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Interesting Links for 23-12-2025
Dec. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pmTags:
- ai,
- buses,
- disinformation,
- doom,
- edinburgh,
- fraud,
- links,
- scotland,
- socialmedia,
- transport
Interesting Links for 06-12-2025
Dec. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Netflix announces deal to buy Warner Bros. and HBO
- (tags:WarnerBrothers HBO netflix )
- 2. Did Rachel Reeves mislead the public ahead of the Budget?
- (tags:budget UK FactCheck politics )
- 3. Visualising Klotski (fantastic 3d visualisations of possibilities)
- (tags:video game viaSwampers visualisation )
- 4. 'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery
- (tags:muppets mysteries video satire )
- 5. Wall Street races to protect itself from AI bubble
- (tags:AI investment insurance )
- 6. Original version of Star Wars Returns to Theaters for 50th Anniversary
- (tags:StarWars movies )
- 7. Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.
- (tags:LGBT bigotry transgender gaming women )
- 8. Adenosine as the metabolic common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox
- (tags:depression )
- 9. The USA is officially removing itself from positive engagement in world affairs.
- (tags:USA politics diplomacy NATO )
- 10. Edinburgh confirms Visitor Levy affordable housing spend
- (tags:Edinburgh housing GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 17-11-2025
Nov. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. A Crucial Genetic Mutation Behind Crohn's Disease Has Finally Been Revealed
- (tags:disease genetics )
- 2. The North-South Tramline: Building a Connected, Prosperous Edinburgh?
- (tags:transport economics Edinburgh )
- 3. Behold - the Future of Poltics!
- (tags:politics satire comic conspiracy )
- 4. The sad truth about most end of life healthcare
- (tags:healthcare age satire funny comic )
- 5. Repeated mRNA Covid vaccinations make a more diverse and stronger T-cell response
- (tags:vaccine pandemic GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 13-11-2025
Nov. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. GLP-1 Drugs Linked to Dramatically Lower Death Rates in Colon Cancer Patients
- (tags:glp cancer GoodNews )
- 2. The No. 1 country song in the US right now is AI-generated
- (tags:music ai )
- 3. Edinburgh's Argyle House (home of Codebase) is being demolished
- (tags:edinburgh architecture )
- 4. Reminder that if you see a paywall on the web then you can usually get past it with archive.ph (but if you keep using it for the same site, you should support the site)
- (tags:archive web paywall )
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?
- (tags:edinburgh trams )
- 6. Why the Democrats Finally Folded
- (tags:politics usa )
- 7. The devious trick behind the most sensational science headlines
- (tags:science journalism fraud )
Interesting Links for 11-11-2025
Nov. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Multilingualism and Extending Healthspan
- (tags:language health lifespan viaKenny )
- 2. 'V for Vendetta' TV Series in the Works at HBO
- (tags:comics alanmoore tv )
- 3. Law used to ban Palestine Action being used too widely, report says
- (tags:law terrorism uk OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Why has one of Edinburgh's best views been off-limits for seven years?
- (tags:edinburgh safety rocks )
- 5. UK Government sets out plan to reduce animal experiments
- (tags:uk animals research safety )
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 19-10-2025
Oct. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. I just went to see Alfred Buckham: Daredevil Photographer At The Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Recommended
- (tags:art photography history Edinburgh Scotland )
- 2. No, There Is Not A New Survey Showing Trans Identity Is Decreasing
- (tags:transgender society USA statistics )
- 3. Minimal office socialising advice for introverts/autistic people
- (tags:advice socialisation work )
- 4. Da Vinci and Michelangelo drawings go on display in Scotland for first time (Kings Gallery in Edinburgh)
- (tags:Scotland art history )
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Interesting Links for 18-10-2025
Oct. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Endometriosis diagnosis from menstrual blood could make diagnosis dramatically faster (still a few years away though)
- (tags:endometriosis health )
- 2. Church of England bishops stop plans to trial blessing services for gay couples
- (tags:LGBT bigotry religion ChurchOfEngland marriage relationships )
- 3. Russia's funding for Ukraine war set to 'contract' as new sanctions loom
- (tags:Russia Ukraine war economics trade )
- 4. The Anglican Church just split in half (40-50 million in each side)
- (tags:ChurchOfEngland )
- 5. Judge rules that trans man can't be denied gender recognition certificate because he is trying to conceive.
