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1. Jewish university students had swastikas drawn on them and told 'Hitler was right', damning NUS report reveals: (tags:students jews bigotry university unions )
2. What Games Are Like For Someone Who Doesn't Play Games: (tags:games ux video )
3. A long thread of people whose fathers or partners just walked out one day: (tags:parenting OhForFucksSake men abandoned )
4. Quote Tweeting: Over 30 Studies Dispel Some Myths: (tags:Twitter communication research )
5. The age of energy abundance may be closer than we think: (tags:electricity renewables thefuture )
6. The Economic Secret Hidden in a Tiny, Discontinued Pasta (That once you lose the ability to manufacture something, no matter how simple, regaining it is a *lot* of work): (tags:pasta manufacturing Doom )
7. The idea that in earlier societies men were the hunters while women were the gatherers is a myth: (tags:gender society history prehistory )

What do autistic women look like?: (tags:women autism )
Downing Street Refuses To Confirm If Picture Of Boris Johnson With Prosecco And Tinsel Was A Party: (tags:party pandemic BorisJohnson )
Pupils shouldn't be allowed to criticise Dear Leader in class, says education secretary: (tags:BorisJohnson politics conservatives school UK )
Scottish estate licence restricted over golden eagle poisoning: (tags:Scotland poison birds animals crime )
Scottish Covid powers to be extended by six months: (tags:Scotland Pandemic law )
British renewables auctions to be held annually in green energy push: (tags:UK renewables GoodNews )
Boomer mathematics: why older generations can't understand the millennial struggle to buy a house: (tags:age economics generation inflation luxury )
Post-natal depression affects 10% of men, but there's no support for it.: (tags:depression men childbirth )
This AI beat the world's best Gran Turismo players: (tags:games ai driving )
Ebola virus can lurk in the brain and re-emerge years after recovery to cause fatal disease: (tags:disease brain )
London's smallest flat is up for sale for just £50k: (tags:london housing )
They're finally building on the ex-petrol station opposite The Regent Bar near where I used to live!: (tags:edinburgh housing students )

How about, rather than having a camera down your throat you swallow a camera?: (tags:camera healthcare )
Banning high stakes fixed-odds betting terminals meant people gambled £700m less - and without the huge job losses predicted: (tags:gambling UK )
Scottish homes to be first in world to use 100% green hydrogen (to replace gas in boilers and cookers): (tags:hydrogen heating cooking Scotland )
What You Can Learn From Hunter-Gatherers' Sleeping Patterns (it's not what you think): (tags:sleep humans )
Every NHS and social care worker in Scotland to receive £500 'thank you'. (And £100 for every family with a child getting free school meals): (tags:Scotland NHS money )
The UK's farmers face upheaval, but a reform to subsidies is needed: (tags:UK farming subsidies reform )
Nearly 250 million workers strike in India: (tags:India strike rights )
Great, the transphobes and the antisemites are in cahoots: (tags:WTF bigotry LGBT transgender Jews conspiracy )
"How I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet": (tags:Twitter recursion )
The inspiration for the scotch egg looks pretty delicious: (tags:food )
Google's AI handles protein folding, a previously unsolvable problems: (tags:AI protein impressive )
DeepMind's superhuman intelligence - what does it say about the future of AI?: (tags:AI protein thefuture )
UK supermarkets won't deliver to under 18s. Students who are isolating are told to order online. I see a problem...: (tags:shopping UK pandemic students age )
Some of these Nativity scenes are a bit... unorthodox: (tags:Christmas funny )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3964737.html

