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Right and left have succumbed to the outrage machine: (tags:society )
The Secret Villains of the original Frozen movie (I don't believe this, but I do believe the plot has very messy bits that don't quite work): (tags:evil movies Disney )
Care workers lose 'sleep-in shift' court challenge: (tags:UK law sleep work care )
Young female Japanese biker with 16,000 followers turns out to be a 50-year-old man using FaceApp: (tags:faces socialmedia fraud photoshop )
This is the most powerful of the videomancer grandmas: (tags:video editing impressive viaSwampers )
This is the best excuse for being late to the pub: (tags:submarine photos )
Designing the NHS vaccine booking system to be more inclusive about gender identity: (tags:gender NHS web )
Zaadii - the real life eco superhero who never got to be (a very touching story. CW: Child death): (tags:death cars children comics superheroes viaBartCalendar )
The EU's vaccine supply problems seem to be because they were too trusting: (tags:UK Europe USA vaccine trade )
Why do amphorae have pointed bases?: (tags:history craftwork materials )
Humans versus sealions: triathlon edition: (tags:animals humans sport race )
Boris Johnson government in scandalous breach of Ministerial Code: (tags:BorisJohnson regulation corruption politics UK conservatives )
This pretty much sums up how I think brains work: (tags:brains evolution comic )
Domestic violence: Turkey pulls out of Istanbul convention: (tags:Turkey violence women OhForFucksSake )

'Inside job': House Dems ask if Capitol rioters had hidden help: (tags:USA politics conspiracy )
But What If We Didn't (The modern Republican approach - see also Johnson/Cummings): (tags:republicans politics USA viaDanielDWilliam )
Storming The U.S. Capitol Was About Maintaining White Power In America: (tags:viaDanielDWilliam racism USA politics )
US jobs report shows that men aren't losing jobs any more. Women still are.: (tags:Jobs USA gender )
Coronavirus: Lockdown rules are too lax, government scientific advisors warn: (tags:UK pandemic Doom )
UK rejected offer of visa-free tours by musicians in EU, despite blaming Brussels for permit blow: (tags:UK Europe music OhForFucksSake )
'Exercised' Explains Why It Can Be Hard To Commit To Working Out — And Why We Should: (tags:exercise health )
What's the current state on lorries going to the EU? And what happens next?: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1347885420823130114.html
(tags:trade UK Europe )
Garth Ennis on awful people using the Punisher symbol: (tags:marvel comics police viaBartCalendar )
Why the campaign to 'rejoin' the European Union is misconceived - the campaign must make a positive and sustainable case for membership, regardless of Brexit and the past: (tags:UK Europe )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3982770.html

Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19 relative to controls: An N=84,285 online study: (tags:intelligence virus pandemic )
The forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks: (tags:remote driving construction )
Will a vaccine stop Covid?: (tags:vaccine pandemic virus )
How to build an Olympic champion: Be born at the right time: (tags:time birth sports )
British government screams that it 'never wanted a trade deal anyway' and it 'wishes it had never been born': Astoundingly, this is from over a month ago!
(tags:UK trade satire viaCharlesStross )
Phil Collins' ex-wife has taken over his mansion with armed guards: (tags:music relationships wtf viaBartCalendar )
Pope Francis calls for civil union law for same-sex couples: (tags:LGBT pope catholicism )
The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3: (tags:Web technology Facebook http )
Cryo-electron microscopy breaks the atomic resolution barrier at last: (tags:microsocopy physics impressive )
Jared Leto Returning as Joker in the Snyder Cut: (tags:comics movies )
What's wrong with America's approach to pain management drugs?: (tags:pain USA healthcare medication )
Private rents in London plunge by up to 34% amid Covid crisis: (tags:London rental GoodNews pandemic )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3946837.html

