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In bad news for US cloud services, Austrian website's use of Google Analytics found to breach GDPR: (tags:privacy usa europe )
Covid in pregnancy linked to birth-related complications (but vaccination isn't): (tags:Pandemic pregnancy )
New external system for complaints against Scottish ministers: (tags:Scotland complaints government )
A collection of Simpsons/Watchmen mashups: (tags:funny Simpsons mashup Watchmen comics )
The Inside Story of Politics for All, Twitter's Infamous UK News Account: (tags:UK news Twitter )
Beautiful butterfly dresses!: (tags:clothing insects )
How to communicate with difficult doctors: (tags:doctors language )
What If…. the Scottish Conservatives once more become a separate party?: (tags:scotland Conservatives politics viaDanielDWilliam )
Unvaccinated in New York 13 times more likely to get hospitalized: (tags:vaccination pandemic newyork )
Orwell on Political Correctness: (tags:GeorgeOrwell language )
Putting cows into the Mootrix increases their milk production: Prior art http://pvponline.com/comic/mon-may-12
(tags:cows TheMatrix VirtualReality weird )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4136316.html

What do the EU think about the current UK approach to Brexit?: (tags:UK Europe politics )
Parents say religious worship is least appropriate activity for school assemblies: (tags:religion school uk )
Islamophobic incidents rose 375% after Boris Johnson compared Muslim women to 'letterboxes': (tags:islam racism uk Conservatives BorisJohnson OhForFucksSake )
Boris Johnson is completely deluded about the EU: (tags:Europe UK Doom wtf )
The Simpsons dubbed with Half-Life SFX: (tags:games Simpsons video weird )
In which a final ship arrives from the Grey Havens: (tags:lotr comics )
Emperor's New Clothes - A brilliant spoof of Kickstarters for board games: (tags:games satire kickstarter funny viaDanielDWilliam )
Teenager ends up with severe eye damage (enough to be registered blind) from living off crisps and chips.: What annoys me here is that there's clearly a sensory issue going on, but nobody seems to be trying to help them work through this. Just "Eat some veg". People don't restrict their diet this much because they like crisps a lot. They do it because the texture of anything else makes them feel awful.
(tags:food sight OhForFucksSake )
How did pole vaulting even get invented?: (tags:sports slowmotion video )
Labour set to block snap general election over fears of a Boris Johnson no-deal Brexit trick: (tags:UK Europe elections politics )
Scottish elections could move to every five years: (tags:elections scotland )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3820194.html

Kickstarters can go wrong in a variety of ways. This one really hasn't had a good time: (tags:kickstarter CrowdFunding fail manufacturing austria )
Boris Johnson failing to appeal to floating voters needed to win election: (tags:Conservatives uk doom )
The UK will probably never be as ready for no deal as it was in March: (tags:government uk europe doom CivilService )
Friends, Simpsons & Stranger Things living room, now available at IKEA: (tags:IKEA TV simpsons viaElfy )
Trump's post truth communication techniques cement his supporters' beliefs: (tags:society lies politics usa )
The Weather Forecaster Who Saved D-Day: (tags:weather wwii history uk )
Watch the former head of the WTO, back in 2016, pointing out the damage Brexit is going to do to the UK: (tags:UK Europe Doom trade )
Ann Widdecombe's one-woman show pulled by theatre after gay therapy remark, saying it will not 'provide stage for these vile people': (tags:LGBT )
A disabled person talks about how they came to support Scottish Independence: (tags:disability Scotland independence )
Glasgow drives huge fall in serious violent crime across Scotland: (tags:crime Scotland violence GoodNews glasgow )
Labour will not win general election unless it backs second Brexit referendum: (tags:UK Europe Labour )
The euthanasia that wasn't: (tags:euthanasia fail journalism Netherlands uk )
California has 6,000 square miles of ladybugs: (tags:insect California )
Heathrow scanners will mean liquids can stay in bags: (tags:airplanes security_theatre Technology )
The Stigma Against Women who Report Sexual Harassment: (tags:harassment OhForFucksSake )
I'm curious how they lost the ability to make good X-Men movies: (tags:movies xmen fail )
The cutting-edge of cutting: How Japanese scissors have evolved: (tags:design Japan )
Robots pretending to be humans pretending to be robots pretending to be humans: (tags:robots humans funny AI turing ViaDrCross )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3796763.html

The Stanford Prison Experiment is a fraud: why famous psychology studies are now being torn apart: (tags: psychology research science fraud fail )
It's official: cromulent is a perfectly cromulent word: Somewhere out there is a very happy Simpsons writer
(tags: language simpsons )
UK will press ahead with Brexit laws despite lack of consent from Scotland - Secretary of State for Scotland: (tags: Scotland uk europe )
3 adults in polyamorous relationship declared legal parents in Canada: (tags: Canada polyamory parents law )
Earliest images of the moon were much better than we realised: (tags: space history photographs )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3694942.html

