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Interesting Links for 02-08-2024
Aug. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Nasal COVID-19 vaccine halts transmission (in hamsters)
- (tags:hamster pandemic vaccine noses )
- 2. There's a massive Covid spike in Scotland right now - highest it's been in two years
- (tags:pandemic Scotland )
- 3. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter to star in Waiting for Godot on Broadway
- (tags:KeanuReeves acting theatre )
- 4. Two more women accuse Neil Gaiman of sexual assault and abuse
- (tags:neilgaiman abuse assault )
- 5. Edinburgh's Gorgie farm could reopen but without animals for at least five years
- (tags:farm Edinburgh animals sad )
- 6. A protein called Reelin keeps popping up in brains that resist aging and Alzheimer's
- (tags:protein alzheimers )
- 7. British tech tycoon: I only got justice because I'm rich
- (tags:justice money USA )
Interesting Links for 03-07-2024
Jul. 3rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. JK Rowling asks for examples of her spreading hate. Goes oddly quiet when presented with a list
- (tags:jkrowling bigotry transgender LGBT )
- 2. I am shocked to discover that anti-trans Telegraph writer Nina Power, who regularly defended JK Rowling, turns out to be a literal Neo-Nazi
- (tags:nazis jkrowling transgender lgbt bigotry telegraph OhForFucksSake )
- 3. All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second
- (tags:time space earth )
- 4. Study finds hybrid work benefits companies and employees
- (tags:work office homes )
- 5. Sandman casting announcement. Including characters from Season of Mists, A Game Of You, a couple of one-shots, and (surprisingly) Brief Lives.
- I didn't think we'd be seeing Jack Gleeson come back to acting!
(tags:sandman acting )
Interesting Links for 17-05-2024
May. 17th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Starmer's pledges are insufficient and incoherent
- (tags:labour politics uk )
- 2. How US evangelical Christian groups started the current war on transgender people
- (tags:transgender religion USA bigotry LGBT )
- 3. Stephen Fry and Sharon Stone call for Kevin Spacey acting return
- (tags:acting assault )
- 4. Scottish Greens expel 13 members over transphobia
- (tags:LGBT bigotry transgender GreenParty Scotland GoodNews )
- 5. Wind Farms can Offset Their Emissions Within Two Years, And Their Energy Cost Within 6 Months
- (tags:windpower )
Interesting Links for 19-02-2024
Feb. 19th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Can ChatGPT edit fiction? 4 professional editors asked AI to do their job - and it ruined their short story
- (tags:ai editing fail viaMarrog )
- 2. Mercury: Council and Parliament strike a deal to completely phase out mercury in the EU
- (tags:Europe dental mercury lighting )
- 3. There's a fascinating discussion in this article about who "the Celts" were
- (tags:prehistory Europe language society )
- 4. 2023 Hugo winner announces that they no longer consider themselves to have won
- (tags:Hugo awards china fraud )
- 5. All new NHS building projects in Scotland put on hold
- (tags:Scotland NHS money building )
- 6. Rabbit Test - the short story that won* a Hugo
- (tags:hugo abortion rights women scifi )
- 7. Fertility doctor uses own sperm to impregnate lots of women, leading to incest
- (tags:usa fertility incest OhForFucksSake healthcare fraud )
- 8. The Fifteenth Doctor audition piece
- (tags:tv drwho acting RusselTDavies )
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Links catchup (back-end database broke)
Dec. 15th, 2023 05:11 pm- 1. Microsoft are spreading election conspiracies, fake scandals, and lies
- (tags:microsoft fraud conspiracy OhForFucksSake ai )
- 2. Moderna Melanoma Vaccine Cuts Death Rate in Half
- (tags:cancer vaccine GoodNews )
- 3. How Cheques Work
- (tags:banking )
- 4. Bella Ramsey: 'I'm neurodiverse. By masking, I've been acting my whole life'
- (tags:acting neurodiversity mentalhealth eatingdisorders )
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Links (catchup) for 2023-11-24
Nov. 24th, 2023 03:41 pm- 1. Owners of empty Edinburgh shops to be hit with tax hike under new rules
- (tags:edinburgh tax shops )
- 2. Edinburgh Council are running a survey on the proposed tourist tax
- (tags:edinburgh tax tourism survey )
- 3. Bill & Ted's Napoleon on the freedom of playing the tiny emperor
- (tags:movies acting viaJohnBobShaun )
Interesting Links for 09-07-2023
