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Interesting Links for 21-12-2025
Dec. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Transgender kids change their minds only 6% of the time
- (tags:LGBT transgender children psychology )
- 2. A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London
- (tags:electricity infrastructure tunnels London UK )
- 3. AI Chatbots Are Poisoning Research Archives With Fake Citations
- (tags:AI research doom OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Italian bears living near villages have evolved to be smaller and less aggressive
- (tags:bears evolution )
- 5. Santa Claus is still a woman
- (tags:presents christmas women patriarchy society )
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- uk,
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Interesting Links for 25-05-2024
May. 25th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Dispatches from the media apocalypse
- (tags:journalism doom Technology )
- 2. Edinburgh scraps plans for workplace parking charge
- (tags:OhForFucksSake cars edinburgh )
- 3. UN's top court orders Israel to halt Rafah offensive, citing 'immense risk'
- (tags:UnitedNations israel gaza )
- 4. A Woman Who Left Society to Live With Bears Weighs in on "Man or Bear"
- (tags:men bears society patriarchy )
- 5. Google's new AI is using headlines from The Onion as if they were true
- (tags:Google TheOnion ai OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Watch: Edinburgh residents share their pictures of videos of severe rain that caused widespread disruption
- (tags:Edinburgh rain video )
- 7. After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo
- (tags:games law ownership )
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- ohforfuckssake,
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- technology,
- theonion,
- unitednations,
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Interesting Links for 18-05-2024
May. 18th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Voters back taxing rich more to help pay for NHS
- (tags:tax UK polls )
- 2. Fifth hydro project proposed at Loch Ness
- (tags:hydroelectric storage Scotland LochNess )
- 3. Would Britons rather be stuck in a forest with a man or a bear? (what do the polls say)
- (tags:bears men polls )
- 4. What it's like to discover that you're allistic
- (tags:autism funny video satire viaSwampers )
Interesting Links for 17-02-2024
Feb. 17th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Air Force OKs Autonomous Cargo Flights Across California After Successful Test
- (tags:automation airplanes military california usa )
- 2. The UK will keep falling into recession until we renegotiate Brexit
- (tags:uk economics europe doom )
- 3. 'I was told not to have therapy because it could let my rapist walk free'
- (tags:therapy rape OhForFucksSake uk law )
- 4. How Junk Science Set The UK's Health And Welfare Policy
- (tags:uk pandemic ChronicFatigueSyndrome OhForFucksSake )
- 5. A brief history of the iconic Thierry Mugler cyborg suit worn by Zendaya
- (tags:fashion scifi history movies )
- 6. Elon Musk's X allows China and Russia-based propaganda banned on other platforms
- (tags:china russia propaganda twitter ElonMusk OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations
- (tags:bears cryptozoology )
- 8. The adult consequences of being bullied in childhood
- (tags:bullying )
- 9. University of Bristol contributed to the death of one of its students (by failing in its duty of care over her mental health)
- (tags:university suicide mentalhealth law )
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Interesting Links for 04-02-2023
Feb. 4th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Turns out cats have object permanence
- (tags:psychology cats video )
- 2. "A New Drug Switched Off My Appetite. What's Left?"
- (tags:medication hunger diet weight behaviour )
- 3. Amazing manufacturing, chopping, and crushing devices. Hypnotic and impressive
- (tags:manufacturing automation )
- 4. Fastest and Most Skillful Workers Ever
- (tags:video work manufacturing cooking )
- 5. Polar! Bear! Cub! With! Mum!
- (tags:bears arctic video cute )
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Interesting Links for 02-12-2022
Dec. 2nd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. EU adopts rules to make it easier to start trade war if UK breaches Brexit deal
- (tags:uk europe trade )
- 2. 16 photos of Edinburgh's Dean Village throughout the years
- (tags:photos edinburgh history )
- 3. The persistent and pervasive impact of beingbullied in childhood and adolescence: implications for policy andpractice
- (tags:bullying psychology )
- 4. AI as a literacy aid
- (tags:writing ai business viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. Would you like £200 of Neil Gaiman comics for very cheap and to support a refugee charity?
