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Interesting Links for 04-03-2024
Mar. 4th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The 'banned' Star Trek episode that promised a united Ireland
- (tags:StarTrek UK Ireland terrorism )
- 2. Hunt unable to name 'extremist' groups Sunak says hijacked marches
- (tags:islam terrorism protests uk wtf conservatives )
- 3. Here's what will happen if Colorado River system doesn't recover from the historic drought that's so far lasted three decades
- (tags:globalwarming drought rivers USA doom viaDanielDWilliam )
- 4. Why Vertigo's Lucifer Morningstar Matters (in 4 parts)
- (tags:comics sandman neilgaiman Lucifer religion )
- 5. Endometriosis now takes nearly nine years to diagnose in the UK, with the vast majority of women being fobbed off by their doctor.
- (tags:uk women healthcare epicfail nhs )
- 6. Number of long-term sick blows £3bn black hole in the UK's budget.
- (tags:uk budget sick doom )
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Interesting Links for 05-02-2024
Feb. 5th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. RTD Reveals Series 14 of Doctor Who Was Planned to Air Much Sooner, But Hit By FX Delays
- (tags:drwho TV cgi )
- 2. The Apple Vision Pro's Killer App Is … Kitchen Timers
- (tags:time cooking augmentedreality apple )
- 3. Autistic brains create 42% more information at rest
- (tags:autism brain )
- 4. Alan Moore's "Big Numbers" planning spreadsheet
- (tags:comics alanmoore planning spreadsheet )
- 5. Playing dance mat games can help prevent falls in older people
- (tags:dancing games age )
- 6. Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake 'chief financial officer'
- (tags:ai fraud video )
- 7. Nearly 1 in 4 American Adults Who Get COVID-19 Suffer From Long COVID
- (tags:Pandemic disability doom )
- 8. It's now 128 years since we discovered The Greenhouse Effect
- (tags:globalwarming co2 history )
- 9. A newly discovered letter from Tolkien sheds light on Balrogs and Legolas
- (tags:Tolkien funny lotr )
Interesting Links for 03-02-2024
Feb. 3rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Labour finally ditches its £28bn green investment promise
- (tags:labour environment OhForFucksSake )
- 2. New Community Movie Update (script is done - Donald Glover is in)
- (tags:TV movies )
- 3. 2000AD's 'Rogue Trooper' is being made into an animated movie (made by Duncan Jones)
- (tags:movies 2000AD comics )
- 4. The Forgotten Lessons Of Infectious Disease Control
- (tags:disease history )
- 5. Each New Generation Finds It More Difficult to Surpass the Wealth of Their Parents.
- (tags:economics income generation doom )
- 6. Double yellow lines for two Edinburgh pavement parking ban streets
- (tags:Edinburgh cars )
- 7. A collection of Tory MPs offering "helpful" advice to people in poverty
- (tags:poverty conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- 8. The appendix plays a hidden role in gut health (I don't have one, which may explain a lot...)
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Interesting Links for 29-11-2023
Nov. 29th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. How Dave Gibbons went from being a building surveyor to one of the best known comics artists, and why he letters his own comics
- (tags:comics art letter history )
- 2. I have long felt that autism isn't one thing, but a collection of things which produce similar traits. Looks like the research is swinging that way.
- (tags:autism research psychology )
- 3. Some people might find this house too avant garde, but I think that being able to accept parcel deliveries without getting off the toilet would be very handy
- Seriously though, do estate agents just heave a massive sigh when they take a look around these places?
(tags:housing toilets wtf ) - 4. How Jensen Huang's Nvidia Is Powering the A.I. Revolution
- (tags:ai graphics history technology )
- 5. There is no evidence that the Internet strongly affects wellbeing or mental health globally
- (tags:internet mentalhealth )
- 6. The User Interface failures that lead to an airliner being shot down by accident
- (tags:ui epicfail iran usa military death )
- 7. Restaurants Are Using Tinder Profiles to Lure Diners In
- (tags:restaurant dating fraud wtf )
Interesting Links for 19-10-2023
Oct. 19th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. How Do Musicians Make Money? (And how much?)
- (tags:music business money )
- 2. Todd Klein on how comics lettering was done with pens
- (tags:pen comics )
- 3. I've switched from Google search to Kagi. This is why.
