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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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- ai,
- bears,
- children,
- christmas,
- doom,
- electricity,
- evolution,
- infrastructure,
- lgbt,
- links,
- london,
- ohforfuckssake,
- patriarchy,
- presents,
- psychology,
- research,
- society,
- transgender,
- tunnels,
- uk,
- women
Interesting Links for 18-12-2025
Dec. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Why Do Commercial Spaces Sit Vacant?
- (tags:business property finance economics banking )
- 2. What Happens When Netflix Buys Warner Bros. (nothing good)
- (tags:netflix movies history WarnerBrothers video doom )
- 3. UK energy costs likely to halve by 2050, says system operator
- (tags:UK renewables electricity thefuture )
- 4. Teachers to be trained to spot early signs of misogyny in boys
- (tags:misogyny UK children boys )
- 5. One month to go: Edinburgh-Fife rail upgrades begin soon (closing the line for a week)
- (tags:Scotland transport trains )
- 6. Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Is Having a Renaissance
- (tags:hydroelectric electricity storage )
Interesting Links for 13-12-2025
Dec. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How Screen Time Affects Childhood Brain Development
- (tags:brain children funny screens )
- 2. Four reasons why the UK is already at war with Russia
- (tags:Russia UK war )
- 3. Looking Back at the Work of John Varley, 1947-2025
- (tags:scifi obituary )
- 4. Dating a man who's most likely autistic
- (tags:autism relationships )
- 1. Who wants some Indian rap-metal about cooking?
- (tags:food music video HeavyMetal )
- 2. A short summary of the Sandie Peggie V. Fife Health Board and Dr Beth Upton employment tribunal judgment
- (tags:transgender law UK GoodNews )
- 3. Did Nano Banana Pro Kill Photography or Just Photo Editing?
- (tags:ai photography video )
- 4. Clinic Closures Force More Rural Americans To Rely On Horse Who Stomps Twice When Patient Has Cancer
- (tags:USA healthcare horses cancer satire )
- 5. Study: Leaving Religion May Make You More Liberal
- (tags:politics liberal religion psychology )
- 6. UK issues sanctions against Russia amid accusations of information warfare
- (tags:uk russia disinformation )
- 7. Prenatal phenol exposure linked to child behaviour
- (tags:pollution behaviour children )
- 8. US to ask tourists for five-year social media history before entry
- (tags:socialmedia usa OhForFucksSake )
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- ai,
- behaviour,
- cancer,
- children,
- disinformation,
- food,
- goodnews,
- healthcare,
- heavymetal,
- horses,
- law,
- liberal,
- links,
- music,
- ohforfuckssake,
- photography,
- politics,
- pollution,
- psychology,
- religion,
- russia,
- satire,
- socialmedia,
- transgender,
- uk,
- usa,
- video
Interesting Links for 28-11-2025
Nov. 28th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Two-thirds of Scots support independent pupil opt-out for religious observance
- (tags:religion Scotland children school )
- 2. Valve block Steam game with queer art in Russia after state censor attacks it for "promoting non-traditional sexualities"
- (tags:censorship bigotry lgbt russia games valve )
- 3. How the UK's property taxes compare to other countries
- (tags:property housing tax )
- 4. Tick bites can cause red meat allergy
- (tags:meat allergies insects )
- 5. Tech firms battle for undersea dominance with submarine drones
- (tags:drone ocean submarine military russia )
- 6. 250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland, for both heating and ancillary services
- (tags:sand electricity heat batteries )
- 7. Keir Starmer's shock at homophobia is absurd and ignorant
- (tags:gay LGBT bigotry UK labour )
Interesting Links for 27-11-2025
Nov. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Budget - what it says
- (tags:tax budget economics uk )
- 2. The Pope is not in favour of AI
- (tags:ai pope )
- 3. British children shorter than other five-year-olds in Europe (since austerity)
- (tags:uk europe austerity children hunger food height )
- 4. How a flawed idea is teaching millions of American kids to be poor readers
