Interesting Links for 04-02-2025

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Interesting Links for 19-01-2022

Jan. 19th, 2022 12:00 pm
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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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Interesting Links for 19-02-2021

Feb. 19th, 2021 12:00 pm
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Perth becomes first UK city centre with resident beavers
(tags:UK Scotland animals beavers cities )
Buffy Deserves Better Than Joss Whedon
(tags:JossWhedon buffy abuse tv viaKalimac )
Parenting: Three ways to calm your kids during a temper tantrum
(tags:children emotion psychology parenting )
Fifty construction workers from Edinburgh St James Quarter project self isolating following Covid-19 outbreak
(tags:Edinburgh construction pandemic )
I wish I was sixteen again so I could enjoy the new Mortal Kombat movie the way it was meant to be seen
(tags:movies violence games trailer video )
Japan's ruling party invites more women to meetings, as long as they don't talk
(tags:women Japan politics OhForFucksSake )
California State Legislator Introduces Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics
(tags:psychedelics decriminalization California USA GoodNews )
New Kalashnikov comes with WiFi, Bluetooth and phone sync
(tags:guns WiFi Bluetooth wtf technology )
Wildlife Photographer Captures Never Before Seen Yellow Penguin
(tags:birds colour penguins photos )
UK Supreme Court rules Uber drivers are workers
(tags:Jobs law employment UK GoodNews )
The 'war on woke' and law and policy commentary - and the importance of responding to illiberals but not on their terms
(tags:society politics )
Relax. Machines Already Took Our Jobs
(tags:automation history )
COVID/Vitamin D: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
(tags:vitaminD pandemic research )
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Interesting Links for 11-02-2021

Feb. 11th, 2021 12:00 pm
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Locus really need better editors working on their reviews
(tags:reviews fiction )
How To Build a Snölykta - Traditional Swedish Snow Lanterns
(tags:snow Sweden video viaNeilRodger )
'Fuck Your Feelings' Doesn't Apply to White Men
(tags:politics USA gender society racism sexism )
Charisma Carpenter on Joss Whedon's abusive behaviour
(tags:acting TV buffy abuse JossWhedon )
Stage meat - food you can eat on stage and still act around
(tags:food acting viaSwampers )
I see the EU is asking the UK to honour its promises. I can't see that going down well
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1359590841619275776.html
(tags:UK Europe trade Doom NorthernIreland )
Amsterdam becomes Europe's top trading hub, ousting London
(tags:Netherlands shares finance UK Europe )
Temperature of -22.9C in Braemar 'UK's lowest in 26 years'
(tags:winter Scotland temperature cold UK )
Netflix acquires the rights to all 22 Redwall books, plans film and series
(tags:TV fantasy animals children books Netflix )
Weird Pride Day is March 4th
(tags:weird pride )
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Interesting Links for 08-04-2020

Apr. 8th, 2020 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 07-10-2019

Oct. 7th, 2019 12:13 pm
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20 Years Later, and the Women of Angel Still Deserves More
(tags:Buffy women pregnancy )
The UK government appears boxed in on the Brexit extension
(tags:law uk government europe )
A floating device created to clean up plastic from the ocean is finally doing its job
(tags:plastic ocean environment waste )
Unprecedented rise in infant mortality in England linked to poverty
(tags:England poverty austerity death babies OhForFucksSake )
David Bowie and the invisible mask
(tags:DavidBowie autism confidence )
The Ocean Cleanup struggles to prove it will not harm sea life
(tags:Ocean plastic environment nature )
The British government is interfering with its "independent" advisors
(tags:UK advice government OhForFucksSake )
Westworld: the first film with CGI (and its source code)
(tags:programming movies video cgi )
"Stop Asking About My Trans Husband's Junk"
(tags:penis transgender privacy )
OECD tax reform plans could make inequality worse
(tags:tax reform inequality )
US customs officer holds journalist's passport until he agrees he writes 'propaganda'
(tags:usa immigration OhForFucksSake )
Countering the worst of the current anti trans propaganda
(tags:transgender lgbt )
Book Review: 'The AI Does Not Hate You' by Tom Chivers
(tags:review rationality books geek ai )
The missing millions: Young people and private renters left off electoral register ahead of snap election
(tags:elections voting UK )
What is a constitution and is the UK undergoing a constitutional crisis
(tags:constitution uk politics )
Why Boris Johnson's Brexit offer falls well short of what the EU can accept
(tags:Europe UK Doom )
'World-first' low-carbon greenhouses bigger than the O2 to grow 20 tonnes of tomatoes a day
(tags:farming uk vegetables )
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Interesting Links for 29-07-2018

