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Interesting Links for 19-02-2026
Feb. 19th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Messages telling people to gamble responsibly have no effect.
- (tags:gambling )
- 2. One Way to Immunize Yourself Against Pseudoscience and Other Nonsense
- (tags:belief science )
- 3. A lost story from The Dark Is Rising.(Made for TV in the 70s)
- (tags:fiction children UK video viaDrJon )
- 4. Tactical voting - a ton of information about who voters would pick in various situations
- (tags:voting polls uk )
- 5. Designing for the average designs for no one - Lessons from the U.S. Air Force Cockpit Design (
- (tags:design average usa military )
Interesting Links for 26-09-2025
Sep. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Every UK adult will need 'Brit card' digital ID under Starmer plan to tackle illegal migration
- (tags:uk identity )
- 2. The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand (a review)
- (tags:fanfic stephen_king review )
- 3. Ukraine's Plan to Starve the Russian War Machine (by using their new drone factories to destroy Russian oil refineries and processing plants)
- (tags:oil russia ukraine war drones )
- 4. AI-generated fiction homogenises culture, painting surface-level details over the same story every time.
- (tags:ai fiction society )
- 5. An English teacher experiments with his class and AI. The results are complex and nuanced.
- (tags:ai writing university )
- 6. Microsoft block Israel's access to Azure and genAI tech used to surveil millions of Palestinian phone calls
- (tags:microsoft israel )
Interesting Links for 16-08-2025
Aug. 16th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. This is how the Swiss would have done HS2
- (tags:Switzerland infrastructure hs2 investment )
- 2. The ease of collective action induces more egalitarian behavior by individuals in a position of power and makes those without power less willing to accept unfairness.
- (tags:unions community society equality power psychology )
- 3. Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ figure Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
- (tags:facebook bigotry lgbt )
- 4. Photos: Wildfires Rage Across Southern Europe (CW: burned animal about 20 pictures down)
- (tags:fire europe photos )
- 5. Are you ready for polyaninmosity in your life?
- (tags:polyamory satire video funny )
- 6. There's something I love about stories that take a very simple concept and push it a far as they can
- (tags:scifi video fiction short_story )
- 7. Sauron the Economist
- (tags:lotr comic economics funny )
- 8. Chinese economists recruit Ray Dalio and MMT in their battle over deficit spending
- (tags:economics china )
- 9. The Electric Fence Stopped Working Years Ago - A metaphor for friendship
- (tags:advice friendship )
- 10. Once Again, Oil States Thwart Agreement on Plastics
- (tags:plastic pollution doom diplomacy )
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Interesting Links for 15-03-2024
Mar. 15th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The financial burden of tackling climate change will fall disproportionately on Scotland
- (tags:scotland globalwarming )
- 2. The Violence Of Relentless Positivity In The Workplace (or: "Negativity is an expensive signal of honesty")
- (tags:work honesty complaints )
- 3. Why women are at greater risk of autoimmune disease
- (tags:immune_system women disease )
- 4. The Small Company at the Center of 'Gamergate 2.0'
- (tags:harassment games writing Diversity bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Review of "Who's Afraid of Gender?" by Judith Butler - An urgent counter to trans panic
- (tags:gender society )
- 6. Urban humans have lost much of their ability to digest plants
- (tags:humans microbiome plants food )
- 7. How Michael Sheen met Neil Gaiman, and the mystery they ate when they did
- (tags:neilgaiman food )
- 8. Next-gen battery tech: Reimagining every aspect of batteries
- (tags:batteries Technology thefuture research )
- 9. There is no EU cookie banner law
- (tags:europe regulation privacy )
- 10. A Diversity of Novels with Transgender Protagonists
- (tags:transgender lgbt fiction )
- 11. The Designer Who's Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge
- (tags:water cities china design drought )
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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 10-04-2022
Apr. 10th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. reading fiction has a small, statistically significant impact on social-cognitive performance
- (tags:psychology reading fiction )
- 2. What happens in your dog's brain when you speak
- (tags:dogs brain language )
- 3. Man Banned From Attending Boring Work Event For Next 10 Years
- (tags:WillSmith Oscars violence funny )
- 4. Senior Putin advisor "We are at war with the West. The European security order is illegitimate"
- (tags:Russia Ukraine NATO war Europe )
Interesting Links for 27-03-2022
Mar. 27th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. How inequality perpetuates itself
- (tags:inequality class UK )
- 2. "Avoiding Lord Byron" may well be the biggest boost to creativity in the history of humanity
- (tags:history fiction writing scifi horror vampires frankenstein )
- 3. Crossrail update on the Elizabeth line's opening plans (fiddly technical work that I'm fascinated by and glad I don't have to deal with)
- (tags:trains tube London transport )
- 4. Coolest occupational name ever?