- (tags:reading children epicfail USA OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Man offended by NatWest Pride flags told to use online banking
- (tags:LGBT bigotry )
- 6. Voters back restricting trial by jury (but not for themselves)
- (tags:law polls uk )
Interesting Links for 26-11-2025
Nov. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How Ferrari's Formula One Pit Stop Team saved the lives of thousands of children
- (tags:safety process driving mechanics children healthcare )
- 2. EU's Top Court landmark judgment: Member States Must Recognise Same-Sex Marriages from Other EU Countries
- (tags:Europe LGBT marriage GoodNews law )
- 3. Suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%
- (tags:suicide children LGBT transgender hormones research )
- 4. Justice secretary wants most jury trials scrapped
- (tags:law UK labour )
- 5. Lammy Furiously Backed Campaign for 'Vital' Jury Trials 'To Prevent Bias and Ensure Justice' - before deciding to get rid of them
- (tags:law UK labour hypocrisy )
- 6. Concept Art for Characters That Ended Up as Blonde White Women
- (tags:design games racism )
- 7. BBC accused of censoring Trump line from historian's lecture
- (tags:bbc censorship corruption usa politics )
Interesting Links for 25-11-2025
Nov. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Britain is one of the world's richest countries. So why do a third of its children live in poverty?
- (tags:uk poverty children )
- 2. Brexit costing the UK up to £90bn in lost tax a year, new analysis shows (People are around £3k per year worse off)
- (tags:uk europe OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Footage of Japan's new train zooming down the track at 310mph leaves spectators speechless
- (tags:trains magnets Japan video )
- 4. Five pivotal ages in your brain's development revealed in new scientific study (0-9, 9-32, 32-66, 66-83, 83+)
- (tags:development brain age )
Interesting Links for 22-11-2025
Nov. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Where nobody knows your name... - Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.
- (tags:TV history faces photos pubs )
- 2. The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed 600,000 people, most of them children
- (tags:USA aid death children )
- 3. Pope Leo XIV Gives His Apostolic Blessing to the Bedlam of Noise and Nightclub Worship Styles
- (tags:religion music catholicism video )
- 4. The Batman effect (putting someone in a Batman costume on a train makes people twice as likely to give up their seat for a pregnant woman)
- (tags:batman psychology )
- 5. Andy Burnham: "Here's how I would fix Britain"
- (tags:politics labour uk housing )
Interesting Links for 15-11-2025
Nov. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. I am fascinated by how much language cats and dogs can have when you give them the opportunity
- (tags:communication cats dogs )
- 2. if I was designing a kid's toy then I wouldn't connect it to an AI without making sure it wouldn't teach them about matches, knives and sexual kinks
- (tags:ai toys children wtf )
- 3. Do not compare yourself to people you see online. They quite possibly don't look like that
- (tags:ai video bodies society )
- 4. France drops demand for UK to pay up front for Brexit reset talks on cheaper food
- (tags:uk europe food trade france )
- 5. Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots
- (tags:ai belief patterns delusion )
Interesting Links for 21-10-2025
Oct. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Gamifying Hobbies Is Ruining Them
- (tags:fun gaming apps doom )
- 2. UK Public Wants More Balanced Coverage Of Political Parties
- (tags:UK politics journalism )
- 3. Anxiety Toolkit (a set of tools for helping with anxiety)
- (tags:anxiety advice )
- 4. Populism is bad for economic propsperity
- (tags:economics fascism )
- 5. Some 60,000 kids have avoided peanut allergies due to landmark 2015 advice, study finds
- (tags:allergies children GoodNews peanuts )
- 6. Goblin Tools - a collection of AI tools for neurodivergent people who struggle with things feeling too big and complicated.
- (tags:viaSwampers ai adhd autism )
- 7. Either public safety is an absolute priority at sporting events or it is not.
