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Interesting Links for 01-10-2022

1. Anyone want to be our neighbours?
(tags:housing Edinburgh )
2. Many men are simply incapable of being around attractive women
I officially apologise to any woman I've made uncomfortable. And I'm absolutely sure I have.
(tags:men beauty OhForFucksSake jobs )
3. Porn on Tumblr is a complicated
(tags:porn tumblr business censorship Apple Android )
4. Goblin cats are the best cats
(tags:cats funny )
5. Just how insidious is K-Pop?
(tags:music Korea )
6. Too... Many... Unusual... Laughs!
(tags:laughter funny video viaPatrickHadfield )
7. Some examples of languages younger than Scots
(tags:language history )
8. This house definitely has "unorthodox" design choices
(tags:design housing EpicWTF )
9. Elon Musk's Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius
(tags:Twitter sms ElonMusk )
10. Dredging the river Tees has released contaminants that killed crabs for miles around
(tags:crabs death pollution )
11. The lack of Third Places is definitely one of the major issues in modern cities
(tags:community cities video )
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2022-04-08 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 06-01-2022

Wordle creator promises viral game will stay simple and ad-free (I'm enjoying it!)
(tags:games money )
A bird building a nest inside a box (semi time lapse, lovely to see)
(tags:birds video timelapse )
A detailed, personal, history of the famous battlefield relic of a chest plate with a cannonball hole
(tags:history war France )
Google fixes nightmare Android bug that stopped user from calling 911 (fascinating explanation of how it happened)
(tags:phones emergency android )
France fines Google a total of 150 million euros and Facebook 60 million euros for making it hard to refuse cookies
(tags:facebook google cookies europe france )
European (and UK) drivers will be automatically warned when breaking the speed limit from July
(tags:speed uk europe cars driving safety )
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Interesting Links for 20-10-2021

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 28-08-2021

Google understands what I'm looking for in a phone
(tags:Google video funny technology Android phones )
Boris Johnson 'privately accepts' up to 50,000 annual Covid deaths as an acceptable level
(tags:death pandemic UK )
Russian Warhammer 40k LARP looks amazing (and intense)
(tags:Warhammer larp )
Microsoft won't stop you installing Windows 11 on older PCs
(tags:Windows obsolescence GoodNews )
Why Windows 11 has such strict hardware requirements, according to Microsoft
(tags:Microsoft Windows security processor )
What happens when you take a Trump lawsuit seriously?
(tags:politics law USA fraud )
Intergenerational inequality is just ludicrously large
(tags:inequality history demographics visualisation viaSwampers )
Just William, The Omen, and the Jew of Malta - how Good Omens came to be
(tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett writing )
Facebook "transparency report" turns out to be anything but
(tags:transparency Facebook fraud )
UK loses 83% of department stores since BHS collapsed five years ago
(tags:shopping UK )
UK Government to ban single-use plastic cutlery
(tags:UK plastic environment )
Ancient four-legged whale found in Egypt named after god of death
(tags:paleontology whales )
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2021-08-04 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 04-08-2021

Carbon neutral cement - by extracting lime from seawater
(tags:co2 cement materials )
Middle Pleistocene fire use: The first signal of widespread cultural diffusion in human evolution
(tags:fire prehistory society )
Apple holds out in adopting next-generation RCS texting standard
(tags:apple communication Technology )
Why X-rated masterpiece The Devils is still being censored
(tags:censorship movies UK USA history )
The UK's safety checks will not be recognised by the EU from 2022 (or vice versa). Manufacturers are not ready.
(tags:safety uk europe regulation doom )
Neil Gaiman catapulted into Chinese bestsellers charts after recommendation by wuxia star
(tags:publishing China neilgaiman )
The delightful friendship of the two men who shared gold for the Olympic high jump
Google will kill off very old versions of Android next month
(tags:Android obsolescence security )
Taika Waititi's Flash Gordon Film Is Apparently Live-Action Now
(tags:movies scifi )
We're More Willing To Engage With Sexists If We Think They Are Intelligent
(tags:sexism Intelligence )
Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains
(tags:insects ai )
DOJ repatriates looted "Dream of Gilgamesh" tablet, other artifacts to Iraq
(tags:iraq archeology usa )
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Interesting Links for 03-07-2021

New 'Alien' TV Series Will Be Class Warfare With Xenomorphs (from the showrunner of Fargo)
(tags:TV aliens )
Scottish Greens say SQA teaching benefits of climate change
(tags:globalwarming scotland Education )
Loch Ness falls to lowest water level in five years
(tags:LochNess scotland water )
Here's what a Falcon 9 looks like after 8 flights to space in a year
(tags:space recycling Spacex )
Drop-in vaccination clinics to open across mainland Scotland
(tags:Scotland vaccination pandemic )
Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Enable the IRS to fight tax evasion
(tags:tax USA )
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs have made themselves a home in Fukushima's exclusion zone
(tags:pigs radiation Japan headline )
What *is* classic liberalism?
(tags:politics history liberal )
Apps with 5.8 million Google Play downloads stole users' Facebook passwords
(tags:Facebook passwords apps android )
Queer readings of The Lord of the Rings are not accidents
(tags:LGBT lotr history )
Two more cis Black women banned from Olympics for their natural testosterone levels
(tags:women testosterone Olympics OhForFucksSake )
The Gulf of Mexico is on fire
(tags:Mexico sea fire oil )
High Court backs trans women being housed in women's prisons
(tags:LGBT transgender women prison UK )
A useful list of things that have to be explained in writing workshops
(tags:writing advice viaFJM )
English school planning on abusing children
(tags:school abuse UK OhForFucksSake )
When a nerd has a pH monitoring capsule implanted, what else are they going to do but intercept the signals and try to decode them?
(tags:hacks radio technology medicine )
Driver shortage crisis: Major suppliers axe deliveries
(tags:transport UK Europe Doom )
This mudslide in Japan is terrifying
(tags:earth Japan terrifying video )
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Interesting Links for 25-06-2021

