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Interesting Links for 21-05-2026
May. 21st, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Starmer letting Putin off the hook is a betrayal of Britain (and Ukraine, of course)
- (tags:UK Russia oil trade economics OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Tracking Starbucks' 'Widely Recyclable' Plastic Cups. None Ended Up at a Recycling Facility.
- (tags:recycling fraud coffee )
- 3. Declining America
- (tags:travel USA fascism )
- 4. Chickens without eggs? De-extinction company creates artificial egg.
- (tags:eggs birds extinction )
- 5. Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
- (tags:drugs research brain death )
- 6. An LLM has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
- (tags:ai mathematics )
Interesting Links for 27-02-2026
Feb. 27th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. The "forever chemicals" known as PFAS appear to be aging men faster in their 50s and early 60s
- (tags:materials age men doom )
- 2. On a technical level this video is very impressive. On a copyright level, someone's getting their bum sued off.
- (tags:video ai copyright netflix WarnerBrothers )
- 3. Red Dwarf's 'visionary' co-creator Rob Grant dies aged 70
- (tags:obituary death RedDwarf )
- 4. Esther Rantzen accuses peers of 'sabotage' as assisted dying bill looks set to fail (House of Lords proposes over a thousand amendments)
- (tags:UK law euthanasia OhForFucksSake houseoflords )
- 5. Burger King rolls out AI headsets that track employee 'friendliness'
- (tags:restaurant ai surveillance OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 22-01-2026
Jan. 22nd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Changing gender in the UK involves a legal declaration that you will live as the gender you are changing to. With legal consequences if you don't.
- (tags:law UK gender transgender LGBT )
- 2. Prolonged air pollution linked to increase of incurable muscle-wasting diseases
- (tags:pollution disease )
- 3. Six key takeaways from the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry (cover-ups leading to patient deaths)
- (tags:scotland hospital OhForFucksSake death )
- 4. MAGA's 'Manifest Destiny' Coalition Has Arrived - "It's up to us to keep pushing for the orderly governance of the world via American imperialism"
- (tags:usa politics OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback
- (tags:ai art comics )
- 6. Anti-trans 'data vandalism' damages scientific research, study finds
- (tags:LGBT research bigotry transgender gender )
- 7. When the United Kingdom annexed a north Atlantic island (and what they might do with it)
- (tags:scotland uk politics history funny )
Interesting Links for 08-12-2025
Dec. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. mRNA Vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality over 4 years
- (tags:death health vaccine pandemic )
- 2. All the ways Russia is waging 'grey war' on the UK - from drones to local agents
- (tags:russia war uk )
- 3. Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters'
- (tags:Japan snow monsters )
- 4. Is anyone surprised that US tech billionaires want to fund fascist city states?
- (tags:fascism technology USA )
- 5. Vintage Photographs of People Reading Newspapers Before the Invention of That Grossly Antisocial Device: The Smartphone
- (tags:photos newspapers reading society history )
- 6. Impacts of working from home on mental health tracked in study of 16,000 Australians
- (tags:australia work homes mentalhealth )
Interesting Links for 22-11-2025
Nov. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Where nobody knows your name... - Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.
- (tags:TV history faces photos pubs )
- 2. The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed 600,000 people, most of them children
- (tags:USA aid death children )
- 3. Pope Leo XIV Gives His Apostolic Blessing to the Bedlam of Noise and Nightclub Worship Styles
- (tags:religion music catholicism video )
- 4. The Batman effect (putting someone in a Batman costume on a train makes people twice as likely to give up their seat for a pregnant woman)
- (tags:batman psychology )
- 5. Andy Burnham: "Here's how I would fix Britain"
- (tags:politics labour uk housing )
Interesting Links for 09-11-2025
Nov. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Women are three times more likely than men to get severe long COVID
- (tags:women Pandemic )
- 2. We've found a biomarker for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- (tags:babies death )
- 3. Chinese Authorities Shut Down Film Festival in New York (By harrassing filmmakers and their families)
- (tags:china censorship movies usa OhForFucksSake )
- 4. The modern homes hidden inside ancient ruins
- (tags:architecture history )
- 5. What do voters think would count as Labour breaking their promises on tax?
