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Interesting Links for 17-09-2026
Sep. 17th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Australia 'on the same page' as Canada as it seeks deeper EU alliance
- (tags:australia europe canada trade )
- 2. Autism is genetic - and why this information matters now
- (tags:autism genetics )
- 3. People with ADHD share what that feels like
- (tags:adhd )
- 4. 'Massive course & programme closures' expected at Edinburgh University
- (tags:edinburgh university )
- 5. Bruce Campbell Gives an Update on His Cancer Diagnosis
- (tags:Cancer video life movies )
Linkedy Dinkedy - 24-25/08/2026
Aug. 25th, 2026 04:30 pm- 1. ADHD, women, hormones, and menopause
- (tags:adhd women hormones menstruation )
- 2. What COVID-19 Does to the Body
- (tags:pandemic bodies health research )
- 3. Tile whipping: The national competition helping to make the Netherlands ‘climate-proof’
- (tags:Netherlands environment concrete )
- 4. Trump shocked to discover Canada under impression it is separate country
- (tags:USA Canada politics OhForFucksSake satire )
- 5. 'The Nerd Reich' tracks the unmasking of Silicon Valley's true politics
- (tags:politics fascism USA )
- 6. Solar plus batteries is now cheaper than gas
- (tags:solarpower GoodNews batteries technology )
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Interesting Links for 21-08-2026
Aug. 21st, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Why Liberals Have Fewer Kids Than Conservatives
- (tags:politics society children parenting usa )
- 2. Different countries use wildly different numbers to measure their shoes - this explains why
- (tags:shoes society history viaSwampers )
- 3. I like 'em thick OR: an apology to my English teachers
- (tags:art literature writing history ai )
- 4. Expert reaction to the TV show 'The Great ADHD Myth? (interview snippets cherry picked and taken out of context)
- (tags:fraud channel4 OhForFucksSake adhd )
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Interesting Links for 18-08-2026
Aug. 18th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. There's a huge space launch crunch right now, and it will probably get worse
- (tags:space transport doom Spacex )
- 2. Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy
- (tags:wifi recognition surveillance )
- 3. It's How You Ask: Gender-Associated Linguistic Bias in LLMs
- (tags:gender ai language )
- 4. We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility (where they were destroyed as part of the scanning process)
- (tags:books ai amazon )
- 5. Disabled man just one more benefit cut from having sufficient incentive to walk again, insists Reform
- (tags:disability satire politics uk )
- 6. Edinburgh venue accepts it discriminated against Jewish comedian Philip Simon when it cancelled show
- (tags:Jews bigotry Edinburgh festival )
- 7. Universal Health Coverage Could Save the USA $1 Trillion (20%) and 114,000 Lives Every Year
- (tags:USA healthcare economics )
- 8. Autism self-diagnosis - validity and methods
- (tags:autism diagnosis viaPatrickHadfield )
- 9. People with ADHD function very well when under stress
- (tags:stress ADHD neurodiversity viaSwampers )
- 10. Fairly Ranking the Most Brilliant Birds
- (tags:birds colour visualisation )
- 11. Britain has a migration crisis (we're totally dependent on it, and government policy is causing chaos)
- (tags:migration uk labour doom )
- 12. The Color Recession May Be Permanent
- (tags:colour design fashion )
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- space,
- spacex,
- stress,
- surveillance,
- transport,
- uk,
- usa,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- viaswampers,
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Interesting Links for 19-07-2026
Jul. 19th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without user consent (and then show ads)
- (tags:Technology advertising OhForFucksSake )
- 2. How period trackers share your private details
- (tags:menstruation surveillance apps )
- 3. Scottish pro-Palestine activist arrested 'for reading poem about Gaza'
- (tags:poetry Palestine Gaza Scotland police OhForFucksSake )
- 4. EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
- (tags:Europe regulation clothes waste )
- 5. What neurodivergent people really think about the words used to describe them
