Interesting Links for 29-02-2024
Feb. 29th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A message from some of the trans staff of Tumblr
- (tags:transgender Tumblr )
- 2. I've found something I agree with Jacob Rees-Mogg about (rule of law and citizenship, in this case, how they apply to Shamima Begum)
- (tags:citizenship law UK )
- 3. These companies tried a 4-day workweek. More than a year in, they still love it
- (tags:working_hours work )
- 4. Godzilla! Vs! Hegel!
- (tags:Godzilla philosophy comic )
- 5. Who wants to see the dreadful AI script given to the actors for the abysmal Wonka experience that ended with the police being called?
- (tags:ai scripts epicfail awful Scotland )
Interesting Links for 27-01-2023
Jan. 27th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. I love living in a time where, when Sophia asks what a mooncup is, we can watch a short video like this to explain to her what a period is.
- (tags:menstruation video )
- 2. High Court casts doubt on British citizenship of children of EU citizens -
- (tags:law UK Europe citizenship OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Trans women athletes have no unfair advantage under current rules, report finds
- (tags:transgender sports research LGBT )
- 4. New AI generates music from text
- (tags:google ai music )
- 5. Ukrainian officers have been given tactical tank training in UK
- (tags:ukraine uk military war russia )
Interesting Links for 04-12-2021
Dec. 4th, 2021 12:00 pm- This is your regular reminder not to sit on unexploded WWII munitions
- (tags:weaponry sex hospital )
- Daughter, 20, who sued mum's GP for millions for allowing her to be born wins case
- (tags:disability healthcare advice UK )
- The women who wove binary
- (tags:history computers space women craft )
- British citizenship of six million people could be jeopardised by Home Office plans - minorities in much more danger
- (tags:citizenship UK OhForFucksSake )
- That bit in the Talmud where God agrees that they can be overruled by a majority of rabbis
- (tags:Jews god )
- Omicron outbreak at Norway Christmas party is biggest outside S. Africa
- (tags:Pandemic Norway )
- What if Twitter actually gave you decent tools for blocking people?
- (tags:twitter )
Interesting Links for 14-09-2021
Sep. 14th, 2021 12:00 pm- Hands-on with Facebook's first smart glasses
- (tags:transparentsociety glasses cameras facebook )
- UK's Chief Medical Officers Give Green Light To Covid Vaccines For All 12 To 15-Year-Olds
- (tags:uk pandemic children vaccination )
- American Psycho Business Card Scene - With Cats
- (tags:cats funny video AmericanPsycho movies )
- The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (by Ursula K. Le Guin)
- (tags:fiction writing scifi society gender )
- HGV driving tests won't test if drivers can reverse. Which is how you get to loading docks...
- (tags:viaNeilRodger UK driving transport Doom )
- Understanding the onset of hot streaks across artistic, cultural, and scientific careers
- (tags:achievement psychology art science writing )
- Government says discrimination against black people and Travellers 'objectively justified' with new laws
- (tags:racism UK law OhForFucksSake conservatives )
- Disturbing trend? UK hotels adding service charge to room rate
- (tags:hotel uk money OhForFucksSake )
- Why even giant ships can't solve the shipping crisis
- (tags:shipping trade doom )
- France grants citizenship to 12,000 COVID frontline workers
- (tags:france pandemic citizenship )
- What the Torah Teaches Us About Gender Fluidity and Transgender Justice
- (tags:transgender Jews lgbt )
- Women's Science Fiction keeps getting filed under "Young Adult" even when it's not.
- (tags:women publishing children OhForFucksSake )
- One Woman's Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia
- (tags:nazis wikipedia propaganda )
Interesting Links for 17-07-2020
Jul. 17th, 2020 12:00 pm- EU court voids data-sharing pact with the U.S. in Facebook privacy case
- (tags:Facebook USA Europe privacy )
- A breakdown of British people's attitudes towards transgender rights (a variety of questions and demographics)
- (tags:transgender polls LGBT demographics )
- Over 15 billion credentials are in circulation on hacker forums
- (tags:security hacking )
- We might be able to detect Covid-19 in the speech of asymptomatic people
- (tags:speech sounds virus )
- Coronavirus Success Story: How Rwanda Is Curbing COVID-19 (robots and free testing)
- (tags:rwanda pandemic )
- What's going on with Boris Johnson and the Russia report?