Why Netflix Keeps Canceling Shows After Just 2 Seasons: (tags:TV business Netflix )
I am delighted to live in a country where police use of a Taser triggers an independent investigation: (tags:police Scotland regulation )
Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in "anti-intellectual times": (tags:transgender jkrowling feminism )
Brexit: Police to stop lorries without permits entering Kent in new internal border: (tags:trade UK Europe Doom )
JPMorgan to move $230 billion of assets to Germany ahead of Brexit: (tags:UK Europe finance Doom )
Scotland's block grant from Westminster cut by £309m: (tags:Scotland tax money UK )
I think I might finally have found something I'd like read at my funeral: (tags:poetry death )
The experience of being a lawyer while also not being white sounds completely exhausting: (tags:racism UK law )
Sturgeon calls for stronger UK Covid restrictions: (tags:UK Scotland pandemic )
Ministers 'must tell students to stay on campus over Christmas' to prevent Covid-19 outbreaks (maybe should have mentioned that before they spent thousands of pounds to go there): (tags:pandemic students university UK OhForFucksSake Doom )
Kubaba, the Bartender Who Became the First Woman Ruler in History: (tags:history women sumeria )
UK gin supply 'under threat' from deadly plant disease: (tags:alcohol UK disease )
Against the armed forces torturing people? Labour will sack you: Statement https://twitter.com/NadiaWhittomeMP/status/1309066157987639298?s=19
(tags:labour torture military )
UK's coldest September night in more than 20 years: (tags:weather UK Scotland )
Why it's wrong to think of the Northern Irish violence as primarily Catholic Vs Protestant: (tags:religion UK NorthernIreland history violence )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3933017.html

Scotland's Covid tracing app reaches million download milestone: (tags:Scotland pandemic apps )
Statistics, lies and the virus: five lessons from a pandemic: (tags:statistics pandemic )
Coronavirus in Scotland: 11 cases linked to Edinburgh student flats: (tags:Edinburgh students pandemic )
Writing About Brexit: Tory MPs Vilify Their Own Withdrawal Agreement: (tags:UK Europe politics conservatives OhForFucksSake )
Coronavirus: Woman faces ten years in German prison after going on bar crawl while waiting for test results: (tags:Germany pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Demand for coronavirus testing outstripping capacity 'three to four times', Dido Harding admits: (tags:pandemic testing Doom )
Private Firms Handed Almost £200m To Run the UK's Test And Trace Will Not Face Financial Penalties If They Fail To Perform: (tags:UK testing fail privatisation )
German Hospital Hacked, Patient Taken to Another City Dies: (tags:computers hacking hospital healthcare )
TUC: UK's Trades Union Congress condemns anti-trans group LGB Alliance: (tags:transgender unions GoodNews UK LGBT )
North Carolina Is Already Rejecting Black Voters' Mail-In Ballots Five Times More Often Than White Voters': (tags:voting racism USA )
Non-Binary People Protected By U.K. Equality Act, Says Landmark Ruling Against Jaguar Land Rover: (tags:UK rights law gender LGBT GoodNews )
Local authority calls on care home providers to accept covid-positive hospital patients: (tags:pandemic OhForFucksSake UK England age )
Second national lockdown proposed by UK scientific advisers (second half of October): https://twitter.com/MattGarrahan/status/1306698937185828865?s=19
(tags:pandemic uk )
Surfaces vs Airborne: What We Know Now About Covid-19 Transmission: (tags:pandemic virus )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3930212.html

You really don't want to read the winner of the Bad Sex Award: (tags:sex awful writing )
Netflix counts you as a viewer if you watch at least 2 minutes.: (tags:netflix statistics )
I had not realised that NK Jemisin's name is from a Scottish slaveowner.: (tags:names slavery Scotland )
Being an international student in the UK is a goddamn nightmare no one should do it: (tags:work academia students immigration UK OhForFucksSake )
In Defense of Our College's Mascot, Sir Racist Von Genocide: (tags:racism satire university )
The UK ranks 28th out of 31 European countries for childcare and maternity leave: (tags:children Europe UK OhForFucksSake )
I don't think I want bone conduction headphones, but now I really want to try some: (tags:sound technology hearing )
One immune cell type appears to attack any type of cancer. Why?: (tags:cancer immune_system )
The new agricultural bill could be one of the most significant pieces of legislation for farmers in England for over 70 years. What does it mean?: (tags:farming nature UK law )
Valve opens up about Half-Life: Alyx, Source 2 engine on Reddit: (tags:games VirtualReality valve half-life )
Remember the power loaders from "Aliens"? Technology is reaching that point: (tags:cybernetics )
What Needs To Happen Before Retiring Internet Explorer?: (tags:ie web browser microsoft )
The chinese education system sounds horrific: (tags:china Education children school torture OhForFucksSake )
How sure are we about the link between lead and crime?: (tags:lead crime )
I Was Tortured for Days Thanks to Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell. A "Sorry" Would Be Nice: (tags:torture usa )
Brexit 2020: Everything you need to know about Boris Johnson's trade deal nightmare: (tags:uk trade europe doom )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3859248.html

