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Official Spoiler Policy.
Interesting Links for 29-09-2025
- 1. Keir Starmer calls Reform migrant policy 'racist' and 'immoral'
- (tags:UK politics migration racism labour )
- 2. UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer
- (tags:rice farming UK )
- 3. 'Amazing feat': US man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
- (tags:organs pigs impressive )
- 4. We've found Mendel's genes!
- (tags:genetics history vegetables )
- 5. Microplastics Could Be Weakening Your Bones
- (tags:plastic bone doom )
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It's very educational being me
Ways to tell you have a child #37: the contents of your tumble dryer's lint trap is 50% glitter.
(And your hands are now covered in glitter from emptying it)
(And your hands are now covered in glitter from emptying it)
Interesting Links for 28-09-2025
- 1. Reform party linked to Putin bribery
- (tags:politics UK Russia viaDanielDWilliam )
- 2. Most US men want a return to traditional gender roles (particularly the evangelical Christians)
- (tags:religion gender USA polls society )
- 3. Trump's NSPM-7 Labels "anti-Christian," "anti-American," and "anti-capitalism" Opinions As Terrorism "Indicators" (amongst others)
- (tags:usa fascism )
- 4. The Dark Side of AI Companions: Emotional Manipulation
- (tags:ai manipulation )
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A thing I don't understand about people
Why do people go to the group "Fans of X" and ask "Is X any good?"
I mean, no, most members of the fan group loathe it with a fiery passion and are only in the group to warn passers-by how terrible it is.
I mean, no, most members of the fan group loathe it with a fiery passion and are only in the group to warn passers-by how terrible it is.
Interesting Links for 27-09-2025
- 1. Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly
- (tags:history business Scotland )
- 2. Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification
- (tags:transgender bigotry USA politics murder guns )
- 3. Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance
- (tags:fascism satire politics USA )
- 4. The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. "Liberals" Are Helping
- (tags:transgender bigotry politics )
Interesting Links for 26-09-2025
- 1. Every UK adult will need 'Brit card' digital ID under Starmer plan to tackle illegal migration
- (tags:uk identity )
- 2. The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand (a review)
- (tags:fanfic stephen_king review )
- 3. Ukraine's Plan to Starve the Russian War Machine (by using their new drone factories to destroy Russian oil refineries and processing plants)
- (tags:oil russia ukraine war drones )
- 4. AI-generated fiction homogenises culture, painting surface-level details over the same story every time.
- (tags:ai fiction society )
- 5. An English teacher experiments with his class and AI. The results are complex and nuanced.
- (tags:ai writing university )
- 6. Microsoft block Israel's access to Azure and genAI tech used to surveil millions of Palestinian phone calls
- (tags:microsoft israel )
Interesting Links for 25-09-2025
- 1. ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages by Taking People's Side (I'm a little sceptical about how good these relationships were)
- (tags:ai relationships doom )
- 2. Italy and Spain deploy ships to help Gaza aid flotilla targeted in drone attack
- (tags:Italy Spain Israel aid Palestine )
- 3. AI 'Workslop' Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable
- (tags:ai work doom )
- 4. Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
- (tags:disease GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 24-09-2025
- 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 )
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Oddly recurrent stomach issues
Facebook 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
- 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
- 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 )
Entry tags:
- censorship,
- data,
- europe,
- history,
- ireland,
- knife,
- links,
- migration,
- nazis,
- ohforfuckssake,
- regulation,
- society,
- technology,
- uk,
- usa,
- video
Interesting Links for 21-09-2025
- 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 )
Photo cross-post
We went up the hill. There were roses. Nobody knows why. Gideon has
theories involving dead people.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
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Interesting Links for 20-09-2025
- 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 )
Entry 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 19-09-2025
- 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 )
Interesting Links for 18-09-2025
- 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.
Ooh, 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.
Life with two kids: International Demon-Hunter Shipping
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
- 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 )