- (tags:BorisJohnson security politics UK Russia )
- Sympathy for victims of grooming stops if the child is brown, confirm racists
- (tags:racism citizenship satire news uk )
- Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets
- (tags:police USA wtf )
- The Chronicles of Charnia - How a schoolgirl discovered Precambrian life
- (tags:fossils life history )
- "My Close Friend Is Being Radicalized On the Internet and I Don't Know What to Do"
- (tags:ViaDrCross internet bigotry )
- The painstaking, hyper-granular process behind Amazon's artful "Undone"
- (tags:art TV )
Interesting Links for 13-02-2020
Feb. 13th, 2020 12:00 pm- How the Danish electoral system makes it one of the most representative in the world
- (tags:denmark elections voting )
- When Rage Against The Machine announced they were playing a bookshop
- (tags:funny music books shops )
- Squabbling mice win photography award
- (tags:mice photos nature )
- Many stories are told of a legendary trickster, a prankster, a fellow of infinite jest. But what do we really know of this "Bon Jovi"?
- (tags:funny music myths viaJohnBobShaun )
- Why are all the great philosophers so bad?
- (tags:philosophy )
- The Myth of the Barter Economy
- (tags:economics history )
- British man sleeping on streets in Europe after being blocked from entering UK
- (tags:UK citizenship OhForFucksSake )
- Irish reunification - what does the law say?
- (tags:Ireland NorthernIreland UK law viaDanielDWilliam )
- How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class
- (tags:management business inequality )
- Jordan Peterson, Addiction, and the Cult of Personal Responsibility
- (tags:addiction wtf )
- Google's Android Keyboard "GBoard" - 13 handy shortcuts
- (tags:keyboard android google )
- People Born Blind Are Mysteriously Protected From Schizophrenia
- (tags:blindness schizophrenia viaSwampers )
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): latest information and advice
- (tags:disease virus UK China )
Interesting Links for 20-12-2019
Dec. 20th, 2019 01:19 pm- High court says UK's £1,012 child citizenship fee is unlawful
- (tags:UK children citizenship law GoodNews )
- JK Rowling defends transphobia
- (tags:LGBT transgender jkrowling )
- Avatar 10th Anniversary: James Cameron, Zoe Saldana And Others Tell All
- (tags:avatar movies jamescameron )
- D&D character sheets for players with dyslexia
- (tags:dyslexia dungeonsanddragons )
- Boy's sentence increased for homophobic abuse of bus couple
- (tags:LGBT homophobia abuse law UK )
- Keir Starmer looks and sounds middle class precisely because he's working class
- (tags:class uk )
- First human ancestors to leave Africa died out in Java
- (tags:africa humans prehistory archeology )
Interesting Links for 19-11-2019
Nov. 20th, 2019 09:37 am- Huntington's disease: Woman who inherited gene sues NHS (massive can of worms around privacy and responsibility here)
- (tags:disease genetics nhs privacy )
- The World Spent $14.4 Billion on Conservation, and It Actually Worked
- (tags:nature environment GoodNews money )
- Teachers Show Biases Against Overweight Kids, Including Giving Them Lower Grades
- (tags:weight bias Education teachers teaching )
- Reminder that "The Handmaid's Tale" is based on what some people would like the USA to become
- (tags:USA misogyny politics republicans OhForFucksSake )
- India closer to world's first male contraceptive injection
- (tags:men contraception india )
- The fight to get citizenship for descendants of German Jews
- (tags:Germany Jews citizenship OhForFucksSake viaMyBrotherHugh )
- Two of America's biggest coal plants closed this month
- (tags:coal usa )
- Hugh Laurie captains a sinking space cruise ship in teaser for Avenue 5
- (tags:scifi comedy trailer tv )
Interesting Links for 21-02-2019
Feb. 21st, 2019 12:07 pm- Edinburgh dad's anger as parents block sick child from lessons
- (tags:children illness robots education OhForFucksSake edinburgh )
- On YouTube, a Network of Paedophiles Is Hiding in Plain Sight
- (tags:youtube paedophilia )
- I'm not one for pointing out out plot holes in kids books, but this is too funny not to make fun of Harry Potter over
- (tags:funny harrypotter )
- Shamima Begum is not a Bangladeshi citizen
- (tags:citizenship UK OhForFucksSake )
- Just 13 Percent of British Jews Say They Will Vote For Labour and Jeremy Corbyn. Here's Why.