Jul. 29th, 2018 12:00 pm
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British cabinet ministers meeting with far right nationalist
(tags: UK OhForFucksSake Conservatives )
Mary Berry plays drums with Rick Astley at Camp Bestival
(tags: headline music cooking )
ThunderMessage, Reddit's Blockchain Rival, Uses Bitcoin & Lightning Network Features
(tags: bitcoin discussion )
The death of a TLD
(tags: internet )
New Buffy: The Vampire Slayer series will be sequel, not reboot
(tags: tv buffy )
Sweden Dropped a Laser-Guided Bomb on a Forest Fire
(tags: Sweden fire )
Firefighters In Germany Have to Deal With Buried Explosives
(tags: Germany fire history explosives )
The Troubled Quest for the Superconducting Wind Turbine
(tags: physics windpower superconductors engineering )
Levi's now make their distressed jeans with lasers, and it's amazing
(tags: clothing lasers )
Largest ever poll on assisted dying shows 82% of public support change in the law
(tags: euthanasia law uk )
Pilots stop 222 asylum seekers being deported from Germany by refusing to fly
(tags: Germany asylum airplanes )
A withering verdict: MPs report on Zuckerberg, Russia and Cambridge Analytica
(tags: russia Facebook fraud democracy uk )
Army on standby for no-deal Brexit emergency
(tags: UK military Europe doom )
The British government still doesn't understand what the EU is
(tags: Europe uk )
Today marks 98 years since the first female jurors in England were sworn in.
(tags: law UK history women feminism )
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Interesting Links for 22-07-2018

Jul. 22nd, 2018 12:00 pm
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'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' being rebooted, with black showrunner and lead
(tags: buffy tv )
This is my favourite take on The Last Jedi
(tags: StarWars nostalgia )
Rule Explainer: Why We Don’t Diagnose People Through The Internet
(tags: mentalhealth diagnosis internet advice )
Why Is Google Translate Spitting Out Sinister Religious Prophecies?
(tags: translation weird google ai hallucinations )
Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity
(tags: neuroscience psychedelics lsd psychology brain )
Sex Pistols' John Lydon comes out in support of Trump, Brexit and Nigel Farage
(tags: music politics OhForFucksSake SexPistols Europe uk )
Millionaire landlord vows to evict single women if they get pregnant due to new rule
(tags: babies housing safety OhForFucksSake uk )
Why mobile phones are NOT a health hazard
(tags: phones cancer radio physics )
The weapon Pope Innocent II said would change the face of modern warfare forever and then had the Second Lateran Council ban: THE CROSSBOW
(tags: weaponry history bows )
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Interesting Links for 27-08-2017

Aug. 27th, 2017 12:00 pm
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This is the relationship I have with my to-read list
(tags: internet life )
A good piece on Joss Whedon
(tags: JossWhedon marriage buffy tv writing women viaJennieRigg )
Here Is What Happens When You Run Away From All Of Your Problems
(tags: life advice )
You can only use the Wi-Fi at St Pancras station if you give them control of your Twitter account
(tags: Twitter wifi OhForFucksSake )
Hope Lies In Rebellion — Some Analysis Of “The Music of Rogue One”
(tags: music StarWars viaFanf )
Can we know what animals are thinking?
(tags: animals thought mind )
A short history of tool use
(tags: tools technology )
NASA sent one identical twin brother to space for a year and studied how it changed him
(tags: NASA space genetics twins )
Maybe We All Need a Little Less Balance
(tags: life advice )
Explaining just how evil Joe Arpaio is
(tags: evil usa police )
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Interesting Links for 10-03-2017

