Interesting Links for 19-07-2025
- 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 )
Interesting Links for 03-07-2025
- 1. Lemkin Institute Anti-genocide group issues 'red flag' to UK over transgender rights
- (tags:lgbt transgender UK rights OhForFucksSake bigotry )
- 2. The UK has an extremely low rate of homes per person
- (tags:UK housing doom )
- 3. Israel limits entry of baby formula in Gaza as infants die of hunger
- (tags:Israel babies murder Hunger genocide gaza Palestine )
- 4. Poor internet and offices partly to blame for length of Edinburgh Tram Inquiry
- (tags:edinburgh trams enquiry internet organisation )
- 5. TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3
- (tags:ai racism videos socialmedia )
Interesting Links for 01-07-2025
- 1. Jaws (1975) | Modern Trailer
- (tags:movies trailer sharks video )
- 2. Everything I Thought I Knew About Nasal Congestion Is Wrong
- (tags:noses health )
- 3. Edinburgh's GDP per Capita now outpaces London
- (tags:edinburgh london gdp economy scotland uk )
- 4. Microsoft claims their new AI framework diagnoses 4x better than doctors. Here's why this is both impressive AND misleading
- (tags:ai medicine Microsoft )
- 5. China is cracking down on young women who write gay erotica
- (tags:china censorship LGBT OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 27-06-2025
- 1. The first non-opioid painkiller (for acute pain) has taken 27 years to produce.
- (tags:pain research medicine )
- 2. UK asylum plans shows post-Brexit Britain is 'in very dark place', Albanian PM warns
- (tags:uk migration OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Reading one book on a subject will put you ahead of the vast majority of people
- (tags:experts learning )
- 4. One in four LGBTQ+ pupils may drop out before finishing secondary school
- (tags:lgbt school bullying )
- 5. India High Court rules trans women are women
- (tags:India transgender LGBT GoodNews )
- 6. A newspaper reported that Arthur Conan Doyle went to a local pub. Turns out to be completely made up (but the history is fascinating)
- (tags:journalism fraud Edinburgh history )
- 7. The transfers between parties in yesterday's Edinburgh council election are fascinating!
- (tags:edinburgh elections voting politics scotland )
- 8. You can now buy The Hobbit in 5 different Celtic languages. (I'm sure people will have great fun comparing them)
- (tags:languages uk ireland TheHobbit )
- 9. Make AI Mediocre Again
- (tags:satire ai video advertising )
Interesting Links for 24-06-2025
- 1. Mechanical Watch: Exploded View
- (tags:watches design )
- 2. Language is complicated (Japanese star edition)
- (tags:japan English language )
- 3. Reminder that you can be lovely to your friends and family and still a disgustingly awful genocidal murderer
- (tags:Nazis history people )
- 4. What Britain looks like after Brexit (written in 2016, about 2025). Anyone want to assign it marks for accuracy?
- (tags:UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Voyager 2 Illuminates Boundary of Interstellar Space
- (tags:space )
- 6. Upcycling plastic into painkillers: Microbes transform everyday waste into acetaminophen
- (tags:plastic medicine recycling )
- 7. Some great photos from Edinburgh's Pride March
- (tags:lgbt edinburgh photos )
- 8. Businesses still gatekeep jobs for graduates - it's harmful and cruel
- (tags:business academia university OhForFucksSake )
- 9. What does the new Industial Strategy mean for Scotland?
- (tags:scotland government )
- 10. The USA is definitely not at war. Probably. Maybe. Kinda.
- (tags:war USA Iran Israel video funny )
Interesting Links for 21-06-2025
- 1. Good things Labour have achieved this week
- (tags:Labour GoodNews politics UK )
- 2. YouTube Playlists Are Advertising "No AI" as Entire Site Gets Choked by AI Slop
- (tags:ai music videos YouTube )
- 3. It's True: The JAWS Shark is Public Domain
- (tags:sharks copyright art movies books )
- 4. Finding Peter Putnam - The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind
- (tags:history philosophy computing viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. Edinburgh Council agrees on proposal to explore halt on new accommodation
- (tags:Edinburgh university housing )
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- ai,
- children,
- economics,
- edinburgh,
- food,
- funny,
- globalwarming,
- government,
- links,
- maps,
- money,
- music,
- planning,
- programming,
- transport,
- uk,
- video,
- visualisation
Interesting Links for 09-06-2025
- 1. Have you experience the glory that is "It's Raining Tacos"? Because my children have subjected me to it over 5,000 times now...
