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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 )
Tags:
- ai,
- awful,
- citizenship,
- comic,
- epicfail,
- godzilla,
- law,
- links,
- philosophy,
- scotland,
- scripts,
- transgender,
- tumblr,
- uk,
- work,
- working_hours
Interesting Links for 18-02-2024
Feb. 18th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A short comic about a mysterious creature living among the monks of a secluded abbey.
- (tags:comic fantasy religion bigotry )
- 2. Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up
- (tags:ai airplanes law travel Canada )
- 3. A Killer Disease Is Rampant In Hospitals Around The World
- (tags:pandemic disease epicfail )
- 4. How the Starship Troopers movie brilliantly depicts an empire in fascist decline
- (tags:StarshipTroopers movies fascism scifi robertheinlein )
- 5. The intersection of AI, racism, and academia
- (tags:ai writing academia viaPatrickHadfield racism )
Interesting Links for 14-02-2024
Feb. 14th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. New Discworld games possible if devs "come to us with the right ideas and the resources", says Rhianna Pratchett
- (tags:terrypratchett games )
- 2. Teenager charged with attempted murder after transgender girl stabbed 14 times at party
- (tags:transgender OhForFucksSake uk assault )
- 3. Changing people's appearance with makeup and lighting
- (tags:specialeffects makeup history movies )
- 4. What will robots replace next?
- (tags:automation funny robots comic )
- 5. How Leith opened itself up by bridging its river
- (tags:edinburgh history River bridge )
- 6. Inside the parts of Edinburgh store Jenners you've never seen before
- (tags:edinburgh shops history )
- 7. Edinburgh drug consumption room backed by study
- (tags:edinburgh drugs )
- 8. Scientists found a 900m Stone Age hunting wall submerged in the Baltic Sea
- (tags:prehistory archeology )
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- archeology,
- assault,
- automation,
- bridge,
- comic,
- drugs,
- edinburgh,
- funny,
- games,
- history,
- links,
- makeup,
- movies,
- ohforfuckssake,
- prehistory,
- river,
- robots,
- shops,
- specialeffects,
- terrypratchett,
- transgender,
- uk
Interesting Links for 02-02-2024
Feb. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Wherein Book Aziraphale and TV Aziraphale have a chat. (I still wish the TV series had been more like the book, but I know I'm in the minority there)
- (tags:TV books neilgaiman writing fanfic comic )
- 2. What are Edinburgh's bold new plans for congestion?
- (tags:edinburgh transport )
- 3. How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent
- (tags:success advice )
Interesting Links for 26-01-2024
Jan. 26th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Apple to allow rival app stores and browsers on iPhones in EU
- (tags:Europe regulation iPhone Apple browsers apps )
- 2. A collection of stories of queer and trans Floridians who have fled the state
- (tags:Florida LGBT transgender republicans bigotry )
- 3. Looking at how much male and female characters speak in the Disney Princess movies
- (tags:viaElfy Disney language gender )
- 4. More states propose bills to exclude trans, nonbinary people from public life
- (tags:LGBT USA law bigotry transgender viaBenWerdmuller )
- 5. A new global gender divide is emerging as young women shift in a more liberal direction and young men shift to the right
- (tags:politics gender )
- 6. What if consciousness is a coping mechanism?
- (tags:funny comic consciousness )
- 7. The "Code of Conduct" for Improbably Island is fantastic. Anyone running an online community should read it.
- (tags:internet discussion behaviour regulation )
- 8. QWERTLE - like Worldle, but based on keyboard location. I got today's in 4.
- (tags:words games keyboard )
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- apple,
- apps,
- behaviour,
- bigotry,
- browsers,
- comic,
- consciousness,
- discussion,
- disney,
- europe,
- florida,
- funny,
- games,
- gender,
- internet,
- iphone,
- keyboard,
- language,
- law,
- lgbt,
- links,
- politics,
- regulation,
- republicans,
- transgender,
- usa,
- viabenwerdmuller,
- viaelfy,
- words
Interesting Links for 02-01-2024
Jan. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A really simple explanation for why young people are siding with Palestine
- (tags:Palestine video Israel )
- 2. This is basically how I feel about Rebel Moon (although I may watch the extended version if the reviews are staggeringly better)
- (tags:movies comic funny ZackSnyder )
- 3. Inside the 2023 Tory war on LGBT rights
- (tags:lgbt Conservatives transgender uk politics )
- 4. Mousetrapped is the first thing I've seen doing anything interesting with the newly public domain Mickey Mouse
- (tags:Disney publicdomain comic )
- 5. Asexuality Is Finally Breaking Free from Medical Stigma
- (tags:asexual sexuality psychology history )
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- asexual,
- comic,
- conservatives,
- disney,
- funny,
- history,
- israel,
- lgbt,
- links,
- movies,
- palestine,
- politics,
- psychology,
- publicdomain,
- sexuality,
- transgender,
- uk,
- video,
- zacksnyder
Interesting Links for 18-11-2023
Nov. 18th, 2023 09:33 pm- 1. This series of The Crown is the best yet
- (tags:TV review monarchy Queen UK )
- 2. Finally, a solution to the Teleporter problem!
