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Interesting Links for 18-11-2022
Nov. 18th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. "When We All Have Pocket Telephones": A 1920s Comic Accurately Predicts
- (tags:mobile_phones comics predictions )
- 2. Stirling University Students' Union votes to go 100% vegan
- (tags:vegan scotland university food )
- 3. Edinburgh's 20mph roads: Plans to expand speed limit to 90 per cent of Edinburgh roads
- (tags:speed driving edinburgh )
- 4. Artificial meat has been greenlit in the United States for the first time
- (tags:meat Technology usa regulation )
- 5. The world needs more derpy cat dragons
- (tags:cats dragons art )
- 6. Cambrian Explosion Lego!
- (tags:Lego paleontology life )
- 7. The history of Irish/Native American mutual aid
- (tags:support Ireland USA history )
- 8. How to stay warm in extremely cold temperatures
- (tags:cold weather clothing advice )
- 9. How to Post to Mastodon From Anything Using IFTTT
- (tags:automation links )
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- university,
- usa,
- vegan,
- weather
Interesting Links for 04-10-2022
Oct. 4th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. New DNA Analysis Shows How Cats Spread Around Europe, Africa, And The Middle East - Including on Viking Ships
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- 2. Autistic children with imaginary friends have better social skills, just like neurotypical children
- (tags:psychology imagination friendship autism children )
- 3. A flower woman in the style by 1500+ artists, by an AI
- (tags:ai art flowers women )
- 4. "I'm not interested in reality, I'm interested in the images": Andrew Dominik on Blonde
- (tags:movies celebrity rape history )
- 5. A story about the Big Bird actor that made me tear up
- (tags:SesameStreet children death )
- 6. Ukraine ambassador tells Elon Musk to 'fuck off' after Tesla boss tries Twitter poll to solve conflict
- (tags:ElonMusk Twitter Russia Ukraine )
- 7. Twitter's edit button is already being used for terrible, sinister, purposes
- (tags:Twitter funny editing )
- 8. A really impressive piece of stop motion animation (with doodles)
- (tags:stopmotion animation video )
- 9. Compare detail levels between OpenStreetMap 2012 and 2022
- (tags:OpenStreetMap history )
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- psychology,
- rape,
- russia,
- sesamestreet,
- stopmotion,
- twitter,
- ukraine,
- video,
- viking,
- women
Interesting Links for 01-10-2022
Oct. 1st, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Anyone want to be our neighbours?
- (tags:housing Edinburgh )
- 2. Many men are simply incapable of being around attractive women
- I officially apologise to any woman I've made uncomfortable. And I'm absolutely sure I have.
(tags:men beauty OhForFucksSake jobs ) - 3. Porn on Tumblr is a complicated
- (tags:porn tumblr business censorship Apple Android )
- 4. Goblin cats are the best cats
- (tags:cats funny )
- 5. Just how insidious is K-Pop?
- (tags:music Korea )
- 6. Too... Many... Unusual... Laughs!
- (tags:laughter funny video viaPatrickHadfield )
- 7. Some examples of languages younger than Scots
- (tags:language history )
- 8. This house definitely has "unorthodox" design choices
- (tags:design housing EpicWTF )
- 9. Elon Musk's Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius
- (tags:Twitter sms ElonMusk )
- 10. Dredging the river Tees has released contaminants that killed crabs for miles around
- (tags:crabs death pollution )
- 11. The lack of Third Places is definitely one of the major issues in modern cities
- (tags:community cities video )
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Interesting Links for 24-09-2022
Sep. 24th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Pennywise and Mary Poppins are members of the same species, and they work on the rules set out by Monsters Inc
- (tags:stephen_king horror movies fanfic explanations )
- 2. Facebook Report: Censorship Violated Palestinian Rights
- (tags:facebook palestine censorship )
- 3. The Margaret fire is 1,200 acres
- (tags:fire photos nature )
- 4. Knitting is a lot more recent than I expected!