- (tags:neilgaiman comics charity )
- 6. I just watched the trailer for Cocaine Bear. And it is clearly the parable for our times
- (tags:Bears drugs trailer video wtf )
Interesting Links for 06-10-2022
Oct. 6th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Iranian explosive drones used by Russia in Ukraine manufactured with British and US components
- (tags:drone weaponry Iran UK USA Russia Ukraine OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Empirical Failures of the Claim That Autistic People Lack a Theory of Mind
- (tags:psychology autism fail )
- 3. Fat Bear Week: Race is on for Alaska's bulkiest grizzly
- (tags:bears weight viaDanielDWilliam )
- 4. The City of London's oldest document is currently on public display
- (tags:london history )
- 5. The robot that makes friest faster than humans
- (tags:robots cooking food viaLilysea )
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Interesting Links for 05-02-2022
Feb. 5th, 2022 12:00 pm- Russia and China line up against U.S. in "no limits" partnership
- (tags:USA Russia China )
- Is there anything Boris Johnson will tell the truth about (fake fur edition)
- (tags:bears materials lies BorisJohnson army )
- Hilariously Renamed Dungeons & Dragons Monsters
- (tags:names dungeonsanddragons funny )
- Why Jimmy Carr's joke about genocide and travellers is unacceptable
- (tags:jokes genocide roma racism )
Interesting Links for 02-01-2022
Jan. 2nd, 2022 12:00 pm- 100 Hue Color Vision Test (I scored 4, how about you?)
- (tags:quiz colour )
- How effective are the booster vaccines against Omicron?
- (tags:vaccine vaccination UK Pandemic )
- China's Ban on 'Sissy Men' Is Bound to Backfire (as well as being genuinely awful)
- (tags:China society gender OhForFucksSake )
- Lothian buses reduces services until the 22nd because of covid-related staff absences
- (tags:Edinburgh buses transport )
- The ice grizzlies of Yukon (they look stunning and sound like chandeliers)
- (tags:Bears ice photos )
Interesting Links for 25-12-2021
Dec. 25th, 2021 12:00 pm- Keir Starmer hints at informal pact with Liberal Democrats at next general election
- (tags:labour libdem elections hope )
- Brexit customs controls coming in January 'disastrous' for UK traders, business chiefs warn
- (tags:business trade UK Europe Doom )
- Children develop robust and sustained cross-reactive immunity after Covid
- (tags:virus children immune_system GoodNews )
- Have *you* been taken in by "Plan DELICIOUS HUMAN"?
- (tags:Bears conspiracy funny )
- The USS William D. Porter: The Unluckiest Ship in WWII
- (tags:wwii ship history luck )
Interesting Links for 16-12-2021
Dec. 16th, 2021 12:00 pm- How autistic people are different - what's the research?
- (tags:research autism )
- Why doesn't Scotland have tougher Covid measures? (Because Westminster won't give them the money to pay for them)
- (tags:uk scotland pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- Leave voters go cold on Boris Johnson's Brexit deal
- (tags:uk europe BorisJohnson )
- Pfizer's anti-COVID drug still looks effective after further analysis (no deaths, 80% drop in hospitalisation)
- (tags:pandemic GoodNews )
- Mayo Clinic research finds immune system responds to mRNA treatment for cancer
- (tags:immune_system cancer GoodNews )
- log4j memes (If you laughed at these then I'm sorry about how your last few days have gone)
- (tags:logging java security meme )
- Polar bear cub born at Highland Wildlife Park
- (tags:bears scotland )
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Interesting Links for 13-05-2021
May. 13th, 2021 12:00 pm- Pet a dog and you'll do better for weeks!
