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Interesting Links for 31-12-2025
Dec. 31st, 2025 12:00 pmTags:
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Interesting Links for 10-11-2025
Nov. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
- (tags:politics fascism ElonMusk twitter bias )
- 2. James Watson: From DNA pioneer to untouchable pariah
- (tags:biography DNA history viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani
- (tags:politics usa satire funny )
- 4. Reminder that the New York Times regularly prints hateful nonsense (an article about someone they tried to interview about Zohran Mamdani)
- (tags:politics newyork journalism OhForFucksSake USA viaKenny )
- 5. A bunch of engineers built a drifting wheelchair for an injured coworker. It looks awesome.
- (tags:disability engineering video )
- 6. The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system
- (tags:biology genetics earth )
- 7. Meet the teen behind the Louvre 'Fedora Man' mystery photo
- (tags:france police photos crime Paris style )
- 8. New flu virus mutation could see 'worst season in a decade' (get your vaccinations!)
- (tags:flu doom )
- 9. Long-term Melatonin use associated with much higher risk of heart problems and death
- (tags:medicine heart )
- 10. Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake
- (tags:usa politics )
- 11. Scotland's first commercial windfarm will be able to deliver five times more clean power than before after being upgraded
- (tags:scotland windpower GoodNews )
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- france,
- funny,
- genetics,
- goodnews,
- heart,
- history,
- journalism,
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- medicine,
- newyork,
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- paris,
- photos,
- police,
- politics,
- satire,
- scotland,
- style,
- twitter,
- usa,
- viakenny,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- video,
- windpower
Interesting Links for 26-06-2025
Jun. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Holyrood Committee seek views and experiences as part of new inquiry into ADHD and autism
- (tags:scotland autism adhd )
- 2. How would Britain vote, a year since the 2024 election (broken down in a wide variety of ways)
- (tags:uk voting polls )
- 3. Ooh Dark City has a 4k release. I'm quite tempted
- (tags:movies scifi )
- 4. Poll: 82% of Israelis want to expel Palestinians from Gaza; 47% want to kill every man, woman, child
- (tags:polls genocide Israel )
- 5. Poll: Americans' support for Israel at record low, backing for Palestinians at all-time high (46:33)
- (tags:USA polls Israel Palestine )
- 6. Why I'm glad the NHS has rejected two Alzheimer's 'wonder drugs'
- (tags:alzheimers medicine NHS )
- 7. Warwickshire County Council leader resigns, leaving 18-year-old in charge (Reform, unsurprisingly)
- (tags:politics UK )
- 8. Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11
- (tags:games linux windows )
- 9. How disability benefits are paid across the world - and how UK compares
- (tags:welfare disability international )
- 10. Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban
- (tags:UK bigotry children transgender LGBT )
Interesting Links for 04-06-2025
Jun. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Microsoft will make Windows use your selected browser for searches. But only in the EU. Because they're dicks.
- (tags:Microsoft OhForFucksSake regulation Europe )
- 2. Voters In Labour-Reform Battleground Seats More Likely To Rely On Disability Benefits
- (tags:welfare inequality disability politics uk )
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Interesting Links for 24-05-2025
May. 24th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Hockey star kicked out of women's restroom by 'gender police' who thought she was a man
- (tags:gender bigotry LGBT transgender women USA toilets )
- 2. There's an Elden Ring film on the way from Alex Garland and George R. R. Martin
- (tags:movies games GeorgeRRMartin )
- 3. The British government is putting disabled people out of work by cutting the support they need to do it
- (tags:disability UK welfare OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Finally, with the help of an AI generated girl band, we have discovered what women want
- (tags:drugs ai women music video viaSwampers EpicWTF )
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- drugs,
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- lgbt,
- links,
- movies,
- music,
- ohforfuckssake,
- toilets,
- transgender,
- uk,
- usa,
- viaswampers,
- video,
- welfare,
- women
Interesting Links for 25-03-2025
Mar. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. "HR said I was only allowed to have 3 seizures a month" (in case you were wondering why disabled people are employed less often)
- (tags:disability employment OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Anyone fancy being our neighbours?
- (tags:housing Edinburgh )
- 3. Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage
- (tags:pandemic doom )
- 4. The Lost Towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline Wars
- (tags:history Italy )
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Interesting Links for 24-03-2025
Mar. 24th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Would you like to feel really really old? Because Debenhams are selling Nine Inch Nails clothing.
- (tags:clothing music age )
- 2. America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State
- (tags:USA fascism law )
- 3. What happens when you try to help disabled people into jobs? (Largely, employers aren't interested.)
