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Interesting Links for 11-07-2025
Jul. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Everything tech giants will hate about the EU's new AI rules
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- 2. Photos: The Scale of China's Solar Power Projects
- (tags:solarpower photos china )
- 3. What kind of video games do different fantasy races make?
- (tags:games funny fantasy )
- 4. Fake signs and graffiti, frequently science-fiction related, from Glasgow
- (tags:Glasgow scifi graffiti sign art funny viaSwampers )
- 5. The Marks & Spencer hack was down to TCS having *terrible* security processed on their helpdesk.
- (tags:security epicfail OhForFucksSake incompetence )
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Interesting Links for 15-04-2025
Apr. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 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 )
Interesting Links for 04-09-2024
Sep. 4th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Is My Blue Your Blue? (Hue 177 for me, bluer than 76% of the population)
- (tags:colour perception names )
- 2. Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant for maths problem do worse on tests
- (tags:maths ai teaching )
- 3. Rail nationalisation takes a step closer under Starmer's first major public reform
- (tags:rail uk labour )
- 4. Labour won't ban dynamic pricing despite Oasis tickets anger, but will make it more transparent
- (tags:labour economics music )
- 5. New coastal neighbourhood masterplan unveiled for Seafield in Edinburgh
- (tags:edinburgh housing sea viaDanielDWilliam )
- 6. What British women really fantasise about
- (tags:fantasy sex uk )
- 7. I'd love to see some science-based discussion on this piece about whether Covid is something worth stressing about.
- (tags:pandemic )
- 8. Grenfell disaster - key points
- (tags:UK fire fraud death OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 13-08-2024
Aug. 13th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. "Having sex before a date is the best way to find out if you're compatible"
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- 2. The British immigration system is horrific: Ukrainian families edition
- (tags:immigration uk OhForFucksSake ukraine )
- 3. Electrical 'superhighway' between Scotland and England approved
- (tags:Scotland electricity UK England )
- 4. Who *doesn't* want a heavy metal version of Diggy Diggy Hole?
- (tags:fantasy music video funny kids HeavyMetal )
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Interesting Links for 26-05-2024
May. 26th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Lake District sewage spill runs non-stop for 42 days after decades of inaction
- (tags:water sewage pollution nature regulation UK OhForFucksSake )
- 2. How the US military made San Francisco gay
- (tags:LGBT USA history gay sanfrancisco military )
- 3. The BBC covers Google's destruction of its search tool (and useful web sites)
- (tags:Google web search OhForFucksSake )
- 4. An Age of Gods and Demons: The Greatness of Princess Mononoke
- (tags:ghibli review criticism nature Japan history fantasy )
- 5. When we're banning people from shops based on facial identification, how many errors are acceptable?
- Can happen without technology too, of course. I was nearly thrown out of a pub before I opened my mouth and the staff realised I wasn't the person who caused trouble there the week before.
(tags:faces identity society crime UK ) - 6. The most interesting thing about the Tory National Service announcement is that they're quietly cancelling the "levelling up" funds to pay for it...
- (tags:UK conservatives OhForFucksSake money )
Interesting Links for 16-05-2024
May. 16th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What's it like being one of the vast hidden teams of OnlyFans chatters who pretend to be sexy women.
- (tags:sexwork fraud communication )
- 2. The future of motorway rehabilitation - a bridge that runs along the length of the motorway so that repairs can happen underneath
- (tags:design Technology video impressive )
- 3. 2023 temperatures were warmest we've seen for at least 2,000 years
- (tags:globalwarming doom )
- 4. Edinburgh planning: £80 million two tower blocks in Leith approved
- (tags:Edinburgh housing )
- 5. Body temperature and depression seem to interact with each other in interesting ways
- (tags:temperature depression )
- 6. Sex Education - Benefits and Statistics
- (tags:education sex children )
- 7. Raw Milk Sales Skyrocket in the USA as Idiots Believe Drinking Bird Flu Will Give Them Immunity
- (tags:virus disease birds milk EpicStupidity USA )
- 8. A fantastic review of Chuck Tingle's trans wizard novel.
- (tags:lgbt harrypotter transgender review fantasy satire )
- 9. 'It's destroyed us': Parents of children with long Covid accused of making it up - threatened with having their children taken away
- (tags:pandemic children OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 18-02-2024
Feb. 18th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A short comic about a mysterious creature living among the monks of a secluded abbey.
- (tags:comic fantasy religion bigotry )
- 2. Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up
- (tags:ai airplanes law travel Canada )
- 3. A Killer Disease Is Rampant In Hospitals Around The World
- (tags:pandemic disease epicfail )
- 4. How the Starship Troopers movie brilliantly depicts an empire in fascist decline
- (tags:StarshipTroopers movies fascism scifi robertheinlein )
- 5. The intersection of AI, racism, and academia
- (tags:ai writing academia viaPatrickHadfield racism )
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 13-08-2023
Aug. 13th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Stop the 'forever wars' to end the refugee crisis
- (tags:Europe middle_east war asylum refugee )
- 2. What Disney could learn from the success of Nimona
- (tags:animation lgbt advice Disney )
- 3. There are currently no safe and legal routes by which to travel to the UK for the purpose of claiming asylum.
