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1. 4,000 years ago a mutation in horses made them easier to ride. Within 300 years we had spread them everywhere.: (tags:horses europe prehistory genetics )
2. No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making huge strides.: (tags:weather ai )
3. China Miéville Writes a Secret Novel With the Internet's Boyfriend (It's Keanu Reeves): (tags:KeanuReeves ChinaMieville writing )
4. How Norway's calm, cushy prisons put Britain's model to shame: (tags:prison norway )
5. The Conservatives have overseen a 400% increase in sexual orientation hate crimes and a 1,400% increase in transphobic ones: (tags:bigotry UK crime LGBT )
6. Here's a frankly great political manifesto: (tags:politics UK libdem )
7. A possible direct exposure of the Earth to the cold dense interstellar medium 2-3 Myr ago: (tags:sun solarsystem space )
8. I am currently earwormed by the song my children brushed their teeth to this morning. I would like to not be.: (tags:music teeth video )
9. UN Security Council votes in favour of Gaza ceasefire resolution: (tags:UnitedNations gaza palestine israel )
10. What's happened the previous times the Conservative Party have imploded?: (tags:Conservatives history politics uk )
11. Ed Davey says Lib Dems would fight for UK to rejoin EU single market and eventually overturn Brexit: (tags:libdem uk europe politics )
12. Before 'Fans,' There Were 'Kranks,' 'Longhairs,' and 'Lions': (tags:fandom history )
13. Inside the Lib Dem election stunt factory: 'We had to make Ed look very silly': (tags:libdem politics )

1. I love how Neil Gaiman is with his fans: (tags:neilgaiman fandom shakespeare )
2. Monumental snake engravings of the Orinoco River: (tags:SouthAmerica snake art prehistory )
3. The Sun still has not set on the British Empire: (tags:empire uk sun xkcd )

1. The Australian solar tech that may have found a low cost solution to storage: (tags:solarpower Australia )
2. Studios are bribing the critics used for Rotten Tomatoes scores: (tags:movies reviews bribery corruption )
3. Covid: What does the new normal look like?: (tags:Pandemic )
4. The Carrington Event of 1859 Disrupted Telegraph Lines. A "Miyake Event" Would Be Far Worse: (tags:sun doom electronics )
5. 'Sea Nomads' Are First Known Humans Genetically Adapted to Diving: (tags:asia diving genetics air )
6. The UK is going about reclaiming city streets the wrong way: (tags:uk transport cities design )
7. California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms, other psychedelics: (tags:decriminalization psychology psilocybin GoodNews )
8. Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter's profile after show criticising how Facebook works with Israel's intelligence agency: (tags:israel palestine facebook OhForFucksSake )
9. Coincidentally-identical waypoint names foxed UK air traffic control system: (tags:uk airplanes computers epicfail )

1. Russian state-owned media reveal their horrific plans for Ukraine: (tags:Russia Ukraine genocide )
2. The EHRC are producing transphobic guidance that is explicitly against what the law states: (tags:LGBT transgender UK bigotry OhForFucksSake )
3. Seen from space, the world's longest conveyor belt is in Morocco (carrying phosphorus over 100km): (tags:mining transport Morocco )
4. I assume it's deliberate that the old-school music here is vastly more varied and interesting than the modern ones?: (tags:music video animation )
5. Sisyphus: turtle edition: (tags:funny turtle video )
6. Over 80 LGBT and HIV organizations pull out of UK government's LGBT conference over transphobia and conversion therapy: (tags:LGBT UK transgender bigotry conservatives )
7. Backyard approaching lighting at Adelaide Airport: (tags:airport airplanes lighting )
8. How did the Victorians Become a Reference Point for Joyless Prudery?: (tags:history society UK sex )
9. Government's former ethics chief supplied karaoke machine for Downing Street party: (tags:ethics conservatives party Pandemic )
10. Europe's Biggest Lithium Mine Is Caught in a Political Maelstrom: (tags:mining batteries Europe politics )
11. New Amazon Worker Chat App Would Ban Words Like "Union", "Plantation", and..."Restroom": (tags:Amazon work OhForFucksSake unions viaPatrickHadfield )
12. New picture shows highest resolution ever: (tags:sun photos space )
13. How Elden Ring Succeeds by Ignoring 20 Years of Open-World Design: (tags:design games )
14. People in non-industrial societies spend a lot of time doing nothing: (tags:society time )

If you're poor then the cost of living has gone up by a *lot* more than 5%: (tags:economics UK poverty )
A NASA Probe Went and Touched the Sun: (tags:sun space NASA )
Coffee can't fix all the cognitive impairments caused by a bad night's sleep: (tags:caffeine psychology sleep )
Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them: As a friend put it "This is how you get Terminators"
(tags:ai abuse misogyny hate )
The gender wage gap is really a child care penalty: (tags:children patriarchy wages gender society )
New rules passed for short-term lets in Scotland: (tags:rental housing Scotland )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4138927.html

