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Interesting Links for 23-12-2025
Dec. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pmTags:
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- disinformation,
- doom,
- edinburgh,
- fraud,
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- scotland,
- socialmedia,
- transport
Interesting Links for 18-10-2025
Oct. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Endometriosis diagnosis from menstrual blood could make diagnosis dramatically faster (still a few years away though)
- (tags:endometriosis health )
- 2. Church of England bishops stop plans to trial blessing services for gay couples
- (tags:LGBT bigotry religion ChurchOfEngland marriage relationships )
- 3. Russia's funding for Ukraine war set to 'contract' as new sanctions loom
- (tags:Russia Ukraine war economics trade )
- 4. The Anglican Church just split in half (40-50 million in each side)
- (tags:ChurchOfEngland )
- 5. Judge rules that trans man can't be denied gender recognition certificate because he is trying to conceive.
- (tags:transgender law UK children GoodNews )
- 6. Happy Tenth Anniversary to the "Leopards Eating People's Faces Party"
- (tags:politics meme satire )
- 7. Liberal Democrats win all six seats in Surrey council by-elections (clearly things afoot in the South-East)
- (tags:libdem elections uk )
- 8. Why FindOutNow polls differ from other polling companies
- (tags:polls politics uk )
- 9. Some reasons to be hopeful about the future (if we can get through 2026)
- (tags:thefuture charlesstross )
- 10. Treating male partners halves the recurrence rate of Bacterial Vaginosis
- (tags:Bacteria microbiome )
- 11. Lothian Buses celebrates a century of keeping Edinburgh moving through the night with the Night Bus
- (tags:Edinburgh buses night history )
- 12. Turkey proposes radical new "reforms" to attack LGBTQ+ marriage, media, & trans people
- (tags:LGBT transgender turkey bigotry )
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- relationships,
- religion,
- russia,
- satire,
- thefuture,
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- transgender,
- turkey,
- uk,
- ukraine,
- war
Interesting Links for 13-08-2025
Aug. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Denethor in Lord of the Rings is now a metaphor for doomscrolling
- (tags:lotr doom )
- 2. The UK government's final tip on how to save water is, frankly, out of contact with reality
- (tags:uk government water EpicWTF )
- 3. Call for free bus travel to help under-22s in England into work (Scotland already has this)
- (tags:buses children england )
- 4. Tracing a joke back through British TV
- (tags:tv history comedy jokes )
- 5. Carolyn Mercer Describes Her Experiences of Transgender Conversion Therapy
- (tags:transgender torture bigotry uk video history )
- 6. Trans conversion therapy survivor: 'I wanted to be cured so asked to be electrocuted'
- (tags:torture uk transgender bigotry history )
Interesting Links for 06-05-2025
May. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Co-op's chief executive has reaffirmed her commitment to "protect trans people to the end"
- (tags:shopping UK transgender LGBT )
- 2. UK 'green' hydrogen buses to run on fuel shipped 3,000 miles from controversial Saudi megacity
- (tags:saudiarabia hydrogen UK buses OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Autism: Myth Vs. Fact (The Onion)
- (tags:funny autism myths )
- 4. Israel to scale-up offensive in plans to seize all of Gaza
- (tags:gaza Israel )
- 5. Guess what the lowest winning vote share was in the council elections
- (tags:elections voting OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 19-04-2025
Apr. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Glad to see the LibDems taking the Supreme Court ruling on trans rights seriously
- (tags:lgbt transgender bigotry libdem uk law )
- 2. Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
- (tags:genocide USA politics satire )
- 3. No obligation to exclude trans women under 'misunderstood' Supreme Court ruling, former top judge says
- (tags:transgender UK law )
- 4. Scientists create the world's largest lab-grown chicken nugget, complete with artificial veins
- (tags:food technology )
- 5. Turns out you can have cheap green hydrogen buses - if you live next to a chemical works that has hydrogen waste
- (tags:hydrogen transport buses doom )
- 6. But good sir, what is electricity?
- (tags:electricity )
Interesting Links for 15-04-2025
Apr. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. What's the opposite of DEI?
