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Interesting Links for 20-03-2026
Mar. 20th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Earth's first mass extinction may have been far worse than believed
- (tags:extinction prehistory paleontology )
- 2. People using AI to give law advice finally reaches Scotland.
- (tags:ai law scotland )
- 3. Denmark was preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations.
- (tags:war usa norway germany france denmark )
- 4. This perfectly encapsulates why I won't surf the web without an ad-blocker
- (tags:advertising web newspapers )
- 5. How *did* a multi-storey car park get built in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle?
- (tags:edinburgh cars history )
- 6. Waymo self driving cars are 13x safer than humans
- (tags:safety automation driving cars )
- 7. Police Scotland announce they don't want trans people to report any crimes
- (tags:transgender LGBT bigotry OhForFucksSake Scotland )
- 8. The change that made lighthouses work much better - and why it drove the keepers mad. (Lots and lots of mercury)
- (tags:mercury light history safety ships )
- 9. Gen Z is broke, stressed and exhausted - but boomers won't accept it
- (tags:stress society doom )
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- stress,
- transgender,
- usa,
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Interesting Links for 09-01-2026
Jan. 9th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Danish troops told to 'shoot first, ask questions later' if US invades Greenland
- (tags:usa greenland denmark war doom )
- 2. What is the product placement in Lord of the Rings? (read the comments)
- (tags:lotr advertising viaSwampers )
- 3. How do UK voters feel about coalitions, and what kind would they like to see?
- (tags:uk coalition politics polls )
Interesting Links for 17-12-2025
Dec. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Trans scholars being pushed out of academia, researchers warn
- (tags:transgender bigotry LGBT UK academia OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Scottish Trans and LGBT Youth Scotland response to Scottish Government consultation on updating school buildings regulations
- (tags:school transgender consultation Scotland )
- 3. Magic mushroom compound psilocybin found to break depression spiral
- (tags:depression psilocybin psychedelics )
- 4. Creepy McDonalds AI Actor Responds To Backlash
- (tags:ai advertising actors copyright video )
- 5. The official Fallout season 1 recap is filled with AI and thinks the show is set in the 1950s
- (tags:Amazon AI misinformation )
- 6. Police Scotland warn mental health call-outs are unsustainable
- (tags:police Scotland mentalhealth )
- 7. Tesla Robotaxis crash 12x as often as humans
- (tags:automation driving Tesla )
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Interesting Links for 14-10-2025
Oct. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Ofcom fines 4chan £20K for Online Safety Act failings
- (tags:regulation 4chan uk internet censorship )
- 2. California stops using coal
- (tags:coal california electricity usa GoodNews environment )
- 3. Malinche has long been blamed for the fall of Aztec empire. Now she's being viewed in a different light
- (tags:history mexico )
- 4. Firefox is the best mobile browser
- (tags:firefox phones browsers )
- 5. Google, Meta and Microsoft have all opted to stop showing political ads in the EU as new rules kick in
- (tags:advertising politics europe )
- 6. England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave
- (tags:Pandemic )
- 7. How ultrasound is ushering a new era of surgery-free cancer treatment
- (tags:cancer ultrasound )
- 8. Multiple news outlets say they won't sign new Pentagon rules on access
- (tags:usa journalism censorship military )
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Interesting Links for 19-09-2025
Sep. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 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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- pandemic,
- penguins,
- politics,
- royalty,
- samsung,
- satire,
- school,
- sports,
- technology,
- transgender,
- uk,
- usa,
- virus,
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Interesting Links for 15-09-2025
Sep. 15th, 2025 07:39 pm- 1. Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 5 to 11 years old have little-to-no effect
- (tags:obesity children research exercise diet )
- 2. Cannabis use associated with quadrupled risk of developing type 2 diabetes (2.2% vs 0.6%)
- (tags:diabetes marijuana )
- 3. Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles
- (tags:electricity myths solarpower windpower cars transport environment )
- 4. The chumbox is (still) the dirty design secret of the internet
- (tags:advertising web doom )
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- myths,
- obesity,
- research,
- solarpower,
- transport,
- web,
- windpower
Interesting Links for 09-08-2025
Aug. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How to make a carpet (hypnotizing video)
- (tags:video craft impressive )
- 2. How Britain became the libel capital of the world
- (tags:law libel uk history OhForFucksSake viaKenny )
- 3. A business card that runs a fluid simulation
- (tags:business advertising impressive technology )
- 4. Research: When Juggling Work and Family, Women Offer More Emotional Support Than Men
- (tags:women men work family support research )
- 5. Germany halts military exports to Israel for use in Gaza
- (tags:Germany Israel gaza trade )
- 6. Students who listened to material scored worse than those who read it
- (tags:reading hearing learning psychology )
- 7. The new ChatGPT is less personal sounding than the old one. The women with AI boyfriends are not happy.
