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Interesting Links for 27-04-2026

2026-04-27T11:00:13Z

1. For billionaires the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark: (tags:inequality morality wealth psychology society )
2. The "Connectivome Theory": A New Model to Understand Autism Spectrum Disorders: (tags:autism bodies )
3. Paracetamol/acetaminophen is almost certainly safer to take than ibuprofen (nurofen): (tags:drugs safety )
4. Meet The Mushroom That Makes People Have The Exact Same Hallucination: (tags:hallucinogenics )

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Interesting Links for 21-11-2025

2025-11-21T12:00:13Z

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Interesting Links for 26-08-2025

2025-08-26T11:00:06Z

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Interesting Links for 17-07-2025

2025-07-17T11:00:06Z

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Interesting Links for 06-04-2025

2025-04-06T11:00:05Z

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Interesting Links for 04-10-2024

2024-10-04T11:00:11Z

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Interesting Links for 03-11-2023

2023-11-03T12:00:10Z

1. Bigots lose Scottish court case over definition of 'woman': (tags:bigotry GoodNews scotland transgender )
2. The Information Commissioner found, two years ago, that the Scottish Government didn't use WhatsApp for discussions.: (tags:Scotland government communication )
3. Ancient roman road found in Stirling garden.: (tags:Scotland Rome archeology )
4. Peter Jackson Talks About Making The Beatles' Last Music Video: (tags:peterjackson Beatles video music )
5. Insulin less temperature-sensitive than previously thought (can cope at temperatures up to 25 degrees for 6 months): (tags:insulin diabetes temperature )
6. This Plane Wasn't Snooping On Protesters In Los Angeles, It Was Dropping Irradiated Bugs: (tags:insects radiation fertility USA airplanes )
7. Cyclists are Better People than Drivers: (tags:cycling psychology morality driving cars bicycles )
8. The TRUTH about stars!: (tags:stars space comic funny )

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Interesting Links for 13-10-2023

2023-10-13T11:00:08Z

1. Misery for motorists as Rishi Sunak's HS2 cut set to put half a million more lorries on the road: (tags:transport doom uk hs2 )
2. Bentham's Mugging (a short play, wherein moral purity is found wanting): (tags:morality philosophy funny )
3. WordPress makes its posts available via the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc): (tags:WordPress socialmedia )
4. 'Brahmastra Part One: Shiva' - for those people who like a very pretty religious superhero musical: (tags:religion movies trailer video india )
5. On Whataboutery in response to Hamas.: (tags:israel palestine terrorism )
6. Breakthrough in reading unopened ancient scrolls by scanning them: (tags:archaeology ai technology prehistory )
7. France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations: (tags:France Palestine protests )
8. Covid can cause our brain cells to fuse together causing cognitive impairment.: (tags:Pandemic brain Doom )
9. Edinburgh Princes Street closed due to 'incident' as buses and trams affected: (tags:Edinburgh transport buses trams )
10. Edinburgh's Princes Street closed and buses and trams disrupted after man found dead in early hours: (tags:death edinburgh )

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Interesting Links for 01-07-2023

2023-07-01T11:00:06Z

1. Stop thinking you need to be fair to unfair voices: (tags:morality freespeech society bigotry )
2. Would you like to increase your appreciation of bagpipes?: (tags:music Scotland video )
3. Devs casually expose far-reaching loading bar conspiracy: 'People just don't trust one that's too quick': (tags:technology fraud visualisation )

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Interesting Links for 10-04-2023

2023-04-10T11:00:07Z

1. The risk of various autoimmune diseases is substantially higher in people who have had Covid: (tags:Pandemic immune_system doom )
2. Woman swims with family of Orcas and makes global headlines: (tags:newzealand aieeee! dolphins swimming )
3. Tories and Labour face off in rush to the bottom for 'law and order' (and they can both fuck off): (tags:law authoritarianism labour conservatives politics UK OhForFucksSake )
4. Hear the words of the final Nuremberg prosecutor to die: (tags:Holocaust law history video )
5. The billionaires you've never heard of bankrolling America's far right: (tags:USA fascism wealth politics )
6. Could Keir Starmer stop visiting bigoted churches?: (tags:LGBT bigotry labour OhForFucksSake )
7. What were the defining characteristics of the 2010s?: (tags:history )
8. It is amazing how simple a tiny cheap device can make security violations: (tags:security technology )
9. ChatGPT's inconsistent moral advice corrupts its users' judgment: (tags:morality ai Doom viaPatrickHadfield )
10. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) won't give its reasons for failing to release annual assessments of the safety of nuclear weapons in Scotland so as not to "prejudice relations between the UK and Scottish governments".: (tags:nuclearweapons Scotland OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 04-03-2023