- (tags:language autism ADHD neurodiversity )
- 6. Woman Drinks Diet Coke to Dissolve Huge Mass in Her Stomach
- (tags:coke health weird food )
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- clothes,
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- europe,
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- gaza,
- health,
- language,
- links,
- menstruation,
- neurodiversity,
- ohforfuckssake,
- palestine,
- poetry,
- police,
- regulation,
- scotland,
- surveillance,
- technology,
- waste,
- weird
Interesting Links for 13-07-2026
Jul. 13th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. This High Schooler Developed an A.I. Tool to Diagnose Autism and ADHD Using the Retina
- (tags:neurodiversity autism ADHD AI eyes viaSwampers )
- 2. The Chinese Voice Actor Forced to Prove He's Human (because his voice has been cloned for so many jobs)
- (tags:china ai intellectual_property acting business )
- 3. How Putin is inflaming immigration tensions to spark disorder in Britain
- (tags:immigration Russia propaganda UK )
- 4. The tech of 'Terminator 2' - an oral history
- (tags:history jamescameron cgi movies terminator )
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Interesting Links for 25-04-2026
Apr. 25th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. A Constellation of Chronic Medical Conditions Commonly Seen in Autistic & ADHD Adults
- (tags:health autism adhd neurodiversity )
- 2. Cocaine makes salmon twice as far
- (tags:cocaine drugs fish )
- 3. Which of the following, if any, do you consider to be acceptable terms for the plural of 'octopus'?
- (tags:language octopus polls UK )
- 4. Europe—not US—first to authorize Moderna's combo mRNA flu-COVID vaccine
- (tags:vaccines Europe USA )
- 5. The surprisingly long history of gender mapping
- (tags:gender sexuality LGBT history visualisation )
Interesting Links for 10-03-2026
Mar. 10th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Grammarly Is Offering 'Expert' AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive (without their permission)
- (tags:ohforfuckssake ai writing )
- 2. Google proposes an AI training datacenter that would use up to 8 million gallons of water *per day*
- (tags:water google ai )
- 3. NHS England continues attacks on trans kids
- (tags:uk transgender lgbt ohforfuckssake )
- 4. It is likely that the UK is still under-diagnosing ADHD
- (tags:adhd uk )
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- adhd,
- ai,
- google,
- lgbt,
- links,
- ohforfuckssake,
- transgender,
- uk,
- water,
- writing
Interesting Links for 23-02-2026
Feb. 23rd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. How far back in time can you understand English?
- (tags:language English history )
- 2. I hadn't realised that 7 of the biggest 8 offshore wind farms in the world were British
- (tags:UK windpower )
- 3. Judge forced to slash SF jury pool over hate for Elon Musk
- (tags:ElonMusk law usa )
- 4. Building a Beauty and the Beast rose petal timer using shape metal and an Arduino. Incredibly impressive stuff.
- (tags:cosplay impressive viaSwampers technology )
- 5. What If We've Been Wrong About How ADHD Drugs Work?
- (tags:adhd drugs sleep )
- 6. Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (replacing styrofoam with mushroom-based packaging)
- (tags:materials fungus packaging )
Interesting Links for 04-01-2026
Jan. 4th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Who is to blame for the current state of the USA?
- (tags:USA constitution politics )
- 2. Custom biotech is here (grey market advances on GLP, with more following)
- (tags:weight drugs biotech )
- 3. People with ADHD have higher prevalence of severe perimenopausal symptoms. These symptoms present at an earlier age.
- (tags:age menstruation adhd )
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- adhd,
- age,
- biotech,
- constitution,
- drugs,
- links,
- menstruation,
- politics,
- usa,
- weight
Interesting Links for 07-12-2025
Dec. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Tides are weirder than you think
- (tags:tides gravity moon sun mathematics history )
- 2. Zuckerberg Basically Giving Up on Metaverse... After Renaming Entire Company "Meta"
- (tags:Facebook VirtualReality )
- 3. Reminder that the UK just had independent ADHD investigation which found it was under diagnosed and under supported.