- (tags:israel football uk safety politics OhForFucksSake )
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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- satire,
- thefuture,
- trade,
- transgender,
- turkey,
- uk,
- ukraine,
- war
Interesting Links for 04-10-2025
Oct. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Here Is Your Periodic Reminder that Stars Move
- (tags:space time )
- 2. Anti trans school guidance causes children to not use school toilets leading to worse physical and mental health.
- (tags:children bigotry lgbt school scotland uk transgender )
- 3. What Did People Do Before Smartphones? (I carried a book at all times)
- (tags:phones history boredom )
- 4. Common mistakes when drawing the moon
- (tags:moon drawing video )
Interesting Links for 02-10-2025
Oct. 2nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Do not charge your phone in the bath.
- (tags:phones electricity baths water )
- 2. Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54%
- (tags:europe renewables solarpower )
- 3. A plurality of Brits see Reform, their policies, and their voters as racist
- (tags:racism politics UK )
- 4. Progressive Era America put 200,000 poor kids on trains to send them West. Now we know what affected whether they thrived.
- (tags:sociology children family USA )
- 5. "I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone!"
- (tags:ai minecraft )
- 6. Sora 2 and the end of copyright as we know it
- (tags:copyright ai )
Interesting Links for 15-09-2025
Sep. 15th, 2025 07:39 pm- 1. Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 5 to 11 years old have little-to-no effect
- (tags:obesity children research exercise diet )
- 2. Cannabis use associated with quadrupled risk of developing type 2 diabetes (2.2% vs 0.6%)
- (tags:diabetes marijuana )
- 3. Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles
- (tags:electricity myths solarpower windpower cars transport environment )
- 4. The chumbox is (still) the dirty design secret of the internet
- (tags:advertising web doom )
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- cars,
- children,
- diabetes,
- diet,
- doom,
- electricity,
- environment,
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- marijuana,
- myths,
- obesity,
- research,
- solarpower,
- transport,
- web,
- windpower
Interesting Links for 13-09-2025
Sep. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. If you were wondering what Bryan Fuller and Mads Mikkelsen were up to, it's a movie about a guy who will (for the right money) kill the monster under your bed. Dust Bunny (also starring Sigourney Weaver).
- I wish my kids were a few years older...
(tags:monsters children movies trailer ) - 2. How were escalators invented, and how safe are they? (very, unless your maintenance people are corrupt)
- (tags:design technology safety video history )
- 3. Israeli conductor condemns his country in extraordinary Proms outburst
- (tags:Israel Palestine )
Interesting Links for 04-09-2025
Sep. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour's weirdness over flags is deranged, not patriotic
- (tags:Labour nationalism flags weird )
- 2. Why bans on smartphones or social media for teenagers could do more harm than good
- (tags:phones internet children )
- 3. One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants
- (tags:ants reproduction viaPatrickHadfield weird cloning )
- 4. DragonCon ejects AI 'artist', to approval of all
- (tags:art ai conventions )
Tags:
- ai,
- ants,
- art,
- children,
- cloning,
- conventions,
- flags,
- internet,
- labour,
- links,
- nationalism,
- phones,
- reproduction,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- weird
Interesting Links for 03-09-2025
Sep. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Blocky Planet — Making Minecraft Spherical
- (tags:Minecraft sphere )
- 2. Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America!
- (tags:satire doom USA )
- 3. Edinburgh primary school mobile phone ban set to go ahead later this year
- (tags:school Edinburgh Scotland phones children )
- 4. Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks in England
- (tags:caffeine children England regulation )
- 5. Starmer appoints ex-director of anti trans campaign group as as comms director
- (tags:LGBT Labour bigotry transgender OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Dubstep artist Skrillex could protect against mosquito bites
- (tags:music mosquito funny headline )
Interesting Links for 29-08-2025
Aug. 29th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. My Top Five Favorite Techno Songs and Why They're All the Mortal Kombat Theme Song
- (tags:music satire )
- 2. A historian reviews King & Conqueror (neither good nor accurate)
- (tags:history UK TV review )
- 3. Spineless fence-sitter thinks killing children is bad no matter who does it
- (tags:israel palestine satire politics murder children gaza )
