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1. I love how Neil Gaiman is with his fans: (tags:neilgaiman fandom shakespeare )
2. Monumental snake engravings of the Orinoco River: (tags:SouthAmerica snake art prehistory )
3. The Sun still has not set on the British Empire: (tags:empire uk sun xkcd )

1. 2,500 pieces, measuring 30 metres and weighing 25 tonnes - This medieval sessel is world's largest 3D puzzle: (tags:history ship )
2. 7 steps to victory in Ukraine: (tags:ukraine russia war )
3. How the "smeariness" of CRT TVs made pixel art look so much better: (tags:Technology games video tv displays )
4. Brainfarts, a collection: (tags:brain language oops funny mistakes )
5. Dictionary biz finally infiltrates gaming as Merriam-Webster buys Quordle: (tags:dictionary words games )
6. These vaccine side effects look harrowing: (tags:vaccine funny dancing video )
7. Disfrustrating puzzles: (tags:funny xkcd )
8. Netflix's New Chapter - how did it get here and what does it need to do next?: (tags:streaming TV Netflix business )
9. Pet fish spend cash and expose Nintendo Switch owner's credit card during Pokemon live stream: (tags:Nintendo fish viaPatrickHadfield weird )
10. Why men are more likely to aggressively avoid tax than women: (tags:psychology tax gender )
11. New Scottish fox hunting bill to pass 20 years after ban: (tags:foxes scotland law )
12. Russia's energy blackmail fails as Europe switches to LNG and prices fall to pre-war levels: (tags:russia gas electricity europe economy )
13. Germany is failing Ukraine, leaving Nato allies no choice but to sideline it: (tags:germany ukraine war russia )
14. Chronic UTI patients are waiting up to 12 years for a diagnosis from the NHS: (tags:nhs urination disease uk OhForFucksSake )
15. Edinburgh Jenners fire: Shops and roads still closed after Princes Street fire, including M&S and TK Maxx: (tags:edinburgh fire shops )

Pet a dog and you'll do better for weeks!: (tags:mentalhealth stress psychology dogs viaMyBrotherHugh )
Photoshopping Paddington into movies: Star Wars edition: (tags:bears photoshop StarWars )
Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B in revenue: (tags:tax OhForFucksSake Netherlands )
Covid vaccine: UK decision to delay second dose vindicated by new research: (tags:UK pandemic vaccination )
National Trust archaeologists surprised by likely age of Cerne Abbas Giant (late Saxon): (tags:history UK art )
"Help! A Male Colleague Thinks I'm Scary": (tags:gender work scary society )
Solar and wind's competitiveness over coal is accelerating (80% of US coal plants either non-competitive or actively shutting down): (tags:electricity GoodNews solarpower windpower coal viaDanielDWilliam )
France blocks post-Brexit EU financial services deal with UK over fishing row: (tags:uk europe trade finance fish )
Richard Garfield: Getting Lucky (a fascinating analysis of the role of luck in games, and why it's so important): (tags:games luck viaDanielDWilliam )
The different ways of calculating the end of Ramadan: (tags:islam moon calendars time viaLilysea )
xkcd's "Map Projections", animated: (tags:maps xkcd visualisation video funny )
Member of the Scottish Parliament takes oath of allegiance in Welsh (also, BSL, Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, Doric, Scots, Gaelic, Canadian French, German, Welsh, Orcadian and Zimbabwean Shona): (tags:scotland wales language )
British government is lying when refusing to rescue visa-free music tours of EU, lawyers confirm: (tags:uk government lying BorisJohnson Conservatives music europe )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4035461.html

U.S. Supreme Court bars discrimination against LGBT workers: (tags:LGBT discrimination USA GoodNews )
Doctors are having their insurance deferred because of COVID 19.: (tags:virus insurance doctors pandemic )
What People Really Look Like: (tags:Humans bodies )
There is no perfect diet that works for every metabolism or body type: (tags:diet humans health )
Beijing reinstated lockdown after 79 people infected: (tags:pandemic china )
The surface area of the solar system, stitched together into one huge map: (tags:solarsystem map xkcd viaPatrickHadfield )
Couples who spend more on weddings more likely to get divorced: (tags:marriage wedding money viaFJM )
How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses: (tags:hacking security Nintendo consoles )
40% of school pupils are not in regular contact with teachers: (tags:teaching doom pandemic )
Five SFF Works Inspired by RPGs: (tags:scifi fantasy roleplaying )
Running the Imperial College simulation code for COVID-19: (tags:pandemic simulation computers )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3895451.html

