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Interesting Links for 24-05-2026

Sun, 24 May 2026 11:00:05 GMT

1. Labour continue to try and cherry pick an EU deal, with as much success as you'd expect: (tags:UK Europe Labour )
2. What effect will global warming have on the UK? (figure 2 is terrifying): (tags:globalwarming UK doom )
3. Why Do Our Fingers Get Wrinkly In Water? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains: (tags:water bodies evolution viaPatrickHadfield )

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Interesting Links for 15-04-2026

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:00:05 GMT

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Interesting Links for 21-12-2025

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:00:06 GMT

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Interesting Links for 19-09-2025

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:00:17 GMT

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 )

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Interesting Links for 17-08-2025

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 11:00:06 GMT

1. What's your answer to the UK's population implosion?: (tags:UK population immigration doom )
2. African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent's true size: (tags:africa maps )
3. People (wrongly) don't believe that building homes helps with the cost of housing.: (tags:housing economics psychology )
4. Snow White, various dwarves, and convergent evolution with butterflies: (tags:short_story evolution )

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Interesting Links for 09-04-2025

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:00:07 GMT

1. Confusion surrounds ETA visa waiver process for some dual national Brits: (tags:migration uk passport )
2. Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals: (tags:Intelligence crows primates evolution )
3. No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation: (tags:ai Technology images )
4. Trump tariffs based on massive error (as well as being total nonsense): (tags:mathematics trade incompetence EpicStupidity politics usa )
5. Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy (current payback time for a solar panel in Pakistan is 2-3 years): (tags:pakistan solarpower GoodNews )
6. People conceived during colder months may end up with a lower body mass index and less fat around internal organs: (tags:weather temperature fat )
7. What's going on with the announcements of "bringing dire wolves back from extinction": (tags:prehistory DNA animals wolves genetics viaPatrickHadfield )
8. Bracket City - a fun new daily puzzle!: (tags:puzzle games )
9. Trade Will Move On Without the United States: (tags:trade USA )
10. Great Moments in Peaceful Protest History: (tags:protests funny satire comic )
11. Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws: (tags:gender race research libraries USA censorship )
12. China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech: (tags:china materials USA trade doom )
13. How are Trump's supporters dealing with the tariff fallout?: (tags:politics usa republicans )

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Interesting Links for 10-07-2024

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 11:00:08 GMT

1. What's the state of housing in the UK (spoilers: terrible): (tags:uk housing )
2. More than half of anti-abortion MPs lose seats in election: (tags:abortion uk politics )
3. Vatican to trans people - please resist the urge to become God: (tags:catholicism transgender god )
4. Scotland's 2024 General Election in numbers: (tags:Scotland election statistics )
5. This is the best write-up I've seen of the Neil Gaiman assault allegations. The whole thing sounds like a mess.: (tags:neilgaiman assault )
6. New weight-loss and diabetes drugs linked to lower risk of 10 cancers (if you have diabetes): (tags:diabetes cancer medicine )
7. Iain (M) Banks: Two Authors, One Man (An exhibition at the University of Stirling): (tags:IainBanks writing )
8. UK's sugar tax led to a nearly 50 per cent reduction in children's added sugar intake from sodas and other soft drinks: (tags:sugar children tax )
9. Evolution explained by Rage Against The Machine: (tags:music evolution funny viaMyBrotherMike )

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Interesting Links for 18-03-2024

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:00:07 GMT

1. Yes, heat pumps slash emissions even if powered by a dirty grid: (tags:USA heating electricity globalwarming co2 )
2. The chambered nautilus is a bunch of tentacles in armour. What keeps it penned into a tiny part of the ocean?: (tags:evolution ocean )
3. What does Woke mean? An experiment.: (tags:society twitter bigotry )
4. You're being targeted by disinformation networks that are vastly more effective than you realize. And they're trying you more hateful and depressed.: (tags:russia china propaganda internet usa )
5. 12 months of record ocean heat has scientists puzzled and concerned: (tags:ocean globalwarming doom )
6. Superiority by Arthur C. Clarke (a short story about superior technology losing the war): (tags:Technology organisation scifi short_story )
7. The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien is now available for pre-order.: (tags:poetry Tolkien )
8. Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS: (tags:fraud psychology )

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Interesting Links for 13-03-2024

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:00:06 GMT

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Interesting Links for 02-03-2024

