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Interesting Links for 21-04-2024
Apr. 21st, 2024 03:59 pm- 1. Elon Musk drove 60% of Democrats away from Tesla
- (tags:ElonMusk cars politics Tesla electricity )
- 2. A fascinating Q&A with Dr Cass about the report she led, which seems to walk things back a lot. I'm now quite confused
- (tags:LGBT transgender healthcare UK wtf )
- 3. The frog and the scorpion. Variations on a theme. (I loved this very much)
- (tags:stories morals )
- 4. Some interesting thoughts on fan fiction
- (tags:fanfic writing )
- 5. Artisanship is always great to watch (pottery edition)
- (tags:craftwork impressive video )
- 6. Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road
- (tags:automation driving USA )
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- automation,
- cars,
- craftwork,
- driving,
- electricity,
- elonmusk,
- fanfic,
- healthcare,
- impressive,
- lgbt,
- links,
- morals,
- politics,
- stories,
- tesla,
- transgender,
- uk,
- usa,
- video,
- writing,
- wtf
Interesting Links for 02-02-2024
Feb. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Wherein Book Aziraphale and TV Aziraphale have a chat. (I still wish the TV series had been more like the book, but I know I'm in the minority there)
- (tags:TV books neilgaiman writing fanfic comic )
- 2. What are Edinburgh's bold new plans for congestion?
- (tags:edinburgh transport )
- 3. How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent
- (tags:success advice )
Interesting Links for 20-12-2023
Dec. 20th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. A tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to “hacks-for-hire” controversy.
- (tags:Technology hacking india censorship )
- 2. Animation vs. Physics
- (tags:physics animation video )
- 3. Baby It’s Cold Outside discourse is the same as Macbeth discourse.
- (tags:shakespeare funny )
- 4. NHS dentistry as we know it 'gone for good'
- (tags:UK NHS teeth OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Why MAs at Oxford had to swear an oath against a man who'd been dead for over 500 years.
- (tags:history university uk oxford murder viaPatrickHadfield )
- 6. New income tax band for people in Scotland earning over £75,000
- (tags:scotland income tax )
- 7. Teams are more creative when they're sitting next to each other
- (tags:creativity teams work psychology )
- 8. Iceland volcano erupts leaving 2.5-mile crack (with live video)
- (tags:iceland volcano )
- 9. Tom Bombadil and The Ring, a Christmas story
- (tags:Christmas lotr fanfic )
- 10. Lord of the Rings fan fiction writer tries to sue Amazon/Tolkien, gets countersued into a smoking crater
- (tags:copyright fanfic EpicStupidity lotr Tolkien )
- 11. A series of charts showing how awful the Conservatives are for the economy
- (tags:UK economy conservatives Labour )
- 12. Tory attempts to ban social transitioning in schools held up by lack of evidence showing it causes any problems
- (tags:LGBT law schools UK )
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- censorship,
- christmas,
- conservatives,
- copyright,
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- funny,
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- history,
- iceland,
- income,
- india,
- labour,
- law,
- lgbt,
- links,
- lotr,
- murder,
- nhs,
- ohforfuckssake,
- oxford,
- physics,
- psychology,
- schools,
- scotland,
- shakespeare,
- tax,
- teams,
- technology,
- teeth,
- tolkien,
- uk,
- university,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- video,
- volcano,
- work
Interesting Links for 21-05-2023
May. 21st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. China calls in loans to Pakistan, Kenya, dozens more (many of such loans were made secretly, on unfair terms, and used for corruption)
- (tags:corruption China loans economics Doom )
- 2. How many of these dating deal-breakers apply to you?
- (tags:relationships polls )
- 3. Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. But why?
- (tags:whales boats violence )
- 4. People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting.
- (tags:addiction medicine )
- 5. The Aristotelian Monroe-Warhol Bean Conspiracy
- (tags:jokes art beans )
- 6. Canon! Vs! Fanfic!
- (tags:fanfic canon funny fiction writing )
- 7. How involved were the Osage with Killers of the Flower Moon?
- (tags:movies history USA )
- 8. Pfeilstorch - how an African spear told us what happens to birds in the winter
- (tags:birds migration history Africa Germany )
- 9. Sex Ed Books Don't "Groom" Kids and Teens. They Protect Them.
- (tags:children education books sex )
Interesting Links for 05-02-2023
Feb. 5th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Neil Gaiman on the role of fanfiction
- (tags:fanfic neilgaiman )
- 2. Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content
- (tags:art ai copyright law )
- 3. Edinburgh walking and cycling: These are 6 bridges which could be built to make it easier to get around
- (tags:Edinburgh bridge transport )
- 4. Why can modders produce a virtual reality Star Wars game that looks amazing, but there's no official one?
