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Interesting Links for 06-02-2025
Feb. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. In-patient services at Edinburgh's Astley Ainslie hospital to be transferred to East Lothian
- (tags:edinburgh nhs scotland )
- 2. The Curta Mechanical Calculator (I'd love to have one if they didn't cost so much)
- (tags:calculator mechanics impressive video viaSwampers )
- 3. AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU
- (tags:ai europe regulation )
- 4. Scotland! Will! Not! Ban! Cats!
- (tags:scotland cats wtf )
- 5. Time limit for child sex abuse claims to be removed in England and Wales
- (tags:rape children abuse law uk GoodNews england )
- 6. The greatest families behind the greatest showmen - what it's like living life on the road, and how that affects the children
- (tags:children family uk )
- 7. Probably the most sensible thing I've read about Neil Gaiman
- (tags:neilgaiman )
- 8. Nurse who objected to transgender woman in changing room admits harassment
- (tags:LGBT transgender NHS harassment )
- 9. Assaulted woman's divorce case was turned down by 116 Scottish legal aid lawyers
- (tags:Scotland law austerity divorce assault )
- 10. Scientists explore how to make quantum bits with spinel gemstones
- (tags:quantum materials )
- 11. CIA sent unclassified email with names of recent hires - at Whitehouse insistence.
- (tags:usa Intelligence OhForFucksSake doom )
- 12. "I looked for dating advice online - and got sucked into the toxic manosphere"
- (tags:men relationships feminism patriarchy OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 14-09-2024
Sep. 14th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The Music industry's 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
- (tags:music Technology fail )
- 2. How to Spot NASA's Solar Sail Demonstration Streaking Through the Night Sky
- (tags:solar space NASA )
- 3. New beanless 'coffee' emerges but does it taste any good?
- (tags:coffee caffeine )
- 4. What's the most accurate weather app in the UK?
- (tags:weather apps uk )
- 5. Lord Darzi review finds Tory austerity has left NHS in critical condition
- (tags:austerity nhs uk )
- 6. AI chatbots might be better at swaying conspiracy theorists than humans
- (tags:conspiracy ai GoodNews )
- 7. 'Good Omens': Neil Gaiman Offers To Step Back From Season 3 (I hope he does the same with the Netflix Sandman show)
- (tags:neilgaiman assault tv terrypratchett )
- 8. All maps are wrong
- (tags:GPS maps Technology )
- 9. New ChatGPT o1 Blitzes "Britain's Hardest TV Quiz" (Only Connect)
- (tags:ai quiz viaSteer )
Interesting Links for 07-09-2024
Sep. 7th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Neil Gaiman Film The Graveyard Book Paused After Sexual Assault Claims
- (tags:neilgaiman books Disney assault )
- 2. Russia Aimed Propaganda at Gamers, Minorities to Swing 2024 Election
- (tags:russia elections usa fraud )
- 3. Disabled children's charity hands 43% of grants to rightwing think-tanks
- (tags:uk charity OhForFucksSake )
- 4. University of Edinburgh submits plans for 'New Darwin' bioscience hub at King's Buildings
- (tags:Edinburgh university )
- 5. Sir Tony Blair branded 'despicable' by Fire Brigades Union for comments on Grenfell fire
- (tags:fire UK tonyblair disaster )
- 6. Puberty blockers a 'safe, effective and reversible' form of gender-affirming care, finds Australian review
- (tags:Australia puberty healthcare transgender )
- 7. Study: Playing Dungeons & Dragons helps autistic players in social interactions (it certainly did with me!)
- (tags:dungeonsanddragons autism )
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Interesting Links for 04-08-2024
Aug. 4th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Butterflies accumulate enough static electricity to attract pollen
- (tags:electricity butterflies )
- 2. Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?
- (tags:UK history names location video )
- 3. Neil Gaiman Sexual Assault Link Round Up and Timeline
- (tags:neilgaiman assault )
- 4. A bit more context on the Olympic shooting competition.
- (tags:olympics guns )
- 5. The massive transphobic fuss over Imane Khelif seems to lead back to...Russian corruption.