- (tags:asylum UK OhForFucksSake )
- 4. The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they're jacking up prices
- (tags:streaming TV business )
- 5. No regrets: Gender-affirming chest surgery in adults has long-term satisfaction
- (tags:surgery LGBT transgender happiness )
- 6. Students left in 'nightmare' accommodation as UK cities short of 620,000 beds by 2026
- (tags:housing UK students OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Safety posters from an alternate reality
- (tags:posters funny fantasy )
Interesting Links for 27-03-2023
Mar. 27th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Dogs getting on the bus for doggy daycare
- (tags:dogs cute video )
- 2. "I Saw the Face of God in a TSMC Semiconductor Factory"
- (tags:Taiwan education economics technology processor )
- 3. Kwasi Kwarteng tells fake firm he could help arrange meeting with 'great guy' Boris Johnson
- (tags:conservatives corruption )
- 4. AI image of Pope Francis in a puffer jacket fooled the internet and experts fear there's worse to come
- (tags:ai Pope fraud photos )
- 5. A short list of Jewish fantasy novels
- (tags:Jews fantasy )
- 6. This is why I've never had laser eye surgery. Even 1:1000 isn't worth the risk to my sight
- (tags:eyesight lasers safety )
Interesting Links for 24-03-2023
Mar. 24th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Sex Worker-Led Payment Platform Shuts Down After Being Cut Off by Processor
- (tags:sexwork payment banking OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Who, really, *is* Brandon Sanderson? (Other than the biggest fantasy writer in the world)
- (tags:writing fantasy )
- 3. Sometimes card tricks look so impossible that they just have to be magic
- (tags:magic cards video impressive )
- 4. Women comparing themselves with 'perfect' genitals in porn is contributing to a 300% rise in labiaplasty
- (tags:genitals vagina surgery porn society )
- 5. Who knew octopi would be so clingy?
- (tags:octopus cute video )
- 6. Epic's new motion-capture animation tech has to be seen to be believed
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- 7. Nasal Covid vaccine shows promise in early clinical trial
- (tags:pandemic noses vaccine )
- 8. Armed Metropolitan Police officer escapes domestic abuse prosecution after controlling 'every step' of his investigation
- (tags:police abuse UK OhForFucksSake )
- 9. JPMorgan Chase thought it had $1.3 million worth of nickel stored in a warehouse. A closer examination revealed bags of stones.
- (tags:fraud metal trade )
- 10. A Doctor Who game - join them together and try to reach 13. (I've gotten as far as the War Doctor)
- (tags:drwho games )
- 11. Nearly one in five people find everyday sounds intolerable
- (tags:sound psychology )
- 12. A machine that learns to play noughts and crosses, built from 304 matchboxes
- (tags:ai games )
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Interesting Links for 02-03-2023
Mar. 2nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Steel was already being used in Europe 2,900 years ago
- (tags:prehistory archeology materials europe )
- 2. Terry Pratchett on the fantasy genre
- (tags:fantasy terrypratchett writing )
- 3. Fearful of dating app scams, men in Brazil are taking measures women and the LGBTQ+ community have used for years.
- (tags:dating brazil crime men )
- 4. Presidents with Mullets is the kind of thing AI was made for
- (tags:ai USA president viaDanielDWilliam )
- 5. Early-life stress can disrupt maturation of brain's reward circuits, promoting disorders (in mice)
- (tags:stress brain reward psychology mentalhealth mice )
- 6. How to tie beautiful bows
- (tags:craft beautiful video )
- 7. Weirdly it can still be really hard to find shop space, even when the high street is dying
- (tags:shops UK rental )
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Interesting Links for 15-12-2022
Dec. 15th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. After spending 20 years simulating reality, the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used to a new one: being millionaires
- (tags:games usa business money )
- 2. A guide to Christmas, for Jews who haven't encountered it before
- (tags:satire Jews Christmas religion funny )
- 3. The Whispering Earring, a warning about letting AI do all of your thinking for you
- (tags:short_story FreeWill fantasy ai )
- 4. Women in the UK Are Being Denied Medical Treatment Because They're Virgins
- (tags:virginity healthcare UK OhForFucksSake )
- 5. The NHS has more funding and staff now than in 2019. But is treating less people. Because Covid.
- (tags:NHS Pandemic Doom UK healthcare viaDanielDWilliam )
- 6. "All I Want For Christmas Is Creep" - a glorious cover version/mashup
- (tags:music Christmas video )
- 7. The Snowman at 40: 'It's a story about loss'
- (tags:Christmas snow TV children )
- 8. England joins Scotland and Wales in banning plastic cutlery, plates, etc.