- (tags:games StarWars VirtualReality )
- 5. Dissecting the Chinese spy balloon story
- (tags:China USA balloon diplomacy )
- 6. Why do spammers post links they don't want people to see?
- (tags:spam Dreamwidth )
- 7. Britain Is Much Worse Off Than It Understands
- (tags:UK Europe economy Doom )
Interesting Links for 31-10-2022
Oct. 31st, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Some interesting thoughts about Elon Musk and what his endgame is. (I don't know how accurate it is, but it certainly lines up with how he acts)
- (tags:ElonMusk Twitter Doom )
- 2. Fanfiction authors have kept away from creators. That might be beginning to change
- (tags:fanfic TV writing law society history )
- 3. The canals on Mars are the blood in your eyes
- (tags:Mars history astronomy eyes canal )
- 4. Guantanamo Bay: US releases oldest detainee - without charge. Still multiple uncharged and unreleased
- (tags:iraq Pakistan terrorism USA OhForFucksSake law )
- 5. Japan's "mundane Halloween" is amazing
- (tags:Halloween costumes funny Japan viaPatrickHadfield )
Interesting Links for 24-09-2022
Sep. 24th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Pennywise and Mary Poppins are members of the same species, and they work on the rules set out by Monsters Inc
- (tags:stephen_king horror movies fanfic explanations )
- 2. Facebook Report: Censorship Violated Palestinian Rights
- (tags:facebook palestine censorship )
- 3. The Margaret fire is 1,200 acres
- (tags:fire photos nature )
- 4. Knitting is a lot more recent than I expected!
- (tags:knitting history )
- 5. What the Russian "referendum" in Ukraine looks like
- (tags:Russia Ukraine war )
- 6. Edinburgh's most famous cat Mr Spock, the Wandering Cat of Marchmont, has thousands of fans
- (tags:Edinburgh cats celebrity )
Interesting Links for 16-09-2022
Sep. 16th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. SNP reprimands MSP John Mason over anti-abortion protest
- (tags:abortion snp scotland politics )
- 2. Some WFH Employees Have a Secret: They Now Live in Another Country
- (tags:work location homes )
- 3. The Follower - Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken.
- (tags:photos ai cameras surveillance )
- 4. Some ways the UK has changed during the Queen's 70-year reign
- (tags:UK visualisation demographics )
- 5. How did Tolkien feel about fanfic?
- (tags:Tolkien fanfic )
- 6. The True Story of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond—and Why the British Won't Give It Back
- (tags:diamonds india history uk )
Interesting Links for 03-05-2022
May. 3rd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Why does the Scottish Labour leader pretend he does not understand proportional representation? (And when will Scotland have a Labour leader I'd feel okay supporting?)
- (tags:labour proportional_representation Scotland politics OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Donald Trump found in contempt of court, ordered to pay $US10,000 a day
- (tags:usa corruption fraud law viaLilysea )
- 3. Tolkien and Fanfiction - opinions from 1979
- (tags:fanfic Tolkien history )
- 4. Edinburgh Council elections - a ward-by-ward analysis
- (tags:politics edinburgh elections scotland )
- 5. Applying a 1777 style to today's OpenStreetMap data so it can be compared to historical maps
- (tags:maps history OpenStreetMap )
- 6. How to raise girls with confidence
- (tags:girls parenting advice children )
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Interesting Links for 07-03-2022
Mar. 7th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1.5 million people have fled Ukraine. The UK has taken...50 of them. (1% of applicants)
- (tags:Ukraine war UK refugee OhForFucksSake )
- Anyone got a less stupid idea for what this is than I had?
- (tags:weird sculpture UK )
- After 1,000 years the 9 tailed fox demoness is free!
- (tags:Japan religion demon Doom )
- We Don't Talk About Fight Club (a song inspired by the first rule of Bruno)
- (tags:FightClub Disney funny song )
- The Tolkien Estate is taking on fandom
- (tags:Tolkien OhForFucksSake fanfic copyright )
- A letter from Ukrainian artists to the world's artists
- (tags:ukraine art russia war )
Interesting Links for 13-12-2021
Dec. 13th, 2021 12:00 pm- Infrared antenna-like structures in mammalian fur
- (tags:mammals light heat )
- New roles on isolation in Scotland for household contacts
- (tags:Pandemic Scotland )
- A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope (what R2 was really up to - I've been meaning to save this link for ages)
- (tags:StarWars fanfic )
- Austria ends COVID-19 lockdown measures - so long as you're vaccinated
- (tags:vaccination Austria Pandemic )
- Visualizing Gravity With A Large Sheet Of Spandex
- (tags:gravity materials visualisation video )
- Boris Johnson is doing great work to bring about a United Ireland
- (tags:Ireland UK Europe BorisJohnson conservatives )
- Cultures Where Men and Women Don't Speak the Same Language
- (tags:language gender )
- Poorest families worse off under Boris Johnson while incomes of richest soar
- (tags:inequality Conservatives )
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- borisjohnson,
- conservatives,
- europe,
- fanfic,
- gender,
- gravity,
- heat,
- inequality,
- ireland,
- language,
- light,
- links,
- mammals,
- materials,
- pandemic,
- scotland,
- starwars,
- uk,
- vaccination,
- video,
- visualisation
Interesting Links for 21-07-2021
Jul. 21st, 2021 12:00 pm- And then, after the Prince grew tired of Cinderella, she found herself a project
- (tags:fairytale fanfic )
- Boris Johnson's leaked anti-lockdown messages resemble Telegraph column published just days earlier
- (tags:BorisJohnson pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- Dominic Cummings: Eight takeaways from his interview
- (tags:UK government pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- Just a monkey hanging out with some ducklings to brighten your day.