- (tags:russia corruption bigotry lgbt transgender OhForFucksSake sports olympics )
- 6. "We ran out of columns" - The best, worst codebase
- (tags:software development )
- 7. What happened to the swans in St Margaret's Loch (in Holyrood Park)
- (tags:swans disease Edinburgh Scotland death )
- 8. How to visualise (and display) incredibly long periods of time. The vast sparseness of the visualisation is overwhelming.
- (tags:time visualisation )
- 9. Olympic women's boxing eligibility controversy is a reminder of the harm in trusting bad faith actors
- (tags:Olympics bigotry Russia )
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- russia,
- scotland,
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- sports,
- swans,
- time,
- transgender,
- uk,
- video,
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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 10-07-2024
Jul. 10th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What's the state of housing in the UK (spoilers: terrible)
- (tags:uk housing )
- 2. More than half of anti-abortion MPs lose seats in election
- (tags:abortion uk politics )
- 3. Vatican to trans people - please resist the urge to become God
- (tags:catholicism transgender god )
- 4. Scotland's 2024 General Election in numbers
- (tags:Scotland election statistics )
- 5. This is the best write-up I've seen of the Neil Gaiman assault allegations. The whole thing sounds like a mess.
- (tags:neilgaiman assault )
- 6. New weight-loss and diabetes drugs linked to lower risk of 10 cancers (if you have diabetes)
- (tags:diabetes cancer medicine )
- 7. Iain (M) Banks: Two Authors, One Man (An exhibition at the University of Stirling)
- (tags:IainBanks writing )
- 8. UK's sugar tax led to a nearly 50 per cent reduction in children's added sugar intake from sodas and other soft drinks
- (tags:sugar children tax )
- 9. Evolution explained by Rage Against The Machine
- (tags:music evolution funny viaMyBrotherMike )
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Interesting Links for 05-07-2024
Jul. 5th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Neil Gaiman has been accused of sexual assault
- (tags:neilgaiman assault )
- 2. Aaand here's a song that Amanda Palmer wrote which might hint at a bit of a pattern with Neil Gaiman
- (tags:neilgaiman AmandaPalmer relationships lyrics )
- 3. How 14 years of Tory government has affected LGBT rights
- (tags:lgbt Conservatives )
- 4. Humans are part of the ecosystem (or: The way to save the lemurs was by vaccinating the chickens)
- (tags:Humans nature Madagascar chicken vaccination )
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Interesting Links for 05-06-2024
Jun. 5th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Columbia Law Review Refused to Take Down Article on Palestine, So Its Board of Directors Nuked the Whole Website
- (tags:palestine law israel usa academia censorship )
- 2. Faiza Shaheen quits Labour accusing the party of a 'hierarchy of racism' days after she was blocked from standing
- (tags:labour racism politics uk )
- 3. Did you know that there are fossilized footprints showing a woman picking up and putting down a child as they walked beside her?
- (tags:prehistory children fossils )
- 4. Sunak was offered a deal to stop Farage and decided to reject it
- (tags:conservatives UK politics )
- 5. There's no evidence that Farage being hit by a milkshake was an inside job
- (tags:assault conspiracy UK politics )
- 6. China turns on a solar plant the size of New York which could power Luxembourg
- (tags:solarpower china viaMyBrotherMike )
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- prehistory,
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Interesting Links for 17-05-2024
May. 17th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Starmer's pledges are insufficient and incoherent
- (tags:labour politics uk )
- 2. How US evangelical Christian groups started the current war on transgender people
- (tags:transgender religion USA bigotry LGBT )
- 3. Stephen Fry and Sharon Stone call for Kevin Spacey acting return
- (tags:acting assault )
- 4. Scottish Greens expel 13 members over transphobia
- (tags:LGBT bigotry transgender GreenParty Scotland GoodNews )
- 5. Wind Farms can Offset Their Emissions Within Two Years, And Their Energy Cost Within 6 Months
- (tags:windpower )
Interesting Links for 26-03-2024
Mar. 26th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. UN Security Council passes resolution demanding Gaza ceasefire (USA abstained)
- (tags:israel palestine UnitedNations )
- 2. Hate crime in Scotland - an explanation
- (tags:crime Scotland bigotry )
- 3. This is why I wouldn't let my daughter play sports in Ohio
- (tags:Ohio USA bigotry assault sports women girls children )
- 4. What's it like being The Mayor of London in a world of conspiracy and deepfakes?
