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Interesting Links for 24-01-2022

How does it feel when someone uses your life as a basis for fiction?
(tags:writing relationships life viaSwampers )
The Price Cap is not responsible for the demise of UK energy companies - they were behaving riskily
(tags:electricity UK investment economics )
Endometriosis care in Scotland not meeting 'base level' - average diagnosis takes over 8 years
(tags:women healthcare Scotland OhForFucksSake )
No 10 officials admit holding back information from partygate inquiry after being frightened into silence
(tags:party conservatives bullying corruption UK Pandemic )
The funny thing all those demanding "free speech" have in common
(tags:freespeech bigotry libdem )
Shield badges for Scots to distance from Covid
(tags:Pandemic Scotland )
Is COVID's omicron variant the fastest spreading virus in history?
(tags:Pandemic speed )
Swordle
(tags:swords words comic funny games )
A fascinating bit of lore from behind the scenes of the Star Trek movies
(tags:StarTrek movies william_shatner )
What do Asian people *really* look like?
(tags:Asia humans art )
EU, US seek coordinated response to Russia over Ukraine crisis
(tags:Russia UK Ukraine USA war )
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Interesting Links for 23-01-2022

Majority believe MPs who switch parties should fight ​by-election (63:17) - I entirely disagree
Individual representatives need a nuclear option if they believe that their party is no longer functional, whether that be joining an existing party or forming a new one. Party central offices already have too much power.
(tags:politics UK )
The Guardian says that working class people can't be good looking
(tags:attraction class guardian OhForFucksSake )
In pictures: Glasgow goes Gotham for Batgirl filming
(tags:batman comics movies Glasgow Scotland )
Cats just want a human to curl up on. Even big cats.
(tags:video cats sleep )
What have the Democrats achieved in the last year?
(tags:politics democrats USA )
The BBC thinks that what we need is more antivaxxer nonsense
(tags:UK BBC vaccination OhForFucksSake lies )
UK warns of plot to install pro-Moscow ally in Ukraine
(tags:UK Russia Ukraine )
Tory MP says she was sacked as minister because her Muslim faith made colleagues uncomfortable
(tags:conservatives Islam bigotry )
LGBT BBC staff past and present debate whether it's is even worth saving
(tags:LGBT BBC bigotry )
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Interesting Links for 22-01-2022

Fed up of playing Wordle with your brain? Let a picture play it for you!
(tags:words games viaSwampers )
France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes two lab workers
(tags:brain france disease )
15km lorry queues at Dover as port bosses call for talks on EU checks
(tags:uk europe trade doom )
When the Wehrmacht and the US army fought on the same side
(tags:wwii history war unlikely )
I can't decide if the real life etymology of "gun" is any sillier than the fantasy one
(tags:language games guns fantasy )
I want this on billboards in every town before the next UK election
(tags:conservatives Pandemic OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 21-01-2022

Tory whips threatened to cancel new school if I didn't vote the right way, says MP
(tags:politics corruption conservatives )
Archaeologists Unearth 4,000-Year-Old Stone Board Game in Oman
(tags:games boardgames archeology middle_east )
Fraggle Rock on Apple TV+ is the Muppet series Disney+ wishes it had
(tags:muppets apple tv review )
Glasgow Clyde Metro set for go-ahead as headline project in SNP strategy for transport in Scotland
(tags:scotland transport glasgow viaDanielDWilliam )
Reports from the Indiana Jones cleanup team
(tags:archeology video funny indianajones )
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Interesting Links for 20-01-2022

If you're poor then the cost of living has gone up by a *lot* more than 5%
(tags:economics UK poverty )
A NASA Probe Went and Touched the Sun
(tags:sun space NASA )
Coffee can't fix all the cognitive impairments caused by a bad night's sleep
(tags:caffeine psychology sleep )
Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them
As a friend put it "This is how you get Terminators"
(tags:ai abuse misogyny hate )
The gender wage gap is really a child care penalty
(tags:children patriarchy wages gender society )
New rules passed for short-term lets in Scotland
(tags:rental housing Scotland )
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Interesting Links for 19-01-2022

Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard
(tags:Microsoft games )
The Undoing Of Joss Whedon
(tags:JossWhedon abuse tv buffy movies )
What the Discovery of an Extra Artery Means for Human Evolution
(tags:evolution blood viaNancyLebov )
How board games are made at a Chinese factory
(tags:boardgames manufacturing China video )
NASA hasn't 'just' hired 24 theologians to study future discovery of aliens
(tags:religion life space NASA sociology )
The Autism Phenome Project: Toward Identifying Meaningful Subgroups of Autism
(tags:autism psychology )
Someone has clearly decided that board games players have too much money
(tags:boardgames money marvel zombies )
A lovely story about insects and university outreach
(tags:insects children university )
Cost of living rises at fastest pace for 30 years
(tags:inflation economy uk )
High speed rail must go to Scotland to help reach net zero
(tags:hs2 trains transport uk co2 globalwarming )
NASA: Tonga blast was 10 megatons, more powerful than a nuclear bomb
(tags:volcano pacific )
Scaling Carbon Capture
(tags:carbon co2 globalwarming electricity )
Covid: Scotland Omicron restrictions to end on Monday
(tags:pandemic scotland )
Can memes help people cope with pandemic-induced anxiety?
(tags:pandemic memetics anxiety psychology )
On the "New Movement" in SF/F (and why there is much more diversity in Hugo awards)
(tags:scifi diversity )
Tory MP Christian Wakeford Defects To Labour
(tags:Conservatives labour politics uk )
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Interesting Links for 18-01-2022

UK Covid cases halve in a week, and Omicron is 'disappearing fast' across most of the UK
(tags:Pandemic UK GoodNews )
ScotWind offshore auction raises £700m - will have capacity of 25GW
(tags:Scotland windpower )
Israel Finds Fourth Covid Jab Is Ineffective
(tags:Pandemic vaccination Israel )
Turn your Wordle result into a cute building with the Townscaper converter
(tags:words architecture games )
Covid-19: Peak of viral shedding is later with omicron variant
(tags:pandemic virus )
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Interesting Links for 17-01-2022

Life-size LEGO Andúril sword (3rd pic: Shards of Narsil)
(tags:Lego lotr viaSwampers )
What's going on with children and Omicron?
(tags:Pandemic children UK )
An Injection of Chaos Solves Decades-Old Fluid Mystery
(tags:fluid physics )
Labour unveils 10-point plan for living with Covid-19
(tags:Pandemic labour UK )
Inside Dubai: What was the BBC thinking?
(tags:TV dubai inequality oil )
When people said they wanted to play Doom on their phone I don't think this is what they meant
(tags:Doom games telephone phones retro video )
Why Macron's Use of the French Swear Word 'Emmerder' Is So Hard To Translate
(tags:translation language French France Pandemic faeces swearing )
Two year olds say hilarious things
(tags:language children )
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Interesting Links for 16-01-2022

Tearful funeral worker regrets enforcing Covid rules while No10 partied

(tags:death Pandemic Party BorisJohnson )
DSLRs are dead, and lenses are never going to be the same
(tags:cameras mirrors technology )
What genuine contrition looks like
(tags:crime guilt morality )
The UK Prime Minister just doesn't believe that rules apply to him
(tags:BorisJohnson rules Pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Microsoft Word will now warn you if you're not using inclusive language
(tags:language Microsoft )
"I'm a strong woman - but I'm still a woman. Stop calling me a man"
(tags:women fitness society )
Spacecraft detaching and attaching to the ISS
(tags:space spaceflight iss )
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Interesting Links for 15-01-2022

An interesting take on a simple time management tool
(tags:time )
Covid: Are Scotland and England's isolation rules different?
(tags:scotland england pandemic rules )
Operation Save Big Dog: Boris Johnson draws up plan for officials to quit over partygate so he can keep job
(tags:politics BorisJohnson Pandemic party )
Any geneticists out there able to tell me is this is paranoid nonsense or a reasonable take on COVID?
(tags:genetics Pandemic virus conspiracy )
Old stone toilet reveals Jerusalem's wealthy elite had intestinal parasites
(tags:parasites Israel archeology )
We don't know why, but being in space causes us to destroy our blood
(tags:blood space disease anaemia )
Boris Johnson's 'wine time Fridays' - No10 staff held drinks EVERY week during pandemic
(tags:BorisJohnson Pandemic Party )
How to make friends around the world
(tags:uk history food funny comic )
Some thoughts about the Sue Gray investigation into Johnson's parties
(tags:party Pandemic BorisJohnson investigation )
Countries that have managed to almost completely suppress Covid have difficult choices ahead of them
(tags:Pandemic viaDanielDWilliam )
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