Entries tagged with death

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Interesting Links for 17-06-2016

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 )

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Interesting Links for 15-01-2016

Alan Rickman, giant of British film and theatre, dies at 69 | Film | The Guardian
(tags: :( death film theatre sad )

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Interesting Links for 26-06-2015

If Lord of the Rings was a Series of LARP Events
[Legolas fires an arrow.] Legolas: “Strike down!” [Arrow bounces off monster, who ignores it.] Legolas, noble elf, full of the grace and light of his people: “Fuck.”
(tags: amusing silly LARP parody Awesome geeky Lord-of-the-Rings fantasy books Gaming )
Avengers star Patrick Macnee dies
:(
(tags: death TV celebrity )
The Mad Max Furiosa comic, created entirely by men, is terrible about women
Le sigh. And after the film handled it so well.
(tags: comics sexism film bigotry fail You-Must-Not-Read-From-The-Book! )

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Interesting Links for 23-06-2015

Pratchett's Daughter Says No More Discworld Books and That's OK
(tags: literature fiction geeky death family )

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Interesting Links for 20-06-2015

Obama on Charleston: 'This does not happen in other advanced countries'
(tags: guns race death culture USA racism )

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Interesting Links for 11-06-2015

Christopher Lee dies at the age of 93 | Film | The Guardian
:( He shall be toasted in Atlantis tonight.
(tags: death celebrity sad )

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Interesting Links for 10-04-2015

Western black rhino declared extinct
:(
(tags: extinction death animals sad environment )

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Interesting Links for 13-03-2015

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

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Interesting Links for 19-02-2015

The US definition of a hate crime
Possibly interesting to some people reading this, I'm curious how this differs from the UK definition. Interesting that some major stuff doesn't get prosecuted as such, because they're already going to get life imprisonment or execution, and the prosecutor doesn't want to have to prove the hate crime element as well
(tags: Interesting crime law bigotry USA religion death )

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Interesting Links for 22-12-2014

How do you counter-protest those calling for less police brutality, less deaths of black people to them?
Get a bunch of white guys to wear hoodies saying "I can breathe", apparently. Seriously, what the fuck? How do they think that makes any kind of point bar privilege?
(tags: what-the-everliving-fuck USA police crime culture protest death people-suck )

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Interesting Links for 25-11-2014

Transgender woman dies suddenly, presented at funeral in open casket as a man
Gable’s death “stresses the importance of having a will.”
(tags: trans bigotry people-suck death gender )

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Interesting Links for 02-11-2014

'Never again': Anti-war veterans to carry white-poppy wreath to Cenotaph - Home News - UK - The Independent
(tags: Interesting War military UK history death )

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Interesting Links for 23-10-2014

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 )

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Interesting Links for 26-06-2014

BBC News - Campaigners lose 'right to die' case
'but the judges said Parliament should now act.'
(tags: Interesting human-rights death illness health euthanasia UK law )
What Remains: Portraits of Women Wearing Their Ex-Lovers Shirts
(tags: Interesting photos photography love relationships )

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Interesting Links for 10-06-2014

Rik Mayall, comedian and actor, dies aged 56
:(
(tags: death comedy UK TV )

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Interesting Links for 15-05-2014

Why your pictures of naked chicks aren’t art | Charlotte Sometimes
NSFW for drawn breasts and a Rosie the Riveter wearing a strap-on.
(tags: Interesting art what-is-art image nudity photography culture feminism NSFW )
OAP offers armed but inept man attempting to rob bank £20 to leave
'A hapless criminal wearing socks over his shoes tried robbing a bank with a breadknife – just minutes after giving the cashier his full name and address.'
(tags: amusing crime fail epic-fail WTF )
Turkey mine disaster: grief turns to rage as hopes of finding survivors fade
Prime Minister uses examples from Victorian England to argue "These things happen."
(tags: death Turkey mining health-and-safety politics disaster )

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Interesting Links for 01-05-2014

Oklahoma execution: Clayton Lockett writhes on gurney in botched procedure | World news | theguardian.com
'Heart attack kills Lockett 43 minutes after drugs injected'
(tags: death death-penalty USA law crime WTF )
Would you push a stranger off a bridge? How your morals depend on language - Science - News - The Independent
(tags: Interesting ethics language braaaaaains psychology science )

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Interesting Links for 16-04-2014

Twitter / hrtbps: "OK, here are the stats. Make a graph so it looks like gun deaths have fallen since 2005."
Also, says 'gun deaths' at top, but 'murders' is what the chart actually is.
(tags: WTF fail lies-damn-lies-and-statistics graphics design death guns-guns-guns USA )
Could offices change from sitting to standing? - BBC News
(tags: Interesting health work office exercise )
Lembit Opik now hosts a pro-Iranian propaganda ‘comedy’ TV show | Political Scrapbook
(tags: WTF weird politics Westminster UK Iran )

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Interesting Links for 15-04-2014

CCP Games Halts Development of World of Darkness MMO
:-( Thus die the hopes that the Glass Walkers and Virtual Adepts would get their chance to truly conquer the Digital Web...
(tags: Gaming tabletop-RPGs RPG Onyx-Path-Games World-of-Darkness MMORPG EVE-online sad bad-news )
comp.basilisk FAQ
(tags: Interesting living-in-the-future braaaaaains technology death )

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Interesting Links for 04-04-2014

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 )