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Interesting Links for 31-12-2025
Dec. 31st, 2025 12:00 pmTags:
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- boardgames,
- disability,
- happiness,
- links,
- mentalhealth,
- uk,
- video,
- water
Interesting Links for 18-08-2025
Aug. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Harry Potter board game creators to donate profits to trans charities
- (tags:harrypotter transgender boardgames GoodNews LGBT viaPatrickHadfield )
- 2. Europe Divided Into Areas With An Economy Equal In Size To London (this would make everyone happy, of course)
- (tags:maps funny Europe viaSwampers )
- 3. What does a proper British diet look like?
- (tags:tea satire video funny )
- 4. Happy 20th anniversary to "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!"
- (tags:history music funny lotr video )
- 5. Britain's first transgender judge takes UK to European court over Supreme Court ruling on biological sex
- (tags:law echr rights transgender uk lgbt )
- 6. Ranking AIs by how well they score in Only Connect
- (tags:tv ai quiz )
Interesting Links for 20-04-2025
Apr. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. In Gaza, we are seeing the normalisation of evil
- (tags:gaza Israel Palestine )
- 2. On language and trans people, some tips
- (tags:transgender language )
- 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
- (tags:3dprinting boardgames SettlersOfCatan )
- 7. Thousands of trans rights protesters on Edinburgh streets following court ruling
- (tags:Edinburgh transgender protests )
- 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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- israel,
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- palestine,
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- settlersofcatan,
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- transgender,
- uk,
- ukraine,
- usa
Interesting Links for 12-04-2025
Apr. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The AI That Writes Every Pop Song
- (tags:ai satire music video )
- 2. Wes Streeting's war on trans people continues
- (tags:NHS healthcare UK LGBT transgender labour OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Trump's tarrifs are about to destroy the board-game industry (for Americans)
- (tags:boardgames economics USA china business )
- 4. "The End of Creative Scarcity" (a short story)
- (tags:short_story creativity scifi ai )
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- satire,
- scifi,
- short_story,
- transgender,
- uk,
- usa,
- video
Interesting Links for 03-09-2024
Sep. 3rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Jeremy Corbyn forms Independent Alliance group of five pro-Gaza MPs
- (tags:politics USA Palestine )
- 2. Global most played board games over time from 2000 to 2023
- (tags:games boardgames video visualisation )
- 3. Everyone In Restaurant Jealous Of Toddler Who Gets To Wear Pajamas And Watch iPad
- (tags:satire society restaurant children )
- 4. How similar do Britons think the main parties are?
- (tags:politics uk )
- 5. Former Labour Cabinet Secretary warns against PFI 'accounting games'
- (tags:labour economy accounting )
- 6. Where is the most religious place in the world? (And the least)
- (tags:religion uk )
- 7. How Britain voted and why: A very-detailed 2024 post-vote poll
- (tags:voting elections uk politics )
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- children,
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- elections,
- games,
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- politics,
- religion,
- restaurant,
- satire,
- society,
- uk,
- usa,
- video,
- visualisation,
- voting
Interesting Links for 04-04-2024
Apr. 4th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Looks like nearly 60% of Scots no longer identify with any religion
- (tags:religion scotland demographics )
- 2. Did you know that Edinburgh has a Board Game Library?
- (tags:libraries boardgames edinburgh )
- 3. Traditional Chinese printing process
- (tags:video china printing history )
- 4. Behind the lurid headlines: What the Scottish hate crime legislation actually says
- (tags:scotland bigotry law )
- 5. 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spree in Gaza (with a 10% error rate)
- (tags:ai palestine israel war )
- 6. One third of Thames Water sewage sensors are faulty
- (tags:water uk pollution OhForFucksSake )
- 7. 60% of time spent playing computer games in 2023 went to games at least 6 years old. Only 8% went on new, non-annual titles (like Baldurs Gate III)
- (tags:games business )
Interesting Links for 06-04-2023
Apr. 6th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh's North Bridge will reopen to two-way traffic on the 21st of April
- (tags:edinburgh bridge traffic transport GoodNews )
- 2. What happens if you ask an AI how to turn the world into paperclips?
- (tags:ai funny )
- 3. What *is* the rabbinical consensus on the Plague of Frog?
- (tags:frogs Jews religion funny )
- 4. Psychedelic drug DMT improves symptoms of depression for at least six months
- (tags:psychedelics depression )
- 5. Timeline of police probe into SNP finances
- (tags:snp money politics scotland police )
- 6. 10 Reasons Board Games Are Better Now (a sometimes contradictory but always interesting video)
- (tags:boardgames video games history )
- 7. 'I consider the president a war criminal' An interview with the highest-ranking secret service officer to escape from Russia
- (tags:Russia interview military )
Interesting Links for 26-01-2022
Jan. 26th, 2022 12:00 pm- Free bus travel for under 22s in Scotland - starting in a week!