- (tags:monkey ducks cute video )
- Is any country installing renewables fast enough to reach climate goals?
- (tags:globalwarming Doom renewables )
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Interesting Links for 07-06-2021
Jun. 7th, 2021 12:00 pm- Scientists develop cheap and easy method to extract lithium from seawater
- (tags:metal sea water GoodNews )
- Puppies are able to track human social cues at just eight weeks of age
- (tags:puppies dogs psychology humans viaPatrickHadfield )
- What is Scandinavian Style Proportional Representation - and what would it look like in Scotland?
- (tags:voting Scandinavia Scotland )
- When your rescue cat rescues a cat
- (tags:cat video cute )
- Here's an interesting and unusual life
- (tags:women life obituary religion )
- Scotland's appeal to foreign investors bucks trend
- (tags:Scotland UK economics )
- Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial
- (tags:science wikipedia )
- How do people feel about life extension?
- (tags:life lifespan viaSwampers )
- How 'One Hundred and One Dalmatians' Saved Disney
- (tags:movies Technology Disney history dogs )
- Sketch for a fanfic about the One Ring
- (tags:lotr fanfic )
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Interesting Links for 02-05-2021
May. 2nd, 2021 12:00 pm- Colin the Caterpillar gets Scottish chippy treatment
- (tags:Scotland food MarksAndSpencer funny )
- The winner of the Best Director Oscar used to be on Livejournal and still writes fanfic
- (tags:writing Oscars fanfic Livejournal )
- 516 Arouca In Portugal Is The World's Longest Pedestrian Suspension Bridge
- (tags:Portugal bridge )
- California appeals court finds Amazon responsible for third party sellers' products
- (tags:Amazon business law )
Interesting Links for 31-10-2020
Oct. 31st, 2020 12:00 pm- Loathing of Boris Johnson fueling surge in support for Scottish independence
- (tags:Scotland independence BorisJohnson politics polls )
- Deaths per hundred thousand people - 156 countries do better than the UK, only 10 do worse
- (tags:pandemic UK OhForFucksSake )
- "Oh Jeeeesus": Drivers react to Tesla's full self-driving beta release
- (tags:driving automation Tesla Doom )
- I'm fairly sure I danced to this at Infest
- (tags:music birds video )
- A New Way to Plug a Human Brain Into a Computer: through your veins
- (tags:cyborg blood brain )
- Coronavirus Deaths Are Highly Likely To Exceed The Government's Worst Case Scenario, According To New Sage Analysis
- (tags:pandemic doom )
- "Not just a virus that kills people"—WHO spotlights long-term COVID-19
- (tags:pandemic Doom )
- On the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn
- (tags:labour UK )
- "Why Biden May Be the Best Bet to Beat Trump" (prescient, from last year, explaining things very well)
- (tags:politics USA demographics democrats )
- Gene Roddenberry on whether Kirk and Spock were lovers
- (tags:StarTrek fanfic relationships )
- The Biden campaign bus is being harassed by gun toting Trump supporters
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1322336226792321025.html
(tags:politics USA harassment OhForFucksSake ) - Covid job losses lead MPs to call for trials of universal basic income
- (tags:GuaranteedIncome UK pandemic )
- What does future world population growth look like?
- (tags:population growth thefuture )
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- automation,
- birds,
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- borisjohnson,
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- population,
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- tesla,
- thefuture,
- uk,
- usa,
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Interesting Links for 25-05-2020
May. 25th, 2020 12:00 pm- National Trust branded "hard-nosed" and "harsh" by Scottish Government over plans to axe hundreds of jobs
- (tags:nature charity jobs Scotland )
- Some very simply estimated costs for a UBI in Scotland
- (tags:scotland GuaranteedIncome )
- A Feud in Wolf-Kink Erotica Raises a Deep Legal Question
- (tags:copyright fetish wolves erotica fanfic )
- The Ainu, Japan's Indigenous People
- (tags:Japan history )
- Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions
- (tags:scifi history )
- A collection of essays about why online communities end up the way they do
- (tags:community internet )
- What's Up With the Funny-Looking Moons in 'Onward'?