- (tags:UK ADHD healthcare NHS )
- 4. Trans Holocaust History
- (tags:history LGBT transgender holocaust Germany Nazis )
- 5. America has identified its greatest enemy: Western Europe
- (tags:USA politics racism Europe )
- 6. Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image
- (tags:trains ai fraud photos )
Interesting Links for 21-10-2025
Oct. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Gamifying Hobbies Is Ruining Them
- (tags:fun gaming apps doom )
- 2. UK Public Wants More Balanced Coverage Of Political Parties
- (tags:UK politics journalism )
- 3. Anxiety Toolkit (a set of tools for helping with anxiety)
- (tags:anxiety advice )
- 4. Populism is bad for economic propsperity
- (tags:economics fascism )
- 5. Some 60,000 kids have avoided peanut allergies due to landmark 2015 advice, study finds
- (tags:allergies children GoodNews peanuts )
- 6. Goblin Tools - a collection of AI tools for neurodivergent people who struggle with things feeling too big and complicated.
- (tags:viaSwampers ai adhd autism )
- 7. Either public safety is an absolute priority at sporting events or it is not.
- (tags:israel football uk safety politics OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 22-09-2025
Sep. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Canada, Australia and UK recognize Palestinian statehood (France soon)
- (tags:Palestine France UK Australia Canada )
- 2. Among UK Jews, opposition to Palestinian political autonomy is vanishing
- (tags:UK Palestine Israel )
- 3. Examining overlap and homogeneity in ASD, ADHD, and OCD: a data-driven, diagnosis-agnostic approach
- (tags:ADHD autism psychology )
- 4. South Korea's President Lee says U.S. investment demands would spark a financial crisis
- (tags:usa korea economics doom )
Interesting Links for 15-08-2025
Aug. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. ADHD drugs reduce the risk of substance misuse, suicidal behaviour, transport accidents and criminality
- (tags:adhd medication drugs )
- 2. Scotland's population tops 5.5m for the first time
- (tags:scotland population )
- 3. Brilliant illustrations bring this 1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' to life
- (tags:TheHobbit illustration russia )
- 4. Dedicated volunteer exposes "single largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia's history"
- (tags:wikipedia )
- 5. How To Get Internet Feedback Without Going Insane
- (tags:mentalhealth advice )
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Interesting Links for 26-06-2025
Jun. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Holyrood Committee seek views and experiences as part of new inquiry into ADHD and autism
- (tags:scotland autism adhd )
- 2. How would Britain vote, a year since the 2024 election (broken down in a wide variety of ways)
- (tags:uk voting polls )
- 3. Ooh Dark City has a 4k release. I'm quite tempted
- (tags:movies scifi )
- 4. Poll: 82% of Israelis want to expel Palestinians from Gaza; 47% want to kill every man, woman, child
- (tags:polls genocide Israel )
- 5. Poll: Americans' support for Israel at record low, backing for Palestinians at all-time high (46:33)
- (tags:USA polls Israel Palestine )
- 6. Why I'm glad the NHS has rejected two Alzheimer's 'wonder drugs'
- (tags:alzheimers medicine NHS )
- 7. Warwickshire County Council leader resigns, leaving 18-year-old in charge (Reform, unsurprisingly)
- (tags:politics UK )
- 8. Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11
- (tags:games linux windows )
- 9. How disability benefits are paid across the world - and how UK compares
- (tags:welfare disability international )
- 10. Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban
- (tags:UK bigotry children transgender LGBT )
Interesting Links for 29-04-2025
Apr. 29th, 2025 12:07 pm- 1. NHS to allegedly test trans young people for autism and ADHD
- (tags:adhd autism transgender lgbt uk nhs viaSwampers )
- 2. Spain, Portugal and parts of France hit by massive power outage
- (tags:spain france electricity )
- 3. Donald Trump Demands Investigations Into Negative Approval Rating Polls
- (tags:polls usa politics viaKenny )
- 4. New Edinburgh Airport scanners allow liquids to remain in bags
- (tags:edinburgh security airport )
- 5. I WANT TO LIVE IN THIS HOUSE!
- (tags:Housing fun video )
- 6. Islanders say they cannot escape mysterious humming sound
- (tags:sounds Scotland )
- 7. Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts
- (tags:funny politics USA )
- 8. What Even *Is* Consciousness?
