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Interesting Links for 23-12-2025
Dec. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pmTags:
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- 1. Who wants some Indian rap-metal about cooking?
- (tags:food music video HeavyMetal )
- 2. A short summary of the Sandie Peggie V. Fife Health Board and Dr Beth Upton employment tribunal judgment
- (tags:transgender law UK GoodNews )
- 3. Did Nano Banana Pro Kill Photography or Just Photo Editing?
- (tags:ai photography video )
- 4. Clinic Closures Force More Rural Americans To Rely On Horse Who Stomps Twice When Patient Has Cancer
- (tags:USA healthcare horses cancer satire )
- 5. Study: Leaving Religion May Make You More Liberal
- (tags:politics liberal religion psychology )
- 6. UK issues sanctions against Russia amid accusations of information warfare
- (tags:uk russia disinformation )
- 7. Prenatal phenol exposure linked to child behaviour
- (tags:pollution behaviour children )
- 8. US to ask tourists for five-year social media history before entry
- (tags:socialmedia usa OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 25-08-2025
Aug. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Oldest Unopened Bottle of Wine in the World (Circa 350 AD)
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- 2. 26% of recent posts on Brexit and Scot independence are made by Iran
- (tags:iran disinformation internet UK Scotland Europe independence )
- 3. For some people, music doesn't connect with any of the brain's reward circuits
- (tags:music happiness psychology )
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Interesting Links for 25-01-2025
Jan. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Why 18 to 24-year-olds aren't getting vaccinated (social media misinformation has got to many of them)
- (tags:vaccination children disinformation OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Israeli settlers emboldened as Trump officials back 'biblical rights' to West Bank
- (tags:israel palestine usa OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Unpaid internship access locks out working class people
- (tags:money class work uk )
- 4. Monster Devastated To See Film Depicting Things He Told Guillermo Del Toro In Confidence
- (tags:GuillermoDelToro funny satire journalism movies monsters )
- 5. Solar overtakes coal for the first time in EU
- (tags:solarpower coal Europe GoodNews )
- 6. Stunt City - the finest deodorant advert of all time
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Interesting Links for 10-01-2025
Jan. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. On the Depressing Doings of Trillion Dollar Companies, January 2025 Edition
- (tags:facebook twitter politics socialnetworking )
- 2. Edinburgh's Gorgie farm: New operators set to be approved (no animals on the site)
- (tags:farm Edinburgh )
- 3. How Elon Musk seized on baseless memo claim to create wave of misinformation
- (tags:fraud ElonMusk UK children rape OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Leaked Meta Training: Users Are Free to Post "Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!" or "Trans People Are Immoral"
- (tags:bigotry Facebook OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES
- (tags:funny anime relationships review dolls )
- 6. Posts shared across Facebook claim to show the average energy costs for different European countries. They don't.
- (tags:disinformation energy money europe )
- 7. Price of resale tickets to be capped under plans to tackle touts
- (tags:uk business economics music concerts tickets )
- 8. Can a Dutch case about RSS teach us anything about AI copyright?
- (tags:ai copyright rss law computers europe )
- 9. The metabolism myth - and why exercise won't make you thinner
- (tags:exercise metabolism diet health )
- 10. How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
- (tags:history germany nazis politics democracy )
- 11. The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize
- (tags:uk empire history )
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Interesting Links for 10-12-2024
Dec. 10th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Video of Edinburgh, Scotland 1930s in color
- (tags:Edinburgh Scotland video colour history )
- 2. Facebook/Meta's Role in Romania's 2024 Presidential Election
- (tags:disinformation Romania Facebook )
- 3. Edinburgh's latest new walking and cycling route officially opens between Roseburn and Union Canal
- (tags:Edinburgh walking bicycles transport )
- 4. Starmer's historic trip to Cyprus turns into a diplomatic storm as he lands on divided island
- (tags:Cyprus UK wtf Labour )
- 5. How to annoy a British person by making tea
- (tags:tea comic funny )
- 6. Americans Glad ISIS Defeated Or Something
- (tags:usa middle_east war funny satire )
- 7. Areas Of The UK With Most Devolution Have More Confidence In Their Mayors
- (tags:uk politics )
Interesting Links for 10-10-2024
Oct. 10th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The future of mining is giant autonomous electric trucks
- (tags:automation mining australia viaElfy )
- 2. Consultation on the Visitor Levy (tourist tax) for Edinburgh
- (tags:edinburgh tourism tax )
- 3. Ants learned to farm fungi during a mass extinction
- (tags:extinction ants fungus )
- 4. Entirely New Ecosystem Discovered Beneath The Ocean Floor
- (tags:ocean lava life )
- 5. Elon Musk is piling onto all the hurricane disinformation, hampering relief efforts
- (tags:ElonMusk disinformation disaster OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Wealth distribution in the United States
- (tags:usa wealth inequality )
- 7. Cards Against Humanity Is Paying People To Come Out Against Trump
- (tags:games voting usa )
Interesting Links for 05-08-2024
Aug. 5th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What fueled the Southport riots?
