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Interesting Links for 18-04-2025
Apr. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How do we combat Reform and outmanoeuvre the insurgent right-wing revolters?
- (tags:politics uk viaFrancescaElston)
- 2. Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss
- (tags:weight fat epigenetics )
- 3. Reminder that the head of the UK equalities watchdog is a transphobe who bullied 40% of her LGBT staff out.
- (tags:lgbt bullying equality uk OhForFucksSake transgender bigotry )
- 4. Employment lawyer answers questions about Supreme Court ruling on trans women and single-sex spaces
- (tags:gender UK law transgender LGBT )
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- transgender,
- uk,
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Interesting Links for 09-04-2025
Apr. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Confusion surrounds ETA visa waiver process for some dual national Brits
- (tags:migration uk passport )
- 2. Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals
- (tags:Intelligence crows primates evolution )
- 3. No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
- (tags:ai Technology images )
- 4. Trump tariffs based on massive error (as well as being total nonsense)
- (tags:mathematics trade incompetence EpicStupidity politics usa )
- 5. Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy (current payback time for a solar panel in Pakistan is 2-3 years)
- (tags:pakistan solarpower GoodNews )
- 6. People conceived during colder months may end up with a lower body mass index and less fat around internal organs
- (tags:weather temperature fat )
- 7. What's going on with the announcements of "bringing dire wolves back from extinction"
- (tags:prehistory DNA animals wolves genetics viaPatrickHadfield )
- 8. Bracket City - a fun new daily puzzle!
- (tags:puzzle games )
- 9. Trade Will Move On Without the United States
- (tags:trade USA )
- 10. Great Moments in Peaceful Protest History
- (tags:protests funny satire comic )
- 11. Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws
- (tags:gender race research libraries USA censorship )
- 12. China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
- (tags:china materials USA trade doom )
- 13. How are Trump's supporters dealing with the tariff fallout?
- (tags:politics usa republicans )
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Interesting Links for 28-10-2024
Oct. 28th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Character Amnesia in China
- (tags:language china )
- 2. I now know why humans kiss - and nothing will ever be sexy again
- (tags:sexy kissing monkeys disgust )
- 3. A short history of saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus
- (tags:research fat diet health )
- 4. AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
- (tags:ai voice text healthcare fail )
- 5. Lily Allen OnlyFans Feet Pictures Make More Money Than Spotify
- (tags:spotify feet money music )
- 6. Day trips from Edinburgh that you don't need a car for
- (tags:travel tourism edinburgh )
- 7. Are we making too many games?
- (tags:games business )
Interesting Links for 20-03-2024
Mar. 20th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. 10% of people think they're allergic to penicillin. Testing found that 97% of them were wrong.
- (tags:antibiotics allergies )
- 2. The degree to which the Acropolis Museum is designed to shame the British Museum is spectacular
- (tags:museums history Greece UK theft )
- 3. Can you stab things with an arrow? And should you?
- (tags:weapons video )
- 4. The first 'cyberflasher' is convicted under England's new law and gets more than 5 years in prison
- (tags:sex abuse UK law prison )
- 5. Long-term leisure computer use linked to increased erectile dysfunction risk
- (tags:penis sex computers genetics )
- 6. Is this the worst economic inheritance since WW2?
- (tags:politics labour economics history )
- 7. Root cause of Alzheimer's may be fat buildup in brain cells
- (tags:alzheimers fat brain )
- 8. Cars are secretly spying on drivers and upping their insurance rates
- (tags:surveillance cars insurance )
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 )
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Interesting Links for 09-01-2023
Jan. 9th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The Oberkassel puppy is the oldest known domesticated dog
- (tags:dogs prehistory Germany )
- 2. The Westminster Accounts - The first fully searchable database of the money being used to lubricate the machinery of British politics
- (tags:money UK politics viaDanielDWilliam )
- 3. This is my favourite story about computers and bureaucracy
- (tags:computers history bureaucracy )
- 4. Stephen Hawking's most important contribution may have been a very interesting question about black holes
- (tags:physics space StephenHawking viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. Baby! And! Cat!
