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Interesting Links for 16-10-2024

1. Research released into the effects of the UK's trans puberty blocker ban: (tags:UK bigotry LGBT transgender healthcare mentalhealth children OhForFucksSake )
2. The move to USB C for charging is a done deal. I'm not sure what the UK has to "consider" about it.: (tags:UK usb Europe electricity )
3. Doctor Who and the Sign Language Question: (tags:drwho sign language video funny viaSwampers )
4. Turns out that once Uber had to make money they started charging more and paying less to their drivers: (tags:driving jobs taxi pay glasgow scotland )
5. "Homeostatic Complacency" is something I've encountered plenty of times. Is there a more traditional name for it?: (tags:psychology behaviour )
6. Seriously ill patients on mental health wards will be helped with their CV: (tags:mentalhealth jobs uk wtf )
7. Too many "local" news sites aren't. I'm so glad that we have at least one in Edinburgh that really is.: (tags:news edinburgh )
8. Confronting the truth about Alex Salmond: (tags:AlexSalmond rape abuse death scotland politics )
9. What's Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures?: (tags:globalwarming doom )
10. Labour Together: From new MPs to cabinet ministers, how the influential think tank's donations are bankrolling the party, and who they are linked to.: (tags:labour money corruption )
11. Seven New Frogs Named After Iconic Star Trek Captains: (tags:frog StarTrek names sound viaSwampers )

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Interesting Links for 28-04-2022

1. Misogyny in Scotland - QC reports to the Scottish government: (tags:Scotland misogyny )
2. Covid: Discharging hospital patients to care homes 'unlawful': (tags:UK Pandemic OldAge death )
3. Russia Is Being Hacked at an Unprecedented Scale: (tags:hacking Russia Ukraine )
4. A puzzling phenomenon: Patients report a rebound of COVID-19 symptoms after taking the antiviral Paxlovid (still better than not taking it though): (tags:Pandemic virus treatment )
5. Behold: The Sign War!: (tags:sign funny )
6. A deep dive into the cases of hepatitis amongst kids in the UK: (tags:children disease Pandemic uk )
7. The untold story of Britain's first black school teacher: (tags:Scotland race school history )
8. "I Animated My Watercolors": (tags:animation painting art viaClare )
9. Opinions divided over reintroduction of lynx to Scotland: (tags:cats wildlife Scotland )
10. Central African Republic Adopts Bitcoin as Legal Tender: (tags:Africa bitcoin )
11. Pupils boost memory and fitness from fifteen minutes of daily activity: (tags:exercise )
12. Why we should sanction Putin's favourite conductor: (tags:music corruption Russia Ukraine war )
13. Making rope by hand from hemp looks like a lot of hard work: (tags:manufacturing video )

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4055638.html

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Interesting Links for 01-07-2021

7-8% of children who get Covid still have symptoms three months later: (tags:pandemic children Doom )
Football linked to 2,000 Scottish Covid cases: (tags:football pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Deep sea mining could start in two years, triggering terrible loss of biodiversity: (tags:ocean mining viaDanielDWilliam )
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021: Shortlist revealed (and it's gorgeous!): (tags:photos space viacmcmck )
How Twitter can ruin a life: Isabel Fall's complicated story (she wrote the sci-fi story "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter": (tags:twitter society transgender lgbt scifi )
What mRNA is Good For, And What It Maybe Isn't: (tags:genetics immune_system vaccine )
Amazon allows people to hijack your reviews and product listings.: (tags:Amazon fraud OhForFucksSake )
Methodist Church allows same-sex marriage: (tags:UK religion marriage Christianity )
Why doesn't *my* bus stop have a life size Totoro at it?: (tags:buses Japan ghibli viaSwampers )
Nissan announces major UK electric car expansion: (tags:UK Japan electricity cars manufacturing Europe )
Wet Bulb Temperature - what is it, and how is it making parts of the planet uninhabitable?: (tags:globalwarming doom )
Ever wondered what Australian Sign Language for "startled naked by a deer" was? (SFW link): (tags:nudity video sign viaLilysea )
Triggering Password-Recovery Questions: (tags:funny passwords trauma viaSwampers )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4048905.html