Jul. 9th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Anger from voice actors as NSFW mods use AI deepfakes to replicate their voices
- (tags:Voice acting fraud ai )
- 2. New drug shows Alzheimer's Disease by 85%
- (tags:alzheimers GoodNews )
- 3. Tiny functional cannon is super cute
- (tags:weaponry cute video )
- 4. From the clinic to the street: the changing role of benzodiazepines in the Scottish overdose epidemic
- (tags:drugs death Scotland )
- 5. Planned power reforms set to redraw map for British electricity bills
- (tags:electricity uk )
- 6. Superrational - a satirical take of Homo economicus
- (tags:economics satire funny )
Interesting Links for 31-05-2023
May. 31st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. A Woman Won a Cheese Rolling Race . . . Despite Being Knocked Unconscious
- (tags:race cheese consciousness )
- 2. There can't be many actors who have played the same role for 38 years
- (tags:acting longevity TV UK )
- 3. The British Newspapers collude with each other to protect their journalists from consequences (in this case, sexual harrassment)
- (tags:uk media guardian sex harrassment journalism OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Regular reminder that Labour are a Brexit party
- (tags:labour uk europe OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Like Cinemas, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Others To Carry Anti-Tobacco Warnings in India
- (tags:India cigarettes streaming TV )
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Interesting Links for 31-05-2022
May. 31st, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. "My students cheated... A lot"
- (tags:cheating university teaching viaSwampers )
- 2. Do the studios care about fandom?
- (tags:fandom TV neilgaiman )
- 3. Scotland outstrips Europe and UK on inward investment
- (tags:Scotland investment GoodNews )
- 4. FactCheck: does gun control work?
- (tags:guns regulation usa )
- 5. Some lovely things that The Queen has done
- (tags:UK monarchy OhForFucksSake corruption )
- 6. Wil Wheaton: Yes, i was forced to be a child star. it was never my dream or my idea.
- (tags:wilwheaton acting children abuse )
- 7. Long Covid: Why women could be twice as likely to suffer as men
- (tags:pandemic women health )
- 8. The Death of the Sit-Up
- (tags:exercise history )
- 9. Abolish the monarchy!
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Interesting Links for 01-02-2022
Feb. 1st, 2022 12:00 pm- Sue Gray says she's not able to present 'meaningful report' due to Metropolitan Police investigation
- (tags:UK police conservatives BorisJohnson party )
- What do you when the new hire who showed up is not the same person you interviewed?
- (tags:work fraud identity wtf interviews )
- The New York Times Buys Wordle
- (tags:games newspapers newyork wtf )
- People have the weirdest ideas: astronomy edition
- (tags:astronomy ignorance )
- The longer you watch this the more kittens appear
- (tags:kittens cute video )
- Police given 500 pieces of paper and 300 photographs of evidence on partygate
- (tags:police party Pandemic )
- Peter Dinklage Called Out By Actors With Dwarfism For His Accusations Against Disney
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- Scotland's new smoke alarms law comes into force
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- This Osprey Looks Right At His Rescuer As He Frees Him
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- Sophia's nursery is the first childcare business in Scotland to transition to being owned by its staff!
- (tags:children business ownership Scotland )
Interesting Links for 11-01-2022
Jan. 11th, 2022 12:00 pm- 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 20-10-2021
Oct. 20th, 2021 12:00 pm- The Tragedy of The Last Duel Flopping at the Box Office (I do actually fancy this. But I'm not going to a cinema until cases are 1/20 of what they are now)
- (tags:movies pandemic viaSwampers RidleyScott )
- The British ambassador to Afghanistan repeatedly warned Dominic Raab that Kabul would swiftly fall into Taliban hands
- (tags:uk afghanistan epicfail OhForFucksSake )
- New Delta sub-variant is 15% more transmissible
- (tags:pandemic )
- New Edinburgh primary school to get one of three names as shortlist unveiled (Sophia will be there in 2 years)
- (tags:school Edinburgh names )
- The time Claudia Black gave James McAvoy advice
- (tags:acting scifi advice )
- So You Want To Abolish Time Zones...
