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1. Trans women may be banned from women's NHS wards, and inclusive language is being removed: (tags:OhForFucksSake transgender lgbt bigotry uk nhs )
2. UK exporters face carbon tax tariff after Sunak's green U-turn: (tags:uk europe tax co2 globalwarming )
3. Edinburgh Council is asking opinions on the licensing of strip clubs, etc. Please support the employees.: (tags:sexwork edinburgh consultation )
4. Ad-free Facebook, Instagram access planned for $14 per month in Europe (I am tempted to become their actual customer): (tags:facebook business )
5. Reasons to feel positive about the state of computer games: (tags:gaming GoodNews )
6. How HS2s destruction of ancient woodland was blown massively out of proportion: (tags:fraud hs2 transport forests UK )
7. US House of Representatives speaker ousted by rebellious Republicans in historic first: (tags:politics USA )
8. Who can honestly say that they have enough SPAM® merchandise in their life? (Clearly we all need a Canjo): (tags:spam merchandising wtf )
9. UK starts tracking Covid again: (tags:uk pandemic )

1. Mourning Porn on Imgur, Mourning Trans & Kinky History: (tags:censorship lgbt history OhForFucksSake )
2. Houston's only lesbian bar denied insurance for hosting drag: (tags:insurance clothing gender OhForFucksSake )
3. Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards - the finalists for every year since 2016: (tags:animals funny photos )
4. How the use of technology in science fiction tells you what the writer is actually interested in talking about: (tags:scifi writing )
5. About as simple a guide as you can get to how the recent flock of AIs work. (It really is Searle's Chinese Room): (tags:language mathematics ai )
6. People are still massively wasting publishers' time by submitting AI generated short stories.: (tags:AI short_story publishing OhForFucksSake spam )
7. The Staircase of Global Warming Denial: (tags:globalwarming visualisation )
8. What's so great about Costa Rica?: (tags:SouthAmerica politics society history )

1. Dot Dot Dot - the finest review in the history of reviews (and a throwback to an earlier age of the internet): (tags:games review funny video )
2. The art school reject who became one of the world's top glass artists: (tags:art glass scotland )
3. The Bitter Lesson for AI - it's better to design general learning systems and wait for processing power to catch up than to try and simulate human approaches: (tags:ai history computers )
4. The sound of the dialup, pictured (For very old people, who remember when the internet had a sound): (tags:modem sound visualisation )
5. Why health-care services are in chaos everywhere: (tags:healthcare doom pandemic )
6. UK government blocks Scotland's gender reform bill in constitutional first: (tags:UK bigotry LGBT transgender Scotland OhForFucksSake conservatives )
7. Lasers used to guide lightning strikes to a safe target: (tags:lasers lightning technology cool )
8. Every so often I'm reminded that I'm really glad I don't have to date men: (tags:dating men wtf viaSwampers )
9. Toddlers inventing words is cute and funny: (tags:funny children language viaClare )
10. I'm sure that Apple used to at least *pretend* to do user friendly design: (tags:Apple ux epicfail OhForFucksSake )
11. What's the method that Westminster is using to block Scottish gender reform law?: (tags:Scotland UK law viaDanielDWilliam )
12. Amazon! Cancels! Clarkson!: (tags:TV Amazon )
13. Dreamwidth is updating its anti-spam approach - please ensure your email address is confirmed: (tags:dreamwidth spam email )
14. A raccoon tries to catch falling snow: (tags:raccoon snow video cute )
15. NHS will be 'no better off' under Labour than the Tories, say GPs amid backlash over Keir Starmer comments: (tags:nhs healthcare uk labour OhForFucksSake )
16. Lethal radiation from space played role in Earth's biggest mass extinction: (tags:radiation space extinction )
17. Netflix Has Created A Self-Fulfilling Cancelation Loop With Its New Shows: (tags:netflix doom business tv )