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Interesting Links for 12-06-2021

Sperm DNA methylation epimutation biomarker for paternal offspring autism susceptibility: (tags:autism epigenetics genetics )
The Connecticut deli that won't let you discuss mathematics in the line: (tags:mathematics food sign viaNancyLebov )
Sea eagles at Loch Lomond for first time in 100 years: (tags:eagle nature scotland )
Human chromosomes are much heavier than they should be and nobody knows why: (tags:genetics )
Government backs call to raise legal age of marriage in England and Wales to 18: (tags:marriage age children UK )
Young people are deserting Labour for the Greens: (tags:GreenParty labour politics uk )
'Nothing is negotiable': France threatens to veto any changes to Brexit deal: (tags:France UK Europe Doom )
Reflections on an Irish Wake: (tags:death Ireland emotion video viaSwampers )
Keep out or be fined: Edinburgh city centre ban on older vehicles: (tags:transport cars pollution Edinburgh Scotland )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4006987.html

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Interesting Links for 28-02-2021

Single Covid case puts New Zealand's largest city Auckland back into lockdown: (tags:pandemic newzealand )
Do you like it when things in your house just line up? Then you'll hate these photos.: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1365166195960242180.html
(tags:design fail housing photos )
Public massively backs new taxes on wealthy and business to pay for Covid debt: (tags:tax UK pandemic )
Using AI to animate faces from art and history. (quite fond of the Laughing Cavalier): https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1365851229021208576.html
(tags:art faces history animation ai )
The five step process for Democrats to get rid of the filibuster: (tags:USA politics voting viaDanielDWilliam )
White Allies are great, except when it comes to changing anything (in this case, in education): (tags:race racism education )
Road signs that should exist, but sadly don't: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1365705812799324160.html
(tags:transport roads sign funny )

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Interesting Links for 03-07-2020

How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime: (tags:crime technology phones encryption )
Self-Compassion Can Protect You From Feeling Like A Burden When You Mess Things Up For Your Group: (tags:emotion psychology )
U.S. Customs Seizes 13 Tons Of Hair Weaves From Chinese Prison Camps: (tags:China hair concentration OhForFucksSake )
Coronavirus: Face coverings to become mandatory in Scottish shops.: (tags:Scotland pandemic )
UK gives go-ahead to giant windfarm project off Norfolk coast: (tags:UK windpower )
Florida State University tells employees they can't care for kids while working remotely - Women are deeply unimpressed: (tags:women society work Florida USA pandemic )
New glove translates sign language to speech in real time: (tags:technology speech sign )
Why is every dodgy government contract for £108m?: (tags:UK money government wtf )
Harry Potter fan sites distance themselves from JK Rowling over transgender rights: (tags:LGBT jkrowling fandom transgender harrypotter )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3791602.html

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Interesting Links for 20-05-2019

How the UK allocates EU election seats: (tags:uk europe voting video )
The sign language translation of Iceland's Eurovision entry is great fun: (tags:sign video music eurovision )
The Vader/Kenobi duel, reimagined: (tags:StarWars fanfic video )
If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? Turns out it's just chance: (tags:inequality luck success )
Old People Are More Conservative Because the Poor Die Young: (tags:age inequality politics )
In the hairdressers nobody can tell if your baby is a dog: (tags:dogs babies funny )
He voted for Trump. Now he and his wife raise their son from opposite sides of the border: It's leopards all the way down
(tags:immigration usa marriage OhForFucksSake karma )
Which of the Eurovision entries are British people actually listening to?: (tags:music eurovision )
A collection of peer reviewed research on transgender issues: (tags:lgbt transgender research )
The most terrible behaviour people have witnessed at an academic conference (note the gender divide): (tags:abuse conference academia )
What Actually Happens When a Country Bans Abortion: (tags:abortion history Romania )
Reference and shot comparison for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: (tags:animation video spiderman marvel )
Letting go to give yourself space to let the pictures grow: (tags:autism comic )
'They Were Conned': How Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi Drivers: (tags:OhForFucksSake loans taxi newyork usa )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3786731.html