- (tags:IceCream names UK India empire history )
- 5. No, we are not about to have a worldwide grain shortage
- (tags:wheat war Ukraine Russia )
- 6. Paralysed man uses brain implant to communicate first words in three months: 'I want a beer' (and a curry, and loud music)
- (tags:beer brain communication technology )
- 7. US surnames with no vowels
- (tags:names USA )
- 8. I have rarely seen anyone want anything as much as this dog wants this pizza
- (tags:dogs pizza )
- 9. Why dogs are good, according to science!
- (tags:dogs awesome )
Interesting Links for 13-02-2022
Feb. 13th, 2022 12:00 pm- Douglas Adams has an interesting answer when asked what kind of computer Arthur Dent had
- (tags:computers fiction writing douglasadams HHG2G )
- Russia tensions reveal threat to UK food supplies
- (tags:UK food Russia Doom )
- In Moscow, Macron found a different, tougher Putin
- (tags:France Russia nato )
- Britishvolt gigafactory: Britain's best-kept industrial secret is an unexpected solution to saving the planet (I didn't know most of this, fascinating stuff)
- (tags:batteries oil carbon UK manufacturing )
- 'Futurama' Revived At Hulu; John DiMaggio Not Returning As Bender
- (tags:Futurama tv animation )
- 220 musicians perform "Europe - The Final Countdown"
- (tags:music video russia )
- Why 'Death on the Nile' is every publicist's worst nightmare
- (tags:movies Doom )
- Evolution is just amazing
- (tags:evolution animals snake video insects birds )
- Thread of metal statues where one part has been stroked so much that it's shiny
- (tags:statue )
Interesting Links for 14-09-2021
Sep. 14th, 2021 12:00 pm- Hands-on with Facebook's first smart glasses
- (tags:transparentsociety glasses cameras facebook )
- UK's Chief Medical Officers Give Green Light To Covid Vaccines For All 12 To 15-Year-Olds
- (tags:uk pandemic children vaccination )
- American Psycho Business Card Scene - With Cats
- (tags:cats funny video AmericanPsycho movies )
- The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (by Ursula K. Le Guin)
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- HGV driving tests won't test if drivers can reverse. Which is how you get to loading docks...
- (tags:viaNeilRodger UK driving transport Doom )
- Understanding the onset of hot streaks across artistic, cultural, and scientific careers
- (tags:achievement psychology art science writing )
- Government says discrimination against black people and Travellers 'objectively justified' with new laws
- (tags:racism UK law OhForFucksSake conservatives )
- Disturbing trend? UK hotels adding service charge to room rate
- (tags:hotel uk money OhForFucksSake )
- Why even giant ships can't solve the shipping crisis
- (tags:shipping trade doom )
- France grants citizenship to 12,000 COVID frontline workers
- (tags:france pandemic citizenship )
- What the Torah Teaches Us About Gender Fluidity and Transgender Justice
- (tags:transgender Jews lgbt )
- Women's Science Fiction keeps getting filed under "Young Adult" even when it's not.
- (tags:women publishing children OhForFucksSake )
- One Woman's Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia
- (tags:nazis wikipedia propaganda )
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Interesting Links for 18-04-2021
Apr. 18th, 2021 12:00 pm- Wind power experts expect wind energy costs to decline up to 35% by 2035
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(tags:windpower thefuture viaDanielDWilliam ) - SMS can be trivially hijacked
- (tags:security and phones )
- Most phone and internet providers have no idea how their network is run - because they let third parties (frequently in non trusted countries) run them.
- (tags:outsourcing China Europe USA network phones internet Doom )
- The people we wonder about who lived & died millennia ago also wondered about the people who lived & died millennia before them
- (tags:history poetry uk )
- Colin the Caterpillar and the Art of War - why it is sometimes sensible not to enforce your legal rights
- (tags:intellectual_property MarksAndSpencer cake )
- What's the most convincing imaginary work of art?
- (tags:art fiction )
- The Muppets' secret weapon doesn't work in the Disney era
- (tags:Muppets )
- When freeze-dried food took Britain by storm
- (tags:UK food history )
Interesting Links for 29-03-2021
Mar. 29th, 2021 12:00 pm- Amazon Driver Quits, Saying Final Straw Was New AI Truck Cameras
- (tags:ai surveillance Amazon driving )
- Brain injuries are startlingly common among those who have committed crimes
- (tags:crime injury brain viaPatrickHadfield )
- Leaving Money on the Table: Why is There No New D&D Fiction Being Published?
