Entries tagged with torture

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Interesting Links for 17-12-2022

1. Twitter blocks users from sharing Mastodon links: (tags:Twitter Mastodon censorship OhForFucksSake )
2. Would you like the perfect Christmas present for your cat?: (tags:cats christmas video viaKirsty )
3. Chaosium announce that they will not use AI Art in their products (first company I've seen make such a pledge): (tags:ai art games roleplaying viaJamesNicoll )
4. The Indian doctor who saved 50,000,000 lives with a simple invention: (tags:healthcare sugar salt water india )
5. The German office for data protection and freedom of information suggests that German ministries move to Mastodon: (tags:germany mastodon twitter )
6. China's War Against Taiwan Has Already Started: (tags:China Taiwan disinformation war )
7. Queen's death events cost Edinburgh council £500,000: (tags:Edinburgh Queen death money )
8. EU adopts global minimum 15% tax on big business: (tags:Europe tax globalization )
9. Games kind of suck at designing female heroes: (tags:design games bodies women )
10. How the campaign to stop the United Kingdom government from making it more difficult to prosecute war crimes was won: (tags:torture law WarCrimes UK politics )
11. Schizophrenia: Parasite x Genotype x Stress: (tags:stress genes Parasites schizophrenia )
12. Congress passes legislation to end US participation in global shark fin trade: (tags:sharks USA )

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Interesting Links for 11-06-2022

1. Watch from Inside the Nest as a Pair of Kestrels Raise a Family: (tags:birds video )
2. The COVID Event Horizon (or: How many Covid infections can a person have?): (tags:pandemic disease doom )
3. There are early signs of Covid infections trending back up the way: (tags:pandemic doom )
4. Jacob Rees-Mogg refuses to debate why he blocked bill that would have spared elephants from torture: (tags:elephants torture conservatives OhForFucksSake )
5. 40% of the UK is heading for fuel poverty: (tags:heating poverty electricity gas )
6. Green light for £21m Scottish plastic-to-hydrogen plant: (tags:plastic hydrogen energy )
7. The best book ever about computers is getting a second edition. I may need to update: (tags:books computers )
8. The Sriracha Shortage Is The Next Harbinger of Climate Change: (tags:globalwarming food )
9. Sex with your distant ancestors: bestiality or not?: (tags:bestiality sex prehistory evolution )
10. The perception of rhythm in language (read it out loud): (tags:poetry language research awesome )
11. How Tesla tries to avoid its autopilot being on for crashes: (tags:Tesla automation OhForFucksSake cars driving )

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4113444.html

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Interesting Links for 16-11-2021

HS2 rail extension to Leeds set to be scrapped: (tags:hs2 uk OhForFucksSake trains transport )
Brexit: Tariffs paid on Â£9.5bn of UK exports to EU despite Boris Johnson's claim of 'tariff-free' deal: (tags:uk europe trade doom )
Iraq, Trump, Brexit - The Difficult Decisions of A Conflicted Civil Servant: (tags:UK Europe USA politics torture Iraq war CivilService )
UK threw away 600,000 vaccine doses after letting them go past their expiry date: (tags:UK waste Pandemic vaccine OhForFucksSake )
Fact Check: Scotland's electricity consumption isn't 100% renewable: (tags:renewables Scotland facts )
The second COVID jab is much safer for children if you leave it until 12 weeks after the first one: (tags:Pandemic vaccination children UK )
Rotating! segmented! 3D! Mobius strip!: (tags:optical_illusion awesome video )
What kind of weird connectors do sex machines use?: (tags:sex technology )
Renew with us or your credit score suffers, US ISP warns: (tags:wtf business USA internet )
The "c" word - why "corruption" is the accurate word for describing what the United Kingdom government is doing: (tags:corruption UK )
Violent storms unleash hordes of venomous scorpions in Egypt: (tags:weather Egypt animals headline viaDanielDWilliam )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4079884.html

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4072202.html

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Interesting Links for 12-08-2021

How To Be A Number One Dad: (tags:parenting comic true )
Wagner: Scale of Russian mercenary mission in Libya exposed: (tags:russia libya war )
Edinburgh councillors propose plan to crack down on short-term lets: (tags:Scotland Edinburgh housing rental )
This will make a lot of people I know feel very old: (tags:Livejournal age funny )
What are Prince Andrew's options over the sex abuse court case?: (tags:sex abuse royalty )
Ubisoft employees come out in support of Activision Blizzard employees: (tags:abuse work games )
Almost no trait is controlled by a single gene - not even eye colour: (tags:genes )
Autistic kids can now be electrocuted by teachers in USA if they are disobedient: (tags:USA torture electricity autism )
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" Story Conference: (tags:movies writing history )
Moderna Vaccine Significantly More Effective Against Delta Variant Than Pfizer: (tags:vaccine pandemic )
Covid in Scotland: Hospitals under more pressure than ever (catching up with untreated patients whose cases have become more complex): (tags:pandemic nhs scotland )
Feminism, biological fundamentalism and the attack on trans rights: (tags:transgender society LGBT )
Two-thirds of Brits support raising National Insurance to pay for social care reform: (tags:uk tax )
New guidance on supporting transgender pupils in Scottish schools: (tags:scotland school transgender )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4050670.html