Mars rover "Opportunity" is probably done, alas: (tags:Mars robots NASA )
Boys banned from playing netball at Urdd sports festival: (tags:gender sports )
What you, personally, can do about the upcoming insect apocalypse.: (tags:insects gardens environment )
Girl Scouts reject anti-transgender gift, then triple the money: (tags:usa transgender scouts lgbt girls )
EU officials: UK only 'pretending to negotiate' over Brexit impasse: (tags:UK europe doom )
Bikes put spanner in works of Dutch driverless car schemes: (tags:cars automation bicycles netherlands )
Lufthansa sues passenger for not getting on a plane: (tags:airlines OhForFucksSake )
Failed UKIP candidate claims he was personally invited on to BBC Question Time: (tags:UKIP bbc OhForFucksSake )
Post-Brexit trade partners ask UK to lower human rights standards: (tags:rights trade doom uk europe )
The "Impossible" Tech Behind SpaceX's New Engine: (tags:technology space fuel Spacex )
Female Gamer Angry About How Breast Physics Work in Real Life: (tags:physics breasts games satire funny viaBartCalendar )
Why is Ford leaving? Is it the risk of hard Brexit? Or because we're abandoning the Customs Union? Is it because we're leaving the Single Market? Or is it the Euro?: (tags:trade europe euro uk doom )
The Proverbial Murder Mystery (This made me giggle repeatedly): (tags:funny humour language )
Newly isolated human gut bacterium reveals possible connection to depression: (tags:depression microbiome )
Effect of breastfeeding versus pumping on human milk microbiome: (tags:microbiome milk breastfeeding babies )
"One man who made history" by another who seems just to make it up: Boris on Churchill: (tags:history myths fail uk wwii )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3766055.html

15,000 jobs at risk as Brexit exposes U.K. to worldwide raid on Airbus wing production: (tags: airplanes manufacturing UK europe )
Forth Road Bridge to reopen to public transport: (tags: transport edinburgh scotland )
EU rejects Brexit plan for banks by Britain's financial industry: (tags: finance UK europe )
How to fight in a dress: (tags: fighting clothes women )
Pro-Leave MPs are happy to gamble on Brexit, because they know someone else will pay for it: (tags: UK Europe OhForFucksSake Conservatives )
Children receive new ears grown from their own cells in world first: (tags: ears technology thefuture )
'Holy grail' blood test for early Alzheimer’s indicators could help patients begin treatment before they show symptoms: (tags: alzheimers GoodNews )
Subnautica is gaming's ultimate safe place: (tags: games exploration )
3D-printed fabric armour: (tags: armour material 3dprinting )
"You don't look autistic": People tell me I'm always calm when there's an emergency.
(tags: autism behaviour )
Cook book covers are all about men helping women to chop cucumbers: (tags: cooking food books society marketing advertising viaBartCalendar )
Placebo effect doesn't seem to exist outside of pain relief: (tags: placebo )
Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice: (tags: cancer mice GoodNews )
Super Mario film announced by Nintendo, will hopefully be less shit than the last one: (tags: Mario nintendo movies )
Measuring QUIC vs TCP on mobile and desktop: (tags: networking tcp internet google )
West Ham suspend Tony Henry over claims of club policy against signing Africans: (tags: racism football )
Theresa May lacks power to force hard Brexit through parliament, warns George Osborne: (tags: uk europe politics Conservatives )
Where Dutch directness comes from: (tags: netherlands behaviour history religion society )
MIT launches its Intelligence Quest: (tags: Intelligence ai Technology research )
In praise of the headphone jack: (tags: Technology audio )
Apparently this was the first thing I bought on Amazon (October 1999): (tags: Amazon history )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3656572.html

Tactical voting to beat the Tories: does the maths equal a coalition?: (tags: politics uk coalition voting )
Marijuana only rarely causes psychosis, says expert (1 in 23,000): (tags: marijuana drugs mentalhealth )
Brexit: Jeremy Corbyn rules out a second referendum on final EU deal: (tags: labour europe uk referendum )
Fusion efficiency boosted by exploding a tiny gold shell from the inside: (tags: nuclearpower fusion )
Here’s Where London Bankers Are Moving After Brexit: (tags: banking europe uk jobs )
On coalitions and the Lib Dems: (tags: politics coalition libdem uk )
On Having Sex When You Have Children: (tags: sex children funny comic )
EU leader: UK would be welcomed back if voters overturn Brexit: (tags: europe uk )
Accomplished female scientists often overlooked, study shows: Conference organizers invite male speakers over equally qualified women: (tags: science women )
Is soda bad for your brain? (And is diet soda worse?): (tags: sugar brain )
I ATE THREE EGGS EVERY SINGLE MORNING FOR A WEEK - HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED: That was....not what I expected
(tags: eggs horror apocalypse viaBartCalendar short_story )
Africans are living longer than at any point in the last 25 years: (tags: Africa LifeExpectancy )
European pollution helped cause one of India's worst-ever droughts: (tags: pollution india water )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3570750.html

