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Interesting Links for 12-06-2025
Jun. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. EU puts Monaco on money laundering blacklist
- (tags:fraud money Europe )
- 2. Steven Universe Sequel Series Heads to Prime Video
- (tags:TV animation scifi GoodNews )
- 3. Houseplants Do Not Purify the Air
- (tags:air pollution plants )
- 4. Solar Orbiter offers first glimpse of the Sun's poles in breakthrough mission
- (tags:sun astronomy space solarsystem )
- 5. Cthulhu's ABCs: A Heavy Metal Muppet Parody Song about the Alphabet
- (tags:muppets language funny video cthulhu viaKirsty )
- 6. Book burning is a modern free speech test for Labour
- (tags:uk freespeech religion )
Interesting Links for 03-05-2025
May. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 1.5m Britons a month pay for weight-loss jabs
- (tags:UK weight medication )
- 2. Why our waistlines expand in middle age—aging stem cells shift into overdrive (in rats)
- (tags:weight age rats )
- 3. Germany's Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech Just Got Even More Ridiculous
- (tags:Germany genocide Palestine Israel freespeech law viaKenny )
- 4. RFK Jr. Encourages Americans To Do Their Own Research About Dragons
- (tags:politics USA dragons satire funny )
- 5. UN says 9,000 Gaza children acutely malnourished as aid blockade passes two months
- (tags:children food gaza Israel Palestine OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Genomic evidence for behavioral adaptation of herding dogs
- (tags:dogs genetics behaviour )
- 7. I missed that the horror version of Steamboat Willie had already been released
- (tags:horror Disney mice )
Interesting Links for 02-05-2025
May. 2nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Summerisle Arcana - Wicker Man Inspired Tarot
- (tags:tarot horror movies )
- 2. Seattle Worldcon science fiction convention vets panelists with ChatGPT
- (tags:ai conventions scifi OhForFucksSake )
- 3. No One Knows What's Inside the Smallpox Vaccine
- (tags:disease history vaccines cows horses )
- 4. The White House's Plan For Reversing The Declining Birth Rate
- (tags:satire children usa politics )
- 5. For Women Scotland: a legal critique of the recent judgment on transgender rights
- (tags:LGBT transgender rights law UK )
- 6. US abandons $350bn debt claim in Ukraine minerals deal - but Trump hasn't noticed
- (tags:usa ukraine war trade )
- 7. AI extends the career of a porn actress. Also Jack Nicklaus, Snoop Dog, and KISS
- (tags:ai celebrity business )
- 8. 100 Men vs. 1 Gorilla: Primatologists Explain Who Would Win
- (tags:gorillas violence funny internet ViaDrCross )
- 9. How the UK Establishment Crushed Trans Rights
- (tags:LGBT transgender guardian DailyMail journalism UK politics bigotry )
- 10. How would zonal energy pricing work? (And why it would lower *everyone'ss* prices)
- (tags:electricity uk economics )
- 11. Rector wins appeal over St Andrews University Gaza row
- (tags:Scotland Israel gaza Palestine genocide university StAndrews freespeech )
- 12. Waymo automated taxies make the roads safer for bikes and pedestrians
- (tags:driving automation safety )
- 13. I finally understand why all those Soulslike bosses hated me so much, thanks to The Dark Queen of Mortholme, which pits you up against some plucky upstart who just keeps coming back
- (tags:games review )
- 14. Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits
- (tags:headline dragons law EpicWTF )
- 15. Do any of you like puzzles?
- (tags:puzzles )
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Interesting Links for 01-07-2023
Jul. 1st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Stop thinking you need to be fair to unfair voices
- (tags:morality freespeech society bigotry )
- 2. Would you like to increase your appreciation of bagpipes?
- (tags:music Scotland video )
- 3. Devs casually expose far-reaching loading bar conspiracy: 'People just don't trust one that's too quick'
- (tags:technology fraud visualisation )
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Interesting Links for 04-05-2023
May. 4th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh Council has a critical shortage of staff
- (tags:edinburgh work doom )
- 2. Who do LGBTQ people vote for in the next UK general election
- (tags:lgbt uk politics )
- 3. AI-generated beer commercial contains joyful monstrosities, goes viral
- (tags:alcohol advertising ai weird )
- 4. Apple, Google partner on an industry specification to address unwanted tracking
- (tags:apple google tracking surveillance )
- 5. Mozilla acquires review-checking, scammer-spotting service Fakespot for Firefox
- (tags:firefox fraud )
- 6. FBI former agent arrested over Jan. 6 (more than 1,000 people arrested so far)
- (tags:fbi usa politics crime )
- 7. it's a(door)able - a one-minute minigame.