- (tags:mentalhealth stress psychology dogs viaMyBrotherHugh )
- Photoshopping Paddington into movies: Star Wars edition
- (tags:bears photoshop StarWars )
- Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B in revenue
- (tags:tax OhForFucksSake Netherlands )
- Covid vaccine: UK decision to delay second dose vindicated by new research
- (tags:UK pandemic vaccination )
- National Trust archaeologists surprised by likely age of Cerne Abbas Giant (late Saxon)
- (tags:history UK art )
- "Help! A Male Colleague Thinks I'm Scary"
- (tags:gender work scary society )
- Solar and wind's competitiveness over coal is accelerating (80% of US coal plants either non-competitive or actively shutting down)
- (tags:electricity GoodNews solarpower windpower coal viaDanielDWilliam )
- France blocks post-Brexit EU financial services deal with UK over fishing row
- (tags:uk europe trade finance fish )
- Richard Garfield: Getting Lucky (a fascinating analysis of the role of luck in games, and why it's so important)
- (tags:games luck viaDanielDWilliam )
- The different ways of calculating the end of Ramadan
- (tags:islam moon calendars time viaLilysea )
- xkcd's "Map Projections", animated
- (tags:maps xkcd visualisation video funny )
- Member of the Scottish Parliament takes oath of allegiance in Welsh (also, BSL, Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, Doric, Scots, Gaelic, Canadian French, German, Welsh, Orcadian and Zimbabwean Shona)
- (tags:scotland wales language )
- British government is lying when refusing to rescue visa-free music tours of EU, lawyers confirm
- (tags:uk government lying BorisJohnson Conservatives music europe )
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- viadanieldwilliam,
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- viamybrotherhugh,
- video,
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- wales,
- windpower,
- work,
- xkcd
Interesting Links for 28-04-2021
Apr. 28th, 2021 12:00 pm- This is the first house to be 3D printed from raw earth
- (tags:3dprinting housing architecture Technology )
- Autistic teens face 'barbaric' treatment, parents tell MPs
- (tags:autism children UK OhForFucksSake )
- Poor people spend much longer waiting for things than rich people
- (tags:organisation society inequality bureaucracy )
- What's Boris Johnson really like?
- (tags:BorisJohnson )
- Teenage girls playing football face twice concussion risk of boys
- (tags:injury girls football )
- Early alphabetic writing in the ancient Near East: the 'missing link'
- (tags:language writing prehistory )
- Tory donor who paid for PM's Downing Street refurb won lucrative public contracts worth up to £120m
- (tags:conservatives money BorisJohnson )
- If someone tells you your room is a pig sty they're giving you a compliment
- (tags:pigs video cleanliness )
- The 7th time this ranger was struck by lightning was also the 22nd time he fought off a bear with a stick
- (tags:lightning bears luck )
- The Josh Battle Royale! (Many Joshes enter - one Josh leaves!)
- (tags:names funny fighting )
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Interesting Links for 16-01-2021
Jan. 16th, 2021 12:00 pm- Everything We Know Now About Schools, Kids, and Covid-19
- (tags:pandemic school children )
- US grid will see 80 percent of its new capacity go emission-free in 2021
- (tags:renewables electricity USA GoodNews )
- Something to remember when you're working with difficult people
- (tags:organisation comic management )
- This painted pig is the world's oldest known figurative art
- (tags:art prehistory )
- The ACLU just released an app to record police "encounters"
- (tags:police video transparentsociety USA violence )
- How A-Ha were critical to the development of electric car incentives in Norway
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1347866954569232384.html
(tags:Norway electricity cars history viaPatrickHadfield ) - There is no US COVID vaccine reserve. Trump admin already shipped it
- (tags:USA vaccine pandemic wtf )
- What can ancient Greece tell us about how to deal with America's attempted coup?