Sat, 02 Mar 2024 12:00:07 GMT

1. Edinburgh parking: New permits for carers to be introduced in Capital: (tags:Edinburgh driving )
2. CNN leak shows internal distress about double standards on Israel coverage: (tags:Israel cnn journalism Palestine bias )
3. As banks buy up bitcoins, who else are the 'Bitcoin whales'?: (tags:bitcoin investment banks )
4. Waymo Will Bring Autonomous Taxis to Los Angeles—Its Biggest Challenge Yet: (tags:automation cars taxi USA )
5. Rock star: I've spent 30 years making a Scotland map from pebbles: (tags:rocks geology scotland )
6. Who *doesn't* want Tenacious D covering Britney Spears?: (tags:music video cover BritneySpears )
7. On the genetic basis of tail-loss evolution in humans and apes: (tags:genetics humans evolution )
8. Facebook, Instagram, X and Telegram fail to remove posts selling date rape drugs: (tags:drugs rape Facebook twitter OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 21-02-2024

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:00:05 GMT

1. Probably the best social media advice you can get: (tags:socialmedia advice )
2. England has lost 28% of local bus provision per person since 2011: (tags:England buses transport )
3. Why Oscar-nominated family friendly queer animation 'Nimona' is available for free for the next week: (tags:Oscars animation LGBT movies children )
4. Why did Keir Starmer lavish praise on an Islamophobic radical-right bigot?: (tags:Russia bigotry )
5. Yes Prime Minister, questionnaire design matters (leading questions in this case): (tags:polls TV UK )
6. Why are Scottish transgender healthcare waiting times so long?: (tags:scotland transgender lgbt healthcare OhForFucksSake )
7. The government prevented compensation payments to postmasters, and then lied about it: (tags:uk government Conservatives postoffices money OhForFucksSake )
8. More than 500 games on Steam earned over $3 million in 2023: (tags:games steam valve )
9. ADHD may have emerged in humans as an evolutionary advantage: (tags:adhd evolution behaviour )
10. BT Tower: 'Iconic' landmark to be turned into a hotel: (tags:london architecture bt hotel history postoffices )

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Interesting Links for 03-12-2023

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 12:00:09 GMT

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Interesting Links for 10-08-2023

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 11:00:05 GMT

1. Russia using Wagner in Africa to displace the West and erode democracies: (tags:russia africa corruption )
2. Global warming increases ocean temperatures, stripping the seas of oxygen: (tags:oxygen ocean fish doom )
3. People are publishing AI books with real authors' names.: (tags:ai writing publishing fraud )
4. Covid testing in Scottish hospitals, care homes and prisons to end: (tags:scotland pandemic )
5. Norway fines Facebook owner Meta $100k/day over privacy breaches: (tags:norway facebook privacy regulation )
6. SUSE, the German Linux company, appear to be deeply anti-semitic: (tags:Jews linux OhForFucksSake )
7. Inside Keir Starmer's plan to 'annihilate the left' and appoint 'middle-class and dull' candidate MPs: (tags:labour politics )
8. The electoral breach in the UK was all Microsoft's fault: (tags:uk hacking microsoft )
9. Complex ape-man culture, with burial practices, may have existed in Africa 300,000 years ago: (tags:africa humans evolution society culture death )
10. Gender disparity in the rate of partner abandonment in patients with serious medical illness: (tags:cancer divorce gender )

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Interesting Links for 23-06-2023

Fri, 23 Jun 2023 13:44:19 GMT

1. 57 different scripts that all descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs (from Latin to Aramaic to Tibetan to Javanese): (tags:language history evolution )
2. I just discovered that the blobfish only looks ugly when it's been dragged up from the ocean depths.: (tags:fish )
3. Why was the Titan's hull made of carbon fibre?: (tags:materials submarine epicfail )
4. How does raising interest rates lower inflation? Why Bank of England hikes base rate to combat rising prices: (tags:economics )
5. India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks: (tags:India science evolution education OhForFucksSake )
6. One of the best pieces of advice on making art: (tags:art advice )
7. Major report says pupils should not sit exams before fifth year: (tags:scotland school Education )
8. ID rules stopped more than 14,000 British people voting: (tags:uk identity voting OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 15-06-2023