Would you believe your har grows an inch every minute?: (tags:hair comic xkcd )
China will not send ducks to tackle locusts in Pakistan, says expert: (tags:china ducks pakistan headline )
Edinburgh Council is looking for commens about measures which could support healh and physical distancing. Comment here!: (tags:edinburgh transport pandemic )
Boris Johnson said colonialism in Africa should never have ended and dismissed Britain's role in slavery: (tags:UK slavery BorisJohnson )
Rupert Grint joins JK Rowling transgender row (in a good way): (tags:LGBT transgender jkrowling )
Why am I supposed to like gin? It's just ruined vodka: (tags:alcohol review )
The extraordinary case of the Guevedoces, who only grow a penis aged 12.: (tags:children boys gender biology humans )
What awfulness are the government planning on the transgender front?: https://threader.app/thread/1272054857676062720
(tags:transgender LGBT conservatives OhForFucksSake )
Google's automated systems managed to lose Winston Churchill (clearly no automated testing there): (tags:Incompetence government history uk )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3894875.html

Cats is not Andrew Lloyd Webber's weirdest musical: (tags:musicals trains )
Future proofing the Afsluitdijk: (tags:Netherlands Ocean architecture thefuture )
Why Brussels Sprouts are suddenly more popular: (tags:food genetics farming comic xkcd )
A Storm Over the Forth. (Some awesome photos): (tags:photos storm weather edinburgh )
We Can't See "Star Wars" Anymore: (tags:StarWars history movies )
Labour's leaked strategy for the 2019 election was catastrophically awful: (tags:Labour epicfail OhForFucksSake )
The vast majority of British women are absolutely fine with trans women. Do not let yourself be convinced otherwise: (tags:transgender LGBT UK )
French Executives Found Responsible for 35 Employees' Deaths by Suicide: (tags:France suicide work abuse )
So Maya Forstater, the woman JK Rowling is supporting, wrote a manifesto...: (tags:LGBT jkrowling transgender abuse )
The Navy Installed Touch-screen Steering Systems To Save Money. Ten Sailors Paid With Their Lives.: (tags:UX navy usa epicfail Technology )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3851423.html

Google Wing launches first commercial drone delivery service: (tags:google drones business )
"What I Learned By Binge-Watching 'Game of Thrones' Backward": (tags:gameofthrones tv time )
'Strange blue lights' spotted over Arctic Circle explained by NASA: (tags:nasa arctic light )
First ever black hole image released: (tags:space )
Becoming Fleabag: Phoebe Waller-Bridge on stage - in pictures: (tags:theatre )
Harold Bloom: Anti-Inkling?: (tags:fantasy history writing uk )
More CO2 than ever before in 3 million years, shows unprecedented computer simulation: (tags:co2 globalwarming doom )
Police officers fined stalking victim before she was murdered: (tags:murder police OhForFucksSake epicfail )
Game of Thrones' most thorough guide in existence: (tags:gameofthrones spreadsheet impressive )
Game of Thrones Season 7 in three minutes (nicely animated): (tags:gameofthrones video animation )
"I Drove My Childhood Favourite Racing Game In Real Life" (a lovely video about games and nostalgia): (tags:video games )
Some lovely choreography here: (tags:video dance )
M87 Black Hole Size Comparison To Our Solar System: (tags:space xkcd )
Swiss court orders historic referendum re-run because the information provided was incomplete: (tags:Switzerland referendum )
The UK's most-streamed songs may surprise you: (tags:uk streaming music )
In a sovereign decision Ecuador withdrew the asylum status to Julian Assange after his repeated violations to international conventions and daily-life protocols. (And then he is arrested): (tags:JulianAssange diplomacy asylum )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3780704.html

