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Interesting Links for 04-04-2025
Apr. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Russia escalates attacks on 'internal enemy' LGBT as it expands war in Ukraine
- (tags:lgbt bigotry russia )
- 2. Why has Russia escaped Trump's tariffs?
- (tags:Russia USA trade )
- 3. A revolutionary new understanding of autism in girls
- (tags:gender autism )
- 4. How tarrifs really work (a peek into a deranged mind)
- (tags:economics funny satire )
- 5. An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
- (tags:intellectual_property ai )
- 6. Tariffs Are Driving Up Game Prices Now
- (tags:games economics USA politics )
- 7. The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT due to over-reliance on AI
- (tags:ai security thinking doom intelligence )
- 8. Largest ever UK pumped hydro scheme granted consent
- (tags:UK hydroelectric Scotland )
- 9. Chickens are the true miracle animal!
- (tags:comedy funny video chicken viaSwampers )
- 10. The "Naked Gun" Teaser Trailer actually made me giggle
- (tags:police satire movies funny trailer video )
Interesting Links for 02-04-2025
Apr. 2nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. From tape to disk to solid-state - how storage has become faster (with some lovely animations to explain)
- (tags:storage visualisation )
- 2. I see Gilead are making a sequel to 'The Handmaid's Tale'
- (tags:dystopia USA TV margaretatwood women )
- 3. FTC: 23andMe buyer must honor firm's privacy promises for genetic data
- (tags:privacy genetics business )
- 4. AI models miss disease in Black and female patients (because it was trained less on them)
- (tags:racism sexism ai healthcare cancer )
- 5. What even is Britain?
- (tags:UK nationality history society viaDanielDWilliam )
- 6. What are your beliefs about the nature of reality? (I'm a scientific materialist. A mix of all of the subtypes.)
- (tags:reality beliefs )
- 7. "On the Best (Worst) Best Man Speech Ever (at My Super Mario-Themed Wedding)"
- (tags:wedding games movies relationships advice comedy )
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Interesting Links for 03-01-2025
Jan. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 2025 Is Unlikely To Be A Year Of Harmony In Northern Irish Politics
- (tags:NorthernIreland politics )
- 2. The perfect New Year's Eve comedy turns 30
- (tags:movies comedy review CohenBrothers )
- 3. Fascinating stats about how the Church of England is doing
- (tags:ChurchOfEngland UK demographics )
- 4. Study reveals how cannabis can trigger psychosis
- (tags:marijuana mentalhealth )
- 5. Tintin, Now in Public Domain (in the US), Gets a Modern Day Reboot in The Big Lie
- (tags:tintin copyright USA comics )
- 6. Inside Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts
- (tags:history music materials business Turkey )
- 7. The Class Politics of Fine Dining
- (tags:restaurant sociology inequality food viaPatrickHadfield )
- 8. UK investigation opens into a National Care Service - won't report back until 2028, just in time for the next election
- (tags:care UK labour )
- 9. Camp for kids with HIV closes as there are so few kids who are born with HIV
- (tags:hiv GoodNews children )
- 10. Spotify is paying artists to create music for it to use in its playlists so that they don't have to pay royalties on it
- (tags:spotify music OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 09-10-2024
Oct. 9th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. MI5 have foiled 48 mass murder plots from Russia and Iran in the last 7 years
- (tags:russia Iran murder war UK intelligence )
- 2. Hurricane! Milton! From! Space!
- (tags:video space wind weather )
- 3. US finalizes rule to remove lead pipes within a decade. (Do many other countries still use lead water pipes?)
- (tags:lead water USA )
- 4. Trailer for Midgies horror movie released ahead of filming
- (tags:Scotland insects horror comedy )
- 5. Companies Are Forcing People to Work Through Disasters.
