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1. Israeli Intelligence Ministry 'concept paper' proposes transferring Gazans to Egypt's Sinai
(tags:israel palestine egypt )
2. Hw locational pricing could save businesses (and everyone) on electricity bills
(tags:electricity location uk economics )
3. Sports (and competitions) shouldn't worry about keeping themselves simple, learning the complications keeps experienced fans interested
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(tags:fandom sports competition viaDanielDWilliam )
4. I'm glad Neil Gaiman liked this post about Sandman, which meant I got to think about bits of it in ways I hadn't before
(tags:sandman neilgaiman dreams )
5. Edinburgh's Gorgie Farm Site: Community Consultation Questionnaire
(tags:Edinburgh farming animals community )
6. Black 4.0 Is The New Ultrablack
(tags:colour art )
7. Samhuinn Fire Festival - photos as hundreds gather in Edinburgh to mark beginning of winter at Holyrood Park
(tags:fire beltane edinburgh photos )
8. What The Goddamn Hell Is Going On In The Tech Industry? (So very very badly run)
(tags:Technology business epicfail organisation )
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2019-05-01 12:46 pm
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On the Euro Elections and "Vote-Splitting"
(tags:europe uk elections )
A poem about Silicon Valley, assembled from Quora questions about Silicon Valley
(tags:usa technology society california viaSwampers )
The European Parliament elections: smaller parties are disadvantaged, and the results are more complex than you'd think
(tags:politics europe voting viaDanielDWilliam )
Player ratings for Game of Thrones: Battle of Winterfell
(tags:funny gameofthrones football )
Hydrostor Will Build Compressed Air Storage for the Australian Grid
(tags:storage australia electricity )
Beltane's May Queen rages about planet damage
(tags:environment beltane )
Brexit: Theresa May threatens Labour she will abandon talks if deal not reached by next week
(tags:Conservatives labour uk europe )
Victory for Jeremy Corbyn as Labour NEC agrees referendum fudge for European manifesto
(tags:labour UK europe )
Facebook Wants to Connect You With Your 'Secret Crush'
(tags:facebook relationships )
"I feel grief and relief that I've never had children. Other women must share this"
(tags:children age society )
Fathers with their kids asleep on them.
(tags:fatherhood photos )
Jeremy Corbyn criticised for endorsing book which claimed Jews control banks and the press
(tags:Jews Labour conspiracy OhForFucksSake )
Happy 10th birthday, Dreamwidth!
(tags:dreamwidth )
How The Dolly Zoom Works
(tags:light physics film )
How the wrong kind of regulation means that the USA has drug shortages Peru doesn't
(tags:usa medicine regulation fail )
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2018-02-07 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 07-02-2018

Love Island women offered less money for other work than men
(tags: women men money )
Katie Hopkins detained by passport control for spreading racial hatred
(tags: racism southafrica GoodNews )
Theresa May announces review into sustainable print journalism
(tags: newspapers uk )
UK crops left to rot after drop in EU farm workers in Britain after Brexit referendum
(tags: UK Europe farming OhForFucksSake )
Scotland is now the right size on BBC's new weather map
(tags: BBC weather maps Scotland uk )
AI Just Learned How to Boost the Brain's Memory - From the Inside
(tags: brains neuroscience ai )
I had no idea paper jams were so complex and fascinating
(tags: paper technology design )
Edinburgh arts base "St Mags" under threat from £15m student flats deal
(tags: art housing Edinburgh OhForFucksSake beltane )
Elon Musk's Falcon Heavy rocket launches successfully - hopefully sending his car to Mars
(tags: mars space ElonMusk Spacex )
California Crops Rot as Immigration Crackdown Creates Farmworker Shortage
(tags: farming immigration usa Mexico fail )
Another Star Wars movie series is coming—from Game of Thrones‘ showrunners
(tags: gameofthrones StarWars )
Do you live in the Blue Banana
(tags: urbanisation europe viaElfy )
This may be the moment SpaceX opened the cosmos to the masses
(tags: space Spacex )
Want to help your partner stress less? Listen from the heart
(tags: stress psychology communication )
First modern Briton had dark to black skin, DNA research reveals
(tags: uk prehistory dna )
Gig economy: Theresa May promises to improve conditions for millions of workers
(tags: work law uk Conservatives )
UK could adopt Norway bottle recycling system
(tags: norway recycLing plastic uk )
What happens in a working-class town when work is taken away? (they vote for Brexit, because the government blames Europe)
(tags: uk jobs Europe poverty fail )
Winter Olympics : US skiers use VR goggles & brain zapping headphones
(tags: sport VirtualReality brain usa )
If we gave everyone a decent standard of living, could we sustain it?
(tags: life economics earth environment )
Americans are spending less on clothing (casual dress commonplace, ties vanishing)
(tags: clothing )
The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet
(tags: Technology review )
Germany has a government again!
(tags: Germany government )
The Stats on the ‘Star Wars’ Film Universe: Its Creators Are 96% White Men
(tags: StarWars diversity )
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2017-04-24 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 24-04-2017