- (tags:space moon Disney )
- Tory whips apologise for urging MPs to support Dominic Cummings
- (tags:conservatives pandemic )
Interesting Links for 05-01-2020
Jan. 5th, 2020 12:00 pm- What are the consequences for the killing of General Suleimani?
- (tags:middle_east Iran iraq viaTaheerah )
- What Teenage Boys Still Don't Know About Sexual Assault
- (tags:rape boys society RapeCulture education )
- How to fix Northern Rail
- (tags:transport UK fail )
- How Archive Of Our Own and Dreamwidth grew out of Livejournal's mistakes
- (tags:fandom livejournal dreamwidth fanfic )
- Pain, Mental Pain, and Fatigue scoring
- Bookmatking my own blog post so I can find it again if I need it.
(tags:pain mentalhealth scoring numbers energy ) - Were 88% of Tory Facebook adverts lies?
- (tags:lies politics UK viaCipherGoth )
- 11 Things You Really Should Stop Recycling
- (tags:recycling )
- ➡️➡️drift Did people know that there was a Lego "Passion of the Christ" movie and that you can watch it on Amazon Prime?
- (tags:religion christianity Lego movie )
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Interesting Links for 03-01-2020
Jan. 3rd, 2020 12:00 pm- Details of Valve's unreleased Portal prequel revealed
- (tags:games valve video )
- Higher cow-milk fat intake is associated with lower childhood adiposity
- (tags:fat weight children )
- The many crimes of Macavity
- (tags:crime cats musicals )
- Ex-Google exec savages firm on human rights
- (tags:rights China google )
- 80% of betting company money comes from 2% of customers
- (tags:gambling )
- Jimmy Savile and the BBC: the report's key sections
- Yes, it's a couple of years old, but I just bumped into it.
(tags:OhForFucksSake bbc children rape RapeCulture viaFJM ) - The extensive problems with Keir Starmer's past
- (tags:Labour politics crime OhForFucksSake rape )
- The best way to make popcorn
- (tags:food )
- Duolingo sparks Gaelic boom as young Scots shrug off 'cringe' factor
- (tags:Scotland language )
- Psilocybin found safe for consumption in largest ever controlled study
- (tags:psilocybin psychology depression research safety )
- U-Haul to Implement Nicotine-Free Hiring Policy
- (tags:nicotine smoking USA jobs OhForFucksSake )
- U.S. kills top Iranian commander Soleimani in air strike
- (tags:USA Iran iraq )
- Epilepsy Foundation Was Targeted in Mass Strobe Cyberattack
- Also: 30 times? Can someone help them with their security?
(tags:assault epilipsy OhForFucksSake hacking ) - Words used in fanfic to describe genitals. Warning: may cause giggling
- (tags:writing fanfic genitals funny )
- Why killer whales—and humans—evolved menopause
- (tags:grandparents whales menstruation fertility family )
- Which emoji scissors close (I love the obsession you get with these)
- (tags:emoji design )
- Most illustrations of butterflies show dead ones
- (tags:insects illustration death )
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- usa,
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- viafjm,
- video,
- weight,
- whales,
- writing
Interesting Links for 06-11-2019
Nov. 6th, 2019 12:09 pm- Separating 'gifted' children hasn't led to better achievement
- (tags:Education )
- What if birds left tracks in the sky?
- (tags:birds photography art viaElfy )
- Propaganda with faked news footage being spread by Conservative Party
- (tags:conservatives fraud elections OhForFucksSake )
- Constituency polls vs MRP vs 2017 results: where to look for tactical advice?
- (tags:polls elections UK politics )
- How a misleading story about Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson went viral
- (tags:libdem viral fraud Europe )
- British politics is broken — and the electoral system is at the heart of it
- (tags:elections politics voting UK )
- Non-Voters and How To Win Elections
- (tags:voting politics )
- UK's richest people exploiting loophole to cut tax rate
- (tags:UK tax inequality OhForFucksSake )
- Failing 15% of the time is the best way to learn
- (tags:learning experience psychology )
- Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats'
- (tags:UK royalty rape )
- René Descartes in The Matrix
- (tags:philosophy matrix fanfic )
- OnePlus's Android 10 gestures are far and away better than Google's
- (tags:Android design ux )
- Blackadder Final Scene (The making of) - entirely saved in editing
- (tags:TV comedy wwi editing video )
- Please do not spread Tory lies - even if they're about politicans you dislike
- (tags:Conservatives lies politics )
- Democrats claim victory in key Virginia and Kentucky elections
- (tags:politics usa GoodNews )
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