This is what happens to fathers’ hormone levels when they watch their kids play football: (tags: sports children fatherhood hormones )
Seattle judges throw out 15 years of marijuana convictions: (tags: marijuana law GoodNews usa )
Brexit: Boris Johnson's plans could collapse government after they are rejected by DUP: (tags: uk europe NorthernIreland DUP )
If the world’s population lived like…: (tags: population world demographics environment visualisation )
How time systems should work: a modest proposal: (tags: time funny comic xkcd )
The Trump administration is arguing that climate change is both real and will be catastrophic -- so catastrophic that we may as well just go ahead and loosen fuel efficiency standards because we're already dead: (tags: globalwarming republicans OhForFucksSake )
What 61,000 hidden structures reveal about Maya civilization: (tags: history archaeology guatemala SouthAmerica )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3728255.html

How autistic adults are being let down by the healthcare system: (tags: autism healthcare )
The 20-Year Journey of 'The Meg'—the Movie the Internet Wouldn't Let Die: (tags: sharks movies )
It's taken me almost ten years, but I now have 25,000 geek points. If only I could spend them on something ;-): (tags: geekery geek )
Inside The Culture Of Sexism At Riot Games: (tags: games sexism business )
This is precisely how I feel about voting software: (tags: voting software doom comic xkcd )
Women navigate almost as well as men in countries with more equality: (tags: equality navigation gender )
Germany relaxes ban on Nazi symbols in video games: (tags: Germany games nazis )
North American diets require more land than we have: (tags: diet farming environment )
The war between Labour and Europe continues: (tags: Labour UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
Lovely stop-motion video about woodworking with Lego: (tags: Lego video stopmotion )
Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry (much, much more interesting than I thought it would be): (tags: family business counselling psychology japan )
French police accused of harassing aid workers at Calais (they deny it, because nobody has reported the police to...the police: (tags: police immigration aid France OhForFucksSake )
Make Your Daughter Practice Math. She’ll Thank You Later.: (tags: mathematics girls )
Moose are big. Really big. No, bigger than that: (tags: animals size video )
Women with partners higher in trait conscientiousness get more pleasure from sex: (tags: sex psychology behaviour )
Cable networks are speeding up TV shows to cram in ads: (tags: advertising tv OhForFucksSake usa )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3713903.html

What Is MicroLED and When am I Going to Get It?: (tags: tv Technology led thefuture )
Koreas agree military talks to defuse border tension: (tags: korea NorthKorea GoodNews )
Just-Eat replaces credit-card charge with...service charge: (tags: money food uk )
Luxury retirement village in Granton (Edinburgh) given green light: (tags: edinburgh scotland housing uk )
The Edinburgh neighbourhood that's home to billions of pounds of illegal activity and money laundering: (tags: edinburgh money OhForFucksSake )
Brain Surgery in 3-D: Coming Soon to the Operating Theater: (tags: surgery 3d Technology )
No tracking, no revenue: Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions (yay!): (tags: advertising Apple privacy GoodNews )
Virgin West Coast train firm stops selling Daily Mail: (tags: DailyMail virgin trains )
"The day I accidentally killed a little boy": (tags: death children cars accident )
Prime Minister has to tell apparently grown adults that bullying people is not ok.: (tags: bullying politics society )
How to Take a Picture of a Stealth Bomber Over the Rose Bowl: (tags: photography airplanes impressive )
Lessons from the history of radio, and why the internet needs to learn them.: (tags: internet radio technology communication Nazis war propaganda surveillance )
How George Lucas influenced Star Wars: The Last Jedi: (tags: StarWars georgelucas )
Andrew Hickey reads Fire and Fury so you don't have to: (tags: usa politics OhForFucksSake review )
Why dolphins are deep thinkers (They work for fish - and then learn how to game the system): (tags: dolphins Intelligence )
In contrast to Theresa May: here’s how Clement Attlee went about a sacking: (tags: politics jobs history )
The Subtle Misogyny in Anti-Goth Makeovers: (tags: goth fashion society patriarchy )
Some friends are on a cruise around the antarctic. Some of the photos are awesome.: (tags: antarctic photos )
This is my favourite 2016 election map: (tags: maps politics elections usa xkcd )
Designing consent for the GDPR is onerous - and that's a good thing: (tags: consent privacy web surveillance europe )
In 1936 a doctor injected King George V so his death would be in time for the morning papers: (tags: royalty uk death history )
Institutional racism is when changing your name from "Jasmeet" to "Millie" means you suddenly get job interviews...: (tags: names racism uk jobs )
Tim Sweeney on the First Version of the Unreal Editor: (tags: games tools Technology )
Researchers have tested ways to reduce the collective blaming of Muslims for extremism: (tags: psychology islam terrorism )
Michael Barnier asks important questions about Brexit and what comes after: (tags: uk europe )
The Fight For Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won: (tags: videos Technology patents GoodNews )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3650774.html