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Interesting Links for 04-05-2019

Emergency stop signs projected onto waterfalls at road tunnel entrances: (tags:sign driving Technology water light )
Boris Johnson lies about voting Conservative: (tags:Conservatives BorisJohnson lying )
The Jewish population in 2019 is still lower than it was in 1939: (tags:Holocaust Jews history )
Botanical Sexism Cultivates Home-Grown Allergies: (tags:allergies gender plants )
Zionists And Anti-Zionists Don't Agree About What Zionism Is: (tags:Israel Jews nationality )
How EU and member-state officials view Brexit.: (tags:europe uk politics france )
Why Labour's local election losses will be more significant for UK and Brexit than the bigger Tory losses: (tags:labour UK europe )
DUP elects first gay candidate in local elections: (tags:dup NorthernIreland wtf lgbt lesbians )
How to Calm a Crying Baby Like a Mesopotamian: (tags:history babies advice archeology )
Corbyn says local elections show voters want deal done on Brexit (he can fuck off): (tags:labour UK europe OhForFucksSake )
Why the media messaging from Conservatives and Labour is making no sense: (tags:Labour conservatives media politics )
Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr and restore site to former porn-filled glory: (tags:tumblr porn )
Beavers given protected status in Scotland: (tags:beavers Scotland )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3741682.html

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Interesting Links for 16-11-2018

‘But we were pwomithed a pony’ shout tedious whiny f*cking Brexiters: (tags: UK europe funny )
EU says Brexit deal is 'best we can do' given Theresa May’s red-lines: (tags: europe uk doom )
Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Investigation Into Russian Election Interference: (tags: facebook politics russia )
Paris mayor plans to pedestrianise city centre: (tags: Paris transport cities )
Brexit poll shows voters back second referendum as Remain takes big lead over Leave: (tags: UK europe referendum )
We are prepared for Britain to cancel Brexit, EU council president Donald Tusk says: (tags: europe uk )
Images from a Japanese illustrated history of America from 1861. Including John Adams fighting a giant snake...: (tags: history usa Japan wtf )
Switzerland has been a lab for toxic rightwing politics. Here's how one group fought back: (tags: Switzerland politics )
The funniest thing I've read about Brexit in ages. This should be a TV show. Although radio might work better: (tags: UK europe politics satire funny )
Emerging reports suggest that a Conservative leadership callenge is about to break out: (tags: uk Conservatives politics doom )
The sign language interpreter doing the Brexit Agreement on BBC News is perfectly conveying the perplexing fuckery of this situation: (tags: uk europe sign )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3739436.html

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Interesting Links for 10-11-2018

Edinburgh's road signs hacked by artist: (tags: roads sign graffiti art edinburgh )
More than 50% of countries now have a declining population: (tags: population children GoodNews )
Women over 34 are being refused IVF treatment in England: (tags: uk england fertility women nhs )
Number of shop closures in Scotland accelerates: (tags: scotland shopping )
Iceland's Christmas TV advert banned for being too political: (tags: iceland advertising uk politics business )
The 2018 US Gender voting Gap Was Huge: (tags: voting politics usa gender )
Ryanair plane seized by French authorities in cash row: (tags: airplanes france subsidies )
We didn’t have to do Brexit in this damn silly way: (tags: uk europe epicfail )
Female Afghan barrister sacked in favour of white man: (tags: women afghanistan law uk bigotry )
Conservative minister resigns over Brexit deal - demands new referendum.: (tags: UK europe Conservatives )
A Work in Progress: Earthsea Sketches by Charles Vess (I have the book on my Christmas list): (tags: UrsulaKLegGuin books fantasy )
Photos of Kristallnacht.: (tags: Jews holocaust history germany )
Before Envelopes, People Protected Messages With Letterlocking: (tags: history paper letter )
Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Being Sued Over Satanic Deity: (tags: religion TV intellectual_property )
Living in Canada? Now you can date through Facebook: (tags: facebook dating relationships )
Jeremy Corbyn angers Labour MPs as he declares 'we can't stop Brexit': (tags: labour UK europe OhForFucksSake )
EU clamps down on Isle of Man tax loophole for private jets and yachts: (tags: tax europe UK )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3727332.html

