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the UK has the loosest gambling laws in Europe and let me tell you: this is one of the things that is killing every. thing. else. property greed is the other. but gambling is destroying high streets, areas, social cohesion; if you don't live in an area infested with slot arcades you don't get it

I was stopped on the tube this morning by a ghost who demanded proof that I was allowed to travel. It was the ticketing spectre

1. Don’t buy someone flowers as an apology. The flowers will remind the person of whatever it was you said or did. Buy flowers to cheer someone up, or just on a whim. 2. If you’re going from one room in your house to another, there is at least one object that should come with you.

I've just flown back from the place where they give your limbs a gender and boy are my arms

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

UPDATE: there's a digital reconstruction of this tsunami shared today on Twitter by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - and *HOLY HELL*.

Most TV is just this now.

This is a photograph of the edge of one of Saturn's rings, looking down from above. Those spiky dark shapes are shadows. Shadows of giant towers of ice and dust grains clumped together that rise up to three *kilometres* above the 10-m thick rings.

This is *so* good

Oh no

Who is the best white-sauce chef on British TV? Louis the Roux

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

Would quite like Villa players to stop inflicting head injuries on our players now kthx #coys

Full moon: the wereshark transforms into a wolf and drowns immediately

This is inside you.

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

John Redwood, anti-Norman campaigner, son of [checks notes] William

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Personal lives in wartime Morocco inconsequential when considered in broader geopolitical context

Periwinkle Mother-Caré

I would have picked Viagra Boys, but no need.

Nanopticon

I can never get used to American names. Good luck, Toss.

Bamboo fabric is almost always just rayon. Rayon is made by using chemicals to turn cellulose into a goo and extruding it into a fiber, and the process is usually quite toxic. There's a lot I like about rayon as a fabric, but it's not really sustainable and you shouldn't pay a premium for bamboo.

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Clipse!

🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse 
🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse 
🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse

I should be good. I don’t have anywhere near 30,000 pounds of beef

28 DAYS EARLIER Needlessly long British slice-of-life documentary

My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

Learning the shoehorn* *for playing footnotes

Yes lockdown was really tough for kids. Lots of those kids are teenagers now so maybe as a thank you our establishments could stop deliberately making even more things worse for them due to a weird systemic hatred of our own youth

Great thread on counterfactuals and covid lockdowns

A light and dairy feel

I actually know the answer to this and it's slightly insane. Google pulls from Wikipedia to determine if a place is a city, town, neighbourhood, whatever. Brighton's first line describes it as a "seaside resort" so Google Maps thinks it's a neighbourhood and doesn't display it in the "city" font.

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