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1. Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards: (tags:funny photos wildlife )
2. Scotland to get 8% of UK's fishing funding, despite landing 60% of its fish: (tags:fish Scotland UK money wtf )
3. Aerial Photos Highlight Beauty of Kazakhstan's Mangystau Plateau: (tags:kazakhstan photos )

1. Scientists have finally worked out how cats produce purring sounds: (tags:cats )
2. Bears, birds and kangaroos: Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2023: (tags:funny photos nature wildlife viacmcmck )
3. When does spider season end? Why there are so many spiders in your house right now and how to stop them: (tags:spiders )
4. X stops showing headlines because Elon Musk thinks it will make posts look better: (tags:twitter ux awful )
5. Can you melt eggs? Quora's AI says "yes," and Google is sharing the result: (tags:ai epicfail fraud google )
6. Private equity managers could face £420m annual bill after legal challenge (this kind of thing is one of the reasons I donate to the Good Law Project): (tags:law uk tax money )
7. Study into trans women in hospitals didn't find one single complaint: (tags:LGBT transgender NHS bigotry conservatives )
8. Finally, a trans debate worth having!: (tags:satire transgender video LGBT )
9. The extreme robot arm that can chop up a ship: (tags:automation ship waste )

1. Misogyny in Scotland - QC reports to the Scottish government: (tags:Scotland misogyny )
2. Covid: Discharging hospital patients to care homes 'unlawful': (tags:UK Pandemic OldAge death )
3. Russia Is Being Hacked at an Unprecedented Scale: (tags:hacking Russia Ukraine )
4. A puzzling phenomenon: Patients report a rebound of COVID-19 symptoms after taking the antiviral Paxlovid (still better than not taking it though): (tags:Pandemic virus treatment )
5. Behold: The Sign War!: (tags:sign funny )
6. A deep dive into the cases of hepatitis amongst kids in the UK: (tags:children disease Pandemic uk )
7. The untold story of Britain's first black school teacher: (tags:Scotland race school history )
8. "I Animated My Watercolors": (tags:animation painting art viaClare )
9. Opinions divided over reintroduction of lynx to Scotland: (tags:cats wildlife Scotland )
10. Central African Republic Adopts Bitcoin as Legal Tender: (tags:Africa bitcoin )
11. Pupils boost memory and fitness from fifteen minutes of daily activity: (tags:exercise )
12. Why we should sanction Putin's favourite conductor: (tags:music corruption Russia Ukraine war )
13. Making rope by hand from hemp looks like a lot of hard work: (tags:manufacturing video )

Twitter locks account of Chinese Embassy in U.S. over 'dehumanization' of Uighurs in tweet: (tags:Twitter China )
QAnon in crisis as day of reckoning fails to materialize: (tags:conspiracy politics USA )
Trans rights in the UK aren't new. They date back to the 90s, with their roots in legislation from the 70s.: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1352274358987853825.html
(tags:LGBT transgender law rights UK )
Under the radar: Labour's progressive economic agenda: (tags:economics labour )
People in Scotland to be asked about reintroducing lynx to the country: (tags:Scotland wildlife cats )
Tiny baby performs AC/DC's Thunderstruck: (tags:music babies viaSwampers )
She Was Fired From Taco Bell for Being in Porn: (tags:work sexwork OhForFucksSake USA jobs )
How Microsoft uses bribery to get things done with American politicians: (tags:politics bribery Microsoft USA )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3988504.html

Trump retweets video of supporter shouting 'white power': (tags:racism republicans USA politics Twitter video )
Coronavirus: No plans for Scotland to quarantine UK visitors. Yet.: (tags:Scotland pandemic )
Flu virus with 'pandemic potential' found in China: (tags:China pandemic disease virus pigs )
French far right parties lose nearly half their seats in local elections: (tags:France politics GoodNews )
so.... JK Rowling is following a white nationalist who wrote a book about "Muslims destroying europe": (tags:jkrowling islam racism OhForFucksSake )
Impressive sculptures made from woven Willow. Including an amazing dragon!: (tags:dragons wood sculpture )
The secretive government agency planting 'cyanide bombs' across the US: (tags:usa wildlife nature poison )
AI predicts effective depression treatment based on brainwave patterns: (tags:depression neuroscience brain ai )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3897329.html