- (tags:usa politics OhForFucksSake comic )
- 2. Edinburgh Trams introduces Tap-On Tap-off... soon
- (tags:Edinburgh trams buses transport )
- 3. These game case animations are gorgeous
- (tags:animations game art )
- 4. The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien's fantasy world
- (tags:lotr fantasy maps )
- 5. China's 'dreamy' new ship aims to drill 7km below the ocean floor
- (tags:ocean research geology )
- 6. NHS England is holding back a report on suicide in trans kids that was finished a year ago.
- (tags:suicide LGBT transgender children NHS UK OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 01-04-2025
Apr. 1st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Alarms, overdoses and saving lives: 48 hours in UK's first drug injection room
- (tags:uk drugs safety scotland )
- 2. "What Trans Day of Visibility means to me"
- (tags:LGBT transgender )
- 3. Labour congratulated on class April Fool's ruse after announcing plan to implement genuinely left-wing policy
- (tags:Labour AprilFool satire politics UK )
- 4. Buses in Wales to be brought under public control
- (tags:buses wales )
- 5. The 1 bedroom Edinburgh flat with over a thousand businesses registered at it.
- (tags:business fraud scotland edinburgh )
- 6. The Style Returns: Some legal notes on ChatGPT and Studio Ghibli
- (tags:law copyright ghibli art ai )
- 7. "At 52, I learned the truth about my confident Oxbridge colleagues - they're bluffing"
- (tags:Education confidence advice )
Interesting Links for 15-03-2025
Mar. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Tired and depressed people are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories
- (tags:depression sleep conspiracy psychology )
- 2. Origami measuring spoon incites fury after 9 years of Kickstarter delay hell
- (tags:manufacturing kickstarter design )
- 3. Why Do Transit Agencies Keep Falling for the Hydrogen Bus Myth?
- (tags:hydrogen buses transport fraud )
- 4. I love Tumblr's enthusiastic celebration of the Ides of March
- (tags:history funny murder Roml )
- 5. A trans refugee's court case against Hungary just improved Trans+ rights across all of Europe
- (tags:transgender LGBT rights Europe GoodNews )
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- psychology,
- rights,
- roml,
- sleep,
- transgender,
- transport
Interesting Links for 23-01-2025
Jan. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh Bus Driver Day to Day Life
- (tags:edinburgh buses )
- 2. "We were wrong that day." - Convicted US Capitol rioter turns down Trump pardon
- (tags:USA riots )
- 3. Nutritionists Recommend Following Occasional Trail Of Sweets Into Dark Forest To Help Manage Cravings
- (tags:satire diet fairytale funny )
- 4. How the civil justice system forced Hugh Grant to settle
- (tags:UK law money )
- 5. 2024 general essay questions for Oxford 'All Souls' scholarship
- (tags:Oxford questions university )
Interesting Links for 08-01-2025
Jan. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. All 105 large developments going on in Edinburgh in 2025, on Google Earth.
- (tags:google map construction edinburgh )
- 2. Edinburgh Development Summary 2025
- (tags:edinburgh construction )
- 3. Five key ways to tackle child sex abuse that still haven't been implemented
- (tags:children rape politics uk )
- 4. Cuts to England's bus network cost economy £2.6bn a year
- (tags:england economics buses transport )
- 5. Is *your* TV too high?
- (tags:tv height )
- 6. How a populist think tank is stoking Scotland's culture war
- (tags:hungary bigotry Scotland )
- 7. JK Rowling Slammed After Claiming That 'There Are No Trans Kids' In Hateful Rant
- (tags:jkrowling transgender bigotry children )
- 8. Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness'
- (tags:Facebook OhForFucksSake bigotry LGBT )
- 9. How do we know how Latin was pronounced, and how did the official church pronunciation come to be different to that?
