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Interesting Links for 04-12-2025
Dec. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?
- (tags:law UK )
- 2. Drunk raccoon found passed out on liquor store floor after breaking in
- (tags:alcohol animals )
- 3. Arguments about simulated universes
- (tags:simulation philosophy argument funny comic )
- 4. Americans being ignorant about other countries
- (tags:countries USA ignorance funny )
- 5. Sasha the Christmas tiger
- (tags:tiger Christmas )
Interesting Links for 16-11-2025
Nov. 16th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. What's behind Rachel Reeves's hokey cokey on income tax rises?
- (tags:tax uk politics )
- 2. US police propagandists get paid to oppose views of the actual polled police
- (tags:police propaganda )
- 3. Alastair Campbell says senior BBC staff 'in the JK Rowling camp'
- (tags:LGBT transgender BBC bigotry )
- 4. Are Dogs and Cats on TikTok Really "Talking" with Buttons?
- (tags:animals language communication )
Tags:
- animals,
- bbc,
- bigotry,
- communication,
- language,
- lgbt,
- links,
- police,
- politics,
- propaganda,
- tax,
- transgender,
- uk
Interesting Links for 11-11-2025
Nov. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Multilingualism and Extending Healthspan
- (tags:language health lifespan viaKenny )
- 2. 'V for Vendetta' TV Series in the Works at HBO
- (tags:comics alanmoore tv )
- 3. Law used to ban Palestine Action being used too widely, report says
- (tags:law terrorism uk OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Why has one of Edinburgh's best views been off-limits for seven years?
- (tags:edinburgh safety rocks )
- 5. UK Government sets out plan to reduce animal experiments
- (tags:uk animals research safety )
Interesting Links for 27-10-2025
Oct. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 4 Halloween Costumes That'll Make Him Say 'Oh Cool Yeah I Haven't Seen that Show'
- (tags:Halloween costumes funny TV )
- 2. Time Immemorial turns 750: The Medieval law that froze history at 1189
- (tags:history law UK viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Why Warm Countries Are Poorer
- (tags:poverty economics geography temperature disease trade )
- 4. Chatbots Are Repeating Sanctioned Russian Propaganda
- (tags:russia ai propaganda )
- 5. Megafauna was the meat of choice for South American hunters
- (tags:prehistory SouthAmerica food animals )
Tags:
- ai,
- animals,
- costumes,
- disease,
- economics,
- food,
- funny,
- geography,
- halloween,
- history,
- law,
- links,
- poverty,
- prehistory,
- propaganda,
- russia,
- southamerica,
- temperature,
- trade,
- tv,
- uk,
- viapatrickhadfield
Interesting Links for 05-07-2025
Jul. 5th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Kent council bans transgender books in children's library section
- (tags:bigotry lgbt transgender uk library )
- 2. The story behind George Lucas rewriting/reshooting Anakin's turn to the dark side after principal photography had concluded on Revenge of the Sith
- (tags:StarWars )
- 3. Capybara! On! Ice!
- (tags:ice cute animals video )
- 4. Scotland pupils show rising reading comprehension
- (tags:Scotland reading GoodNews children )
- 5. Hundreds of robots move Shanghai city block
- (tags:robots china cities architecture video )
- 6. You will own nothing and be happy (Stop Killing Games)
- (tags:games technology history )
Interesting Links for 17-05-2025
May. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Keir Starmer is now less popular with Labour voters than Ed Davey.
- (tags:Labour libdem politics UK )
- 2. Illegal release lynx moved to new permanent home at the Highland Wildlife Park
- (tags:Scotland animals cats )
- 3. Fortnite deployed an AI Darth Vader. Players taught it to swear
- (tags:ai StarWars swearing )
- 4. Aberdeen to Penzance: End of the line for longest UK direct train route (running for over 100 years)
- (tags:trains UK history )
- 5. Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya
- (tags:Palestine Libya USA OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 11-04-2025
Apr. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Plan to remove all hedgehogs from Hebridean isles
- (tags:animals scotland )
- 2. Parliament and government have a once in a generation opportunity to reform the House of Lords: now is the time to seize it
- (tags:LordsReform government uk )
- 3. 9 Rules for New Technology (I don't agree, but I think they're interesting to consider)
- (tags:Technology viaPatrickHadfield )
- 4. How a $2,000 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured
- (tags:manufacturing phones USA )
- 5. Being online doesn't make people more aggressive or hostile; it allows a small number of aggressive people to attack a much larger set of victims.
