Interesting Links for 13-01-2026
Jan. 13th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. The 8 ways that all the elements in the Universe are made
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- 2. Hormone therapy reduces suicidality in trans teens
- (tags:children suicide transgender hormones LGBT )
- 3. Behind the scenes with an artist from Zootopia 2
- (tags:Disney art animation technology )
- 4. Estrogen increases gut pain
- (tags:estrogen pain )
- 5. Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds dangerous flaws
- (tags:ai google health misinformation OhForFucksSake )
- 6. New research explores ecological and social roots of same-sex sexual behaviour in primates
- (tags:primates homosexuality lgbt )
Interesting Links for 12-12-2025
Dec. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
- (tags:punctuation language writing ai funny )
- 2. Where Are School Uniforms Common?
- (tags:school clothing regulation maps )
- 3. Disney making $1 billion investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI video generator
- (tags:ai Disney )
- 4. Revealed: UK's 'racist' system of stripping citizenship (more people than any other country other than Bahrain and Nicaragua)
- (tags:uk citizenship OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Are economic bubbles good, actually?
- (tags:economics business history )
Interesting Links for 24-11-2025
Nov. 24th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Russia Today and the Fremen Mirage
- (tags:politics society war history Russia Ukraine )
- 2. Thorium-uranium Conversion Makes Breakthrough
- (tags:thorium nuclearpower China )
- 3. Dance teacher Melissa Revell wins payout after yoga course triggers emotional breakdown
- (tags:mentalhealth yoga )
- 4. Valve Issues Black Ops 7 Refund Over Undisclosed AI Materials
- (tags:ai games fraud valve )
- 5. Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
- (tags:twitter usa politics fraud )
- 6. The voice of the New York subway is now transgender
- (tags:LGBT transgender voice newyork video )
- 7. How top level mathematicians are using AI
- (tags:AI mathematics )
- 8. Disney loses the rights to Roger Rabbit characters, as they revert to original author of novel
- (tags:Disney intellectual_property )
- 9. Leftist and Moderate Democrats Are Trying to Be More Alike
- (tags:democrats usa politics economics )
- 10. College Students Furious When Their Course Is Taught by AI Instead of a Professor
- (tags:university ai OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 12-11-2025
Nov. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Why the 'Toy Story' on Disney+ doesn't look like it did at the cinema
- (tags:movies Disney digital film colour )
- 2. How Denmark changed its views on immigrants
- (tags:denmark immigration )
- 3. Remembering which Star Wars films are good, and other mental loads carried by the man in relationships
- (tags:relationships StarWars funny satire )
- 4. Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh'
- (tags:viaFanf comics porn funny interview )
- 5. What should Edinburgh be doing about the trams?
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- 6. Why the Democrats Finally Folded
- (tags:politics usa )
- 7. The devious trick behind the most sensational science headlines
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Interesting Links for 31-10-2025
Oct. 31st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Tonne of fireworks seized near Edinburgh ahead of Bonfire Night disorder campaign
- (tags:edinburgh riots fireworks doom )
- 2. 'Doctor Who': Why Disney Ditched Deal With BBC For Sci-Fi Series
- (tags:Disney BBC drwho )
- 3. How the cochlea computes
- (tags:sound hearing Technology )
- 4. How Ancient People Saw Themselves (a history of mirrors)
- (tags:mirrors history archeology )
Interesting Links for 06-08-2025
Aug. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Scientific fraud has become an industry, alarming analysis finds
- (tags:science research publishing fraud OhForFucksSake )
- 2. An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine (Finds that less than 2% of the money raised goes to the candidates)
- (tags:democrats fundraising corruption )
- 3. Didn't Take Long To Reveal The UK's Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
- (tags:UK privacy censorship politics OhForFucksSake )
- 4. World Athletics' mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know - I discovered the relevant gene in 1990
- (tags:genetics sports gender )
- 5. Tech billionaires are arguing amongst themselves about how exactly humanity should go extinct
- (tags:extinction humans ai thefuture )
- 6. When Disney Went Digital (earlier than you'd think)
- (tags:Disney history computers technology art animation movies )
- 7. Labour got a bunch of former-Conservative voters in Scotland, and are now in danger of shedding them to Reform (might explain a few things)
- (tags:scotland politics Conservatives labour )
Interesting Links for 27-05-2025
May. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The US health system is now overseen by vaccine deniers. The effects are entirely predictable
- (tags:disease pandemic usa vaccines doom )
- 2. Hong Kong children urged to get Covid jabs as 'whole paediatric ward full'
- (tags:pandemic HongKong china children doom vaccination )
- 3. An Oral History of 'Lilo & Stitch' (the original)
- (tags:animation movies Disney Hawaii history )
- 4. German court rules cookie banners must offer "reject all" button (if they have an "accept all" button)
- (tags:cookies surveillance germany dataprotection GoodNews )
- 5. It makes no sense to cut funding to mental health services when that costs you money in the long run.