2023-03-04T12:00:10Z

1. Privileges Committee Believes Boris Johnson May Have Misled House On Partygate: (tags:BorisJohnson lies fraud politics pandemic )
2. EU countries postpone vote on combustion engine ban (because Germany wants to be allowed to keep making them): (tags:politics europe cars pollution )
3. ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, And having it pretend to be one leads us in very difficult directions: (tags:philosophy morality ai language )
4. There's a Good Reason Why So Many Terrorists Are Engineers: (tags:terrorism engineering )
5. "Eat Out To Help Out" caused an increase in Covid cases. Matt Hancock covered it up.: (tags:Pandemic restaurant OhForFucksSake murder censorship )
6. Iowa: Republicans propose ban on same-sex marriage: (tags:LGBT marriage USA republicans OhForFucksSake )
7. Happy Weird Pride Day!: (tags:weird pride )
8. Food Timeline: food history research service: (tags:food history )

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Interesting Links for 09-08-2022

2022-08-09T11:00:07Z

1. The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range: (tags:mountains prehistory )
2. Met Police strip-searching hundreds of children, mostly black boys: (tags:racism children UK police OhForFucksSake )
3. The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends": (tags:trains children authoritarianism morality writing tv )
4. This slide down a waterslide is a *world* of nope from me.: (tags:height water video aieeee! )
5. A Proposed African Superstate: the East African Federation: (tags:africa trade politics )
6. What is Race?: (tags:race ontology video )
7. One in five civil servants can't afford travel to work and a third skip meals due to cost of living crisis: (tags:uk poverty )
8. Supermarkets to label 'green' foods from pesto to sausages as study finds vegan products 90% more eco-friendly: (tags:environment food )
9. The plans for giant seaweed farms in European (and Scottish) waters: (tags:scotland europe sea plants farming )

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Interesting Links for 08-08-2022

2022-08-08T11:00:08Z

1. Teenage girls are being raped by several boys during their boyfriends' gang initiation: (tags:UK gangs rape )
2. The Dangerous Ideas of "Longtermism" and "Existential Risk": (tags:morality transhumanism )
3. Genesis: an interpreted, Turing-complete Paleo-Hebrew programming language: (tags:programming Jews funny )
4. Humanities scholarship labor crisis: How the infrastructure of research is falling apart.: (tags:academia Doom research )
5. Why does the Bank of England appear to be ignoring its mandate?: (tags:economics Doom UK viaDanielDWilliam )
6. The terrible, awful, no-good morality of Thomas the Tank Engine: (tags:morality children stories )
7. How the Conservatives are going to crash the UK's most profitable export industry: (tags:uk art Education academia entertainment )
8. Tax cuts for the rich lead to higher income inequality in both the short- and medium-term with no significant effect on economic growth or unemployment: (tags:tax inequality economics )
9. Finland & Croatia Test Digital Passports: (tags:passport finland croatia )
10. Spain orders public places set air conditioning no lower than 27 degrees Celsius: (tags:spain electricity temperature weather )

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Interesting Links for 11-07-2022

2022-07-11T11:00:17Z

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Interesting Links for 03-06-2022

2022-06-03T11:00:07Z

1. Wouldn't everyone's life be better if they could hear the theme music?: (tags:music movies StarWars funny )
2. Searching 32 million academic papers for obscene acronyms hidden in the titles: (tags:swearing research academia funny )
3. We've Known How To Prevent A School Shooting for More Than 20 Years: (tags:viaPatrickHadfield schools guns murder psychology USA )
4. Celebrity culture is the modern morality play: (tags:morality society celebrity )
5. If you're wondering how Britain is doing, the #12 single right now is "Prince Andrew is a Sweaty Nonce": (tags:monarchy UK music funny )
6. I do not understand why anyone would rely on Google for a chat application: (tags:Google communication epicfail )
7. MBE for Travelling Tabby - very well deserved!: (tags:Pandemic awards )
8. The UK government is having the most ludicrously biased consultation I've ever seen (on Imperial units): (tags:consultation UK government measurement OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 18-04-2022