- (tags:protests riots migration bigotry UK disinformation russia )
- 2. Tory PCC puts deleted statement on far-right riots which drew support from Tommy Robinson back on her website
- (tags:UK conservatives bigotry riots )
- 3. Retribution will be swift, Starmer warns racist rioters
- (tags:racism riots uk )
- 4. Edinburgh council leader wants powers devolved from Scottish Government to regions
- (tags:Scotland government )
- 5. How the UK criminal justice system deals with a riot
- (tags:UK riots crime )
- 6. The UK laws in place to tackle rioters and the prison sentences they carry
- (tags:UK riots law )
- 7. Error and fraud in business tax schemes cost the UK £4.1bn
- (tags:uk research tax OhForFucksSake fraud )
- 8. Children of freed sleeper agents learned they were Russians on the flight
- (tags:spying children russia )
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Interesting Links for 13-02-2024
Feb. 13th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Where are we with Covid in England (and a plea for changing vaccination policy)
- (tags:pandemic uk vaccination OhForFucksSake )
- 2. The UK's Cancer Drugs Fund does more harm than good (now several years old, but I can't see any signs that things have improved)
- (tags:uk cancer nhs money )
- 3. The World Beyond The Ice Wall
- (tags:conspiracy maps fantasy )
- 4. France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe
- (tags:russia disinformation europe france )
- 5. Shell permanently closes all of its hydrogen refuelling stations for cars in California
- (tags:hydrogen cars california )
- 6. How to make Neolithic flatbread
(tags:prehistory cooking turkey )- 7. European electricity generation produced 20% less CO2 than last year
- (tags:electricity co2 globalwarming europe GoodNews viaDanielDWilliam )
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Interesting Links for 10-10-2023
Oct. 10th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Psychedelics plus psychotherapy can trigger rapid changes in the brain
- (tags:psychedelics therapy psychology )
- 2. Lead poisoning causes far more death, IQ loss than thought
- (tags:iq death lead )
- 3. British parents are less interested in their children being obedient, more interested in them being independent and hard-working
- (tags:children society uk )
- 4. All Labour's Economic Pledges Announced By Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves
- (tags:labour economy politics uk )
- 5. This year, why not give the Sleeptober challenge a go?
- (tags:sleep funny )
- 6. Edinburgh Council has broad support from the public for plans to cut traffic and parking
- (tags:Edinburgh transport )
- 7. 23andMe user data targeting Ashkenazi Jews leaked online
- (tags:Jews genetics hacking )
- 8. All of Labour's net zero policies, and whether they'll actually work
- (tags:labour globalwarming )
- 9. The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation
- (tags:israel palestine war disinformation twitter )
- 10. Internet Vs Ocean: the essential wires we never think about
- (tags:maps internet video )
Interesting Links for 06-09-2023
Sep. 6th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The End of Airbnb in New York
- (tags:housing newyork GoodNews )
- 2. The strange, secretive world of North Korean science fiction
- (tags:NorthKorea society scifi )
- 3. Stalker found Japanese singer through reflection in her eyes
- (tags:stalking location japan )
- 4. Study of over 80,000 UK couples finds that in love opposites don't actually attract
- (tags:relationships psychology )
- 5. "AI took my job, literally"—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to glitchy AI translator
- (tags:ai translation jobs OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Misinformation about contraception on social media may be contributing to Scotland's record high abortion figures
- (tags:disinformation contraception Scotland abortion OhForFucksSake )
- 7. The Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Detection Explained
- (tags:gravity research space )
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Interesting Links for 29-05-2023
May. 29th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Hark to the tale of Octlantis and Octopolis, and the octopi who made them their homes
- (tags:octopus )
- 2. Twitter pulls out of voluntary EU disinformation code
- (tags:Europe Twitter disinformation fraud )
- 3. UMD Study Finds Brain Connectivity, Memory Improves in Older Adults After Walking
- (tags:walking brain )
- 4. Most Americans say they would support stricter gun control laws
- (tags:guns law USA polls )
- 5. A measles vaccine delivered via sticker shows promising early results
- (tags:vaccination technology GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 18-05-2023
May. 18th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Why did the Southern States secede?