- (tags:knitting history )
- 5. What the Russian "referendum" in Ukraine looks like
- (tags:Russia Ukraine war )
- 6. Edinburgh's most famous cat Mr Spock, the Wandering Cat of Marchmont, has thousands of fans
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Interesting Links for 28-08-2022
Aug. 28th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Some bleak truths for Britain
- (tags:UK Doom economics )
- 2. 'A Dream of a Thousand Cats' - from comic to fully painted animation
- (tags:animation cats sandman painting TV )
- 3. Trump: national security threat - 30 examples
- (tags:security politics republicans USA viaPatrickHadfield )
- 4. Netflix's main criteria for renewal is number of people who complete a series in 28 days. Savouring a show thus leads to its cancellation
- (tags:Netflix algorithms OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Britain's civil rights history is often overshadowed by America's, but we had a bus boycott too
- (tags:UK rights racism history )
- 6. Cardiac patients die less when their doctors are away at conferences
- (tags:heart healthcare )
- 7. Derinkuyu: Strange underground city found in man's basement
- (tags:Turkey cities archeology )
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- turkey,
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- usa,
- viapatrickhadfield
Interesting Links for 19-07-2022
Jul. 19th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Forests Now Cover 2% of Iceland (up 6x since 1990)
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- 2. A new milestone in augmented reality: Functional contact lenses
- (tags:augmentedreality contact_lenses Technology impressive )
- 3. Want to be an artist? Having millionaire parents *really* helps!
- (tags:wealth inequality art )
- 4. Keir Starmer rules out 'any agreement' with the Lib Dems after next election
- (tags:labour libdem OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Mint is not a necessary part of toothpaste. If you don't like it then feel free to use other flavours
- (tags:teeth health )
- 6. The future of sports: Revealed!
- (tags:sports technology funny video )
- 7. Ballet imposes gender roles on dancers
- (tags:gender dance ballet )
- 8. Audiobooks or Reading? To Our Brains, It Doesn't Matter
- (tags:reading audio brains psychology books )
- 9. Stray, a game where you play as a cat in a world populated by robots is clearly not going to make any money at all
- (tags:games cats review video )
- 10. Scientists design contraceptives to limit grey squirrels
- (tags:squirrel UK contraceptive fertility )
- 11. Cheese reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart failure, coronary heart disease, hypertension, and ischemic stroke
- (tags:cheese health heart diabetes )
- 12. Heat wave kills more than 1,100 people in Spain and Portugal
- (tags:heat globalwarming death spain portugal )
- 13. UK set to have world's biggest automated drone superhighway
- (tags:drone uk )
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- uk,
- video,
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Interesting Links for 18-05-2022
May. 18th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The surreal, but also real, problem of Britain's gas glut
- (tags:gas UK Europe electricity economics )
- 2. Getting past the anxiety/avoidance cycle
- (tags:anxiety advice )
- 3. Doctor Who: Any Colour You Like Provided It's Not Black
- (tags:racism drwho )
- 4. Movies that change genre halfway through
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- 5. EU warns 'all measures at its disposal' if UK overrides Northern Ireland Protocol
- (tags:europe uk trade doom NorthernIreland )
- 6. Coca-Cola introduces built-in bottle caps in bid to boost recycling and help prevent litter
- (tags:coke recycling )
- 7. How Beatboxing Was Invented (mostly because I spent half an hour looking for this and nearly didn't)
- (tags:games music video funny )
- 8. Why I love the new labour movement
- (tags:unions economics viaDanielDWilliam )
- 9. Statement by the EU on the UK threatening to break its agreements
- (tags:UK Europe Doom )
- 10. Surely Thatcher would approve of this enterprising young man?
- (tags:margaretthatcher vandalism funny )
- 11. The Open is the oldest golf tournament in the world, it has a prize pot of over $11m, and apparently they need people to work for them for free
- (tags:work golf money volunteers viaLizzieCassMaran OhForFucksSake )
- 12. Twitter turns the tables on Elon Musk, will "enforce" merger
- (tags:Twitter ElonMusk funny )
- 13. The trailer for Terry Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice looks like fun
- (tags:terrypratchett cats movies trailer video )
- 14. Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a possible solution to the Fermi paradox?
