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Interesting Links for 08-01-2025
Jan. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. All 105 large developments going on in Edinburgh in 2025, on Google Earth.
- (tags:google map construction edinburgh )
- 2. Edinburgh Development Summary 2025
- (tags:edinburgh construction )
- 3. Five key ways to tackle child sex abuse that still haven't been implemented
- (tags:children rape politics uk )
- 4. Cuts to England's bus network cost economy £2.6bn a year
- (tags:england economics buses transport )
- 5. Is *your* TV too high?
- (tags:tv height )
- 6. How a populist think tank is stoking Scotland's culture war
- (tags:hungary bigotry Scotland )
- 7. JK Rowling Slammed After Claiming That 'There Are No Trans Kids' In Hateful Rant
- (tags:jkrowling transgender bigotry children )
- 8. Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness'
- (tags:Facebook OhForFucksSake bigotry LGBT )
- 9. How do we know how Latin was pronounced, and how did the official church pronunciation come to be different to that?
- (tags:Latin history language )
- 10. Landlords to be banned from demanding several months' rent in advance
- (tags:rental England )
- 11. Stats for the Omni-Centre cycle lane in Edinburgh show that usage is up 40% in a year
- (tags:cycling edinburgh )
- 12. 'I realised I had autism when my children were diagnosed'
- (tags:autism scotland )
- 13. Trump threatens Nato, Hamas, Greenland, Panama, and Canada in press conference
- (tags:politics usa )
- 14. Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams in Classical Latin
- (tags:music video latin )
- 15. Six things you must know about how the grooming gangs scandal was handled
- (tags:rape children religion racism uk government )
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Interesting Links for 13-06-2024
Jun. 13th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Exclusive Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined
- (tags:submarine epicfail safety OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Israel and Hamas added to UN list for violating children's rights
- (tags:children UnitedNations rights Israel Gaza )
- 3. MSPs approve buffer zones at abortion clinics in Scotland
- (tags:Scotland abuse abortion GoodNews )
- 4. Plans for 8,500-capacity Edinburgh Park arena approved by council
- (tags:Edinburgh music construction performance )
- 5. Real-Time Settlers Of Catan
- (tags:games )
- 6. NASA accidentally broadcasts simulation of distressed astronauts on space station (I don't see how this could happen, and it sounds like the start of a bad movie)
- (tags:NASA video conspiracy )
- 7. Where does SNP claim of £18bn cuts under Labour come from?
- (tags:Labour austerity OhForFucksSake )
- 8. Wild horses have returned to the Golden Steppe of Kazakhstan for the first time in at least 200 years
- (tags:horses kazakhstan )
- 9. Greatest Comics of All Time as Chosen by 45 Writers and Artists
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Interesting Links for 22-07-2023
Jul. 22nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. What the Luddites can teach us about resisting an automated future.
- (tags:Technology society ai )
- 2. Almost All Research on the Mind Is in English. That's a Problem
- (tags:psychology language english )
- 3. I Didn't Have Eggs: Terrible recipe reviews by people who don't know how awful they are
- (tags:reviews cooking wtf )
- 4. Edinburgh construction projects: Here's an update of what's going on behind all that scaffolding
- (tags:Edinburgh construction )
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Interesting Links for 17-05-2023
May. 17th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Today, I crossed the Wilford Brimley Line. And I think I'm doing okay. (Although I've been up since 4:30, so on the inside...)
- (tags:age movies )
- 2. If you fancy any of the Dragon Age or Mass Effect games they're currently 90% off on Steam!
- (tags:steam games money viaSwampers )
- 3. What The BBC's Rory Carson Got Wrong About Private ADHD Treatment.
- (tags:bbc adhd OhForFucksSake epicfail )
- 4. The BBC Panorama adult ADHD investigation is awful
- (tags:adhd bbc documentary OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Churches lose voting rights on Highland education policy
- (tags:religion scotland GoodNews Education )
- 6. JP Morgan are spying on their employees to a ridiculous extent
- (tags:surveillance work OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Large Language Models are inherently vulnerable to privacy and keyword manipulation attacks
- (tags:ai fraud doom )
- 8. The Perfect Balance - and how we sometimes enjoy being thrown off it. An interesting look at vertigo.
- (tags:psychology Edinburgh literature bodies )
- 9. What did we learn from Biosphere 2?