- (tags:conspiracy fraud London politics UK )
- 5. Plans for first statue to named person of colour backed by City of Edinburgh council
- (tags:edinburgh statue women scotland teaching )
Interesting Links for 14-02-2024
Feb. 14th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. New Discworld games possible if devs "come to us with the right ideas and the resources", says Rhianna Pratchett
- (tags:terrypratchett games )
- 2. Teenager charged with attempted murder after transgender girl stabbed 14 times at party
- (tags:transgender OhForFucksSake uk assault )
- 3. Changing people's appearance with makeup and lighting
- (tags:specialeffects makeup history movies )
- 4. What will robots replace next?
- (tags:automation funny robots comic )
- 5. How Leith opened itself up by bridging its river
- (tags:edinburgh history River bridge )
- 6. Inside the parts of Edinburgh store Jenners you've never seen before
- (tags:edinburgh shops history )
- 7. Edinburgh drug consumption room backed by study
- (tags:edinburgh drugs )
- 8. Scientists found a 900m Stone Age hunting wall submerged in the Baltic Sea
- (tags:prehistory archeology )
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Interesting Links for 13-09-2023
Sep. 13th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Loughborough University student's device detects sport concussions in 10 seconds
- (tags:brain injury Technology )
- 2. Inside Russia's undercover crackdown on gay men in Chechnya
- (tags:lgbt russia OhForFucksSake torture homosexuality )
- 3. One in three female surgeons have been sexually assaulted at work in the last five years.
- (tags:doctors abuse assault OhForFucksSake women uk )
- 4. Note: attempting to get rid of sunken explosives by dropping explosives on them, while moored directly above, is not a good idea
- (tags:explosions history ships ocean viaDanielDWilliam )
- 5. Everyone in America is getting a Covid booster (unlike the UK, where it's only the very old)
- (tags:USA vaccination Pandemic )
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Interesting Links for 13-04-2023
Apr. 13th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Block on Scottish gender reforms to be challenged in court
- (tags:scotland gender lgbt reform uk law )
- 2. Ukrainian hackers get access to Russian top-ranking intel officer's email
- (tags:hacking security Ukraine Russia )
- 3. Behold: The silliest keyboard!
- (tags:keyboard funny silly )
- 4. The US Army Increasingly Allows Soldiers Charged With Violent Crimes to Leave the Military Rather Than Face Trial
- (tags:military crime assault usa OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Who wants a bike with square wheels?
- (tags:bicycles design video )
Interesting Links for 26-01-2023
Jan. 26th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Justin Roiland: Rick and Morty creator and star dropped by Adult Swim (over assault charges)
- (tags:USA assault tv )
- 2. Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots (what happens when you train an AI on all the text a person leaves behind)
- (tags:ai writing communication death memory viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. A lovely remembrance of a dying friend, and the last things he wanted to do.
- (tags:archaeology death viaDanielDWilliam )
- 4. Edinburgh's iconic Granton gas holder to be transformed into new city park
- (tags:Edinburgh gas park )
- 5. Clearly the best console gaming setup ever
- (tags:gaming consoles video impressive )
- 6. Facebook follows Twitter in un-banning Donald Trump ahead of 2024 presidential bid, Nick Clegg confirms
- (tags:Facebook politics USA )
- 7. What time is it on the moon?
- (tags:time moon physics )
- 8. Christian decline UK: How it's measured and what it means
- (tags:religion uk census demographics )
- 9. The UK's Biggest Cooking Myths
- (tags:uk cooking myths )
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Interesting Links for 14-10-2022
Oct. 14th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. When the police are injured at Notting Hill Carnival how did it happen?
- (tags:police festival assault )
- 2. Oblivion Mod Lets Players Order A Pizza Straight From the Game
- (tags:pizza games )
- 3. Why the Chancellor of Exchequer should read the book he wrote
- (tags:UK politics history conservatives epicfail )
- 4. "Free speech" networks and anti-semitism
- (tags:freespeech bigotry Jews )
- 5. What's expected of us (a short story about free will and time travel)
- (tags:timetravel FreeWill short_story scifi )
- 6. Scientists identify gene associated with strong immune response to Covid jabs (30% of UK people have it)
- (tags:pandemic vaccination genetics )
- 7. A dish of neurons may have taught itself to play Pong (badly)
- (tags:neuroscience games brain )
- 8. Having a baby? Sorry, your social life is over for the next 15 years (I'm very glad that I was 45 when it happened, and didn't mind too much)
- (tags:babies funny life )
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Interesting Links for 04-09-2022
Sep. 4th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. What is it that Kiwi Farms does? And what is stochastic terrorism?