Report outlines 80 ways Scotland could tackle climate change
(tags:scotland globalwarming )
Food shortages down to chronic lack of HGV drivers, business leaders warn
(tags:food UK transport Doom )
Scottish Green members criticise party's talks with SNP over transphobia
(tags:lgbt transgender bigotry GreenParty snp )
Vegan spider silk provides sustainable alternative to single-use plastics
(tags:plastic silk spiders vegan )
Brexit: Another mobile company to bring back roaming charges
(tags:UK mobile_phones Europe OhForFucksSake )
Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11 with Amazon's Appstore
(tags:Windows Android Amazon apps )
Windows 11 is much more than a new theme slapped onto Windows 10
(tags:windows thefuture )
Why isn't there more pumped hydro in the UK?
(tags:UK water power )
World's first cultured meat-production plant opens in Israel (5,000 burgers a day)
(tags:food manufacturing Israel )
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Interesting Links for 24-04-2021

New vaccine 77% effective against malaria
(tags:malaria vaccine GoodNews )
Warning over major Android 'package delivery' scam
(tags:apps scam Android UK )
Scientific paper that claimed smokers less likely to contract Covid retracted over tobacco industry links
(tags:smoking pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Post Office scandal: What the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice is all about
(tags:UK postoffices law epicfail OhForFucksSake )
The Post Office case is damning, but do not blame 'computer error' - it is very much the fault of human error of Post Office managers
(tags:postoffices law OhForFucksSake )
The problem with automated systems with no human oversight is that when someone hacks it you're fucked (NFT edition)
(tags:art hacking security fail viaPatrickHadfield )
The British pop star who had two careers in different decades, neither one as himself
(tags:music UK history )
'I felt like my life was over.' How sex tapes turn famous women into punchlines
(tags:sex videos women celebrity )
Colombo meets Star Wars
(tags:StarWars funny )
Gravity-based batteries try to beat their chemical cousins (I'm still sceptical, but we'll see)
(tags:batteries gravity )
Magnet fishing allowed on Scotland's canals
(tags:Scotland canal magnets )
The Bible as Dungeons and Dragons game
(tags:Bible religion dungeonsanddragons funny )
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Interesting Links for 12-08-2020

Sweet & Slim, Greasy & Grim: The Physical Traits that Define Men and Women in Literature
(tags:language writing gender stereotypes society )
Rise in English Covid cases above 1,000 a day breached government target
(tags:England pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Android is now the world's largest earthquake detection network
(tags:earthquake android )
Vaping makes young people up to seven times more likely to get coronavirus
(tags:pandemic )
New rules may force online political adverts in UK to carry labels
(tags:politics advertising regulation UK )
Broken cable damages Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory's giant radio telescope
(tags:space astronomy )
Terrible person sets up dating site for Covidiots
(tags:pandemic dating OhForFucksSake ViaDrCross )
Final Blockbuster to let people sleep overnight in the 90s
(tags:movies rental history )
How will exam results in England, Wales and NI work?
(tags:Education exams school uk )
EU Law Analysis on the legal issues of asylum-seekers crossing the Channel
(tags:immigration UK asylum Europe law )
Facebook's new policy bans blackface and some Jewish stereotypes
(tags:facebook racism )
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Interesting Links for 05-05-2020

Vote Leave AI firm wins seven government contracts in 18 months (seems to be connected to the people running the tracking app)
(tags:UK Europe NHS OhForFucksSake )
Nearly a quarter of British employees furloughed in last fortnight
(tags:UK employment pandemic )
The Hidden Rules of Conversation
(tags:language communication video conversation )
Apple and Google provide first look of COVID-19 tracing in iOS and Android
(tags:Apple Google Android ios pandemic )
Experts Doubt the Sun Is Burning Coal (1863)
(tags:history science sun )
Edinburgh artist creates beautiful images of what the city would look like overgrown
(tags:nature Edinburgh art )
'Time has come' for universal basic income, says Sturgeon
(tags:Scotland GuaranteedIncome viaCharlesStross )
UK COVID-19 contact-tracing app data may be kept for 'research' after crisis ends
(tags:NHS privacy apps pandemic )
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Interesting Links for 13-02-2020

