Very cool, if true

1. Santa prepares public statement following accusations that ‘he clearly prefers rich kids’

(tags:inequality funny Christmas )

2. "I Am the Very Model of a Miniature Tyrannosaur" (clearly the best way to publicise new dinosaur knowledge)

(tags:dinosaurs video music viaSwampers )

3. Tiny! Cute! Bat! (Second attempt)

(tags:bats cute video )

4. O Generous One! -(The Origin of "Carol of the Bells")

(tags:christmas ukraine history music video translation )

5. The deep ocean has a missing link between deep and surface food webs - and scientists finally found it

(tags:ocean food nature )

6. The complicated life of Francesca Albanese: A rising figure in Italy but barred from every bank by Trump’s sanctions

(tags:usa italy palestine israel banking OhForFucksSake )

7. Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI

(tags:ai libraries books OhForFucksSake )

8. Delay to post-Brexit deal costs UK £100m a week

(tags:uk europe trade )

Just noticed these didn't post on the day!

1. A story about a created being who wants more time.

(tags:life comic )

2. My brother's working on a new game that's just been announced

(tags:games video trailer viaMyBrotherMike )

3. Giant spiders the size of rats are coming to the UK - but not to your garden

(tags:spiders aieeee! UK )

4. Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover Is Now the Worst Buyout for Banks Since the Financial Crisis

(tags:twitter ElonMusk banking )

1. What does it mean that BlueSky is designed to be more open?

(tags:socialnetworking design computers )

2. Rishi Sunak Refusing To Apologise For Trans Jibe In Front Of Murdered Trans Teen's Mum

(tags:transgender Conservatives bigotry OhForFucksSake )

3. Man from Dildo takes photo of iceberg shaped like a penis. In Conception Bay

(tags:penis Canada photos iceberg names )

4. Lothian bus journeys increased by over 17% from 94 million in 2022 to 110 million last year (I wonder what it was in 2019)

(tags:buses transport Edinburgh GoodNews )

5. EU sets maximum bank transfer time to 10 seconds

(tags:Europe banking regulation time )

6. After Libs of TikTok posted, at least 21 bomb threats followed

(tags:terrorism USA )

7. Beard-seconds, Chains, Pirate-Ninjas, and other Units of Measure

(tags:measurement viaSwampers )

8. Mimas' surprise: Saturn's tiny moon hides a young ocean beneath its icy shell

(tags:moon saturn ocean water )

9. 13 Worst Bike Lanes in the World (Edinburgh is #1! Woohoo!)

(tags:edinburgh cycling epicfail )

10. Poll Shows 74 Percent of Republicans Like Donald Trump's Dictator Plan

(tags:usa dictators doom )

11. Apple releases an AI to help you edit images

(tags:apple ai images editing )

1. Cap on bankers' bonuses to be scrapped next week in post-Brexit shake-up of financial rules

(tags:tax bonus uk banking )

2. COVID's Damage Lingers in the Heart

(tags:pandemic inflammation heart )

3. Amazon Let Its Drivers' Urine Be Sold as an Energy Drink

(tags:amazon urine )

4. Large language models and copyright, what next?

(tags:copyright ai )

5. Women's Pockets are Inferior. As proven with science!

(tags:women clothing patriarchy viaPatrickHadfield )

1. YouTuber makes viral video about why Hades' hardest playthrough is basically impossible, then a speedrunner comes along a week later and beats it for the first time in history

(tags:games video impressive viaSwampers )

2. A completely free cookbook for the zero spoons crowd.

(tags:cooking food recipe )

3. The Good Omens graphic novel is Kickstarter's number 1 comics project …ever.

(tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett kickstarter impressive )

4. Mushroom poisoning deaths: Family lunch mystery grips Australia

(tags:australia poison fungus viaDanielDWilliam )

5. Closing a coal plant drops cardio-related emergency room visits by 42% immediately and then things keep improving

(tags:coal health pollution )

6. Banks have made it impossible for sex workers to store their money. Crypto exchanges are now following suit

(tags:sexwork banking blockchain OhForFucksSake )

7. Ukraine's 21st century war on a shoestring and the tech the West is racing to copy

(tags:ukraine war Technology )

8. Do not use "Brave" browser

(tags:viaLProven browser OhForFucksSake )

1. If geeks talked about cookbooks the way they talk about RPG books, the results would not be pretty

(tags:roleplaying satire cooking funny )

2. Orange Order puts Scottish headquarters up for sale as it runs low on cash

(tags:bigotry money GoodNews )

3. Study shows many American atheists hide their non-belief (and that atheist women find their atheism freeing)

(tags:religion Christianity atheism USA women )

4. Greece migrant boat had 100 children in hold as it capsized

(tags:greece asylum children death OhForFucksSake )

5. The FBI Groomed a 16-Year-Old With Brain Development Issues to Become a Terrorist

(tags:terrorism FBI children OhForFucksSake )

6. Former head of police watchdog charged with multiple counts of raping a girl under 16

(tags:children rape police OhForFucksSake )