- (tags:coup USA Greece history viaDanielDWilliam )
- UK snow: Polar bears enjoy Yorkshire's wintry weather
- (tags:UK bears video )
- Macaulay Culkin backs calls for Donald Trump to be cut from Home Alone 2: Lost In New York
- (tags:movies coup USA )
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Interesting Links for 12-11-2020
Nov. 12th, 2020 12:00 pm- "My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania"
- (tags:USA voting )
- Dwayne Johnson is rebooting The Scorpion King
- (tags:movies )
- So, how is the USA managing its Covid-19 response?
- (tags:USA pandemic epicfail )
- Our Brains Have Two Distinct "Beauty Centres": One For Art And One For Faces
- (tags:beauty faces art psychology brain neuroscience )
- Being More Authentic On Social Media Could Improve Your Wellbeing (I suspect that being more authentic generally would do the trick, hiding who you are is exhausting and stressful)
- (tags:psychology happiness socialmedia )
- Boris Johnson picks pro-fracking Tory MP who has campaigned against wind farms as 'climate change champion'
- (tags:globalwarming conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- Capital gains tax: Rate should double, says government review
- (tags:UK tax )
- Behold! The most Irish of all films!
- (tags:Ireland movies satire trailer funny )
- A focus group on Trump voters finds out what they really think. (Interesting on defunding the police)
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1326210279387099136.html
(tags:voting usa ) - COVID-19 Daily Dashboard for Scotland (broken down by neighborhood)
- (tags:pandemic Scotland visualisation viaDanielDWilliam )
- The Polls Weren't Great. But That's Pretty Normal.
- (tags:polls USA politics )
- Good statues of women
- (tags:women statue )
- Japanese town deploys Monster Wolf robots to deter bears
- (tags:robots wolves bears )
- How Brexit will make it much much harder for artists and musicians to tour in Europe
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1326554078256656389.html
(tags:music Europe UK Doom ) - New project at Oxford University explores the origins of money
- (tags:money prehistory research )
- Politics versus policy, and why the approach of Johnson and Cummings to exercising power is going so badly
- (tags:politics government UK )
- There is no evidence that suicides have increased 200% under lockdown
- (tags:suicide pandemic )
- Will government lockdown shopping loopholes destroy the high street?
- (tags:shopping UK doom )
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Interesting Links for 15-10-2020
Oct. 15th, 2020 12:00 pm- Is wind power's future in deep water?
- (tags:windpower Ocean )
- Amazon to escape UK digital services tax that will hit smaller traders
- (tags:Amazon tax wtf UK )
- Why women's gymnastics is legal child abuse
- (tags:abuse sports girls )
- Dissolving The Fermi Paradox
- (tags:aliens statistics )
- How game genres are born and how that can stifle innovation
- (tags:games genre design history video )
- High pressure superconductors reach room temperature
- (tags:physics temperature pressure )
- White House informally endorses letting pandemic spread unchecked
- (tags:pandemic USA Doom OhForFucksSake )
- Why are more Scots supporting independence?
- (tags:independence polls demographics Scotland )
- China insists Genghis Khan exhibit not use words 'Genghis Khan'
- (tags:china censorship history )
- Rosie Duffield: Second staffer quits over Labour MP's transphobic views
- (tags:LGBT labour transgender bigotry )
- Plan to let people get cashback from shops without buying anything
- (tags:cash UK )
- When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in.
- (tags:Bears government USA libertarianism )
- The world's first known babies were from Orkney
- (tags:fish archeology Scotland )
- What would be required for the UK (or Scotland) to rejoin the EU
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1316406750321442816.html
(tags:Europe Scotland uk )
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Interesting Links for 15-09-2020
Sep. 15th, 2020 12:00 pm- Apparently there are empty Covid testing centres in England which are turning people away because the booking systems are fucked.
