Intel, Nvidia, TSMC execs agree: Chip shortage could last into 2023(tags:computers economics )Covid eight times more likely to cause rare brain clot than AstraZeneca vaccine(tags:vaccination pandemic brain blood )Scottish election 2021: SNP policies explained(tags:Scotland snp politics )Mystery tree beast turns out to be croissant(tags:headline ( Read more... )

FactCheck: how effective are masks at stopping Covid-19 spread?(tags:Pandemic virus )World War One: Edinburgh Zeppelin raid was Scotland's first air blitz(tags:wwi Edinburgh history balloon viaDanielDWilliam )No more lockdowns likely with Covid to be 'treated like flu' says Chris Witty(tags:Pandemic disease UK )Revealing the Ineffectiveness of ( Read more... )

Why adult women don't get to have fun(tags:fun fandom women society ) Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie present a lovely ditty about abortion(tags:abortion comic )Labour suspends members for passing motion criticising Jeremy Corbyn suspension(tags:labour Doom )Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump's Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and ( Read more... )

Every British swear word has been officially ranked in order of offensiveness(tags:swearing language offensive )'Godzilla' was a metaphor for Hiroshima, and Hollywood whitewashed it (by cutting twenty minutes from the original film)(tags:Godzilla movies nuclearweapons history censorship )Why Wikipedia Decided to Stop Calling Fox a 'Reliable' Source ( Read more... )

Defund the police? Here's what that really means.(tags:police usa )Message to White Allies from A Black Anti-Racism Expert: You're Doing It Wrong(tags:racism behaviour viaMorag )Henry Dundas descendant defends ancestor's recordI really would like to understand the right of this. Would it have passed without his amendment? Anyone know an expert?
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Deaths from coronavirus in the UK 40% higher than previously reported(tags:uk pandemic death )How awful men push women out of fandoms(tags:fandom men OhForFucksSake abuse )'Just not true' we're too lazy for farm work, say frustrated UK applicants(tags:farming UK jobs ) Turns out Stockholm Syndrome is nonsense made up to discredit a woman.(tags: ( Read more... )

How Warcraft III birthed a genre, changed a franchise, and earned a Reforge-ing(tags:games history WarCraft )"Shall I compare thee to a summer's duck?" and other sayings(tags:language funny game )A brief history of early Kirk/Spock slash (and the trouble it could get you in back then)(tags:society StarTrek fandom lgbt gay writing slash ) How Labour ( Read more... )

What are the consequences for the killing of General Suleimani?(tags:middle_east Iran iraq viaTaheerah )What Teenage Boys Still Don't Know About Sexual Assault(tags:rape boys society RapeCulture education )How to fix Northern Rail(tags:transport UK fail )How Archive Of Our Own and Dreamwidth grew out of Livejournal's mistakes(tags:fandom ( Read more... )

No, Christmas trees are not an ancient pagan tradition(tags:Christmas trees history )Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names - With Examples(tags:names society language )Nobody wants to be automated. Everybody wants everyone else to be automated(tags:automation )I Am Just Trying to Have a Civil Online Conversation About Vampires(tags:vampires ( Read more... )

Fundamental design principles for non-designers(tags:design advice )The old Edinburgh police station that became a very odd Armenian restaurant(tags:edinburgh restaurant history )Kids Are More Motivated To "Do Science" Than "Be A Scientist"(tags:science children )Joy is Avengers fans imagining the other 14 million Endgame endings Doctor Strange saw ( Read more... )