- (tags:earth nature research viaDanielDWilliam )
- 10. Vauxhall-maker warns Brexit threatens electric cars in UK
- (tags:uk europe cars manufacturing )
- 11. Where in the world are men most likely to sit down to wee? (Germany. UK in the "least likely" group)
- (tags:toilets urination polls )
- 12. Why [x] should be regulated.
- (tags:regulation satire politics uk )
- 13. Labour would build on green belt to boost housing, says Starmer
- (tags:housing construction labour GoodNews )
- 14. Steam Now Offers 90-Minute Game Trials, Starting With Dead Space
- (tags:games steam )
- 15. Russia at 'turning point' as missiles run out and West ups sanctions on Chinese firms sending weapons parts
- (tags:russia ukraine weaponry )
- 16. ADHD diagnosis: Patients waiting for assessment by specialist for up to four years in parts of UK
- (tags:adhd healthcare OhForFucksSake uk )
- 17. Butterfly tree of life reveals an origin in North America
- (tags:viaNancyLebov insects paleontology fossils America )
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Interesting Links for 22-07-2022
Jul. 22nd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Brexit continues to be the sucking void at the centre of British politics
- (tags:uk europe Conservatives doom viaKalimac )
- 2. Families With Trans Kids Are Fleeing Hostile States for Welcoming Ones
- (tags:USA transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- 3. The new Dungeons & Dragons movie does not look terrible!
- (tags:movies trailer dungeonsanddragons )
- 4. On Babel events and wrestling God
- (tags:languages God disaster construction bible viaNancyLebov )
- 5. UK plans to introduce visa requirements for some people crossing the Irish border.
- (tags:ireland NorthernIreland borders doom )
- 6. Edinburgh strippers hit back at councillor's claim exotic dancing is 'not work'
- (tags:sexwork edinburgh )
- 7. Alan Grant: Tributes flood in for Scottish comic book writer behind Batman and Judge Dredd stories
- (tags:comics 2000AD writing scotland )
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Interesting Links for 21-07-2022
Jul. 21st, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. New EU rules come in affecting Google, Apple, etc. The fallout is going to be *fascinating*
- (tags:google apple regulation europe )
- 2. Sizewell C nuclear power station approved by UK government amid energy crisis
- (tags:nuclearpower uk )
- 3. This Food Does Not Exist 🍪🍰🍣🍹
- (tags:food ai fake )
- 4. The cute lovable robot dogs now have assault rifle attachments
- (tags:robots dogs video guns )
- 5. Quidditch changes its name to distance itself from JK Rowling
- (tags:jkrowling sports )
- 6. Addressing The Claims In JK Rowling's Justification For Transphobia
- (tags:jkrowling LGBT transgender bigotry )
- 7. A doctor discovers an important question patients should be asked
- (tags:healthcare viaEatSoylentGreen )
- 8. Edinburgh secures blockbuster Doctor Who exhibition for show's 60th anniversary year
- (tags:drwho edinburgh )
- 9. Scotland's Drugs Death Taskforce chief says punishing addicts must stop
- (tags:scotland drugs death addiction law )
- 10. 4 Myths About Construction: Debunked
- (tags:myths construction engineering FactCheck )
- 11. Brexit red tape: Bookings of UK musicians at EU's biggest festivals crash by 45%
- (tags:uk europe music trade doom )
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Interesting Links for 10-12-2021
Dec. 10th, 2021 12:00 pm- This New Tech Cuts Through Rock Without Grinding Into It
- (tags:construction tunnels technology )
- 2 bed flat for sale in London - with ridiculously massive bunker
- (tags:property London wtf viaSwampers )
- Scots told to defer Christmas parties by national health authority
- (tags:Scotland Christmas Pandemic )
- New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy cigarettes - for life
- (tags:cigarette newzealand )
- How Biden Is Reshaping The Courts (I am regularly aghast at how the USA chooses judges)
- (tags:law usa viaDanielDWilliam )
- Real life horror movie scene
- (tags:light trains horror video )
- The furries are everywhere!