- (tags:AI relationships )
Interesting Links for 27-06-2025
Jun. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The first non-opioid painkiller (for acute pain) has taken 27 years to produce.
- (tags:pain research medicine )
- 2. UK asylum plans shows post-Brexit Britain is 'in very dark place', Albanian PM warns
- (tags:uk migration OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Reading one book on a subject will put you ahead of the vast majority of people
- (tags:experts learning )
- 4. One in four LGBTQ+ pupils may drop out before finishing secondary school
- (tags:lgbt school bullying )
- 5. India High Court rules trans women are women
- (tags:India transgender LGBT GoodNews )
- 6. A newspaper reported that Arthur Conan Doyle went to a local pub. Turns out to be completely made up (but the history is fascinating)
- (tags:journalism fraud Edinburgh history )
- 7. The transfers between parties in yesterday's Edinburgh council election are fascinating!
- (tags:edinburgh elections voting politics scotland )
- 8. You can now buy The Hobbit in 5 different Celtic languages. (I'm sure people will have great fun comparing them)
- (tags:languages uk ireland TheHobbit )
- 9. Make AI Mediocre Again
- (tags:satire ai video advertising )
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Interesting Links for 28-05-2025
May. 28th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Why did they have to say the Liverpool driver was white, asks man who was all set to start looting Greggs
- (tags:satire racism UK )
- 2. Ukraine's New Way of War
- (tags:Ukraine war technology military )
- 3. Facebook refuses to crack down on rampant scams from bogus ads to avoid losing revenue
- (tags:Facebook advertising fraud OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Plentiful Data, No Regret: What the Utah Review on Youth Trans Care Found
- (tags:USA research transgender children healthcare )
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- uk,
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Interesting Links for 15-05-2025
May. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour doesn't believe British people should be allowed to live here with their families
- (tags:family migration UK OhForFucksSake Labour )
- 2. Crossness Pumping Station: seduced by symmetry
- (tags:art design architecture history London UK )
- 3. Dammit. I'm going to have to get a babysitter so I can go see Superman
- (tags:superman movies trailer comics video )
- 4. Would you like to see someone have their dream come true live on stage?
- (tags:musicals video singing impressive )
- 5. Scottish Water warning after driest period in 60 years
- (tags:Scotland water )
- 6. What it's like being a nanny for the super-rich
- (tags:wealth children childcare )
- 7. EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis
- (tags:europe advertising privacy law )
- 8. How to Sniff Out 'Copaganda': When the Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
- (tags:police propaganda media journalism )
- 9. Audible to use AI narrators and translators
- (tags:books audio ai translation )
- 10. South Korea's robot chefs worry human workers, disappoint customers
- (tags:food cooking robots )
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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 28-03-2025
Mar. 28th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Art projected onto The National Gallery of Scotland
- (tags:art edinburgh scotland )
- 2. Why I recommend against Brave Browser
- (tags:browser advertising fraud )
- 3. Nintendo's new system for sharing digital Switch games, explained
- (tags:games Nintendo )
- 4. New research shows that monogamy is just as good as polyamory
- (tags:research relationships happiness polyamory ViaDrCross )
- 5. Two-way traffic returns to Edinburgh's North Bridge ahead of schedule
- (tags:edinburgh transport )
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Interesting Links for 23-03-2025
Mar. 23rd, 2025 12:01 pm- 1. How a survey glitch replaced 'yes' with 'forks'
- (tags:translation bug polls )
- 2. The new EU-Swiss deal: What it means and the lessons it holds for the UK-EU 'reset'
- (tags:UK Europe Switzerland )
- 3. Facebook to stop targeting ads at UK woman after legal fight
- (tags:advertising surveillance UK Facebook )
- 4. Do viruses trigger Alzheimer's?