- (tags:fermi aliens civilization apocalypse )
- 15. Can your characterafford to be without a Non-Fungible Trident?
- (tags:blockchain funny dungeonsanddragons satire )
- 16. MRI images of foetuses are terrifying
- (tags:MRI babies scary )
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Interesting Links for 28-04-2022
Apr. 28th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Misogyny in Scotland - QC reports to the Scottish government
- (tags:Scotland misogyny )
- 2. Covid: Discharging hospital patients to care homes 'unlawful'
- (tags:UK Pandemic OldAge death )
- 3. Russia Is Being Hacked at an Unprecedented Scale
- (tags:hacking Russia Ukraine )
- 4. A puzzling phenomenon: Patients report a rebound of COVID-19 symptoms after taking the antiviral Paxlovid (still better than not taking it though)
- (tags:Pandemic virus treatment )
- 5. Behold: The Sign War!
- (tags:sign funny )
- 6. A deep dive into the cases of hepatitis amongst kids in the UK
- (tags:children disease Pandemic uk )
- 7. The untold story of Britain's first black school teacher
- (tags:Scotland race school history )
- 8. "I Animated My Watercolors"
- (tags:animation painting art viaClare )
- 9. Opinions divided over reintroduction of lynx to Scotland
- (tags:cats wildlife Scotland )
- 10. Central African Republic Adopts Bitcoin as Legal Tender
- (tags:Africa bitcoin )
- 11. Pupils boost memory and fitness from fifteen minutes of daily activity
- (tags:exercise )
- 12. Why we should sanction Putin's favourite conductor
- (tags:music corruption Russia Ukraine war )
- 13. Making rope by hand from hemp looks like a lot of hard work
- (tags:manufacturing video )
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Interesting Links for 21-03-2022
Mar. 21st, 2022 12:00 pm- The propaganda that Russians feed to their schoolchildren
- (tags:children school Russia propaganda )
- Twas Tumblr, and the slithy memes Did bode and call out on the dash:
- (tags:poetry tumblr )
- Which Russians are dying in Ukraine and what effect will it have?
- (tags:Russia war death Ukraine viaPatrickHadfield )
- Someone set fire to the hill behind my house!
- (tags:fire Edinburgh )
- Most of Scotland's remaining Covid restrictions end (masks stay)
- (tags:Scotland Pandemic )
- Our cat is getting monoclonal antibodies as a painkiller!
- (tags:cats pain )
Interesting Links for 23-01-2022
Jan. 23rd, 2022 12:00 pm- Majority believe MPs who switch parties should fight ​by-election (63:17) - I entirely disagree
- Individual representatives need a nuclear option if they believe that their party is no longer functional, whether that be joining an existing party or forming a new one. Party central offices already have too much power.
(tags:politics UK ) - The Guardian says that working class people can't be good looking
- (tags:attraction class guardian OhForFucksSake )
- In pictures: Glasgow goes Gotham for Batgirl filming
- (tags:batman comics movies Glasgow Scotland )
- Cats just want a human to curl up on. Even big cats.
- (tags:video cats sleep )
- What have the Democrats achieved in the last year?
