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1. Yes, heat pumps slash emissions even if powered by a dirty grid: (tags:USA heating electricity globalwarming co2 )
2. The chambered nautilus is a bunch of tentacles in armour. What keeps it penned into a tiny part of the ocean?: (tags:evolution ocean )
3. What does Woke mean? An experiment.: (tags:society twitter bigotry )
4. You're being targeted by disinformation networks that are vastly more effective than you realize. And they're trying you more hateful and depressed.: (tags:russia china propaganda internet usa )
5. 12 months of record ocean heat has scientists puzzled and concerned: (tags:ocean globalwarming doom )
6. Superiority by Arthur C. Clarke (a short story about superior technology losing the war): (tags:Technology organisation scifi short_story )
7. The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien is now available for pre-order.: (tags:poetry Tolkien )
8. Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS: (tags:fraud psychology )

1. RTD Reveals Series 14 of Doctor Who Was Planned to Air Much Sooner, But Hit By FX Delays: (tags:drwho TV cgi )
2. The Apple Vision Pro's Killer App Is … Kitchen Timers: (tags:time cooking augmentedreality apple )
3. Autistic brains create 42% more information at rest: (tags:autism brain )
4. Alan Moore's "Big Numbers" planning spreadsheet: (tags:comics alanmoore planning spreadsheet )
5. Playing dance mat games can help prevent falls in older people: (tags:dancing games age )
6. Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake 'chief financial officer': (tags:ai fraud video )
7. Nearly 1 in 4 American Adults Who Get COVID-19 Suffer From Long COVID: (tags:Pandemic disability doom )
8. It's now 128 years since we discovered The Greenhouse Effect: (tags:globalwarming co2 history )
9. A newly discovered letter from Tolkien sheds light on Balrogs and Legolas: (tags:Tolkien funny lotr )

1. A tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to “hacks-for-hire” controversy.: (tags:Technology hacking india censorship )
2. Animation vs. Physics: (tags:physics animation video )
3. Baby It’s Cold Outside discourse is the same as Macbeth discourse.: (tags:shakespeare funny )
4. NHS dentistry as we know it 'gone for good': (tags:UK NHS teeth OhForFucksSake )
5. Why MAs at Oxford had to swear an oath against a man who'd been dead for over 500 years.: (tags:history university uk oxford murder viaPatrickHadfield )
6. New income tax band for people in Scotland earning over £75,000: (tags:scotland income tax )
7. Teams are more creative when they're sitting next to each other: (tags:creativity teams work psychology )
8. Iceland volcano erupts leaving 2.5-mile crack (with live video): (tags:iceland volcano )
9. Tom Bombadil and The Ring, a Christmas story: (tags:Christmas lotr fanfic )
10. Lord of the Rings fan fiction writer tries to sue Amazon/Tolkien, gets countersued into a smoking crater: (tags:copyright fanfic EpicStupidity lotr Tolkien )
11. A series of charts showing how awful the Conservatives are for the economy: (tags:UK economy conservatives Labour )
12. Tory attempts to ban social transitioning in schools held up by lack of evidence showing it causes any problems: (tags:LGBT law schools UK )

1. What are the numbers on trans use of NHS maternity services?: (tags:lgbt transgender childbirth )
2. Why Harry and Meghan might be the best people to move the conversation about the monarchy on, even if they aren't the best people: (tags:monarchy society )
3. Happy 10th anniversary Spiders Georg!: (tags:statistics funny meme )
4. What if the Open Gaming License didn't actually give you anything?: (tags:law intellectual_property copyright games dungeonsanddragons )
5. Hey, New Mom, Have You Considered Relaxing?: (tags:mother parenting children funny )
6. Tracing the "Tree Swing" design/delivery cartoons back to their origin (in the 70s!): (tags:design history technology )
7. Removing a prominent, polarizing individual can reduce the toxicity of online discourse: Evidence from President Trump's Account Deletion: (tags:politics discussion socialnetworking abuse )
8. Tolkien as a gateway author: (tags:Tolkien reading books )

1. On Columbo and ADHD: (tags:adhd tv )
2. Why Chuck Tingle writes like that: (tags:writing autism stress )
3. Support for Scottish independence has risen, but why?: (tags:Scotland independence polls )
4. The Royal Mint are releasing a coin celebrating JRR Tolkien: (tags:Tolkien money uk viaSwampers )
5. Immune cells in brain and spinal fluid connected to cognitive impairment/Alzheimers: (tags:immune_system brain )
6. Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics: (tags:Intelligence genetics society school )
7. Nitrites in meat cause massive increase in bowel cancer in mice: (tags:meat cancer mice )
8. A massively long and detailed look at the research into sleep training for babies: (tags:babies sleep psychology )
9. No more airplane mode? EU to allow calls on flights: (tags:airplanes phones Europe )
10. Privacy Is Good: (tags:privacy communication cryptography )
11. Top scientists recreate the exact moment that The Titanic crashed into an iceberg: (tags:titanic funny video )
12. ISO 3103 - the international standard for tea brewing: (tags:tea standards )

