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Interesting Links for 08-11-2025

2025-11-08T12:00:11Z

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Interesting Links for 25-10-2021

2021-10-25T12:26:37Z

Why is the idea of 'gender' provoking backlash the world over?: (tags:gender bigotry authoritarianism LGBT transgender )
Sewage emptied at 26 beaches along Cornish coast: (tags:Cornwall waste UK OhForFucksSake )
Looks like a lot of Conservatives will need to get a PCR test pretty swiftly: (tags:Pandemic conservatives OhForFucksSake )
How to Report Bugs Effectively: (tags:bugs software advice )
Norfolk sand: Has a colossal experiment worked?: (tags:sand sea )
'Parliamentary Sovereignty' Vs 'Parliamentary Supremacy': (tags:parliament law uk constitution )
Ofcom orders phone networks to block foreign scam calls: (tags:uk phones scam spam fraud regulation )
Opinion: I can't even say 'woman' anymore, except for how I just said it, and all the times I'll say it in this piece, and all the times I say it in my everyday life: (tags:viaJamesNicoll women transgender journalism satire funny lgbt bigotry )
Google colluded with Facebook to rip off publishers and advertisers: (tags:Facebook Google fraud OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 24-04-2021

2021-04-24T11:00:13Z

New vaccine 77% effective against malaria: (tags:malaria vaccine GoodNews )
Warning over major Android 'package delivery' scam: (tags:apps scam Android UK )
Scientific paper that claimed smokers less likely to contract Covid retracted over tobacco industry links: (tags:smoking pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Post Office scandal: What the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice is all about: (tags:UK postoffices law epicfail OhForFucksSake )
The Post Office case is damning, but do not blame 'computer error' - it is very much the fault of human error of Post Office managers: (tags:postoffices law OhForFucksSake )
The problem with automated systems with no human oversight is that when someone hacks it you're fucked (NFT edition): (tags:art hacking security fail viaPatrickHadfield )
The British pop star who had two careers in different decades, neither one as himself: (tags:music UK history )
'I felt like my life was over.' How sex tapes turn famous women into punchlines: (tags:sex videos women celebrity )
Colombo meets Star Wars: (tags:StarWars funny )
Gravity-based batteries try to beat their chemical cousins (I'm still sceptical, but we'll see): (tags:batteries gravity )
Magnet fishing allowed on Scotland's canals: (tags:Scotland canal magnets )
The Bible as Dungeons and Dragons game: (tags:Bible religion dungeonsanddragons funny )

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Interesting Links for 01-02-2021

2021-02-01T12:00:09Z

Black Bart - The Buried TV Sequel to Blazing Saddles: (tags:TV movies racism comedy weird contracts cowboy )
Drone flight captures Norfolk starlings murmuration: (tags:birds drone video )
Nadhim Zahawi and Tory MPs attack Yorkshire Post - over a totally accurate story: (tags:government UK media OhForFucksSake )
Home Office put refugees in camps so they didn't look weak: (tags:immigration OhForFucksSake asylum UK refugee )
Transphobes target Scottish Government HQ and Bute House: (tags:lgbt transgender Scotland )
How to identify which European language you're reading: (tags:language Europe visualisation flowchart )
Here's the Nordic model making life awful for sex workers in Canada: (tags:Canada sexwork OhForFucksSake )
Brexit: How much disruption has there been so far?: (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
Silver surges as Reddit army turns to commodities: (tags:metal trade investment Reddit wtf )
Covid in Scotland: Vaccinations move to next category (over 70s): (tags:Scotland vaccination pandemic )
Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions: (tags:music spotify emotions )
The seamstress who conserves brutality: (tags:genocide materials clothing history museums )
Men: Do not hold a grudge for decades and use it to kill people in TV shows called Jessica: (tags:names death TV OhForFucksSake )
I wish I'd had a teacher this awesome: (tags:teachers teaching awesome )
A list of landlords who are in elected positions in the UK.: (tags:property politics UK housing )
Coronavirus: Up to one fifth of staff in some care home groups refusing vaccine: (tags:pandemic vaccination OhForFucksSake UK )
The Apple app store has a scam problem: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1356011069395755009.html
(tags:Apple scam fraud apps )
What is transphobia? (mostly so I can find this again later): (tags:lgbt transgender bigotry )
Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester: (tags:3d visualisation Manchester electricity history )
Normal life will not return 'until 2024' if virus does not disappear globally: (tags:pandemic )
Rescued Ben Nevis climbers fined: (tags:mountains Scotland pandemic )

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Interesting Links for 07-06-2020

2020-06-07T11:00:08Z

2 metres, explained with different animals around the world: (tags:pandemic animals )
Every Jurassic Park Dinosaur Illustrated With Modern Science: (tags:dinosaurs )
Scottish Independence is getting more and more popular: (tags:Scotland polls independence )
Coronavirus: 'Die-in' outside Dominic Cummings's house over COVID-19 response: (tags:pandemic protests UK )
Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality (buy over 700 games and game-related things for $5, and support Black Lives Matter): (tags:games race money )
How, during the Third American Race War, white racists overthrew the government: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1186468302400507904.html
(tags:usa history racism )
Between the Guardian, The Observer, The Telegraph, Financial Times, The Times and The Sunday Times, there have been only two reviews of a restaurant serving African or Caribbean cuisines in the last 10 years.: (tags:journalism food racism UK )
The Spectator comes out against Boris Johnson: (tags:BorisJohnson pandemic epicfail )
The US Marines ban the Confederate Battle Flag: (tags:USA marines military racism )
How Georgia rebooted its police force.: (tags:police organisation success )
No-deal Brexit will cause food shortages worse than coronavirus panic buying: (tags:food Doom UK Europe pandemic )
How Do You Know If You're Living Through the Death of an Empire?: (tags:Rome USA society organisation Doom )
Do not use the "Brave" web browser: (tags:scam web browser )
Tactics to Make Women Only Spaces Include All Women: (tags:women LGBT protests viaJaneCarnall )

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Interesting Links for 25-05-2015

2015-05-25T11:00:02Z

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Interesting Links for 09-04-2013

2013-04-09T11:00:01Z

Maragaret Thatcher has died.
(tags: margaretthatcher )
Attaching video cameras to police officers causes them to use 88% less violence
(tags: transparentsociety thefuture violence police )
Magical Fruit Trees and the Sale of Digital Music — A Parable
(tags: music drm epicfail )
At United Airlines, Is Polite Disagreement Becoming Grounds For Removal From A Flight?
(tags: flight securitytheatre )
Designing an Authentication System: a Dialogue in Four Scenes (genius!)
(tags: authentication security viafanf )
Margaret Thatcher: A Legacy
(tags: margaretthatcher lgbt )
This is why you get posts with "Can you name a city with no R in it" on Facebook.
(tags: facebook scam )
That's Not Funny - a documentary about controversial comedy
(tags: comedy documentary kickstarter )
1993 was the biggest-ever year for sales in the comics industry. Here's what was selling (I own five of them)
(tags: history comics )
Women Find Men With Bigger Penises More Attractive (also narrow hips and broad shoulders, but that's less fun)
Call it sexist or sensationalistic, but now science says it's so: women find men with bigger penises more attractive.Reporting in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), researchers led by Brian Mautz, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa in Canada, studie...
(tags: viaCahwyguy penis attraction )
What it's like ot be an ex-academic running a software team at Google
(tags: development management academia )
21 Tips to Keep Your Shit Together When You're Depressed.
(tags: advice depression )
Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette
(tags: death margaretthatcher )

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