- (tags:love games )
- 8. The Internet Isn't Meant To Be So Small
- (tags:web internet socialmedia )
- 9. The most draconian assault on free speech in living memory is now UK law
- (tags:uk law freespeech protests )
- 10. Port of Aberdeen welcomes UK government funding for world's first liquid hydrogen autonomous vessel project
- (tags:automation shipping scotland hydrogen viaJane )
- 11. The web's most important decision
- (tags:internet web history computers opensource )
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Interesting Links for 08-03-2023
Mar. 8th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Britons waiting twice as long for sickness benefits under Tories
- (tags:uk Conservatives disability austerity OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Children of same-sex couples fare as well as or better than heterosexual ones
- (tags:lgbt parenting )
- 3. We don't have a blasphemy law, but we have a system that punishes it
- (tags:blasphemy uk freespeech police )
- 4. How the UN's ocean treaty, decades in the making, will transform the way we protect the seas
- (tags:UnitedNations ocean nature GoodNews )
- 5. Scientists decode why people are scared of clowns
- (tags:phobia fear humans faces )
- 6. Are modern superhero comics missing the ordinary people?
- (tags:comics writing superheroes )
- 7. I suspect the court case over this will cost Elon Musk a small fortune
- (tags:ElonMusk disability OhForFucksSake )
- 8. Labour retreats from pledge to nationalise energy, water and mail if it wins next general election
- (tags:labour privatisation politics UK OhForFucksSake )
- 9. Edinburgh Council backs bid to ban vehicles from parts of Leith
- (tags:Edinburgh cars transport )
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Interesting Links for 25-02-2023
Feb. 25th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. I Will Throw People Under The Bus If It Means Pretending To Relive My Childhood
- (tags:nostalgia satire bigotry games LGBT transgender metaphor )
- 2. BBC Chairman Donated Tens of Thousands of Pounds to Right-Wing Group Funding Criticism of BBC
- (tags:bbc OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Justin Roiland: Inside the 'Rick and Morty' Co-creator's Implosion
- (tags:TV abuse animation OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Kate Forbes has the right to think what she likes - and we have the right to dislike her for it
- (tags:politics freespeech UK Scotland snp religion )
- 5. Newspapers Drop 'Dilbert' Comic Strip After Creator's Racist Rant
- (tags:dilbert racism OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 14-10-2022
Oct. 14th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. When the police are injured at Notting Hill Carnival how did it happen?
- (tags:police festival assault )
- 2. Oblivion Mod Lets Players Order A Pizza Straight From the Game
- (tags:pizza games )
- 3. Why the Chancellor of Exchequer should read the book he wrote
- (tags:UK politics history conservatives epicfail )
- 4. "Free speech" networks and anti-semitism
- (tags:freespeech bigotry Jews )
- 5. What's expected of us (a short story about free will and time travel)
- (tags:timetravel FreeWill short_story scifi )
- 6. Scientists identify gene associated with strong immune response to Covid jabs (30% of UK people have it)
- (tags:pandemic vaccination genetics )
- 7. A dish of neurons may have taught itself to play Pong (badly)
- (tags:neuroscience games brain )
- 8. Having a baby? Sorry, your social life is over for the next 15 years (I'm very glad that I was 45 when it happened, and didn't mind too much)
- (tags:babies funny life )
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Interesting Links for 03-09-2022
Sep. 3rd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Dreamwidth are moving away from Cloudflare, after Cloudflare refused to stop supporting sites that threaten people's physical safety
- (tags:dreamwidth freespeech GoodNews abuse )
- 2. What would it be like for you if your life had a sports commentator?
