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Interesting Links for 24-09-2025
Sep. 24th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Autistic Perspectives on the Future of Clinical Autism Research
- (tags:autism research )
- 2. Europe's EV sales surge 26% in 2025 while Tesla faces 34% decline
- (tags:europe Tesla electricity cars )
- 3. How England is fixing its recycling mess (jump to 7:10 to skip the history lesson)
- (tags:England recycling law )
- 4. All the signs that Putin wants another war in Europe within months
- (tags:russia war europe doom )
Oddly recurrent stomach issues
Sep. 24th, 2025 07:05 amFacebook reminds me that we had norovirus on this day in 2021 and 2023. Jane has spent the last 24 hours with D+V. What are the odds?
Interesting Links for 23-09-2025
Sep. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Tesla influencers tried to automatically drive coast-to-coast -- they crashed within 60 miles
- (tags:Tesla ElonMusk automation driving fail cars )
- 2. OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
- (tags:ai )
- 3. Girl footballers attacked for having short hair.
- (tags:gender society hair football UK OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Exercising in nature is superior to the gym or city
- (tags:exercise nature psychology )
- 5. UK Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals
- (tags:tax wealth UK )
Interesting Links for 22-09-2025
Sep. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Canada, Australia and UK recognize Palestinian statehood (France soon)
- (tags:Palestine France UK Australia Canada )
- 2. Among UK Jews, opposition to Palestinian political autonomy is vanishing
- (tags:UK Palestine Israel )
- 3. Examining overlap and homogeneity in ASD, ADHD, and OCD: a data-driven, diagnosis-agnostic approach
- (tags:ADHD autism psychology )
- 4. South Korea's President Lee says U.S. investment demands would spark a financial crisis
- (tags:usa korea economics doom )
Interesting Links for 21-09-2025
Sep. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. EU Data Act — What Businesses Need to Know (no more lock-in!)
- (tags:Europe data regulation )
- 2. Troubles legacy: Mixed reaction to UK-Ireland deal on addressing cases
- (tags:UK Ireland )
- 3. Visa holders on vacation have 15 hours to return to US or pay $100k fee
- (tags:USA migration OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (a headline from 1939)
- (tags:nazis censorship society history )
- 5. We have invented the vibroblade! (The World's First Ultrasonic Chef's Knife for Home Cooks)
- (tags:Technology knife video )
Tags:
- censorship,
- data,
- europe,
- history,
- ireland,
- knife,
- links,
- migration,
- nazis,
- ohforfuckssake,
- regulation,
- society,
- technology,
- uk,
- usa,
- video
Photo cross-post
Sep. 21st, 2025 10:25 am
We went up the hill. There were roses. Nobody knows why. Gideon has
theories involving dead people.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
Interesting Links for 20-09-2025
Sep. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Popper was right about the link between certainty and extremism
- (tags:politics psychology belief )
- 2. Plastic from takeaway containers may fuel Alzheimer's risk (in mice)
- (tags:mice alzheimers plastic )
- 3. Is it cheating if your illicit affair is with AI?
- (tags:relationships ai )
- 4. The US "healthcare" system is not fit for purpose.
- (tags:healthcare USA OhForFucksSake )
Tags:
Interesting Links for 19-09-2025
Sep. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour's plan to jumpstart city building after Rayner's 1.5m homes drive stalls
- (tags:housing uk )
- 2. Chimps consume a pint of lager's worth of alcohol every day in fruit
- (tags:alcohol chimpanzees )
- 3. Man with Covid for over two years became virus incubator, as it evolved into new variants of concern
- (tags:pandemic virus evolution )
- 4. Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads (and so I will never buy one)
- (tags:advertising Samsung technology OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms (in Canada)
- (tags:Canada girls sports school LGBT transgender bigotry )
- 6. Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
- (tags:politics Child_abuse satire usa uk royalty )
- 7. An "At The Mountains Of Madness" game, where you play as a penguin.
- (tags:penguins hplovecraft games wtf )
Tags:
- advertising,
- alcohol,
- bigotry,
- canada,
- child_abuse,
- chimpanzees,
- evolution,
- games,
- girls,
- housing,
- hplovecraft,
- lgbt,
- links,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pandemic,
- penguins,
- politics,
- royalty,
- samsung,
- satire,
- school,
- sports,
- technology,
- transgender,
- uk,
- usa,
- virus,
- wtf
Interesting Links for 18-09-2025
Sep. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Ukraine is hitting Russia where it hurts - and it's working
- (tags:ukraine russia war economy )
- 2. 'Erosion emergency' at Edinburgh's Calton Hill after grass cut too short
- (tags:edinburgh nature )
- 3. 'Forgotten' royal castle uncovered on Herbidean Scottish island
- (tags:scotland castle )
- 4. What's changing for trials in Scotland?
- (tags:scotland law )
- 5. Renewables do unambiguously reduce wholesale power prices
- (tags:renewables electricity economics )
- 6. There Are Too Many Video Games (and songs and books and TV shows)
- (tags:media economics society )
Whining about online t-shirt purchases.
Sep. 17th, 2025 05:36 pmOoh, I thought, that's a really cool t-shirt! And the price is only £24, that's actually pretty reasonable!