- (tags:babies cats video cute )
- 6. Why Conan is freed - a look at a pivotal moment in the movie
- (tags:Conan movies writing )
- 7. The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene
- (tags:genetics sports fat bodies research )
- 8. Countries as villains (as created by an AI)
- (tags:ai evil countries art )
- 9. Killings by US police reach record high
- (tags:USA police death )
- 10. Bolsonaro weighs next steps with input from Trump aides Bannon, Miller (from November, just a reminder that this is all linked)
- (tags:USA SouthAmerica coup Brazil )
- 11. On the Russian soul, imperialism and moral obligations (and how Russians lie to themselves about their colonial past)
- (tags:russia )
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Interesting Links for 09-03-2022
Mar. 9th, 2022 12:00 pm- Replace saturated fats with unsaturated ones, not with carbs and sugars
- (tags:fat heart health diet carbohydrates sugar )
- The most complete family tree of all of humanity has been created
- (tags:humans family genetics )
- Gender pay gap bot lets you know how hypocritical employers are on International Women's Day
- (tags:women pay inequality viaSwampers bots )
- Some polling on whether Russians support the Ukraine invasion
- (tags:Ukraine Russia polls war )
- Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic
- (tags:antarctic history ship )
- 'Genius' Twitter 'bot' reveals gender pay gaps of brands celebrating International Women's Day
- (tags:gender pay inequality funny )
- To understand Russia, you need to understand that it's a Mafia-run economy
- (tags:russia crime mafia economy viaDanielDWilliam )
- EU Buried Its Own $400,000 Study Showing Unauthorized Downloads Have Almost No Effect On Sales (2017)
- (tags:europe piracy copyright business )
- Scientists reverse ageing in elderly mice by rejuvenating their tissues
- (tags:age mice )
- Mouse born from unfertilised egg - without sperm - survives to adulthood, gives birth to healthy pups
- (tags:childbirth biology mice )
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Interesting Links for 04-02-2022
Feb. 4th, 2022 12:00 pm- Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power gets mysterious character posters
- (tags:lotr tv )
- Have we got the science of obesity back to front?
- (tags:obesity fat food )
- Christian MP goes on trial in Finland for calling homosexuality a disorder
- (tags:bigotry lgbt finland christianity )
- Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain
- (tags:cameras Technology )
- From slavery to socialism, proposed US laws would restrict what teachers can say
- (tags:teaching Education usa )
- Uyghur kids detail abuse at China's boarding schools in Xinjiang
- (tags:china islam abuse children )
Interesting Links for 27-01-2022
Jan. 27th, 2022 03:49 pm- SpaceX rocket on course to crash into Moon
- (tags:Spacex moon )
- LGBT Foundation to sever all ties with the EHRC
- (tags:LGBT rights UK transgender OhForFucksSake )
- Stonewall response to EHRC statements on upcoming LGBTQ+ legislation
- (tags:LGBT transgender rights uk OhForFucksSake )
- Equality Network on the EHRC.
- (tags:transgender rights Scotland LGBT )
- I'd missed that the EHRC had come out *in favour* of conversion therapy
- (tags:OhForFucksSake UK transgender LGBT )
- Erasers are wonderful tools
- (tags:creativity art advice comic )
- The creator of Bluey on creating a critically-acclaimed global hit.
- (tags:children TV Australia )
- Chemicals in plastic consumer products may trigger obesity and weight gain
- (tags:plastic hormones fat )
- Why Don't We Use the Maths We Learn in School?
- (tags:mathematics Education )
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Interesting Links for 03-01-2022
Jan. 3rd, 2022 12:00 pm- Edinburgh residents fight to keep local hospital from private housing developers
- (tags:Edinburgh hospital housing )
- Model Reveals A Secret Of How Plus Size Models Have Slim Faces In Photos And It's Just Slimmer Models Wearing Fat Suits
- (tags:weight fat clothing OhForFucksSake fraud viaClare )
- Pretty much all of the common mushrooms you buy in supermarket are the same single species at different stages in development
- (tags:fungus names food wtf )
- Looking at JK Rowling's transphobia (mostly so I can find this again later)
- (tags:jkrowling bigotry LGBT transgender )
- The Case Against Crypto
- (tags:Blockchain economics )
Interesting Links for 29-12-2021
Dec. 29th, 2021 12:00 pm- Brexit blow for disabled people as EU holiday destinations stop recognising UK blue badges
- (tags:disability UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
- For mammals, eating other animals can increase cancer risk
- (tags:Cancer mammals carnivorous meat )
- Stephen King does not like fat people (and particularly not fat women)
- (tags:fat stephen_king )
- Edinburgh council promise to examine accessibility in streets and buildings
- (tags:Edinburgh disability )
- Some counterintuitive facts about COVID-19
- (tags:viaSwampers virus Pandemic satire Doom )
- World's Largest Wind Farm Has Officially Started Producing Power
- (tags:windpower viaMyBrotherHugh UK )
- China upset about needing to dodge SpaceX Starlink satellites
- (tags:China space Spacex )
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- stephen_king,
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- viamybrotherhugh,
- viaswampers,
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Interesting Links for 02-12-2021
Dec. 2nd, 2021 12:00 pm- Study links high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease to pthalates (present in many plastics) - in mice
- (tags:plastic pthalates mice fat heart health )
- Crows are really fucking smart
- (tags:crows intelligence shape )
- New plan to pay British farmers who protect winter soil
- (tags:environment UK farming )
- Watching TV in the age of streaming
- (tags:TV streaming video funny )
- A Matter Of Factories (really well done song about a computer game about stripmining planets)
- (tags:capitalism environment manufacturing space games video music funny )
Interesting Links for 13-02-2021
Feb. 13th, 2021 12:00 pm- Huge tram extensions planned for Edinburgh
- (tags:trams Edinburgh transport thefuture )
- Euro privacy watchdog calls for end of targeted advertising
- (tags:advertising privacy Europe )
- Drug for treating obesity cuts body weight by 20 percent (by turning down your appetite)
- (tags:food drugs diet )
- Coca-Cola is working on a paper bottle
- (tags:coke paper )
- Owlprints in the snow
- (tags:owls death snow )
- A new theory links fat, cholesterol, and disease in a way that makes a lot of sense
- (tags:fat health food disease )
- Researchers Levitated a Small Tray Using Nothing but Light (and they want to use it to explore the most ignored part of the environment)
- (tags:light physics exploration air )
- Lots of journalists discuss the worst person they've ever interviewed
- (tags:interviews )
Interesting Links for 01-11-2020
Nov. 1st, 2020 12:00 pm- Finally - something unique about humans!