- (tags:buses Scotland transport children )
- Dover lorry queues can be seen from space, like most UK traffic can
- (tags:UK Europe trade FactCheck Google space )
- How China censored the ending of Fight Club (and made it closer to the end of the book)
- (tags:FightClub movie censorship China )
- Around one-in-three children globally suffer from lead poisoning
- (tags:lead children intelligence )
- The technology of destroying virtual cars has advanced considerably
- (tags:cars games video )
- Revisiting masks: Here's how different face coverings perform against COVID-19
- (tags:pandemic virus )
- Diving into BoardGameGeek's ratings and statistics
- (tags:boardgames ratings ai )
- Labour continuing to be shit on LGBT rights
- (tags:lgbt labour OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 21-01-2022
Jan. 21st, 2022 12:00 pm- Tory whips threatened to cancel new school if I didn't vote the right way, says MP
- (tags:politics corruption conservatives )
- Archaeologists Unearth 4,000-Year-Old Stone Board Game in Oman
- (tags:games boardgames archeology middle_east )
- Fraggle Rock on Apple TV+ is the Muppet series Disney+ wishes it had
- (tags:muppets apple tv review )
- Glasgow Clyde Metro set for go-ahead as headline project in SNP strategy for transport in Scotland
- (tags:scotland transport glasgow viaDanielDWilliam )
- Reports from the Indiana Jones cleanup team
- (tags:archeology video funny indianajones )
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Interesting Links for 19-01-2022
Jan. 19th, 2022 12:00 pm- Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard
- (tags:Microsoft games )
- The Undoing Of Joss Whedon
- (tags:JossWhedon abuse tv buffy movies )
- What the Discovery of an Extra Artery Means for Human Evolution
- (tags:evolution blood viaNancyLebov )
- How board games are made at a Chinese factory
- (tags:boardgames manufacturing China video )
- NASA hasn't 'just' hired 24 theologians to study future discovery of aliens
- (tags:religion life space NASA sociology )
- The Autism Phenome Project: Toward Identifying Meaningful Subgroups of Autism
- (tags:autism psychology )
- Someone has clearly decided that board games players have too much money
- (tags:boardgames money marvel zombies )
- A lovely story about insects and university outreach
- (tags:insects children university )
- Cost of living rises at fastest pace for 30 years
- (tags:inflation economy uk )
- High speed rail must go to Scotland to help reach net zero
- (tags:hs2 trains transport uk co2 globalwarming )
- NASA: Tonga blast was 10 megatons, more powerful than a nuclear bomb
- (tags:volcano pacific )
- Scaling Carbon Capture
- (tags:carbon co2 globalwarming electricity )
- Covid: Scotland Omicron restrictions to end on Monday
- (tags:pandemic scotland )
- Can memes help people cope with pandemic-induced anxiety?
- (tags:pandemic memetics anxiety psychology )
- On the "New Movement" in SF/F (and why there is much more diversity in Hugo awards)
- (tags:scifi diversity )
- Tory MP Christian Wakeford Defects To Labour
- (tags:Conservatives labour politics uk )
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- uk,
- university,
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- video,
- volcano,
- zombies
Interesting Links for 12-07-2021
Jul. 12th, 2021 12:00 pm- Lothian Drop-in Vaccination Clinic Locations (including the mobile ones)
- (tags:vaccination Edinburgh )
- Board games companies are completely fucked right now
- (tags:boardgames shipping Doom viaSwampers )
- Least Religious Countries 2021
- (tags:religion )
- Doctors Might Have Been Focusing on the Wrong Asthma Triggers
- (tags:asthma pandemic )
- Can People Still Play the Same Computer Games as They Get Older?
- (tags:games age )
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- edinburgh,
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- vaccination,
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Interesting Links for 27-11-2019
Nov. 27th, 2019 03:50 pm- Birmingham anti-LGBT school protests: judge makes ban permanent
- (tags:protest LGBT homophobia uk law )
- New favourite political advert
- (tags:advertising politics video )
- Board games can protect thinking skills in older age
- (tags:age thinking boardgames psychology viaJane )
- No, Britain's Chief Rabbi is not the head of all Jews.
- (tags:Jews uk )
- Jeremy Corbyn's record on anti-Semitism
- (tags:Jews labour history )
- Psilocybin for Major Depression Granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA
- (tags:depression psilocybin psychedelics )
- air pollution causes changes in brain structure that resemble those of Alzheimer's disease.