- (tags:StarTrek funny death comic )
- 3. "Personalised Learning" is not the best approach to teaching children
- (tags:children Education )
- 4. Criticisms of BMI have been grossly overstated
- (tags:BMI weight health )
- 5. Half-Life gets a big update for its 25th anniversary
- (tags:games valve half-life )
- 6. Edinburgh named as one of worst cities in Scotland for vacant homes with almost 7,000 lying empty
- (tags:housing Edinburgh epicfail )
- 7. Apple, Disney, Comcast and Warner Brothers Discovery have all halted advertising on X amid antisemitism storm
- (tags:bigotry Jews advertising twitter ElonMusk )
Interesting Links for 03-11-2023
Nov. 3rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Bigots lose Scottish court case over definition of 'woman'
- (tags:bigotry GoodNews scotland transgender )
- 2. The Information Commissioner found, two years ago, that the Scottish Government didn't use WhatsApp for discussions.
- (tags:Scotland government communication )
- 3. Ancient roman road found in Stirling garden.
- (tags:Scotland Rome archeology )
- 4. Peter Jackson Talks About Making The Beatles' Last Music Video
- (tags:peterjackson Beatles video music )
- 5. Insulin less temperature-sensitive than previously thought (can cope at temperatures up to 25 degrees for 6 months)
- (tags:insulin diabetes temperature )
- 6. This Plane Wasn't Snooping On Protesters In Los Angeles, It Was Dropping Irradiated Bugs
- (tags:insects radiation fertility USA airplanes )
- 7. Cyclists are Better People than Drivers
- (tags:cycling psychology morality driving cars bicycles )
- 8. The TRUTH about stars!
- (tags:stars space comic funny )
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- archeology,
- beatles,
- bicycles,
- bigotry,
- cars,
- comic,
- communication,
- cycling,
- diabetes,
- driving,
- fertility,
- funny,
- goodnews,
- government,
- insects,
- insulin,
- links,
- morality,
- music,
- peterjackson,
- psychology,
- radiation,
- rome,
- scotland,
- space,
- stars,
- temperature,
- transgender,
- usa,
- video
Interesting Links for 20-09-2023
Sep. 20th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The Ancient Times of TV were weird
- (tags:tv weird history comic funny )
- 2. I'm pretty sure that this is where the search for consciousness is headed
- (tags:consciousness funny comic )
- 3. No evidence people have bank accounts closed due to political views, regulator says after Nigel Farage row
- (tags:politics banking )
- 4. Less than half of fresh produce sold globally makes any profit
- (tags:business food doom )
- 5. Right-wing ideologues can't work out who broke Britain, so let me explain
- (tags:uk Conservatives doom )
- 6. Humans Have Exceeded Six of the Nine Boundaries Keeping Earth Habitable
- (tags:earth environment doom )
- 7. Facebook is Blocking Canadians' Posts About the Assassination of a BC Sikh Leader. Their Posts Were Targeted by India's Government.
- (tags:india canada facebook censorship )
- 8. The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary
- (tags:birthday piracy piratebay copyright )
- 9. I was furious at the idea of a 'male menopause' but I was wrong
- (tags:men hormones age )
Interesting Links for 08-08-2023
Aug. 8th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Football is tackling racism, but remains strangely silent on homophobia
- (tags:football bigotry lgbt homophobia )
- 2. I've never seen pictures of the inside of the Sagrada Familia before. It's rather striking!
- (tags:architecture spain religion )
- 3. The $1 million shot that changed sports contests (and a few lives) forever
- (tags:sports history )
- 4. Foreign Office to act imminently over sanctions-busting by Russian allies
- (tags:Russia Europe UK )
- 5. Welcome to Generic Temple!
- (tags:religion funny comic )
Interesting Links for 17-07-2023
Jul. 17th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. How much would it cost to make a simple piece of clothing by hand
- (tags:clothing money prehistory viaDanielDWilliam )
- 2. Kitchen implement or torture device?