Edinburgh is just ridiculously beautiful: (tags:Edinburgh beautiful photos )
Voting in the next UK General Election: A guide for perplexed students.: (tags:students advice voting uk )
What is Macron's position on another extension?: (tags:UK Europe France politics )
Hydrogen Could Replace Coke in Steel Production: (tags:coal hydrogen materials )
Tesla battery researcher unveils new cell that could last many more discharge cycles: (tags:batteries Tesla )
CDs dying out - will drop beneath vinyl for the first time since 1986: (tags:music cd vinyl )
50 reasons why your #autistic child might be in an extremely bad mood.: (tags:autism emotion ViaDrCross )
A Guide to Emergency Powers the Civil Contingencies Act 2004(And why it does not say what Brexiters think it says): (tags:law politics emergency uk viaDanielDWilliam )
New psychology research reveals men's motives for sending unsolicited dick pics: (tags:penis psychology )
Some Tory MPs Are Urging Boris Johnson To Commit an Offence of Conspiracy to Commit Misconduct in Public Office Contrary to Section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977: (tags:crime politics uk )
How to write historical fiction: (tags:fiction history funny )
Best explanation I've seen of why autistic people use stimming.: (tags:autism behaviour )
Autistic Brains Contain Unique Connections: (tags:autism brain )
More than half of the cabinet voted against LGBT rights: (tags:politics homophobia conservatives LGBT )
How the other side remembers Alexander the Great: (tags:history )
Almost one-fifth of Britons do not use the internet: (tags:internet demographics uk )
Leo Varadkar confronts Boris Johnson with withering assessment of his Brexit strategy in strained joint press conference: (tags:uk ireland europe doom )
People want the constitution to give them what they want - until you point out that the rules can be used both ways: (tags:uk law politics )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3821941.html

Why “Just Google It” Is Now A Synonym For “Indoctrinate Someone”: (tags: Google propaganda youtube OhForFucksSake )
Salazar Slytherin - Norman conqueror?: (tags: harrypotter )
Federal Panel Of Judges Dismisses All 83 Ethics Complaints Against Brett Kavanaugh - because there is no mechanism to discipline a Supreme Court judge: (tags: law usa OhForFucksSake )
Is the US military worth the amount that's spent on it?: (tags: money usa military )
Why Can’t We Find Planet Nine?: (tags: space astronomy )
Top AI researchers talk about the state of the art, and how close we are to a general artificial intelligence: (tags: ai )
The former UK ambassador to the EU talks through the UK's epic mistakes in dealing with Brexit: (tags: UK europe epicfail )
No, Corbyn didn't say "stupid woman".: (tags: deafness language politics )
Toilet charges scrapped at Glasgow and Edinburgh stations from April: (tags: toilets trains Scotland edinburgh glasgow )
Brexit: EU reveals no-deal plans: (tags: UK europe doom )
For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the US Public Domain: (tags: usa copyright )
Aggressive behavior brings emotional pain to the sadist: (tags: bdsm pain aggression sadness psychology )
Facebook gave Spotify and Netflix access to users’ private messages: (tags: facebook privacy OhForFucksSake )
'Pause' in global warming was never real, new research proves: (tags: globalwarming )
No, Scotland is not about to have to pay for English student debt: (tags: debt scotland UK students )
Homelessness Deaths in England are up 24% in five years: (tags: homelessness death austerity UK OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3751571.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