1. Britain's winter of discontent is the inevitable result of austerity: (tags:austerity UK NHS infrastructure Doom )
2. In the long term, if we want to keep the global temperature down, then our electricity generation has to be entirely generated from renewables: (tags:renewables globalwarming )
3. Stardust is inspired by The Voyage of The Dawn Treader: (tags:narnia neilgaiman )
4. Fans Can Now Sue Movie Studios For Deceptive Trailers: (tags:trailers law fraud viaMyBrotherHugh )
5. Both versions of "Riddles in the Dark" (the Gollum chapter of The Hobbit, changed when Lord of The Rings came out): (tags:lotr TheHobbit Tolkien )
6. Finally, a believable explanation of why Elon Musk bought Twitter!: (tags:ElonMusk Twitter comic funny )
7. Elon Musk orders removal of Twitter suicide prevention feature: (tags:Twitter suicide OhForFucksSake ElonMusk )
8. Brexit means no British manufacturer able to build ministerial cars: (tags:UK cars manufacturing Europe Doom )
9. The 10 best films of 2022: (tags:movies reviews )

1. The 100 Most Influential Pages in Comic Book History: (tags:comics history art )
2. Embracer Group enters into agreement to acquire IP rights to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit literary works by J.R.R Tolkien: (tags:Tolkien games movies intellectual_property lotr TheHobbit )
3. Edinburgh council adjourns committee meeting in show of support with striking bin workers: (tags:edinburgh strike unions waste scotland )
4. An Oral History of Tim Curry's Escape to the One Place Uncorrupted by Capitalism: (tags:history games actors )
5. The UK is *just fine*: (tags:UK Doom )
6. HBO Max to Remove 36 Titles, Including 20 Originals, from Streaming - to save money on residuals: (tags:HBO money TV )
7. World's biggest mod site bans mods replacing Pride flags: 'We don't want to and won't argue this with you': (tags:LGBT games mod )
8. Amazing ceilings: (tags:architecture photos )
9. How much virus does a person with COVID exhale? New research has answers: (tags:Pandemic )
10. The Sandman: Two Surprise Episodes Released on Netflix (I knew they were coming, but wasn't expecting them for months): (tags:sandman TV )
11. For the first time ever, more people watched streaming TV than cable: (tags:tv streaming )
12. Don't let Islam be written out of our European history: (tags:islam europe history )
13. You have no idea how daft the UK's energy planning system actually is: (tags:uk electricity planning regulation OhForFucksSake )
14. Europe's Plan to Wean Itself off Russian Gas Just Might Work: (tags:europe russia gas heating electricity )

1. Putin's new approach to censorship will probably backfire: (tags:russia censorship )
2. If you want more interesting shops then you need better zoning laws: (tags:viaDanielDWilliam business regulation cities )
3. Europe cracks down on data cap exemptions in update to net neutrality rules: (tags:internet regulation Europe )
4. How autistic and neurotypical viewers see things differently: (tags:eyesight eyetracking autism psychology )
5. Many pieces of art by Tolkien are now on the official website: (tags:Tolkien art lotr TheHobbit )
6. Love On The Spectrum is designed to make autistics look awkward and uncomfortable: (tags:autism TV OhForFucksSake )
7. Rising sea levels: 200,000 English properties will be abandoned: (tags:globalwarming sea housing UK Doom )
8. Renting: No-fault evictions to be banned in England: (tags:rental GoodNews uk )
9. Microsoft retires Internet Explorer after 27 years: (tags:internet ie GoodNews )
10. The linguistics professor who was a Swahili Room: (tags:language linguistics ai )

Anansi Boys TV show under way: (tags:TV neilgaiman )
Here's a lovely story.: (tags:LGBT love lesbians relationships )
Boycotts are terrorism now, apparently: (tags:IceCream Israel terrorism )
Tolkien, Lewis, and Gygax play Dungeons and Dragons together: (tags:Tolkien CSLewis dungeonsanddragons funny )
24 photos showing the massive changes to Edinburgh's St James district down the decades: (tags:edinburgh construction history )
Catholic priest quits after "anonymized" data revealed alleged use of Grindr (a great example of why "anonymous" data isn't!): (tags:data location lgbt religion OhForFucksSake )
No Covid is not the most infectious respiratory disease: (tags:pandemic virus infection )
Why hasn't "herd immunity" stopped Covid in the UK? (Detailed and fascinating): (tags:infection pandemic uk )
Me on an obstacle course: (tags:dogs funny video viaSwampers )
People In Positions Of Power Are More Likely To Blame And Punish Others For Poor Performance: (tags:psychology power work )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4063815.html