- (tags:usa weather safety OhForFucksSake business mcdonalds )
- 6. Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
- (tags:google ai images doom fraud )
Interesting Links for 16-02-2024
Feb. 16th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. All of the parties have shared their proposed budgets for Edinburgh
- (tags:edinburgh politics money )
- 2. UK MPs will be helped to spot conspiracy theories
- (tags:research conspiracy uk politics )
- 3. Neil Gaiman is in disagreement with half of his fans of the genre of Good Omens
- (tags:neilgaiman comedy TV genre funny )
- 4. The 2023 Hugo Fraud and Where We Go From Here
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- 5. What it takes to scam someone out of $50,000
- (tags:money fraud )
- 6. Service change from Sunday 24 March - Lothian Buses
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- 7. Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article
- (tags:ai rats genitals penis wtf )
- 8. Greece legalizes same-sex marriage in a first for an Orthodox Christian nation
- (tags:greece lgbt marriage christianity )
- 9. Solar & Battery Storage to Make Up 81% of New U.S. Electric-Generating Capacity in 2024
- (tags:solarpower GoodNews usa batteries )
- 10. The Fraud of Plastic Recycling (and the companies that have covered it up for 50 years)
- (tags:recycling plastic fraud doom )
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Interesting Links for 25-05-2023
May. 25th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The hiccup cure
- (tags:hiccups )
- 2. Anyone fancy a fantasy martial arts high school comedy TV series starring half the cast of Everything Everywhere All At Once?
- (tags:tv china Disney comedy MartialArts )
- 3. Scottish children's hearings urged to scrap volunteer model
- (tags:scotland children law )
- 4. Edinburgh tram extension will open on June 7th
- (tags:edinburgh trams )
Interesting Links for 22-03-2023
Mar. 22nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. How many movies can you ruin for parents by adding "With The Children" to the end of them?
- (tags:movies children )
- 2. Met Police is racist, sexist, homophobic and may harbour more killers, damning report says
- (tags:racism sex homophobia lgbt bigotry police london uk )
- 3. "I Blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple. It was hell"
- (tags:Microsoft Google Facebook Apple Amazon technology society )
- 4. Incel Supernova: From a Single Comic Strip to the End of the Universe with Scott Adams (written before his recent nonsense, but clearly showing how he got there)
- (tags:dilbert comics politics usa society )
- 5. Minimum unit pricing for alcohol saves hundreds of lives in Scotland (over 150 per year)
- (tags:alcohol economics death Scotland GoodNews )
- 6. It turns out that acting with a puppet without collapsing into giggles is very hard
- (tags:funny video comedy laughter puppets TV bbc )
- 7. Ugandan MPs pass bill that criminalises identifying as LGBT+ and 'promotion' of homosexuality
- (tags:lgbt Uganda OhForFucksSake law )
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Interesting Links for 21-01-2023
Jan. 21st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. How is life in the UK? (Top 1% have grabbed nearly ⅔ of all growth in the last 2 years)
- (tags:UK Doom OhForFucksSake economy )
- 2. AI is being used by students to produce essays and projects - how should the education system respond?
- (tags:education ai )
- 3. Total whiteout on Ben Macdui - what it's like climbing Scotland's second-highest mountain in snowy weather
- (tags:snow winter mountains Scotland video )
- 4. Church of England refuses to back marriage equality, declares that marriage is between "one man and one woman for life" (despite their Supreme Governor being divorced)
- (tags:marriage religion ChurchOfEngland LGBT OhForFucksSake uk )
- 5. How ironic are Ricky Gervais' views on transgender people?
- (tags:comedy RickyGervais transgender bigotry LGBT )
- 6. Driverless bus takes passengers across Forth Road Bridge in UK first
- (tags:Edinburgh automation driving buses transport Scotland )
- 7. The pianist with the bionic hands
- (tags:cyborg piano music history )
- 8. Could Ultrasound Replace the Stethoscope?
- (tags:ultrasound healthcare technology )
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Interesting Links for 23-09-2022
Sep. 23rd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Amazon will no longer let people instantly return ebooks they've read
- (tags:ebooks Amazon publishing )
- 2. More Democrats Than Ever Support The Palestinian Cause, And That's Dividing The Party
- (tags:Israel Palestine USA democrats )
- 3. Scotland's no-fracking policy to continue
- (tags:Scotland fracking GoodNews )
- 4. Far too much advice about photography
- (tags:photography advice )
- 5. 32 examples of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie being the peak of comedy
- (tags:comedy UK TV history )
- 6. What does Covid prevention look like for an industry where people care about it?
- (tags:business Pandemic testing )
- 7. Using AI to upgrade the graphics quality of old games
- (tags:games graphics ai video amazing viaSwampers )
- 8. Rape posts every half-hour found on online incel forum
- (tags:rape communication internet OhForFucksSake men )
- 9. The UK now charges more tax to a graduate than a high earner
- (tags:tax UK university OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links Catchup from 18-08-2022
Aug. 19th, 2022 09:09 am- 1. Judge who approved Trump search warrant attacked for synagogue involvement
- (tags:law USA Jews politics OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Not mature enough to have an abortion? Then you'll have to have a baby instead!