- (tags:Jews labour )
- Dad reflexes. (Still impressed by the time I caught her one handed upside down when she back flipped off a table)
- (tags:fatherhood dangerous video )
- How New Orleans Reduced Its Homeless Population By 90 Percent
- (tags:homelessness usa )
- Germany refuses to bow to UK pressure to resume arms sales to Saudi Arabia
- (tags:saudiarabia uk military trade )
- Just Eat to ban takeaways given rating of zero for hygiene
- (tags:food safety uk restaurant )
Interesting Links for 20-02-2019
Feb. 20th, 2019 12:33 pm- Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut in output
- (tags:work working_hours happiness stress )
- Some thoughts on Swindon, Brexit, and Labour
- (tags:politics labour UK europe )
- Honda's Swindon plant closure could lead to 7,000 job losses
- (tags:jobs uk cars japan europe doom )
- National Lottery confirms that it will support Mermaids with a grant of ??500,000 over the course of 5 years to help transgender and gender variant children and their families
- (tags:transgender lgbt GoodNews lottery uk charity )
- Multiple Whistleblowers Raise Grave Concerns with White House Efforts to Transfer Sensitive U.S. Nuclear Technology to Saudi Arabia
- (tags:usa saudiarabia nuclearpower secrets )
- Brexit backstop: May rules out 'Malthouse compromise' (and, thank goodness, the cabinet turns against No Deal)
- (tags:politics UK europe )
- Overwatch randomized trial on gender
- (tags:gender gaming )
- Inside The Keret House - the World's Skinniest House
- (tags:viaJane design architecture housing Poland )
- Drainage basin maps of the world
- (tags:maps rivers viaDanielDWilliam )
- Uncleftish Beholding
- (tags:language english )
- WiFi Hides Inside a USB Cable
- (tags:security usb wifi )
- How A London Orchestra Broke International Law
- (tags:history music video viaSwampers )
- Captain Marvel first reactions are in, and it's another big hit for the MCU
- (tags:marvel movies review )
- The Home Office 2018 counter-terrorism strategy shows how to treat returning ISIS members with babies. Sajid Javid is going counter to everything it says.
- (tags:politics terrorism mother citizenship OhForFucksSake Conservatives )
- Westminster stunned as three Tory MPs quit and join the Independent Group
- "The avalanche has already started; It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
(tags:politics uk Conservatives )
Interesting Links for 18-02-2019
Feb. 18th, 2019 12:42 pm- Can the Home Secretary prevent Shamina Begum returning to the UK?
- (tags:UK terrorism rights law citizenship )
- First power from world's biggest offshore wind farm
- (tags:windpower uk )
- Cooking roast dinner produces air pollution as bad as heavily polluted city streets
- (tags:cooking pollution )
- The Joy of Standards
- (tags:standards history design )
- Churchill Was More Villain Than Hero in Britain's Colonies
- (tags:UK history )
- People resort to violence because their moral codes demand it
- (tags:morality violence viaCipherGoth )
- After massively annoying off the Chinese government last week, the British move on to the Japanese one...
- (tags:Japan trade fail OhForFucksSake uk )
- Proposals for dealing with fraud in future elections
- (tags:voting elections uk fraud )
- If it weren't for the estate tax, the majority of the superwealthy's money would never be taxed
- (tags:tax death wealth )
- Labour rocked as seven MPs quit and set up 'The Independent Group'
- Love to know how many of them supported AV...
(tags:politics uk labour doom ) - Borders Railway overcrowding at acute level
- (tags:trains transport scotland )
Interesting Links for 15-08-2018
Aug. 15th, 2018 12:00 pm- People Start Hating Their Jobs at Age 35 (not me, I hated my job when I was younger, and enjoy it now)
- (tags: work age )
- To Fix That Pain In Your Back, You Might Have To Change The Way You Sit
- (tags: pain back advice )
- State probe finds strapping children to chairs and placing mesh bags over their heads isn't abuse
- (tags: usa torture OhForFucksSake children )
- "I watched three days of nudity at the Edinburgh fringe – this is what I learned"
- (tags: Edinburgh fringe theatre dance nudity )
- Describing a film: badly
- (tags: movies funny )
- Mineral created in lab that can remove CO2 pollution from atmosphere
- (tags: co2 research globalwarming )
- Report details sexual abuse by more than 300 priests in Pennsylvania's Catholic Church (and over 1,000 victims)
- (tags: abuse catholicism children rape oh usa )
- "Spy Pets" (cute and funny)
- (tags: animals cute funny video )
- And now the BBC seems to be showing anti Pakistani propaganda
- (tags: Pakistan bbc OhForFucksSake )
- Penn Jillette, In Conversation - Talking magic, truth, and Trump’s alleged Apprentice Tapes
- Long and honest interview that's well worth a read.