- (tags:time )
- Android 12's Extra Dim Feature is One of My Favorites
- (tags:Android darkness light phones )
- An interesting fact that political campaigners ought to know
- (tags:politics marketing comics )
- Memes of classical history
- (tags:history meme funny )
- Engineers know who is to blame for the Trolley Problem
- (tags:philosophy engineering )
- Surgeons perform first successful transplant using pig kidney in a human
- (tags:pigs humans organs )
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Interesting Links for 22-09-2021
Sep. 22nd, 2021 12:00 pm- "Why I Can't Write Competence Porn"
- (tags:competency scifi writing )
- We are living through a Russia-controlled fossil fuel shock. Net zero is the solution - not the problem
- (tags:electricity energy russia uk europe renewables )
- r/BritishFoodShortages - cataloguing the sunlit uplands of our glorious future
- (tags:Doom food shopping UK trade )
- Kat Dennings Tells Us How Neil Gaiman Honest-To-God Told Her To 'Be Yourself' While Playing Death In 'The Sandman'
- (tags:neilgaiman sandman acting audio )
- Edinburgh's Christmas to be spread across more of the city
- (tags:Edinburgh Christmas )
- Government Strikes Deal To Reopen Key Plants Amid CO2 Shortage Crisis
- (tags:co2 UK )
- Britons getting less tolerant of racist and transphobic language on TV, Ofcom finds
- (tags:language racism transgender LGBT UK swearing )
- Online dating site OkCupid Features "Pro-Choice" Badge
- (tags:abortion relationships internet )
- Biden pours cold water on prospect of early US/UK trade deal - reiterates that the UK shouldn't force a closed border in Ireland
- (tags:uk ireland NorthernIreland usa trade europe )
- Are President Biden's comments on 'the Irish Accords' a life line for the Human Rights Act?
- (tags:Europe UK law humanrights rights NorthernIreland )
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Interesting Links for 01-05-2021
May. 1st, 2021 12:00 pm- Thoughts about making AI "explainable"
- (tags:ai explanations models )
- Covid in Scotland: Most councils on track for level 2 restrictions
- (tags:pandemic Scotland GoodNews )
- Women Who Refuse - cataloguing abuse and violence against women who say No
- (tags:women violence )
- London School of Dramatic Arts on Noel Clarke
- (tags:abuse education acting )
- UK government making 50% funding cut to music, dance, drama and performing arts; art and design; media studies; and archaeology
- (tags:funding academia UK art music archeology )
- Former BiFab yard in Burntisland secures first tenant
- (tags:Scotland )
- Why this coyote and badger 'friendship' has excited scientists
- (tags:friendship animals coyote badgers video )
- The difference between Kafkaesque, Kafkacore, Kafkastuck, and Kafkapunk
- (tags:culture tropes genre )
- Disney's writer wage-theft is far worse than reported
- (tags:Disney copyright writing money OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 11-02-2021
Feb. 11th, 2021 12:00 pm- Locus really need better editors working on their reviews
- (tags:reviews fiction )
- How To Build a Snölykta - Traditional Swedish Snow Lanterns
- (tags:snow Sweden video viaNeilRodger )
- 'Fuck Your Feelings' Doesn't Apply to White Men
- (tags:politics USA gender society racism sexism )
- Charisma Carpenter on Joss Whedon's abusive behaviour
- (tags:acting TV buffy abuse JossWhedon )
- Stage meat - food you can eat on stage and still act around
- (tags:food acting viaSwampers )
- I see the EU is asking the UK to honour its promises. I can't see that going down well
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1359590841619275776.html
(tags:UK Europe trade Doom NorthernIreland ) - Amsterdam becomes Europe's top trading hub, ousting London
- (tags:Netherlands shares finance UK Europe )
- Temperature of -22.9C in Braemar 'UK's lowest in 26 years'
- (tags:winter Scotland temperature cold UK )
- Netflix acquires the rights to all 22 Redwall books, plans film and series
- (tags:TV fantasy animals children books Netflix )
- Weird Pride Day is March 4th
- (tags:weird pride )
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Interesting Links for 23-01-2021
Jan. 23rd, 2021 12:00 pm- No, trans women do not have an advantage in sport
- (tags:sports Olympics women LGBT transgender )
- MEPs adopt a resolution condemning the current approach to tax havens as ineffective
- (tags:tax Europe )
- The seditionists are now quoting Tolkien in their ridiculous legal cases
- (tags:law USA coup funny WTF Tolkien lotr )
- JMS remembers Mira Furlan
- (tags:obituary Babylon5 acting Yugoslavia jms )
- Get ready for 'Long Brexit'
- (tags:UK Europe Doom trade )
- 15 ideas to make Britain better
- (tags:UK advice viaPatrickHadfield )
- Pink seesaws at US-Mexico wall win design award
- (tags:Mexico USA borders art viaJane )
- Apparently you need a £180 certificate to send £20 of cheese to Europe
- (tags:Europe UK trade food Doom )
- Johann Hari spreads dangerous lies. I wish I was less surprised the Guardian supports him
- (tags:dangerous mentalhealth johannhari guardian OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 17-09-2020
Sep. 17th, 2020 12:00 pm- Brexit: Minister will not commit UK to respecting rulings on disputes with EU
- (tags:UK Europe trade OhForFucksSake )
- Plug-in hybrids don't actually save much CO2 (because their drivers don't charge them)
- (tags:cars CO2 )
- Ancient DNA sheds light on Viking origins, travels
- (tags:prehistory viking )
- Review: We do not recommend the $299 Oculus Quest 2 as your next VR system
- Shame, I really enjoyed the first one, and this is a big step back in every way.