- (tags:war humans comic )
- Photos from inside a Typhoon class Russian submarine
- (tags:submarine russia photos )
- Facebook Dating review: I never knew how many people I have no desire to date (very happy to be off the market)
- (tags:relationships Facebook dating )
- New Zealand Labour Party win election outright, invite Greens to join them anyway
- (tags:newzealand politics )
- Saturated fats are dangerous: a new study
- (tags:fat health food )
- BBC says presenters may wear white poppies on air
- (tags:BBC war history )
- Coronavirus: Slovakia holds national test but president calls for rethink
- (tags:Pandemic testing viaDanielDWilliam )
- Unconditional job guarantee to be trialled in Austria, in world first
- (tags:Jobs Austria )
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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Interesting Links for 18-10-2019
Oct. 18th, 2019 03:07 pm- John Bercow declares trans rights are human rights in passionate speech
- (tags:uk politics transgender lgbt )
- Nottingham's Workplace Parking Levy Creates Jobs, Cuts Car Use and Slashes Pollution
- (tags:cars transport tax cities )
- Emergency services rescue 86kg mastiff after he gets too tired to finish his walk -
- (tags:dogs cute )
- The real (and fake) sex lives of Bella Thorne
- (tags:sex abuse celebrity women pornography fraud viaDanielDWilliam )
- Saturday is the most important day in the entire Brexit saga
- (tags:UK Europe doom )
- Culture Plays An Important Role In Our Perception Of Musical Pitch
- (tags:music society psychology )
- Brexit: Exiled Tory MPs will help deliver new referendum if Boris Johnson's deal is defeated, supporters believe
- (tags:UK Europe referendum wtf )
- Johnson's Brexit deal: far worse than Theresa May's and infinitely inferior to Remaining
- (tags:politics UK Europe Doom )
- In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace
- (tags:Christianity religion society demographics USA )
- Fat accumulates inside lungs of overweight people, causing inflammation
- (tags:fat inflammation )
- Like It or Not, Damon Lindelof Made His Own Watchmen (An in-depth interview. Spoilerish stuff is discussed)
- (tags:watchmen DamonLindelof tv interview )
- I am not shocked or angry Dolly Parton vehemently rejects feminism. Here's why.
- (tags:feminism history women )
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Interesting Links for 13-08-2019
Aug. 13th, 2019 12:50 pm- A simply amazing piece of gymnastics in extreme slow motion.
- (tags:slowmotion bodies amazing video )
- Ebola Is Now Curable
- (tags:disease GoodNews medicine )
- How To Be An Adult (Kegan's Theory of Adult Development)
- (tags:adult psychology )
- Being fat can kill you. If your doctor is incompetent.
- (tags:fat doctors society healthcare OhForFucksSake )
- Best Practices for Code Review
- (tags:software development )
- 21% of Scots are homophobic scum
- (tags:LGBT homophobia Scotland )
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Interesting Links for 14-05-2019
May. 14th, 2019 10:11 pm- Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition
- (tags:JulianAssange rape sweden )
- Swedish resource on Julian Assange case
- (tags:sweden JulianAssange )
- Shared 'hubs' urged for bankless towns
- (tags:banking uk )
- Amazon rolls out machines that pack boxes around your items
- More video here https://youtu.be/Ti2PnI5xh28
(tags:amazon automation ) - The First 3D Colour X-Rays
- (tags:3d x-ray technology awesome video viaMyBrotherHugh )
- Home Office threatens woman in coma with forcible deportation
- (tags:UK immigration OhForFucksSake )
- Word of the day is "Handschuhschneeballwerfer"
- (tags:language german germany )
- In praise of Fat Thor
- (tags:thor marvel depression fat )
- Collapse Of German Onshore Wind Is Jeopardizing German & EU Renewable Targets
- (tags:renewables Germany OhForFucksSake bureaucracy )
- CO2 Levels Hit 415 PPM for First Time in 3 Million+ Years
- (tags:co2 globalwarming doom )
- Supermarket tomatoes could be about to get much tastier after new gene research reveals how to boost flavour
- (tags:fruit vegetables taste genetics )
- Behind the scenes at Jeremy Kyle: when reality bites, it leaves deep scars
- (tags:tv life OhForFucksSake )
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