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Interesting Links for 08-02-2024

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 )
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Interesting Links for 20-09-2023

1. The Ancient Times of TV were weird
(tags:tv weird history comic funny )
2. I'm pretty sure that this is where the search for consciousness is headed
(tags:consciousness funny comic )
3. No evidence people have bank accounts closed due to political views, regulator says after Nigel Farage row
(tags:politics banking )
4. Less than half of fresh produce sold globally makes any profit
(tags:business food doom )
5. Right-wing ideologues can't work out who broke Britain, so let me explain
(tags:uk Conservatives doom )
6. Humans Have Exceeded Six of the Nine Boundaries Keeping Earth Habitable
(tags:earth environment doom )
7. Facebook is Blocking Canadians' Posts About the Assassination of a BC Sikh Leader. Their Posts Were Targeted by India's Government.
(tags:india canada facebook censorship )
8. The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary
(tags:birthday piracy piratebay copyright )
9. I was furious at the idea of a 'male menopause' but I was wrong
(tags:men hormones age )
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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 )
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Interesting Links for 31-07-2023

1. China Launches First 700 TEU Electric Containership - with swappable batteries to keep it on the move
(tags:electricity shipping China )
2. "The Tragedy of the Commons" is nonsense written by a racist
(tags:economics psychology wrong )
3. 'No one I know has a bank account that stays open for long': The rise of sex industry workers being de-banked
(tags:Banking sexwork OhForFucksSake )
4. Why non-Jews being cast as Jews in Oppenheimer really isn't a problem
(tags:jewish movies society )
5. UK public libraries return six times their investment, generating billions of pounds worth of value
(tags:libraries economics UK )
6. Regular use of vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases
(tags:vitaminD cancer )
7. Government cuts cost of polluting in Britain in latest anti-green move
(tags:Conservatives pollution OhForFucksSake uk )
8. How should you pronounce the name of the company that was Twitter?
(tags:twitter names greece )
9. The evidence on low-traffic neighbourhoods and what fewer cars means for pollution and street safety
(tags:traffic uk evidence )
10. The looming battle over pylons across Scotland for green energy
(tags:scotland electricity infrastructure windpower nature )
11. Mindfulness reduces psychological distress
(tags:mindfulness psychic anxiety depression )
12. r/law bans Twitter submissions over child sex abuse material
(tags:twitter reddit )
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Interesting Links for 17-06-2023

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 )
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Interesting Links for 24-03-2023

1. Sex Worker-Led Payment Platform Shuts Down After Being Cut Off by Processor
(tags:sexwork payment banking OhForFucksSake )
2. Who, really, *is* Brandon Sanderson? (Other than the biggest fantasy writer in the world)
(tags:writing fantasy )
3. Sometimes card tricks look so impossible that they just have to be magic
(tags:magic cards video impressive )
4. Women comparing themselves with 'perfect' genitals in porn is contributing to a 300% rise in labiaplasty
(tags:genitals vagina surgery porn society )
5. Who knew octopi would be so clingy?
(tags:octopus cute video )
6. Epic's new motion-capture animation tech has to be seen to be believed
(tags:motioncapture impressive faces )
7. Nasal Covid vaccine shows promise in early clinical trial
(tags:pandemic noses vaccine )
8. Armed Metropolitan Police officer escapes domestic abuse prosecution after controlling 'every step' of his investigation
(tags:police abuse UK OhForFucksSake )
9. JPMorgan Chase thought it had $1.3 million worth of nickel stored in a warehouse. A closer examination revealed bags of stones.
(tags:fraud metal trade )
10. A Doctor Who game - join them together and try to reach 13. (I've gotten as far as the War Doctor)
(tags:drwho games )
11. Nearly one in five people find everyday sounds intolerable
(tags:sound psychology )
12. A machine that learns to play noughts and crosses, built from 304 matchboxes
(tags:ai games )
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Interesting Links for 17-03-2023

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 )
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Interesting Links for 14-03-2023

1. Work to begin immediately on £55m music centre vision for Edinburgh landmark (the old Royal High School on Calton Hill)
(tags:music school edinburgh )
2. Gary Lineker row: All the people employed or used in BBC programming who are outspoken on social media
(tags:bbc twitter socialnetworking )
3. The care worker recruitment crisis is even bigger than the NHS
(tags:jobs Doom care )
4. Why did 250,000 Britons die sooner than expected? (Austerity)
(tags:uk austerity death )
5. Silicon Valley Bank seem to have managed risk unusually badly
(tags:risk banking Technology epicfail )
6. Nabokov was not a fan of many people's interpretation of Lolita
(tags:abuse children rape writing )
7. Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Thing'
(tags:scifi funny music musicals )
8. The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man
(tags:Conservatives politics mistakes )
9. Trams! Invade Leith!
(tags:Edinburgh trams video transport )
10. What's Going On With Red Dwarf?
(tags:RedDwarf TV scifi )
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Interesting Links for 22-03-2022