- (tags:politics democrats USA )
- The BBC thinks that what we need is more antivaxxer nonsense
- (tags:UK BBC vaccination OhForFucksSake lies )
- UK warns of plot to install pro-Moscow ally in Ukraine
- (tags:UK Russia Ukraine )
- Tory MP says she was sacked as minister because her Muslim faith made colleagues uncomfortable
- (tags:conservatives Islam bigotry )
- LGBT BBC staff past and present debate whether it's is even worth saving
- (tags:LGBT BBC bigotry )
Interesting Links for 18-12-2021
Dec. 18th, 2021 12:00 pm- Brexit climbdown as UK abandons bid to strip EU judges of Northern Ireland Protocol role
- (tags:uk europe justice )
- Nicola Sturgeon asks Boris Johnson for more money so she can cancel events in Scotland
- (tags:scotland uk pandemic money )
- Scientists discover first-ever 'true' millipede with over 1,000 legs
- (tags:insects )
- All EU nations must recognise children of same-sex parents, court rules
- (tags:Europe LGBT children GoodNews )
- Newly identified hormone may be a critical driver of type 1 and type 2 diabetes
- (tags:diabetes hormones )
- Sega Saturn Devouring His Son (clearly the pinnacle of art)
- (tags:art consoles funny )
- Ministers believe lockdown more likely as modelling points to 1,000 daily deaths
- (tags:Pandemic Doom UK Christmas )
- Quidditch to change name, citing J.K. Rowling's anti-trans positions
- (tags:LGBT transgender harrypotter jkrowling bigotry sports )
- Cats and dogs deal differently with optical illusory holes
- (tags:cats dogs optical_illusion )
- Professional Artists Recreate Children's Monster Drawings
- (tags:viaClare monsters art )
Interesting Links for 05-12-2021
Dec. 5th, 2021 12:00 pm- Reported plan for 2p pre-election cut in income tax 'indefensible', says expert
- (tags:UK tax OhForFucksSake )
- The economy has done better under Labour than the Conservatives
- (tags:economy labour conservatives UK )
- UK Government to overhaul drug policy to focus on getting users healthcare
- (tags:UK drugs GoodNews )
- If you have a cat that intermittently pees in unlikely places then I recommend this UV torch which makes it glow in the dark.
- (tags:cats light urine )
- Moose are wild animals. Do not get close to them. Really really don't let your kids pet them
- (tags:animals Canada OhForFucksSake video )
- People matching artworks
- (tags:art photography colour )
- Watch the progress made on Edinburgh's Tram Network as two year anniversary arrives
- (tags:trams Edinburgh transport video )
- Tories break ranks on immigration to demand safe routes to UK for asylum seekers
- (tags:asylum politics UK )
- The age profile for Omicron is pretty scary
- (tags:Pandemic Doom age )
- Did you know that starfish walk with hundreds of tiny feet?
- (tags:fish feet video viaDanielDWilliam )
Interesting Links for 01-12-2021
Dec. 1st, 2021 12:00 pm- The facts about people seeking asylum in the UK
- (tags:asylum migration uk )
- 10 pieces of useful life advice
- (tags:advice work )
- Tiny! Naked! Kittens!
- (tags:cats naked cute video )
- Toss it out! UNSW academic proposes radical new way to make cricket toss less decisive
- (tags:games cricket sports rules viaDanielDWilliam )
- Which is better: machine learning or a parrot?
- (tags:parrot ai funny )
Interesting Links for 18-11-2021
Nov. 18th, 2021 12:00 pm- British pies to be banned from EU unless ingredients come from Brussels-approved farms
- (tags:uk safety food europe )
- Are Jackson's movies good translations of Tolkien's books?
- (tags:lotr movies books )
- Dave Chappelle's "Some Of My Best Friends Are Trans" Story Doesn't Hold Up
- (tags:LGBT transgender comedy lies )
- Boris Johnson's Brexit protocol diverts Northern Irish trade from Britain to Republic
- (tags:uk europe ireland NorthernIreland trade )
- An emergent improv band forming around a cat drinking milk
- (tags:milk cats video music improv viaNancyLebov )
- This is why Amazon won't accept UK Visa credit cards from January
- (tags:UK visa Amazon credit )
- What happened to rock music in 1996?
- (tags:music rock history USA radio )
- The magic words that control cosplayers
- (tags:cosplay conventions )
- Mercedes Lackey on trans rights
- (tags:LGBT transgender writing )
Interesting Links for 07-11-2021
Nov. 7th, 2021 12:00 pm- After months of delay, the House passes infrastructure bill
- (tags:USA politics infrastructure )
- I really want to see the play of The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Hoping it comes on tour.