No, trans women do not have an advantage in sport: (tags:sports Olympics women LGBT transgender )
MEPs adopt a resolution condemning the current approach to tax havens as ineffective: (tags:tax Europe )
The seditionists are now quoting Tolkien in their ridiculous legal cases: (tags:law USA coup funny WTF Tolkien lotr )
JMS remembers Mira Furlan: (tags:obituary Babylon5 acting Yugoslavia jms )
Get ready for 'Long Brexit': (tags:UK Europe Doom trade )
15 ideas to make Britain better: (tags:UK advice viaPatrickHadfield )
Pink seesaws at US-Mexico wall win design award: (tags:Mexico USA borders art viaJane )
Apparently you need a £180 certificate to send £20 of cheese to Europe: (tags:Europe UK trade food Doom )
Johann Hari spreads dangerous lies. I wish I was less surprised the Guardian supports him: (tags:dangerous mentalhealth johannhari guardian OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3988815.html

Pfizer: COVID-19 shot 95% effective, seeking clearance soon: (tags:vaccine pandemic GoodNews )
So, it turns out we can produce a vaccine in less than a year if we really work at it. Multiple ones, even. Shame we don't do that more often...: (tags:pandemic vaccine )
If you've ever wondered why I bang on about trans rights, this is why.: (tags:transgender LGBT )
Right to scrap First Past the Post won for Welsh councils: (tags:elections reform Wales )
#DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster: (tags:Disney money writing publishing )
Openstreetmap is having a moment: (tags:OpenStreetMap data maps )
School LGBT bullying projects axed by UK government: (tags:UK school bullying lgbt OhForFucksSake )
UK-Japan deal dismantles UK's privacy protections: (tags:privacy UK Japan trade OhForFucksSake )
Unseen JRR Tolkien essays on Middle-earth coming in 2021: (tags:lotr Tolkien )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3959510.html

Here are the changes that will happen between the EU and the UK come the first of January: (tags:UK Europe Doom )
Vast Brexit customs clearance centre to be built in Kent: (tags:trade Europe UK )
Incredible restored video of Tokyo from 1913-1915: (tags:Japan history video )
CNN asked Black artists from Mississippi to design a new state flag: (tags:flags USA design )
Did you even know you needed 3D printed pasta?: (tags:pasta 3dprinting food technology )
How small satellites are radically remaking space exploration: (tags:space technology )
A fascinating, personal, story of transition, detransition, and transition again.: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1281537118183895041.html
(tags:gender transgender LGBT )
Scientists develop new antibody test which gives results in seven minutes: (tags:virus GoodNews )
Nearly all married women take their husband's last name - the patriarchy is alive and well: (tags:names patriarchy uk marriage )
A gold ring, a thieving Roman, and...JRR Tolkien?: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1281534833320222721.html
(tags:Tolkien archaeology rome viaDanielDWilliam )
The idea that the working class have limited interests is ahistoric, and just plain wrong: (tags:class culture history )
We have too much efficiency: (tags:efficiency society )
Why are toys such a bad business?: (tags:toys business )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3898146.html

For some reason the links on the 17th missed some. Here they are!

Archiving digital art is really really hard: (tags:art technology )
It is ok not to feel bad about feeling this way: (tags:emotion comic )
Cutting corners cost Boeing $19Bn. I wonder how much it saved them.: (tags:business safety epicfail )
What do you do if a rhino walks straight up to you while you're filming and wants a belly scratch?🦏: (tags:rhino video cute )
A thread of the Brexiter interviews from last night. Lovely people, all of them.: (tags:Europe UK society OhForFucksSake )
Not All Routines Can Become Habits: What You Need To Know: (tags:behaviour habits viaFrancescaElston )
Brexit trade talks: EU to back Spain over Gibraltar: (tags:Gibraltar UK Europe Spain )
The Crown will end after season five, with Imelda Staunton as Queen: (tags:royalty TV Queen UK )
An indigenous community in Mexico finds its voice — and its strength (they kicked out the corrupt politicians and loggers and rebuilt their lives): (tags:Mexico corruption )
A parole board sent a convicted wife-murderer to a sex worker *because* they knew he was a danger to women but wanted to make sure he got his "sexual needs" met. The guy murdered the 22-year-old sex worker.: (tags:Canada murder sexwork OhForFucksSake )
Finally, proof that procrastination is good (on Tolkien and Chaucer): (tags:Tolkien procrastination writing )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3862484.html

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