- (tags:abortion usa OhForFucksSake children )
- 3. What if Rob Liefeld had drawn Watchmen?
- (tags:comics history art funny )
- 4. These Are Not Photos: Beautiful Landscapes Created by New AI
- (tags:photos ai mountains nature )
- 5. Single Moms: Less Housework, More Leisure Than Married Moms
- (tags:housework gender parenting work marriage relationships OhForFucksSake )
- 6. The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas
- (tags:USA wtf )
- 7. When it takes doctors 6 days to recognise your stroke (and multiple hospital visits)
- (tags:stroke brain healthcare )
- 8. Edinburgh bin strike: Here's what to do with your waste while workers are on strike
- (tags:Edinburgh waste unions strike )
- 9. The "Wednesday Addams" trailer looks great
- (tags:trailer TV Goth )
- 10. Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars
- (tags:cars ui efficiency safety design )
- 11. Black and Asian people are more likely to have been handed Covid fines
- (tags:racism uk pandemic )
- 12. Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers
- (tags:computers music history )
- 13. Babies don't belong at comedy shows, which is why we set one up for new parents and their screaming kids
- (tags:babies comedy )
- 14. Accumulation of glutamate in brain is why thinking hard is tiring
- (tags:thinking brain )
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Interesting Links for 09-07-2022
Jul. 9th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Our problems don't end with Boris Johnson, our political system needs an overhaul
- (tags:politics uk reform )
- 2. Today's Robotic Surgery Turns Surgical Trainees Into Spectators - So They Don't Get To Make Mistakes (And Learn How To Recover From Them)
- (tags:robots mistakes surgery healthcare )
- 3. Compared with standard care, a water birth significantly reduced the use of epidurals as well as pain and heavy bleeding after the birth
- (tags:water childbirth )
- 4. Autonomous Drones Could Soon Monitor the UK's Energy Grid
- (tags:drone electricity uk )
- 5. London sitcoms - on Google Maps
- (tags:Google maps comedy viaPatrickHadfield )
- 6. Gender Critical Beliefs - Where the law stands following the decisions in Mackereth and Forstater v CGD
- (tags:LGBT transgender law bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Undersea cable laid to link Shetland to UK energy grid
- (tags:UK electricity Scotland )
- 8. How Do Dolphins Choose Their Name?
- (tags:dolphins names )
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Interesting Links for 11-01-2022
Jan. 11th, 2022 12:00 pm- What are the biggest non-diet causes of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, etc?
- (tags:society sleep stress disease weight diabetes )
- Leaked email shows 100 No 10 staff were invited to a party during lockdown restrictions
- (tags:UK conservatives Pandemic law OhForFucksSake )
- Repeat after me: Covid doesn't spread on surfaces
- (tags:Pandemic cleanliness )
- Adversarial Wordle
- (tags:games language )
- Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior through effects on harm aversion
- (tags:morality serotonin psychology )
- Male elite chess players are quicker to quit when dominated by a female player
- (tags:men behaviour psychology games sexism )
- "Why I went from being an actor to a clowndoctor"
- (tags:acting children comedy )
- In 1st, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
- (tags:pigs organs surgery )
- UK health officials misinterpreted US guidance on Covid self-isolation period
- (tags:pandemic )
- Dolphin females have working clitoris
- (tags:sex dolphins clitoris )
- Beautiful trees
- (tags:trees beautiful )
- Impressive shepherding
- (tags:dogs birds impressive training )
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Interesting Links for 18-11-2021
Nov. 18th, 2021 12:00 pm- British pies to be banned from EU unless ingredients come from Brussels-approved farms
- (tags:uk safety food europe )
- Are Jackson's movies good translations of Tolkien's books?
- (tags:lotr movies books )
- Dave Chappelle's "Some Of My Best Friends Are Trans" Story Doesn't Hold Up
- (tags:LGBT transgender comedy lies )
- Boris Johnson's Brexit protocol diverts Northern Irish trade from Britain to Republic
- (tags:uk europe ireland NorthernIreland trade )
- An emergent improv band forming around a cat drinking milk
- (tags:milk cats video music improv viaNancyLebov )
- This is why Amazon won't accept UK Visa credit cards from January
- (tags:UK visa Amazon credit )
- What happened to rock music in 1996?