"A Q&A with the Man Who Keeps Uploading My Feet to Wikifeet": (tags:feet fetish interview internet )
Could Index Funds Be 'Worse Than Marxism'?: (tags:investing investment pensions )
The science of fatherhood: How your body and brain change when you become a dad: (tags:brain fatherhood children hormones testosterone oxytocin )
How Boris Johnson broke the fragile peace in Northern Ireland: (tags:NorthernIreland BorisJohnson UK Europe doom )
Exposure to sunlight prompts skin to release nitric oxide that could reduce Covid virus ability to replicate: (tags:virus sun pandemic )
If you could blue-screen a Johnson briefing who would *you* put behind him: (tags:conservatives Photoshop funny )
This man is looking for the friends who shipped him overseas in a crate in 1965: (tags:australia uk history shipping usa )
"It was Remainers All Along" - Brexit and Wandavision: (tags:uk europe tv marvel )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4020978.html

Wireless Charging Is Really Inefficient: (tags:electricity efficiency wireless viaSwampers )
Rate of dementia in Europe and N. America declined 13%/decade over past 25 years: (tags:dementia GoodNews )
Report ranks UK's legal gender recognition among the worst in Europe: (tags:Europe UK transgender LGBT )
Coronavirus: Tighter rules on visors, masks and contacts in Scotland: (tags:Scotland pandemic )
Crickets and Spiders. Dutch people and Nazis. The epigenetics of fear.: (tags:genetics epigenetics spiders fear Nazis history Holland )
Design Docs at Google: (tags:Google design )
CNO neutrinos from the Sun are finally detected: (tags:physics sun )
Canada's Last Fully Intact Arctic Ice Shelf Collapses: (tags:Canada Arctic globalwarming Doom )
German nudist chases wild boar that stole laptop (headline and photo of the week): (tags:headline photos nudity Germany pigs )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3910547.html

This is a lovely story of a guy who kept pushing himself, even when he thought he wasn't good enough.: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1284184707110809600.html
(tags:food inspiration cooking )
Richard Feynman Explains how fire works: (tags:fire sun explanations RichardFeynman video )
Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside: (tags:hacking twitter )
What Accounts For High Coronavirus Positivity Rates Among Florida Kids?: (tags:children virus pandemic viaEatSoylentGreen )
When physics simulations go wrong: (tags:physics simulation video )
How The Guardian helped transphobes. (Which is why they're getting no money from me): (tags:guardian bigotry LGBT transgender )
How Newton came to publish his laws of gravity: (tags:history mathematics physics space gravity )
24 Warrior Women Of Different Body Types: (tags:women art )
'No DSS' letting bans ruled unlawful: (tags:welfare housing law GoodNews )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3900275.html

Vote Leave AI firm wins seven government contracts in 18 months (seems to be connected to the people running the tracking app): (tags:UK Europe NHS OhForFucksSake )
Nearly a quarter of British employees furloughed in last fortnight: (tags:UK employment pandemic )
The Hidden Rules of Conversation: (tags:language communication video conversation )
Apple and Google provide first look of COVID-19 tracing in iOS and Android: (tags:Apple Google Android ios pandemic )
Experts Doubt the Sun Is Burning Coal (1863): (tags:history science sun )
Edinburgh artist creates beautiful images of what the city would look like overgrown: (tags:nature Edinburgh art )
'Time has come' for universal basic income, says Sturgeon: (tags:Scotland GuaranteedIncome viaCharlesStross )
UK COVID-19 contact-tracing app data may be kept for 'research' after crisis ends: (tags:NHS privacy apps pandemic )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3887879.html

Discovered a lovely word today: “apricity.”: (tags: language sun temperature )
Irish government says Dominic Raab’s Brexit backstop plan not worth the paper it's written on: (tags: uk europe ireland NorthernIreland doom )
Iceland recognises Palestinian state: (tags: iceland palestine israel )
The Conservative Party will break Theresa May at the worst possible moment: (tags: Conservatives doom )
I can't tell if Stacksort is the worst programming thing ever, or the funniest.: (tags: stackexchange funny programming )
Why women receive less CPR from bystanders: (tags: health women society OhForFucksSake )
Labour will vote against a customs union - unless it's permanent: I've completely lost track of whether there's enough votes for _anything_ right now. Frankly, I'm not sure there is.
(tags: labour politics europe uk )
Google’s AI creates its own inhuman encryption: (tags: encryption google ai )
Prejudice against women in power is greater than we think: (tags: sexism society )
Voters' preexisting opinions shift to align with political party positions: (tags: politics OhForFucksSake )
Llama “nanobodies” might grant universal flu protection: (tags: llama flu disease medicine )
Air pollution linked to autism: (tags: autism pollution china )
Categorising male authors: (tags: men authors funny satire )
Right-Wing Social-Networking site Gab comes back after a week offline. Users blame the Jews.: (tags: socialnetworking politics freespeech racism )
Sci-Fi Writer Greg Egan and Anonymous Math Whiz Advance Permutation Problem: (tags: mathematics )
This is how psychotherapy for depression changes the brain: (tags: brain counselling neuroscience )
Ten changes to help save the planet: (tags: globalwarming advice )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3738400.html

