tags:virus gestation pregnancy mammals )
Ten scary bodies of water: (tags:water scary ViaDrCross )
WhatsApp updates its Privacy Policy to mandate data-sharing with Facebook: I use Signal as an alternative that's Facebook free.
(tags:im chat Facebook privacy )
45% of Republicans approve of the storming of the Capitol Building: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1347007675855302656.html
(tags:politics terrorism usa )
London will be overwhelmed by covid in a fortnight says leaked NHS England briefing: (tags:London UK pandemic Doom )
An interesting/unfortunate side-effect of legalising same sex marriage: (tags:LGBT marriage law USA Australia )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3981377.html

There's Something Super Weird About Netflix Anime: (tags:Netflix anime )
How did "Defund the police" stop meaning "Defund the police"? - Why mainstream progressives have a strong incentive to 'sanewash' hard leftist positions.: (tags:police politics USA )
Alcohol ban introduced on Scotland's railway: (tags:Scotland railways alcohol )
Mapping the connections between Tory politicians and companies being awarded government contracts during the pandemic: (tags:conservatives corruption visualisation )
Not Too Scary, Not Too Tame: Horror Experiences Need To Hit A "Sweet Spot" To Be Enjoyable: (tags:fear fun horror scary psychology )
Louisville Metro Police concealed at least 738,000 records documenting the sexual abuse of Explorer Scouts by two officers — then lied to keep the files from the public: (tags:police abuse USA OhForFucksSake )
Government refuses to guarantee COVID vaccine supplies won't be impacted by 'Brexit disruption': (tags:UK pandemic vaccine Europe Doom )
New invention helps people sober up by exhaling alcohol: (tags:alcohol )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3956782.html

The mysterious case of man who can read letters—but not numbers: (tags:viaDrPlokta numbers vision brain )
What if Plesiosaurs were giant penguins?: (tags:dinosaurs birds penguins )
Teacher Trainees Are More Likely To Misread Black Children As Angry Than White Children: (tags:racism psychology emotion children teachers )
Balrogs cannot fly: (tags:lotr flying )
400 million additional customs checks a year and fines for entering Kent without the proper documentation - the future of British trade with Europe: (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
Mini cyclones are very cool: (tags:weather video viaCipherGoth )
Mysterious spiral structures found extending out of strange star: (tags:space weird )
Harry Potter - But all the wands are guns: (tags:harrypotter guns funny video trailer )
Parents share the times their children were creepy: (tags:children scary Twitter )
The Matrix Was Intended to Be a Trans Story, Says Lilly Wachowski: (tags:transgender TheMatrix movies )
Coronavirus: 'Inexplicable' failure to quarantine travellers to the UK made pandemic far worse: (tags:OhForFucksSake UK pandemic )
Scotland's results day: Thousands of pupils have exam grades lowered: (tags:exams scotland pandemic )
Edinburgh Waverley redevelopment: city centre set for incredible and dramatic transformation: (tags:edinburgh )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3909079.html

On Finding Out Your Heroes are Monsters (How Warren Ellis is a symptom of a toxic culture): (tags:WarrenEllis society comics abuse )
LGBT+ groups from all major parties unite to condemn Boris Johnson's plans to scrap trans self-identification: (tags:LGBT GoodNews politics UK transgender )
"We both rolled over in bed. Me: 'I'm gay.' Her: 'I'm transgender.' Silence. Now what?": (tags:relationships LGBT lesbian transgender family )
We assume that low-income families also have lower needs: (tags:psychology poverty need viaSwampers )
What do 20 years of polling NI on Irish reunification look like?: (tags:polls Ireland NorthernIreland )
Katie Hopkins Permanently Banned From Twitter, Social Media Firm Confirms: (tags:GoodNews Twitter viaSwampers )
Why would you make a children's alphabet song that sounds this creepy??: (tags:music children video wtf language scary )
Universal Recognition of Three Basic Emotions in Music: (tags:music emotion psychology )
Black People in the US Were Enslaved Well into the 1960s: (tags:slavery USA history )
This is why it matters what JK Rowling says about trans people (Republicans using her to shut down debate): (tags:republicans USA transgender LGBT jkrowling )
Domesticating dogs led to them developing eye muscles to affect our feelings: (tags:emotions dogs evolution eyes viaSwampers )
The Covid-19 track and trace app has not been automatically downloaded onto people's phones: (tags:pandemic Apple Google phones apps )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3896421.html

