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Interesting Links for 10-06-2026
Jun. 10th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. RSPB buys Bass Rock after 300 years in private hands
- (tags:birds Scotland )
- 2. Google Chrome is killing uBlock Origin , Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow (still works fine on Firefox)
- (tags:adblock browser google )
- 3. German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
- (tags:Google ai law Germany )
Interesting Links for 07-06-2026
Jun. 7th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. How Scotland voted at the 2026 Holyrood election
- (tags:voting elections Scotland politics polls )
- 2. Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements
- (tags:ai police uk law )
- 3. Interesting piece by someone who traced their Scottish ancestry and wanted to find the real truth
- (tags:Scotland history family )
- 4. Arithmetic Without Numbers - how LLMs produce answers to maths questions
- (tags:mathematics AI text )
Photo cross-post
Jun. 6th, 2026 01:18 pm
The children went to a birthday party and found a fairy ring. I wonder
if we'll ever see them again.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
Interesting Links for 06-06-2026
Jun. 6th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Let's celebrate the lowest Covid levels recorded since the pandemic started
- (tags:pandemic GoodNews viaKenny )
- 2. A new Broadway play about Roald Dahl and his prejudice captures uncomfortable truths.
- (tags:theatre bigotry Jews history writing )
- 3. Please Email your MP to reject the Code of Practice and support EDM 240
- (tags:transgender bigotry politics uk )
- 4. Children's Commissioner dranatically overstates how many young children see pornography
- (tags:pornography children facts )
- 5. Jewish groups launch new diaspora movement rejecting Israel's ethno-nationalism
- (tags:Jews )
- 6. Has Britain run out of "other people" to tax?
- (tags:tax UK economics politics )
Interesting Links for 05-06-2026
Jun. 5th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. FCC To Investigate TV Shows Where The Mom Has Job
- (tags:tv politics satire usa fascism patriarchy )
- 2. How Spain Avoided the Global Populist Backlash
- (tags:inequality spain politics )
- 3. Opinion: It's only funny when the joke is about things I don't like
- (tags:humour funny )
- 4. Cheap, Fast DNA Synthesis
- (tags:genetics )
- 5. What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?
- (tags:migration japan doom society )
- 6. Queen bees emerge from special wax chambers
- (tags:bees )
Interesting Links for 04-06-2026
Jun. 4th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Good to see the Lib Dems on the right side of the EHRC Transgender Awfulness
- (tags:bigotry libdem uk politics transgender lgbt )
- 2. Please stop calling them the 'Farage Riots', demands man behind the Farage Riots
- (tags:riots satire UK politics )
- 3. Phone signal on UK trains not good enough most of the time
- (tags:UK phones trains fail )
- 4. Putin's war on UK streets: The criminal networks sowing mayhem for Russia
- (tags:Russia UK sabotage )
- 5. U.S. to Dismantle System Tracking Atlantic Currents That Are at Risk of Collapse
- (tags:usa globalwarming ocean OhForFucksSake research )
Photo cross-post
Jun. 4th, 2026 11:56 am
I think gym class might be paying off.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
Interesting Links for 03-06-2026
Jun. 3rd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. 3D zipper technology can create rigid shapes on demand
- (tags:Technology design 3dprinting )
- 2. The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
- (tags:technology AI catholicism funny viaSwampers )
- 3. The UK Supreme Court is enabling some fascist shit against disabled people
- (tags:UK law disability OhForFucksSake )
- 4. The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang
- (tags:memory technology writing society relationships short_story scifi )
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Banking functionality I would like
May. 31st, 2026 03:33 pmIntermittently I would like to bring forward a single instance of a regular payment.
Normally transfer money from A to B on the 17th, but this month you want to do it 2 days early? Tough, you have to make the early payment, wait for the later payment to go through, and then get it transferred back.
Life with two kids: bus chat
May. 31st, 2026 11:06 amChildren are having a very loud conversation with each other on the bus about where babies come from.
I'm hiding three rows back.