- (tags:music rock history USA radio )
- The magic words that control cosplayers
- (tags:cosplay conventions )
- Mercedes Lackey on trans rights
- (tags:LGBT transgender writing )
Interesting Links for 29-10-2021
Oct. 29th, 2021 12:28 pm- Impact of Brexit on economy is worse than Covid says Office for Budget Responsibility
- (tags:pandemic uk europe economy doom )
- Your code displays Japanese wrong
- (tags:japan language china unicode fonts )
- A charming song about your date's choice in movies being a red flag
- (tags:funny relationships viaSwampers music video movies horror )
- How Ace Ventura and South Park harmed trans people
- (tags:LGBT transgender SouthPark comedy abuse )
- Covid: Inexpensive antidepressant can cut hospitalisation risk by 30%
- (tags:pandemic medicine depression )
- Sluggish exports: the 'worrying trend' in the UK economy
- (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
- Anti-trans professor Kathleen Stock quits Sussex university
- (tags:GoodNews LGBT transgender bigotry academia UK )
- The answer to lactose intolerance might be in Mongolia
- (tags:milk history food Mongolia microbiome bacteria viaMyBrotherHugh )
- No end in sight for chip shortage as supply chain problems pile up
- (tags:cpu computers business Doom )
- Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company
- (tags:VirtualReality Facebook socialnetworking )
- Gifted dogs tilt their heads more than average
- (tags:dogs intelligence )
- Why Dogs Tilt Their Heads
- (tags:dogs behaviour )
- An intuitive guide to the mathematical constant 'e'
- (tags:growth mathematics )
- Artists - are you ready to make a fat stack of cash from NFTs?
- (tags:cryptography art money comic advice )
- Margaret Atwood seems to be back onside over transgender issued
- (tags:LGBT transgender margaretatwood )
- Why Canada won't print indigenous spelling on passports
- (tags:canada names OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 23-04-2021
Apr. 23rd, 2021 12:00 pm- Greens see no contradiction over independence and recovery
- (tags:independence scotland GreenParty )
- Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. - Trailer
- (tags:marvel tv comedy animation )
- The kind of joke I didn't know Alexa told
- (tags:jokes AI Amazon )
- Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years
- (tags:Ocean shipping law Egypt wtf )
- Why we need dark stories
- (tags:stories writing comic mentalhealth depression )
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Interesting Links for 12-03-2021
Mar. 12th, 2021 12:00 pm- Playing with ultra-thin dolls could make girls as young as five want skinnier bodies
- (tags:girls weight health toys dolls psychology ViaDrCross )
- Scotland-England link removed for overhaul
- (tags:UK Scotland England bridge )
- 'Appalling' speech by equalities minister was final straw, says LGBT+ adviser who quit government
- (tags:UK conservatives lgbt OhForFucksSake )
- 'Harry Potter' actor Katie Leung was told to deny she was target of racist attacks
- (tags:racism harrypotter movies )
- £1m Green gravity energy project gets off the ground at Edinburgh's Leith docks
- (tags:electricity gravity Edinburgh Scotland )
- The weird and wonderful world of Eiffel Tower replicas and derivatives
- (tags:France weird design architecture viaDanielDWilliam )
- Scotland makes it illegal to stir up hatred against minorities (and abolishes blasphemy laws)
- (tags:Scotland abuse law blasphemy )
- Peer-reviews for grants are not reliable
- (tags:research fail funding )
- UK exports to Europe drop 40% in January
- (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
- How tiny things add up - in business, bureaucracy, and racism
- (tags:viaDanielDWilliam racism business UK Europe trade journalism )
- Britain cannot be reformed, it must be destroyed
- (tags:UK racism price journalism viaDanielDWilliam )
- Another successful Covid vaccine announced!