- (tags:USA history civilwar slavery )
- 2. When a Far Right Shitposter Runs a Social Media Platform
- (tags:USA politics fraud disinformation socialmedia ElonMusk Twitter )
- 3. The Dangers of Google’s .zip TLD. Can you quickly tell which of the URLs is fraudulent?
- (tags:hacking security web )
- 4. Alastair Campbell seems to have come around on fixing the voting system
- (tags:politics voting reform labour )
- 5. Titanic: First ever full-sized scans reveal wreck as never seen before
- (tags:titanic 3d scanning )
- 6. Why did the UK do so badly at Eurovision?
- (tags:eurovision music UK )
- 7. Meet the people who carry out virtual relationships for money - two minutes at a time
- (tags:relationships fraud business )
- 8. 94% of people don't want to be tracked online - why are sites still asking for consent to do so?
- (tags:cookies surveillance web )
- 9. Post-Brexit India deal could cut thousands of jobs in Leave-voting areas, and hike food prices
- (tags:uk europe india trade rice )
- 10. Edinburgh's Water of Leith nature project sees floating habitats placed to support wildlife
- (tags:edinburgh rivers nature )
- 11. The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code
- (tags:europe security software )
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Interesting Links for 07-01-2023
Jan. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Map Art.
- (tags:maps art )
- 2. Petitioning the Scottish government to End legal loopholes for the Monarchy
- (tags:petition Scotland monarchy )
- 3. Germany reminds Musk that removing disinformation from Twitter is a must
- (tags:Twitter disinformation Europe )
- 4. Fourth membrane is discovered in the brain
- (tags:brain anatomy waste )
- 5. Male-violence survivors are re-educating men to prevent harm
- (tags:men abuse rape education )
Interesting Links for 04-01-2023
Jan. 4th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Some truths about ancient Egypt
- (tags:Egypt facts )
- 2. The 14 Features of Fascism
- (tags:fascism )
- 3. Bomb disposal experts called to Edinburgh Central mosque
- (tags:Edinburgh Islam terrorism OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Greta Thunberg and the Romanian pizza boxes: A study in misinformation
- (tags:disinformation journalism pizza Romania crime translation )
- 5. Video game workers establish Microsoft's first union
- (tags:USA games Microsoft unions )
- 6. Finally: The truth about man-flu emerges!
- (tags:funny comic flu )
- 7. Portland Startup to Mine Artisanal Bitcoin Using Only Slide Rules and Graph Paper
- (tags:blockchain satire funny )
- 8. How to get children to take an interest in maths
- (tags:mathematics funny comic )
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Interesting Links for 17-12-2022
Dec. 17th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Twitter blocks users from sharing Mastodon links
- (tags:Twitter Mastodon censorship OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Would you like the perfect Christmas present for your cat?