- (tags:sports narrative life )
- 3. Everywhere, no matter how boring it looks, has a history
- (tags:edinburgh history scotland viaSwampers )
- 4. Russian oil energy price cap agreed by G7
- (tags:russia oil )
- 5. Diablo Immortal whales face massive orb debt after third-party refunds (I find all of this hilarious, in-between wishing I didn't know what it meant)
- (tags:viaSwampers games diablo fraud )
- 6. The UK welfare system is cruel, disgusting, and murderous
- (tags:UK welfare murder OhForFucksSake conservatives )
- 7. Nuclear explosions in the style of various artists
- (tags:nuclearweapons art ai viaPatrickHadfield )
- 8. Modern cars are much safer than old ones
- (tags:safety cars )
- 9. AI is getting better at generating porn.
- (tags:porn ai )
- 10. Worker says her job would rather replace her with 6 people than give her a raise,
- (tags:work OhForFucksSake )
- 11. Entrance to forgotten square revealed by huge fire in Edinburgh
- (tags:history Edinburgh architecture viaPatrickHadfield )
- 12. Valve bars Steam developer who posted anti-trans rant in patch notes
- (tags:games bigotry LGBT valve Steam transgender )
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Interesting Links for 24-01-2022
Jan. 24th, 2022 12:00 pm- How does it feel when someone uses your life as a basis for fiction?
- (tags:writing relationships life viaSwampers )
- The Price Cap is not responsible for the demise of UK energy companies - they were behaving riskily
- (tags:electricity UK investment economics )
- Endometriosis care in Scotland not meeting 'base level' - average diagnosis takes over 8 years
- (tags:women healthcare Scotland OhForFucksSake )
- No 10 officials admit holding back information from partygate inquiry after being frightened into silence
- (tags:party conservatives bullying corruption UK Pandemic )
- The funny thing all those demanding "free speech" have in common
- (tags:freespeech bigotry libdem )
- Shield badges for Scots to distance from Covid
- (tags:Pandemic Scotland )
- Is COVID's omicron variant the fastest spreading virus in history?
- (tags:Pandemic speed )
- Swordle
- (tags:swords words comic funny games )
- A fascinating bit of lore from behind the scenes of the Star Trek movies
- (tags:StarTrek movies william_shatner )
- What do Asian people *really* look like?
- (tags:Asia humans art )
- EU, US seek coordinated response to Russia over Ukraine crisis
- (tags:Russia UK Ukraine USA war )
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Interesting Links for 04-07-2021
Jul. 4th, 2021 12:00 pm- How Russia is destroying free speech in the UK
- (tags:UK Russia freespeech corruption )
- Good Omens season 2 is looking for trainees to work on it
- (tags:TV UK neilgaiman terrypratchett )
- The Colosseum in Rome opens its underground levels
- (tags:Rome Italy history )
- Boy Scouts of America reaches $850M agreement with 60,000 victims of child abuse
- (tags:scouts abuse children USA )
- Revealed: ExxonMobil's lobbying war on climate change legislation
- (tags:oil globalwarming lobbying corruption )
- Why billionaires will not be escaping into space
- (tags:space sustainability life )
- Mouse lungs after long-term exposure to atmosphere predicted by climate change
- (tags:co2 mice thefuture globalwarming )
- More Churches Up in Flames in Canada as Outrage Against Catholic Church Grows
- (tags:catholicism Canada genocide )
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Interesting Links for 20-02-2021
Feb. 20th, 2021 12:00 pm- Monkeys having a diving competition
- (tags:monkeys video water viaSwampers )
- Why Uber lost their case, and why it's so important
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1362723609006006274.html
(tags:taxi apps work UK law ) - Petition · Embra Cooncil: Pit Googly Eyes Oan The Jobby
- (tags:petition funny Edinburgh hotel architecture viaSwampers )
- Scientists have discovered how to break into people's dreams and leave them messages
- (tags:dreams )
- Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows
- (tags:computers Mars space Linux Windows )
- How Antidepressants Work, at Last?
- (tags:antidepressants psychology brain )
- If you've ever wondered what it's like supporting ancient code in a big company...
- (tags:software funny OhForFucksSake )
- Pfizer vaccine can cope without ultra-cold storage for two weeks longer than we thought
- (tags:vaccine temperature pandemic GoodNews )
- There is nothing funny about the British army, at all
- (tags:military UK video funny true )
- Draw an iceberg and see how it will float.