Comicsgate is the latest front in the ongoing culture wars: (tags: comics fascism OhForFucksSake )
Middle Earth Map Style: (tags: maps lotr )
Labour's Tom Watson 'reversed' type-2 diabetes through diet and exercise: (tags: diabetes diet health )
Microsoft intercepting Firefox and Chrome installation on Windows 10: (tags: microsoft windows browsers OhForFucksSake )
EU Parliament triggers Article 7 against Hungary: (tags: Hungary Europe rights )
Harrassing the children of people you don't like is counterproductive to your cause. And a terrible thing to do.: (tags: children politics OhForFucksSake )
Language fluency in speech and print: (tags: language speech accents writing )
Your reminder that Apple will delete movies you "bought" from your library. And keep your money.: (tags: Apple movies copyright OhForFucksSake )
Oregon novelist who wrote 'How to Murder Your Husband' charged with murdering her husband: (tags: murder writing novel headline )
This is the kind of behaviour from the Tories that pushes people towards independence: (tags: Scotland Conservatives OhForFucksSake )
MEPs vote to ban killer robots on battlefield: (tags: robots war europe )
Did the DC movie universe creators set out to make a mess? Because that's what they've produced: (tags: dc comics movies )
Ipswich town centre haunted by eerie nursery rhyme (creepiest story I've heard in some time): (tags: uk WTF scary )
A Christmas Carol, a vanishing Italian, and a single lunch. A real life mystery.: (tags: writing CharlesDickens italy weird )
"No joke: TV editors cut me out of a panel show – and didn’t even notice": (tags: women tv comedy )
Scientist Publishes A List Of Known Harassers in Academia: (tags: academia abuse )
Men Wish Women Would Stop Expecting These Things From Romcoms In Real Life: (tags: movies men women behaviour relationships )
EU Trials Tracker — Who's not sharing clinical trial results?: (tags: Europe research fail )
Horrible Science Stories #1a.k.a. How To Kill Several Thousand Women: (tags: cancer research women breasts OhForFucksSake fraud )
Juvenile or adult? Leap-year suspect poses conundrum for Australian court: (tags: time age australia law )
UK mass surveillance programme violates human rights, European court rules: (tags: privacy rights uk europe )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3723143.html

What does "Ireland First" mean, and how did we get here?: (tags: Ireland uk europe )
Man Behind Scottish Comic Cons is a Far-Right Fanatic: (tags: comics Scotland conventions bigotry uk )
Scottish Lobbying Register goes live: (tags: scotland lobbying )
Just how dangerous is bacon? And how can we make it safer?: (tags: food bacon safety cancer health viaSwampers )
The cliff that changed our understanding of time: (tags: geology time history )
Future of 1p and 2p coins questioned by Treasury: (tags: cash money uk )
A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”: (tags: death mind technology backup )
Men and women have opposite genetic alterations in depression: (tags: gender depression genetics )
There seems to be a racist bomber loose in Austin, Texas: (tags: racism terrorism texas usa )
Teach boys about periods: (tags: menstruation boys )
Kangaroos: Still terrifying: (tags: animals scary australia )
The terrifyingly early age that men start looking at girls sexually: (tags: sex society girls age )
1946 U.S. document reveals Poles treated Jews as badly as Germans did: (tags: Holocaust Poland germany history Jews )
'I want to explain arranged marriage to white people': (tags: Pakistan marriage games )
Stephen Hawking, legendary theoretical physicist, dies at 76: (tags: StephenHawking obituary )
"You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral": You can use it at mine, if you like
(tags: physics death viaElfy )
Analysis discovers 187 genetic locations for intelligence, 583 genes in total: (tags: genetics Intelligence )
We now know 22 Trillion Digits of Pi, bringing us no closer to the end: (tags: pi infinity )
How Hollywood Salaries Really Work: (tags: money movies actors salary hollywood )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3668040.html

The CEO of Goldman Sachs on Brexit: (tags: UK Europe thefuture doom )
Famous Irishmen subject of Westminster Wikipedia editing spree: (tags: Wikipedia Ireland UK history )
The U.S. Is Retreating from Religion: (tags: religion thefuture usa )
Disney's new solar farm shaped like Mickey Mouse: (tags: Disney solarpower )
How to have lucid dreams: (tags: dreams psychology )
US University defends fascist posters telling gay people to kill themselves: (tags: usa University abuse OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )
A lovely story about a very sick girl and a photographer: (tags: sick illness children photography )
Other people not being such twats ‘can help treat depression’, finds study: (tags: satire depression funny )
Britain thinks Germans care about Brexit — they don’t: (tags: Germany Europe uk doom )
Student speech to be censored at UK universities: (tags: university uk freespeech students )
The problem with starting a new centrists political party: (tags: politics uk )
Why the next general election will be in 2022: I'm still hoping for a split in the Conservatives. But it's terribly unlikely.
(tags: politics elections uk )
A Fire Story (A Californian comic artist's tale of evacuation): (tags: fire california usa comic )
It's _really_ important to care for your cookware right: (tags: food comic funny )
Guest blog: Ethical porn - is it real?: (tags: porn morality )
Awesome spooky plants!: (tags: scary plants awesome )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3626830.html

