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Interesting Links for 13-01-2022

Covid loses almost all its ability to infect after 20 minutes.
(tags:pandemic virus )
Lorries stuck at checkpoints for four days due to terrible new Brexit red tape
(tags:uk europe trade )
Having just finished re-reading Sandman I enjoyed this person documenting their re-read.
(tags:sandman comics neilgaiman )
Using American spellings is cheating, Wordle told
(tags:language words spelling usa uk satire )
Atomic mushroom clouds are big. Really big. You might think it's a long way up Mount Everest, but that's peanuts compared to an atomic mushroom cloud
(tags:size nuclearweapons visualisation viaSwampers )
Firefox bug is causing it to hang. Here's the solution
(tags:Firefox bug viaSwampers )
How a livestreamed roleplaying game's bid to make an animated version became the biggest kickstarter campaign ever, and got a Prime deal out of it.
(tags:tv animation roleplaying amazon streaming )
Satisfying simulations of bouncing balls obeying physical laws; for a fleeting moment during the simulation, the balls pass through a beautiful regular pattern
(tags:physics simulation maths video )
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Interesting Links for 06-12-2021

Amazon beats supply chain chaos with ships and long-haul planes - putting them in the top five transportation companies in the Trans Pacific
(tags:transport Amazon trade shipping )
The best selling single of every decade, all the way back to the dawn of humankind!
(tags:music history prehistory funny )
How to remove a ring that's stuck on
(tags:jewelry advice healthcare )
Ursula Vernon playing around with Wombo (an AI image generator) to generate comic panels. It works very nicely
(tags:comics dreams ai )
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Interesting Links for 18-11-2021

British pies to be banned from EU unless ingredients come from Brussels-approved farms
(tags:uk safety food europe )
Are Jackson's movies good translations of Tolkien's books?
(tags:lotr movies books )
Dave Chappelle's "Some Of My Best Friends Are Trans" Story Doesn't Hold Up
(tags:LGBT transgender comedy lies )
Boris Johnson's Brexit protocol diverts Northern Irish trade from Britain to Republic
(tags:uk europe ireland NorthernIreland trade )
An emergent improv band forming around a cat drinking milk
(tags:milk cats video music improv viaNancyLebov )
This is why Amazon won't accept UK Visa credit cards from January
(tags:UK visa Amazon credit )
What happened to rock music in 1996?
(tags:music rock history USA radio )
The magic words that control cosplayers
(tags:cosplay conventions )
Mercedes Lackey on trans rights
(tags:LGBT transgender writing )
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Interesting Links for 17-11-2021

Racism Is Institutional In British Cricket
(tags:UK cricket racism OhForFucksSake )
Supersaurus: Scientists realise dinosaur might have been the longest ever after fixing fossil mix-up
(tags:dinosaurs )
Chile wants to export solar energy to Asia via 15,000km submarine cable (losses would be just under 50%)
(tags:solarpower chile Asia )
Joanna Cherry's popularity is not going up
(tags:LGBT SNP transgender politics Scotland )
England’s austerity-hit courts losing days of work to collapsing ceilings, broken lift and arctic conditions
(tags:justice UK OhForFucksSake )
There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada
(tags:Canada transport roads weather )
Remarkably accurate neurosurgery residency interview
(tags:medicine USA surgery doctors funny satire video interview )
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick told an employee he would have her killed. He kept an exec from being fired after a sexual harassment claim. He didn't tell his board of alleged rapes and other misconduct.
(tags:games rape abuse misogyny OhForFucksSake )
John Carmack on Steve Jobs
(tags:Doom games Apple stevejobs johncarmack history computers graphics opengl )
Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in UK
(tags:UK Amazon visa credit wtf )
The students losing thousands in an Edinburgh rental scam
(tags:edinburgh property fraud )
‘Clear risk’ UK joining Pacific trade deal will raise drug prices for NHS
(tags:uk nhs trade )
The FTC is moving to end “click to subscribe, call to cancel”
(tags:business usa )
Netflix has started publishing its top 10 watched movies and TV shows
(tags:netflix )
Dogs! Being! Kissed!
(tags:dogs behaviour )
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Interesting Links for 21-09-2021

Watch the Russian election being stolen, in real-time!
(tags:russia corruption elections )
Apparently liberals tricked Republicans into not getting vaccinated.
I...I think we might be living in the stupidest timeline.
(tags:politics vaccination USA OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )
A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it - possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom
(tags:prehistory asteroids middle_east )
The nerds making money online from the things they love
(tags:nerd geeks money comics videos roleplaying )
Amazon's AI Cameras Are Punishing Drivers for Mistakes They Didn't Make
(tags:amazon ai driving OhForFucksSake )
Kena: Bridge Of Spirits review: a beautiful action-adventure full of joy and wonder (I rather fancy this)
(tags:games review )
We Think We've Changed More In The Past Than We Will Change In The Future — And Americans Seem Particularly Susceptible To This Illusion
(tags:change psychology )
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Interesting Links for 16-09-2021