- (tags:furrie )
- Student accommodation rents up by a third in three years
- (tags:students rent Scotland )
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Interesting Links for 27-11-2021
Nov. 27th, 2021 12:00 pm- The Highest City in the World Celebrates Its Indigenous Culture with Neo-Andean Architecture
- (tags:design Bolivia architecture colour )
- Boris Johnson bridge to Northern Ireland would cost over £300bn and should not be built, government review finds
- (tags:uk NorthernIreland trains )
- Edinburgh's tram extension: Leith Walk faces longer closure after project hits problems (still within overall budget and timescales though)
- (tags:construction Edinburgh trams )
- Study: How Conservative Think Tanks are Destroying the Planet
- (tags:globalwarming Doom apocalypse conspiracy conservatives republicans )
- I'm starting to think that the UK government is *trying* to collect all the variants
- (tags:Pandemic southafrica OhForFucksSake )
- Disney TV channels are losing about 10% of their viewers per year. I wonder if that applies generally to broadcast TV
- (tags:TV Disney broadcast )
- "Count To Ten" - a short animated comic I rather enjoyed, about taking the wrong road
- (tags:life comic animation video )
- Visually-impaired artists share their world
- (tags:art disability sight )
- Novel mind-body program outperforms other treatments for chronic back pain
- (tags:pain back )
- The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire
- (tags:internet design security )
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Interesting Links for 22-07-2021
Jul. 22nd, 2021 12:00 pm- Anansi Boys TV show under way
- (tags:TV neilgaiman )
- Here's a lovely story.
- (tags:LGBT love lesbians relationships )
- Boycotts are terrorism now, apparently
- (tags:IceCream Israel terrorism )
- Tolkien, Lewis, and Gygax play Dungeons and Dragons together
- (tags:Tolkien CSLewis dungeonsanddragons funny )
- 24 photos showing the massive changes to Edinburgh's St James district down the decades
- (tags:edinburgh construction history )
- Catholic priest quits after "anonymized" data revealed alleged use of Grindr (a great example of why "anonymous" data isn't!)
- (tags:data location lgbt religion OhForFucksSake )
- No Covid is not the most infectious respiratory disease
- (tags:pandemic virus infection )
- Why hasn't "herd immunity" stopped Covid in the UK? (Detailed and fascinating)
- (tags:infection pandemic uk )
- Me on an obstacle course
- (tags:dogs funny video viaSwampers )
- People In Positions Of Power Are More Likely To Blame And Punish Others For Poor Performance
- (tags:psychology power work )
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Interesting Links for 19-05-2021
May. 19th, 2021 12:00 pm- The Limits Of Humanity - The Final Border We Will Never Cross
- (tags:space video thefuture viaSwampers )
- Another media acquisition? This one would involve Amazon, MGM, and ~$9B
- (tags:Amazon movies business )
- St James Quarter: Edinburgh's new skyline revealed as the last cranes come down after five years
- (tags:Edinburgh construction photos )
- If you're in Scotland and think you should have had your vaccination invitation then this is the form to fill in
- (tags:vaccination Scotland viaLizzieCassMaran )
- Working in Television is just horrific
- (tags:tv work working_hours OhForFucksSake )
- Why are all my weather apps different?
- (tags:weather apps thefuture forecast viaClare )
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Interesting Links for 14-03-2021
Mar. 14th, 2021 12:00 pm- How the 'WandaVision' Creator Brought Her Vision (and Wanda's) to Life
- (tags:marvel tv )
- Federal safety investigators blast Tesla, call for stricter safety standards
- (tags:safety Tesla driving automation USA regulation )
- We're getting bored of all the corruption
- (tags:corruption UK )
- How has Edinburgh's landscape changed in a year? (tons of construction)
- (tags:construction Edinburgh Scotland )
- Here's the Met Police violently attacking women holding a vigil for a woman one of their officers murdered
- I mean, yes, there's a pandemic on. But find a better way to deal with this. Maybe engage with it? Get women officers on the front line of it?
(tags:police murder video London UK OhForFucksSake ) - "Adobe Photoshop's 'Super Resolution' Made My Jaw Hit the Floor"
- (tags:Adobe Photoshop impressive photography )
- Vaccines should end the pandemic, despite the variants
- (tags:vaccine pandemic GoodNews virus )
- Tesla cars with automated driving features turned on are far safer than manually driven cars
- (tags:driving cars automation Tesla safety )
- Biden's COVID-Relief Bill Is a Big Fucking Deal
- (tags:USA politics GoodNews democrats )
- This Word Does Not Exist
- (tags:language ai )
- By accident, lockdown has shown English schools the secret of closing the achievement gap
- (tags:UK education internet )
- The UK justice system is a huge failure
- (tags:UK law OhForFucksSake )
- Who actually has the power to get rid of the Metropolitan Police Chief, and how do they do it?