- (tags:google search )
- 4. Public corruption prosecutions rise where nonprofit news outlets flourish
- (tags:corruption journalism usa )
- 5. "I'm a sociopath who feels no remorse - it's just how my brain is wired"
- (tags:sociopath psychology personality )
- 6. Ruling could transform rape cases in Scottish courts
- (tags:rape law Scotland )
- 7. New pill helps COVID smell and taste loss fade quickly (mine hasn't recovered fully for nearly 18 months)
- (tags:Pandemic virus smell )
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Interesting Links for 18-09-2023
Sep. 18th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Using a foreign language has a significant effect on decision-making
- (tags:language thought viaFrancescaElston )
- 2. The Fables comic is now Public Domain
- (tags:publicdomain comics dc fairytale )
- 3. Russell Brand in his own words: How the comedian's books and stand-up shows detail mistreatment of women
- (tags:celebrity abuse women UK )
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Interesting Links for 01-09-2023
Sep. 1st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Neil Gaiman almost inadvertently prevented Terry Pratchett's unfinished work from being steamrolled
- (tags:terrypratchett neilgaiman death writing )
- 2. Las leyes de la física son inquebrantables.
- (tags:physics funny video )
- 3. RSPB boss apologises after charity points out government lies
- (tags:lies conservatives charity UK politics )
- 4. Ukraine unveils 'terminator' land drones that can fire machine guns and cross minefields
- (tags:drone ukraine war Russia )
- 5. Comic Book Character Says "Bollocks" Every Once in a While so You Don't Forget He's English
- (tags:swearing english UK writing comics funny )
- 6. Patients treated by female surgeons are less likely to die
- (tags:surgery women death )
- 7. Bessie Watson, the incredible life story of the "Suffragette Piper Girl"
- (tags:Edinburgh history music women voting Scotland wwi viaDanielDWilliam )
Interesting Links for 02-08-2023
Aug. 2nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. UK's first drone mail service begins in Orkney
- (tags:royalmail postoffices scotland drone )
- 2. The Good Omens graphic novel is now on Kickstarter
- (tags:kickstarter CrowdFunding neilgaiman terrypratchett comics )
- 3. Covid breach MP loses seat after recall petition
- (tags:UK politics Pandemic )
- 4. Meta loses battle in EU, will ask for consent to show personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram
- (tags:advertising surveillance Facebook Europe )
- 5. UK to keep EU safety mark in post-Brexit climbdown
- (tags:UK Europe standards )
- 6. Trump indictment: a brief introduction
- (tags:USA politics republicans crime )
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Interesting Links for 27-06-2023
Jun. 27th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Wagner Group: New clues over why Prigozhin abandoned coup emerge, after reports of threats to his family
- (tags:russia civilwar )
- 2. The Nimona trailer looks amazing. (Been looking forward to this since I read the comic a loooong time ago)
- (tags:comics movies animation trailer video )
- 3. Starbucks workers at 150 stores plan strike over not being allowed Pride decor
- (tags:LGBT USA coffee business )
- 4. Reminder that Google's automated systems will tell you any old nonsense
- (tags:Google lies )
Interesting Links for 02-05-2023
May. 2nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Half of Vinyl Buyers in the US Don't Have a Record Player
- (tags:music business )
- 2. Why Neil Gaiman wrote Marvel 1602
- (tags:marvel comics neilgaiman terrorism )
- 3. Lego Googol Machine
- (tags:lego mathematics time )
- 4. Modern graphics are really impressive: Star Trek edition
- (tags:StarTrek graphics )
- 5. How much has AI image generation improved in the last year?
- (tags:ai graphics impressive )
- 6. You can improve gpt4 performance an astounding 30% by asking it to reflect on "why were you wrong?", and generate a new prompt for itself taking that reason into account until it is correct.
- (tags:ai )
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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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- funny,
- goodnews,
- google,
- homophobia,
- laughter,
- law,
- lgbt,
- links,
- london,
- microsoft,
- movies,
- ohforfuckssake,
- police,
- politics,
- puppets,
- racism,
- scotland,
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- uganda,
- uk,
- usa,
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Interesting Links for 08-03-2023
Mar. 8th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Britons waiting twice as long for sickness benefits under Tories
- (tags:uk Conservatives disability austerity OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Children of same-sex couples fare as well as or better than heterosexual ones
- (tags:lgbt parenting )
- 3. We don't have a blasphemy law, but we have a system that punishes it
- (tags:blasphemy uk freespeech police )
- 4. How the UN's ocean treaty, decades in the making, will transform the way we protect the seas
- (tags:UnitedNations ocean nature GoodNews )
- 5. Scientists decode why people are scared of clowns
- (tags:phobia fear humans faces )
- 6. Are modern superhero comics missing the ordinary people?
- (tags:comics writing superheroes )
- 7. I suspect the court case over this will cost Elon Musk a small fortune
- (tags:ElonMusk disability OhForFucksSake )
- 8. Labour retreats from pledge to nationalise energy, water and mail if it wins next general election
- (tags:labour privatisation politics UK OhForFucksSake )
- 9. Edinburgh Council backs bid to ban vehicles from parts of Leith
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Interesting Links for 03-02-2023
Feb. 3rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. James Gunn's plans for the DC Movie Universe look very sensible - and might actually be good!