- (tags:pandemic vaccine GoodNews )
- BBC cancels comedy show for being successful while not being Pro Brexit or Conservative
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1370256264509464577.html
(tags:BBC OhForFucksSake comedy tv ) - Amazon Yanks Books That Frame LGBTQ Identity as Mental Illness
- (tags:mentalhealth lgbt Amazon GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 12-02-2021
Feb. 12th, 2021 12:00 pm- Scotland's vaccination programme is likely to slow down later this month because of supply problems
- (tags:Scotland vaccination )
- GameStop missed out on capitalizing on the Reddit rally
- (tags:investment business regulation )
- Leprechaun 'is not a native Irish word' new dictionary reveals
- (tags:Ireland language history dictionary )
- Nicola Sturgeon backed by majority of SNP support over Joanna Cherry sacking. Majority support GRA reform
- (tags:snp bigotry LGBT transgender )
- The Good Friday Agreement is now the most important single document in the constitution of the United Kingdom
- (tags:Constitution UK NorthernIreland Europe law )
- Stop cats from bringing in wildlife by playing with them more and feeding them a meat-rich diet
- (tags:cats food meat play )
- Houston Doctor Fired for Giving Away Doses of Covid Vaccine (that would have been wasted. Such a stupid court case)
- (tags:pandemic vaccination USA wtf )
- 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' to End With Season 8
- (tags:police TV comedy )
- Mark Kermode's pretentious review of an empty cinema
- (tags:satire review funny movies cinema )
- This perfectly sums up my dislike for Adam Curtis "documentaries"
- (tags:video documentaries )
- Rewilding: Beavers to be reintroduced in record numbers across England and Wales this year
- (tags:UK beavers nature )
- Have some fun, ridiculous chess variants
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1359663550130761729.html
(tags:chess ) - How the language people use changes during a breakup
- (tags:relationships language )
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Interesting Links for 04-02-2021
Feb. 4th, 2021 12:00 pm- French ferry firm opens new post-Brexit routes to Ireland bypassing UK
- (tags:France UK Ireland trade Europe )
- How Theresa May casually decided that Brexit meant the United Kingdom would leave the single market and customs union
- (tags:UK Europe history OhForFucksSake )
- The way we produce computers (and phones, printers, cameras, and anything else with a chip in it) is insecure and dangerous. Is regulation now necessary?
- (tags:regulation hardware software security )
- Capt Tom donations: What was the £33m spent on?
- (tags:charity NHS uk )
- With impeccable timing, the white cliffs of Dover are collapsing
- (tags:UK video )
- Autistic comedian Joe Wells on having a non-autistic brother
- (tags:autism comedy video viaSwampers funny )
- Edinburgh's two shelved tram lines could be revived
- (tags:Edinburgh trams transport Scotland )
Interesting Links for 01-02-2021
Feb. 1st, 2021 12:00 pm- Black Bart - The Buried TV Sequel to Blazing Saddles
- (tags:TV movies racism comedy weird contracts cowboy )
- Drone flight captures Norfolk starlings murmuration
- (tags:birds drone video )
- Nadhim Zahawi and Tory MPs attack Yorkshire Post - over a totally accurate story
- (tags:government UK media OhForFucksSake )
- Home Office put refugees in camps so they didn't look weak
- (tags:immigration OhForFucksSake asylum UK refugee )
- Transphobes target Scottish Government HQ and Bute House
- (tags:lgbt transgender Scotland )
- How to identify which European language you're reading
- (tags:language Europe visualisation flowchart )
- Here's the Nordic model making life awful for sex workers in Canada
- (tags:Canada sexwork OhForFucksSake )
- Brexit: How much disruption has there been so far?
- (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
- Silver surges as Reddit army turns to commodities
- (tags:metal trade investment Reddit wtf )
- Covid in Scotland: Vaccinations move to next category (over 70s)
- (tags:Scotland vaccination pandemic )
- Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions
- (tags:music spotify emotions )
- The seamstress who conserves brutality
- (tags:genocide materials clothing history museums )
- Men: Do not hold a grudge for decades and use it to kill people in TV shows called Jessica
- (tags:names death TV OhForFucksSake )
- I wish I'd had a teacher this awesome
- (tags:teachers teaching awesome )
- A list of landlords who are in elected positions in the UK.
- (tags:property politics UK housing )
- Coronavirus: Up to one fifth of staff in some care home groups refusing vaccine
- (tags:pandemic vaccination OhForFucksSake UK )
- The Apple app store has a scam problem
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1356011069395755009.html
(tags:Apple scam fraud apps ) - What is transphobia? (mostly so I can find this again later)
- (tags:lgbt transgender bigotry )
- Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester
- (tags:3d visualisation Manchester electricity history )
- Normal life will not return 'until 2024' if virus does not disappear globally
- (tags:pandemic )
- Rescued Ben Nevis climbers fined
- (tags:mountains Scotland pandemic )
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