(tags: magic politics interesting ) - Twitch's top-ranked game streamer, refuses to have women on his streams. A woman gamer sums up how this makes things worse
- (tags: games women )
- Edinburgh Waverley set for revamp to help deal with huge increase in demand at the station
- (tags: transport trains Edinburgh scotland )
- Edinburgh office parking plan to help cut air pollution
- (tags: pollution transport cars Edinburgh scotland )
- Italy's government are blaming Europe. they are clearly wrong
- (tags: Italy europe fraud )
- Massive summer polls are sending clear Brexit message
- (tags: UK Europe polls GoodNews )
- Theresa May considers plan to register 3 million EU citizens alphabetically to cope with flood of applications
- (tags: UK Europe citizenship OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 10-05-2018
May. 10th, 2018 12:00 pm- University of Warwick suspends 11 students over rape jokes
- (tags: rape jokes university )
- This Leaked Report Reveals The Stark Warnings From Judges About Defendants With No Lawyer
- (tags: law UK epicfail OhForFucksSake )
- Promiscuous? Divorced? Eccentric-looking? You may be denied British citizenship
- (tags: immigration OhForFucksSake citizenship )
- The truth about Hans Asperger’s Nazi collusion
- (tags: aspergers history nazis )
- EU moves to protect European firms from US sanctions on Iran
- (tags: Iran usa Europe )
- Airbus space contract will move from UK to continent due to Brexit
- (tags: UK Europe space )
- The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest families in Florence
- Because we let them pass it on, generation to generation.
(tags: inequality italy economics )
Interesting Links for 08-02-2018
Feb. 8th, 2018 12:00 pm- A Bid to Solve California’s Housing Crisis Could Redraw How Cities Grow
- (tags: California housing )
- Stephen Hammond: Tory MP vows to challenge Theresa May's Brexit policy with vote to keep UK inside single market
- (tags: uk europe Conservatives )
- Vegetarian and vegan: A quarter of UK dinners have no meat or fish
- (tags: vegetarian vegan uk food )
- Elevated Use of Absolutist Words Is a Marker of Anxiety, Depression
- (tags: depression anxiety language )
- Study Shows Women Have Happier Relationships When Their Partners Aren’t Massive Douchebags
- (tags: relationships happiness satire )
- How the Republicans rigged Congress — new documents reveal an untold story
- Proportional Representation is clearly the answer.
(tags: voting usa politics OhForFucksSake ) - Fascinating hypothetical Brexit voting scenarios hereIf Cons were only ones supporting Brexit...If Labour was opposing Brexit...Look at how strategic Remainers are...… https://t.co/QDJVnGszL9"
- (tags: voting polls UK europe )
- Designing Windows 95’s User Interface
- (tags: design ui ux windows microsoft )
- Book of Kells: History of world’s most famous medieval manuscript rewritten after dramatic new research
- (tags: history religion UK Ireland christianity books )
- Woman unknowingly adopts dog she gave up as a child (no, you have something in *your* eye)
- (tags: dogs )
- Police in China have begun using sunglasses equipped with facial recognition technology to identify suspected criminals.
- (tags: surveillance China augmentedreality police )
- The "Connect Four" meme makes me unreasonably happy
- (tags: meme games children weird )
- To know Donald Trump’s faith is to understand his politics
- (tags: religion politics usa Republicans )
- Sex ed must cover respect and consent, say young mums
- (tags: sex education uk )
- Abandoned cars on fire in Edinburgh's derelict robot car park
- (tags: edinburgh cars automation scotland fire )
- European Court of Justice asked to rule on whether UK nationals can keep EU citizenship after Brexit
- (tags: europe uk citizenship law )
- Leaked AI-powered Game Revenue Model Paper Foretells a Dystopian Nightmare
- (tags: games money OhForFucksSake )
- How Motivation Works
- (tags: psychology motivation brain )
- Cognitive approach to lie detection rendered useless by made-up alibi
- (tags: lying psychology )
Interesting Links for 07-11-2017
Nov. 7th, 2017 12:00 pm- "I lost my job over a Facebook post - was that fair?"
- (tags: facebook jobs privacy )
- Oxford Street could become a traffic-free boulevard next year
- (tags: london cars )
- Prominent Brexiteer John Redwood advises investors to avoid Britain
- (tags: UK Europe economics OhForFucksSake Conservatives )
- The latest news from Brussels on Brexit
- (tags: UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
- Boris Johnson blunder risks five more years in prison for British-Iranian woman
- (tags: Iran conservatives uk oh BorisJohnson )
- Brexit might be going badly, but that doesn’t mean people are changing their minds
- (tags: polls UK europe )
- The automated production of children's YouTube videos is leading to some disturbing places
- (tags: children videos wtf youtube )
- EU to discuss blacklist of tax havens after Paradise Papers leaks
- (tags: tax europe )
- How Apple sidestepped a 2013 crackdown on its Irish tax practices
- (tags: Ireland tax apple )
- Newlywed mum’s son denied Irish passport (because Ireland's surrogacy laws lag badly behind)
- (tags: ireland children citizenship lgbt )
- Current World Record of distant landscape photography (440km)
- Beware flat-earthers in the comments!
