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Interesting Links for 13-12-2025
Dec. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How Screen Time Affects Childhood Brain Development
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- 2. Four reasons why the UK is already at war with Russia
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- 3. Looking Back at the Work of John Varley, 1947-2025
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- 4. Dating a man who's most likely autistic
- (tags:autism relationships )
Interesting Links for 21-10-2025
Oct. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Gamifying Hobbies Is Ruining Them
- (tags:fun gaming apps doom )
- 2. UK Public Wants More Balanced Coverage Of Political Parties
- (tags:UK politics journalism )
- 3. Anxiety Toolkit (a set of tools for helping with anxiety)
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- 4. Populism is bad for economic propsperity
- (tags:economics fascism )
- 5. Some 60,000 kids have avoided peanut allergies due to landmark 2015 advice, study finds
- (tags:allergies children GoodNews peanuts )
- 6. Goblin Tools - a collection of AI tools for neurodivergent people who struggle with things feeling too big and complicated.
- (tags:viaSwampers ai adhd autism )
- 7. Either public safety is an absolute priority at sporting events or it is not.
- (tags:israel football uk safety politics OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 03-10-2025
Oct. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3b in income, $13.5b in loss
- (tags:ai business doom )
- 2. Features of autism can affect age of diagnosis — and so can genes
- (tags:genetics autism age )
- 3. UK plummets down rankings for LGBTQ+ rights (from 1st place a decade ago to 22nd place today)
- (tags:uk bigotry rights lgbt OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 24-09-2025
Sep. 24th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Autistic Perspectives on the Future of Clinical Autism Research
- (tags:autism research )
- 2. Europe's EV sales surge 26% in 2025 while Tesla faces 34% decline
- (tags:europe Tesla electricity cars )
- 3. How England is fixing its recycling mess (jump to 7:10 to skip the history lesson)
- (tags:England recycling law )
- 4. All the signs that Putin wants another war in Europe within months
- (tags:russia war europe doom )
Interesting Links for 22-09-2025
Sep. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Canada, Australia and UK recognize Palestinian statehood (France soon)
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- 2. Among UK Jews, opposition to Palestinian political autonomy is vanishing
- (tags:UK Palestine Israel )
- 3. Examining overlap and homogeneity in ASD, ADHD, and OCD: a data-driven, diagnosis-agnostic approach
- (tags:ADHD autism psychology )
- 4. South Korea's President Lee says U.S. investment demands would spark a financial crisis
- (tags:usa korea economics doom )
Interesting Links for 15-07-2025
Jul. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem
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- 2. How old are you in your head? (Mid 30s for me)
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- 3. Reddit will start verifying the age (but not the identity) of UK redditors
- (tags:uk age reddit regulation internet )
- 4. "Autism" is at least 4 different syndromes, each with distinct biological and genetic pathways.
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Interesting Links for 07-07-2025
Jul. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour promised LGBT voters a 'reset' - now many feel betrayed
- (tags:LGBT bigotry Labour OhForFucksSake UK transgender )
- 2. Colombia seizes first unmanned narco-submarine with Starlink antenna
- (tags:drugs automation submarine Colombia )
- 3. The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and desperation
- (tags:fraud OhForFucksSake publishing crime lies )
- 4. Is Autism Genetic? (About 80% yes)
- (tags:autism genetics )
- 5. Why your baby is crying (at 2 months, 50% genes. at 5 months 70% genes)
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- 6. 'Improved' Twitter AI criticizes Democrats and Hollywood's 'Jewish executives'
- (tags:twitter ai bigotry Jews usa politics OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 26-06-2025
Jun. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Holyrood Committee seek views and experiences as part of new inquiry into ADHD and autism
- (tags:scotland autism adhd )
- 2. How would Britain vote, a year since the 2024 election (broken down in a wide variety of ways)
- (tags:uk voting polls )
- 3. Ooh Dark City has a 4k release. I'm quite tempted
- (tags:movies scifi )
- 4. Poll: 82% of Israelis want to expel Palestinians from Gaza; 47% want to kill every man, woman, child
- (tags:polls genocide Israel )
- 5. Poll: Americans' support for Israel at record low, backing for Palestinians at all-time high (46:33)
- (tags:USA polls Israel Palestine )
- 6. Why I'm glad the NHS has rejected two Alzheimer's 'wonder drugs'
- (tags:alzheimers medicine NHS )
- 7. Warwickshire County Council leader resigns, leaving 18-year-old in charge (Reform, unsurprisingly)
- (tags:politics UK )
- 8. Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11
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- 9. How disability benefits are paid across the world - and how UK compares
- (tags:welfare disability international )
- 10. Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban
- (tags:UK bigotry children transgender LGBT )
Interesting Links for 10-05-2025
May. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. British Property Management Firms Are Helping Russians Avoid Sanctions
- (tags:uk russia OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Amazon's warehose robots can now stow items faster than most humans
- (tags:robots amazon )
- 3. Trans Labour councillor quits and accuses Starmer of 'throwing transgender people under a bus'
- (tags:transgender lgbt labour )
- 4. Why the rich paid less tax in the 1970s - despite 98% tax rates
- (tags:tax uk history )
- 5. "Letting AI make up cases" hits the UK legal system
- (tags:law ai fraud OhForFucksSake uk )
- 6. The House of Lords wants opinions from autistic people (diagnosed or undiagnosed), or people who care for them.