- (tags:music video children food funny )
- 2. Mapping Edinburgh planning applications
- (tags:Edinburgh planning maps visualisation )
- 3. The UK's North-South divide in transport funding - mapped
- (tags:uk transport government money )
- 4. AI - where are we now?
- (tags:ai programming globalwarming economics )
Interesting Links for 31-05-2025
- 1. What does "Undecidable" mean, anyway (in computing terms)
- (tags:computers logic )
- 2. Survey on the impact of school working hours on parents and businesses in Edinburgh
- (tags:edinburgh school time )
- 3. Edinburgh's LEZ one year on: More walking and cycling, less pollution and fewer fines
- (tags:pollution transport Edinburgh GoodNews )
- 4. The Two Extremists Driving Israel's Policy
- (tags:religion Israel genocide Judaism )
- 5. The secrets to incredible photos taken inside musical instruments
- (tags:photography music )
- 6. He Won the Nobel Prize for Physics. Then He Changed His Mind.
- (tags:physics )
Interesting Links for 29-05-2025
- 1. A Square Theory (of crosswords and jokes)
- (tags:square games jokes connection )
- 2. Edinburgh winter festivals worth almost £200m to the city
- (tags:Edinburgh festival winter Christmas money )
- 3. Sir Ian McKellen to open all trans and non-binary production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
- (tags:shakespeare transgender LGBT theatre )
- 4. Episode IX - Duel of the Fates. I'll Forever Wish This Was the 3rd Sequel Film
- (tags:movies StarWars )
Interesting Links for 27-05-2025
- 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 )
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- afghanistan,
- ai,
- bigotry,
- comics,
- copyright,
- crime,
- doom,
- eating,
- economy,
- edinburgh,
- flu,
- food,
- green,
- history,
- immigration,
- insulin,
- internet,
- labour,
- lgbt,
- libdem,
- links,
- lotr,
- magic,
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- news,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pandemic,
- politics,
- protest,
- satire,
- scotland,
- sugar,
- tolkien,
- traffic,
- trains,
- transgender,
- transport,
- uk,
- usa,
- vaccine,
- viadanieldwilliam,
- war
Interesting Links for 13-05-2025
- 1. How Gandalf Proved Mightiest: Spiritual Power in Tolkien
- (tags:lotr Tolkien magic viaDanielDWilliam )
- 2. ScotRail trials wi-fi using Elon Musk's Starlink satellites
- (tags:Scotland trains internet )
- 3. Continuous glucose monitors reveal variable glucose responses from the same people to the same meals
- (tags:insulin sugar eating food )
- 4. The charts showing the big flaw in Starmer's immigration plan
- (tags:migration economy uk doom )
- 5. Moderna's combo Covid and flu mRNA shot outperforms current vaccines in large trial
- (tags:vaccine pandemic flu )
- 6. Despair at Starmer's divisive language as he channels Enoch Powell
- (tags:bigotry immigration UK Labour OhForFucksSake )
- 7. US Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn't always fair use
- (tags:ai copyright USA politics )
- 8. Edinburgh traffic bans in city centre to be made permanent following trial
- (tags:traffic transport Edinburgh )
- 9. Top UK Special Forces general oversaw blocking of Afghan war-crime witnesses to Britain
- (tags:UK military crime war OhForFucksSake Afghanistan )
- 10. How the news feels right now
- (tags:news satire doom )
- 11. Mass vote losses to Lib Dems and Greens would cost Labour twice as many seats as mass Reform switch
- (tags:labour libdem green )
- 12. Getting to know 'Reform curious Labour voters'
- (tags:Labour politics UK )
- 13. Zodiac Killer Revealed by His Love of Comic Books, Author Says
- (tags:comics murder usa history )
- 14. London, Brighton, Birmingham and Manchester Prides suspend political parties from taking part (over trans rights)
- (tags:lgbt transgender protest uk politics )
Interesting Links for 29-04-2025
- 1. NHS to allegedly test trans young people for autism and ADHD
- (tags:adhd autism transgender lgbt uk nhs viaSwampers )
- 2. Spain, Portugal and parts of France hit by massive power outage
- (tags:spain france electricity )
- 3. Donald Trump Demands Investigations Into Negative Approval Rating Polls
- (tags:polls usa politics viaKenny )
- 4. New Edinburgh Airport scanners allow liquids to remain in bags
- (tags:edinburgh security airport )
- 5. I WANT TO LIVE IN THIS HOUSE!