7. Whistleblowing banker who went to prison speaks out

(tags:Banking corruption OhForFucksSake UK USA )

1. Finally, the true meaning of the universe is revealed

(tags:meaning StarWars comic funny )

2. The condemnation of Jess Phillips for honouring a trans teenager is a new low in our culture wars

(tags:bigotry uk lgbt transgender )

3. National Academies: We can't define "race," so stop using it in science

(tags:race racism science )

4. There's a hierarchy of racism under Starmer

(tags:labour racism UK OhForFucksSake politics )

5. Against the idea of gender dysphoria as a mental illness

(tags:gender mentalhealth transgender LGBT )

6. Silicon Valley Bank's collapse was spotted well in advance by everyone in the know - other than the regulators.

(tags:banking regulation OhForFucksSake )

7. 10 best D&D map makers for dungeons, cities and worlds

(tags:maps dungeonsanddragons )

8. So, you've been challenged to a duel. What are the rules?

(tags:duelling rules usa history )

9. Nebraska lawmaker 3 weeks into filibuster over trans bill

(tags:LGBT USA transgender politics )

10. Northern Ireland rejects Irish unity by large margin (50% to 26%)

(tags:NorthernIreland polls )

11. A Pro-Trump Social Network Wants to Corner the Anti-Vax Jizz Market

(tags:fertility politics USA viaPatrickHadfield headline )

Translating one of the earliest jokes from Sumerian

(tags:translation jokes dogs )

When your manufacturer updates your microwave over WiFi to make it think it's a steam oven...

(tags:internet cooking epicfail )

Some Guesses About What Happens Next in Ukraine

(tags:ukraine russia war )

Met Police begin interviews with key 'partygate' witnesses after 100 questionnaires sent out

(tags:police party Pandemic conservatives )

50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

(tags:scifi books list )

Starlink helps Ukraine's elite drone unit target and destroy Russian tanks

(tags:space Ukraine ElonMusk Russia war drone )

JK Rowling now making fun of police doing LGBT outreach work in an area where homophobic murder happened

(tags:LGBT police jkrowling bigotry OhForFucksSake )

Why hasn't the ruble crashed further?

(tags:economics banking Russia Ukraine )

Woman hunting for man whose name she had tattooed on her bum during a girls' holiday in Magaluf ten years ago

(tags:headline tattoo alcohol )

The Scottish government is looking for feedback on the proposed Gender Recognition Reform Bill - please give it, as people who feel differently definitely will

(tags:Scotland LGBT transgender law )

A list of problems the British government isn't interested in solving

(tags:UK conservatives corruption inequality )

Evolution can occur really, really rapidly

(tags:evolution )

Dare you brave...The Climate Spiral??? (Which shows how global temperature has changed over the last 140 years)

(tags:visualisation globalwarming )

Hard truths about the gender pay gap

(tags:gender gender_equality pay )

Air Pollution Stops Insects From Smelling Flowers

(tags:pollution flowers insects doom bees )

I highly recommend the exhibition of Audubon's Birds of America at the National Museum Of Scotland (fascinating combination of art, science, and history)

(tags:art birds museum scotland )

Magpies have outwitted scientists by helping each other remove tracking devices

(tags:crows birds altruism Intelligence tracking )

What It Would Take to Bring the ISS Back to Earth in One Piece?

(tags:iss space )

Behind Pornhub's decade-old moderation problems

(tags:porn web business )

Playing Wordle to lose as badly as possible

(tags:games words loss )

Why The UK Wants To Block Russia From SWIFT Payment System While The EU Is Resistant

(tags:uk europe banking russia ukraine )

Understanding the War in Ukraine (a great overview by a military historian)

(tags:Ukraine Russia NATO viaDanielDWilliam )

The Beginner's Guide to Elden Ring (a most informative video)

(tags:games advice video )

This is clearly the best of all possible burgers

(tags:food video )

Understanding bad character: Research into the Dark Triad

(tags:psychology behaviour psychopath narcissism manipulation )

How to hold a baby when you are not used to holding babies

(tags:babies comic funny )

Pastor Resigns After Incorrectly Performing Thousands of Baptisms

(tags:religion epicfail )

Northern Ireland is trading a lot more with the Republic of Ireland

(tags:ireland NorthernIreland trade )

The UK's Covid testing is one of the very best in the world

(tags:testing UK Pandemic impressive )

Is Our Pandemic the Ghost of the 1889 Russian Flu?

(tags:history Russia disease Pandemic )

Finality does not exist in payments

(tags:money payment law rules banking )

Thanks to Trans Kids, Arizona's Anti-Trans Bill Is Dead

(tags:LGBT USA Arizona GoodNews transgender )

Omicron wave was worse for young kids; hospitalization rates 4X higher than delta's (7.1 per 100,000)

(tags:pandemic children )

Wales trials paying universal basic income of £19,200 a year

(tags:wales GuaranteedIncome )

EU can withhold funds from Hungary, Poland, top court rules

(tags:law eu hungary Poland )

Covid in Scotland: Vaccine offered to children aged five to 11

(tags:scotland vaccination children )