Google’s Dueling Neural Networks Spar to Get Smarter, No Humans Required: (tags: ai google )
European Parliament votes to end visa-free travel for Americans: (tags: europe usa travel OhForFucksSake )
38% of Labour supporters think Corbyn would be a better Prime Minister than May: Which, I think, comes down to perceived competence. May might be an awful human being who is unnecessarily tearing the country apart, but she still comes across as more capable of organising a piss-up in a brewery than Corbyn does.
(tags: labour Conservatives politics uk epicfail )
What lurks inside the walls of ancient buildings, and how was it supposed to keep out evil?: (tags: history witchcraft superstition uk )
Boeing Dreamliner Gets $3M Cheaper Thanks to Rapid Plasma Deposition: (tags: 3dprinting airplanes )
The Osiris Child - a trailer for proper trashy b-movie science fiction: (tags: scifi trailer video movies )
The 5 Types Of Vaginas, As Revealed By A Bikini Waxer: (tags: vagina )
Amazon's new sick policy: collective punishment: (tags: amazon sick illness OhForFucksSake )
What Happened to "Who"?: (tags: grammar english usa viaLizzieCassMaran )
Investigation finds prison inmates built computers and hid them in prison ceiling: (tags: prison computers )
The changing definitions of the word "Robot": (tags: robots history language english scifi )
The factual impenetrability of zombie rules (Like insisting on "Who"): (tags: language english history viaLizzieCassMaran )
Intestinal bacteria may protect against diabetes: (tags: microbiome diabetes )
British man charged after US gamer is shot by Swat police following hoax terrorism call: (tags: OhForFucksSake gaming police guns )
Why Buying T-Shirts Is the Absolute Best Way to Support Bands You Like: (tags: t-shirts music business viaBartCalendar )
That Four-Star Rating You Left Could Cost Your Uber Driver Her Job: (tags: ratings reviews OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3567883.html

Girls' confidence level, not math ability hinders path to science degrees: (tags: mathematics confidence gender )
Is terror more of a threat to Europe than before?: (tags: terrorism europe )
There's something delightful about restaurant reviews of terrible, expensive, food: (tags: restaurant review fail food money viaPatrickHadfield )
Leaked document shows ‘secret’ government studies into impact of 'hard' Brexit: (tags: uk europe secrets viaPatrickHadfield )
"My Out-of-Network Somatic Healer Cured Me of My Class Privilege Guilt": (tags: funny inequality money satire guilt viaBartCalendar )
UK to scale down climate change and illegal wildlife measures to bring in post-Brexit trade, secret documents reveal: (tags: uk globalwarming environment wildlife OhForFucksSake )
350 Data Structure Problems and Solutions: (tags: data problems advice programming )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3567084.html

Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out: (tags: surveillance obama usa )
Your appendix is a reservoir for gut bacteria (which may explain why mine are _rubbish_): (tags: bacteria microbiome body )
#ItAintRape - The Worst Trending Hashtag I've Seen Yet: (tags: rape RapeCulture twitter )
Why don't schools teach debugging?: (tags: bug Education computers )
Civil Partnerships for opposite-sex couples just got filibustered: (tags: politics relationships law uk )
Before-and-after photos show California storm's incredible impact on water levels: (tags: water california photos )
A Forgotten Adventure With a Telepathic Tribe: (tags: history amazon geography weird )
The Life-Changing Magic of Decluttering in a Post-Apocalyptic World: (tags: cleanliness funny apocalypse comic )
Hamilton brings in paperless ticketing system to combat touts: (tags: theatre money tickets )
Disney meeting with Carrie Fisher's estate over her continued appearance in the Star Wars franchise: (tags: StarWars )
Should we be taking masturbation breaks at work?: (tags: masturbation productivity )
Pornhub's 2016 Year in Review: (tags: porn statistics viaBartCalendar )
First use of new Scots welfare powers over Universal Credit: (tags: scotland welfare )
Explorers find disease-cursed City of the Monkey God and nearly lose their faces to flesh-eating parasite: (tags: headline archeology )
Lucasfilm denies plans to digitally recreate Carrie Fisher: (tags: StarWars )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3543873.html