- (tags:tax labour polls politics uk )
- 6. A Gene Editing Therapy Cut Cholesterol Levels by Half (trial only lasted 60 days)
- (tags:genetics health )
- 7. Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the U.S. Took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans
- (tags:history USA maps visualisation )
- 8. Why didn't Democrats codify Roe v. Wade when Obama had a fillibuster proof majority in 2009?
- (tags:abortion politics USA )
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Interesting Links for 08-09-2025
Sep. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Greens now leading Labour amongst LGB voters
- (tags:LGBT polls politics UK )
- 2. Palestinian prisoners are being starved, Israel's top court says
- (tags:food palestine israel OhForFucksSake )
- 3. How Britain built some of the world's safest roads (The death rate per mile driven has declined 22-fold since 1950.)
- (tags:death safety uk driving GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 20-08-2025
Aug. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Study: Giving cash to mothers in Kenya cut infant deaths in half
- (tags:kenya money death babies )
- 2. Regina Valkenborgh's 8-Year-Long Photo Captures the Sun's Movement Through the Sky
- (tags:viaSwampers sun photography )
- 3. Spreadshirt to artists: We're taking your designs for AI
- (tags:clothes ai )
- 4. Map Of European Cultural Superiority
- (tags:maps Europe society )
- 5. Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
- (tags:Pandemic immune_system doom )
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Interesting Links for 26-05-2025
May. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. If you want a picture of the future, imagine an AI reassuring you that everything is okay — forever
- (tags:ai thefuture comic )
- 2. Stillbirth surveillance shows why we must decriminalise abortion
- (tags:abortion death children law uk )
- 3. I am not consistently this good at raising children. But this is very-much what I am aiming for
- (tags:children parenting )
- 4. Utah lawmakers' demanded a study on gender-affirming care. Guess what they found...
- (tags:transgender healthcare USA politics )
Interesting Links for 04-05-2025
May. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes
- (tags:automation driving delivery )
- 2. "I like being autistic": Assessing the benefit of autistic-led psychoeducation for autistic children
- (tags:autism education children )
- 3. Snake enthusiast survived hundreds of bites. Now his blood is aiding the search for a universal antivenom
- (tags:snakes immune_system genetics viaKenny )
- 4. They Sent the Message. But Did They Write It? (How AI is disrupting actual communication)
- (tags:communication ai doom )
- 5. Love in the time of cancer
- (tags:cancer love death )
- 6. Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director
- (tags:TV Australia art animation )
Interesting Links for 01-05-2025
May. 1st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Port of Los Angeles sees shipping volume down 35% next week as tariffs bite
- (tags:USA trade doom china )
- 2. Council Tax is broken - It's time to fix it
- (tags:politics tax uk )
- 3. A Criminal, Social, And Linguistic Rollercoaster (and a historical mugging in Glasgow)
- (tags:Scotland language crime funny Glasgow )
- 4. Solar panels on (nearly) all new UK homes by 2027 under new Labour plan
- (tags:solarpower housing GoodNews labour )
- 5. US judge rules Apple violated order to reform App Store
- (tags:apple law usa )
- 6. Ukraine agrees crucial minerals and economic investment deal with US
- (tags:usa ukraine trade mining )
- 7. Brexit led to 1,500 deaths a year as EU nurses left UK
- (tags:uk europe healthcare nhs death OhForFucksSake )
- 8. How Labour strategist Morgan McSweeney used 'any means necessary' to destroy Corbyn as leader and install Starmer.
- (tags:Labour corruption )
- 9. A robot that can fold laundry! (This is actually massive - handling flexible/floppy fabrics is incredibly hard)
- (tags:robots clothing video impressive )
Interesting Links for 16-03-2025
Mar. 16th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. There's no such thing as Italian cuisine
- (tags:food Italy history )
- 2. African countries have huge solar potential, they're beginning to use it
- (tags:solarpower Africa )
- 3. What is like in America if you're trans right now
- (tags:LGBT transgender USA bigotry )
- 4. How did the world's leading thinker on decisions decide to die?
- (tags:euthanasia death decisions )
- 5. The UK's solar revolution, mapped - as 3,500 projects in the pipeline are set to install 50% more than last year.