(tags:VR review Facebook OhForFucksSake ) - Andre Braugher on 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' and His Turn to Comedy
- (tags:TV acting comedy police )
- Newly discovered mass extinction event triggered the dawn of the dinosaurs
- (tags:dinosaurs extinction )
- QAnon is a Nazi Cult, Rebranded
- (tags:nazis conspiracy USA viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 07-09-2019
Sep. 7th, 2019 02:43 pm- Biological age markers of humans reversed by years
- (tags:age research )
- What Statistics Can and Can't Tell Us About OurselvesÂ
- (tags:statistics viaSwampers )
- Etsy's free shipping push asks sellers to compete with Amazon
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- These are the £314m plans to overhaul Edinburgh's city centre roads
- (tags:Edinburgh transport )
- How transphobic mental health care pushes transgender people towards suicide
- (tags:mentalhealth OhForFucksSake transgender LGBT )
- UNICEF have some really useful information on cosleeping
- (tags:babies sleep death advice )
- Does Sean Bean Really Die More Than Other Actors?
- (tags:death acting )
- A note from a very weary editor, to all male writers about breasts
- (tags:breasts writing advice )
- Back From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail And Discovers That His Bid For Tenure Has Been Denied
- (tags:academia movies funny indianajones )
- Can science survive without statistical significance?
- (tags:statistics research viaFanf )
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Interesting Links for 12-08-2019
Aug. 12th, 2019 12:08 pm- Alternative non-spherical earth theories
- (tags:comic funny conspiracy earth )
- The Post-Game Interview
- (tags:funny sports interview comic )
- Nicolas Cage on Acting, Philosophy and Searching for the Holy Grail
- (tags:acting interview )
- An occasional reminder that using seat predictors on current polling is stupid
- (tags:polls politics uk viaDanielDWilliam )
- If Disney want my money then this is what they'll do
- (tags:StarWars muppets movies )
- Official new pet naming technique
- (tags:pets food names )
- The audience at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, in multi-part harmony, singing from memory. The actual audience. No words on screen, no-one on stage. Just waiting, and singing.
- (tags:wales singing amazing )
- Bisexual people have worse mental than straight or gay people. Now researchers know why.
- (tags:LGBT bisexual mentalhealth society )
- Insect apocalypse in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides
- (tags:pesticide insects Doom usa )
- Why are there so many new books about time-travelling lesbians?
- (tags:lgbt lesbians viaErindubitably books timetravel scifi history society )
- Asda signs up its fridges to keep the UK warm this winter (I'm confused as to how this is in any way a battery)
- (tags:electricity uk )
- Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser
- (tags:psychology )
- The Queen is not happy
- (tags:UK politics monarchy )
- The last magnetic pole flip saw 22,000 years of weirdness
- (tags:magnets earth prehistory )
- 41 per cent say UK government should grant a second Scottish independence referendum
- (tags:Scotland democracy )
- Study shows e-bike riders get more exercise than cyclists
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- Worshipper, 65, takes down heavily armed mosque gunman before he can kill anyone
- (tags:terrorism Islam fascism norway )
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