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 11:00:06 GMT

1. Edinburgh trams: Plans for extension to Newbridge set to be abandoned in favour of route along A71 corridor: (tags:edinburgh trams )
2. Do a quarter of British people really believe Covid was a hoax?: (tags:conspiracy polls )
3. Who wants to read a judge interrogate lawyers for presenting AI gibberish as if it was reality?: (tags:USA law AI epicfail )
4. Google risks forced breakup of ad business as EU alleges shocking misconduct: (tags:Google advertising corruption fraud business regulation )
5. Body mass index gets smack down: American Medical Association calls out harms and "racist exclusion" | Ars Technica: (tags:weight healthcare USA )
6. How many of these do you think are birds?: (tags:birds paleontology evolution )
7. How do people treat you differently when you're skinny?: (tags:weight bigotry society )
8. First time one of my posts on Mastodon has gone viral! (just hit 500 shares): (tags:socialmedia )
9. Europe votes to regulate AI and ban use of live facial recognition: (tags:regulation ai faces )
10. 'I got to know my gut microbiome - as a result, I sleep better, have more energy and I've lost 25lbs': (tags:microbiome )
11. Johnson Verdict: 'He lied, lied about lying, lied about lying about lying, and is generally a twat': (tags:BorisJohnson lying politics satire true )
12. Two children were born with 'insatiable hunger' that left them severely obese. Now scientists know why (leptin gene mutation): (tags:genetics hunger )
13. Boosting paternity leave has economic benefits and reduces inequality: (tags:parenting men uk inequality )
14. Wildcats bred in captivity released into Cairngorms: (tags:cats nature scotland )

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Interesting Links for 2023-05-22

Mon, 22 May 2023 12:46:54 GMT

1. "I Don't Wanna Dance With Nobody" - a song for introverts: (tags:music dancing funny video )
2. But *how* can a global communications network help us eat more sulfur?: (tags:evolution funny ViaDrCross )
3. How to have theme music follow you around: (tags:funny music )
4. "What watching my daughter play ‘The Legend of Zelda’ taught me": (tags:games children play )

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Interesting Links for 10-03-2023

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 12:00:16 GMT

1. Evolution of tree roots may have driven mass extinctions: (tags:evolution apocalypse extinction trees )
2. Childcare: Full-time nursery for under-twos nearly £15k a year: (tags:childcare money uk )
3. Mice born with two fathers: (tags:mice men children )
4. Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country: (tags:LGBT USA bigotry transgender law )
5. Rotating Sandwiches - that's it: (tags:food video wtf )
6. Why It's So Hard To Build a Crochet Machine: (tags:craft automation video viaNancyLebov )
7. Visceral Femininity: A Bloodborne Video Essay: (tags:games menstruation blood horror )
8. Inside the chaos of Elon Musk's Twitter: (tags:ElonMusk EpicStupidity business Twitter doom )
9. ONS Covid infection survey paused after 3 years, leaving no official method for tracking virus: (tags:Pandemic UK )
10. The Fed's Inflation Goal Is Completely Arbitrary: (tags:inflation economics history viaDanielDWilliam )

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Interesting Links for 29-07-2022

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 11:00:07 GMT

1. It's Not Just Loot Boxes: Predatory Monetization Is Everywhere in Gaming: (tags:games money gambling )
2. AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe: (tags:biology protein ai )
3. Drought and disease exposure led to Europeans adapting to milk consumption: (tags:milk evolution humans europe )
4. The Fallout From Apple's Bizarre, Dogged Union-Busting Campaign: (tags:apple unions OhForFucksSake )
5. Why Google Sued the Descendants of a Railroad Tycoon and a Civil War General (tiny plots of land in inconvenient places): (tags:google property law )
6. Typical UK families are £8,800 poorer than their counterparts in comparable countries: (tags:inequality uk OhForFucksSake )
7. Keir Starmer has shown his true colours as a pound-shop Blair, reheating Tory dogma about unions: (tags:unions labour politics uk OhForFucksSake )
8. Putin's occupation of Ukraine falters as bankers, doctors and metal workers boycott key jobs: (tags:russia ukraine )
9. The French Data Protection Commission bans Google Analytics: (tags:france dataprotection europe )
10. UK's only gender identity clinic for children is being replaced by eight of them: (tags:LGBT transgender youth children healthcare )
11. Scientists reanimate dead spiders as robot gripping claws: (tags:spiders death technology cyborg )
12. Edinburgh Council wants to know what you think about the licensing of short term rental accommodation: (tags:Edinburgh housing rental viaDanielDWilliam )
13. A poem about science fiction authors by CS Lewis: (tags:CSLewis poetry scifi )
14. Upscaling and an Important Note About Photo "AI": (tags:photos photoshop ai )

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Interesting Links for 20-07-2022

Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:00:09 GMT

1. Yay! 60% of Americans aren't Creationists!: (tags:religion usa headdesk evolution belief )
2. UK pay falls at fastest rate on record as inflation hits: (tags:inequality uk pay )
3. A fictional dictionary entry from the future, about the first ever upload. Fascinating and horrifying.: (tags:transhumanism viaCharlesStross scifi )
4. How to encourage your child to have a healthy relationship with food: (tags:psychology food children )
5. Anti-Corbyn Labour officials covertly diverted election funds away from winnable seats, Forde report finds: (tags:labour corruption OhForFucksSake )
6. Beware of bad science reporting: No, we haven't killed 90% of all plankton: (tags:FactCheck ocean doom )
7. A cool debugging story (this one about nuclear detectors in space!): (tags:space nuclearweapons bug history development viaPatrickHadfield )
8. Government quietly removes commitments to women's rights after summit on freedom of beliefs: (tags:UK abortion women rights OhForFucksSake )
9. Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book Is Being Disneyfied: (tags:Disney neilgaiman )
10. The Labour Party is making a terrible mistake if it ignores the Forde report: (tags:labour democracy politics corruption uk )
11. Stranger Things 4 creators reveal they've secretly been editing past seasons without viewers noticing: (tags:TV editing )
12. Battery cost declines raise prospects of all-electric container shipping: (tags:electricity ships shipping batteries )
13. A Brief History of "Nobody Wants to Work Anymore": (tags:work history newspapers )
14. 'Unacceptable' waits for Edinburgh high-rise mould repairs: (tags:edinburgh housing OhForFucksSake )
15. Gender-Affirming Care Improves Mental Health And Saves Lives: (tags:psychology transgender lgbt )

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Interesting Links for 26-06-2022

Sun, 26 Jun 2022 11:00:07 GMT

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Interesting Links for 19-06-2022

Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:00:11 GMT

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Interesting Links for 11-06-2022

Sat, 11 Jun 2022 11:00:08 GMT

1. Watch from Inside the Nest as a Pair of Kestrels Raise a Family: (tags:birds video )
2. The COVID Event Horizon (or: How many Covid infections can a person have?): (tags:pandemic disease doom )
3. There are early signs of Covid infections trending back up the way: (tags:pandemic doom )
4. Jacob Rees-Mogg refuses to debate why he blocked bill that would have spared elephants from torture: (tags:elephants torture conservatives OhForFucksSake )
5. 40% of the UK is heading for fuel poverty: (tags:heating poverty electricity gas )
6. Green light for £21m Scottish plastic-to-hydrogen plant: (tags:plastic hydrogen energy )
7. The best book ever about computers is getting a second edition. I may need to update: (tags:books computers )
8. The Sriracha Shortage Is The Next Harbinger of Climate Change: (tags:globalwarming food )
9. Sex with your distant ancestors: bestiality or not?: (tags:bestiality sex prehistory evolution )
10. The perception of rhythm in language (read it out loud): (tags:poetry language research awesome )
11. How Tesla tries to avoid its autopilot being on for crashes: (tags:Tesla automation OhForFucksSake cars driving )

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Interesting Links for 13-05-2022

Fri, 13 May 2022 11:00:05 GMT

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Interesting Links for 02-04-2022

Sat, 02 Apr 2022 11:00:11 GMT

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Interesting Links for 22-03-2022

Tue, 22 Mar 2022 12:00:10 GMT

Translating one of the earliest jokes from Sumerian: (tags:translation jokes dogs )
When your manufacturer updates your microwave over WiFi to make it think it's a steam oven...: (tags:internet cooking epicfail )
Some Guesses About What Happens Next in Ukraine: (tags:ukraine russia war )
Met Police begin interviews with key 'partygate' witnesses after 100 questionnaires sent out: (tags:police party Pandemic conservatives )
50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time: (tags:scifi books list )
Starlink helps Ukraine's elite drone unit target and destroy Russian tanks: (tags:space Ukraine ElonMusk Russia war drone )
JK Rowling now making fun of police doing LGBT outreach work in an area where homophobic murder happened: (tags:LGBT police jkrowling bigotry OhForFucksSake )
Why hasn't the ruble crashed further?: (tags:economics banking Russia Ukraine )
Woman hunting for man whose name she had tattooed on her bum during a girls' holiday in Magaluf ten years ago: (tags:headline tattoo alcohol )
The Scottish government is looking for feedback on the proposed Gender Recognition Reform Bill - please give it, as people who feel differently definitely will: (tags:Scotland LGBT transgender law )
A list of problems the British government isn't interested in solving: (tags:UK conservatives corruption inequality )
Evolution can occur really, really rapidly: (tags:evolution )
Dare you brave...The Climate Spiral??? (Which shows how global temperature has changed over the last 140 years): (tags:visualisation globalwarming )

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