2022-04-18T11:00:08Z

1. The impact of 'pile-ons' and trolling by transphobic Twitter users: (tags:LGBT Twitter bigotry transgender )
2. Rwanda genocide orphans told to leave hostel to make room for UK asylum seekers: (tags:genocide Rwanda asylum UK OhForFucksSake )
3. On Jimmy Saville and the price of joining the British establishment: (tags:UK abuse corruption )
4. "My skin was irritated, red and blotchy for years until I found out why because of lockdown": (tags:allergies )
5. UK Shared Prosperity Fund gives Scotland one sixth of what they got from the EU: (tags:UK Scotland Europe money OhForFucksSake )
6. The power of inflation: (tags:money economics Argentina inflation )
7. As a parent, if offered a choice of my birth child or the one I had raised I would absolutely make this same choice: (tags:children fairytale )
8. A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? Does it understand? And what does that mean?: (tags:language ai )
9. Put people in an unfamiliar place and only half their brain sleeps at a time (I wonder if this is also true of parents): (tags:sleep humans brain )
10. The modern chicken is more than 4x the size of one from 50 years ago: (tags:chicken food history )
11. Happy "Virus Freedom Day" to everyone in Scotland!: (tags:scotland pandemic doom )
12. Two versions of the trolley problem elicit similar responses everywhere: (tags:morality philosophy psychology )

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Interesting Links for 16-01-2022

2022-01-16T12:00:13Z

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Interesting Links for 11-01-2022

2022-01-11T12:00:11Z

What are the biggest non-diet causes of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, etc?: (tags:society sleep stress disease weight diabetes )
Leaked email shows 100 No 10 staff were invited to a party during lockdown restrictions: (tags:UK conservatives Pandemic law OhForFucksSake )
Repeat after me: Covid doesn't spread on surfaces: (tags:Pandemic cleanliness )
Adversarial Wordle: (tags:games language )
Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior through effects on harm aversion: (tags:morality serotonin psychology )
Male elite chess players are quicker to quit when dominated by a female player: (tags:men behaviour psychology games sexism )
"Why I went from being an actor to a clowndoctor": (tags:acting children comedy )
In 1st, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient: (tags:pigs organs surgery )
UK health officials misinterpreted US guidance on Covid self-isolation period: (tags:pandemic )
Dolphin females have working clitoris: (tags:sex dolphins clitoris )
Beautiful trees: (tags:trees beautiful )
Impressive shepherding: (tags:dogs birds impressive training )

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Interesting Links for 30-11-2021

2021-11-30T12:00:12Z

83% of English people support mask wearing in shops and on public transport: (tags:UK Pandemic polls )
Nicola Sturgeon: The first minister's conference speech fact-checked: (tags:facts Scotland snp )
Northern Ireland economy has outperformed rest of UK: (tags:economy UK Europe trade NorthernIreland )
If you think punter forums are grim you should see how this parenting website talks about sex workers: (tags:sexwork women mother OhForFucksSake )
I am not quite this dad. I do aspire to this level of ridiculousness though: (tags:fun fatherhood video dancing viaClare )
How do people cope with death in the age of social media?: (tags:death socialmedia neilgaiman )
The $5 billion hoard of metal the world wants but can't have: (tags:meta trade )
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition to still matter today, but it does: (tags:religion history sociology spain )
Are humans good or bad?: (tags:morality comic )
Richard Dawkins Doesn't Know What a Woman Is: (tags:RichardDawkins lgbt transgender genetics )

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Interesting Links for 11-10-2021

2021-10-11T11:00:06Z

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Interesting Links for 13-10-2020

2020-10-13T11:00:10Z

Anyone in Edinburgh want an a IT admin role and know both Windows and Linux?: (tags:Jobs Edinburgh computers Windows Linux )
The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture: (tags:colour sculpture history Roman greece racism )
How archeology is used for nationalism: (tags:archeology nationalism viaDanielDWilliam )
Old Government advert suggesting ballet dancer could retrain is one of several from 2019. The internet is still outraged, of course: https://mobile.twitter.com/eleanormia/status/1315586377703190528 for more of them.
(tags:advertising jobs anger technology )
Former Senate Majority Leader Confirms Federal Government Covered Up UFOs For Years: (tags:USA ufo )
Solar meets 100 percent of South Australia demand for first time: (tags:Australia solarpower )
You can buy these grapes, but there are a few rules you need to know first... (because they're patented): (tags:food rules OhForFucksSake patents )
U S. COVID Cases since June by state partisanship: (tags:ViaDrCross visualisation pandemic USA politics )
Scientists discover why mosquitoes are so attracted to human blood: (tags:blood mosquito )
Leaders Can Feel Licensed To Behave Badly When They Have Morally Upstanding Followers: (tags:psychology morality behaviour leadership )