- (tags:transgender law UK children GoodNews )
- 6. Happy Tenth Anniversary to the "Leopards Eating People's Faces Party"
- (tags:politics meme satire )
- 7. Liberal Democrats win all six seats in Surrey council by-elections (clearly things afoot in the South-East)
- (tags:libdem elections uk )
- 8. Why FindOutNow polls differ from other polling companies
- (tags:polls politics uk )
- 9. Some reasons to be hopeful about the future (if we can get through 2026)
- (tags:thefuture charlesstross )
- 10. Treating male partners halves the recurrence rate of Bacterial Vaginosis
- (tags:Bacteria microbiome )
- 11. Lothian Buses celebrates a century of keeping Edinburgh moving through the night with the Night Bus
- (tags:Edinburgh buses night history )
- 12. Turkey proposes radical new "reforms" to attack LGBTQ+ marriage, media, & trans people
- (tags:LGBT transgender turkey bigotry )
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- churchofengland,
- economics,
- edinburgh,
- elections,
- endometriosis,
- goodnews,
- health,
- history,
- law,
- lgbt,
- libdem,
- links,
- marriage,
- meme,
- microbiome,
- night,
- politics,
- polls,
- relationships,
- religion,
- russia,
- satire,
- thefuture,
- trade,
- transgender,
- turkey,
- uk,
- ukraine,
- war
Interesting Links for 07-10-2025
Oct. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
- (tags:solarpower germany )
- 2. UK families to save hundreds of pounds in major homebuying overhaul
- (tags:housing uk regulation GoodNews )
- 3. Edinburgh's "Auld Hoose" pub is up for rent, if anyone fancies running one of my old favourite pubs
- (tags:pubs edinburgh )
- 4. Australian experts review The Cass Review and find it full of 'stigma and misinformation'
- (tags:LGBT transgender healthcare bigotry UK Australia )
- 5. Global solar power grows 31% as coal use drops
- (tags:renewables coal electricity GoodNews )
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- australia,
- bigotry,
- coal,
- edinburgh,
- electricity,
- germany,
- goodnews,
- healthcare,
- housing,
- lgbt,
- links,
- pubs,
- regulation,
- renewables,
- solarpower,
- transgender,
- uk
Interesting Links for 18-09-2025
Sep. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Ukraine is hitting Russia where it hurts - and it's working
- (tags:ukraine russia war economy )
- 2. 'Erosion emergency' at Edinburgh's Calton Hill after grass cut too short
- (tags:edinburgh nature )
- 3. 'Forgotten' royal castle uncovered on Herbidean Scottish island
- (tags:scotland castle )
- 4. What's changing for trials in Scotland?
- (tags:scotland law )
- 5. Renewables do unambiguously reduce wholesale power prices
- (tags:renewables electricity economics )
- 6. There Are Too Many Video Games (and songs and books and TV shows)
- (tags:media economics society )
Interesting Links for 16-09-2025
Sep. 16th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Channel 4 To Air Marathon of Trump Lies Amid UK State Visit
- (tags:USA UK politics TV lies )
- 2. Hundreds of firms warn new guidance on single sex spaces is 'unworkable' and would cause 'significant economic harm'
- (tags:lgbt uk transgender bigotry )
- 3. Edinburgh trams: Part of line to close for three days while engineers replace track points
- (tags:edinburgh trams )
- 4. Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza
- (tags:israel gaza genocide )
Interesting Links for 07-09-2025
Sep. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. This is why we don't read the Golden Age of science fiction any more.
- (tags:scifi history society )
- 2. Ghost sharks grow forehead teeth to help them have sex
- (tags:sharks teeth sex headline )
- 3. The tax-evading Princes Street shops costing Edinburgh taxpayers thousands
- (tags:tax Edinburgh fraud shops OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 03-09-2025
Sep. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Blocky Planet — Making Minecraft Spherical
- (tags:Minecraft sphere )
- 2. Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America!