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1305208471273566208.html
(tags:testing pandemic epicfail uk OhForFucksSake ) - JK Rowling's latest book is about a murderous cis man who dresses as a woman to kill his victims
- (tags:jkrowling OhForFucksSake )
- Why political parties can't just be based on "what people think"
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1305434347852517376.html
(tags:polls politics UK ) - Arm's fired China CEO refuses to leave, company reps banned from Arm China premises
- (tags:business China wtf computers )
- Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years
- (tags:Ocean data Microsoft technology Scotland )
- Brexit and the break-up of the UK
- (tags:UK Europe Doom )
- Public Health Wales had a data breach of Covid sufferers
- (tags:pandemic dataprotection fail OhForFucksSake wales )
- Whistleblower: There Were Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility
- (tags:crime USA OhForFucksSake )
- A Massachusetts Judge Asked Harvard to Find Out Why So Many Black People Were In Prison. They Could Only Find 1 Answer: Systemic Racism
- (tags:USA crime racism police )
- Beautifully preserved cave bears emerge from Siberian permafrost
- (tags:Russia Bears prehistory )
- There's an awful lot of overclocking out there
- (tags:Windows computers fail )
Interesting Links for 19-08-2020
Aug. 19th, 2020 12:00 pm- Would you like to listen to some butt music from hell? (As painted by Hieronymus Bosch)
- (tags:music hell painting ViaDrCross )
- Small Pleasures Are Just As Important For Our Wellbeing As Long-Term Goals
- (tags:happiness psychology pleasure )
- The Greek government is taking refugees out to sea and then leaving them there
- (tags:murder refugee OhForFucksSake greece )
- Want to keep predators away from your cattle? Paint eyes on their butts
- (tags:predator cows eyes )
- 40 Wholesome Middle-Age Success Stories
- (tags:MiddleAge success life )
- Belarus president: "Until you kill me, there will be no new elections"
- (tags:politics belarus dictators )
- Scientists calculate that the top 200 meters of ocean alone contains up to 21 million metric tons of plastic. And that wasn't even counting microfibers.
- (tags:plastic Ocean Doom )
- Coronavirus: UK to ramp up household testing
- (tags:Pandemic testing UK )
- This is what coronavirus could do to our offices and homes
- (tags:disease work organisation architecture design )
- Looks like I fit male and female stereotypes almost entirely equally
- (tags:stereotypes quiz psychology )
- Highland polar bear Hamish to leave Scotland
- (tags:bears scotland )
- Julian Assange: condemned by his own actions
- (tags:JulianAssange )
- How many pieces can a puzzle have?
- Of course you also get weird-shaped puzzles. I had great fun with one last time I visited my parents that had puzzle pieces carved into the shape of skulls, gargoyles, etc.
(tags:puzzles design mathematics ) - The town where it snowed chocolate
- (tags:chocolate Switzerland )
- Why a Baker's Dozen is 13 Instead of 12
- (tags:history cooking bread numbers )
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Interesting Links for 22-07-2020
Jul. 22nd, 2020 12:00 pm- 'I was found as a baby wrapped in my mum's coat - but who am I?' (amazing use of DNA scanning)
- (tags:genetics family history )
- Religious People Have More Negative Attitudes Towards Science - But Only In The USA
- (tags:usa religion science psychology )
- The female price of male pleasure
- (tags:sex pain pleasure gender patriarchy )
- Woman takes selfie as wild bear sniffs her hair
- To be honest, it looks like she did very-nearly exactly the right thing, and held very still until the large wild animal went away.
(tags:bears selfies ) - Scientists! Prove! Bisexual! Men! Exist!
- (tags:bisexual LGBT research sexuality )
- UK close to abandoning post-Brexit trade deal with EU due to deadlock on key issues
- (tags:Europe UK Doom )
- Playing video games doesn't lead to violent behaviour
- (tags:psychology games violence )
- Labour apologises 'unreservedly' to whistleblowers and Panorama reporter for attack on anti-semitism investigation
- (tags:Jews labour )
