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Jo Cox MP critically injured amid shooting reports - BBC News
(tags: news politics UK Westminster crime )
Jo Cox MP dead after shooting attack - BBC News
Content warning: news about a violent death. Same link as previous, but BBC had updated the story after her death, didn't want anyone to click through without knowing.
(tags: politics crime death violence UK Westminster )

Zelo Street: Telegraph’s Junior Doctor Isn’t
Apparently he's a recently graduated foundation year doctor not yet at the point of being allowed to work on people alone.
(tags: NHS health politics not-fair-not-safe lies comment Conservatives journalism news )

Union suspends planned Tube strikes - BBC News
Not yet done and dusted, but the September strikes have been cancelled.
(tags: news London tube transport unions good-news-everyone! )

Tube strike suspended by unions
(tags: news London tube transport unions guess-I-won't-be-working-from-home-then )

Labour bans 1,200 people from leadership contest vote
(tags: politics Westminster Labour-party voting news elections )

The Onion accidentally breaks story about the US offering missiles to Israel after Iran deal
Still only my 2nd favourite true Onion headline. But "Rumors Of Extramarital Affair End Campaign Of Presidential Candidate Who Didn't Know China Has Nuclear Weapons" is hard to beat.
(tags: amusing parody news international-affairs Israel Iran The-Onion )

Exeter Bomb Scare - shops evacuated
Sharing mostly because it's my uni town, and I still have a fair few friends there
(tags: news events-in-progress bombs Exeter )

Sir Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
My immediate reaction? ᴛɪᴍᴇ ғᴏʀ ᴀ ɴɪᴄᴇ ᴄᴜᴘ ᴏғ ᴛᴇᴀ
(tags: death literature sad fantasy news )

50 sHAdes of VORpal — Kickstarter
What the fuck is this, I don't even… (appears to be a gaming version of potato salad)
(tags: WTF Kickstarter crowdfunding weird amusing Gaming RPG tabletop-RPGs parody )
Soldier killed in Canada shootings - BBC News
(tags: news Canada terrorism death military )

Alex Salmond to quit as first minister
(tags: news Scotland Scottish-independence politics Interesting UK )
Mayors: The Gathering – city leaders in fantasy playing cards
It's just like a collectable card game! Except for the utter lack of rules/stats/any real resemblance beyond the fact they're framed a bit like cards!
(tags: fail Gaming politics people-trying-to-be-cool-and-failing-miserably )

Duchess of Cambridge pregnant: TUC leader Frances O’Grady speech on class system cut off by royal baby newsflash - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
“Good luck to the Duchess of Cambridge, but she would still have been pregnant when Frances finished speaking.”
(tags: WTF news class unions monarchy BBC fail irony inequality pregnancy magic-balls )

Teenagers hack ATM by bothering to read the instructions
Google instructions. See if they've changed the default passcode. Don't steal money, just set the welcome screen to say it's been hacked, and tell the bank. Realise you're late for your next school lesson…
(tags: Awesome fail hacking technology money Canada )
A PSA About Nude Photos
'*Tasers you* *steals your shoes* SHOULDN’T WEAR SHOES BRO' Well put. It's theft. But because its of women, and because there's a sexual/titillation element, the victim blaming suddenly appears.
(tags: sexism theft crime hacking people-suck current-events social-media news privacy )

Pathfinder's new iconic shaman is a transgender dwarf
And they appear to have handled it with a lot of care and understanding.
(tags: Interesting Gaming equality trans-issues tabletop-RPGs pathfinder )
BBC News - Julian Assange speaks of 'leaving' Ecuador embassy
(tags: Interesting news Julian-Assange wikileaks crime law Europe rape international-affairs )

I Can Only Enjoy Video Games With Featureless Blocks as Protagonists
'If you're a burger chef or a spaceship and you want to be represented in gaming, then either make the game, or become an economic force to be reckoned with.'
(tags: sexism Gaming computer-games culture amusing Interesting parody a-rather-well-put-way-of-saying-that-hard-to-define-thing )
Church of England General Synod approves female bishops
Finally entering the Century of the Fruitbat. Though I do wonder if this'll result in a fair bit of splintering off.
(tags: news Christianity Church-of-England equality UK religion )

Hearthstone tournament explains why women aren't allowed to play
Because apparently the only way that eSports will be accepted as 'real' sports is if they unnecessarily ape the gender divisions of such.
(tags: WTF fail sexism computer-games computers bigotry )
Facebook under investigation by UK data regulator following psychological experiments - Gadgets and Tech - Life & Style - The Independent
Glad it's being looked at. Hope some sort of ban/fine/punishment results.
(tags: Interesting Facebook social-media psychology braaaaaains news Internet )

Hacking trial: Coulson guilty, Brooks cleared of charges
(tags: Interesting news media News-of-The-World journalism law crime hacking UK )

Government bans all existing and future Academies and Free Schools from teaching creationism as science » British Humanist Association
I'd call that good news.
(tags: Interesting science religion evolution creationism UK politics education schools belief humanism )
Facebook down today, not working say users | Product Reviews Net
Probably will be back up before anyone reads this…
(tags: Internet technology news Facebook social-media )
Zuckerberg dies turning Facebook back on
'Internet user Tom Logan said: “That’s cool but I was momentarily inconvenienced so fuck him and Facebook, I’m 100 per cent Twitter now.”'
(tags: amusing silly parody Facebook social-media The-Daily-Mash technology )

All Our Patent Are Belong To You | Blog | Tesla Motors
'Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.'
(tags: Awesome humanity;-actually-able-to-do-some-awesome-stuff-after-all technology transport cars business patents news intellectual-property )
Sales of toilet paper plummet after delivery of free copy of The Sun
"…do you know what’s better than wiping your arse on a copy of The Sun?Wiping your arse on a copy of the The Sun that Rupert Murdoch had to pay to give to you.”
(tags: amusing parody NewsThump media )

Medieval Jokes
Various, often dirty, medieval jokes. Mostly worded in a way to somewhat hide the smut. It even has a 'your mum' joke in there.
(tags: amusing jokes history via-#maelfroth )
Texas Can't Kill Inmates Until It Reveals Where It Got Its Lethal Drugs
(tags: Interesting law crime USA death death-penalty )
Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO | The Mozilla Blog
Surprising. Good to see LGBT issues rating this level of importance/response.
(tags: LGBT Internet news business )

Scotland to switch to driving on the right if independence given green light | Politics | The Guardian
"It sends out an explicit signal: we are part of Europe,"
(tags: Interesting news Scottish-independence Scotland cars transport UK politics )
Dead college pigeon ‘tweets’ from netting trap - Edinburgh Evening News
Too expensive to cut it down.
(tags: amusing Edinburgh Scotland animals death education twitter social-media )

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