Don’t believe Theresa May. The election won’t change Brexit one bit
(tags: UK Europe elections )
'Everything's on fire' - the scramble to organise an election
(tags: elections uk )
Dragon Phylogeny
(tags: dragons biology evolution )
The Hubris of Ignorance
(tags: politics usa history OhForFucksSake )
How Humans Are Shaping Our Own Evolution
(tags: biology evolution genetics cyborg thefuture )
The Narrative of Beltane – in Photos
(tags: photos beltane )
Creepily smiliing classical art and other Faceapp discoveries
(tags: art photoshop ai funny )
Aurora photographers find new night sky lights and call them Steve
(tags: auroraborealis funny names )
"Allow me to womansplain the problem with gendered language"
(tags: language gender )
Behold the wonder of the ages! A dog doing breast stroke!
(tags: dogs swimming video viaElfy )
Driverless cars trial set for UK motorways in 2019
(tags: automation cars driving uk )
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2017-04-23 01:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 23-04-2017

200 Word RPG Challenge
Some of the 2016 entries are fascinating
(tags: games competition )
UK launches programme to explore removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere
(tags: globalwarming Technology research )
"What I Learned About Life by Becoming a Landlord"
(tags: housing business usa )
Books That Literally All White Men Own: The Definitive List (11 for me)
Jane has, in fact read more of them than me. She's clearly whiter and manlier.
(tags: books society men )
Want to Stop Facebook Violence? You Won’t Like the Choices
(tags: facebook freespeech )
Liberal Democrat coalition rules
(tags: libdem coalition )
Sheep are not stupid, and they are not helpless either
(tags: sheep )
Share of people that thinks that humans have evolved from other animals vs GDP per capita
(tags: evolution belief usa OhForFucksSake )
Burning bright: Beltane festival celebrates 30 years of fire
(tags: edinburgh art performance beltane history )
I'd been wondering where last night's Dr Who was filmed. (Valencia)
(tags: drwho architecture spain )
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2017-03-31 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 31-03-2017

You can’t buy Congress’s web history - that's not how it works
(tags: privacy politics usa internet )
The Four Types Of Scarlett Johansson Movies
(tags: movies statistics visualisation )
Cat ownership rise driven by men
(tags: cats uk )
Transgender World War Two veteran Patricia Davies lived a lie
(tags: lgbt wwii )
Make this the year you go to Beltane Fire Festival (30th anniversary!)
(tags: beltane edinburgh )
Why you should always put a coin in the freezer before you leave home
(tags: food health electricity holidays )
OMG! Sharknado is real!
(tags: sharks weather )
Most Scots say Holyrood should decide on referendum
(tags: scotland independence )
Giant 4m octopus filmed for the first time
(tags: octopus video )
UK raids as Dutch prosecutors launch tax evasion investigation
(tags: tax netherlands uk )
Another teaser for season 7 of Game of Thrones. They really are giving nothing away
(tags: gameofthrones video )
Verizon Announces Plans to Install Spyware on All Its Android Phones
(tags: OhForFucksSake privacy phones )
The Man Who Wrote Article 50 Says It’s “Balls” To Say Scotland Won’t Get Into The EU
He dismissed the assertion that an independent Scotland would have to "join the back of the queue" for EU membership, arguing that no such queue exists.
(tags: europe scotland independence )
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2017-03-23 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 23-03-2017

Hungarian secret agent reveals in detail how serious the Russian threat is
(tags: russia spying viaFanf )
Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation
(tags: simulation philosophy computing )
Parliament shooting: Police officer and another man shot outside House of Commons
(tags: guns violence uk government )
Edinburgh transformed ahead of filming The Avengers
(tags: edinburgh marvel movies )
Chilling 4chan post written day before London attack appears to predict terror incident
(tags: terrorism 4chan london )
Programming: What can and can't be automated?
(tags: programming automation )
Help Save Samhuinn: our event is at risk
(tags: edinburgh beltane )
What it's like going to the Lib-Dem party conference
(tags: libdem )
So, You Want To Test A Nuclear Weapon?
(tags: nuclearweapons testing history )
Why do so many male journalists think female stars are flirting with them?
(tags: journalism men sex )
UK-based airlines told to move to Europe after Brexit or lose major routes
(tags: airplanes business europe )
DWP’s fit-to-work tests cause permanent damage to mental health
(tags: disability mentalhealth OhForFucksSake )
‘Game of Thrones’ Script Reveals New Details About Stannis Baratheon’s Fate
(tags: gameofthrones )
48 terrible, terrible jokes
(tags: jokes funny )
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2017-01-04 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 04-01-2017

Long-term stress erodes memory
(tags: stress memory )
UK's top ambassador to EU resigns before start of Brexit negotiations
(tags: uk europe diplomacy )
Think chicken: Think intelligent, caring and complex
(tags: birds Intelligence )
Sex hormone-sensitive gene complex linked to premenstrual mood disorder
(tags: women menstruation genes emotions )
Shout-out for Group Organisers for Beltane 2017
(tags: beltane )
Inflammation halts fat-burning
(tags: inflammation fat )
First China to U.K. Freight Train Departs
(tags: uk china trains )
Wherein a nervous liberal buys a gun
(tags: guns usa )
Having children carries big pay penalty
(tags: children women pay )
Sugar-Free Drinks Do Not Aid Weight Loss
(tags: weight health sugar )
Why do numpads on keyboards and phones have reversed layouts?
(tags: numbers keyboard design )
The spy with the stolen name
(tags: history children names spying )
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