- (tags:mentalhealth money edinburgh )
- 6. How much energy does AI use?
- (tags:ai electricity )
- 7. Owls! in! Towels!
- (tags:owls cute photos )
- 8. Explaining a 31-month sentence for a tweet
- (tags:racism riots uk law )
Interesting Links for 03-05-2025
May. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 1.5m Britons a month pay for weight-loss jabs
- (tags:UK weight medication )
- 2. Why our waistlines expand in middle age—aging stem cells shift into overdrive (in rats)
- (tags:weight age rats )
- 3. Germany's Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech Just Got Even More Ridiculous
- (tags:Germany genocide Palestine Israel freespeech law viaKenny )
- 4. RFK Jr. Encourages Americans To Do Their Own Research About Dragons
- (tags:politics USA dragons satire funny )
- 5. UN says 9,000 Gaza children acutely malnourished as aid blockade passes two months
- (tags:children food gaza Israel Palestine OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Genomic evidence for behavioral adaptation of herding dogs
- (tags:dogs genetics behaviour )
- 7. I missed that the horror version of Steamboat Willie had already been released
- (tags:horror Disney mice )
Interesting Links for 04-03-2025
Mar. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Cops confront lesbian in AZ Walmart bathroom over masculine look
- (tags:USA bigotry toilets women )
- 2. The Australian whose blood saved 2.4 million babies has died
- (tags:babies blood immune_system viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Doctor Who was a top 5 series on Disney+ globally every week it aired
- (tags:drwho TV Disney bbc )
- 4. A crypto mogul who invested millions into Trump coins is getting a reprieve on civil fraud charges
- (tags:corruption usa )
- 5. Global sales of combustion engine cars peaked in 2018
- (tags:cars pollution GoodNews )
- 6. Europe is rearming
- (tags:Europe military )
Interesting Links for 18-12-2024
Dec. 18th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. 'Warhammer 40,000' TV series locked and loaded at Amazon with Henry Cavill set to star (and much more to come by the sound of things)
- (tags:Warhammer Amazon TV movies )
- 2. 'Bluey' Movie Set for 2027 Theatrical Release From Disney, BBC Studios
- (tags:children TV movie Disney bbc dogs )
- 3. Silver amulet unearthed in Frankfurt grave Is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps (230-270 CE)
- (tags:religion rome archeology europe christianity )
- 4. Companies forcing their employees back to the office lose their senior people and women
- (tags:work office )
- 5. 20% of people are just dicks
- (tags:society psychology empathy narcissism )
- 6. Fife to Edinburgh driverless bus service to stop in 2025 (because nobody was coming in that way)
- (tags:automation driving buses transport edinburgh )
Interesting Links for 27-11-2024
Nov. 27th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. How Murderbot Saved Martha Wells' Life (and got her nominated for a bunch of awards)
- (tags:scifi murder robots )
- 2. Bluesky boom worries Chinese media
- (tags:socialnetworking china )
- 3. The Five Stages of Processing a New Star Wars Announcement
- (tags:StarWars Disney movies video )
- 4. Earth has tilted by 31.5 inches and humans are to blame - pumping 2 trillion tons of groundwater
- (tags:water earth doom )
Interesting Links for 10-09-2024
Sep. 10th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh Royal Mile transformed by Hollywood crews for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein film
- (tags:edinburgh frankenstein GuillermoDelToro movies )