A review of "Job Simulator" by someone unfortunate enough to still have a job.: (tags: jobs VirtualReality games thefuture satire inequality society )
Work begins on affordable housing project in Edinburgh: (tags: housing edinburgh )
Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet: (tags: internet security scary )
The Hail Cannon: A device which was fired at thunderstorms to disrupt the formation of hailstones: (tags: weather sound history )
Roguelike, Roguelikelike, Roguelikelikelike, Or Rogue?: (tags: games language names )
Matt Stone and Trey Parker Spill the Secret to Keeping South Park Cool: (tags: animation satire tv SouthPark )
IMDb Voters Are Downvoting Indie Movies Before They’re Even Released: (tags: movies reviews wtf )
A judge writes in clear, simple English so that those affected by his judgement can understand.: I wonder how much harder it is to write legal judgments like this.
(tags: law language explanations )
Hinkley Point: UK approves nuclear plant deal: (tags: nuclearpower uk )
Motherless babies possible as scientists create live offspring without need for female egg: (tags: children science men thefuture )
Grammar schools benefit rich, says OECD: (tags: school uk Education )
A 3D model of a clitoris – and the start of a sexual revolution: (tags: sex women biology genitals )
My favorite response to the GBBO apocalypse: (tags: tv uk funny cooking )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3503991.html

There Will Officially Be no more X-Men in Marvel Comics: (tags: comics movies marvel xmen )
23andMe Pulls Off Massive Crowdsourced Depression Genetics Study: (tags: genetics depression )
New Navy Tech Makes It Easy to Land on a Carrier. (Good acronym too): (tags: airplanes ocean automation )
Millennial generation turning their backs on sex in highest numbers since the 1920s: (tags: sex demographics )
Looking at the next phase of improving the Edinburgh to Glasgow train network: (tags: trains transport edinburgh glasgow scotland uk )
Massachusetts makes it illegal for an employer to ask you your previous salary during an interview: (tags: jobs salary usa money law )
A Unified Theory Of Randomness: (tags: mathematics random )
Men cite their own research way more than women do: (tags: research gender science )
Dark Ages royal palace discovered in Cornwall: (tags: uk history archaeology )
Walt Disney's & Salvador Dali's collaboration: "Destino": (tags: animation art Disney )
China's glass walkway opens in Tianmen mountain: (tags: china nature beautiful scary )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3488147.html

I am on the Kill List. This is what it feels like to be hunted by drones: (tags: drone war pakistan usa assassination )
The key to the perfect apology has been discovered by scientists: (tags: psychology )
A first for women: Lady Dorrian appointed Lord Justice Clerk: (tags: scotland law women history )
Classical painters depict software engineering: (tags: software programming development art funny )
Auto Mechanics Recreate Renaissance Paintings: (tags: art funny engineering )
Thoughts On Open Marriage and Illness: (tags: relationships illness polyamory people viaErindubitably )
Leaked scenes from the next movie in the Jurassic Park series.: (tags: funny dinosaurs )
The Strange Case of the Woman Who Can’t Remember Her Past—Or Imagine Her Future: (tags: memory thefuture psychology )
What It’s Like to ‘Wake Up’ From Autism: (tags: autism magnets brains )
REVEALED: Corbyn's links to apple thieves: (tags: politics satire newspapers )
Humans are scary: (tags: humans scary )
Almost 50% of the UK population hold authoritarian populist views: (tags: politics uk )
There Is a Moderate Republican in this Race, but She’s Running as a Democrat: (tags: politics usa viaElfy )
Swallowing the Red Pill: a journey to the heart of modern misogyny: (tags: misogyny men society internet )
Why my videogame chooses your character’s race and gender for you: (tags: games gender race )
Paralysed man now able to play Guitar Hero thanks to computer chip in his brain: (tags: cyborg Technology thefuture )
360-degree video takes you inside the Game of Thrones titles: (tags: video VirtualReality gameofthrones )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3440247.html

The voting record of IDS replacement.: (tags: politics voting Conservatives welfare )
Consider the Merkin: A Brief History of Pubic Wigs in Hollywood: (tags: movies hair sex nudity )
Boeing unveils game-changing autonomous submarine: (tags: ocean automation robots Technology )
Tumblr vs Lord of the Rings: (tags: lotr funny )
Alligators congregating at night are _terrifying_: (tags: scary animals photographs )
How avionics engineers keep everything in perspective: (tags: advice )
Impressive video of a chunk of the new Queensferry Crossing over the Forth being moved into place: (tags: edinburgh bridge video )
Psychedelic drugs are as safe as riding a bike or playing football: (tags: safety drugs psychedelics )
BART's twitter manager starts speaking openly/honestly, gets appreciation for it: (tags: transport twitter truth )
Time, gentlemen: when will the last all-male clubs admit women?: (tags: gender misogyny uk )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3427469.html

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3241795.html

At night the animals gather together. They watch. And they wait...
(tags: night animals photos scary )
Is inequality the enemy of growth?
(tags: inequality growth economics )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3164226.html

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