Interesting Links for 19-12-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Combining over 650 "Greatest Comic Book" lists to find the critical consensus on the 200 Greatest Comics of All Time

(tags:viaLinkMachineGo comics recommendation )

2. Jury trial reforms: How did the court backlog get so bad?

(tags:uk law austerity )

3. Facebook tests £9.99 monthly subscription for sharing more than two links

(tags:facebook business )

4. Heart and Kidney Diseases, plus Type 2 Diabetes, May Be One Illness

(tags:heart disease diabetes )

5. Christian couple who believe homosexuality is 'wrong' blocked from fostering children (case went to the high court)

(tags:bigotry adoption LGBT UK religion )

6. 2025 in polls

(tags:uk polls politics )

7. £100 UK contactless card limit to be lifted from March

(tags:uk money Technology )

8. YouTube bans two popular channels that created fake AI movie trailers

(tags:youtube ai trailers fraud )

9. How Dinosaurs Thrived in the Snow

(tags:dinosaurs snow weather cold )

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

#4: thanks a lot; it explains things that happened to me and gives me directions.
#9: while we know that birds still survive in horrible colds, saying something about dinosaurs bones found on Alaska is weird. Dinosaurs are supposed to have died out way before Alaska was formed.

[andrewducker]

Hmm. Best I can find is things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleontology_in_Alaska

Which contains the sentences: Alaska remained covered in seawater during the Triassic and Jurassic. Local wildlife included ammonites, belemnites, bony fish and ichthyosaurs. Alaska was a more terrestrial environment during the Cretaceous, with a rich flora and dinosaur fauna.

[juan_gandhi]

Hmm, so, they say, there was a chance.

[calimac]

1) I don't consider myself a comics reader, but it turns out I've read quite a number of these, including 7 of the top 10.

5) I find the court decision defensible, but I can't pretend it's anything other than a judgment on the defendants' religion.