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Interesting Links for 04-03-2026
Mar. 4th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. China's 450km/h bullet train is the fastest ever built
- (tags:trains speed china )
- 2. Two Major Studies, 125,000 Kids: The Social Media Panic Doesn't Hold Up
- (tags:children socialmedia )
- 3. AI-generated art can't be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule
- (tags:art ai copyright law usa )
- 4. Beyond Oil: The Strait Of Hormuz And The Global Food Risk
- (tags:food trade middle_east doom USA Iran war )
- 5. This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won't (check the date)
- (tags:politics USA middle_east history )
- 6. The Siege of Cuba
- (tags:cuba usa oil )
Interesting Links for 28-02-2026
Feb. 28th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Behold the wonder of The Naked Mole Rat!
- (tags:rats nature comic )
- 2. Earth's heat to produce electricity for homes in UK clean energy first
- (tags:heat electricity UK )
- 3. AI and Dreamwidth
- (tags:dreamwidth ai )
- 4. "Pretty Lethal" Trailer (captured ballet dancers kick arse. Blood and quips, looks like a lot of fun)
- (tags:movies trailer video ballet viaLilysea )
- 5. What is going on with Britain (and the US) on the Chagos Islands?
- (tags:UK USA diplomacy )
- 6. Liberal Jews denounce bill to ban non-Orthodox prayers at Western Wall
- (tags:Israel Judaism religion OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 27-02-2026
Feb. 27th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. The "forever chemicals" known as PFAS appear to be aging men faster in their 50s and early 60s
- (tags:materials age men doom )
- 2. On a technical level this video is very impressive. On a copyright level, someone's getting their bum sued off.
- (tags:video ai copyright netflix WarnerBrothers )
- 3. Red Dwarf's 'visionary' co-creator Rob Grant dies aged 70
- (tags:obituary death RedDwarf )
- 4. Esther Rantzen accuses peers of 'sabotage' as assisted dying bill looks set to fail (House of Lords proposes over a thousand amendments)
- (tags:UK law euthanasia OhForFucksSake houseoflords )
- 5. Burger King rolls out AI headsets that track employee 'friendliness'
- (tags:restaurant ai surveillance OhForFucksSake )
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- ohforfuckssake,
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- uk,
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- warnerbrothers
Interesting Links for 24-02-2026
Feb. 24th, 2026 12:02 pm- 1. AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data
- (tags:copyright ai books )
- 2. We should make it easier for people to vaccinate their children
- (tags:austerity poverty vaccination UK )
- 3. Green light for World Cup opening hours in Edinburgh (until 7am in some cases)
- (tags:football alcohol edinburgh )
- 4. RFK Jr's Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum
- (tags:food ai OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 18-02-2026
Feb. 18th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. U.K. government covered up dramatic spike in trans youth suicides
- (tags:transgender suicide UK OhForFucksSake LGBT )
- 2. WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
- (tags:manufacturing harddrive Technology doom )
- 3. Ancient bacteria found frozen in cave resistant to 10 types of antibiotics
- (tags:antibiotics bacteria doom )
- 4. Fake law: Barrister suing Dan Neidle relied on cases from ChatGPT
- (tags:ai law fail UK )
- 5. The association between academic pressure and adolescent depressive symptoms and self-harm
- (tags:mentalhealth academia UK psychology )
- 6. Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy
- (tags:origami materials design architecture )
- 7. Amazon are cracking down on erotica
- (tags:erotica publishing Amazon OhForFucksSake )
- 8. How "Remote Assistance" works with Waymo's autonomous taxis.
- (tags:taxi driving automation )
- 9. Inside Horden, the County Durham town failed by politics (if you were wondering why people are turning to Reform)
- (tags:politics poverty uk )
- 10. New Silent Hill game inspired by tiny fishing village in Fife
- (tags:horror games scotland )
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- politics,
- poverty,
- psychology,
- publishing,
- scotland,
- suicide,
- taxi,
- technology,
- transgender,
- uk
Interesting Links for 14-02-2026
Feb. 14th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. English schools told they have to out trans children
- (tags:bigotry lgbt children transgender uk england )
- 2. Every £1 invested in buses generates £5.
- (tags:transport investment buses )
- 3. Trans people facing 'workers' rights crisis' as court rules employers can ban trans women from using female toilets
- (tags:lgbt bigotry law toilets transgender uk )
- 4. Russian bot dreams of life beyond repeatedly typing "Vote Reform"
- (tags:politics ai satire funny )
- 5. Somehow "The Bone Witcher of Knob Mountain" is not "romance"
- (tags:publishing sex wtf )
- 6. European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women"
- (tags:LGBT transgender Europe GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 11-02-2026
Feb. 11th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Custom machine kept man alive without lungs for 48 hours
- (tags:Technology organs )
- 2. Australian author guilty of creating child sex abuse material over erotic novel
- (tags:australia children writing law abuse )
- 3. Semaglutide ameliorates osteoarthritis progression through a weight loss-independent metabolic restoration mechanism
- (tags:medication health )
- 4. PR companies are using AI "experts" to con newspapers.
- (tags:fraud ai journalism newspapers )
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Interesting Links for 10-02-2026
Feb. 10th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function
- (tags:caffeine coffee tea dementia viaKenny )
- 2. Stop Meeting Students Where They Are
- (tags:reading academia students )
- 3. Your phone edits all your photos with AI - is it changing your view of reality?
- (tags:ai phones photography )
- 4. Women's Institute branches shutting themselves down rather than enforce bigotry against trans women
- (tags:LGBT women bigotry transgender UK OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 05-02-2026
Feb. 5th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. From Crisis to Comeback: The Aral Sea's Recovery
- (tags:kazakhstan sea GoodNews )
- 2. Some good news about writing.