- (tags:Housing fun video )
- 6. Islanders say they cannot escape mysterious humming sound
- (tags:sounds Scotland )
- 7. Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts
- (tags:funny politics USA )
- 8. What Even *Is* Consciousness?
- (tags:consciousness comic funny )
- 9. Trans former judge plans to challenge gender ruling at European court
- (tags:transgender rights echr law )
- 10. Doctors condemn Supreme Court ruling on trans women as ‘scientifically illiterate’
- (tags:UK doctors transgender science law bigotry )
- 11. Irn-Bru - How they collect Unicorn Tears for their new recipe
- (tags:video viaSwampers funny unicorns advertising Scotland )
Entry tags:
- edinburgh,
- gaza,
- housing,
- impressive,
- israel,
- links,
- microscope,
- palestine,
- review,
- technology,
- trains,
- tv,
- viakenny,
- video,
- virus
Interesting Links for 28-04-2025
- 1. 177-meter-long machine renews entire railway tracks — removing old rails, cleaning ballast, and laying new track all in one go!
- (tags:trains Technology impressive video )
- 2. A 10-foot microscope reveals big lessons about the tiniest threats to the human body
- (tags:virus microscope impressive viaKenny )
- 3. The Settlers is Louis Theroux at his shocking best
- (tags:israel palestine gaza tv review )
- 4. Edinburgh to get 160 new affordable homes
- (tags:edinburgh housing )
Interesting Links for 27-04-2025
- 1. Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem
- (tags:protest politics USA law jobs )
- 2. Statement on the Genocidal Nature of the Gender Critical Movement's Ideology and Practice
- (tags:genocide transgender LGBT )
- 3. Recreating the Mini Motorways game as a functional 3D printed map
- (tags:games transport 3dprinting viaSwampers )
- 4. Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and USA (raising money through an auction)
- (tags:scifi fandom auctions transgender rights LGBT )
- 5. The record-breaking tunnel being built from Denmark to Germany
- (tags:Denmark Germany tunnel )
- 6. Mike Lindell's lawyers used AI to write brief—judge finds nearly 30 mistakes
- (tags:law ai epicfail )
- 7. Stimming increases self-efficacy in autistic people
- (tags:psychology autism )
- 8. "I have lived on an Edinburgh canal boat for nearly five years and I have no plans to jump ashore"
- (tags:housing boats Edinburgh Scotland )
Entry tags:
- abuse,
- ai,
- apple,
- edinburgh,
- europe,
- facebook,
- funny,
- google,
- links,
- ohforfuckssake,
- regulation,
- relationships,
- russia,
- scotland,
- transgender,
- ukraine,
- viaswampers,
- video,
- war
Interesting Links for 24-04-2025
- 1. Ask Google for a definition of a phrase and it'll make shit up for you.
- (tags:Google ai OhForFucksSake )
- 2. EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M for breaking Europe's digital rules
- (tags:Europe regulation apple Facebook )
- 3. A totally normal list of dating non-negotiables
- (tags:relationships video funny viaSwampers )
- 4. Edinburgh Anti-Trans Activist Nicola Murray Found Guilty of Child Abuse
- (tags:transgender abuse OhForFucksSake Edinburgh Scotland )
- 5. What should Europe be doing about Ukraine
- (tags:ukraine russia europe war )
Entry tags:
- archeology,
- bigotry,
- cats,
- crowdfunding,
- edinburgh,
- habits,
- housing,
- law,
- links,
- prehistory,
- psychology,
- rights,
- socialmedia,
- society,
- tax,
- transgender,
- uk,
- usa,
- ux
Interesting Links for 23-04-2025
- 1. I just donated towards the Good Law Project's trans rights fund. I urge you to do likewise.