Why is the idea of 'gender' provoking backlash the world over?: (tags:gender bigotry authoritarianism LGBT transgender )
Sewage emptied at 26 beaches along Cornish coast: (tags:Cornwall waste UK OhForFucksSake )
Looks like a lot of Conservatives will need to get a PCR test pretty swiftly: (tags:Pandemic conservatives OhForFucksSake )
How to Report Bugs Effectively: (tags:bugs software advice )
Norfolk sand: Has a colossal experiment worked?: (tags:sand sea )
'Parliamentary Sovereignty' Vs 'Parliamentary Supremacy': (tags:parliament law uk constitution )
Ofcom orders phone networks to block foreign scam calls: (tags:uk phones scam spam fraud regulation )
Opinion: I can't even say 'woman' anymore, except for how I just said it, and all the times I'll say it in this piece, and all the times I say it in my everyday life: (tags:viaJamesNicoll women transgender journalism satire funny lgbt bigotry )
Google colluded with Facebook to rip off publishers and advertisers: (tags:Facebook Google fraud OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4103470.html

Mysterious mammoth bone circle discovered in Russia could help explain how humans survived last Ice Age: (tags:prehistory Russia )
The vast majority of companies will not be able to claim on insurance for a Coronavirus-related shutdown: (tags:disease insurance business )
No10 insists Brexit transition period will not be extended as trade talks cancelled due to coronavirus: (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
Coronavirus: Dutch adopt controversial 'herd immunity' strategy: (tags:netherlands disease immune_system )
Plaits of hair, c 350 BCE, recovered from bogs in Denmark.: (tags:archeology hair viaDanielDWilliam )
A toilet paper run is like a bank run. The economic fixes are about the same: (tags:economics fail toilets paper viaDanielDWilliam )
Facebook wrongly blocked some links, including coronavirus info: (tags:Facebook spam errors )
What it's like on Twitter for a woman on University Challenge?: (tags:TV women society Twitter )
The Romero Dawn of the Dead has come to pass!: (tags:zombies shopping apocalypse satire video )
Working from home is hard when you're a violinist: (tags:music children funny disease )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3874689.html

The NYT “Part of the Resistance ” piece is strategic conservative propaganda, not self-promotion.: (tags: republicans politics usa )
"Cuts in income tax, business tax, capital gains tax and stamp duty plus an 'expeditionary force' to the Falkland Islands - a glimpse of Rees-Mogg's post-Brexit vision of Britain: (tags: UK conservatives OhForFucksSake europe )
"I decided then and there: I would build a battery-powered machine to play podcasts at the bear until the peaches ripened": (tags: bears fruit Technology )
UK’s worst-selling map: The empty landscape charted by OS440: (tags: scotland maps )
The remarkably quick death of telephone culture: (tags: phones society technology communication spam viaFJM )
Heinlein’s Fan Mail Solution: (tags: heinlein fandom communication )
A rising far-right is not the big story of Sweden’s election. It’s fragmentation: (tags: sweden politics )
4Chan are trying to get black people arrested or killed: (tags: fraud racism usa OhForFucksSake )
Hard Evidence: Do we become more conservative with age?: (tags: age psychology politics )
Why Can’t Apes Talk?: (tags: ape speech brain )
How WhatsApp causes lynchings in India: (tags: India murder fraud communication )
Amazon has patented a system that would put workers in a cage, on top of a robot: (tags: robots work amazon )
"A family friend shares their experience of explaining nanotechnology to Boris Johnson.": (tags: technology politics fail )
"Things I Never Knew About Las Vegas Until I Ran a High-Roller Suite" (Definitely just the tip of the iceberg): (tags: gambling casino LasVegas )
myeu.uk - see what the EU has done for your area: (tags: Europe maps )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3722285.html