- 2. Consensus when creating Internet Standards (probably also useful to anyone interested in consensus-forming)
- (tags:organisation standards internet )
- 3. Labour refuses to publish impact assessment of winter fuel payment cuts
- (tags:UK Labour poverty heating )
- 4. What is Club 33? A Look Inside Disney's Most Exclusive Club
- (tags:Disney wtf )
Interesting Links for 07-09-2024
Sep. 7th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Neil Gaiman Film The Graveyard Book Paused After Sexual Assault Claims
- (tags:neilgaiman books Disney assault )
- 2. Russia Aimed Propaganda at Gamers, Minorities to Swing 2024 Election
- (tags:russia elections usa fraud )
- 3. Disabled children's charity hands 43% of grants to rightwing think-tanks
- (tags:uk charity OhForFucksSake )
- 4. University of Edinburgh submits plans for 'New Darwin' bioscience hub at King's Buildings
- (tags:Edinburgh university )
- 5. Sir Tony Blair branded 'despicable' by Fire Brigades Union for comments on Grenfell fire
- (tags:fire UK tonyblair disaster )
- 6. Puberty blockers a 'safe, effective and reversible' form of gender-affirming care, finds Australian review
- (tags:Australia puberty healthcare transgender )
- 7. Study: Playing Dungeons & Dragons helps autistic players in social interactions (it certainly did with me!)
- (tags:dungeonsanddragons autism )
Interesting Links for 09-05-2024
May. 9th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Labour welcomes Tory MP who attempted to interfere with the judge in her husband's sexual assault case
- (tags:Labour OhForFucksSake politics UK )
- 2. SNP appoint forced-birth anti-LGBT politician funded by the religious-right to deputy first minister
- (tags:lgbt abortion snp OhForFucksSake )
- 3. New Strategy Could Lead to Universal, Long-Lasting Flu Shot
- (tags:disease vaccine research )
- 4. The Problems with the 'Live Action' Disney Remakes
- (tags:Disney movies OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Keir Starmer refuses to comment on Natalie Elphicke's remarks about ex-husband's victims
- (tags:Labour women OhForFucksSake )
- 6. The Billion Dollar War for "Bluey" (the most successful TV show that most people have never seen)
- (tags:TV Disney children video viaSwampers )
- 7. I hadn't realised that the Eurovision backlash over Israel/Palestine was getting pubs to pull their showings
- (tags:eurovision Gaza Israel genocide )
- 8. Major cities and towns in North America replaced by major cities across the Atlantic by latitude.
- (tags:maps Europe USA )
- 9. A desire for a loud car with a modified muffler is predicted by being a man and higher scores on psychopathy and sadism
- (tags:psychology cars noise )
- 10. Biden warns Israel US will halt weapons supplies if it invades Rafah
- (tags:USA Israel Palestine )
- 11. Five babies have died with whooping cough in England this year as cases soar.
- (tags:disease children )
Interesting Links for 29-03-2024
Mar. 29th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Seismologists were able to identify 43 of the 45 songs at a Taylor Swift concert by the earth movements they caused
- (tags:music earthquake )
- 2. The NICE evidence reviews on trans affirming care look very very suspicious
- (tags:healthcare research transgender NHS OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Edinburgh buses produce £3.2 million dividend for councils for first time since Covid (and back to 90% of pre-Covid passenger levels)
- (tags:buses Edinburgh GoodNews transport )
- 4. New post-Brexit tariff to apply to UK cars sold to Canada
- (tags:Canada tax UK trade doom )
- 5. It's 2029. How do you instruct an LLM to power the world?