- (tags:solarpower UK GoodNews )
- 6. How to learn a language like a baby
- (tags:language babies reading )
- 7. 'They're Really Close To My Body': A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and their resident mystic Robin Finck
- (tags:music history )
- 8. (Any) 8-hour time-restricted-eating window effective for weight loss
- (tags:weight time diet )
Interesting Links for 28-02-2025
Feb. 28th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Waymo is the only Western company with an autonomous taxi service. Here are their expansion plans for 2025.
- (tags:taxi automation driving thefuture )
- 2. A nice video explanation for why you can't go faster than the speed of light
- (tags:video physics time light relativity )
- 3. Are they, or were they? Use of tense when referring to death.
- (tags:language English death )
- 4. LGBTQ+ Purges In the US Government Begin
- (tags:USA LGBT bigotry politics republicans )
- 5. Elon Musk's Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online
- (tags:slavery space communication ElonMusk )
Interesting Links for 23-02-2025
Feb. 23rd, 2025 12:01 pm- 1. Ancient switch to soft food gave us an overbite—and the ability to pronounce 'f's and 'v's
- (tags:speech food bone bodies prehistory )
- 2. Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
- (tags:abortion texas childbirth safety death OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename 'Krasnov' Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief
- (tags:spying Russia USA politics )
- 4. Trove.scot just opened up access to huge amounts of Historic Scotland's archive
- (tags:history Scotland )
- 5. Today I discovered the Fish Delousing Laser
- (tags:lasers fish video )
- 6. It's amazing what you can do with a bit of makeup
- (tags:makeup video impressive )
Interesting Links for 30-11-2024
Nov. 30th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. (6 million tons per year)
- (tags:plastic pollution cars transport )
- 2. What happens next to bill on assisted dying?
- (tags:law uk death suicide )
- 3. Ridiculous sports you probably didn't know existed
- (tags:sports video wtf )
- 4. Upgrading the London Underground for driverless trains would cost tens of billions to save hundreds of millions per year, taking centuries to pay off
- (tags:transport tube London automation )
Interesting Links for 23-11-2024
Nov. 23rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Venting Doesn't Reduce Anger, Calming Distraction Does
- (tags:anger psychology )
- 2. Why Is It So Tricky to Accurately Show the Sun, Earth, and Moon in a Diagram?
- (tags:space visualisation )
- 3. Farming tax row - BBC Verify on which figures are more reliable and why
- (tags:farming death tax UK )
- 4. Why Edinburgh isn't as prepared for snow as Montreal
- (tags:snow Canada )
Interesting Links for 21-11-2024
Nov. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. You Can Now Buy Lab-Grown Foie Gras
- (tags:Technology meat food )
- 2. Dare you climb... The Death Stairs?
- (tags:death stairs )
- 3. The Mistake Waltz
- (tags:ballet dancing mistakes funny video )
- 4. Japan has made a $26Billion discovery of rare metals wrapped around megalodon teeth
- (tags:sharks metal ocean )
- 5. Would you pay $5m for the right to tape a banana to your wall?
- (tags:banana art )
- 6. Railways set to come back into public ownership after law passes
- (tags:railways UK trains labour )
Interesting Links for 15-11-2024
Nov. 15th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. New Counterstrike map inspired by Edinburgh
- (tags:Edinburgh games video )
- 2. The Onion acquires Infowars
- (tags:wtf TheOnion )
- 3. I tried the best £5 dinner in London: The Ikea restaurant
- (tags:ikea food )
- 4. The Onion's official announcement "Here's Why I Decided To Buy 'InfoWars'" is hilarious
- (tags:TheOnion funny )
- 5. Is it time to disestablish the Church of England?
- (tags:religion UK politics )
- 6. Kawasaki norovirus symptoms and how to avoid UK's 'highly contagious' winter bug (I'm pretty sure this has gone through my while family in the last week or so)
- (tags:disease )
- 7. pedestrians spend more money than people arriving by car, and pedestrianised town centres have higher sales.
- (tags:walking business )
- 8. Scottish councils reject SNP proposals to partner with religious charity that says sex workers are "possessed by demons"
- (tags:sexwork Scotland OhForFucksSake )
- 9. Loved ones of those choosing assisted dying are being unfairly maligned
- (tags:euthenasia death love )