- (tags:police London UK politics law )
- The General Secretary of the Scottish Police Federation is supporting far right transphobes
- (tags:police Scotland bigotry OhForFucksSake transgender LGBT )
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Interesting Links for 19-02-2021
Feb. 19th, 2021 12:00 pm- Perth becomes first UK city centre with resident beavers
- (tags:UK Scotland animals beavers cities )
- Buffy Deserves Better Than Joss Whedon
- (tags:JossWhedon buffy abuse tv viaKalimac )
- Parenting: Three ways to calm your kids during a temper tantrum
- (tags:children emotion psychology parenting )
- Fifty construction workers from Edinburgh St James Quarter project self isolating following Covid-19 outbreak
- (tags:Edinburgh construction pandemic )
- I wish I was sixteen again so I could enjoy the new Mortal Kombat movie the way it was meant to be seen
- (tags:movies violence games trailer video )
- Japan's ruling party invites more women to meetings, as long as they don't talk
- (tags:women Japan politics OhForFucksSake )
- California State Legislator Introduces Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics
- (tags:psychedelics decriminalization California USA GoodNews )
- New Kalashnikov comes with WiFi, Bluetooth and phone sync
- (tags:guns WiFi Bluetooth wtf technology )
- Wildlife Photographer Captures Never Before Seen Yellow Penguin
- (tags:birds colour penguins photos )
- UK Supreme Court rules Uber drivers are workers
- (tags:Jobs law employment UK GoodNews )
- The 'war on woke' and law and policy commentary - and the importance of responding to illiberals but not on their terms
- (tags:society politics )
- Relax. Machines Already Took Our Jobs
- (tags:automation history )
- COVID/Vitamin D: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
- (tags:vitaminD pandemic research )
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Interesting Links for 12-01-2021
Jan. 12th, 2021 12:00 pm- People Without Covid Are Being Treated On The Same Wards As Infected Patients Because Hospitals Are Overwhelmed
- (tags:hospital UK NHS Doom )
- 'Welcome to the Brexit, sir': Drivers have sandwiches confiscated at Dutch border
- (tags:UK Europe food trade )
- Liberals and Conservatives Read Totally Different Books About Science
- (tags:books politics science )
- How disinformation reaches millions of people
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1348689248006893568.html
(tags:Twitter lies disinformation ) - Ban non-mask wearers, health secretary tells supermarkets
- (tags:pandemic shopping UK )
- 'No show' Glasgow councillor forced from office
- (tags:politics Scotland Glasgow )
- Did Man at Capitol Riot Die After Accidentally Tasing Himself In The Testicles?
- (tags:tasers coup facts penis )
- QAnon Has Woken Up the Real Deep State
- (tags:law politics terrorism coup usa )
- Which of these bedrooms do you like best?
- (tags:design beds )
- Deutsche Bank will not do future business with Trump
- (tags:Banking coup USA politics )
- How far is "local"?
- (tags:pandemic rules )
- Scotland considering crackdown on takeaways and non-essential construction
- (tags:Scotland food construction pandemic )
Interesting Links for 06-01-2021
Jan. 6th, 2021 12:00 pm- Children have always been a major source of Covid infections. Closing schools is the second-best intervention we could make (I've not seen this evidence before.)
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1346362159446577154.html
(tags:children pandemic ) - Mirena (the IUD) has been the subject of multiple lawsuits
- (tags:law USA contraception viajoexnz )
- A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?
- (tags:technology apocalypse gambling thefuture predictions )
- 81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends
- (tags:UK Europe internet )
- Covid travel: Why Instagram is still full of celebrities 'on holiday'
- (tags:celebrity advertising holidays UK OhForFucksSake )
- One In 50 People Are Currently Believed To Have Covid-19 In The UK (One in Thirty in London)
- (tags:pandemic uk )
- Why don't all demolition devices look like dinosaurs?
- (tags:dinosaurs construction )
- "You can't expect Brexit not to have consequences. The UK won't be a distribution hub for the EU any more. EU businesses will need to stop relying on UK hubs."
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1346746239874953217.html
(tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
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Interesting Links for 31-12-2020
Dec. 31st, 2020 12:00 pm- Amazon still hasn't fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews
- (tags:Amazon fraud reviews )
- New virus variant found in Colorado while UK struggles to limit it
- (tags:UK USA pandemic Doom )
- 10 Major Edinburgh developments set to be completed in 2021
- (tags:Edinburgh construction cycling hotel shopping )
- 30 Years Since the Human Genome Project Began, What's Next?