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Interesting Links for 17-06-2021

Why The Two-Party System Is Wrecking American Democracy: (tags:politics voting usa )
Ladies: What is a dead give-away, during sex, that a man watches too much porn: (tags:sex porn men )
Men: What is a dead give-away, during sex, that a woman watches too much porn: (tags:sex porn women )
Government misrepresented my report to make assault on judicial review, says former Tory minister: (tags:law UK conservatives )
Saudi Arabia executes Mustafa al-Darwish for teenage protests (that he was tortured into confessing to): (tags:torture murder saudiarabia )
Food-delivery apps up to 44% more expensive than ordering direct: (tags:food apps money )
Here Are All The Key Claims In Dominic Cummings' Latest Bombshell: (tags:Conservatives pandemic incompetence )
Map showing areas projected to be below annual flood level in 2030 (you can adjust a range of settings and extrapolate out to 2100): (tags:globalwarming sea maps )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3944072.html

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Interesting Links for 16-10-2020

Microwaving plastic waste can generate clean hydrogen: (tags:hydrogen plastic microwave )
We have so many things to learn from nature: (tags:nature comic funny )
How to Keep Players Engaged (Without Being Evil): (tags:games design video )
Fire and smoke alarms: changes to the law in Scotland (affects every home): (tags:safety Scotland fire regulation )
MPs to investigate whether artists are paid fairly for streaming music (turns out the labels keep almost 90% of the cash): (tags:music streaming money )
MPs vote to allow undercover agents to commit murder, torture and rape: (tags:murder rape torture law UK )
The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time: (tags:books fantasy )
UK banks not ready for negative interest rates: (tags:UK banking )
If Google disables your account then you can't find out why - even if your husband works there.: (tags:Google OhForFucksSake )
Coronavirus immunity likely to last for several months after infection: (tags:virus immune_system )
Centaurs are clearly insects: (tags:fantasy horses insects )
VIDEO: Amazing Recreation of 14th-Century Construction of Charles IV Bridge in Prague: (tags:construction architecture history video )
World's most prestigious scientific publications issue unprecedented critiques of the Trump administration: (tags:science politics USA viaElfy )
The closed Edinburgh cinema costing £20,000 a month to run: (tags:cinema Edinburgh Scotland pandemic )
Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search: (tags:music search google )
3.6 million people in the UK locked out of home buying. And (in a net basis) the last ten years of house building went to landlords.: (tags:UK housing OhForFucksSake )
'I'm sick of influencers asking for free cake' (and some good examples of them working well together): (tags:advertising food socialmedia )
Betelgeuse Is Neither as Far Nor as Large as We Thought: (tags:space )

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

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Interesting Links for 24-09-2020

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/3898369.html

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Interesting Links for 13-07-2020

Coronavirus pandemic reveals century-old scientific split over airborne germs: (tags:virus air disease who )
Artificial Intelligence is hitting a wall: (tags:ai technology efficiency cost )
Dutch police find secret torture site in containers on Dutch-Belgian border: (tags:torture netherlands )
Parts of civil service will move out of London: (tags:London UK CivilService )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3871728.html

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Interesting Links for 07-03-2020

Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability but Not Creativity: (tags:caffeine problems thinking creativity psychology )
The majority of popular films, including those for children, have at least one torture scene, and the scenes are usually depicted as achieving the torturer's goal: (tags:children torture society movies OhForFucksSake )
Complete moral collapse on the Greek border: (tags:asylum immigration racism greece Turkey Syria war Europe OhForFucksSake )
Government asks Labour for ideas on social care reform. Labour refuses to give them: (tags:Labour wtf )
Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All Policy Would Likely Increase Wages and Create Jobs, New Economic Analysis Shows: (tags:healthcare USA economics )
Alien nation: Myths about UK immigration are fueling ignorance: (tags:bigotry immigration UK )
Why a lot of black Southern voters will never vote for Bernie.: (tags:politics USA democrats race )
What it's like to be anaesthetised: (tags:drugs surgery )
Hundreds Of Guardian Staff Have Signed A Letter To The Editor Criticising Its Transphobic Content: (tags:guardian bigotry LGBT transgender )

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

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Interesting Links for 23-01-2020

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 )