- (tags:satire doom USA )
- 3. Edinburgh primary school mobile phone ban set to go ahead later this year
- (tags:school Edinburgh Scotland phones children )
- 4. Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks in England
- (tags:caffeine children England regulation )
- 5. Starmer appoints ex-director of anti trans campaign group as as comms director
- (tags:LGBT Labour bigotry transgender OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Dubstep artist Skrillex could protect against mosquito bites
- (tags:music mosquito funny headline )
Interesting Links for 26-08-2025
Aug. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Consultation opens on Edinburgh's proposed new tram line
- (tags:edinburgh trams consultation )
- 2. How to justify colonialism, Julius Caesar edition
- (tags:history comic morality )
- 3. Trump is turning into Liz Truss but with more dictatorial behaviour
- (tags:USA economics authoritarianism doom )
- 4. OpenAI Usage Plummets in the Summer, When Students Aren't Cheating on Homework
- (tags:ai students )
- 5. Fixing the voting system brings in more women representatives
- (tags:women politics voting reform )
- 1. Trans Segregation in Practice (Experiences of trans segregation following the Supreme Court ruling)
- (tags:transgender bigotry LGBT UK OhForFucksSake )
- 2. How UK inheritance tax compares with other countries
- (tags:inheritance tax uk )
- 3. Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
- (tags:ai energy co2 water )
- 4. Nigel Farage lies about the real asylum story
- (tags:asylum uk migration OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain?
- (tags:racism politics UK OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Missing Texas woman found living among lost ‘African’ tribe in Scotland
- (tags:Scotland Africa history EpicWTF weird )
- 7. Ann Summers confirms trans women welcome at bra fittings
- (tags:clothing transgender LGBT shops )
- 8. New Fireworks Control Zones to be introduced in Edinburgh
- (tags:fireworks edinburgh scotland )
- 9. Moderate drinking is not good for you.
- (tags:cancer alcohol disease )
- 10. 4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC
- (tags:law uk usa censorship )
No idea why the autoposter didn't work yesterday/today. Will investigate tonight!
Interesting Links for 19-08-2025
Aug. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. This story about how a parent's love grows for their child rang true for me, even if it was written about adoption
- (tags:love children parenting adoption )
- 2. An alternative to LASIK—without the lasers (melt your eyes, mould them into a new shape, let them resolidify)
- (tags:eyes eyesight )
- 3. Trump helped Netanyahu's cyber chief evade child sex crime charges
- (tags:Israel USA Child_abuse OhForFucksSake law )
- 4. On the recognition of Palestine - and its legality
- (tags:law palestine )
- 5. Tennessee woman denied prenatal care for being unmarried
- (tags:women healthcare USA OhForFucksSake marriage society )
- 6. Covid and Our Arteries
- (tags:pandemic blood health doom )
- 7. 97% of Edinburgh Airbnb-style flat plans refused
- (tags:edinburgh housing )
- 8. The Church Is Moving!
- (tags:church transport sweden )
Interesting Links for 12-08-2025
Aug. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Oh god, Edinburgh Council has a section on Freeman on the Land and Sovereign Citizens conspiracy nonsense
- (tags:law Scotland Edinburgh conspiracy )
- 2. Apparently AOL are still running a dial-up service! For another month, anyway.
- (tags:aol internet EpicWTF )
- 3. Why you shouldn't recommend Classic science fiction to kids
- (tags:children recommendation scifi )
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Interesting Links for 19-07-2025
Jul. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Taika Waititi to Direct 'Judge Dredd' Movie
- (tags:2000AD JudgeDredd movies )
- 2. Have your say on the future of affordable housing in Edinburgh
- (tags:edinburgh housing )
- 3. "I'm a journalist covering Palestine Action arrests. This is all absurd"
- (tags:UK censorship Palestine law )
- 4. Canadian judge halts deportation of non-binary American in ruling after Trump's gender edicts
- (tags:Canada USA LGBT bigotry )