Another delay for ScotRail's £370m Edinburgh to Glasgow electric train service plans: (tags: Edinburgh Glasgow trains electricity fail )
Superaccurate GPS Chips Coming to Smartphones in 2018: (tags: GPS location phones viaFanf )
Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious (And Play Super Mario Bros.): (tags: games ai personality learning )
A Ukrainian born billionaire who does biz w/ Russian oligarchs is funding Trump's legal representation via RNC: (tags: politics Russia usa EpicWTF )
Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly: (tags: web programming thefuture )
I'm ggoing to Thing Explaining with Randall Munroe Tickets on Wed, 4 Oct - anyone else going?: (tags: xkcd viaSwampers )
A 1979 War-Game That Takes 1,500 Hours to Complete: (tags: games time history wwii )
Why rejecting the modern world is a privileged fantasy: (tags: Technology medicine life society )
Watch how long a two-euro coin can balance on Fuxing train traveling at 350 kph, on #HighSpeedRail linking Beijing with Shanghai: So, how long until we get trains that fast and smooth in the UK?
(tags: trains )
More than half UK population has no religion: (tags: UK religion GoodNews )
Rick And Morty’s worst fans don’t deserve Rick And Morty: It really bothers me that most of the t-shirts I've seen are clearly aimed at people who want to be Rick.
(tags: tv fandom fail abuse )
Sea salt around the world is contaminated by plastic: Because, of course, the sea around the world is contaminated by plastic
(tags: pollution plastic ocean food salt )
I have done without any form of technology for six months and my life is utterly shit: (tags: satire technology media )
Students are biased against female lecturers: (tags: patriarchy women academia OhForFucksSake )
Project Black Bus – using taxis like buses: (tags: technology transport taxi )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3619387.html

Kalashnikov develops autonomous weapons: (tags: robots military weapons )
Interesting piece on suicide: I've never craved suicide. And only once thought that not existing might be nice (and even then only in passing, and purely theoretically).
(tags: suicide viaSwampers )
High refined sugar intake linked to a 23% higher risk of mental disorders: (tags: mentalhealth sugar )
Rules for data science, explained using xkcd: (tags: data research xkcd comics )
Lessons from Denmark: how district heating could improve energy security: (tags: heat power uk denmark )
CEO says iRobot will never sell your Roomba data: (tags: robots cleanliness privacy )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3602763.html

Which Anonymous Sources Are Worth Paying Attention To?: (tags: politics reporting media advice )
A neat video showing how Google Glass helps people with manual/technical work: (tags: work glass google Technology )
Another cool video, talking to people who use Google Glass for their jobs (wire assemblies for planes): (tags: google glass Technology work airplanes )
Producing animated "art" faces based on real video and example art: (tags: art video faces )
Arguing against xkcd on free speech: (tags: freespeech xkcd comics )
Reducing lead levels in children reduces violent crime by a staggering amount: (tags: lead crime behaviour )
Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters: (tags: gender comics analysis visualisation )
What Happens To Pornhub During Game Of Thrones: (tags: gameofthrones porn statistics visualisation )
State pension age increase brought forward (I'll be working an extra year): (tags: pensions uk viaSwampers )
Lost Time - on Proust and Science Fiction: (tags: time scifi writing )
A common underlying genetic basis for social behavior in dogs and humans: (tags: dogs humans genetics socialisation personality )
Cop’s body cam films him planting drugs—he obviously didn’t know it was recording: (tags: transparentsociety police cameras )
Sea cave preserves 5,000-year snapshot of tsunamis: (tags: sea cave tsunami earthquake history )
How Devastating was the Black Death?: (tags: history death disease )
Guillermo del Toro's "The Shape of Water" looks beautiful: (tags: movies GuillermoDelToro trailer video )
"Gef! The Strange Tale of an Extra Special Talking Mongoose": I can only conclude that many people are _so_ desperate to believe things that they will do so no matter what. This is not, of course, a new observation.
(tags: magic belief history weird )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3600001.html