- (tags:fiction publishing dungeonsanddragons money )
- How the brains of informed psychedelic users are different
- (tags:psychedelics psychology )
- Convicted perjurer Tommy Sheridan joins Alex Salmond's new party (both work for Kremlin-backed news sources, of course)
- (tags:Scotland politics independence )
- Using metric paper to double (and halve) our way to the limits of the universe
- (tags:space physics quantum video )
- Alba are having an all woman safe space event to discuss their policies. Any women want to attend and see what they're planning?
- (tags:women Scotland politics )
- Scottish pet shelters at capacity with unwanted lockdown pets
- (tags:pets scotland pandemic )
- Non-Fungible Muggers. Clearly the future of...well, hopefully nothing
- (tags:funny cryptography art comic )
- Livejournal switches to taking payments in rubles (not that I've given them any money for a few years)
- (tags:livejournal russia )
- What do you buy when you buy an NFT?
- (tags:cryptography data copyright ownership contracts )
- School abuse claims could be the next UK national scandal
- (tags:uk school abuse )
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Interesting Links for 18-02-2021
Feb. 18th, 2021 12:00 pm- Edinburgh tram extension: First tram tracks laid in Leith Walk
- (tags:Edinburgh trams )
- Half of men have had unwanted sexual experiences, UK study finds
- (tags:abuse boys men children rape UK OhForFucksSake )
- Critical Thinking Isn't Just a Process
- (tags:thinking advice )
- How To Fight A Baby
- (tags:video babies funny viaMyBrotherHugh )
- Facebook says it will stop people viewing or sharing news in Australia
- (tags:Facebook news Australia )
- Citibank just got a $500 million lesson in the importance of UI design
- (tags:ui epicfail finance )
- Large majority of Britons dissatisfied with Boris Johnson's Brexit deal (49% want to be closer, 24% happy, 12% move further away. 15% don't know)
- (tags:polls UK Europe )
- What Makes For A "Meaningful" Death In Fiction?
- (tags:meaning fiction death psychology )
- The world's second-most popular desktop operating system isn't macOS anymore
- (tags:operatingsystems osx chrome )
- Why there is no 'one-size-fits-all' treatment for asthma
- (tags:asthma )
- What do we know about the safety of reopening schools?
- (tags:pandemic schools )
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Interesting Links for 11-02-2021
Feb. 11th, 2021 12:00 pm- Locus really need better editors working on their reviews
- (tags:reviews fiction )
- How To Build a Snölykta - Traditional Swedish Snow Lanterns
- (tags:snow Sweden video viaNeilRodger )
- 'Fuck Your Feelings' Doesn't Apply to White Men
- (tags:politics USA gender society racism sexism )
- Charisma Carpenter on Joss Whedon's abusive behaviour
- (tags:acting TV buffy abuse JossWhedon )
- Stage meat - food you can eat on stage and still act around
- (tags:food acting viaSwampers )
- I see the EU is asking the UK to honour its promises. I can't see that going down well
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1359590841619275776.html
(tags:UK Europe trade Doom NorthernIreland ) - Amsterdam becomes Europe's top trading hub, ousting London
- (tags:Netherlands shares finance UK Europe )
- Temperature of -22.9C in Braemar 'UK's lowest in 26 years'
- (tags:winter Scotland temperature cold UK )
- Netflix acquires the rights to all 22 Redwall books, plans film and series
- (tags:TV fantasy animals children books Netflix )
- Weird Pride Day is March 4th
- (tags:weird pride )
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Interesting Links for 07-07-2020
Jul. 7th, 2020 08:16 pm- Tech Confronts Its Use of the Labels 'Master' and 'Slave'
- (tags:Slavery technology language )
- Santa Is More Real Than Peter Pan: Children Have A "Hierarchy" Of Belief In Fictional Characters
- (tags:belief children fiction )
- Why Boris Johnson's call for driverless Tube trains is a political stunt
- (tags:politics trains London )
- LOS ANGELES, JULY, 2020 (with the music I imagined when I saw the video)
- (tags:fireworks USA video bladerunner )
- The New Science of Sex and Gender
- (tags:science sex gender )
Interesting Links for 01-02-2020
Feb. 1st, 2020 12:00 pm- Westminster Cannot Block Scottish Independence (but 51% is not nearly enough for a unilateral declaration)
- (tags:Scotland independence law UK )
- SSE Renewables to build first subsidy-free wind farm
- (tags:windpower scotland economics )
- Fictional characters fight! (My favourite was Granny Weatherwax Vs Professor X)
- (tags:fighting fiction funny )
- Otters spotted in Edinburgh city centre (in the canal)
- (tags:Edinburgh animals video canal otters )
- Looks like the government have finally realised they're going to have to have customs checks
- (tags:trade UK Doom Europe )
- How we pay attention changes the shape of our brains
- (tags:brain attention )
- Keir Starmer comes out for electoral reform
- (tags:Labour reform voting UK )
Interesting Links for 09-09-2019
Sep. 9th, 2019 01:19 pm- Edinburgh is just ridiculously beautiful
- (tags:Edinburgh beautiful photos )
- Voting in the next UK General Election: A guide for perplexed students.