- (tags:alzheimers virus )
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Interesting Links for 06-03-2025
Mar. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Scottish Tories propose 14 years old for school leaving age
- (tags:Education children scotland Conservatives )
- 2. Those who oppose the Chagos deal are wilfully ignoring the facts
- (tags:diplomacy uk usa law )
- 3. Jeep Owners Fed Up With In-Car Pop-Up Ads
- (tags:cars advertising OhForFucksSake )
- 4. UK's highest railway the Cairngorm funicular returns to service after 17-month closure
- (tags:tourism Scotland trains mountains )
- 5. Neil Gaiman's defense against legal claims
- (tags:neilgaiman rape law )
- 6. Doctors back total ban on hitting children in England
- (tags:England children violence )
- 7. Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need
- (tags:Finland homelessness GoodNews )
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- neilgaiman,
- ohforfuckssake,
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- scotland,
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Interesting Links for 11-02-2025
Feb. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Valve bans all Steam games that force players to watch advertisements
- (tags:advertising games valve steam GoodNews )
- 2. Most misinformation is spread by the far right
- (tags:lies misinform politics fascism )
- 3. UK among top five most expensive countries for childcare - with most nurseries making a loss.
- (tags:uk nursery )
Interesting Links for 20-01-2025
Jan. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Julia Donaldson supplants JK Rowling to become the UK's all-time top author by volume
- (tags:uk publishing books )
- 2. Under new law, cops bust famous cartoonist for AI-generated child sex abuse images
- (tags:sex children ai law USA )
- 3. Don't fly with Lufthansa
- (tags:flying customerservice fail )
- 4. US police are arresting the wrong people because a facial recognition program picked them off a list.
- (tags:faces recognition police OhForFucksSake )
- 5. The Undocumented Immigrant Offending Rate Is Lower Than The U.S.-Born Citizen Rate
- (tags:usa crime immigration )
- 6. The Gaza war has nurtured more hate than any conflict since 1945
- (tags:gaza palestine usa israel )
- 7. Hulu is now making people answer a question from an advertisement to continue watching.
- (tags:tv advertising OhForFucksSake )
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- ohforfuckssake,
- palestine,
- police,
- publishing,
- recognition,
- sex,
- tv,
- uk,
- usa
Interesting Links for 12-01-2025
Jan. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. World's largest compressed air energy storage facility commences full operation in China
- (tags:china batteries air )
- 2. How to advocate for yourself when dealing with doctors
- (tags:healthcare advice video viaSwampers )
- 3. 161 years ago, a New Zealand sheep farmer predicted AI doom
- (tags:history ai scifi doom )
- 4. Ethiopian! Wolves! Pollinate! Plants!
- (tags:plants wolves Ethiopia cute )
- 5. This Coke ad from the 90s is amazing. Simple, but very neat, and requiring hundreds of people to stand very still
- (tags:cocacola advertising video )
Interesting Links for 19-11-2024
Nov. 19th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Shell Is Closing 1,000 Gas Stations To Focus On EV Charging
- (tags:oil electricity cars viaDanielDWilliam )
- 2. Coca-Cola remade its iconic Christmas ad with AI - and it looks as terrible as you'd expect
- (tags:advertising christmas ai cocacola )
- 3. This is how polls should be reported
- (tags:polls visualisation )
- 4. High gas and electricity prices likely to be the new normal
- (tags:gas electricity economics )
- 5. Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted, sparking warnings of possible 'hybrid warfare'
- (tags:Finland Germany infrastructure Russia )
- 6. Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence in primary schools
- (tags:bullying psychology research school )
- 7. Only farms worth more than £3m will be taxed
- (tags:farming farm tax UK )
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