- (tags:pollution brain alzheimers )
- Jeremy Corbyn refuses to apologise to Jewish community over Labour anti-semitism
- (tags:Labour Jews OhForFucksSake )
- Disney+'s The Mandalorian joins a long list of fake HDR content
- (tags:TV fraud hdr )
- Organising a union at Google? You're fired
- (tags:Google unions OhForFucksSake )
- Mental Mountains - a fascinating review of Unlocking The Emotional Brain
- (tags:psychology thought thinking emotion rationality )
- UK networks to join £1b mast sharing initiative to eliminate dead zones
- (tags:UK mobile_phones )
- Failure Is an Essential Prerequisite for Success
- (tags:failure success )
- Corbyn reveals secret documents that confirm Tory plot to sell off NHS in US trade talks with Trump
- (tags:nhs Conservatives usa trade )
- Boris Johnson said that Islamophobia is a natural reaction to Islam
- (tags:Islam conservatives bigotry )
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- islam,
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- ohforfuckssake,
- politics,
- pollution,
- protest,
- psilocybin,
- psychedelics,
- psychology,
- rationality,
- success,
- thinking,
- thought,
- trade,
- tv,
- uk,
- unions,
- usa,
- viajane,
- video
Interesting Links for 11-02-2018
Feb. 11th, 2018 12:00 pm- Mayfair Games, the company that helped lead a revolution in board games is shutting down
- (tags: games boardgames business )
- Norway’s Olympic Team Bought 15,000 Eggs Due to a Google Translate Mistake
- (tags: eggs Norway language numbers korea translation fail )
- When will the world reach 'peak child'?
- Obviously the best one will be born in about two months
(tags: children demographics thefuture education africa ) - Terrifying British Study Shows Trump Supporters Are Now Basically Unreachable
- (tags: viaJane politics news society usa )
- Tiger Cub Found In Box Sent Via Courier. It Was Saved By A Sniffer Dog
- (tags: tiger dogs mail OhForFucksSake )
- Cryonics Myths
- (tags: death cryonics myths )
- More details on Mayfair Games being bought out
- (tags: boardgames business )
- 'Soft’ UV lights in public spaces could stop flu spreading without harming humans
- (tags: flu light )
- Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks
- (tags: TheCulture IainBanks scifi writing society )
- Blind bisexual goose stuck in love triangle with two swans dies aged 40
- (tags: lgbt birds relationships headline )
- I bought this backpack, and it's awesome for travelling with. Totally recommended
- (tags: storage travel recommendation )
- Cadburys to remove ‘Easter’ from Easter eggs to avoid causing offence
- (tags: easter funny satire reporting journalism )
- What Scientists Learned From Putting 3-D Glasses on Praying Mantises
- (tags: insects vision )
- Barlow's principles of adult behaviour
- I don't believe in sticking to these if the other person repeatedly acts in bad faith. But most of the time they're a good starting point.
(tags: advice life behaviour )
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- theculture,
- thefuture,
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- vision,
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Interesting Links for 25-01-2018
Jan. 25th, 2018 12:00 pm- Think your country is crowded? These maps reveal the truth about population density across Europe
- (tags: population europe maps )
- How Private Equity Killed Toys “R” Us
- (tags: business money )
- This Is What Domestic Violence Is Like When You're LGBT
- (tags: lgbt rape abuse )
- Scotland to ban electric shock dog collars
- (tags: dogs scotland )
- Working in female-dominated workplaces means worse access to flexible working arrangements
- (tags: women work )
- How Canada may use Sweden's gender-balanced snow-clearing to adjust their budgets
- (tags: Canada feminism government money )
- The Humanity Star
- (tags: space )
- This 19-year-old Kiwi farmer accidentally became a character in a US board game
- (tags: newzealand usa boardgames wikipedia )
- Conflict Theory vs Mistake Theory
- I'm Mistake Theory by nature - with a few bits of learned Conflict.
(tags: politics philosophy argument belief society ) - World's first electric container barges to sail from European ports this summer
- (tags: electricity transport europe canal )
- It’s not all in their heads: people with low self-esteem really do have less responsive partners
- (tags: psychology relationships self-esteem )
- Possibly the finest special effect of all time
- (tags: specialeffects muppets viaSwampers )
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- wikipedia,
- women,
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Interesting Links for 28-12-2016
Dec. 28th, 2016 12:00 pm- Researchers "Translate" Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—A Lot
- (tags: bats language )
- The Mysterious Virus That Could Cause Obesity
- (tags: obesity weight fat chicken )
- The best board games of 2016
- (tags: games boardgames )
- Giant robot takes first steps
- (tags: robots )
- Watership Down author Richard Adams dies aged 96
- (tags: rabbits books death obituary )
- Frog Fractions 2: the jig is up, and the game is here
- (tags: games weird )
- Within days of moving LJ servers LJ to Russia they blocked almost 100 users
- Makes me glad to have Dreamwidth.