- (tags:jobs disability uk welfare )
Interesting Links for 06-09-2024
Sep. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Ulez has cut children's school car rides
- (tags:transport pollution london children school GoodNews )
- 2. Edinburgh Council's plan for Princes Street (and Princes Street gardens)
- (tags:edinburgh city planning )
- 3. 60% of Israelis believe you shouldn't be allowed to post sympathy for Gazan civilians. 50% believe you shouldn't be allowed to criticise the government
- (tags:censorship Israel Gaza war Palestine OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Stonehenge Altar Stone was not sourced from Mainland Orkney
- (tags:stonehenge viaDanielDWilliam )
- 5. GOP network props up liberal third-party candidates in key states, hoping to siphon off Harris votes
- (tags:politics USA republicans )
- 6. Five things to know before forming an opinion on Paralympics transgender row
- (tags:gender disability Olympics transgender LGBT )
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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 - 2023-12-23
Dec. 23rd, 2023 04:46 pm- PR firm that works for the Tories and Palantir offers to pay for attacks on the Good Law Project
- (tags:UK OhForFucksSake politics law )
- Air Canada fined $97.5K after a passenger who uses a wheelchair was made to drag himself off a plane
- (tags:disability airplanes Canada OhForFucksSake )
- Biden pardons marijuana possession convictions
- (tags:marijuana crime USA democrats )
Interesting Links for 05-12-2023
Dec. 5th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Scottish Greens vote to ban 'Behaviour Modification' practices for disabled people
- (tags:Scotland disability autism abuse GreenParty )
- 2. Edinburgh council statement on their house emergency
- (tags:edinburgh housing homelessness )
- 3. Harvard Gutted Initial Team Examining Facebook Files Following $500 Million Donation from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
- (tags:Facebook corruption USA research academia )
- 4. Possibly the worst customer service of all time (cancelled plane edition)
- (tags:airplanes kenya epicfail )
- 5. Liz Truss to propose law banning biological males from single-sex spaces
- (tags:lgbt bigotry OhForFucksSake conservatives UK )
- 6. Did you know that the *Real* version of the Muppet Christmas Carol is on Disney+ (hidden in a submenu)
- (tags:Muppets Christmas Disney )
- 7. Happy Clair Cameron Patterson day! He did a lot more than most to improve the world (by fighting to remove lead from so many things)
- (tags:lead health )
- 8. Neurons in your eye help keep your view stable
- (tags:neuroscience eyes humans )
- 9. UK police are using AI data analysis to spot crimes. And they want to start predicting them.
- (tags:ai data predictions crime police uk )
- 10. Bye bye to the Edinburgh Zoo pandas
- (tags:edinburgh zoo panda )
- 11. "My $500M Mars Rover Mistake: A Failure Story"
- (tags:mars space epicfail )
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- scotland,
- space,
- uk,
- usa,
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Interesting Links for 23-11-2023
Nov. 23rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Plans submitted for new 'world class' Edinburgh arena (Edinburgh Park, 8,500 capacity)
- (tags:edinburgh music concerts )
- 2. Grangemouth oil refinery due to cease operations by 2025
- (tags:scotland oil )
- 3. AI identifies autistic 2-3 year olds 98.5% of the time
- (tags:ai neuroscience mri children )
- 4. Five women got eye syphilis from the same man
- (tags:disease sex )
- 5. Households to be £1,900 poorer at the end of this parliament than they were at the beginning
- (tags:poverty uk OhForFucksSake Conservatives )
- 6. What's behind the Conservative attack on disabled people?
- (tags:disability Conservatives OhForFucksSake welfare )
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- oil,
- poverty,
- scotland,
- sex,
- uk,
- welfare
Interesting Links for 20-11-2023
Nov. 20th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot?
- (tags:ai learning humans )
- 2. Myth-busting the Van Halen brown M&M Story
- (tags:bands music history myths )
- 3. No, "the Church" did not kill Joan of Arc
- (tags:religion history Europe France uk )
- 4. Thread of wheelchair representation so far in televised Doctor Who
- (tags:disability drwho TV )
Interesting Links for 19-11-2023
Nov. 19th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The UK's economic assessment for vaccination eligibility is a masterpiece of fraud. (We bought the vaccines and then didn't give them to people it would have helped, even though it would also have helped others!)