- (tags:theatre neilgaiman review )
- How police management treat women in policing
- (tags:police women abuse )
- This cat comic deserves to be seen much more widely
- (tags:cats comic )
- New Tory sleaze row amid report donors who pay £3m get seats in House of Lords
- (tags:corruption UK conservatives )
- Conservative Party whips warned backbenchers their constituency areas would lose funding if they failed to vote with the government
- (tags:corruption conservatives politics UK )
- Ranking the Fabergé eggs
- (tags:eggs jewelry )
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Interesting Links for 14-09-2021
Sep. 14th, 2021 12:00 pm- Hands-on with Facebook's first smart glasses
- (tags:transparentsociety glasses cameras facebook )
- UK's Chief Medical Officers Give Green Light To Covid Vaccines For All 12 To 15-Year-Olds
- (tags:uk pandemic children vaccination )
- American Psycho Business Card Scene - With Cats
- (tags:cats funny video AmericanPsycho movies )
- The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (by Ursula K. Le Guin)
- (tags:fiction writing scifi society gender )
- HGV driving tests won't test if drivers can reverse. Which is how you get to loading docks...
- (tags:viaNeilRodger UK driving transport Doom )
- Understanding the onset of hot streaks across artistic, cultural, and scientific careers
- (tags:achievement psychology art science writing )
- Government says discrimination against black people and Travellers 'objectively justified' with new laws
- (tags:racism UK law OhForFucksSake conservatives )
- Disturbing trend? UK hotels adding service charge to room rate
- (tags:hotel uk money OhForFucksSake )
- Why even giant ships can't solve the shipping crisis
- (tags:shipping trade doom )
- France grants citizenship to 12,000 COVID frontline workers
- (tags:france pandemic citizenship )
- What the Torah Teaches Us About Gender Fluidity and Transgender Justice
- (tags:transgender Jews lgbt )
- Women's Science Fiction keeps getting filed under "Young Adult" even when it's not.
- (tags:women publishing children OhForFucksSake )
- One Woman's Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia
- (tags:nazis wikipedia propaganda )
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Interesting Links for 31-08-2021
Aug. 31st, 2021 12:00 pm- Feels Good Man! Pepe, copyright, and NFTs
- (tags:meme cryptography copyright )
- I love the new pieces of art that the internet produces. (In this case: things being squashed, as portrayed by people)
- (tags:video ViaDrCross art weird )
- Brain Cells Break Their DNA to Learn More Quickly
- (tags:DNA brain )
- Cat! Vs! Cake!
- (tags:cats cake )
- China bans online gaming for minors except from 8 pm-9 pm Friday to Sunday
- (tags:china gaming children )
Interesting Links for 22-08-2021
Aug. 22nd, 2021 12:00 pm- Nobody puts the Liberal Democrats in the corner… Except for the Liberal Democrats
- (tags:libdem Scotland polls politics )
- SNP/Green Party agreement text
- (tags:scotland snp green politics )
- The Normalization of Violence in Commercial Kitchens Through Food Media
- (tags:violence cooking tv work )
- "We Will Do Anything to Get You to Work for Us Except Pay You Enough"
- (tags:work funny true money )
- Kitty! Likes! Scritches!
- (tags:cats video Tiger cute )
- conspiracy theories provoke a stronger emotional reaction than relatively dull-but-true reality — and this encourages belief in them (see also myths/legends/religion)
- (tags:belief emotion psychology conspiracy )
Interesting Links for 10-08-2021
Aug. 10th, 2021 12:00 pm- How to get Thread Reader App to block you
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- Big Tech firms paying below minimum wage left off UK government's name-and-shame list
- (tags:wages uk Technology OhForFucksSake )
- Alleged Epstein victim sues Prince Andrew for sexual abuse
- (tags:royalty UK abuse children )
- Black Woman Gets Prison, White Woman Gets Probation for Same Crime
- (tags:racism crime usa )
- Do you know your cubes? (This would make an excellent board game quiz)
- (tags:games cube )
- Flawed data led to findings of a connection between time spent on devices and mental health problems
- (tags:mentalhealth time computers phones )
- How Republicans are focussed on white victimhood
- (tags:racism usa republicans )
- Kitten! Wrestle! Mania!
- (tags:cats cute Wrestling video )
