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Interesting Links for 23-05-2026

2026-05-23T11:01:26Z

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Interesting Links for 22-05-2026

2026-05-22T11:00:04Z

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Interesting Links for 21-05-2026

2026-05-21T11:00:08Z

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Interesting Links for 20-05-2026

2026-05-20T11:01:04Z

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Interesting Links for 19-05-2026

2026-05-19T11:00:05Z

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2026-05-18T19:06:09Z

Bath time is going as well as can be expected.
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Interesting Links for 18-05-2026

2026-05-18T11:00:24Z

1. How a New Israeli Policy Cuts Off Humanitarian Aid in Gaza: (tags:Gaza Palestine Israel genocide OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 17-05-2026

2026-05-17T11:01:51Z

1. Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears: (tags:robots wolves bears Japan headline )
2. Disordered, Deficient, Dehumanized: How the Language of Aphantasia Research Shapes What We Think About It: (tags:language psychology vision )

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Life with two kids: Language acquisition

2026-05-17T07:59:07Z

Gideon picking up language from YouTube is hilarious. I explained to him yesterday that you can use the right trigger to drift in Mario Kart and he replied "Bro! That's sick!"

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Interesting Links for 16-05-2026

2026-05-16T11:00:13Z

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Interesting Links for 15-05-2026

2026-05-15T11:01:26Z

1. Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago: (tags:teeth dental prehistory neanderthal )
2. Baying electorate demand new mewling fool in Number 10 to loathe and despise: (tags:politics UK satire )
3. The AI systems approved for Ontario healthcare providers routinely missed critical details, inserted incorrect information, and hallucinated content that neither patients nor clinicians mentioned: (tags:ai healthcare Canada )

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On the impending arrival of The King In The North

2026-05-14T17:09:09Z

On the one hand, I actively think that Burnham would do a pretty good job.

On the other hand it would be hilarious if he lost the by-election.

On the third hand, I'm pretty sure that no matter what happens Labour will find a way to sabotage themselves.

(To be clear, I'd rather that they didn't, and would rather like them to just be competent and decent, if they can work out how to do that.)

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Interesting Links for 14-05-2026

2026-05-14T11:00:10Z

1. The key measures in the King's Speech: (tags:politics UK law Labour )
2. Two Russian naval ships with Cruise missiles are operating 30 miles off the British coast, escorting sanctioned tankers through the Channel: (tags:UK Russia navy )
3. Brain scans reveal how people with autistic traits connect differently: (tags:social psychology autism communication )
4. Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers: (tags:electricity usa OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 12-05-2026

2026-05-12T11:00:47Z

1. Gaining or losing a Prime Minister between general elections in the norm and not the exception: (tags:politics uk history )
2. Why a slice of Edinburgh is being bought up by overseas owners: (tags:housing edinburgh scotland migration )

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Interesting Links for 11-05-2026

2026-05-11T11:00:05Z

1. Pressure Mounts in European Parliament to Curb Alumina Exports to Russia: (tags:russian trade Ireland materials )
2. LLMs prefer CVs they wrote themselves the majority of the time, regardless of quality: (tags:cv ai )
3. Iran mulls taking full control of all 7 undersea internet cables passing through Strait of Hormuz: (tags:Iran internet doom cable )

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Interesting Links for 10-05-2026

2026-05-10T11:00:38Z

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Interesting Links for 09-05-2026

2026-05-09T11:00:10Z

1. A year ago the CDC's cruise ship inspectors were laid off. What could have gone wrong?: (tags:disease USA republicans OhForFucksSake )
2. How a potato-based diet changed the genetics of people for generations: (tags:potato food SouthAmerica genetics )
3. The roleplaying magazine with a 51 year history: (tags:history roleplaying publishing )
4. What even *is* a hundred?: (tags:language numbers history )
5. Poland is a model for economic growth: (tags:Poland economics growth europe )
6. "Hot, sexy, dangerous boys cannot be copyrighted": (tags:publishing romance copyright law USA viaLilysea )
7. Reform support seems to have dropped from its peak: (tags:politics uk )
8. "No, you can't bring back hanging." A handy guide for newly elected Reform councillors: (tags:politics funny satire UK )
9. Trans youth denied hormones twice as likely to attempt suicide: (tags:suicide transgender children bigotry LGBT )
10. 'Tortured by transphobia': The woman left in pain by the NHS: (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry NHS pain )

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Interesting Links for 08-05-2026

2026-05-08T11:00:05Z

1. Pope Leo called his bank's customer service line. They hung up on him: (tags:pope customerservice banking )

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2026-05-08T08:22:15Z

I haven't been quite this close to a moving train before.
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Interesting Links for 07-05-2026

2026-05-07T11:00:49Z

1. Why airlines are always going bankrupt (The airline industry can be competitive or profitable, not both): (tags:airplanes economics )
2. What should be done about pathological levels of inequality: (tags:inequality economics )
3. Surface temperature tops 60°C in parts of north India, satellite images show: (tags:globalwarming doom India )

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Life with no children: Art And Tidiness

2026-05-06T11:31:01Z

We've taken this week off work with no children (after Monday's bank holiday) for the first time in 8 years. The idea being that we could spend a bit of time with each other, spend a bit of time decompressing, and do some stuff around the house that was never happening when there were children underfoot

So yesterday we went out and had a relaxed day together at Jupiter Artland, essentially the fields and woods around an old country house with sculptures installed intermittently, so that you can have a lovely scenic walk intermittently punctuated by conversations about whatever you've just encountered. I had been there once before, a decade ago. Jane hadn't been there before at all, so it was a nice morning out.

And then today we had some actual energy to put into making the house nice. The "playroom" has been a dumping ground for kids toys for the last 2 years, since we moved back in. Every bit of plastic nonsense we'd accumulated for the past 8 years, either bought, given to us, or arriving on the front of magazines - sitting in boxes or bags or piled on shelves. Our cleaner Lana had repeatedly done an amazing job of sorting it thematically, only for us to then be too sick, tired, or otherwise incapable of doing anything about it. Turns out what we needed was a few days in a row with no children to let us recharge to the point where we could actually motivate ourselves.

So we just removed 8 bin bags full of stuff from the "playroom" and put them in the bins at the end of the street. And also about 3 bins bag of stuff are in the drive and will go to the charity shops when I pick up the kids at 5pm. And now Sophia's room has a floor and we will be able to put a bed in there.

(Undoubtedly the children will have questions when they get home.)

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Interesting Links for 06-05-2026

2026-05-06T11:00:07Z

1. "Never Just a Period": (tags:menstruation advertising viaLilysea video )
2. Large demographic shifts are upending the social order: (tags:society demographics doom video )

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2026-05-04T20:58:37Z

Nice night sky tonight
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Interesting Links for 03-05-2026

2026-05-03T11:01:37Z

1. How insider trading from the White House is working: (tags:USA republicans fraud )

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2026-05-02T21:42:45Z

Sophia's 8th birthday party went very well. 12 kids, well behaved, lots of climbing, no deaths.
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