(tags: photos photography geography )
Interesting Links for 31-08-2017
Aug. 31st, 2017 12:00 pm- Man born and raised in UK told he is not a British citizen
- (tags: UK OhForFucksSake citizenship )
- Finland will keep sterilizing trans people
- (tags: Finland lgbt transgender OhForFucksSake )
- UK plan to bypass European Commission in Brexit talks doomed to fail
- (tags: uk europe OhForFucksSake )
- Are Some Psychiatric Disorders a pH Problem?
- (tags: mentalhealth brain )
- Why don’t you make your own Half-Life 3 if you’re so smart?
- (tags: games half-life )
- New t-shirt sewing robot can make as many shirts per hour as 17 factory workers
- (tags: automation clothing )
- How the GDPR will disrupt Google and Facebook
- (tags: privacy data regulation Europe Google Facebook advertising )
- Currency rates hit new low at airport bureaux de change
- (tags: currency UK europe )
- Large Companies Considered Harmful
- (tags: companies size economics )
- Patient plays saxophone while surgeons remove brain tumor
- (tags: music brain surgery )
- Moving from saturated to unsaturated fat doesn't help you lose weight, does lower cholesterol
- (tags: fat health weight )
- Marvel star slates racist Hollywood over name change
- (tags: china usa racism tv movies names )
- Beauty pageant winner hands back crown after being told she was too fat by organisers
- (tags: society weight beauty OhForFucksSake )
- NHS Wales: badly run by Labour or underfunded by Westminster?
- (tags: wales nhs money )
Interesting Links for 12-07-2017
Jul. 12th, 2017 12:00 pm- FactCheck Q&A: Is the UK’s offer to EU citizens a ‘damp squib’?
- (tags: europe uk citizenship )
- Teen Vogue's guide to Anal Sex is pretty impressive
- (tags: sex advice )
- Looks like I need to set aside some time to Necromance my way through Diablo III
- (tags: games review )
- Aristocrat guilty over menacing Gina Miller Facebook post
- (tags: Facebook Europe crime )
- Fat Buddha, Skinny Buddha
- (tags: religion history viaSwampers )
- Why Won’t China Help With North Korea? Remember 1956
- (tags: NorthKorea china usa russia history politics )
- Ads are coming to Facebook Messenger’s home screen
- (tags: advertising facebook )
- Cash no longer king as contactless payments soar in UK stores
- (tags: UK money Technology )
- How To Add A Security Key To Your Gmail
- (tags: gmail security )
- Lorry driver fined for passing too close to cyclist
- (tags: driving cycling transport law uk )
- Gay man wins case for equal pension rights
- (tags: pensions lgbt uk )
- It’s time for an All Party Parliamentary Group on Land Value Taxation
- (tags: tax uk )
- Why Linus Torvalds doesn't want to sue over the GPL
- (tags: law copyright linux )
Interesting Links for 12-12-2016
Dec. 12th, 2016 12:00 pm- Confirmation of the topology of the Wendelstein 7-X Stellerator magnetic field to better than 1:100,000
- (tags: fusion Technology )
- Cats: Helping you read since 8,000 BC
- (tags: cats books cute )
- 11 Habits of Highly Creative People
- (tags: creativity comic funny )
- Revamped Bubble Wrap Loses Its Pop (Could 2016 get any worse?)
- (tags: packaging )
- Please don't volunteer abroad until you've asked yourself these four questions
- (tags: charity volunteers )
- No post-Brexit EU citizenship for us!
- (tags: uk europe citizenship )
- Unhappiness more likely to result from poor mental health or being single than economic factors
- (tags: happiness mentalhealth )
- New £41m Edinburgh Gateway station now open (Connecting Fife to the trams/airport)
- (tags: edinburgh trains trams transport )
- Bill Gates announces $1bn investment fund for clean energy technology
- (tags: billgates energy )
- Homes being built in the wrong place are contributing to housing shortage
- (tags: housing uk )
- China 'seriously concerned' after Trump questions Taiwan policy
- (tags: china usa diplomacy politics )
- A map of the internet as of May 1973
- (tags: maps internet history )