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3557471.html

Africa's naming traditions: (tags: africa names )
Insurance firm to replace human workers with AI system: (tags: japan ai insurance jobs )
Nobody should ever do business with this company: (tags: xkcd business data funny names )
Russia vows to delete all White House videogame saves: (tags: games funny satire russia usa hacking )
Inside the Lab that Grows Human Skin to Test Cosmetics: (tags: testing cosmetics makeup humans bodies )
25 Masterpieces That Prove 2016 Was an Incredible Year for Architecture: (tags: architecture design )
Once mocked, Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram was a stroke of genius: (tags: facebook photos business )
Foxconn aims to totally automate its factories: (tags: automation manufacturing )
China announces ban on ivory trade by end of 2017: (tags: china elephants GoodNews )
How Watership Down was written: (tags: writing creativity rabbits stories uk history )
The History of Keeping the Damned Women Out (of university): (tags: history Education uk women viaFanf )
The Guardian’s Summary of Julian Assange’s Interview Was Completely False: (tags: guardian OhForFucksSake JulianAssange news )
White House fails to make case that Russian hackers tampered with election: (tags: russia usa hacking fail )
5 Rules for Hosting a Crappy Dinner Party (and Seeing Your Friends More Often): (tags: food social )
Saudi Arabia jails man for a year after he publically called for end of male control over women: (tags: women saudiarabia rights OhForFucksSake )
There's nothing less electable than "electability": (tags: politics )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3539630.html

Humanists' legal challenge to school religious observance in Scotland: (tags: scotland religion school )
The 50-Year Mission reveals the egomania and idealism that built Star Trek: (tags: StarTrek history )
What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?: (tags: mathematics viaFanf )
How to make the single market more inclusive after Brexit: (tags: viaFanf welfare economics europe )
Inside The Violent, Geeky World Of Hardcore International Medieval Combat: (tags: fighting history swords )
Chemistry says Moon is proto-Earth’s mantle, relocated: (tags: moon prehistory space )
How The World’s Most Beautiful Typeface Was Nearly Lost Forever: (tags: font history )
How not to convert the measurements in your science-fiction novel: (tags: funny scifi writing )
A map of underground sex-slave bars in the U.S.: (tags: usa slavery rape map )
A timeline of Earth's average temperature since the last ice age: (tags: globalwarming climatechange prehistory history comic xkcd )
Sugar industry bought off scientists, skewed dietary guidelines for decades: (tags: sugar diet health fraud bribes usa )
All songbirds originated in Australia: (tags: australia birds music )
MPs call for medical cannabis to be made legal: (tags: marijuana law uk )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3503254.html

Why we should fear a cashless world: (tags: Technology money society )
Agreement on plans to look at three-hour Scotland to London rail link: (tags: scotland london trains )
Jeremy Kyle Show swear word escapes censure by Ofcom - because nobody understands Scottish: (tags: scotland language swearing )
Google self-driving car will be ready in between 3 and 30 years.: (tags: cars robots google )
Paris terrorists used burner phones, not encryption, to evade detection: (tags: phones terrorism )
Which US presidential candidates lie the most?: (tags: usa lies truth )
The government's budget is in such a disastrous place because they refuse to touch pensions: (tags: pensions politics budget )
On Williams, Djokavic and Equality of Pay and Opportunity: (tags: equality gender tennis pay )
This is, essentially, how most project estimation works: (tags: planning funny xkcd comic )
New online poll could see George Osborne renamed Cunty McCuntface: (tags: funny satire politics names )
The Diary of River Song (Really gorgeous, hand-made): (tags: drwho design books )
When assembling your dog, be sure to follow the instructions to avoid disasters like this: (tags: dog funny )
Amazing dresses that reflect nature: (tags: nature clothes beautiful )
What books would serve as a good introduction to economics for a complete beginner?: (tags: economics books advice )
Let’s get rid of the Budget: (tags: budget politics )
Harrison Ford continues to be good value in interviews: (tags: StarWars interview )
How did the order for LGBT end up that way?: (tags: lgbt language )
How to win the war on drugs (Legalize It All): (tags: drugs history legalisation )
On Iain Duncan Smith and The Failure of George Osbourne.: (tags: politics welfare fail )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3428309.html

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