Entries tagged with terrorism

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Interesting Links for 17-09-2025

1. DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing: (tags:politics terrorism USA censorship )

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Interesting Links for 08-02-2024

1. What does it mean that BlueSky is designed to be more open?: (tags:socialnetworking design computers )
2. Rishi Sunak Refusing To Apologise For Trans Jibe In Front Of Murdered Trans Teen's Mum: (tags:transgender Conservatives bigotry OhForFucksSake )
3. Man from Dildo takes photo of iceberg shaped like a penis. In Conception Bay: (tags:penis Canada photos iceberg names )
4. Lothian bus journeys increased by over 17% from 94 million in 2022 to 110 million last year (I wonder what it was in 2019): (tags:buses transport Edinburgh GoodNews )
5. EU sets maximum bank transfer time to 10 seconds: (tags:Europe banking regulation time )
6. After Libs of TikTok posted, at least 21 bomb threats followed: (tags:terrorism USA )
7. Beard-seconds, Chains, Pirate-Ninjas, and other Units of Measure: (tags:measurement viaSwampers )
8. Mimas' surprise: Saturn's tiny moon hides a young ocean beneath its icy shell: (tags:moon saturn ocean water )
9. 13 Worst Bike Lanes in the World (Edinburgh is #1! Woohoo!): (tags:edinburgh cycling epicfail )
10. Poll Shows 74 Percent of Republicans Like Donald Trump's Dictator Plan: (tags:usa dictators doom )
11. Apple releases an AI to help you edit images: (tags:apple ai images editing )

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Interesting Links for 15-01-2024

1. Journalists haven't ignored the Post Office scandal - people just didn't care until it was on TV: (tags:postoffices drama journalism UK )
2. The UK is walking straight into Iran's trap: (tags:UK Iran Yemen war Israel terrorism doom )

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Interesting Links for 14-10-2023

1. This is an amazing bionic hand: (tags:cybernetics amazing )
2. Terrorists want to provoke an over-reaction. It's what gets them their next round of recruits.: (tags:terrorism psychology viaDanielDWilliam )
3. Hamas have successfully destroyed America's Saudi-Israel normalization plans: (tags:middle_east terrorism USA saudiarabia Palestine Israel OhForFucksSake )
4. Government warned by own watchdog three year ago that prisons would run out of space in 2023: (tags:UK prison epicfail )
5. Edinburgh's Princes Street: Shops gone, hotels coming - the changing face of city's most famous street: (tags:Edinburgh cities shops hotel )
6. UK's nuclear fusion site ends experiments after 40 years: (tags:UK research fusion nuclearpower history )
7. Missy Cummings, a Top Robotics Expert, Is Elon Musk's Worst Nightmare: (tags:technology automation driving death statistics viaPatrickHadfield )

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Interesting Links for 13-10-2023

1. Misery for motorists as Rishi Sunak's HS2 cut set to put half a million more lorries on the road: (tags:transport doom uk hs2 )
2. Bentham's Mugging (a short play, wherein moral purity is found wanting): (tags:morality philosophy funny )
3. WordPress makes its posts available via the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc): (tags:WordPress socialmedia )
4. 'Brahmastra Part One: Shiva' - for those people who like a very pretty religious superhero musical: (tags:religion movies trailer video india )
5. On Whataboutery in response to Hamas.: (tags:israel palestine terrorism )
6. Breakthrough in reading unopened ancient scrolls by scanning them: (tags:archaeology ai technology prehistory )
7. France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations: (tags:France Palestine protests )
8. Covid can cause our brain cells to fuse together causing cognitive impairment.: (tags:Pandemic brain Doom )
9. Edinburgh Princes Street closed due to 'incident' as buses and trams affected: (tags:Edinburgh transport buses trams )
10. Edinburgh's Princes Street closed and buses and trams disrupted after man found dead in early hours: (tags:death edinburgh )

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Interesting Links for 17-06-2023

1. If geeks talked about cookbooks the way they talk about RPG books, the results would not be pretty: (tags:roleplaying satire cooking funny )
2. Orange Order puts Scottish headquarters up for sale as it runs low on cash: (tags:bigotry money GoodNews )
3. Study shows many American atheists hide their non-belief (and that atheist women find their atheism freeing): (tags:religion Christianity atheism USA women )
4. Greece migrant boat had 100 children in hold as it capsized: (tags:greece asylum children death OhForFucksSake )
5. The FBI Groomed a 16-Year-Old With Brain Development Issues to Become a Terrorist: (tags:terrorism FBI children OhForFucksSake )
6. Former head of police watchdog charged with multiple counts of raping a girl under 16: (tags:children rape police OhForFucksSake )
7. Whistleblowing banker who went to prison speaks out: (tags:Banking corruption OhForFucksSake UK USA )

