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1. Neil Gaiman Film The Graveyard Book Paused After Sexual Assault Claims
(tags:neilgaiman books Disney assault )
2. Russia Aimed Propaganda at Gamers, Minorities to Swing 2024 Election
(tags:russia elections usa fraud )
3. Disabled children's charity hands 43% of grants to rightwing think-tanks
(tags:uk charity OhForFucksSake )
4. University of Edinburgh submits plans for 'New Darwin' bioscience hub at King's Buildings
(tags:Edinburgh university )
5. Sir Tony Blair branded 'despicable' by Fire Brigades Union for comments on Grenfell fire
(tags:fire UK tonyblair disaster )
6. Puberty blockers a 'safe, effective and reversible' form of gender-affirming care, finds Australian review
(tags:Australia puberty healthcare transgender )
7. Study: Playing Dungeons & Dragons helps autistic players in social interactions (it certainly did with me!)
(tags:dungeonsanddragons autism )
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Interesting Links for 08-07-2024

1. Election 2024: This could be the birth of a powerful new electoral reform movement
(tags:voting reform uk viaPatrickHadfield )
2. Minister rejects Blair's call for ID cards to control migration
(tags:IDCards tonyblair Labour )
3. The children have been singing "Elephants Have Wrinkles" for the last twenty minutes. No one knows why.
(tags:elephants singing video children )
4. Were some Reform candidates virtual?
(tags:UK politics wtf )
5. The Insidious World of Fake Mobile Game Ads
(tags:advertising games gambling fraud )
6. Best toddler drummer
(tags:drums children video )
7. Germany set to overhaul subsidy regime for renewable energy
(tags:germany renewables subsidies economics )
8. Gamification needs to be specific to its subject and absolutely minimal, in order to be effective
(tags:games activity behaviour running )
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Interesting Links for 05-01-2022

Are pheasants livestock or wildlife? (Schroedinger would be proud)
(tags:animals law ontology uk )
Here are the arguments Prince Andrew's lawyer is trying to use to get the rape case dismissed
(tags:rape monarchy USA law )
'90 Day Fiancé' star retires from selling farts after heart attack scare
(tags:headline gas wtf )
The UX on this small child is terrible
(tags:children ux funny parenting )
You Can Skip the First Few Seasons of Your Child's Life, Because It Doesn't Really Get Good Until Season 6 (This is remarkably accurate)
(tags:children satire TV funny parenting viaSwampers )
Public overwhelmingly against Tony Blair knighthood, poll finds
(tags:tonyblair uk politics polls )
Sony confirms PlayStation VR2's specs, first official game
(tags:VirtualReality PlayStation games consoles )
Female patients are more likely to die if thesurgeon is male
(tags:surgery women men society OhForFucksSake patriarchy )
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Interesting Links for 26-11-2021

Will glow-in-the-dark materials someday light our cities?
(tags:light )
Why a Mass Effect TV show is a terrible idea
(tags:TV games writing plot )
Priti Patel has quietly been stuffing even more punitive anti-protest powers into the policing bill
(tags:law UK protests OhForFucksSake )
Reinfections of Covid-19 are 90 per cent less likely to result in hospitalisation or death than primary infections
(tags:Pandemic )
Why carbon taxes really work
(tags:co2 globalwarming tax )
The Beatles - Get Back review: Peter Jackson documentary is a seven-hour masterpiece
(tags:Beatles history documentary peterjackson )
It's not 'polarization.' The USA suffers from Republican radicalization.
(tags:USA politics Doom republicans viaDanielDWilliam )
More thoughts on the way that Polarisation has been made The Problem of American politics
(tags:USA politics viaDanielDWilliam )
Tony Blair tells Keir Starmer to 'reject wokeism' and wage war on socialism
(tags:labour tonyblair OhForFucksSake )
The unforced error by Boris Johnson of publishing the letter to the French President
(tags:uk europe diplomacy fail migration france )
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Interesting Links for 10-10-2019

Church of Scotland considers selling half Aberdeen's churches
(tags:religion Scotland )
Private Equity Is Swallowing The World
(tags:business investment )
Tory party faces split over any no-deal election manifesto
(tags:conservatives Europe Doom )
A Chinese game developer speaks out on Blizzard and Hong Kong
(tags:china HongKong games )
Brexit is a necessary crisis - it reveals Britain's true place in the world
(tags:UK history business Europe perspective )
Toilet paper manufacturer says UK supplies 'will not withstand' a no-deal Brexit
(tags:toilets paper UK Europe Doom )
EU Brexit negotiator tears apart Boris Johnson's plan point by point
(tags:uk europe fail )
Tony Blair: Scottish nationalism is distinct from Brexit populism
(tags:tonyblair Scotland politics )
Russian trolls' chief target was black US voters in 2016 (encouraging them not to vote for Clinton, or at all)
(tags:race politics USA Russia )
Good Actor and Deepfake AI Technology Create Disturbingly Realistic Results
(tags:video fake impressive technology )
Vaginal-fluid transplants treat incurable condition in pilot study
(tags:vagina microbiome )
Beware of Cranks: Misguided attempts to solve impossible mathematical problems
(tags:mathematics fraud )
Beijing Takes Aim at Prague After 'One-China' Dispute Deepens
(tags:China Europe )
Turkish troops advance into Syria as Trump washes his hands of the Kurds
(tags:Syria Turkey OhForFucksSake )
A liberal approach to extremism is taking shape - but will the government let it survive?
(tags:UK politics terrorism liberal )
A Solar Power Plant designed to deliver 100% of the electricity after sunset
(tags:solarpower batteries africa )
A year ago Boris Johnson regretted his choices. I wonder how he feels now.
(tags:BorisJohnson Doom )
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Interesting Links for 22-03-2019