- (tags:consciousness comic funny )
- 9. Trans former judge plans to challenge gender ruling at European court
- (tags:transgender rights echr law )
- 10. Doctors condemn Supreme Court ruling on trans women as ‘scientifically illiterate’
- (tags:UK doctors transgender science law bigotry )
- 11. Irn-Bru - How they collect Unicorn Tears for their new recipe
- (tags:video viaSwampers funny unicorns advertising Scotland )
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Interesting Links for 27-02-2025
Feb. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Covid shots protect kids from long Covid —and don't cause sudden death
- (tags:pandemic vaccination )
- 2. Eight Psychiatric Disorders Share the Same Genetic Causes
- (tags:autism anorexia ADHD anxiety genetics schizophrenia bipolar depression )
- 3. Washington Post opinion chief quits as Bezos makes new editorial demands
- (tags:USA journalism doom )
- 4. TypeScript types can run DOOM (ridiculous and nerdy)
- (tags:doom type-systems wtf impressive video )
- 5. Musk tweets about a Mexican telecoms owner cost him billions
- (tags:telecoms ElonMusk business epicfail )
- 6. Consultation on Edinburgh's Seafield regeneration plan.
- (tags:edinburgh housing )
- 7. Edinburgh's Seafield sewage works records 165 spills in a year
- (tags:edinburgh sewage )
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- anorexia,
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- epicfail,
- genetics,
- housing,
- impressive,
- journalism,
- links,
- pandemic,
- schizophrenia,
- sewage,
- telecoms,
- type-systems,
- usa,
- vaccination,
- video,
- wtf
Interesting Links for 04-12-2024
Dec. 4th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The (English) NHS advised people to get their ADHD diagnosis privately. Now they're refusing to treat the people who did.
- (tags:nhs ADHD OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Why Does the UK have a Strategic Wine Reserve?
- (tags:wine alcohol uk government viaSwampers )
- 3. Apparently the answer to ChatGPT making up nonsense about people is to forbid it to mention their specific names. This plan has no drawbacks.
- (tags:ai names )
- 4. Head Like a Holy Night (Nine Inch Nails songs performed as Christmas carols. "Hurt" is amazing). You may also like his "Last Christmas Love Tore Us Apart".
- (tags:music christmas industrial funny )
- 5. Tori Amos breaks silence on allegations against longtime friend Neil Gaiman
- (tags:neilgaiman abuse women )
- 6. Lib Dem PR Bill wins surprise Commons vote
- (tags:uk proportional_representation voting government )
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- christmas,
- funny,
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- neilgaiman,
- nhs,
- ohforfuckssake,
- proportional_representation,
- uk,
- viaswampers,
- voting,
- wine,
- women
Interesting Links for 14-08-2024
Aug. 14th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The Strange Logic of Germany's Antisemitism Bureaucrats
- (tags:Germany Jews bigotry Islam Palestine )
- 2. The remarkably unlikely story of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane
- (tags:history war Spain UK navy politics )
- 3. Brits would vote to rejoin EU in new referendum, 59:41
- (tags:UK Europe polls )
- 4. J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk Named in Imane Khelif's Cyberbullying Lawsuit
- (tags:jkrowling ElonMusk bullying Olympics bigotry transgender LGBT )
- 5. 6% of people suffering during the ADHD medication shortage report losing their jobs
- (tags:adhd jobs OhForFucksSake medication )
- 6. Edinburgh Trams staff back strike action over lack of toilet breaks
- (tags:Edinburgh trams strike toilets )
- 7. Some companies aren't happy about their adverts appearing under far-right hate posts on X.
- (tags:twitter bigotry advertising )
- 8. Dealing with Time in the Roman Calendar Is A Nightmare
- (tags:Rome time date history wtf viaFanf )
- 9. Israeli Army Uses Palestinian Civilians to Inspect Potentially Booby-trapped Tunnels in Gaza
- (tags:Israel Palestine WarCrimes OhForFucksSake )
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