On doing your own vaccine research
(tags:vaccine research comic )
Who talks more in your meetings - men or women?
(tags:talking gender communication )
UK power prices soar after key cable to France hit by blaze
(tags:UK France electricity fail )
2021 Photomicrography Competition | Capturing the very very small
(tags:photos size impressive )
When they say they wish you dead, they mean it
(tags:words death genocide )
Is America's scarcity mindset turning into a zero-sum competition for survival?
(tags:usa society psychology viaDanielDWilliam )
Marks & Spencer blames Brexit as it closes 11 French stores
(tags:france uk europe trade doom MarksAndSpencer )
Co-op to start selling groceries on Amazon Prime
(tags:amazon shopping uk )
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Interesting Links for 03-08-2021

I think these people have opened a door into the void. Or the elemental plane of storms. Either way: don't!
(tags:weather video )
Government passed over 171 candidates to pick Bullingdon Club 'chum' of Boris Johnson for sleaze watchdog role
(tags:corruption conservatives BorisJohnson )
The 60s. When gay men married gay women and they all raised kids together. (In case you needed reminding this has been going on forever)
(tags:LGBT family history )
Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment
(tags:gold Olympics recycling materials Japan )
Linus Torvalds gives a talk on why desktop Linux sucks
(tags:Linux video linustorvalds )
These states cut unemployment aid early to supercharge hiring. It isn't working.
(tags:welfare pandemic economics work )
'Lord of the Rings' Amazon Series Sets Premiere Date - and releases its first image
(tags:lotr amazon tv )
Scotland's growing sewage spill problem
(tags:waste water scotland )
Big tech companies are at war with their employees over remote work
(tags:Technology work )
Pelicans eating things they shouldn't!
(tags:birds food )
The Green Knight has a roleplaying game that's giving me flashbacks to my youth!
(tags:roleplaying movies fantasy )
A map of culture values. Which countries go together?
(tags:maps society )
I just discovered that Tom Bombadil was a playable unit in the Battle For Middle Earth computer game!
(tags:games lotr video WTF )
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Interesting Links for 25-07-2021

UK Government: Ministers can use personal email to avoid oversight
(tags:email transparency corruption government uk )
UK government orders councils to display EU flag as condition of receiving Covid high street cash
(tags:uk europe flags funny )
Consumption of >6 cups/day was associated with 53% higher odds of dementia compared to consumption of 1-2 cups/day
(tags:coffee dementia )
Why is Neil Gaiman working with Amazon?
(tags:Amazon TV neilgaiman )
Labour recruiting staff on insecure contracts while making mass redundancies
(tags:labour employment )
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Interesting Links for 01-07-2021

7-8% of children who get Covid still have symptoms three months later
(tags:pandemic children Doom )
Football linked to 2,000 Scottish Covid cases
(tags:football pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Deep sea mining could start in two years, triggering terrible loss of biodiversity
(tags:ocean mining viaDanielDWilliam )
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021: Shortlist revealed (and it's gorgeous!)
(tags:photos space viacmcmck )
How Twitter can ruin a life: Isabel Fall's complicated story (she wrote the sci-fi story "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter"
(tags:twitter society transgender lgbt scifi )
What mRNA is Good For, And What It Maybe Isn't
(tags:genetics immune_system vaccine )
Amazon allows people to hijack your reviews and product listings.
(tags:Amazon fraud OhForFucksSake )
Methodist Church allows same-sex marriage
(tags:UK religion marriage Christianity )
Why doesn't *my* bus stop have a life size Totoro at it?
(tags:buses Japan ghibli viaSwampers )
Nissan announces major UK electric car expansion
(tags:UK Japan electricity cars manufacturing Europe )
Wet Bulb Temperature - what is it, and how is it making parts of the planet uninhabitable?
(tags:globalwarming doom )
Ever wondered what Australian Sign Language for "startled naked by a deer" was? (SFW link)
(tags:nudity video sign viaLilysea )
Triggering Password-Recovery Questions
(tags:funny passwords trauma viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 29-06-2021

Third dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine generates strong immune boost
(tags:vaccine GoodNews pandemic )
The Race to Put Silk in Nearly Everything
(tags:materials silk spiders Goats history manufacturing )
Funding for Additional Support Need pupils falls by £1,000 per child (but doubles overall, as 30% of children now have ASN)
(tags:children scotland money )
UK is the poorest nation in northwest Europe, per person
(tags:UK epicfail Europe gdp economy )
AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines can be safely mixed to generate high Covid protection
(tags:Pandemic vaccine GoodNews )
The Cambridge autonomous bus is... not impressive
(tags:automation driving transport bus )
Amazon is using (rubbish) algorithms with little human intervention to fire Flex workers
(tags:Amazon automation business HumanResources OhForFucksSake )
Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines Likely to Produce Lasting Immunity
(tags:vaccine GoodNews )
China's CoronaVac jab safe and effective in children as young as three
(tags:children vaccine GoodNews pandemic China )
Mexico's Supreme Court has decriminalised the private use of cannabis by adults
(tags:marijuana Mexico law GoodNews )
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