I'd never heard of "Paris Syndrome" before. (Fascinating, but rare - Japanese people so shocked to discover that it's different to the movies they fail to cope): (tags:japan france reality movies Paris mentalhealth )
Modeling the Mythical Man-Month (or: The ideal number of people in a team is about 3): (tags:teams efficiency productivity )
Psychologists are studying polyamory: (tags:psychology polyamory relationships )
Human presence alone has lethal effect on large predators: (tags:humans predator behaviour animals wildlife )
Isn't Everyone On The Spectrum?: (tags:autism society )
Explaining Japan's 99.9% Conviction Rate: (tags:law japan )
Autistic Spectroscopy: Exploring what the "spectrum" means: (tags:autism )
How does OpenStreetMap keep track of where your home is when the continents won't hold still?: (tags:OpenStreetMap maps data earth time )
Trial By Trolley - a social game of philosophical conundrums: (tags:morality games kickstarter )
Live Action Warhammer 40,000 TV Show 'Eisenhorn' Announced: (tags:Warhammer tv )
Gorillas have humanlike social structure: (tags:gorillas social behaviour )
The Glorious, Profitable, Inescapable Art of Addiction (in games): (tags:games addiction design )
Scottish town named top cruise ship destination in Western Europe: (tags:Scotland ocean holidays tourism )
No Deal Brexit forecast to lead to a Â£30 billion a year hit to the public finances per year, according to the first official projection from the Government's independent budgetary watchdog - the OBR: (tags:europe uk doom )
An interview with Margaret Hamilton: The woman whose programming helped us land on the moon: (tags:NASA space programming women history )
The lesson from the ruins of Notre Dame: don't rely on billionaires: (tags:charity wealth France fraud viaSwampers )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3807927.html

Car park tax unworkable? One English city would disagree: (tags:uk cars tax cities transport )
Who does Donald Tusk think he is? We've always been so civil with these 'EU dirty rats': (tags:UK europe language )
New top floor for Edinburgh's Waverley Mall: (tags:Edinburgh viaDanielDWilliam )
Google Death: A Tool to Take Care of Your Gmail When You're Gone: (tags:Google Gmail death viaSwampers )
When people see Measles first hand, they go get vaccinated: (tags:disease vaccination usa )
On educating the kink community about STIs: (tags:disease sex education kink )
My disabled son - 'the nobleman, the philanderer, the detective': (tags:gaming life death )
New Tonga island is now home to flowers and owls: (tags:pacific volcano flowers wildlife )
Sweden's surprising rule for time off to start your own company: (tags:sweden business )
Today's press release from Juncker and May contains...nothing at all. Nothing has changed, and A No-Deal Brexit is 50 days away.: (tags:uk europe doom )
The Cookie Monster AMA is brilliant: (tags:muppets reddit funny viaSwampers )
Female-led funeral directors out to buck several trends in male-dominated industry: (tags:death gender uk )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3763590.html

Soup-Salad-Sandwich Space: (tags: food visualisation )
How the CGI Tarkin was created for Rogue One: (tags: StarWars cgi faces )
KeyForge: The red-hot card game where every deck is unique—and unchangeable: (tags: games review )
Outdoor cats kill over 2 billion birds per year and have made over 60 species extinct: (tags: cats death wildlife )
This is mostly how I feel when people talk about the terrible effects of mobile phones and social media: (tags: Technology socialnetworking comic )
Mansplaining is proof you live in a hard scifi novel: (tags: scifi sexism funny )
Sunday Times reports that PM’s team is plotting a new referendum: (tags: UK europe referendum )
“Pass Brexit deal and fall behind Lib Dems.", voters tell Corbyn in poll: (tags: labour polls uk europe )
British voters despair of both Conservatives and Labour: (tags: voting UK politics )
Busy Beavers, and the Quest for Big Numbers: (tags: computing numbers mathematics )
The Gillian Duffy/Gordon Brown conversation was a watershed in British politics: (tags: politics immigration labour OhForFucksSake )
What it's like to have ingested a lot of British culture via TV, despite not being at all British: (tags: uk culture tv )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3750434.html

The Nazis never saw themselves as villains.: (tags: Nazis history morality genocide )
What Do (American) Men Think It Means To Be A Man?: (tags: men society )
Disastrous copyright bill vote approved by EU committee: (tags: copyright europe OhForFucksSake )
Lord Sugar causes outrage with obviously racist tweet: (tags: racism OhForFucksSake uk )
The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace: (tags: satire funny work software )
Revealed: New plans for trams and cars to share single lane on Leith Walk: (tags: trams edinburgh )
No I will not sell you a 'dofollow' link: I get asked to share spam at least twice a week. It's very annoying
(tags: spam advertising fraud web )
World trending to hit 50% renewables, 11% coal by 2050 (which still isn't enough for global warming relief): (tags: globalwarming renewables electricity thefuture )
Economists focus too little on what people really care about: (tags: economics )
Fewer Births Than Deaths Among Whites in Majority of U.S. States: (tags: birth death usa race demographics )
Report: Lucasfilm puts Obi-Wan film “on hold” after underwhelming Solo debut: (tags: StarWars )
Brexit, the Border and the Union - some fascinating polling: (tags: polls UK Europe Scotland NorthernIreland )
Study outlines reasons to ban electronic collars for dogs: (tags: dogs training pain )
Eels are getting high on cocaine in Britain's drug-polluted rivers (and it's really bad for them): (tags: drugs wildlife uk )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3696947.html