- (tags:writing ai comic funny )
- 3. 'Lord Of The Rings' Reader Can't Believe How Long It Taking Sam And Frodo To Fuck
- (tags:satire slash lotr funny )
- 4. If I was as terrible a person as this, I don't think I'd tell the world about it.
- (tags:relationships OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Epstein celebrated Brexit and 'return to tribalism'
- (tags:conspiracy uk europe OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 30-01-2026
Jan. 30th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Hampstead ponds trans access challenge dismissed by High Court
- (tags:lgbt transgender GoodNews law uk )
- 2. AI on Australian travel company website sends tourists to nonexistent hot springs
- (tags:australia tourism ai fraud )
- 3. Edinburgh Teviot, the world's oldest purpose-built student union, has been refurbished
- (tags:Edinburgh university photos )
- 4. Why banning social media for under-16s would harm queer young people
- (tags:LGBT socialnetworking teenagers regulation )
- 5. Not sure what I think of the Kill Bill/Fortnite crossover
- (tags:movies animation QuentinTarantino video )
- 6. Have you ever wanted to run a bookshop? Now you can do that for a couple of weeks as a holiday experience!
- (tags:books shopping holidays viaMyBrotherHugh )
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Interesting Links for 25-01-2026
Jan. 25th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Google won't stop replacing news headlines with terrible AI
- (tags:Google news headlines AI OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Israeli agricultural exports face looming 'collapse' as world rejects products over Gaza genocide
- (tags:Israel trade fruit gaza )
- 3. A very short piece of fantasy. One of the few things I've ever read that feel like Terry Pratchett.
- (tags:fantasy funny short_story )
Interesting Links for 24-01-2026
Jan. 24th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Campaign to counter transphobes pressuring the Council of Europe
- (tags:LGBT transgender politics Europe )
- 2. Finalists :: Comedy Pet Photography Awards
- (tags:pets animals cute funny photos )
- 3. Psychologists develop method to quantify 'toxic masculinity' in men (about 3% of the population are *really* awful)
- (tags:men psychology patriarchy )
- 4. Katy Perry's Friends Skeptical Of Alleged Powerful Boyfriend Who Lives In Canada
- (tags:relationships celebrity satire funny Canada )
- 5. Science Is Drowning in AI Slop
- (tags:ai research doom OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Cancer might protect against Alzheimer's — this protein helps explain why
- (tags:cancer alzheimers )
- 7. Who wants to be Trad-Friends?
- (tags:funny friendship )
- 8. 45 sanctioned Russian tankers passed through the Channel since UK 'crackdown'
- (tags:UK Russia trade )
- 9. Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots
- (tags:exams AI university France viaFanf )
- 10. New solar-powered lighting improves safety and sustainability in Edinburgh's parks
- (tags:solarpower park Edinburgh )
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- viafanf
Interesting Links for 23-01-2026
Jan. 23rd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Greens take Reform UK seat in first of its kind win (44% to 35%)
- (tags:GreenParty politics UK )
- 2. Hundreds of fraudulent AI citations in scientific papers
- (tags:ai fraud research )
- 3. Tory Councillors Say They Are Being Offered Jobs And Seats To Defect To Reform
- (tags:UK politics )
- 4. In Europe, Wind and Solar Overtook Fossil Fuels in 2025
- (tags:renewables Europe GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 22-01-2026
Jan. 22nd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Changing gender in the UK involves a legal declaration that you will live as the gender you are changing to. With legal consequences if you don't.
- (tags:law UK gender transgender LGBT )
- 2. Prolonged air pollution linked to increase of incurable muscle-wasting diseases
- (tags:pollution disease )
- 3. Six key takeaways from the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry (cover-ups leading to patient deaths)
- (tags:scotland hospital OhForFucksSake death )
- 4. MAGA's 'Manifest Destiny' Coalition Has Arrived - "It's up to us to keep pushing for the orderly governance of the world via American imperialism"
- (tags:usa politics OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback
- (tags:ai art comics )
- 6. Anti-trans 'data vandalism' damages scientific research, study finds
- (tags:LGBT research bigotry transgender gender )
- 7. When the United Kingdom annexed a north Atlantic island (and what they might do with it)
- (tags:scotland uk politics history funny )
Interesting Links for 21-01-2026
Jan. 21st, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Bid for massive AI-generated Glasgow mural given green light
- (tags:Glasgow art ai wtf )
- 2. Alternate universe in which Trump is a Russian asset is otherwise absolutely identical to this one
- (tags:Russia USA politics satire funny scifi )
- 3. A fascinating speech by Mark Carney, PM of Canada on how the world is changing
- (tags:economics politics Canada )
- 4. EU Parliament freezes US trade deal ratification after Trump's tariff threats over Greenland
- (tags:europe usa trade doom )
Interesting Links for 20-01-2026
Jan. 20th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Emergency services called after explosion at Rockstar North offices
- (tags:games explosions edinburgh )
- 2. This database tracks legal decisions in cases where generative AI produced incorrect information
- (tags:law ai epicfail )
- 3. Time spent on gaming and social media not to blame for teen mental health issues
- (tags:mentalhealth socialnetworking teenagers children )
- 4. What Have Unions Done For Us?
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Interesting Links for 16-01-2026
Jan. 16th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Making it illegal to buy sex hurts sex workers the most
- (tags:sexwork decriminalization scotland OhForFucksSake law )
- 2. Open Infrastructure Map (cool to see how much stuff is being built off the coast of the UK right now)
- (tags:infrastructure map )
- 3. Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout
- (tags:windpower solarpower renewables photos china infrastructure )
- 4. UK offshore wind prices come in 40% cheaper than gas in record auction
- (tags:windpower economics )
- 5. Student arrested for eating AI art in protest
- (tags:art ai )
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