- (tags:students advice voting uk )
- What is Macron's position on another extension?
- (tags:UK Europe France politics )
- Hydrogen Could Replace Coke in Steel Production
- (tags:coal hydrogen materials )
- Tesla battery researcher unveils new cell that could last many more discharge cycles
- (tags:batteries Tesla )
- CDs dying out - will drop beneath vinyl for the first time since 1986
- (tags:music cd vinyl )
- 50 reasons why your #autistic child might be in an extremely bad mood.
- (tags:autism emotion ViaDrCross )
- A Guide to Emergency Powers the Civil Contingencies Act 2004(And why it does not say what Brexiters think it says)
- (tags:law politics emergency uk viaDanielDWilliam )
- New psychology research reveals men's motives for sending unsolicited dick pics
- (tags:penis psychology )
- Some Tory MPs Are Urging Boris Johnson To Commit an Offence of Conspiracy to Commit Misconduct in Public Office Contrary to Section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977
- (tags:crime politics uk )
- How to write historical fiction
- (tags:fiction history funny )
- Best explanation I've seen of why autistic people use stimming.
- (tags:autism behaviour )
- Autistic Brains Contain Unique Connections
- (tags:autism brain )
- More than half of the cabinet voted against LGBT rights
- (tags:politics homophobia conservatives LGBT )
- How the other side remembers Alexander the Great
- (tags:history )
- Almost one-fifth of Britons do not use the internet
- (tags:internet demographics uk )
- Leo Varadkar confronts Boris Johnson with withering assessment of his Brexit strategy in strained joint press conference
- (tags:uk ireland europe doom )
- People want the constitution to give them what they want - until you point out that the rules can be used both ways
- (tags:uk law politics )
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Interesting Links for 11-12-2018
Dec. 11th, 2018 11:00 am- Google Translate takes a stand against singular "they"
- (tags: language translation gender google )
- SNP offers to support vote of no confidence if Labour makes one.
- (tags: snp labour politics )
- Chess, a Drosophila of reasoning
- (tags: chess games intelligence ai )
- UK House of Commons expert answers questions on the Meaningful Vote procedure.
- (tags: politics UK europe )
- Nihilist Dad Jokes
- (tags: jokes funny humour )
- The irish potato famine
- (tags: ireland food history inequality )
- This is the ridiculous depths the government has sunk to
- (tags: UK government OhForFucksSake Europe )
- A metaphor that explains Brexit very neatly
- (tags: cheese metaphor uk europe politics )
- The Technology That Changed Air Travel
- (tags: airplanes travel history technology computers xml viaFanf )
- The autistic view of the world is not the neurotypical cliché
- (tags: autism stereotypes fiction viaFanf )
- Increasing numbers of pubs and cafes no longer take cash
- (tags: money Technology )
- An amazing story of gay love and loss in World War 1
- Dammit! Now confessed to be fiction!
https://twitter.com/TenshiAngelina/status/1072172791812812800?s=09
(tags: history love wwi ) - Kenshi is a game I suspect would appeal to a bunch of my friends. Incredibly open world
- (tags: games review )
- "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" looks like ridiculous fun
- (tags: movies Godzilla trailer )
- Psychology research is still fixated on a tiny fraction of humans
- (tags: race gender society psychology )
- New study finds bias against women and girls when intellectual ability is sought
- (tags: intelligence psychology sexism )
- In the “Trust Game”, men with more autistic traits were less influenced by their partner’s facial appearance
- (tags: autism trust psychology faces )
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Interesting Links for 09-07-2018
Jul. 9th, 2018 12:00 pm- Tory MPs threaten Theresa May with leadership challenge as Brexiteer backlash over cabinet plan intensifies
- (tags: Conservatives europe )
- Job ads like this (for a footman for a student in St Andrews) give you a view into how the rich live
- (tags: money jobs inequality viaJane )
- Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork
- (tags: birds phones Poland )
- San Francisco nightclubs are basically a way for tech people to lose their dotcom profits
- (tags: money music sanfrancisco economics )
- Trump's election is the death rattle of white christian America
- (tags: usa racism politics republicans demographics )
- David Davis resigns as Brexit secretary
- So, will the Brexit hardliners topple May, or will she manage to push things along for long enough for the EU to bounce back the whitepaper they're still producing with the strategy that Davis is resigning over?
This is all very exciting. Wish it wasn't happening to me.
(tags: UK Europe ) - 1,000 ridiculous, surreal, delightful fictional video games
- (tags: games funny weird fiction )
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