Simply cutting tuition fees would not help poorer graduates - but would help richer ones: (tags: inequality tuition fees uk Education )
Tuition fees: Five myths busted: (tags: tuition fees uk myths )
Plans drawn up for world's tallest wooden skyscraper: (tags: wood materials construction japan )
Man now has two beating hearts after successful 'piggy-back' transplant operation: (tags: heart organs )
The best smartwatches you can buy in 2018 (mostly for when my Pebble stops working): (tags: watches Technology )
Sony Very Nearly Had the Movie Rights to Almost Every Marvel Character Decades Ago: To be fair, unless they invested a bunch of money in them, and made the quality of movies Marvel produced, they wouldn't have been nearly as successful
(tags: movies sony marvel viaSwampers oops )
Eating all the food in the Lord of the Rings movies: (tags: movies food lotr )
Basque-speaking footballers told they could be sent off: (tags: language football spain )
Britain is using less and less cash as it goes digital: I pay for almost everything with my phone nowadays. Which has caused problems when I want to leave a tip and don't have change. I've had to make change just for that reason a couple of times.
(tags: money UK cash )
UK millennials second worst-hit financially in developed world: (tags: inequality uk )
Skins: How the TV series produced so much British talent: (tags: tv UK actors )
Iceland's mooted circumcision ban sparks religious outrage: (tags: circumcision iceland religion )
‘People think the deer are lovely. Then they learn more about it’: the deer cull dilemma: (tags: Scotland deer wildlife environment conservation )
Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted To Know: (tags: unemployment Technology thefuture economics )
Norris Numbers - the brick walls that programmers face as their programs scale up: (tags: programming scalability design )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3661643.html

'EU pension' planned for people who move between countries: (tags: pensions europe )
UK in credit splurge as pay is squeezed (unsecured debt up 10%, spending power down 2%): So, how long until the country collapses into oblivion as people frantically try and keep their lifestyles propped up despite the economy falling apart?
(tags: debt uk )
John Bercow: MPs don't need to wear ties: (tags: clothing parliament uk )
This is how sperm whales sleep: (tags: whales sleep viaSwampers )
Government U-turns on NHS abortions for Northern Ireland women: I am not looking forward to multiple years of whiplash from the government. (I am glad that this has gone through though)
(tags: abortion government uk nhs )
Buy-to-let UK property sales fall by almost 50% in a year: (tags: uk housing )
The curse of the pseudo-data: How Rotten Tomatoes is Deciding What Movies You Don't See: (tags: movies reviews data )
When whimsical wildlife photography isn't what it seems: (tags: photography animals wildlife )
David Goyer and Josh Friedman adapting Isaac Asimov's Foundation for TV: Probably won't get made. If it does then will probably be terrible.
(tags: tv asimov )
Jeremy Corbyn sacks Labour shadow ministers for voting against Brexit: (tags: Europe UK labour politics )
Female first-year students earn a higher grade when paired with at least one other female for group projects: (tags: women Education )
The German and British children who became post-war friends: (tags: children Germany uk wwii history friendship )
German parliament votes to legalise same sex marriage: (tags: lgbt marriage Germany )
Ways In Which Programming Is Like Sex: (tags: programming sex funny )
Soon after giving birth, mothers typically experience a self-esteem dip lasting at least three years: (tags: motherhood self-esteem psychology mother )
Game of Thrones' Most Beloved Relationship Was Totally Improvised: (tags: relationships gameofthrones )
Trailer for Rick and Morty season 3, streaming from July 30th: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
(tags: animation trailer awesome excellent )
How do you cut a monolith in half? (musings on distributed systems): (tags: architecture programming network )
"Hidden rules that everybody knows" is not a useful mental model of how people act: (tags: society groups psychology rules )
Germany votes for 50m euro social media fines: (tags: germany censorship )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3593177.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