Not all disagreements are opportunities to change your own mind: (tags: argument belief )
FactCheck Q&A: the Tories’ plans for student loans: (tags: Conservatives students loans )
Electric car owners 'can drive for free by letting energy firms use battery': (tags: electricity cars batteries uk )
New 24/7 bus between Glasgow and Edinburgh: (tags: Glasgow edinburgh transport )
You can safely ignore any electricity commentator who uses the word "baseload": (tags: electricity renewables viaDanielDWilliam )
Gun company stocks soar after Vegas massacre: (tags: guns money death usa business )
London voters happy with Uber decision: (tags: london regulation taxi )
5 Ways To Honor The Victims Of The Las Vegas Shooting Without Being Disrespectful To The NRA: (tags: satire guns usa )
A Tom Petty tribute. With kittens: (tags: cats music death )
Google admits citing 4chan to spread fake Vegas shooter news: (tags: google news fraud OhForFucksSake )
At $50 a barrel, billions in tax breaks keep many oil projects profitable ($2Billion per year): (tags: oil tax OhForFucksSake )
How is it that so many of us seem to live in different worlds?: (tags: personality society groups psychology )
Sex Differences in Nonhuman Primates: (tags: gender behaviour monkey )
Every Member of Congress Who Took Money From the NRA and Tweeted 'Thoughts and Prayers' to Las Vegas: (tags: usa politics guns )
A map of what it would like if all of the European Independence movements succeeded: Presumably not _all_ as there are some absolutely tiny ones out there.
(tags: independence maps europe )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3622015.html

Britain says it should still be able to influence EU regulations after leaving EU: (tags: data Europe regulation uk )
ONS overestimated that 90,000 international students per year were overstaying. Actual figure is 4,600: (tags: immigration fail students Education OhForFucksSake )
Samsung TV owners furious after software update leaves sets unusable: (tags: software tv OhForFucksSake samsung )
Caffeine makes food and drink seem less sweet: (tags: Caffeine food sugar )
Grenfell proved it: the British media are part of a disconnected elite: (tags: diversity media uk )
What It Takes to Hold Your Breath for 24 Minutes: (tags: air bodies impressive )
The Best Way To End Poverty: (tags: poverty economics GuaranteedIncome )
6 Inventions Making British Disabled People's Lives Better In 2017: (tags: technology disabilities )
Self-driving lorries to be tested on UK roads in the next year: (tags: technology transport automation uk )
Chemicals used in furniture and gym mats could be making women infertile: (tags: fertility chemistry )
Here at the End of All Things : on losing oneself in in maps of fantasy worlds: (tags: fantasy maps viaFanf )
Half-Life Writer Shares Episode 3 Details: (tags: games )
British man's heavily-pregnant Chinese wife denied visa: (tags: marriage immigration OhForFucksSake )
The Scotsmen Who Invented Modernity: (tags: scotland history philosophy economics )
Fishing Planet has the most epic trailer music ever - for a game where you mostly stand still next to a river: (tags: music fish viaSwampers trailer video )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3610798.html

Death as a social privilege?: (tags: death euthanasia race )
Computer says no: Irish vet fails oral English test needed to stay in Australia: (tags: OhForFucksSake ireland language accents australia )
Unlearning the myth of American innocence: (tags: usa history )
Adorable Black Metal Comics That’ll Satisfy Your Dark Side: (tags: music funny metal )
Rare 'pink rainbow' spotted in sky over Bristol: (tags: pretty sky )
How a children’s cartoon ignited a debate about skin color in Roman Britain, and what it has to do with genetics: (tags: genetics Rome UK history )
The Broken US Economy, in One Simple Chart: (tags: usa inequality )
Edinburgh tram decision in September, with line due in 2022: (tags: Edinburgh trams )
The Most Common Error in Coverage of the Google Memo: (tags: google diversity journalism )
Keep them busy and poor: (tags: unions politics students )
How does biology explain the low numbers of women in computer science: (tags: biology gender mathematics programming )
Researchers are studying psychopathic chimps to better understand the human variety: (tags: monkey psychology psychopath )
Second whole-class failure of Inverness College media exam: I would love to know how this happens. Do the teachers not understand what the exam boards want? Is there total incompetence on the part of the college?
(tags: Education fail )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3605969.html