- (tags:cats christmas video viaKirsty )
- 3. Chaosium announce that they will not use AI Art in their products (first company I've seen make such a pledge)
- (tags:ai art games roleplaying viaJamesNicoll )
- 4. The Indian doctor who saved 50,000,000 lives with a simple invention
- (tags:healthcare sugar salt water india )
- 5. The German office for data protection and freedom of information suggests that German ministries move to Mastodon
- (tags:germany mastodon twitter )
- 6. China's War Against Taiwan Has Already Started
- (tags:China Taiwan disinformation war )
- 7. Queen's death events cost Edinburgh council £500,000
- (tags:Edinburgh Queen death money )
- 8. EU adopts global minimum 15% tax on big business
- (tags:Europe tax globalization )
- 9. Games kind of suck at designing female heroes
- (tags:design games bodies women )
- 10. How the campaign to stop the United Kingdom government from making it more difficult to prosecute war crimes was won
- (tags:torture law WarCrimes UK politics )
- 11. Schizophrenia: Parasite x Genotype x Stress
- (tags:stress genes Parasites schizophrenia )
- 12. Congress passes legislation to end US participation in global shark fin trade
- (tags:sharks USA )
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Interesting Links for 23-11-2021
Nov. 23rd, 2021 12:00 pm- Energy firm Bulb set to go into administration - no other providers willing to take its customers
- (tags:UK electricity epicfail )
- Russian Anti-Vaccine Disinformation Campaign Backfires
- (tags:Russia disinformation lies vaccination irony )
- Turns out no prize winning scientists want to come to the UK. None. Zero. Zilch. Nada.
- (tags:science migration UK fail )
- Hired to erase a man's life, instead he carried out with him
- (tags:life photos )
- I see that Pixar are remaking "Ginger Snaps"
- (tags:movies puberty girls pixar Disney trailer )
- 'Dancing molecules' successfully repair severe spinal cord injuries (in animals, so far)
- (tags:nerves back amazing )
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 09-10-2019
Oct. 9th, 2019 12:34 pm- Following the game plan: Merkel call latest pantomime act in No.10's Brexit's strategy
- (tags:UK Europe Doom )
- A physics lecturer in why humanities courses are better at teaching critical thinking
- (tags:science humanities thinking academia )
- I had no idea France was so deeply intertwined with the economies of its ex colonies in Africa
- (tags:France Africa currency economics )
- People Prefer Their Jobs To Be Taken By Robots, Not Other Workers
- (tags:psychology jobs robots )
- Reading this account of a woman stabbing her daughter, and am baffled there's no mention of mental health.
- (tags:parenting mentalhealth wtf )
- It's almost funny watching Johnson and Cummings flail about trying to find a way to defeat parliament. If it wasn't also so serious...
- (tags:politics law UK )
- Dominic Cummings memo reveals that he doesn't understand the EU
- (tags:UK Europe Doom )
- Artifact: What Went Wrong With Valve's Card Game?
- (tags:design games fail )
- Russia's Disinformation War Is Just Getting Started
- (tags:Russia fraud socialnetworking disinformation )
- 'A masterpiece': Norwich council houses win Stirling architecture prize for being environmentally and socially aware
- (tags:architecture housing design environment )
- Unicef now accepting donations through bitcoin
- (tags:bitcoin UnitedNations children charity )
- The most credible banking phishing attempt I've seen.
- (tags:banking fraud )
- Brexit: Parliament to sit on a Saturday for first time in 37 years in last-ditch Boris Johnson bid to stop delay
- (tags:uk europe politics )
- China and Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits
- (tags:wikipedia china taiwan )
- Obsessed fan finds Japanese idol's home by zooming in on reflections in her eyes
- (tags:eyes stalking OhForFucksSake japan )
- Dog owners are over 30% less likely to die from cardiovascular causes
- (tags:heart death dogs )
- Euromyths - 1992-2017
- (tags:europe myths eu )
- The Nobile Officium Cases - the way forward
- (tags:law UK europe )
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Interesting Links for 16-08-2014
Aug. 16th, 2014 12:00 pm- With Highway Patrol, hugs and kisses replace tear gas in Ferguson
- If cats could fly, this would happen a lot
- Guardians of the Galaxy: Clearly a roleplaying campaign gone badly wrong
- This is why you can't have flying cars
- Each copy of the AMY1 gene gives you a 20% reduction in your chances of being obese
- £100m plan to revamp Edinburgh’s East End
And about time too - it's a really unpleasant set of backstreets there.
- A great, detailed, timeline of the events of Ferguson
- Meet Gavin Andresen, the Most Powerful Person in the World of Bitcoin
- Ten tricks the brain plays on us
- Viking Ship Discovered Near Mississippi River
- Republicans now producing fake news websites in order to disseminate disinformation
- A good argument for why society owes you anything
- Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops
- Tech Industry Believes it Invented San Francisco, Burning Man, and Sex
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