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Interesting Links for 01-01-2025
Jan. 1st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year?
- (tags:sex funny accident )
- 2. A troll begs you to stop reacting to rage-bait
- (tags:internet society communication video )
- 3. AI-Generated Book Grifters Threaten The Future of Lace-Making
- (tags:craft ai OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Finland Finds Anchor Drag Marks Left By Tanker That Broke Cables
- (tags:Finland Russia sabotage shipping )
Interesting Links for 24-12-2023
Dec. 24th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. A thread of things the Good Law Project have achieved in the last year. Very proud to support them
- (tags:law uk )
- 2. Government guidance on gender identity and how it is approached puts schools at risk of being sued
- (tags:law equality LGBT transgender UK )
- 3. A Black woman in Ohio has been charged with a felony for abuse of a corpse after she miscarried into her toilet
- (tags:pregnancy OhForFucksSake USA )
- 4. The upscaling of movies is now detracting from them
- (tags:movies technology ai )
- 5. LED Industrial Piercing
- (tags:led craft technology )
- 6. Hbomberguy Didn't Want to Make That 4-Hour Plagiarism Video
- (tags:plagiarism videos LGBT )
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- technology,
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- uk,
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Interesting Links for 13-07-2023
Jul. 13th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Starlink satellites took evasive action 25,000 times in the last 6 months (that's once every ten minutes)
- (tags:space Spacex )
- 2. Doctor Who: Should Russell T Davies Acknowledge The Timeless Child?
- (tags:drwho TV )
- 3. Important UK political question - which of these objects from the parliament gift shop is the most horrific?
- (tags:UK politics craft awful wtf )
- 4. Deep in a Highland glen 155 years ago the world's first golden retrievers were born.
- (tags:dogs history scotland )
- 5. Council tax rises of up to 22% proposed for Scotland (sliding scale, ours would be 7.5%)
- (tags:tax scotland housing )
Interesting Links for 01-05-2023
May. 1st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. This computer game is going to have entirely embroidered character art
- (tags:games art craft viaSwampers )
- 2. Just in case anyone was wondering, the very concept of monarchy can fuck off
- (tags:monarch UK OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Did you know you can replace large chunks of an orchestra with an accordion
- (tags:music video )
- 4. Cat! Can! Has! Cheeseburger!
- (tags:meme cats food funny )
- 5. New water treatment zaps 'forever chemicals' for good
- (tags:water cleaning GoodNews )
- 6. I don't understand how anyone thinks that Disney movies are improved by photorealism
- (tags:Disney movies reality )
- 7. Was not expecting Kirsty Allsopp to come out in favour of trans rights. Am delighted
- (tags:LGBT transgender UK rights )
Interesting Links for 10-03-2023
Mar. 10th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Evolution of tree roots may have driven mass extinctions
- (tags:evolution apocalypse extinction trees )
- 2. Childcare: Full-time nursery for under-twos nearly £15k a year
- (tags:childcare money uk )
- 3. Mice born with two fathers
- (tags:mice men children )
- 4. Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country
- (tags:LGBT USA bigotry transgender law )
- 5. Rotating Sandwiches - that's it
- (tags:food video wtf )
- 6. Why It's So Hard To Build a Crochet Machine
- (tags:craft automation video viaNancyLebov )
- 7. Visceral Femininity: A Bloodborne Video Essay
- (tags:games menstruation blood horror )
- 8. Inside the chaos of Elon Musk's Twitter
- (tags:ElonMusk EpicStupidity business Twitter doom )
- 9. ONS Covid infection survey paused after 3 years, leaving no official method for tracking virus
- (tags:Pandemic UK )
- 10. The Fed's Inflation Goal Is Completely Arbitrary
- (tags:inflation economics history viaDanielDWilliam )
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Interesting Links for 02-03-2023
Mar. 2nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Steel was already being used in Europe 2,900 years ago
- (tags:prehistory archeology materials europe )
- 2. Terry Pratchett on the fantasy genre
- (tags:fantasy terrypratchett writing )
- 3. Fearful of dating app scams, men in Brazil are taking measures women and the LGBTQ+ community have used for years.