Danish billionaires plan to rewild large swath of Scottish Highlands
(tags:scotland nature )
Brexit: Jeremy Corbyn refuses to rule out revoking Article 50 to stop no-deal
(tags:uk europe labour hope )
Women who shared their mother's womb with a male twin are less likely to graduate from high school or college, have earned less by their early 30s, and have lower fertility and marriage rates
(tags:women testosterone )
How are New Zealand's gun laws changing?
(tags:newzealand guns )
Tony Blair and New Labour - GOOD or BAD?
(tags:labour tonyblair history )
Top Scores - How game music has evolved
(tags:games music )
Why "chickenpox parties" are a terrible idea???in case it's not obvious
And yet the NHS doesn't vaccinate against it
(tags:disease vaccination )
Revoke Article 50 petition calling for Brexit to be cancelled hits two million signatures
(tags:UK europe petition )
Study highlights power of play to improve self regulation in children
(tags:children psychology play self-control )
Delusions may stem from "sticky" beliefs which take more evidence to change
(tags:belief delusion psychology )
Lorraine Kelly has won a massive legal case over unpaid tax by arguing she does not appear on TV as herself, but is instead an actor playing a cheery upbeat character called "Lorraine Kelly"
(tags:tv acting tax uk )
In case anyone is wondering why the petition site went down, here's one of the developers
(tags:software petition fail uk )
heresa May's behaviour yesterday is one to oppose to anything that reduces the independence of MP and/or makes them more tied to the party whip.
(tags:politics uk )
Talk to kids about same sex relationships as young as possible
(tags:children lgbt ViaDrCross )
How a bookshop wolf handles awkward customers
(tags:comics work wolves books )
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2017-02-17 12:00 pm
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"It is not a ground for divorce if you find yourself in a wretchedly unhappy marriage"
(tags: divorce uk marriage law )
99.6% of new smartphones run iOS or Android; RIP Windows and Blackberry
(tags: phones iphone android )
After a 40 Year Battle, Is Male Birth Control Finally Coming?
(tags: birthcontrol contraception men india )
Large imaging study confirms brain differences in ADHD
(tags: adhd neuroscience brain )
Highlights From The Comments On Cost Disease (None of which actually have hard numbers)
(tags: economics )
Zealandia: Is there an eighth continent under New Zealand?
(tags: geology newzealand )
Antibiotics, not surgery, could treat acute appendicitis in 97% of children
(tags: surgery microbiome antibiotics )
German parents told to destroy Cayla dolls over hacking fears
(tags: security hacking spying germany toys )
Brexit 'is not inevitable' and can be stopped by the will of the people
Dammit, there's me agreeing with Tony Blair
(tags: tonyblair politics europe uk )
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2016-05-26 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 26-05-2016

Is Facebook eavesdropping on your phone conversations?
(tags: facebook privacy advertising )
For the first time since the 1880s, more young Americans are living with their parents than with a romantic partner.
(tags: usa housing money inequality )
Civilization VI hands on preview (looks very good)
(tags: games )
Foxconn replaces 60,000 factory workers with robots
(tags: robots manufacturing china jobs )
On School Rolls, Gaelic and Overcrowding in Edinburgh
(tags: edinburgh language scotland school )
When LinkedIn emails all of your friends to call you a white supremacist.
(tags: nazis racism internet OhForFucksSake names viaTheWeaselKing )
What's happening with Scotland's named person policy? And what's going to happen to it?
(tags: scotland children snp politics )
A Silicon Valley billionaire is reportedly funding the legal war to end Gawker
(tags: media USA wtf )
How to deal with token characters
(tags: writing race gender )
In which the BBC and Sky argue over who Captain America's boyfriend should be
(tags: sky bbc slash relationships marvel )
Unflattering Animal Pictures
(tags: animals photos funny )
Three UK announces next steps in plans to improve mobile advertising
(tags: advertising phones )
Most British people say they will never forgive Tony Blair
(tags: tonyblair politics iraq war middle_east labour uk )
Anti-cancer HPV jab piloted in gay men
(tags: lgbt cancer vaccination )
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Interesting Links for 23-05-2016

BBC Scotland's levels of disrespect for Scottish people are frankly, ridiculous
(tags: scotland comedy bbc OhForFucksSake )
This is pretty-much how I feel about sex-talk
(tags: sex conversation comic funny )
Five Signs Your Story Is Sexist – Against Men
(tags: men sexism patriarchy viaTheFerrett )
Lion dancers have amazing skills
(tags: dancing martialarts video )
Workers will have to save much more or stay in their jobs longer if they want a decent pension
(tags: pension money thefuture )
Elijah Wood: 'Hollywood in the grip of child abuse scandal similar to Jimmy Savile'
(tags: abuse movies usa )
Britain has an ethnic problem: the English
(tags: UK racism UKIP politics Education immigration )
Jeremy Corbyn still prepared to call for war crimes investigation into Tony Blair
(tags: war tonyblair law uk )
Official advice on low-fat diet and cholesterol is wrong, says health charity
(tags: diet fat health advice uk )
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson to marry
(tags: Conservatives lgbt scotland marriage )
Wild animals at UK homes include lions, zebras and crocodiles
(tags: animals uk )
By Grabthar's Hammer! Who can suggest sci-fi quotes that are more essential than these eight?
(tags: quotes scifi viaSwampers )
The Busy Beaver Game, and the limits between the knowable and the unknowable
(tags: mathematics computing knowledge )
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