"I Watched All 629 Episodes of The Simpsons in a Month. Here’s What I Learned.": (tags: simpsons society TV review women Intelligence )
Ask a computer to do something and it'll cheat like hell: (tags: ai computers problems intelligence cheating funny )
Technology Meant to Make Bitcoin Money Again Is Now Live: (tags: bitcoin cryptography money )
Live in Phoenix, Arizona? You can now fall asleep in the back seat of a driverless taxi: (tags: taxi automation usa )
If your parents keep getting your name wrong it's because they love the dog just as much: (tags: memory names family )
Two months of daily GTA causes no significant changes in behavior: (tags: behaviour games psychology )
Planting GMOs kills so many bugs that it helps non-GMO crops: (tags: genetics farming insects )
A look at a comic that touched on everything that makes Batman great: (tags: batman comics )
Decoding the Signals In The Prime Minister's Speech on the Russian Poisoning of Sergei Skripal: (tags: Russia UK diplomacy viaFanf )
Gibraltar warns it could rescind citizens rights if Spain uses veto on Brexit deal: (tags: Europe Spain Gibraltar )
No progress in finding solution to Irish Brexit border problem: (tags: Ireland UK Europe NorthernIreland parliament borders )
After Rihanna instructed her 60,000,000 Instagram followers to delete Snapchat, the company's shares plunged- causing the it to lose about $600,000,000.00 in market cap in a matter of hours.: (tags: money celebrity socialmedia )
Cyberattacks Put Russian Fingers on the Switch of American Power Plants: (tags: power Russia security hacking usa )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3668554.html

"Why I want to be adopted at the age of 27": (tags: adoption parenting law scotland )
Cognitive benefits of bilingualism overstated: (tags: language brain )
This satire version of Gwyneth Paltrow's health website reads like the real thing to me: (tags: health fraud satire funny viaJohnBobShaun )
A perfect economic storm made Italy ripe for a protest vote (and the Euro is partially to blame): (tags: euro Italy politics inequality economics )
Re-enter Sandman: Neil Gaiman's comics return with new writers: I loved the Lucifer series we got ages back. Hopefully some of these will also be good.
(tags: sandman neilgaiman comics )
On the sexualisation of the sirens: (tags: greece mythology translation language society sexuality writing patriarchy )
How to persuade a robot that you should get the job: (tags: cv jobs ai Technology )
How generics were added to .NET: (tags: programming design )
Australia could become first country to (nearly) eradicate cervical cancer: (tags: cancer women australia GoodNews )
Fruits and Vegetables Have Become Less Nutritious: (tags: fruit vegetables farming )
The Top Ten: Anachronistic skeuomorphs: (tags: design history )
MPs take 13 minutes to double Royal family income and approve £360m Buckingham Palace refurbishment: (tags: royalty UK money snp )
Women only multi-task because no other bugger does anything: (tags: women multitasking satire funny )
Toddler Feelings Helpline: (tags: babies funny viaSwampers )
Embiggen is now officially a cromulent word: (tags: language simpsons )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3666086.html

Fireworks over Los Angeles look like something out of Blade Runner
- (tags: bladerunner movies USA fireworks video )
What was the worst PR move in history?
- (tags: marketing epicfail viaMyBrotherHugh )
Hellenism and the History of Homosexuality
- (tags: LGBT history Greece UK )
UK Budget - it's becoming harder to tell the Conservatives and Labour apart
- (tags: Labour conservatives economy politics UK budget )
Expat families torn apart by UK visa requirements
- (tags: family conservatives immigration )
The budget is merciful! If your third child is the result of rape then they won't have to starve!
- (tags: rape budget OhForFucksSake children )
Women Are Fighting Boob Censorship By Photoshopping Themselves With Male Nipples
- (tags: breasts censorship funny )
Budget 2015: Five things you need to know about the 'living' wage
- (tags: wages politics UK conservatives )
Labour backs four-year public sector pay cap
- (tags: Labour wages UK )
Budget 2015: Rent reforms 'will massively constrain' efforts to build affordable homes
- (tags: housing UK )
Nobel Prize Winner Peter Higgs Regrets Fielding Your Physics-Based Dungeons and Dragons Questions.
- (tags: physics dungeonsanddragons funny )
The Most Influential Media, According to TvTropes/Google
- (tags: tv movies TVTropes )
The original Akira trailer, remade with Simpsons characters. Behold Bartkira!
- (tags: akira simpsons video )
Everything You Know About Boys and Video Games Is Wrong
- (tags: games gender opinion )
As a means of catching ZIM fans up to speed, Jhonen Vasquez introduces...Recap Kid!
- (tags: comics funny )
Why Tumblr-speech is linguistically exciting
- (tags: language tumblr )
How to make fake breasts
- (tags: breasts cosplay )
The TWA Terminal has gorgeous architecture
- (tags: airport architecture )
Gullane and the East Lothian Question
- (tags: Scotland language )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3310383.html

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Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2780182.html

Ken Clarke defends secret courts. I, of course, think they're an awful idea.
(tags: law secrecy security_theatre uk )
6 Things Rich People Need to Stop Saying
(tags: money income society )
Jews in Scotland may be disenfranchised by a Saturday vote.
Is there a reason why voting has to happen on one day? Give people a week to vote, with daily updates on the ongoing count!
(tags: voting uk scotland independence jews )
Kids born later in the year more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD
(tags: adhd diagnosis children )
Govt. agencies, colleges demand applicants' Facebook passwords. (And they can, frankly, fuck off)
(tags: facebook privacy employment usa )
Dammit, I find myself largely in agreement with esr on Hollywood, piracy and the internet
(tags: censorship politics freedom )
A man who informed police when he found child abuse images on his computer has not been allowed to be alone with his daughter for four months.
(tags: uk Child_abuse )
How I became Amazon’s pitchman for a 55-gallon drum of personal lubricant on Facebook
(tags: lubricant facebook amazon advertising )
On Writers Block
(tags: neilgaiman writing )
I hadn't realised that Gillian Anderson stood on a box for The X-Files
(tags: GillianAnderson x-files tv )
Either be offensive, or don't be offensive. Being offensive and then pretending you weren't is just dumb.
(tags: humour offensive )
Rather than a mansion tax we should be sorting out council tax
(tags: tax uk housing )
Romney vs Mr Burns - can you tell which quote belongs to which one?
(tags: simpsons politics usa )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2670146.html

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