- (tags:dating brazil crime men )
- 4. Presidents with Mullets is the kind of thing AI was made for
- (tags:ai USA president viaDanielDWilliam )
- 5. Early-life stress can disrupt maturation of brain's reward circuits, promoting disorders (in mice)
- (tags:stress brain reward psychology mentalhealth mice )
- 6. How to tie beautiful bows
- (tags:craft beautiful video )
- 7. Weirdly it can still be really hard to find shop space, even when the high street is dying
- (tags:shops UK rental )
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- terrypratchett,
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Interesting Links for 07-04-2022
Apr. 7th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. What leads people to believe they have been abducted by aliens?
- (tags:aliens sleep psychology memory )
- 2. New part of the body found in the lungs
- (tags:bodies humans air viaNancyLebov )
- 3. Boris Johnson's new nuclear plants expected to raise energy bills by over £80 a year - not be ready in time for anything useful
- (tags:nuclearpower OhForFucksSake BorisJohnson electricity UK )
- 4. You all know about the millions of people in the Congo that Belgium killed and maimed to steal their resources, right?
- (tags:Belgium Congo empire murder )
- 5. New 1,350 home village to be built in West Edinburgh
- (tags:Edinburgh housing )
- 6. Five Swift Answers to The Problem of Baby-Eating Authors
- (tags:satire behaviour authors writing jkrowling )
- 7. Fluoride in water in Scotland would save NHS a fortune
- (tags:water teeth Scotland )
- 8. A new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.
- (tags:ai art )
- 9. UK government: "No need for government Child Poverty Unit because we abolished child poverty targets"
- (tags:UK poverty children conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- 10. Black households three times more likely to be food insecure than the national average
- (tags:race poverty food uk )
- 11. The fashion capital of the prehistoric world has been revealed
- (tags:art craft fashion prehistory Spain archeology )
- 12. Germany boosts renewables with biggest energy policy reform in decades
- (tags:electricity Germany renewables )
- 13. Long Covid cases in UK reach 1.7 million in record high. ⅓ of whom have had it for a year
- (tags:Pandemic health Doom )
- 14. Dunbar's number, optimal group sizes, and how speaking is 2.8x better than picking fleas
- (tags:psychology groups communication business organisation friendship )
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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 )
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- citizenship,
- computers,
- craft,
- disability,
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Interesting Links for 25-09-2020
Sep. 25th, 2020 12:00 pm- J.K. Rowling plugs disgusting anti-trans online store to her 14 million Twitter followers
- (tags:jkrowling transgender LGBT OhForFucksSake bigotry )
- The borders of Kent are more complex than you'd think.
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1309108526522994698.html
(tags:trade borders ) - 18% of people with COVID symptoms adhere to self-isolation, and only 11% adhere to quarantine if contacted by test and trace
- (tags:pandemic doom )
- Why the Supreme Court Should Have 27 Justices, Not 9
- (tags:law USA viaNancyLebov )
- End the Poisonous Process of Picking Supreme Court Justices
- (tags:viaNancyLebov law USA )
- Tempestry Project - tapestries that show how temperature changes over time
- (tags:craft temperature globalwarming history visualisation )
- Here's what happens when all the pubs empty at the same time, because of the curfew
- (tags:alcohol pandemic London UK video )
- What The French Get So Right About Taking Care Of New Mother's
- (tags:vagina exercise France childbirth healthcare )
- Preventing spread of coronavirus in Scottish universities (frankly they should just mandate remote learning, this is unworkable and unpleasant)
- (tags:university Scotland pandemic )
- PEN15's Gay Teen Storyline Is Shockingly Authentic
- (tags:writing TV lgbt )
- Covid-hit university students: 'Why have they sent us here?'
- (tags:university OhForFucksSake pandemic )
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