- (tags:plastic waste uk )
- 9. A guide to potential liability pitfalls for people running a Mastodon instance
- (tags:law regulation socialnetworking mastodon )
- 10. Major Scottish subsea power cable projects approved
- (tags:power electricity infrastructure scotland )
- 11. Edinburgh University students block lecture hall to stop screening of transphobic film
- (tags:edinburgh university bigotry lgbt transgender )
- 12. Recreating the Argonath from the Lord of the Ring in VR
- (tags:lotr video virtualreality )
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Interesting Links for 24-11-2022
Nov. 24th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. All You Need To Know About Scotland's Legal Bid For An Independence Referendum
- (tags:scotland law independence )
- 2. COVID-19 vaccination associated with 15% reduction in stillbirths
- (tags:pandemic vaccination death pregnancy )
- 3. The influence of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies on cinematic portrayals of ancient Greece and Rome
- (tags:rome greece lotr movies )
- 4. Turns out that dreaded pit beasts are a lot like cats
- (tags:funny fantasy comic cats )
- 5. How much does it cost Facebook to look after your cat pictures?
- (tags:cats facebook storage )
- 6. Lugo, the only town with fully intact Roman walls
- (tags:history rome Spain architecture viaDanielDWilliam )
- 7. Where are all the heat pumps?
- (tags:electricity heating UK viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. If you're wondering how SpaceX coped with Musk, this will fill you in
- (tags:ElonMusk Spacex management )
- 9. Fossil fuel power plants kill 35x as many birds as wind turbines do per GWh (and nuclear power is twice as deadly as wind power)
- (tags:birds death nuclearpower coal gas environment windpower )
- 10. European Parliament declares Russia a terrorism sponsor, then its site goes down
- (tags:web russia europe terrorism )
- 11. How much trouble are GPs in Scotland in?
- (tags:healthcare scotland )
- 12. Sponsian: Ancient Roman gold coins thought to be 'fakes' reveal long-lost local emperor
- (tags:rome Romania archeology )
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Interesting Links for 17-10-2022
Oct. 17th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. A lovely short story about a small God and their worshipper
- (tags:short_story fantasy religion )
- 2. If you want a takedown of Rowling's latest transphobic nonsense...
- (tags:jkrowling bigotry LGBT transgender Scotland )
- 3. Chaucer rape allegations: What the newly found British National Archives document tells us about Chaucer and Chaucer studies
- (tags:academia RapeCulture rape history writing )
- 4. The man who wanted to touch the art
- (tags:art touch painting )
- 5. A New Verse Translation of "Genesis 4" by Adam Roberts
- (tags:Bible poetry translation )
- 6. Transgender MP accuses fellow Tories of weaponising trans issues in leadership race
- (tags:lgbt transgender Conservatives politics )
- 7. A classical pianist plays Queen
- (tags:Queen music piano video )
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Interesting Links for 25-08-2022
Aug. 25th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Historical Accuracy and Fantasy
- (tags:fantasy history writing )
- 2. The Sandman Is the Biggest Streaming Show on the Planet
- (tags:sandman TV )
- 3. How ordinary, or even good, people can become radicalised
- (tags:bigotry LGBT transgender )
- 4. Sewage in sea: French appeal to EU over UK discharges of waste
- (tags:waste france uk water )
- 5. LGBTQ+ YA genre rises in popularity despite uptick in book bans
- (tags:lgbt publishing books censorship )
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Interesting Links for 13-08-2022
Aug. 13th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The baseline that women will accept from a relationship is rising. Men need to skill up if they don't want to stay single
- (tags:relationships happiness communication )
- 2. The unlikely origin of the name "Fiona"
- (tags:names viaSwampers history Scotland transgender )
- 3. Samsung is above the law in South Korea
- (tags:Korea Samsung law corruption )
- 4. Adventurers and dragons and gold, oh my!
- (tags:funny blockchain fantasy dungeonsanddragons dragons )
- 5. Just how good is green screen work nowadays?
- (tags:cgi animation video viaPatrickHadfield )
- 6. The UK cannot leave the ECHR without breaching the Good Friday Agreement
- (tags:UK NorthernIreland rights Europe )
Interesting Links for 20-05-2022
May. 20th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The right wing company who own hundreds of local American TV broadcasters
- (tags:TV politics usa )
- 2. No US-UK trade deal if Boris Johnson discards Northern Ireland protocol
- (tags:UK Europe NorthernIreland Ireland USA trade )
- 3. Monkeypox outbreak erupts; US, UK, Spain, Portugal, and more report cases
- (tags:disease monkey )
- 4. Single progressive challenger to Tories wins seats (because of FPTP)
- (tags:voting uk fptp OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Why "Scottish" not "British" now leads Scotland's identity
- (tags:Scotland UK identity )
- 6. SpaceX Paid $250,000 to a Flight Attendant Who Accused Elon Musk of Sexual Misconduct
- (tags:ElonMusk abuse sex )
- 7. Hinkley Point C delayed by a year as cost goes up by £3bn
- (tags:nuclearpower uk )
- 8. OnlyFans Star Got Her Instagram Back by Sleeping With Facebook Employees
- (tags:sexwork censorship facebook sex )
- 9. There's a bunch of fantasy that I struggle with nowadays because it comes across like this.
- (tags:StarWars fantasy genetics )