Russians Engineer a Brilliant Slot Machine Cheat—And Casinos Have No Fix: (tags: maths computers gambling )
British people answer: "What are some legit "Very British problems"?: (tags: uk culture )
Donald Trump will not be allowed to address Parliament on UK state visit, Speaker John Bercow says: (tags: uk parliament )
Why the science of nutrition is so messy.: (tags: diet food nutrition viaNWhyte )
Stop talking about "regulations" and start talking about "protections": (tags: language politics )
Wildlife photographers with wildlife on them: (tags: wildlife nature photography cute )
Why we'll never see Deep Space Nine Or Voyager on Blu-ray: (tags: StarTrek tv )
Successful application of Vasalgel male contraceptive in monkeys: (tags: contraception monkeys men )
Go, Unemployment, and Moraility: Notes From The Asilomar Conference On Beneficial AI: (tags: ai morality jobs employment )
“Donaeld The Unready” tweets as if Trump is a mad medieval king: (tags: politics satire history )
Longest ever personality study finds no correlation between measures taken at age 14 and age 77: (tags: personality psychology )
Kyra Poh: The 14-year-old girl who's the 'fastest flyer': (tags: flight awesome )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3550448.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

'How I stopped being intolerant of food intolerance': (tags: food society conversation )
Oculus Rift review: Nice first generation attempt, but not quite ready for the mass market: (tags: VirtualReality review )
The Distress of the Privileged: (tags: privilege viaSwampers society )
Turns out you can pay people not to commit murder: (tags: crime GuaranteedIncome )
The difficulty of getting people to read about Lahore: (tags: news media society )
3 or more antibiotics before age 2 may spur obesity: (tags: obesity antibiotics microbiome )
A graphene patch that monitors and possibly treats diabetes: (tags: graphene diabetes )
The “Pacific Extreme Pattern” predicts heat waves up to 50 days in advance: (tags: weather predictions )
Poor white kids are less likely to go to prison than rich black kids: (tags: racism usa prison )
The Doctor doesn't understand love. (A sonnet): (tags: poetry drwho love )
The difference between the aesthetics of the USA and France: (tags: usa france funny art )
Recipe Of The Day: Low Carb and Gluten Free Salad: (tags: food salad gluten )
Lynx may be reintroduced to UK after 1,000 years following success of Spain programme: (tags: cats uk wildlife )
'War on Drugs' has made no difference to number of users and actively harms public health, major study concludes: (tags: drugs law epicfail health society )
Why is "Friends" still so popular with twenty-somethings?: (tags: friendship tv )
Real-time 3D holographic chat: (tags: 3d video conversation Technology microsoft )
Meta 2 has pretty impressive augmented reality: (tags: augmentedreality Technology )
An Open Letter to Trump Voters from His Top Strategist-Turned-Defector: (tags: politics usa )
The Woman Who Had No Idea Her Husband Was a Rapist: (tags: rape relationships )
Why we think terrorism is scarier than it really is (and we probably always will): (tags: terrorism fear )
X-Men spinoff Deadpool is now the most successful 'R-rated' movie ever: (tags: movies superheroes money )
Teachers sent packing in midst of recruitment crisis – because they earn too little: (tags: teachers money immigration Conservatives OhForFucksSake )
Living wage could put care services at breaking point: (tags: healthcare uk wages minimumwage )
Men must prove a woman said 'Yes' under tough new rape rules: (tags: rape law consent uk )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3432633.html

FactCheck: Boris on Brexit: (tags: politics uk europe facts )
The Charlie Sheen effect on HIV prevention: (tags: hiv society )
Squirm with purpose: Fidgeting is helpful for ADHD patients: (tags: adhd )
Purity, cleanliness, guilt and modern diets: (tags: diet health )
Please sign my petition banning referendum poetry: (tags: poetry funny referendum uk petition europe )
Film Is Two Artforms, Not One: (tags: movies business )
Now that the HTC Vive costs $799, do I still want one?: (tags: VirtualReality )
Ten years later, They are still Taking the Hobbits to Isengard: (tags: music lotr funny video criticism review )
Why the Pandas must Die!: (tags: wildlife nature )
Mainly black prisoners are being forced to pick cotton in modern day slavery: (tags: race slavery prison usa )
Remember the dark ages of 10 years ago, when technology was awful?: (tags: Technology funny history )
Blind ‘fingering’ dates are London’s latest craze: (tags: sex nsfw meditation wtf )
The Tale of the Last Alliance (Compiled from Tolkien's own words): (tags: lotr Tolkien )
New molecular scissors cut out lingering HIV—maybe once and for all: (tags: genes virus aids hiv )
Researchers create super-efficient "passive" Wi-Fi: (tags: wifi Technology efficiency )
Fake girlfriend, revisited: (tags: relationships Technology internet )
The death of the founder of DHL is possibly more interesting than his life: (tags: death fatherhood law identity wtf )
The latest generation of the Atlas robot is looking ever more impressive: (tags: video robots )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3415466.html

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