- (tags:tv movies dc comics )
- 2. The topologist's world map
- (tags:topology map countries )
- 3. Timelapse of the future: A Journey to the End of Time
- (tags:thefuture visualisation video timelapse space awesome )
- 4. An Astonishing Regularity in Student Learning Rate (Students seem to get better at about the same speed as each other)
- (tags:Education speed psychology )
- 5. Squid skin inspires novel "liquid windows" for greater energy savings
- (tags:squid colour glass )
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 02-01-2023
Jan. 2nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. After nearly 30 years, there's finally a new issue of Miracleman by Neil Gaiman
- (tags:comics Miracleman history )
- 2. I've found my New Year's Resolution!
- (tags:resolutions grammar funny )
- 3. Terraria's Steam success is the fruit of unmatched long-term support
- (tags:games )
- 4. Maintenance of FORM, the 1980s software that's used for the particle physics' hardest calculations, rests almost entirely with one septuagenarian physicist.
- (tags:physics software Doom )
- 5. Yesterday was the 40th birthday of the internet!
- (tags:internet history )
- 6. Andrew Tate fuelling misogyny in UK schools, teachers warn
- (tags:misogyny homophobia LGBT bigotry OhForFucksSake school children )
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Interesting Links for 02-12-2022
Dec. 2nd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. EU adopts rules to make it easier to start trade war if UK breaches Brexit deal
- (tags:uk europe trade )
- 2. 16 photos of Edinburgh's Dean Village throughout the years
- (tags:photos edinburgh history )
- 3. The persistent and pervasive impact of beingbullied in childhood and adolescence: implications for policy andpractice
- (tags:bullying psychology )
- 4. AI as a literacy aid
- (tags:writing ai business viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. Would you like £200 of Neil Gaiman comics for very cheap and to support a refugee charity?
- (tags:neilgaiman comics charity )
- 6. I just watched the trailer for Cocaine Bear. And it is clearly the parable for our times
- (tags:Bears drugs trailer video wtf )
Interesting Links for 18-11-2022
Nov. 18th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. "When We All Have Pocket Telephones": A 1920s Comic Accurately Predicts
- (tags:mobile_phones comics predictions )
- 2. Stirling University Students' Union votes to go 100% vegan
- (tags:vegan scotland university food )
- 3. Edinburgh's 20mph roads: Plans to expand speed limit to 90 per cent of Edinburgh roads
- (tags:speed driving edinburgh )
- 4. Artificial meat has been greenlit in the United States for the first time
- (tags:meat Technology usa regulation )
- 5. The world needs more derpy cat dragons
- (tags:cats dragons art )
- 6. Cambrian Explosion Lego!
- (tags:Lego paleontology life )
- 7. The history of Irish/Native American mutual aid
- (tags:support Ireland USA history )
- 8. How to stay warm in extremely cold temperatures
- (tags:cold weather clothing advice )
- 9. How to Post to Mastodon From Anything Using IFTTT
- (tags:automation links )
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- scotland,
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Interesting Links for 27-10-2022
Oct. 27th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Edgar Allen Poe Dolly Parton in each others styles
- (tags:mashup funny )
- 2. Miracleman: Alan Moore's Nightmarish Superhero Masterpiece Is Back in Print for the First Time in Years
- (tags:alanmoore comics history )
- 3. How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe
- (tags:uk austerity growth gdp epicfail Conservatives )
- 4. Germany's 9-euro ticket strengthens the social participation of people with low incomes
- (tags:Germany welfare transport )
- 5. Transparent solar panels hit 30% efficiency
- (tags:solarpower )
- 6. Reminder that our current Prime Minister moved money out of deprived urban areas
- (tags:inequality UK conservatives )
- 7. Firefox now lets you annotate PDFs
- (tags:firefox PDF )
- 8. Disney has just debuted its first plus-size heroine
- (tags:weight Disney animation )
Interesting Links for 11-10-2022
Oct. 11th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. School starting age in Scotland could be raised to six after SNP members back policy change
- (tags:school scotland age )
- 2. Wombles songwriter destroys master tapes in a skip 'so people can't f*** around' with Beatles-style remixes
- (tags:music history children )
- 3. No Scottish independence vote next year if Supreme Court case goes against us, says Nicola Sturgeon
- (tags:independence Scotland law UK )
- 4. All aboard the dog bus!
- (tags:dogs bus video viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. Interesting perspective on the Crimean bridge explosion
- (tags:Ukraine Russia war explosions bridge )
- 6. Our cyberpunk present: drone-delivered wi-fi attack
- (tags:WiFi drones security hacking )
- 7. Bea Wolf - Beowulf, but, y'know, for kids!
- (tags:comics )