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Interesting Links for 26-09-2018

"Think of Sweeper like a self-driving car, only with a saw on its face and a hunger for peppers.": (tags: automation vegetables farming )
Possibly the best argument on Twitter: (tags: logic argument funny )
Fruit has evolved different colours to attract different animal species: (tags: fruit colour food evolution animals )
Parasites, serotonin, dopamine, and social media: I don't actually recommend you dump social media. Frankly, socialising is good.
(tags: Parasites socialmedia )
Reality Check: What is Labour's Brexit plan?: (tags: labour uk europe )
The U.S. Army admits that they're dependent on recruiting people from poverty: (tags: poverty military usa viaSwampers )
How does Shazam work?: (tags: music computers mathematics )
Scotland confronts homophobes and transphobes in amazing new billboard campaign: (tags: lgbt homophobia transgender scotland )
Although many thought Koko the ape used sign language, there's really no evidence: (tags: sign language ape )
Making government as a platform real: (tags: government internet )
Labour's Brexit plan: to have an illusion of a plan, not an actual plan: (tags: uk europe Labour OhForFucksSake )
Disgusting: [NERD PROPERTY] Fans Are Boycotting Because It Features Some [MARGINALIZED PEOPLE] *TEMPLATE*: (tags: satire true games bigotry abuse )
The contexts of Thatcher’s Bruges speech of 1988: (tags: margaretthatcher Europe history conservatives politics uk )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3697254.html

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Interesting Links for 22-06-2018

Listen and weep: Audiobooks outdo films in emotional engagement: (tags: books emotion tv movies )
How bad could Brexit be, really?: (tags: Europe UK doom )
Famous gorilla Koko who could do sign language has died at the age of 46: (tags: gorillas sign language )
Why Rank-And-File Evangelicals Aren’t Likely To Turn On Trump Over Family Separation - For Now.: (tags: religion usa immigration racism society )
First physiological test for autism has 88% accuracy in second trial: (tags: autism )
The day after: Tory MPs look at the cliff-edge: (tags: politics UK Europe )
Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant: (tags: food automaton )
Immigrant children have been forcibly injected with powerful psychiatric drugs at one of the U.S. government "shelters": (tags: drugs usa children immigration OhForFucksSake )
Roseanne officially going on without the titular character: (tags: tv funny )
Airbus warns no-deal Brexit could see it leave UK - taking 14,000 jobs with it: (tags: airplanes uk europe jobs business doom )
Guys, guys, I found the very definition of entitlement: (tags: StarWars OhForFucksSake )
Edinburgh trams profits more than £1m above forecast: Considering that it's only half of the line, I'm amazed it's making a profit at all.
(tags: trams edinburgh )
Investigating The Mysterious ‘Jumping Gene’ That Appears 500k Times in Human DNA: (tags: genetics )
Air Force certifies Falcon Heavy, orders satellite launch for 2020: (tags: Spacex )
Eurozone agrees deal to bring Greece out of financial crisis: (tags: Greece debt Europe economy )
Psychiatric disorders share an underlying genetic basis: (tags: genetics mentalhealth )
A mechanism behind choosing alcohol over healthy rewards is found (in rats, but probably also humans): (tags: alcohol brain genetics addiction rats )
Turns out Stephen King is responsible for Donald Trump: (tags: usa politics horror funny stephen_king )
The great irony of Brexit is that it is teaching the UK that it already had the best model: EU membership: (tags: europe uk )
The three legal ways by which Brexit may not take place on 29 March 2019: (tags: uk europe law )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3624798.html