- (tags:autism houseoflords )
- 7. Scientists turn lead into gold at the LHC!
- (tags:materials gold lead )
- 8. Always, always check the answers the AI gives you.
- (tags:comic genocide funny ai )
- 9. Video Essay Condescendingly Reads Wikipedia at You
- (tags:funny satire videos )
- 10. American men who refer to themselves as 'moderate' or 'centrist' score basically the same on values and opinions as people who identify themselves as 'conservative'
- (tags:USA politics )
Interesting Links for 06-05-2025
May. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Co-op's chief executive has reaffirmed her commitment to "protect trans people to the end"
- (tags:shopping UK transgender LGBT )
- 2. UK 'green' hydrogen buses to run on fuel shipped 3,000 miles from controversial Saudi megacity
- (tags:saudiarabia hydrogen UK buses OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Autism: Myth Vs. Fact (The Onion)
- (tags:funny autism myths )
- 4. Israel to scale-up offensive in plans to seize all of Gaza
- (tags:gaza Israel )
- 5. Guess what the lowest winning vote share was in the council elections
- (tags:elections voting OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 05-05-2025
May. 5th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. What kind of person is the founder of Blue Labour?
- (tags:Labour OhForFucksSake politics UK )
- 2. Labour decides to destroy the universities funding model in order to satisfy bigots
- (tags:university labour asylum UK politics OhForFucksSake )
- 3. The NHS will be paid to cut waiting lists - at great cost to patient safety
- (tags:UK NHS OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Trump, brushing aside separation of church and state, establishes religious liberty commission
- (tags:USA law religion politics )
- 5. Ex-CIA official says U.S. deliberately gave Ukraine just enough weapons to bleed, not enough to defeat Russia
- (tags:Ukraine USA Russia war OhForFucksSake )
- 6. British pop star Olly Murs' gym transformation kicks off a fight about what women actually find attractive
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- 7. Autism tips for teachers
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Interesting Links for 04-05-2025
May. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes
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- 2. "I like being autistic": Assessing the benefit of autistic-led psychoeducation for autistic children
- (tags:autism education children )
- 3. Snake enthusiast survived hundreds of bites. Now his blood is aiding the search for a universal antivenom
- (tags:snakes immune_system genetics viaKenny )
- 4. They Sent the Message. But Did They Write It? (How AI is disrupting actual communication)
- (tags:communication ai doom )
- 5. Love in the time of cancer
- (tags:cancer love death )
- 6. Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director
- (tags:TV Australia art animation )
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
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Interesting Links for 27-04-2025
Apr. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem
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- 2. Statement on the Genocidal Nature of the Gender Critical Movement's Ideology and Practice
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- 3. Recreating the Mini Motorways game as a functional 3D printed map
- (tags:games transport 3dprinting viaSwampers )
- 4. Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and USA (raising money through an auction)
- (tags:scifi fandom auctions transgender rights LGBT )
- 5. The record-breaking tunnel being built from Denmark to Germany
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- 6. Mike Lindell's lawyers used AI to write brief—judge finds nearly 30 mistakes
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- 7. Stimming increases self-efficacy in autistic people
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- 8. "I have lived on an Edinburgh canal boat for nearly five years and I have no plans to jump ashore"
- (tags:housing boats Edinburgh Scotland )
Interesting Links for 20-04-2025
Apr. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. In Gaza, we are seeing the normalisation of evil
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- 2. On language and trans people, some tips
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- 3. Life before the Equalities Act 2010
- (tags:transgender gender equality rights UK law history )
- 4. The lead civil servant on drafting the Equality Act says the aim was to include trans people.