(tags: russia censorship livejournal ) - Carrie Fisher Had Just One Request for Her Obituary
- (tags: StarWars obituary )
- Vera Rubin, 88, Dies; Opened Doors in Astronomy, and for Women
- (tags: astronomy space women )
- What does life look like in a patriarchal dystopia?
- (tags: gender society dystopia )
Interesting Links for 18-09-2016
Sep. 18th, 2016 12:00 pm- Edinburgh Uni's sustainability dept are looking for a web/tech person. Anyone fancy (or suggest improvements?)
- (tags: jobs edinburgh university web Technology )
- Every Stephen King Novel Summarized in 140 Characters or Less
- (tags: writing horror funny )
- A Caiman Wearing a Crown of Butterflies
- (tags: animals photo )
- Scientists reveal most accurate depiction of a dinosaur ever created
- (tags: dinosaurs )
- Severus Snape's inbox
- (tags: harrypotter funny )
- The BBC's reporting does not seem to be getting any better...
- (tags: bbc economics OhForFucksSake )
- How useful is a knowledge of anatomy to having good sex?
- (tags: sex biology women )
- The explosive growth of the 300-person “megagame”
- (tags: games boardgames )
- The 22 Most Middle-Class Things That Have Ever Happened In Scotland
- (tags: scotland class food funny viaPatrickHadfield )
- Pride, with Prejudice: When Biphobia Creeps into Same Gender Relationships
- (tags: lgbt bigotry )
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- scotland,
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- technology,
- university,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- web,
- women,
- writing
Interesting Links for 15-01-2016
Jan. 16th, 2016 03:00 am- Why are Brits more obsessed than the French with buying their own homes? (Answer: Because renting is here shit)
- Alan Rickman, giant of British film and theatre, dies at 69
- People: Stupider Than You Realize
- Splain it to Me (On different communication modes, feelings, and information - freely given)
- Steam now sending out 450 to 500 petabytes per month (four to five exabytes a year)
- "Playing with History" display celebrates the Bodleian's new collection of board games (1800-modern day)
- A canvas made of pixels
- What is 10 miles across, but powers an explosion brighter than the Milky Way?
- Low-fiber diet may cause irreversible depletion of gut bacteria over generations
- Genes may contribute to making some nations happier than others
- Wikipedia is 15
- We are most vulnerable to temptation when it feels like we're in the middle of something
- British class system, 1937
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- truth,
- uk,
- valve,
- viaphildyson,
- wikipedia
Interesting Links for 02-07-2015
Jul. 2nd, 2015 12:00 pm- The real city that inspired the second season of True Detective
- What Erotica Writers Thought Of The #AskELJames Twitter Q&A
- If you're going to work in SEO there here's a way to make fun (and almost art)
- Boardgames - an African-American scholar writes
- Invader Zime returns (in comic form)
- People born to genetically-diverse parents more likely to be taller and more intelligent
- Humans around the world dance to the same beat
- Women hate their bodies and it's not their fault
- The 8 Star Wars Spin-Off Movies We Really Want
- German! Murderbot! Executes! Worker!
- Unusual datasets (I particularly like the chopstick one. And the LSD vs maths one)
- Neural Network's in plain English (for the first few pages, anyway)
- The snail that took a four year nap in the British Museum
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- nature,
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- robots,
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- snails,
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- uk,
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- vianeilrodger,
- viasupergee,
- web,
- weight,
- weird,
- women,
- writing
Interesting Links for 08-04-2015
Apr. 8th, 2015 12:00 pm- The myth of Europe’s Little Ice Age
- Greece wants Germany to repay €279bn it was forced to loan the Nazi authorities during WWII
- The traveller who fell down a volcano, missed his boat twice, and crossed a military zone to catch it again.
- I approve of all of these Hugo thoughts. Particularly #5 and #13
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- British residents who do not pay tax on overseas earnings will be stripped of 'non-dom' status
- If you actually like cars, then here's a TV show you may like
- What powers do Scottish people think Scotland should have?
- Mars has belts of glaciers consisting of frozen water
- The Hottest New Board Games (a spoof, and a funny one)
- Watch Ed Balls explain why scrapping non-dom status would cost Britain money
- The email that could only travel 500 miles
Interesting Links for 08-02-2014
Feb. 8th, 2014 11:00 am- Group of real life Michigan superheroes fractured by crime-fighting feud
- A Linguist Explains the Grammar of Doge. Wow.
- Nottingham pub's 'bag a slag' poster ban criticised
- Elder Scrolls Online sounds pretty rubbish
- Calvin & Muad'Dib is absolute genius.
- The 22 Easiest Ways To Destroy Any Friendship with Board Games
- Creationist Questions Translated (Hilariously!)
- BREAKING: Is the Government Spraying the Entire City of Portland with Crystaline DHMO?
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