- (tags:cooking torture )
- 3. More than two kids? Labour thinks they should starve
- (tags:labour poverty children OhForFucksSake )
- 4. One Scottish care home closing every week, industry warns
- (tags:care Scotland Doom )
- 5. What's going on with Twitter? (It's turning itself into a pyramid scheme of awfulness)
- (tags:Twitter Doom )
- 6. The UK government is about to destroy the UK's access to the internet
- (tags:internet UK doom OhForFucksSake )
- 7. What if AI could only be trained on material that was out of copyright?
- (tags:ai copyright funny comic )
- 8. China is making huge strides in its green economy
- (tags:China solarpower pollution impressive )
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- ai,
- care,
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- china,
- clothing,
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- cooking,
- copyright,
- doom,
- funny,
- impressive,
- internet,
- labour,
- links,
- money,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pollution,
- poverty,
- prehistory,
- scotland,
- solarpower,
- torture,
- twitter,
- uk,
- viadanieldwilliam
Interesting Links for 25-04-2023
Apr. 25th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. MouthPad - control your device with your tongue!
- (tags:disability Technology )
- 2. Dreamwidth access in Russia: please stay safe!
- (tags:dreamwidth russia )
- 3. Why Russian and Ukrainian activism is not mutually exclusive
- (tags:russia ukraine )
- 4. The Russian Erotic Equine Space Mystery!
- (tags:space horses art mysteries comic )
- 5. Snuggle Pupping, and how WW1 led the USA into a spiral of European depravity
- (tags:sex society history Europe USA wwi )
- 6. Clock, Shakespeare's Sonnet 12, read by Neil Gaiman and set to a haunting musical backdrop by Australia's FourPlay String Quarte
- (tags:neilgaiman music video shakespeare clock )
- 7. Bilingualism Affords No General Cognitive Advantages
- (tags:language Intelligence psychology )
- 8. How realistic is sudden exponential AI takeoff?
- (tags:ai singularity )
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- ai,
- art,
- clock,
- comic,
- disability,
- dreamwidth,
- europe,
- history,
- horses,
- intelligence,
- language,
- links,
- music,
- mysteries,
- neilgaiman,
- psychology,
- russia,
- sex,
- shakespeare,
- singularity,
- society,
- space,
- technology,
- ukraine,
- usa,
- video,
- wwi
Interesting Links for 24-04-2023
Apr. 24th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. What did Diane Abbott think would happen when she claimed that Travellers, Irish and Jewish people don't experience racism?
- (tags:labour racism OhForFucksSake )
- 2. The Scottish Question: an overview
- (tags:Scotland politics law )
- 3. This is how "We won't need coders" conversations always sound to me.
- (tags:coding comic funny true )
- 4. A Simple Exercise to Strengthen the Lower Esophageal Sphincter and Eliminate Gastroesophageal Reflux
- (tags:exercise health )
Interesting Links for 18-04-2023
Apr. 18th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Crossness Pumping Station: London's Beautiful Sewage Station
- (tags:waste beauty london )
- 2. The Horrific Stages of a Tyranid Invasion - narrated by David Attenborough
- (tags:warhammer WH40K DavidAttenborough funny video )
- 3. An interesting question about vampires
- (tags:vampires questions )
- 4. Labour will use any excuse to shift to the right
- (tags:labour politics UK doom )
- 5. Sony World Photography Award 2023: Winner refuses award after revealing AI creation
- (tags:photography competition ai viaSwampers )
- 6. Is beauty skin deep?
- (tags:beauty mathematics topology funny comic )
- 7. The Fediverse crosses one billion posts per month
- (tags:mastodon socialnetworking )
- 8. I see that transphobes are now unsuccessfully trying to co-opt Judy Blume
- (tags:LGBT bigotry transgender )
- 9. Now, you can embed Mastodon posts in Medium stories
- (tags:socialnetworking )
- 10. DOOM maps to SVG to laser cutter
- (tags:doom games 3dprinting )
- 11. Why don't you see more fat people in sport?