Mar. 10th, 2017 12:00 pm
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Religious experiences may be down to epilepsy
(tags: religion brain )
Indyref2 set for after May has ballsed everything up but before she’s kicked out
(tags: independence funny true politics uk viaPatrickHadfield )
Chemtrails may protect against vaccine injuries, study finds
(tags: satire research viaCipherGoth vaccine autism conspiracy )
Tracking your goals can make you enjoy them less
Doesn't apply to goals you hate doing in the first place, of course. Which is how I feel about most exercise.
(tags: exercise motivation psychology )
This "Horrifying" Video Of Coca Cola Vs Coke Zero Is Actually Not Horrifying At All
(tags: cocacola video sugar )
Space cake!
(tags: cake space viaElfy )
A good example of why Wikipedia won't allow The Daily Mail as a source
(tags: DailyMail lies pornography japan viaJennieRigg )
I was a Marine. I can’t be silent about the sexual harassment I faced anymore.
(tags: usa military sexism abuse )
Hundreds of Marines investigated for sharing photos of naked colleagues
(tags: usa sexism military )
"Google's Algorithm Is Lying to You About Onions and Blaming Me for It "
(tags: google fail cooking )
A huge historical map collection
(tags: maps history viaAlexTFish )
Worker uses women's name, gets treated like he knows nothing
(tags: women sexism )
Buffy’s James Marsters on the hardest day of his professional life
(tags: buffy interview )
BT strikes deal to legally separate Openreach division
(tags: internet UK BT GoodNews )
Why Dentistry Is Separate from Medicine
US centric, but similar questions apply elsewhere. Dentistry in the UK is much more privatised than the NHS, for instance
(tags: teeth medicine )
Working While Female – a follow-up to the earlier link
(tags: women sexism work )
Look on my works, ye mighty … Ozymandias statue found in mud
(tags: egypt archeology )
Elon Musk offers to fix Australian power network in 100 days (or do it for free)
(tags: australia power batteries )
Are people's attention spans actually getting shorter?
(tags: psychology attention research )
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Interesting Links for 31-03-2016

Mar. 31st, 2016 12:00 pm
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Schools charging parents for children to eat their own packed lunches | News
(tags: food children school OhForFucksSake money )
​Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10 | ZDNet
(tags: microsoft linux wtf )
Is the War on Drugs really a war on black America?
(tags: drugs racism society usa )
The US radio market is on the brink of collapse
(tags: radio money epicfail )
Loads of Buffy, Angel, & Spike comics (pay what you want and help charity)
(tags: buffy comics )
No, Taking A Snapchat Screenshot Will Probably Not Land You In Jail
(tags: copyright privacy law uk )
This stupid award-winning animated short with a dog in it made me cry.
(tags: animation dog disabilities )
Animal Facts You Didn’t Know
(tags: facts animals cute )
FOMO is bad for your mental health
(tags: fear life mentalhealth )
The FBI's war on math is still bullshit
(tags: usa encryption mathematics OhForFucksSake )
Psychoactive Substances Act delayed while the Home Office works out what it has banned
(tags: psychedelics law uk OhForFucksSake )
This is my Superman. Sadly, it is not Zack Snyder's Superman
(And that's twice I've cried in one evening.)
(tags: superman viaTheFerrett )
A Trafficking Survivor Shares Why She's Anti-Criminalization
(tags: abuse sexwork prostitution legalisation )
The ABC’s of D&D Monsters
(tags: dnd funny art )
Nintendo Employee 'Terminated' After Smear Campaign Over Censorship
(tags: gaming nintendo wtf )
How to send an 'E mail' - a video from 1984
(tags: email video history computers viaSwampers )
Also, this is my Batman. Who we also don't get to see in movies.
(tags: batman comics )
Alan Moore on Rorschach
(tags: alanmoore watchmen comics )
When Eisenhower tried to get rid of all of the lesbians in the military
(tags: lgbt usa military history )
Star Wars and Deadpool - two things that go so much better together
(tags: StarWars funny )
Star Trek is getting its own MAC makeup line
(tags: StarTrek makeup )
Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against. And science has their back.
(tags: sleep )
The Strange Case of a Nazi Who Became an Israeli Hitman
(tags: israel nazis EpicWTF history )
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