- (tags:internet communication bullying psychology )
- 6. Levitating Bugs With Sound Could Transform Scientific Photography
- (tags:photography sound insects )
Interesting Links for 09-04-2025
Apr. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Confusion surrounds ETA visa waiver process for some dual national Brits
- (tags:migration uk passport )
- 2. Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals
- (tags:Intelligence crows primates evolution )
- 3. No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
- (tags:ai Technology images )
- 4. Trump tariffs based on massive error (as well as being total nonsense)
- (tags:mathematics trade incompetence EpicStupidity politics usa )
- 5. Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy (current payback time for a solar panel in Pakistan is 2-3 years)
- (tags:pakistan solarpower GoodNews )
- 6. People conceived during colder months may end up with a lower body mass index and less fat around internal organs
- (tags:weather temperature fat )
- 7. What's going on with the announcements of "bringing dire wolves back from extinction"
- (tags:prehistory DNA animals wolves genetics viaPatrickHadfield )
- 8. Bracket City - a fun new daily puzzle!
- (tags:puzzle games )
- 9. Trade Will Move On Without the United States
- (tags:trade USA )
- 10. Great Moments in Peaceful Protest History
- (tags:protests funny satire comic )
- 11. Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws
- (tags:gender race research libraries USA censorship )
- 12. China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
- (tags:china materials USA trade doom )
- 13. How are Trump's supporters dealing with the tariff fallout?
- (tags:politics usa republicans )
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- ai,
- animals,
- censorship,
- china,
- comic,
- crows,
- dna,
- doom,
- epicstupidity,
- evolution,
- fat,
- funny,
- games,
- gender,
- genetics,
- goodnews,
- images,
- incompetence,
- intelligence,
- libraries,
- links,
- materials,
- mathematics,
- migration,
- pakistan,
- passport,
- politics,
- prehistory,
- primates,
- protests,
- puzzle,
- race,
- republicans,
- research,
- satire,
- solarpower,
- technology,
- temperature,
- trade,
- uk,
- usa,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- weather,
- wolves
Interesting Links for 05-11-2024
Nov. 5th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Silicon Valley and Wall Street invent collateralized GPU obligations. Surely this will work out fine?
- (tags:economics technology ai doom )
- 2. Is it not enough to simply have a hundred anuses? Must you also use them?
- (tags:animals food bodies weird viaSwampers )
- 3. Brain atrophy in later life linked to bad quality sleep. (Sleeping less isn't the issue, sleeping badly is)
- (tags:sleep brain health )
- 4. Blood Sugar Control is a Key Factor in Slowing Brain Aging
- (tags:sugar brain aging )
- 5. UK's Green energy plan needs 600 miles of power lines
- (tags:uk electricity infrastructure )
- 6. Center Parcs plans first Scottish holiday village near Hawick
- (tags:scotland holidays )
Tags:
- aging,
- ai,
- animals,
- bodies,
- brain,
- doom,
- economics,
- electricity,
- food,
- health,
- holidays,
- infrastructure,
- links,
- scotland,
- sleep,
- sugar,
- technology,
- uk,
- viaswampers,
- weird
Interesting Links for 09-09-2024
Sep. 9th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Scientists invent nanorobots that can repair brain aneurysms (in rabbits)
- (tags:nanotech rabbits brain )
- 2. Edinburgh transport: 14 challenges facing new transport convener Stephen Jenkinson from trams to parking
- (tags:transport Edinburgh )
- 3. If anyone would like to buy me a marmot for my birthday that would be awesome
- (tags:animals cute video )
- 4. Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots
- (tags:fraud ai music automation streaming )
- 5. English Green Party backs rejoining EU
- (tags:UK Europe green )
- 6. Winter fuel payment cut could kill 4,000 people, Labour research suggests
- (tags:heating uk winter labour death )
Interesting Links for 23-08-2024
Aug. 23rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Australia to build the world's largest solar power plant (and a cable to Singapore)
- (tags:solarpower australia singapore )
- 2. Fruit and veg prices to rise unless Starmer delays new EU border checks
- (tags:Europe trade food inflation doom )
- 3. Pictures of animals from least to most related to you.