- (tags:weight sports )
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- lgbt,
- links,
- london,
- mastodon,
- mathematics,
- photography,
- politics,
- questions,
- socialnetworking,
- sports,
- topology,
- transgender,
- uk,
- vampires,
- viaswampers,
- video,
- warhammer,
- waste,
- weight,
- wh40k
Interesting Links for 17-03-2023
Mar. 17th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Finally, the true meaning of the universe is revealed
- (tags:meaning StarWars comic funny )
- 2. The condemnation of Jess Phillips for honouring a trans teenager is a new low in our culture wars
- (tags:bigotry uk lgbt transgender )
- 3. National Academies: We can't define "race," so stop using it in science
- (tags:race racism science )
- 4. There's a hierarchy of racism under Starmer
- (tags:labour racism UK OhForFucksSake politics )
- 5. Against the idea of gender dysphoria as a mental illness
- (tags:gender mentalhealth transgender LGBT )
- 6. Silicon Valley Bank's collapse was spotted well in advance by everyone in the know - other than the regulators.
- (tags:banking regulation OhForFucksSake )
- 7. 10 best D&D map makers for dungeons, cities and worlds
- (tags:maps dungeonsanddragons )
- 8. So, you've been challenged to a duel. What are the rules?
- (tags:duelling rules usa history )
- 9. Nebraska lawmaker 3 weeks into filibuster over trans bill
- (tags:LGBT USA transgender politics )
- 10. Northern Ireland rejects Irish unity by large margin (50% to 26%)
- (tags:NorthernIreland polls )
- 11. A Pro-Trump Social Network Wants to Corner the Anti-Vax Jizz Market
- (tags:fertility politics USA viaPatrickHadfield headline )
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Interesting Links for 11-01-2023
Jan. 11th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The UK Government has announced it may stop recognising gender recognition certificates from as many as 14 countries, including Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Please contact your MP!
- (tags:transgender bigotry UK OhForFucksSake LGBT conservatives )
- 2. The proposed anti-union legislation is an incoherent mess
- (tags:unions mess conservatives OhForFucksSake law )
- 3. Is a member of Congress being sworn in on a copy of Superman? Well, kinda.
- (tags:superman politics usa bible history )
- 4. Horrible Therapist Random Comic Generator
- My favourite is https://theoatmeal.com/pages/horrible_therapist?q=q_how_weekend_1&a=a_ran_over_priest&t=t_pornhub
(tags:funny comics therapy random ) - 5. How do kids enjoy terrible things?
- (tags:children imagination comic funny )
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Interesting Links for 04-01-2023
Jan. 4th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Some truths about ancient Egypt
- (tags:Egypt facts )
- 2. The 14 Features of Fascism
- (tags:fascism )
- 3. Bomb disposal experts called to Edinburgh Central mosque
- (tags:Edinburgh Islam terrorism OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Greta Thunberg and the Romanian pizza boxes: A study in misinformation
- (tags:disinformation journalism pizza Romania crime translation )
- 5. Video game workers establish Microsoft's first union
- (tags:USA games Microsoft unions )
- 6. Finally: The truth about man-flu emerges!
- (tags:funny comic flu )
- 7. Portland Startup to Mine Artisanal Bitcoin Using Only Slide Rules and Graph Paper
- (tags:blockchain satire funny )
- 8. How to get children to take an interest in maths
- (tags:mathematics funny comic )
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- blockchain,
- comic,
- crime,
- disinformation,
- edinburgh,
- egypt,
- facts,
- fascism,
- flu,
- funny,
- games,
- islam,
- journalism,
- links,
- mathematics,
- microsoft,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pizza,
- romania,
- satire,
- terrorism,
- translation,
- unions,
- usa
Interesting Links for 24-12-2022
Dec. 24th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Britain's winter of discontent is the inevitable result of austerity
- (tags:austerity UK NHS infrastructure Doom )
- 2. In the long term, if we want to keep the global temperature down, then our electricity generation has to be entirely generated from renewables
- (tags:renewables globalwarming )
- 3. Stardust is inspired by The Voyage of The Dawn Treader
- (tags:narnia neilgaiman )
- 4. Fans Can Now Sue Movie Studios For Deceptive Trailers
- (tags:trailers law fraud viaMyBrotherHugh )
- 5. Both versions of "Riddles in the Dark" (the Gollum chapter of The Hobbit, changed when Lord of The Rings came out)
- (tags:lotr TheHobbit Tolkien )
- 6. Finally, a believable explanation of why Elon Musk bought Twitter!
- (tags:ElonMusk Twitter comic funny )
- 7. Elon Musk orders removal of Twitter suicide prevention feature
- (tags:Twitter suicide OhForFucksSake ElonMusk )
- 8. Brexit means no British manufacturer able to build ministerial cars
- (tags:UK cars manufacturing Europe Doom )
- 9. The 10 best films of 2022
- (tags:movies reviews )
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- ohforfuckssake,
- renewables,
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