- (tags:transgender bigotry assault murder forum terrorism )
- 2. Foreigners must tell the Israeli defence ministry if they fall in love with a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank
- (tags:Israel Palestine relationships migration wtf )
- 3. The problem with having complicated conversations in a public place is the huge disparity in understanding and experience, and the impossibility of having a level of conversation that works for everyone
- (tags:communication internet racism LGBT philosophy education teaching )
- 4. Why the Nazis weren't close to building an atomic bomb
- (tags:nuclearweapons history wwii Nazis Germany )
- 5. Cloudflare blocks Kiwifarms
- (tags:LGBT internet bigotry GoodNews transgender )
- 6. What has President Biden achieved?
- (tags:USA politics democrats )
- 7. A man deliberately infected with HIV has been denied compensation because he once shouted at David Cameron
- (tags:UK crime money )
- 8. How did "Steaming" come to be Scottish slang for"drunk"?
- (tags:boats history language alcohol slang )
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Interesting Links for 05-08-2022
Aug. 5th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The many levels of racism
- (tags:racism ontology )
- 2. Behind a nice conceit and good packaging, the Mr Men and Little Miss books are very, very bad
- (tags:books children )
- 3. Turning off the UK's analogue phone system is proving harder than they thought
- (tags:uk phones )
- 4. Putin is recruiting prisoners from Russian jails to fight on frontline in Ukraine
- (tags:russia ukraine war prison )
- 5. Edinburgh North Bridge to remain closed until 2025 after discovery of 'previously concealed' issues
- (tags:Edinburgh bridge )
- 6. How to really change someone's mind
- (tags:belief communication viaDanielDWilliam )
- 7. The monkeypox situation keeps getting worse - here's why
- (tags:monkey pandemic vaccination doom viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. Playing action video games boosts brain activity and decision-making skills
- (tags:videogames games psychology )
- 9. Apple retaliated against women who complained about rape, assault, and harrassment
- (tags:apple rape harrassment assault OhForFucksSake )
- 10. Who knew that watching fences being knitted would be so soothing
- (tags:video )
- 11. Summers are getting so hot in Florida that turtles there are mostly born female
- (tags:florida usa globalwarming turtle gender )
- 12. Scottish prosecutors angered by US criticism of record on child slavery
- (tags:scotland children slavery )
- 13. It's lovely to see sheer joy in playing with technology
- (tags:Technology weather viaSwampers touchscreen happiness )
- 14. What happens to Russian soldiers who refuse to continue fighting in Ukraine?
- (tags:ukraine russia military war viaDanielDWilliam )
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Interesting Links for 21-10-2021
Oct. 21st, 2021 12:00 pm- "i need a white guy"
- (tags:racism satire apps )
- The government let Covid rip through our care homes
- (tags:OldAge murder Pandemic lies government conservatives UK )
- Scientists create a wooden knife three times sharper than a steel blade
- (tags:wood materials )
- Is Halloween Pagan?
- (tags:Halloween history religion UK Scotland Ireland Christianity )
- Here's What We Know About Reports of Women Being Spiked With Needles in UK Clubs
- (tags:women injections assault uk )
- This is some very impressive camerawork!
- (tags:movies video impressive Cuba )
- New London to Edinburgh rail service to start
- (tags:London Edinburgh trains transport )
- COP26: Document leak reveals Saudi Arabia, Japan and Australia are among countries asking the UN to play down the need to move rapidly away from fossil fuels.
- (tags:OhForFucksSake globalwarming saudiarabia Japan Australia )
- Covid: Vaccines 90% effective at preventing Delta variant deaths
- (tags:vaccine Pandemic Scotland death )
- A massive object devastated Uranus a long time ago and it never fully recovered
- (tags:space headline )
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