How the Danish electoral system makes it one of the most representative in the world
(tags:denmark elections voting )
When Rage Against The Machine announced they were playing a bookshop
(tags:funny music books shops )
Squabbling mice win photography award
(tags:mice photos nature )
Many stories are told of a legendary trickster, a prankster, a fellow of infinite jest. But what do we really know of this "Bon Jovi"?
(tags:funny music myths viaJohnBobShaun )
Why are all the great philosophers so bad?
(tags:philosophy )
The Myth of the Barter Economy
(tags:economics history )
British man sleeping on streets in Europe after being blocked from entering UK
(tags:UK citizenship OhForFucksSake )
Irish reunification - what does the law say?
(tags:Ireland NorthernIreland UK law viaDanielDWilliam )
How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class
(tags:management business inequality )
Jordan Peterson, Addiction, and the Cult of Personal Responsibility
(tags:addiction wtf )
Google's Android Keyboard "GBoard" - 13 handy shortcuts
(tags:keyboard android google )
People Born Blind Are Mysteriously Protected From Schizophrenia
(tags:blindness schizophrenia viaSwampers )
Coronavirus (COVID-19): latest information and advice
(tags:disease virus UK China )
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Interesting Links for 06-11-2019

Separating 'gifted' children hasn't led to better achievement
(tags:Education )
What if birds left tracks in the sky?
(tags:birds photography art viaElfy )
Propaganda with faked news footage being spread by Conservative Party
(tags:conservatives fraud elections OhForFucksSake )
Constituency polls vs MRP vs 2017 results: where to look for tactical advice?
(tags:polls elections UK politics )
How a misleading story about Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson went viral
(tags:libdem viral fraud Europe )
British politics is broken — and the electoral system is at the heart of it
(tags:elections politics voting UK )
Non-Voters and How To Win Elections
(tags:voting politics )
UK's richest people exploiting loophole to cut tax rate
(tags:UK tax inequality OhForFucksSake )
Failing 15% of the time is the best way to learn
(tags:learning experience psychology )
Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats'
(tags:UK royalty rape )
René Descartes in The Matrix
(tags:philosophy matrix fanfic )
OnePlus's Android 10 gestures are far and away better than Google's
(tags:Android design ux )
Blackadder Final Scene (The making of) - entirely saved in editing
(tags:TV comedy wwi editing video )
Please do not spread Tory lies - even if they're about politicans you dislike
(tags:Conservatives lies politics )
Democrats claim victory in key Virginia and Kentucky elections
(tags:politics usa GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 04-07-2019

The Withdrawal Act 2018 locks in the definition of 'hard border'. I can foresee a fight over this.
(tags:borders NorthernIreland UK law europe )
"The time I tried to ruin Halo 2"
(tags:games ux design research opinion )
What makes a good voting system?
(tags:voting )
With obese patients, too often doctors can't see past weight
(tags:weight society viaFJM healthcare )
US diplomats telling people that the president's view isn't official policy
(tags:USA diplomacy japan )
Android Engineers take you on a deep dive of Android Q
(tags:Android phones linux )
Ever noticed that girls can like boy things, but boys aren't allowed to like girl things?
(tags:gender society )
Ocean floor five times bigger than UK set to be industrially mined
(tags:Ocean mining )
30,000 followers makes you an Internet "celebrity," says UK ad regulator
(tags:advertising celebrity UK internet )
Conservative Party members being investigated for Islamophobia can vote for the next prime minister
(tags:conservatives Islam bigotry )
Five reasons why Cancer Research UK's obesity campaign is flawed
(tags:obesity cancer UK society viaFJM )
Brexit Party lodges official complaint after all EU commission jobs given to Europe-loving foreigners
(tags:UK Europe satire funny )
The problems with a bridge from Northern Ireland to Scotland
(tags:bridge NorthernIreland scotland )
What is the female stress response and why is it interesting?
(tags:stress women hormones psychology )
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Interesting Links for 11-06-2019

What came first: my refusal to perform femininity, or the knowledge that I'll never be able to?
(tags:gender society women )
Scottish Power to build vast battery to improve wind energy supply
(tags:batteries electricity UK windpower )
Android now forces apps to include proprietary code for push notifications
(tags:google opensource android )
Huge, unexplained metal mass spotted under the surface of the Moon
I assume it's the engines
(tags:moon )
Cause of polycystic ovary syndrome discovered (in mice, human trials just starting)
(tags:pcos mice )
The US Government's Database Of Traveler Photos Has Been Compromised, US Customs And Border Protection Says
(tags:USA hacking identity OhForFucksSake )
Cineworld's 'revolutionary' ScreenX technology is coming to Edinburgh (looks very silly)
(tags:cinema edinburgh )
Councils admit failure to send out EU postal ballots in time
(tags:Europe elections fail UK )
Possibly the finest food truck idea of all time
(tags:food business funny )
Why legal weed in Britain isn't likely soon
I suspect the best chance comes from other countries moving first and us being swept along with them.
(tags:marijuana uk )
Fertilizer plants emit 100 times more methane than reported
(tags:methane pollution globalwarming )
The Good Omens Miniseries is a Love Story
(tags:TV neilgaiman terrypratchett love relationships lgbt )
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