- (tags:equality lgbt transgender OhForFucksSake law uk )
- 5. The Minister who introduced the Gender Recognition Bill in the House of Lords in 2003 made it clear that "a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act [the predecessor to the Equality Act] as a person of the acquired sex or
- (tags:transgender lgbt law uk history )
- 6. Settlers of Catan - Globe Edition
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- 7. Thousands of trans rights protesters on Edinburgh streets following court ruling
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- 8. Musk to Force Pentagon to Build and Then Pay Him to Use Network of Killer Satellites
- (tags:ElonMusk corruption space )
- 9. Hungary's Orbán urges Hungarians to vote against Ukraine's membership of EU
- (tags:Hungary Ukraine Europe OhForFucksSake )
- 10. The UK is going to have to start making choices about Europe and the USA
- (tags:UK USA Europe )
- 11. Fusion power plants would require titanic amounts of lithium.
- (tags:materials fusion )
- 12. "Masking Is Life": Experiences of Masking in Autistic and Nonautistic Adults
- (tags:autism society psychology )
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Interesting Links for 04-04-2025
Apr. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Russia escalates attacks on 'internal enemy' LGBT as it expands war in Ukraine
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- 2. Why has Russia escaped Trump's tariffs?
- (tags:Russia USA trade )
- 3. A revolutionary new understanding of autism in girls
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- 4. How tarrifs really work (a peek into a deranged mind)
- (tags:economics funny satire )
- 5. An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
- (tags:intellectual_property ai )
- 6. Tariffs Are Driving Up Game Prices Now
- (tags:games economics USA politics )
- 7. The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT due to over-reliance on AI
- (tags:ai security thinking doom intelligence )
- 8. Largest ever UK pumped hydro scheme granted consent
- (tags:UK hydroelectric Scotland )
- 9. Chickens are the true miracle animal!
- (tags:comedy funny video chicken viaSwampers )
- 10. The "Naked Gun" Teaser Trailer actually made me giggle
- (tags:police satire movies funny trailer video )
Interesting Links for 26-03-2025
Mar. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Cute Japanese mascots squeezing through tight spaces!
- (tags:cute japan photos viaSwampers )
- 2. UK on alert after H5N1 bird flu spills over to sheep in world-first
- (tags:uk disease birds sheep )
- 3. Labour should follow German plan for economic investment
- (tags:uk germany economy investment austerity )
- 4. Tesla deliveries down 43% in Europe while EVs are up 31%
- (tags:Tesla electricity cars business europe )
- 5. UK Schools to run anti-misogyny classes for boys in bid to tackle rising toxic masculinity
- (tags:school UK teenagers boys misogyny )
- 6. Universal Coronavirus Vaccine Breakthrough: A Single Shot That Could Protect You From COVID, MERS, and the Common Cold (in animal studies so far)
- (tags:disease vaccine research viaPatrickHadfield )
- 7. Discrimination and autism: an analysis from a queer, autistic woman
- (tags:autism society )
Interesting Links for 09-03-2025
Mar. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Social housing to be demolished as post-Grenfell repairs are too expensive
- (tags:UK housing OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions
- (tags:cars driving ux )
- 3. Game-Changing Vaccine Offers Long-Lasting Protection Against COVID-19 & Flu
- (tags:vaccine pandemic flu GoodNews )
- 4. The Person Centred Association comes out against transphobia
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(tags:LGBT transgender bigotry GoodNews counselling ) - 5. Asimov's, Analog, and Fantasy and Science Fiction have all been purchased
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- 6. Why the Edinburgh South Suburban tram/train is unlikely to happen
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- 7. The Relationship between Autism and Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes/Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders
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- 8. Scandal of the sick: Ill and disabled PIP benefit claimants die while waiting for payments
- (tags:UK welfare austerity OhForFucksSake )