Photo cross-post
May. 31st, 2026 09:32 am
Ah, the wonders of nature.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
Interesting Links for 30-05-2026
May. 30th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Clinicians raise concerns over gender-affirming healthcare evidence reviews in open letter to NHS England
- (tags:UK bigotry healthcare LGBT transgender )
- 2. There are dozens of trees planted across America whose seeds went to the moon
- (tags:moon nature trees viaDanielDWilliam )
- 3. Please Use AI
- (tags:ai life poetry )
- 4. Opposing the EHRC guidance - UNISON needs your voice
- (tags:unions LGBT transgender UK )
- 5. Oscar-winning 'Star Wars' editor Marcia Lucas dies at 80
- (tags:StarWars obituary )
- 6. High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building
- (tags:history housing rome )
Interesting Links for 29-05-2026
May. 29th, 2026 12:00 pmTags:
- china,
- epicfail,
- europe,
- healthcare,
- links,
- regulation,
- safety,
- trade,
- usa
Interesting Links for 28-05-2026
May. 28th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Tony Blair's terrible ideas are mostly due to the terrible people giving him money (oil nations and tech ogliarchs)
- (tags:oil Technology money politics tonyblair OhForFucksSake corruption )
- 2. Schools see sharp rise in suspensions for homophobic, transphobic, racist and ableist abuse
- (tags:abuse children school uk bullying bigotry LGBT transgender homophobia racism ableism )
- 3. DuckDuckGo's AI-free search saw nearly 28% more visits in the week following Google's insistence that people love AI mode
- (tags:search web ai )
- 4. YouTube to begin automatically labeling AI videos
- (tags:YouTube ai )
- 5. Economists' forecasts from a decade ago: Brexit
- (tags:UK Europe economics history thefuture )
- 6. What you need to know about the giant yellow towers at Leith Docks dominating the Edinburgh skyline
- (tags:windpower edinburgh scotland )
Interesting Links for 27-05-2026
May. 27th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. UK Medical Academies respond to the government consultation on Growing Up In An Online World
- (tags:children internet health safety )
- 2. The Great Depopulation - how drastic is our population decline going to be?
- (tags:population thefuture )
- 3. Starmer bans Labour councillors from doing deals with Green Party, happy to work with Tories
- (tags:Labour GreenParty politics UK OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Ukrainian intelligence tricked Russian troops who wanted to activate Starlink terminals, got cash and precise locations out of them.
- (tags:Ukraine Russia fraud intelligence war communications )
- 5. The Strange Melancholy of Slaying Monsters
- (tags:games morality art violence )
- 6. Green sector is 5% of Scotland's GDP
- (tags:scotland economics renewables )
- 7. Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn't really Google anymore (I use Kagi and it's great)
- (tags:search web recommendation )
- 8. Owner's relief as escaped tortoise found yards away
- (tags:tortoise pets headline )
Tags:
- art,
- children,
- communications,
- economics,
- fraud,
- games,
- greenparty,
- headline,
- health,
- intelligence,
- internet,
- labour,
- links,
- morality,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pets,
- politics,
- population,
- recommendation,
- renewables,
- russia,
- safety,
- scotland,
- search,
- thefuture,
- tortoise,
- uk,
- ukraine,
- violence,
- war,
- web
Interesting Links for 25-05-2026
May. 25th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. I missed that Israel was now keeping out the wrong kind of Jews
- (tags:Jews Israel OhForFucksSake viaFJM )
- 2. The meaning of doing mathematics
- (tags:philosophy mathematics ai )
- 3. I'd be more impressed with this article on how awesome free bus passes for young people in Scotland are if the graphs included before the lockdown...
- (tags:history visualisation transport buses )
- 4. Stranger danger, the beloved myth
- (tags:children abuse society myths )
Tags:
- abuse,
- ai,
- buses,
- children,
- history,
- israel,
- jews,
- links,
- mathematics,
- myths,
- ohforfuckssake,
- philosophy,
- society,
- transport,
- viafjm,
- visualisation
Interesting Links for 24-05-2026
May. 24th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Labour continue to try and cherry pick an EU deal, with as much success as you'd expect
- (tags:UK Europe Labour )
- 2. What effect will global warming have on the UK? (figure 2 is terrifying)
- (tags:globalwarming UK doom )
- 3. Why Do Our Fingers Get Wrinkly In Water? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains
- (tags:water bodies evolution viaPatrickHadfield )
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