The Nazis never saw themselves as villains.: (tags: Nazis history morality genocide )
What Do (American) Men Think It Means To Be A Man?: (tags: men society )
Disastrous copyright bill vote approved by EU committee: (tags: copyright europe OhForFucksSake )
Lord Sugar causes outrage with obviously racist tweet: (tags: racism OhForFucksSake uk )
The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace: (tags: satire funny work software )
Revealed: New plans for trams and cars to share single lane on Leith Walk: (tags: trams edinburgh )
No I will not sell you a 'dofollow' link: I get asked to share spam at least twice a week. It's very annoying
(tags: spam advertising fraud web )
World trending to hit 50% renewables, 11% coal by 2050 (which still isn't enough for global warming relief): (tags: globalwarming renewables electricity thefuture )
Economists focus too little on what people really care about: (tags: economics )
Fewer Births Than Deaths Among Whites in Majority of U.S. States: (tags: birth death usa race demographics )
Report: Lucasfilm puts Obi-Wan film “on hold” after underwhelming Solo debut: (tags: StarWars )
Brexit, the Border and the Union - some fascinating polling: (tags: polls UK Europe Scotland NorthernIreland )
Study outlines reasons to ban electronic collars for dogs: (tags: dogs training pain )
Eels are getting high on cocaine in Britain's drug-polluted rivers (and it's really bad for them): (tags: drugs wildlife uk )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3696947.html

How the legend of Robin Hood went from revolutionary to monarchist: (tags: monarchy myths uk )
I just backed a Kickstarter for a comic recommended by Warren Ellis and Kieron Gillen. Looks gorgeous, take a look!: (tags: comics kickstarter )
The Leeds City Council Election was very odd: (tags: elections voting uk )
How can we have effective laws against cold callers?: (tags: privacy spam phones uk law )
Natalie Portman's move puts pressure on liberal Zionists to take a stand: (tags: israel )
Native American men removed from university tour after parent tells cops they made her nervous: (tags: racism usa academia )
Argentina raises interest rates to 40%: (tags: Argentina economics )
Local elections: 4,000 people turned away from casting their ballot in voter ID pilot: (tags: voting UK identity OhForFucksSake )
Bucking global trends, Japan again embraces coal power: (tags: Japan coal OhForFucksSake nuclearpower )
Judge the value of what you have by what you had to give up to get it: (tags: economics psychology )
Google embraces, extends, and extinguishes: (tags: Google standards competition )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3683869.html

Twenty-six words we don’t want to lose: (tags: language English history viaSwampers )
More casting announced for The Crown season 3: (tags: tv royalty )
Hominin Head-Scratcher: Who Butchered This Rhino 709,000 Years Ago?: (tags: prehistory humans )
Vasopressin a possible biomarker for social deficits in autism: (tags: hormones autism )
On Spam's 40th Birthday: 25 Things You Didn't Know About Junk Email: (tags: email spam history )
Mindfulness at work: Study first to uncover positive benefits for teams: (tags: mindfulness work teams )
What happens when you get your days wrong and end up alone in a room with your boss and the President of Ireland. While on ketamine...: (tags: drugs ketamine funny ireland )
What Your Myers-Briggs Type Says About Whether You’ll Take the Myers-Briggs Test: (tags: satire funny myers_briggs personality )
British man who has never even been abroad threatened with deportation to Uganda: (tags: uk immigration OhForFucksSake )
A Criminal Gang Used a Drone Swarm to Obstruct an FBI Hostage Raid: (tags: drone crime )
Learning by teaching others is extremely effective – here's why: (tags: learning teaching psychology )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3683659.html

There is no quick fix for the Windrush Kids: (tags: immigration UK OhForFucksSake )
Kameron Hurley's Writing Income: What I Made in 2017: (tags: writing money scifi )
Anyone want to join the Illuminati? The reward scheme looks *amazing*: (tags: spam fraud funny illuminati )
Windrush scandal deeply worrying for EU citizens who fear similar post-Brexit treatment: (tags: Europe UK immigration )
Man who moved from Antigua 59 years ago (age 4) told he is in UK illegally: (tags: immigration history UK OhForFucksSake )
The Chemistry of William Gibson’s Neuromancer: (tags: drugs chemistry scifi cyberpunk )
Anti-hypertensive drugs improving heart rate more in patients who listen to music after taking medication: (tags: music blood )
The brothel operating 'in full view of police': (tags: sexwork uk police )
"Whois" is dead as Europe tells DNS overlord ICANN it will be illegal in a month: (tags: data privacy internet europe viaSwampers )
The maternal grandparent edge: (tags: parenting grandparents women mother )
The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font: (tags: font design china )
Almost half the bills needed to pave way for leaving EU have yet to be introduced to parliament: (tags: government uk europe )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3679130.html