- (tags:vaccination UK OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Pharmacies prescribing the contraceptive pill will put women's mental health at risk
- (tags:depression hormones women mentalhealth contraception )
- 3. Russell T Davies on the portrayal of disabled people (and facial scarring) and why they decided to change Davros
- (tags:disability drwho evil TV society )
- 4. Evil Cripple - TV Tropes
- (tags:disabilities society tropes TV )
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Interesting Links for 29-06-2023
Jun. 29th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Can you beat...The Password Game
- (tags:passwords funny game )
- 2. 10cm African huntsman spider found in Edinburgh suitcase
- (tags:spiders aieeee! edinburgh )
- 3. Edinburgh tram report 'still with publishers' nine weeks on
- (tags:Edinburgh trams publishing wtf )
- 4. The Connection Between Autism And The Gut Microbiome Is Clearer Than Ever
- (tags:autism microbiome )
- 5. Catching Covid? Try not to have blood type A
- (tags:blood Pandemic )
- 6. Canadian Smoke Reaches Europe (the pictures are terrifying)
- (tags:Canada fire Europe Portugal )
- 7. do gender differences (sometimes) seem bigger in more gender equal countries? (If people think real sex differences exist, segregation will result regardless of real skill differences)
- (tags:gender psychology society ViaDrCross )
- 8. Forcing council meetings to be in person causes those with jobs, children, and disabilities to quit
- (tags:disability politics UK parenting work )
- 9. A Russian soldier on what it's like on their front lines in Ukraine
- (tags:Ukraine Russia war epicfail incompetence )
- 10. US public wants climate change dealt with, but doesn't like the options
- (tags:usa globalwarming doom )
- 11. Sharpie scanning goof reveals major PlayStation budgets and revenues - and that millions of gamers buy a PS just to play Call of Duty
- (tags:games playstation sony )
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- viadrcross,
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- wtf
Interesting Links for 13-06-2023
Jun. 13th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Tesla 'Autopilot', has been involved in far more crashes than previously reported
- (tags:Tesla crash driving automation epicfail )
- 2. Gender bias remains entrenched all around the world
- (tags:gender bias society )
- 3. Blow for Britain as EU rules out renegotiating Brexit trade deal for years
- (tags:uk europe trade doom )
- 4. How to get your children to tell you what they've been up to today
- (tags:children communication advice )
- 5. Job Listings Abound, but Many Are Fake
- (tags:jobs fraud OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Why are so many Reddit communities on strike?
- (tags:Reddit epicfail community communication volunteers )
- 7. Edinburgh George Street pedestrianisation: Trees to be included and increased access for disabled and taxis
- (tags:disability trees Edinburgh )
- 8. Scottish ministers propose gas boilers ban in new buildings from 2024
- (tags:heating Scotland globalwarming )
- 9. It's not just English and American spelling that differ, we call very different animals and plants by the same names too!
- (tags:animals trees USA UK names wtf )
- 10. Abortion law clearly needs reform after woman handed 28 month sentence
- (tags:abortion law uk )
- 11. Please please please do not have children unless you really want them.
- (tags:children relationships )
- 12. There's an influx of Redditors to Dreamwidth - here's some useful advice for them
- (tags:reddit dreamwidth )
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- jobs,
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- scotland,
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- tesla,
- trade,
- trees,
- uk,
- usa,
- volunteers,
- wtf
Interesting Links for 26-05-2023
May. 26th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. These thoughts on becoming a parents pretty-much match with mine (except funnier)
- (tags:children funny )
- 2. Paralysed man walks again after AI system connects his thoughts to his legs
- (tags:ai disability walking Technology )
- 3. Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other animals
- (tags:animals )
- 4. What can we learn from the first community-level randomly controlled trial of a non-police public safety intervention
- (tags:Mexico society police research inequality crime )
- 5. How David Bowie helped save Tina Turner's career
- (tags:DavidBowie music history )
- 6. Shingles vaccine lowers Alzheimer's chances dramatically
- (tags:disease virus alzheimers viaDanielDWilliam )
- 7. Family-Friendly Trains from around the world (I demand mine has a Viking ship and a ball pit)
- (tags:viaAnindya trains children )
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- history,
- inequality,
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- mexico,
- music,
- police,
- research,
- society,
- technology,
- trains,
- viaanindya,
- viadanieldwilliam,
- virus,
- walking
Interesting Links for 25-04-2023
Apr. 25th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. MouthPad - control your device with your tongue!
- (tags:disability Technology )
- 2. Dreamwidth access in Russia: please stay safe!
- (tags:dreamwidth russia )
- 3. Why Russian and Ukrainian activism is not mutually exclusive
- (tags:russia ukraine )
- 4. The Russian Erotic Equine Space Mystery!
- (tags:space horses art mysteries comic )
- 5. Snuggle Pupping, and how WW1 led the USA into a spiral of European depravity
- (tags:sex society history Europe USA wwi )
- 6. Clock, Shakespeare's Sonnet 12, read by Neil Gaiman and set to a haunting musical backdrop by Australia's FourPlay String Quarte
- (tags:neilgaiman music video shakespeare clock )
- 7. Bilingualism Affords No General Cognitive Advantages
- (tags:language Intelligence psychology )
- 8. How realistic is sudden exponential AI takeoff?
- (tags:ai singularity )
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- ai,
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- clock,
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- europe,
- history,
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- intelligence,
- language,
- links,
- music,
- mysteries,
- neilgaiman,
- psychology,
- russia,
- sex,
- shakespeare,
- singularity,
- society,
- space,
- technology,
- ukraine,
- usa,
- video,
- wwi
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
- (tags:Edinburgh cars transport )
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