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Interesting Links for 10-06-2020

2020-06-10T11:00:06Z

The Army is considering renaming military bases named for Confederate leaders: (tags:USA slavery military history names )
Young children believe intervening in antisocial behaviour is a universal duty. Until we tell them it's not.: (tags:society morality police psychology children )
Bill & Ted Face the Music - Official Trailer 1 (looks like a lot of fun, and they haven't forgotten how to be Bill & Ted): (tags:movies trailer KeanuReeves )
Women! Would you like some technology to validate your orgasms?: (tags:orgasm women technology )
Turns out the robots Microsoft replaced their journalists with are racist: (tags:racism robots journalism Microsoft )
A map of British statues connected to slavery: (tags:slavery UK statue maps viaPatrickHadfield )
'Miss Hitler' beauty pageant contestant jailed for part in neo-Nazi terror group: There's a what now? Do they have to grow the moustache? Or can they just draw one on?
(tags:nazis wtf headline )
Let's talk about black on black violence.: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1268463768285188096.html
(tags:racism violence race USA )
How did coronavirus spread across Scotland?: (tags:virus pandemic Scotland )
Why do recipe writers lie and lie about how long onions take to caramelize?: And the sequel article.
https://gizmodo.com/googles-algorithm-is-lying-to-you-about-onions-and-blam-1793057789
(tags:food cooking lies )
London's oldest theatre discovered in East End excavation: (tags:theatre London UK History )
Here's How a No-Deal Brexit Would Shock Virus-Hit U.K. Companies: (tags:UK Europe Doom )

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Interesting Links for 07-02-2020

2020-02-07T12:00:11Z

Derek Mackay, The Sun, and the Scottish Budget: (tags:politics harrassment scotland )
Climate change: Clean tech won't solve warming in time: (tags:Technology globalwarming doom )
Gulls, buckets and masturbation: a lighthouse keeper on The Lighthouse: (tags:movies Ocean history )
A challenge for those in favour of the United Kingdom joining the European Union: (tags:UK Europe )
Two cheers for the dematerialising economy: (tags:thefuture hope technology economy manufacturing )
Adventurer parents to hold Alignment Reveal party for their new baby: (tags:dungeonsanddragons funny morality fantasy satire )
Summary of Scottish budget 2020-21: Key points at a glance: (tags:budget Scotland )
Netflix: Turn Off Autoplaying Previews: (tags:Netflix UX )
Wow. I've just been looking at this list of benefits of joining the EU and I think we should probably do that. It looks really awesome: (tags:Europe UK )
Boeing patched a software bug 2 hours before their spaceship reentered the atmosphere: (tags:software bug spaceflight )
Why did the Lib Dems do so badly in the last election?: (tags:politics uk libdem )

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Interesting Links for 05-02-2020

2020-02-05T12:00:46Z

New government plans could see you jailed for life over propaganda: (tags:UK terrorism censorship propaganda crime )
Heartbeats and bunnies, how simple repeating patterns lead to chaos (and back again): (tags:mathematics video patterns )
'The Good Place,' 'BoJack Horseman,' and the Audacity of Committing to Decency: (tags:TV morality )
The EU has released a Q & A on the draft negotiating directives: (tags:Europe UK trade )
Brexit fuelling surge in support for Scottish independence, but work still to be done on currency and economics: (tags:UK Europe Scotland independence polls )
Children as young as 9 locked up by Indian police for speech violation: (tags:India police freespeech children )
Graham Linehan is compiling a horrifying database of conversion therapists willing to abuse young trans people: (tags:abuse LGBT transgender OhForFucksSake )
Symptomless coronavirus spreader had symptoms after all: (tags:disease )
I'd give this prosthetic three thumbs up: (tags:cyborg technology prostheses video )
'Happy Brexit Day' Norwich flat residents unite to show support: (tags:society GoodNews racism UK )
What is SAP? And how are they worth $163Bn?: (tags:business organisation software )
Cats! On! Statues!: (tags:cats statue )

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Interesting Links for 02-10-2019

2019-10-02T12:32:27Z

How do you Solve a Problem like Susan Pevensie?: (tags:narnia )
Can Queen Elizabeth sack Boris Johnson?: (tags:politics queen uk )
Are oysters vegan?: (tags:morality vegan food )
Your reminder that it would be illegal, under UK law, for us to put up border posts along the Irish border: (tags:UK NorthernIreland Ireland borders )
Email signature ruling cost seller Â£25,000: (tags:contracts email )

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