Dogs poop in alignment with Earth's magnetic field: (tags: dogs magnets wtf )
Terrifyingly Dangerous Dogs Behind “Beware Of Dog” Signs.: (tags: dogs cats cute )
What directors are thinking when people ask them about continuity: (tags: movies comic funny )
The future of IRC: (tags: Technology thefuture comic funny )
How to give the worst blow job ever: (tags: sex consent advice )
Some lovely examples of computers going wrong in unexpected ways: (tags: computers fail wtf )
Online cognitive behavioural therapy is no more effective than usual GP care for people with depression: (tags: depression cbt )
The Daily Mail is, of course, against a group that tells girls they don't have to put up with violence: (tags: violence DailyMail women rights )
Humans are the fae of the animal world: (tags: animals myths humans viaBartCalendar )
Most people think the political answers are obvious, but don't know how to explain them.: (tags: politics philosophy fail )
How ‘Sherlock of the library’ cracked the case of Shakespeare’s identity: (tags: shakespeare research history )
(Some of) Marvel blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War to be shot in Glasgow in huge boost for Scottish economy: (tags: glasgow marvel movies )
"Close to tears, he left at the intermission": how Stanley Kubrick upset Arthur C Clarke: I'd love to see the version that Clarke was happy with.
(tags: ArthurCClarke StanleyKubrick movies scifi history viaLProven )
"I wore men’s clothes for a month – and it changed my life": (tags: clothing gender society )
Mapumental - graph how far you can travel from a given location in a given time: (tags: travel maps viaSwampers )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3542757.html

Princess Beatrice 'slices Ed Sheeran's face with ceremonial sword' while attempting to 'knight' James Blunt at party: (tags: royalty UK alcohol viaBartCalendar )
Steven Strogatz on chaos theory, game theory, and why math isn’t boring: (tags: mathematics Education creativity art )
Patients with Bipolar Disorder are more likely to be infected by T. gondii: (tags: ToxoplasmaGondii bipolar mentalhealth Parasites )
Ill-treatment, torture, death: Amnesty’s verdict on how Fidel Castro treated opponents: (tags: torture dictators )
Theresa May reveals how her faith in God gives her confidence she is 'doing the right thing': (tags: religion politics Conservatives )
Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians: (tags: psychology morality libertarianism )
The Psychology of Eye Contact, Digested: (tags: psychology eyes )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3528561.html

Video of (and inside) a fully self-driving Tesla: (tags: automation video cars transport )
First look at the new Nintendo console: (tags: nintendo games consoles video )
The Killing Joke Script: (tags: alanmoore writing batman comics )
How Hillary Clinton’s 3 debate performances left the Trump campaign in ruins: (tags: debate politics usa )
Clown porn searches are up over 200%: (tags: porn statistics viaBartCalendar )
Software architect is an illegal job title in the UK: (tags: law jobs language viaFanf )
The Architects Registration Board will sadly not prosecute software architects: (tags: names software architecture law viaFanf )
Wild animals with Halloween pumpkins: (tags: cute animals )
Deep-Dream like image synthesis - using a NSFW dataset: (tags: nsfw ai porn image )
Great Old Ones arranged from most to least fuckable.: (tags: cthulhu sex )
Beyond the Moomins: Tove Jansson's art gets major UK exhibition: (tags: art uk finland )
The Adventure Game: looking back at a brilliant kids' TV show: (tags: tv children puzzle games uk )
36 Brutally Honest And Sweary Things Noel Gallagher Has Actually Said: (tags: quotes music celebrity )
Pro-EU traitors have been undermining Parliament. Can a racist frog, a Ukip solicitor, and Louise Mensch save us?: (tags: UKIP twitter satire europe uk funny )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3515358.html