- (tags:genetics history thefuture )
- Ohio State study: 30% of student athletes who had Covid have heart damage
- (tags:pandemic heart doom )
- The strengths and weaknesses of Benjamin the Donkey from Animal Farm as a political commentator
- (tags:politics GeorgeOrwell animals )
Interesting Links for 22-10-2020
Oct. 22nd, 2020 12:00 pm- Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19 relative to controls: An N=84,285 online study
- (tags:intelligence virus pandemic )
- The forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks
- (tags:remote driving construction )
- Will a vaccine stop Covid?
- (tags:vaccine pandemic virus )
- How to build an Olympic champion: Be born at the right time
- (tags:time birth sports )
- British government screams that it 'never wanted a trade deal anyway' and it 'wishes it had never been born'
- Astoundingly, this is from over a month ago!
(tags:UK trade satire viaCharlesStross ) - Phil Collins' ex-wife has taken over his mansion with armed guards
- (tags:music relationships wtf viaBartCalendar )
- Pope Francis calls for civil union law for same-sex couples
- (tags:LGBT pope catholicism )
- The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3
- (tags:Web technology Facebook http )
- Cryo-electron microscopy breaks the atomic resolution barrier at last
- (tags:microsocopy physics impressive )
- Jared Leto Returning as Joker in the Snyder Cut
- (tags:comics movies )
- What's wrong with America's approach to pain management drugs?
- (tags:pain USA healthcare medication )
- Private rents in London plunge by up to 34% amid Covid crisis
- (tags:London rental GoodNews pandemic )
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Interesting Links for 16-10-2020
Oct. 16th, 2020 12:00 pm- Microwaving plastic waste can generate clean hydrogen
- (tags:hydrogen plastic microwave )
- We have so many things to learn from nature
- (tags:nature comic funny )
- How to Keep Players Engaged (Without Being Evil)
- (tags:games design video )
- Fire and smoke alarms: changes to the law in Scotland (affects every home)
- (tags:safety Scotland fire regulation )
- MPs to investigate whether artists are paid fairly for streaming music (turns out the labels keep almost 90% of the cash)
- (tags:music streaming money )
- MPs vote to allow undercover agents to commit murder, torture and rape
- (tags:murder rape torture law UK )
- The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time
- (tags:books fantasy )
- UK banks not ready for negative interest rates
- (tags:UK banking )
- If Google disables your account then you can't find out why - even if your husband works there.
- (tags:Google OhForFucksSake )
- Coronavirus immunity likely to last for several months after infection
- (tags:virus immune_system )
- Centaurs are clearly insects
- (tags:fantasy horses insects )
- VIDEO: Amazing Recreation of 14th-Century Construction of Charles IV Bridge in Prague
- (tags:construction architecture history video )
- World's most prestigious scientific publications issue unprecedented critiques of the Trump administration
- (tags:science politics USA viaElfy )
- The closed Edinburgh cinema costing £20,000 a month to run
- (tags:cinema Edinburgh Scotland pandemic )
- Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search
- (tags:music search google )
- 3.6 million people in the UK locked out of home buying. And (in a net basis) the last ten years of house building went to landlords.
- (tags:UK housing OhForFucksSake )
- 'I'm sick of influencers asking for free cake' (and some good examples of them working well together)
- (tags:advertising food socialmedia )
- Betelgeuse Is Neither as Far Nor as Large as We Thought
- (tags:space )
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Interesting Links for 30-01-2020
Jan. 30th, 2020 12:00 pm- Watch six decade-long disinformation operations unfold in six minutes
- (tags:Twitter society fraud manipulation )
- What happens when a 96 bitcoin ransom payment ends up on an exchange? (It depends on whether it counts as "money")
- (tags:money crime )
- This explanation* of Cats is fantastic. *not actually an explanation. Cats cannot be explained
- (tags:cats musical wtf )
- Terrifying video: a bushfire takes less than a minute to turn an ordinary street into Hell on Earth.
- (tags:video fire Australia )
- MoviePass is finally actually dead. I'm totally shocked
- (tags:movies fail business )
- "Ouija Shark" definitely comes from the Roger Corman school of "Nice title, here's a budget" movie making.
- (tags:sharks movies horror awful trailer )
- Brain networks come online during adolescence to prepare teenagers for adult life
- (tags:brain teenagers adolescence )
- Huawei ruling will cost us £500m, says BT
- (tags:huawei BT uk phones internet Technology )
- Incredible new aerial photos of Edinburgh St James reveal sheer size of development
- (tags:edinburgh construction shopping )
- Map reveals the most and least deprived areas in Edinburgh
- (tags:maps inequality poverty edinburgh scotland )
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