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Interesting Links for 13-10-2017

EU tells Britain it will make no concessions to break 'disturbing deadlock' in Brexit negotiations: (tags: uk europe )
Predicting the next five years of Virtual Reality technology: (tags: VirtualReality Technology thefuture )
New York Is Throwing Money at Film Shoots, But Who Benefits?: (tags: movies newyork money )
Harvey Weinstein: Did everyone really know?: (tags: abuse hollywood movies media )
Horseshoe bus seats introduced to encourage passengers to talk to each other: (tags: OhForFucksSake transport social )
Every warning sign has a story.: (tags: sign )
Las Vegas Is Only the Deadliest Shooting in US History Because Black Lives Aren’t Counted: (tags: usa violence death racism )
Finally! The real explanation for why cats behave the way they do: (tags: cats funny viaJennieRigg )
Why I’m not surprised when I hear that powerful men are fucking creeps: (tags: abuse rape work )
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy to return in 2018: (tags: HHG2G radio )
Fighting racism: Teaching kids to identify individual black people can reduce racial bias: (tags: racism psychology )
TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code: For the intro text, explaining how it came to be.
(tags: programming fail )
Eating magic mushrooms can treat depression: (tags: psychedelics depression psychology )
Food poverty in the UK is, frankly, disgusting: (tags: food poverty inequality uk )
DNA, tribal identity, and a new history of the old New World: (tags: usa history genetics race )
Birmingham Islamic faith school guilty of sex discrimination for segregating children: (tags: islam school discrimination gender children )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3357693.html

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Interesting Links for 22-10-2015

Plastic bag charge in Scotland sees usage cut by 80%
- (tags: environment Scotland )
Fascinating court case involve a deaf man with almost no language skills who had to give evidence
- (tags: speech sign law Scotland )
Here's where the public are on Jeremy Corbyn's side - and where they aren't
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The TV industry wants you to go 4K, but the professionals won't be joining you
- (tags: HDTV tv )
Graph of Memory (and Storage) Prices Decreasing with Time
- (tags: visualisation memory storage technology )
Scotland is consulting on giving more powers to the Islands
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NASA Funds Electricity-Harvesting Robotic Space Eel With Explosive Jet Thrusters and Electroluminescent Skin
- (Mostly for the headline, which I got via Warren Ellis)
- (tags: space technology awesome )
"The future is coming" a fascinating talk by Warren Ellis
- (tags: WarrenEllis thefuture video )
Microsoft Leads Movement to Offset Emissions With Internal Carbon Tax
- (tags: globalwarming carbon Microsoft )
A man, a motorcycle, a very angry squirrel, and an epic fight
- (tags: funny squirrel motorcycle )
The Wikipedia Entry for Guam, Retold as a YA Novel
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How the world forgot the cure for Scurvy
- (tags: science history health medicine nutrition vitaminC epicfail navy fruit )
A one-year delay in the start of school dramatically reduces inattention/hyperactivity at age 7
- (tags: adhd attention school )
Is there a principled distinction between refusing to watch American Sniper and refusing to read Fun Home?
- (tags: race value morality freespeech education )
Californians gain the right to die
- (tags: death California euthenasia rights usa )
North African assimilation into France
- (tags: immigration Africa France )
Preventing child sexual abuse
- (tags: Child_abuse )
Per pupil spending to fall by 8%
- (tags: uk schools )
Low carbon electricity now competitive, says government panel
- (tags: uk carbon electricity windpower solarpower )
I had no idea that fruit sorting technology was so impressive
- (tags: technology farming vegetables fruit automation )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3122790.html

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Interesting Links for 19-07-2014

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