David Davis: Trigger Brexit by start of 2017: (tags: europe uk )
Andrea Leadsom Says It Is Sensible Not To Let Men Look After Children As They May Be Paedophiles: (tags: Conservatives OhForFucksSake paedophilia sexism )
The Republican National Convention Can't Pay Its Bills: (tags: republicans viaBartCalendar usa politics )
Theresa May: Article 50 will not be brought forward until there is a UK-wide approach: Of course, that's a really vague statement.
(tags: uk europe scotland )
If you’re worried that stupid people have more kids, don’t be (yet): (tags: children Intelligence genetics )
Fake Sweeteners Make You Crave More Sweets (in flies and mice): (tags: food sugar )
Animal shelter gets Pokemon Go players to walk their dogs: (tags: dogs games )
The feds want to launch peanut butter drone strikes to save endangered ferrets: (tags: drone nature vaccination wildlife usa )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3481446.html

Theresa May revealed as Margaret Thatcher’s final Horcrux: (tags: margaretthatcher harrypotter politics uk funny )
'Zeno effect' verified—atoms won't move while you watch: (tags: physics quantum )
What to Make of Finnegans Wake? (Fascinating, in-depth piece by Michael Chabon): (tags: writing language sleep )
British prime ministerial statistics: (tags: uk government history )
Pokémon Go Nudes Are A Thing Now: (tags: nsfw nudity games )
The Westboro Baptist Church Is Getting Owned In Pokémon Go: I am still not sure that they aren't a performance art act.
(tags: religion games lgbt EpicWTF viaBartCalendar )
Woman gives herself a C-section and saves her own baby: (tags: babies women childbirth )
Mandarin Ducks and Koi Carp (pretty as a picture): (tags: beautiful animals fish )
Naming pokemon using autocorrect: (tags: language games names )
Having a hard time with wall-to-wall ridiculous politics? Have a seal with the hiccups!: (tags: animals cute animated_gif )
Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte urges people to kill drug addictsdrugs: (tags: drugs politics OhForFucksSake )
Successful diets add healthy foods rather than removing unhealthy ones: (tags: food diet psychology )
Honeymoon for one: Woman's sad photos after husband denied visa: (tags: travel photos funny )
Psychologists still don't know why you are oblivious to your blinks: (tags: vision psychology perception )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3480050.html

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3447691.html

The ‘drugs v talking’ debate doesn’t help us understand mental health: (tags: mentalhealth therapy psychology drugs )
New findings about schizophrenia rekindle old questions about genes and identity.: (tags: schizophrenia genetics )
Police Body Cameras: What Do You See?: (tags: cameras police bias )
Hacking Elections: How Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections throughout Latin America for almost a decade.: (tags: hacking politics elections )
The Rich Bastard's Guide to Choosing Which Tax Haven Is Right For You: (tags: tax )
Speed Dating - a cute live action stop-motion short film: (tags: dating relationships video movie )
In Four Days, Americans and Canadians might need visas to visit Europe: (tags: travel europe usa canada )
How US domination makes things cheap for Americans: (tags: usa economics currency )
Neutered random number generator let man rig million dollar lotteries: (tags: lottery hacking )
The First Reactions To CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR Say It's Incredible: (tags: marvel movies reviews viaBartCalendar )
A friend is looking for good examples of competence erotica: (tags: writing advice science )
This Is What Happened When Your Mom Runs Your Tinder for a Month: (tags: dating relationships funny mother )
How wine forgery works: (tags: alcohol fraud )
Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: (tags: psychology language )
How a Car Engine Works: (tags: cars animation visualization engineering )
Sure, I’m a Feminist, But If I Support Other Women, How Will I Become the Highlander?: (tags: movies feminism funny )
Millennial Employees Confound Big Banks: (tags: work banking usa )
Humans and robots work in sync at Amazon warehouses (for now): (tags: amazon robots )
Driverless bus in Greece has had no accidents in six months: (tags: automation transport buses greece )
The problem with Superman is that he has lost his Jewish heritage: (tags: Jews judaism superman )
Are you a grammar pedant? This might be why: (tags: grammar personality )
Frog and Toad are Cofounders: (tags: development business computers Technology satire )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3437931.html

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