- (tags:Latin history language )
- 10. Landlords to be banned from demanding several months' rent in advance
- (tags:rental England )
- 11. Stats for the Omni-Centre cycle lane in Edinburgh show that usage is up 40% in a year
- (tags:cycling edinburgh )
- 12. 'I realised I had autism when my children were diagnosed'
- (tags:autism scotland )
- 13. Trump threatens Nato, Hamas, Greenland, Panama, and Canada in press conference
- (tags:politics usa )
- 14. Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams in Classical Latin
- (tags:music video latin )
- 15. Six things you must know about how the grooming gangs scandal was handled
- (tags:rape children religion racism uk government )
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Interesting Links for 18-12-2024
Dec. 18th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. 'Warhammer 40,000' TV series locked and loaded at Amazon with Henry Cavill set to star (and much more to come by the sound of things)
- (tags:Warhammer Amazon TV movies )
- 2. 'Bluey' Movie Set for 2027 Theatrical Release From Disney, BBC Studios
- (tags:children TV movie Disney bbc dogs )
- 3. Silver amulet unearthed in Frankfurt grave Is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps (230-270 CE)
- (tags:religion rome archeology europe christianity )
- 4. Companies forcing their employees back to the office lose their senior people and women
- (tags:work office )
- 5. 20% of people are just dicks
- (tags:society psychology empathy narcissism )
- 6. Fife to Edinburgh driverless bus service to stop in 2025 (because nobody was coming in that way)
- (tags:automation driving buses transport edinburgh )
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Interesting Links for 08-09-2024
Sep. 8th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. UK solar power wins record backing in latest auction
- (tags:solarpower UK )
- 2. UK's biggest solar farm given go-ahead in Government's anti-Nimby drive
- (tags:UK solarpower GoodNews )
- 3. AI worse than humans at summarising information, trial finds
- (tags:ai fail )
- 4. First of Edinburgh's fully electric double deck buses hit the road
- (tags:electricity Edinburgh buses transport )
- 5. Why are Remainers so weak in post-Brexit Britain?
- (tags:UK Europe voting )
- 6. Automation Bias - when people don't double check computers properly
- (tags:psychology bias automation )
- 7. What they're getting wrong about the Minecraft movie
- (tags:movies games )
- 8. 10+ Things to Know about The Great Wave
- (tags:art Japan history )
- 9. Startup Alarmed When Its AI Starts Rickrolling Clients
- (tags:ai funny video music )
Interesting Links for 04-06-2024
Jun. 4th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The industrial revolution hit Britain first because labour was more expensive
- (tags:economics industrial history uk viaDanielDWilliam )
- 2. Nigel Farage To Run For Parliament As Reform UK Leader (This news has cheered me up no end. Tories likely to lose even more seats.)
- (tags:politics UK )
- 3. Lothian buses and Edinburgh trams introduce new travel app (which is much better than the old one)
- (tags:Edinburgh trams buses apps )
- 4. How the internet works nowadays
- (tags:internet money satire )
- 5. Today's Out of Context Observation on Culture and Snobbery
- (tags:art music society )
- 6. Scotland's latest advert is the best.
- (tags:scotland germany advert football video )
Interesting Links for 25-04-2024
Apr. 25th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Diversity appears to have almost no effect on team performance. (Which means there's no reason not to be diverse, of course)
- (tags:diversity performance work psychology )
- 2. Edinburgh Bus Station's owner could throw them out.