- (tags:law CrowdFunding uk transgender rights )
- 2. Bigots who hate one group increasingly hate all of them. (bigotry now correlated 70% with conservatism)
- (tags:bigotry society USA psychology )
- 3. Gow long does it take to create a new habit?
- (tags:habits psychology )
- 4. The complex origin story of domestic cats: Research points to Tunisia
- (tags:cats prehistory archeology )
- 5. Edinburgh's second home council tax charge raises £2.7m
- (tags:housing tax edinburgh )
- 6. The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet
- (tags:ux socialmedia )
Entry tags:
- 3dprinting,
- autism,
- boardgames,
- corruption,
- edinburgh,
- elonmusk,
- equality,
- europe,
- fusion,
- gaza,
- gender,
- history,
- hungary,
- israel,
- language,
- law,
- lgbt,
- links,
- materials,
- ohforfuckssake,
- palestine,
- protests,
- psychology,
- rights,
- settlersofcatan,
- society,
- space,
- transgender,
- uk,
- ukraine,
- usa
Interesting Links for 20-04-2025
- 1. In Gaza, we are seeing the normalisation of evil
- (tags:gaza Israel Palestine )
- 2. On language and trans people, some tips
- (tags:transgender language )
- 3. Life before the Equalities Act 2010
- (tags:transgender gender equality rights UK law history )
- 4. The lead civil servant on drafting the Equality Act says the aim was to include trans people.
- (tags:equality lgbt transgender OhForFucksSake law uk )
- 5. The Minister who introduced the Gender Recognition Bill in the House of Lords in 2003 made it clear that "a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act [the predecessor to the Equality Act] as a person of the acquired sex or
- (tags:transgender lgbt law uk history )
- 6. Settlers of Catan - Globe Edition
- (tags:3dprinting boardgames SettlersOfCatan )
- 7. Thousands of trans rights protesters on Edinburgh streets following court ruling
- (tags:Edinburgh transgender protests )
- 8. Musk to Force Pentagon to Build and Then Pay Him to Use Network of Killer Satellites
- (tags:ElonMusk corruption space )
- 9. Hungary's Orbán urges Hungarians to vote against Ukraine's membership of EU
- (tags:Hungary Ukraine Europe OhForFucksSake )
- 10. The UK is going to have to start making choices about Europe and the USA
- (tags:UK USA Europe )
- 11. Fusion power plants would require titanic amounts of lithium.
- (tags:materials fusion )
- 12. "Masking Is Life": Experiences of Masking in Autistic and Nonautistic Adults
- (tags:autism society psychology )
Interesting Links for 17-04-2025
- 1. Bringing meat and cheese back to Britain from the EU is now illegal
- (tags:europe uk trade )
- 2. Your reminder that the current wave of transphobia was started in 2017 by the Christian Right to split the LGBT alliance
- (tags:transgender bigotry politics USA LGBT )
- 3. A closer look at the restoration work going on on Edinburgh's North Bridge
- (tags:edinburgh bridge art )
Interesting Links for 15-04-2025
- 1. What's the opposite of DEI?
- (tags:usa politics OhForFucksSake comic )
- 2. Edinburgh Trams introduces Tap-On Tap-off... soon
- (tags:Edinburgh trams buses transport )
- 3. These game case animations are gorgeous
- (tags:animations game art )
- 4. The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien's fantasy world
- (tags:lotr fantasy maps )
- 5. China's 'dreamy' new ship aims to drill 7km below the ocean floor
- (tags:ocean research geology )
- 6. NHS England is holding back a report on suicide in trans kids that was finished a year ago.
- (tags:suicide LGBT transgender children NHS UK OhForFucksSake )