- (tags:animals organisation )
- 4. Metazooa - a guessing game for life itself!
- (tags:games nature animals )
- 5. Things of unusual size (with people for scale)
- (tags:size )
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 12-06-2024
Jun. 12th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. My other earworm of today is C-A-P-Y-B-A-R-A [an AI-generated song with an AI-generated video]
- (tags:cute animals video music ai )
- 2. It's not the screen of your phone that stops you going to sleep, it's the distraction it causes.
- (tags:screens Technology sleep )
- 3. Genes protective during the Black Death may now be increasing autoimmune disorders
- (tags:disease immune_system history genetics )
- 4. Donuts, Uhauls, snuggly farm cats, and international law - what happens when a chunk of spacecraft falls on your property?
- (tags:spaceflight Spacex law Canada USA viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. Objective or Biased - On the questionable use of Artificial Intelligence for job applications
- (tags:ai jobs bias )
- 6. On the Americanisation of Winnie The Pooh
- (tags:WinnieThePooh USA )
- 7. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says the battle for America "can't be compromised," and that one political party will "win."
- (tags:politics civilwar usa law )
Tags:
- ai,
- animals,
- bias,
- canada,
- civilwar,
- cute,
- disease,
- genetics,
- history,
- immune_system,
- jobs,
- law,
- links,
- music,
- politics,
- screens,
- sleep,
- spaceflight,
- spacex,
- technology,
- usa,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- video,
- winniethepooh
Interesting Links for 14-03-2024
Mar. 14th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Did you know there was an old rifle range under Edinburgh's Waverley Station? (6 minutes in to this video)
- (tags:guns edinburgh history trains )
- 2. What's been going on with Boeing? (they seem to have forgotten that making planes requires attention to detail)
- (tags:airplanes safety epicfail OhForFucksSake engineering manufacturing )
- 3. A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major internet platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.
- (tags:internet abuse crime )
- 4. Giant redwoods: The world's largest trees are thriving in the UK. (Except for not reproducing)
- (tags:trees UK )
- 5. The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets
- (tags:food business economics )
- 6. The Existential Relief of Having Children
- (tags:philosophy anxiety stress parenting children life )
- 7. The Abyss 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray UK release | The BBFC comments on its cancellation
- (tags:rats abuse animals movies jamescameron BluRay )
- 8. Do your pets help you make food? You ain't seen nothing yet!
- (tags:food cows video funny )
- 9. LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6% (and dramatically higher in Gen Z)
- (tags:demographics LGBT USA )
- 10. AI reveals prostate cancer has two distinct subtypes
- (tags:ai cancer prostate )
- 11. The full version of Tenacious D's - ...Baby One More Time cover is out. And even more awesome than you'd expect
- (tags:music video BritneySpears awesome panda )
- 12. Yes, the Tories are outrageously racist and sexist - but Labour is guilty too (writes Diane Abbott)
- (tags:politics racism UK Labour conservatives )
- 13. Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town
- (tags:sand heat battery finland )
- 14. The only other mammals to go through the menopause live longer because of it
- (tags:menstruation whales longevity )
- 15. New ONS figures show how Edinburgh's share of short term lets is massive by comparison to practically everywhere else in the UK
- (tags:edinburgh rental holidays housing tourism )
- 16. New extremism definition unveiled by British government. Is very vague.
- (tags:uk government language )
- 17. I see that J.K. Rowling is now engaging in anti-trans Holocaust denial
- (tags:transgender Holocaust jkrowling OhForFucksSake bigotry lgbt )
- 18. Assisted dying in Canada is accepted - but the UK should tread carefully
- (tags:euthanasia canada )
- 19. I was getting bored of running - then I found joggling
- (tags:juggling running jogging exercise edinburgh )
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- ai,
- airplanes,
- animals,
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- cancer,
- children,
- conservatives,
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- crime,
- demographics,
- economics,
- edinburgh,
- engineering,
- epicfail,
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- government,
- guns,
- heat,
- history,
- holidays,
- holocaust,
- housing,
- internet,
- jamescameron,
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- labour,
- language,
- lgbt,
- life,
- links,
- longevity,
- manufacturing,
- menstruation,
- movies,
- music,
- ohforfuckssake,
- panda,
- parenting,
- philosophy,
- politics,
- prostate,
- racism,
- rats,
- rental,
- running,
- safety,
- sand,
- stress,
- tourism,
- trains,
- transgender,
- trees,
- uk,
- usa,
- video,
- whales
Interesting Links for 25-01-2024
Jan. 25th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Inside the Mating Psychology of Incels
- (tags:celibacy sex psychology )
- 2. Nicola Sturgeon shares my opinion of Boris Johnson
- (tags:BorisJohnson politics incompetence pandemic )
- 3. How people laugh online in different languages and cultures
- (tags:laughter language )
- 4. Which Shows Got Their Finale Right, and Which Didn't? A Statistical Analysis
- (tags:TV statistics )
- 5. Pizza Hut releases a ramen pizza in Japan, and it took half a year to perfect
- (tags:pizza food japan viaSwampers )
- 6. UK companies won't be allowed to add mandatory fees at checkout in the future.