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 )
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Interesting Links for 27-02-2022

Some Russians thought they'd take Ukraine in hours. One of their own colonels sets them straight
(tags:Russia Ukraine war viaDanielDWilliam )
Thousands of Romanians parked at the border waiting to take Ukrainian refugees home with them
(tags:Ukraine refugee Romania )
Your regular reminder that the UK's Home Office are inhuman scum
(tags:immigration asylum UK refugee OhForFucksSake )
EU and USA move to cut off Russia from making international payments and to paralyse its central bank
(tags:Russia banking Europe USA )
Millions in Bitcoin pouring into Ukraine from donors
(tags:Ukraine bitcoin war Russia )
"I'm common as muck and spent £150 in a Michelin star restaurant to see if it was worth it"
(tags:food review )
Russia-Ukraine Update (not going well for Russia, but they still have a resource advantage)
(tags:Russia Ukraine war )
The mystery of Anthrax Island and the seeds of death
(tags:death disease Scotland )
Brandon Sanderson has an incredibly impressive working output
(tags:work writing impressive )
Brandon Sanderson's Advice for Doing Hard Things
(tags:advice writing planning )
How would we get ourselves off of Russian gas?
(tags:gas viaDanielDWilliam Russia UK )
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Interesting Links for 26-02-2022

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 )
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Interesting Links for 25-02-2022

Petition to require the Royal Mail to continue to accept non-barcoded postage stamps
(tags:royalmail petition )
This is pretty much how I feel when people say "There wasn't a sequel" because they didn't like it
(tags:StarWars sequels movies canon )
Interactive Modeling Software Designs Intricate Japanese Wood Joinery
(tags:japan wood craftwork design software )
The negative space of war.
(tags:war airplanes visualisation russia ukraine ViaDrCross )
Clarifying the mandates of the Scottish Human Rights Commission and the Equality and Human Rights Commission in Scotland
(tags:Scotland rights lgbt transgender )
Dear Esther dev 10 years on: "That was strange. That was quite a ride."
(tags:games history interview )
Britain at loggerheads with EU allies over cutting Russia from Swift bank system
(tags:Banking Russia UK Europe Ukraine )
Boris Johnson Allowed Russian Interference into the UK as Putin Prepared For War
(tags:UK RUSSIA Conservatives )
An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring—which might explain why mammals survived
(tags:dinosaurs extinction paleontology )
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Interesting Links for 16-02-2022

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 )
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Interesting Links for 12-12-2021

This Digital Bank Is Designed for the LGBTQ+ Community
(tags:LGBT banking finance usa )
Covid pill being rolled out among vulnerable Britons could fuel dangerous mutations
(tags:Pandemic medicine Doom mutation )
The Prisoner Of War who escaped a Nazi camp in full naval uniform
(tags:wwii impressive viaDanielDWilliam )
The internet (and many large companies) are dependent on software maintained by people in their spare time, for free. This may not be sustainable
(tags:software opensource security )
Britney Spears: Muppet murderer!
(tags:BritneySpears Muppets )
Here's a collection of good news from 2021
(tags:GoodNews )
"It's hard to overestimate the impact Moominland Midwinter had on me" (looking forward to reading these to Sophia)
(tags:books children )
A pictorial history of Santa Claus
(tags:Christmas pictures history )
McDonald's McRib NFT Project Links to Racial Slur Recorded on Blockchain
(tags:funny McDonalds blockchain race food )
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Interesting Links for 20-08-2021

AI has the worst superpower… medical racism.
(tags:AI medicine racism )
Never underestimate an old person sending you on a quest
(tags:funny video )
Canadian Nobel scientist's deletion from Wikipedia points to wider bias
(tags:patriarchy Wikipedia )
OnlyFans announces it is bored of making money
The way that payment providers treat sex work is actually one of the best arguments for a need for cryptocurrency
(tags:CrowdFunding porn doom fans business banking sexwork OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )
Operation Choke Point - the US government attempt to cut off banking for services it didn't like
(tags:USA banking OhForFucksSake sexwork )
Skyrim foxes will lead players to treasure. But they were never designed to do so!
(tags:Foxes games design )
Pfizer vaccine effectiveness declines quicker than AstraZeneca (but is still higher)
(tags:vaccine pandemic doom )
How MasterCard and Visa make some kinds of work impossible
(tags:payment sexwork OhForFucksSake usa )
Shiloh and the Angel's Glow: An explanation.
(tags:bacteria history light )
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