No, Corbyn did not pledge to abolish student debt: (tags: politics labour students debt )
UK military chiefs praise transgender troops: (tags: lgbt military uk viaSwampers )
Muted stress response linked to long-term cannabis use: (tags: stress marijuana )
People are terrible at judging how good their intuitions are: (tags: psychology )
FT journalists threaten to strike over gender pay gap: (tags: money journalism pay gender )
FCA keeps payday loan cap: (tags: loans UK )
Interoperable systems and data at the heart of plans to modernise UK payments infrastructure: (tags: banking money technology uk )
Book Review: Raise A Genius!: (tags: Intelligence genius review advice )
One in eight young people in the UK have never seen a real cow - 18% have never left the city: I once talked to an Outward Bound instructor who worked with deprived kids, and they'd arrive in the Lake District with no real idea that there were places that *big*. It's sad that there are children who haven't left the city they were born in, but it doesn't surprise me.
(tags: cities children viaSwampers )
Climate change will almost certainly heat the world so much it can never recover, major study finds: (tags: globalwarming )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3603514.html

How to view and download ransomed Photobucket gallery images, on a per-image basis: (tags: photos internet )
Labour would take Britain out of the EU single market, Jeremy Corbyn says: (tags: immigration Europe Labour OhForFucksSake )
Jeremy Corbyn: Student debt write-off not a commitment: (tags: debt students labour )
People to be allowed to pick their own gender without doctor's diagnosis, under Government plans: (tags: gender law uk )
An interesting snippet of an interview with Jodie Whittaker, in light of her casting as Doctor Who: (tags: drwho acting gender )
"My father-in-law won't become a coder, no matter what economists say": Pssssst, basic income...
(tags: employment jobs Technology )
How are things going with the Hugo Award attempts to deter slates?: (tags: voting awards hugo )
World's first floating wind farm emerges off coast of Scotland: (tags: Scotland windpower ocean )
Many of the best Scrabble players are Thais who don't speak English: (tags: language games )
'A misuse of scarce funds': NHS to end prescription of homeopathic remedies: (tags: homeopathy NHS GoodNews )
Etobicoke "park stairs" story is a perfect example of the anti-regulatory nonsense that led to the Grenfell disaster: (tags: regulation safety )
How 1967 changed gay life in Britain: ‘I think for my generation, we’re still a little bit uneasy’: (tags: lgbt UK history )
18yo arrested for reporting a bug in the new Budapest e-Ticket system: (tags: crime bug OhForFucksSake transport epicfail )
Wisconsin Company Offers to Implant Microchips in Employees: (tags: technology cyborg usa )
Why Brilliant Girls Tend to Favor Non-STEM Careers: (tags: gender science research bias )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3601573.html

A List Of Times Doctor Who Was Ruined Forever: (tags: drwho funny )
Scientists marvel at creatures' precise body clock: (tags: time genes life )
Taiwan woman divorces husband who ignored her messages: (tags: communication relationships divorce marriage )
Is Love Racist? The TV show laying our biases bare: (tags: love relationships viaSwampers race uk )
Custos startup uses bitcoin bounties to make pirates rat on one another: (tags: piracy copyright bitcoin )
UK students should not try to pay off loans early: (tags: tax students uk )
Pay-per-mile road tax plan wins £250,000 Wolfson economics prize: (tags: tax cars transport economics viaSwampers )
Humans hardwired to lean to the right while kissing the world over: (tags: psychology romance kissing )
Manchester’s bike-share scheme isn't working – because people don't know how to share: (tags: sharing society bicycles UK manchester )
Flow battery developer ViZn Energy says it can pair solar and storage for 4¢/kWh: (tags: solarpower batteries electricity )
Generating random English place names: (tags: geography names AI England )
Doctor Who: We regret to inform you that you are still legally a man: (tags: drwho law lgbt transgender uk )
“Board game of the year” goes to Kingdomino (my copy arrives today!): (tags: games )
A brain implant turns “loser” mice into aggressive fighters: (tags: mice brain aggression personality cyborg )
Programmers discuss "What's the worst thing your code has done?": (tags: fail programming )
Smoking in the UK now down to 15%, government aims for 12%: (tags: smoking uk )
Advertising watchdog to get tough on gender stereotypes: (tags: advertising stereotypes gender uk )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3599084.html

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