Except no, it's £24 plus £6 tax plus £7 shipping *that takes up to 6 weeks*.
And this for an item that's print on demand. Which means, theoretically, they could print it in the UK in the first place and not have to presumably ship it to me by alpaca from Kazakhstan!
Shame, really, it's a nice t-shirt. But not £37 nice.
Except no, it's £24 plus £6 tax plus £7 shipping *that takes up to 6 weeks*.
And this for an item that's print on demand. Which means, theoretically, they could print it in the UK in the first place and not have to presumably ship it to me by alpaca from Kazakhstan!
Shame, really, it's a nice t-shirt. But not £37 nice.
A week and a half ago I ordered a couple of K-Pop Demon Hunters hoodies for the kids from Amazon. I didn't realise quite how much of a trip they'd be making:
8th - Taken from warehouse in Shenzhen (China) and handed to massive chinese shipment company SF Express.
8th - Driven an hour up the road to Dongguan shipment centre.
11th - Transported (presumably by road) 1,100 km to Ezhou (SF Express hub airport, also China))
12th - Flown to Liège Airport (Belgium), stopping over in Almaty International Airport (Kazakhstan)
14th - Flew in to Heathrow
14th - Then arrived in Stansted for customs
15th - Then handed to Hermes in London
16th - Who got it to me in Edinburgh the next day
Total cost, including shipping: £24 (£12 per top).
I am both impressed and somewhat aghast.
8th - Taken from warehouse in Shenzhen (China) and handed to massive chinese shipment company SF Express.
8th - Driven an hour up the road to Dongguan shipment centre.
11th - Transported (presumably by road) 1,100 km to Ezhou (SF Express hub airport, also China))
12th - Flown to Liège Airport (Belgium), stopping over in Almaty International Airport (Kazakhstan)
14th - Flew in to Heathrow
14th - Then arrived in Stansted for customs
15th - Then handed to Hermes in London
16th - Who got it to me in Edinburgh the next day
Total cost, including shipping: £24 (£12 per top).
I am both impressed and somewhat aghast.
Interesting Links for 16-09-2025
Sep. 16th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Channel 4 To Air Marathon of Trump Lies Amid UK State Visit
- (tags:USA UK politics TV lies )
- 2. Hundreds of firms warn new guidance on single sex spaces is 'unworkable' and would cause 'significant economic harm'
- (tags:lgbt uk transgender bigotry )
- 3. Edinburgh trams: Part of line to close for three days while engineers replace track points
- (tags:edinburgh trams )
- 4. Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza
- (tags:israel gaza genocide )
Photo cross-post
Sep. 16th, 2025 09:58 am
No, daddy, it's definitely not a "pointy duck"! Have you even read the sign?
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
Interesting Links for 15-09-2025
Sep. 15th, 2025 07:39 pm- 1. Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 5 to 11 years old have little-to-no effect
- (tags:obesity children research exercise diet )
- 2. Cannabis use associated with quadrupled risk of developing type 2 diabetes (2.2% vs 0.6%)
- (tags:diabetes marijuana )
- 3. Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles
- (tags:electricity myths solarpower windpower cars transport environment )
- 4. The chumbox is (still) the dirty design secret of the internet
- (tags:advertising web doom )
Tags:
- advertising,
- cars,
- children,
- diabetes,
- diet,
- doom,
- electricity,
- environment,
- exercise,
- links,
- marijuana,
- myths,
- obesity,
- research,
- solarpower,
- transport,
- web,
- windpower
Interesting Links for 14-09-2025
Sep. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The way that English schools measure success makes life worse for the schools and troubled students
- (tags:school england doom )
- 2. 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'
- (tags:nintendo patents intellectual_property OhForFucksSake games )
Interesting Links for 13-09-2025
Sep. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. If you were wondering what Bryan Fuller and Mads Mikkelsen were up to, it's a movie about a guy who will (for the right money) kill the monster under your bed. Dust Bunny (also starring Sigourney Weaver).
- I wish my kids were a few years older...
(tags:monsters children movies trailer ) - 2. How were escalators invented, and how safe are they? (very, unless your maintenance people are corrupt)
- (tags:design technology safety video history )
- 3. Israeli conductor condemns his country in extraordinary Proms outburst
- (tags:Israel Palestine )
Interesting Links for 12-09-2025
Sep. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. What holes are there in the Big Bang theory?
- (tags:BigBangTheory physics science history )
- 2. "Gender Ideology" Is a Conspiracy Theory
- (tags:transgender bigotry conspiracy LGBT )
- 3. Would you like some reasons to have hope about the environment?
- (tags:hope nature history environment )
- 4. Pharmaceutical companies are pulling out of the UK because the UK government isn't investing in life sciences
- (tags:UK healthcare investment doom pharmaceuticals )
- 5. Factsheet: The immune system and ME/CFS
- (tags:ChronicFatigueSyndrome health immune_system )
- 6. Hyundai is now delaying its EV battery plant that was raided by ICE
- (tags:manufacturing usa racism doom korea )
- 7. You have a chance to collect meteorite fragments from Scottish highland hills for first time in 100 years
- (tags:scotland space rocks )
Tags:
Photo cross-post
Sep. 11th, 2025 11:47 am
Rainbow over Arthur's Seat
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