- (tags:uk business shopping regulation )
- 7. What's going on with Gorgie City Farm?
- (tags:edinburgh farm animals )
- 8. Military interests are pushing new nuclear power – and the UK government has finally admitted it
- (tags:nuclearpower military uk )
- 9. Netflix password crackdown fuels sign-up surge
- (tags:netflix passwords business )
Tags:
- animals,
- borisjohnson,
- business,
- celibacy,
- edinburgh,
- farm,
- food,
- incompetence,
- japan,
- language,
- laughter,
- links,
- military,
- netflix,
- nuclearpower,
- pandemic,
- passwords,
- pizza,
- politics,
- psychology,
- regulation,
- sex,
- shopping,
- statistics,
- tv,
- uk,
- viaswampers
Interesting Links for 01-11-2023
Nov. 1st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Israeli Intelligence Ministry 'concept paper' proposes transferring Gazans to Egypt's Sinai
- (tags:israel palestine egypt )
- 2. Hw locational pricing could save businesses (and everyone) on electricity bills
- (tags:electricity location uk economics )
- 3. Sports (and competitions) shouldn't worry about keeping themselves simple, learning the complications keeps experienced fans interested
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(tags:fandom sports competition viaDanielDWilliam ) - 4. I'm glad Neil Gaiman liked this post about Sandman, which meant I got to think about bits of it in ways I hadn't before
- (tags:sandman neilgaiman dreams )
- 5. Edinburgh's Gorgie Farm Site: Community Consultation Questionnaire
- (tags:Edinburgh farming animals community )
- 6. Black 4.0 Is The New Ultrablack
- (tags:colour art )
- 7. Samhuinn Fire Festival - photos as hundreds gather in Edinburgh to mark beginning of winter at Holyrood Park
- (tags:fire beltane edinburgh photos )
- 8. What The Goddamn Hell Is Going On In The Tech Industry? (So very very badly run)
- (tags:Technology business epicfail organisation )
Tags:
- animals,
- art,
- beltane,
- business,
- colour,
- community,
- competition,
- dreams,
- economics,
- edinburgh,
- egypt,
- electricity,
- epicfail,
- fandom,
- farming,
- fire,
- israel,
- links,
- location,
- neilgaiman,
- organisation,
- palestine,
- photos,
- sandman,
- sports,
- technology,
- uk,
- viadanieldwilliam
Interesting Links for 12-07-2023
Jul. 12th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh Zoo meerkats to move in to Sick Kids hospital to help youngsters connect with nature
- (tags:children hospital animals zoo Edinburgh Scotland )
- 2. Michael Gove gives £1.9bn of housing cash back to Treasury rather than improving safety or building more
- (tags:housing UK conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- 3. More Than 20,000 Moviegoers Have Already Booked 'Barbie'-'Oppenheimer' Double Features
- (tags:movies funny toys )
- 4. Was Richard III a Bad King? Or just a disastrous one?
- (tags:monarchy history uk )
Interesting Links for 28-06-2023
Jun. 28th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Hybrid working has not hurt civil service productivity
- (tags:work efficiency )
- 2. Just how big is 52 factorial?
- (tags:mathematics video )
- 3. Thinking of yourself as being responsible for the animal (which is also you) can be a really powerful metaphor
- (tags:advice happiness animals training )
- 4. Colour-cycling pixel art is gorgeous
- (tags:animation colour art )
- 5. John Roberts has wrested back control of the US Supreme Court.
- (tags:USA law )