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Interesting Links for 04-03-2023

1. Privileges Committee Believes Boris Johnson May Have Misled House On Partygate: (tags:BorisJohnson lies fraud politics pandemic )
2. EU countries postpone vote on combustion engine ban (because Germany wants to be allowed to keep making them): (tags:politics europe cars pollution )
3. ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, And having it pretend to be one leads us in very difficult directions: (tags:philosophy morality ai language )
4. There's a Good Reason Why So Many Terrorists Are Engineers: (tags:terrorism engineering )
5. "Eat Out To Help Out" caused an increase in Covid cases. Matt Hancock covered it up.: (tags:Pandemic restaurant OhForFucksSake murder censorship )
6. Iowa: Republicans propose ban on same-sex marriage: (tags:LGBT marriage USA republicans OhForFucksSake )
7. Happy Weird Pride Day!: (tags:weird pride )
8. Food Timeline: food history research service: (tags:food history )

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Interesting Links for 28-11-2022

1. The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books: (tags:library history women horses usa )
2. AI image generation is improving quickly: (tags:AI art )
3. America is a Christian Nationalist Hellhole, license plate edition: (tags:OhForFucksSake Christianity USA religion fascism driving )
4. One nice thing about Mastodon is that, for example, the EU can set up an instance and then you can trust every post on there is a verified EU institution/entity: (tags:Europe socialnetworking identity )
5. How supportive would Britons be of a family member coming out? (also compared to other countries): (tags:LGBT polls )
6. French man wins right to not be 'fun' at work in wrongful termination case: (tags:work France fun law )
7. Ineos in talks with Rolls-Royce to build mini nuclear reactor and power Scottish chemical refinery: (tags:scotland nuclearpower viaDanielDWilliam )
8. The High-Temperature Superconductivity Mystery Is Finally Solved: (tags:physics )
9. How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence: (tags:disgust terrorism violence bigotry )
10. Power grid boost as two Scottish firms net £14m to work on energy storage systems: (tags:storage electricity scotland )

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Interesting Links for 24-11-2022

1. All You Need To Know About Scotland's Legal Bid For An Independence Referendum: (tags:scotland law independence )
2. COVID-19 vaccination associated with 15% reduction in stillbirths: (tags:pandemic vaccination death pregnancy )
3. The influence of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies on cinematic portrayals of ancient Greece and Rome: (tags:rome greece lotr movies )
4. Turns out that dreaded pit beasts are a lot like cats: (tags:funny fantasy comic cats )
5. How much does it cost Facebook to look after your cat pictures?: (tags:cats facebook storage )
6. Lugo, the only town with fully intact Roman walls: (tags:history rome Spain architecture viaDanielDWilliam )
7. Where are all the heat pumps?: (tags:electricity heating UK viaDanielDWilliam )
8. If you're wondering how SpaceX coped with Musk, this will fill you in: (tags:ElonMusk Spacex management )
9. Fossil fuel power plants kill 35x as many birds as wind turbines do per GWh (and nuclear power is twice as deadly as wind power): (tags:birds death nuclearpower coal gas environment windpower )
10. European Parliament declares Russia a terrorism sponsor, then its site goes down: (tags:web russia europe terrorism )
11. How much trouble are GPs in Scotland in?: (tags:healthcare scotland )
12. Sponsian: Ancient Roman gold coins thought to be 'fakes' reveal long-lost local emperor: (tags:rome Romania archeology )

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Interesting Links for 08-09-2022

1. What next for art in a post-AI world?: (tags:art ai comics comic )
2. Supreme Court allows SNP to intervene in indyref2 court case: (tags:snp law uk independence scotland )
3. New technique shows old temperatures were much hotter than thought: (tags:co2 prehistory globalwarming ocean )
4. Turns out that going woke does not inevitably lead to going broke: (tags:money niceness )
5. Liz Truss plunged into constitutional crisis on day one as UK blocks Bermuda from legalising cannabis: (tags:marijuana legalisation UK law constitution )
6. Scottish government to make £500m in spending cuts: (tags:Scotland money )
7. Poland's Demand for German Damages Includes Crimes Committed Against Jews by Poles: (tags:Poland Germany Holocaust Jews money wtf )
8. Liz Truss Is Trying to Block Scotland's Trans Reforms: (tags:conservatives bigotry UK Scotland law LGBT transgender )
9. Leaked list of US anti government extremist Oath Keepers includes hundreds of cops, dozens of elected officials: (tags:USA terrorism corruption terrifying police government )
10. Scientists Have Made a Human Microbiome From Scratch: (tags:microbiome )
11. Edinburgh's South Sub railway: Here's why forgotten railway closed 60 years ago today: (tags:edinburgh trains transport history )
12. Four Sisters. Forty Years. Forty Portraits.: (tags:photos history )