The future is everyone having their own currency: Clearly not. But it's an interesting idea. And fascinating how easy it is now. (I'm reminded that Emperor Norton had one too)
(tags: currency Technology economics )
The eyes of dyslexic people are different: (tags: dyslexia eyes )
Anyone can track your location by using $1,000 of mobile ads. (Never felt better about blocking ads): (tags: advertising surveillance OhForFucksSake )
An open letter to anyone struggling to understand cryptocurrencies: (tags: bitcoin software money )
The concept of “compensation” makes sense of several autism puzzles: (tags: autism psychology )
A new LEGO set honors the women of NASA: (tags: NASA women lego )
Let's talk for a minute about "he knew what he signed up for.": Context here.
(tags: war politics usa death OhForFucksSake )
Dying chimpanzee recognises old human friend before smiling and embracing him: (tags: chimpanzees death )
Millennial Women, More Than Older Women, Think Men Have It Easier: (tags: women society usa )
75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas: (tags: insects OhForFucksSake doom )
New law bans California employers from asking applicants their prior salary: (tags: salary usa privacy )
Giant robots clash in US-Japan battle: (tags: robots funny video usa japan )
Google's AI now learns without human intervention: (tags: ai learning )
More girls aged 13 to 16 are self-harming than ever before - but why?: (tags: girls women children mentalhealth uk )
Spain moves to suspend Catalan autonomy: (tags: Catalonia spain democracy )
Kevin Smith to donate residuals from his Weinstein-produced films to Women in Film: (tags: women abuse movies GoodNews kevinSmith )
Why are the Illuminati advertising on my journal? And why don't they have their own domain?: (tags: illuminati spam conspiracy )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3626381.html

Florida power company exchanging nuclear plans for solar plans, cutting rates: (tags: usa solarpower nuclearpower )
Hot New ‘Anonymous’ Chat App Sarahah Hijacks Millions of Contact Data: (tags: privacy identity data )
Experimentally Reducing Racist Harassment (Being told off by high-status white males makes racists stop): (tags: racism twitter psychology )
How Programming Languages Differ Between Wealthy and Developing Countries: (tags: demographics programming language viaSwampers money )
How vanishing debt costs helped the UK forget about a never-ending deficit: a) We should be investing _heavily_ in better infrastructure right now. Heck, we should have been for a few years, considering how cheaply we can borrow. b) Look at how worried people are about the stock market lining up for a crash. I wonder if a big-enough one could cause us to abort Brexit.
(tags: uk economics viaSwampers )
Lenovo’s first augmented reality glasses are a Star Wars exclusive: (tags: StarWars augmentedreality )
Possibly the oddest spam I've ever had: (tags: illuminati spam weird )
50% of men and 40% of women are unable to identify the vagina on a diagram: I'd like to see the diagram myself, to be honest.
(tags: vagina Education health OhForFucksSake )
The problem with how men perceive rape (and consent in general): (tags: consent rape sex society patriarchy viaJane )
Tory peer says Brexit is good because young people will be able to work longer hours: (tags: UK europe working_hours OhForFucksSake Conservatives )
The story of the Jewish codebreakers who helped win WWII: (tags: wwii encryption history Jews )
How should white people feel about privilege: (tags: privilege race society viaTheFerrett )
Tanzania becomes the latest country to use drones for medical deliveries: (tags: drone healthcare )
Here's the first recorded instance of the F-word in English: (tags: language history swearing )
Learned kinkiness - or how they trained rats to love lingerie: (tags: rats clothing sex psychology )
You can be your own therapist - if you’re up to the job: (tags: psychology mentalhealth )
The new 7,541-piece Lego Millennium Falcon is the biggest and most expensive set ever: (tags: lego StarWars )
Scottish tidal power station breaks world record for electricity generation: (tags: water power scotland )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3612548.html

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