- (tags:edinburgh buses transport )
- 3. "My Dinner With Billionaire Marc Andreessen" (an interesting peek behind the curtain
- (tags:inequality wealth society )
- 4. The cycling revolution in Paris continues: Bicycle use now exceeds car use
- (tags:Paris bicycles transport )
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Interesting Links for 02-04-2024
Apr. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Israel Created 'Kill Zones' in Gaza. Anyone Who Crosses Into Them Is Shot
- (tags:Israel Palestine murder )
- 2. Edinburgh's Cameron Toll roundabout to close 'in its entirety' for up to a month with bus diversions in place
- (tags:Edinburgh bridge roads buses )
- 3. Why Westminster can prevent Scotland from banning glue traps for mice, even though it's not a reserved matter
- (tags:Scotland UK law trade )
- 4. The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent is Now 20 Years Old
- (tags:copyright history piracy )
- 5. The Tale of Daniel (the oldest name in continuous use)
- (tags:names history Israel middle_east )
- 6. Ketogenic Diet Effects On Bipolar and Schizophrenia
- (tags:diet mentalhealth bipolar schizophrenia )
- 7. The Deodorant AI Woman Spokesmodel Is Real, Sort Of
- (tags:ai advertising )
Interesting Links for 30-03-2024
Mar. 30th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Maersk is transitioning its fleet to methanol
- (tags:globalwarming pollution shipping GoodNews )
- 2. Zimbabweans abandon plans to plug UK care gaps after changes to visa rules
- (tags:UK Zimbabwe care immigration OhForFucksSake )
- 3. MSPs split over plans for rape trials without juries
- (tags:Scotland rape law )
- 4. The Next Heat Pump Frontier? NYC Apartment Windows
- (tags:heating technology newyork )
- 5. 16 million miles of England's bus routes axed since 2010
- (tags:UK conservatives austerity buses transport OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Dundee seen through the lens of a 20,000 photo collage
- (tags:Scotland photos )
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Interesting Links for 29-03-2024
Mar. 29th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Seismologists were able to identify 43 of the 45 songs at a Taylor Swift concert by the earth movements they caused
- (tags:music earthquake )
- 2. The NICE evidence reviews on trans affirming care look very very suspicious
- (tags:healthcare research transgender NHS OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Edinburgh buses produce £3.2 million dividend for councils for first time since Covid (and back to 90% of pre-Covid passenger levels)
- (tags:buses Edinburgh GoodNews transport )
- 4. New post-Brexit tariff to apply to UK cars sold to Canada
- (tags:Canada tax UK trade doom )
- 5. It's 2029. How do you instruct an LLM to power the world?
- (tags:scifi power ai )
- 6. Covid, lab leaks, and raccoon dogs. What does the evidence say, and how should we think about it?
- (tags:pandemic statistics )
- 7. Russell T. Davies on Why Doctor Who's Disney Partnership Is So Important
- (tags:drwho TV Disney RusselTDavies )
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Interesting Links for 07-03-2024
Mar. 7th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Scotland is finally getting more district heating (not far from Edinburgh)
- (tags:scotland heating waste )
- 2. "My Robotic Doppelganger Is The Grim Face of Journalism's Future!"
- (tags:journalism ai fraud )
- 3. Sweden's adoption of the Gregorian calendar was a farce
- (tags:sweden calendars history )
- 4. Robot ships: Huge remote controlled vessels are setting sail
- (tags:robots ships )
- 5. Edinburgh bus tracker system will not have live bus times until the summer
- (tags:edinburgh buses )
- 6. Leadership Is A Hell Of A Drug
- (tags:leadership management business development )
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- sweden,
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Interesting Links for 21-02-2024
Feb. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Probably the best social media advice you can get
- (tags:socialmedia advice )
- 2. England has lost 28% of local bus provision per person since 2011
- (tags:England buses transport )
- 3. Why Oscar-nominated family friendly queer animation 'Nimona' is available for free for the next week
- (tags:Oscars animation LGBT movies children )
- 4. Why did Keir Starmer lavish praise on an Islamophobic radical-right bigot?
- (tags:Russia bigotry )
- 5. Yes Prime Minister, questionnaire design matters (leading questions in this case)
- (tags:polls TV UK )
- 6. Why are Scottish transgender healthcare waiting times so long?
- (tags:scotland transgender lgbt healthcare OhForFucksSake )
- 7. The government prevented compensation payments to postmasters, and then lied about it
- (tags:uk government Conservatives postoffices money OhForFucksSake )
- 8. More than 500 games on Steam earned over $3 million in 2023
- (tags:games steam valve )
- 9. ADHD may have emerged in humans as an evolutionary advantage
- (tags:adhd evolution behaviour )
- 10. BT Tower: 'Iconic' landmark to be turned into a hotel
- (tags:london architecture bt hotel history postoffices )
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