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3680037.html

Do not ready activated charcoal foods if you're on birth control (Or taking any medication): (tags: food contraception OhForFucksSake )
Map: Final designs for top of Leith Walk revealed: (tags: edinburgh design transport )
Senior MPs to force (non-binding) customs union vote: Yay, more things for Theresa May to ignore!
(tags: Europe UK politics )
The UK Refused To Raid A Company Suspected Of Money Laundering, Citing Its Tory Donations: (tags: UK conservatives crime )
Amazon Prime passes 100m subscribers mark: (tags: amazon )
Finland to end basic income experiment: (tags: GuaranteedIncome finland )
Everspace dev paid thousands to influencers who were "shit at playing the game": (tags: advertising games video )
What day, night and the shape of the terminator would look like on Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Map: (tags: sun time maps video )
Some thoughts on autism: (tags: autism disability )
Land by latitude and longitude, or, a pile of continents (makes it clear how small Europe is): (tags: maps earth viaDanielDWilliam )
Mammals are smaller than they used to be, and it’s our fault: (tags: mammals prehistory humans death )
Robot Conquers One of the Hardest Human Tasks: Assembling Ikea Furniture: Although I actually enjoy assembling Ikea furniture, and rarely find it hard
(tags: furniture ikea robots )
Why is insect protein more expensive than pork chops?: (tags: insects food money )
The Eurovision Song Contest...In Spaaaaaaaaace!: (tags: review music scifi )
Male contraceptive compound stops sperm without affecting hormones (in monkeys): (tags: contraceptive sperm monkey men )
Dear Prince Charles, do you think my brown skin makes me unBritish?: (tags: royalty uk racism )
Taxi firms face claims over drivers' rights in wake of Uber case: (tags: jobs law taxi )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3679988.html

Jane and I were very entertained by "Manhunt: Unabomber": (tags: tv fbi terrorism history )
Marvel wants you to write comics with no farts, death, aliens, gossip, or ‘social issues’: (tags: marvel comics fanfic )
If you're wondering why women don't report sexual assault: (tags: assault uk police )
Proof that cats and dogs can be friends - even with a huge size difference.: (tags: lion dogs video cute )
'Star Wars' Franchise Crosses $4 Billion, Eclipsing Disney's Lucasfilm Price: (tags: StarWars Disney )
Irish government releases papers showing MI5 worked with UVF, double crossed them, and tried to use them to assassinate the Taoiseach: (tags: Ireland NorthernIreland terrorism uk military history )
Child porn law goes nuts: 14-year-old girl charged for nude selfie: (tags: OhForFucksSake teenagers nudity law )
Man killed by police; online gaming community blames 'swatting': (tags: police games OhForFucksSake guns usa )
Tehran police: No more arrests for flouting dress code: (tags: Iran clothing islam women )
Photos From Modern Hippie Rainbow Gatherings Around The World (NSFW): (tags: photos nature nudity )
Cold, Fed Up, Suicidal - Chilling Testimonials from US Drone Pilots: (tags: usa drone mentalhealth military )
Men Explain, in Great Detail, Why They Don't Eat Pussy: (tags: sex men )
Kim Clijsters gives man tennis skirt for hit at Wimbledon 2017: (tags: funny tennis video )
Gorgeous photos of brutalist churches (and others with interesting architecture): (tags: photos religion architecture )
Sunsets, 2017: (tags: sun photos )
How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System: (tags: pirates measurement history )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3647573.html

Sadly many people today, often in without realizing it, endorse a key tenet of Hitler's social project: the theory of "degenerate art".: (tags: art nazis criticism )
Your kids will see internet porn. Deal with it: (tags: porn children society )
The Web’s Most Toxic Trolls Live in … Vermont?: (tags: troll usa maps )
There is no such thing as the true self, but it’s still a useful psychological concept: (tags: identity psychology )
Sperm Count in Western Men Has Dropped Over 50 Percent Since 1973: (tags: reproduction men )
Home Office used charity data map to deport rough sleepers: (tags: UK homelessness immigration )
Yoga and meditation improve mind-body health and stress resilience: (tags: stress meditation )
14 per cent of the variance in social skills comes from two genes: (tags: genetics social sociability )
Greetings from Liverpool, where one of the world's greatest ever bands have sort of reformed: (tags: music klf )
"I've got questions about the Rainbow Cinematic Universe": (tags: children tv funny )
People worry far too much about the Eclipse: (tags: sun eyes )
"My Personal Feminism": (tags: feminism )
The great free speech online debate: (tags: freespeech )
Noel Edmonds new TV show is "the worst idea in the world, stretched out for all eternity": (tags: tv review )
Game of Thrones theory: what does the Night King really want?: (tags: gameofthrones )
Unable to get a domain, racist Daily Stormer retreats to the Dark Web: (tags: web censorship nazis )
Driver’s license facial recognition tech leads to 4,000 New York arrests: (tags: crime faces identity usa )
Branch Prediction - how computer processors guess what they're going to do next: (tags: processor computer Technology )
Inside a super fast CSS engine: (tags: firefox web performance )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3610117.html

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