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Interesting Links for 28-08-2025
Aug. 28th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded. Now they want to silence him.
- (tags:corruption oil globalwarming windpower propaganda usa )
- 2. Kpop Demon Hunters becomes Netflix's most viewed film ever
- (tags:movies korea music demon netflix )
- 3. Fraudsters are training AIs on a musician and then releasing songs in their name
- (tags:ai fraud music )
- 4. Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
- (tags:science socialmedia )
- 5. Liberty chief blasts Labour over ECHR tinkering
- (tags:rights Europe UK labour OhForFucksSake migration )
- 6. Dreamwidth is forced to block Mississipi
- (tags:dreamwidth mississippi OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Donald Trump state visit: Ed Davey to boycott banquet over Gaza
- (tags:USA Israel UK libdem Palestine gaza )
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Interesting Links for 15-10-2024
Oct. 15th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Psilocybin Bests SSRI for Major Depression in First Long-Term Comparison
- (tags:psilocybin medication depression )
- 2. Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat
- (tags:satire usa law funny demon )
- 3. The US just lost a war and nobody noticed
- (tags:usa yemen war )
- 4. Post-COVID psychosis occurs in people with no prior history. The risk is low but episodes are frightening
- (tags:mentalhealth pandemic brain )
- 5. UK Brexit reset plans are too vague, EU diplomatic sources say
- (tags:uk europe labour )
- 6. There's a lot of confusion over how to pronounce "Ghibli"
- (tags:ghibli language japan )
- 7. Tesla showed off AI robots. Turns out they were remote controlled by people
- (tags:robots fraud Tesla )
Interesting Links for 07-03-2022
Mar. 7th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1.5 million people have fled Ukraine. The UK has taken...50 of them. (1% of applicants)
- (tags:Ukraine war UK refugee OhForFucksSake )
- Anyone got a less stupid idea for what this is than I had?
- (tags:weird sculpture UK )
- After 1,000 years the 9 tailed fox demoness is free!
- (tags:Japan religion demon Doom )
- We Don't Talk About Fight Club (a song inspired by the first rule of Bruno)
- (tags:FightClub Disney funny song )
- The Tolkien Estate is taking on fandom
- (tags:Tolkien OhForFucksSake fanfic copyright )
- A letter from Ukrainian artists to the world's artists
- (tags:ukraine art russia war )
Interesting Links for 09-11-2020
Nov. 9th, 2020 12:00 pm- Physicists have proved that black holes can shed information, which seems impossible by definition.
- (tags:physics )
- Live in Edinburgh? This is what happens to your recycling
- (tags:edinburgh recycling )
- 50 ways to leave The White House
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1325040013860597760?refresh=1604856687
(tags:funny politics elections USA ) - Bi Den
- (tags:politics USA uk )
- Demons Licking Your Toes: An Early 20th Century Manuscript from Isfahan
- (tags:demon art history Iran )
- What it takes to dismantle and move a 40-foot whale skeleton
- (tags:whale museums )
- A Reminder: You Don't Have To Propagate Right-Wing Talking Points
- (tags:fascism conversation politics )
- Work starts on Scotland's first vertical distillery in Leith
- (tags:alcohol Scotland Edinburgh )
Interesting Links for 17-07-2015
Jul. 17th, 2015 12:00 pm- Cornwall devolution: First county with new powers
- Jeremy Corbyn's record on SkepticalVoter
- Darth Vader conducts Luton woman's Halloween funeral
- The top tricks supermarkets use to confuse customers
- New micro-needle patches could replace needles, meaning people will never need to be injected again
- How much do electric cars actually pollute?
- Brain network that controls, redirects attention identified
- Kissing isn't common across all cultures
- Dinosaur find: Velociraptor ancestor was 'winged dragon'
- Kitchen gadgets review: the Egg Master – a horrifying, unholy affair
- Time to return to core values? (An outsiders view of the Lib-Dem and Labour leadership races)
- New corporate criminal offence of failure to prevent facilitation of tax evasion to include evasion of non-UK tax
- Why is it so hard to get Superman right in movies?
- Scientists breed genetically modified moths to curb global pest problem costing farmers billions of dollars
- The Maunder Minimum is back! (Maybe. And we probably won’t notice much)
- A nice display of the Magnus Effect, which is how balls can curve in mid-air when you apply spin to them
- Birth order has no meaningful effect on personality or IQ
- Crossing From Right-Hand-Drive Countries to Left-Hand-Drive Countries (and Vice Versa)
- Less than 1% of obese people ever reach "normal" body weight
- Oceans have been slowing global warming - until now
- How the brain copes with noise in your neurons
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Interesting Links for 29-12-2014
Dec. 29th, 2014 11:00 am- Dinner lady quits after being told she can't apply different rules to poor and rich kids
- Neil Gaiman talks about how he came to write Good Omens with Terry Pratchett
- When a woman gets a cursed box, the results are not what you'd expect
- How to keep simulations (or games) perfectly synchronised across multiple computers
- The amount of love that's gone into converting The Wire to HD is impressive
- How statisticians changed the war, and the war changed statistics
- German Defense Minister von der Leyen′s fingerprint copied by Chaos Computer Club
- What if Finland’s great teachers taught in U.S. schools?
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Interesting Links for 02-12-2014
Dec. 2nd, 2014 11:00 am- Wales forces shops and restaurants to display their food hygeine ratings - is going to extend it to producers/wholesalers
- 10 of The Most Counter-intuitive Psychology Findings Ever Published
- When asexual people summon demons
- Shared parental leave becomes law - Yay!
- The coming nuclear crisis: All but one of Britain's ageing reactors will need to close in 15 years
- Why are people charged for 'landline rental'?
- Why Hollywood Makes Robots of Alan Turing and Other Geniuses
- Many vinyl re-releases are sourced from CD masters!
- Petition to stop casseroles from masquerading as pies attracts thousands of signatures - GO SIGN IT!
- Pebble: The brilliant stealth wearable Apple's Watch doesn't see coming
I love mine, I really do.
Interesting Links for 21-10-2012
Oct. 21st, 2012 12:00 pm- Missouri Pastor's Fiery Speech Against Equal Rights for Homosexuals Has Stunning Twist Ending
- Amazing results from a floating point version of The Game Of Life.
- Insanely Long Mathematical Proofs
- The Shepard Tone - an audio illusion that sounds like it goes up (or down) forever!
- 99 Life Hacks to make your life easier! No, seriously, some of these are damned cool.
- A demon deals with reality.