- (tags:scifi power ai )
- 6. Covid, lab leaks, and raccoon dogs. What does the evidence say, and how should we think about it?
- (tags:pandemic statistics )
- 7. Russell T. Davies on Why Doctor Who's Disney Partnership Is So Important
- (tags:drwho TV Disney RusselTDavies )
Interesting Links for 26-01-2024
Jan. 26th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Apple to allow rival app stores and browsers on iPhones in EU
- (tags:Europe regulation iPhone Apple browsers apps )
- 2. A collection of stories of queer and trans Floridians who have fled the state
- (tags:Florida LGBT transgender republicans bigotry )
- 3. Looking at how much male and female characters speak in the Disney Princess movies
- (tags:viaElfy Disney language gender )
- 4. More states propose bills to exclude trans, nonbinary people from public life
- (tags:LGBT USA law bigotry transgender viaBenWerdmuller )
- 5. A new global gender divide is emerging as young women shift in a more liberal direction and young men shift to the right
- (tags:politics gender )
- 6. What if consciousness is a coping mechanism?
- (tags:funny comic consciousness )
- 7. The "Code of Conduct" for Improbably Island is fantastic. Anyone running an online community should read it.
- (tags:internet discussion behaviour regulation )
- 8. QWERTLE - like Worldle, but based on keyboard location. I got today's in 4.
- (tags:words games keyboard )
Interesting Links for 05-01-2024
Jan. 5th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Why Don't Grocery Stores Stock the Most American Fruit? (The Pawpaw)
- (tags:fruit USA )
- 2. Why full-fat food could be the healthiest option
- (tags:fat food )
- 3. How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now
- (tags:ocean shipping fishing maps ai )
- 4. Looks like Room Temperature Superconductors are back on the menu!
- (tags:superconductors )
- 5. Crypto hedge fund CEO may not exist; probe finds no record of identity
- (tags:fraud identity business Blockchain )
- 6. FactCheck: do you have to pay tax for selling secondhand on Vinted or eBay?
- (tags:tax uk )
- 7. A Gel Injected Into the Scrotum Could Be the Next Male Contraceptive
- (tags:contraception men )
- 8. Study reveals genetic link between anorexia and being an early riser
- (tags:sleep anorexia genetics )
- 9. More of Mickey Mouse is public domain than you might think
- (tags:Disney copyright )
- 10. Here's a Labour MP denying Nazi war crimes. But apparently it's fine, because they're against transgender people.
- (tags:nazis labour OhForFucksSake transgender bigotry lgbt )
- 11. They Had PTSD. A Psychedelic Called Ibogaine Helped Them Get Better
- (tags:ptsd psychedelics psychology )
- 12. Has The 'Sexlessness Epidemic' Been Overstated?
- (tags:sex demographics society )
Interesting Links for 02-01-2024
Jan. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A really simple explanation for why young people are siding with Palestine
- (tags:Palestine video Israel )
- 2. This is basically how I feel about Rebel Moon (although I may watch the extended version if the reviews are staggeringly better)
- (tags:movies comic funny ZackSnyder )
- 3. Inside the 2023 Tory war on LGBT rights
- (tags:lgbt Conservatives transgender uk politics )
- 4. Mousetrapped is the first thing I've seen doing anything interesting with the newly public domain Mickey Mouse
- (tags:Disney publicdomain comic )
- 5. Asexuality Is Finally Breaking Free from Medical Stigma
- (tags:asexual sexuality psychology history )
Interesting Links for 19-12-2023
Dec. 19th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Reminder that just because you've been asked a question it doesn't mean you have to accept it as valid.
- (tags:lgbt questions video )
- 2. Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real
- (tags:ai fraud photos )
- 3. What is a two state solution and do Israelis and Palestinians want one?
- (tags:israel palestine )
- 4. Looks like a colour version of Mickey Mouse also goes into the public domain at the end of the year
- (tags:Disney art colour intellectual_property copyright )
- 5. Oh Good, Hurricanes Are Now Made of Microplastics
- (tags:wind plastic doom environment )