- (tags:iceberg water )
- Being a female tech lead at Mailchimp
- (tags:Jobs technology OhForFucksSake )
- UK government cites US anti-LGBT hate group in free speech proposals
- (tags:LGBT abortion freespeech OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 02-02-2021
Feb. 2nd, 2021 12:00 pm- With the SNP civil war kicking off I've just joined so I get a vote in whoever gets to run it next
- (tags:politics Scotland SNP )
- EU Says A Post-Brexit Shellfish Export Ban Is Indefinite, After Government Claimed It Was Only Temporary (thousands of tons of oysters with nowhere to go)
- (tags:seafood UK Europe trade )
- Science! Confirms! The! Obvious!
- Worth doing, in case you were wondering, because obviousness is neither universal nor necessarily correct
(tags:science CommonSense ) - Evan Rachel Wood and Others Make Allegations of Abuse Against Marilyn Manson
- (tags:abuse music )
- Some potentially positive news on the Hate Speech bill front
- (tags:freespeech hate law Scotland transgender LGBT )
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Interesting Links for 16-09-2020
Sep. 16th, 2020 12:00 pm- How the British government sabotaged Birmingham
- (tags:UK OhForFucksSake cities )
- All Women's Aid & Rape Crisis services in Scotland are trans inclusive & have been for many years.
- (tags:rape abuse LGBT transgender Scotland )
- Coronavirus: Ebbsfleet Covid-19 test centre shut to become Brexit lorry park
- (tags:UK Europe pandemic Doom )
- The perils of a cross-disciplinary PhD
- (tags:phd )
- More than two-thirds of young Scots now back independence
- (tags:Scotland independence polls )
- The British Medical Association affirms trans and non-binary rights in healthcare (and that gender recognition should be by sworn statement)
- (tags:LGBT doctors UK transgender )
- "An English Period Drama" (pretty much exactly what they look like to me)
- (tags:TV satire funny comedy video )
- A curated list of TikToks.
- (tags:video )
- Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It's a Set of Actions to Fight
- (tags:fascism freespeech debate )
- Police Scotland criticised over leadership and diversity training
- (tags:police Scotland )
- Man using a snake 'as face covering' seen riding bus in Greater Manchester
- (tags:Manchester snake transport pandemic )
Interesting Links for 24-06-2020
Jun. 24th, 2020 12:00 pm- 'My Little Pony' Fans Confront Their Nazi Problem
- (tags:fandom Nazis mylittlepony freespeech racism )
- Dungeon Scrawl - Create old school maps in minutes
- (tags:dungeonsanddragons maps )
- What a baby squirrel sounds like
- (tags:squirrel video viaPatrickHadfield )
- But what about the *talented* abusers?
- (tags:abuse intelligence )
- Britons spending a quarter of the day online since lockdown. What do they do with the rest?
- (tags:internet pandemic )
- Bathing Babies More Than Once a Week Doubles Eczema Risk
- (tags:children baths health )
- My Family Saw a Police Car Hit a Kid on Halloween. Then I Learned How NYPD Impunity Works
- (tags:police racism usa OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 05-02-2020
Feb. 5th, 2020 12:00 pm- New government plans could see you jailed for life over propaganda
- (tags:UK terrorism censorship propaganda crime )
- Heartbeats and bunnies, how simple repeating patterns lead to chaos (and back again)
- (tags:mathematics video patterns )
- 'The Good Place,' 'BoJack Horseman,' and the Audacity of Committing to Decency
- (tags:TV morality )
- The EU has released a Q & A on the draft negotiating directives
- (tags:Europe UK trade )
- Brexit fuelling surge in support for Scottish independence, but work still to be done on currency and economics
- (tags:UK Europe Scotland independence polls )
- Children as young as 9 locked up by Indian police for speech violation
- (tags:India police freespeech children )
- Graham Linehan is compiling a horrifying database of conversion therapists willing to abuse young trans people
- (tags:abuse LGBT transgender OhForFucksSake )
- Symptomless coronavirus spreader had symptoms after all
- (tags:disease )
- I'd give this prosthetic three thumbs up
- (tags:cyborg technology prostheses video )
- 'Happy Brexit Day' Norwich flat residents unite to show support
- (tags:society GoodNews racism UK )
- What is SAP? And how are they worth $163Bn?
- (tags:business organisation software )
- Cats! On! Statues!
- (tags:cats statue )
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Interesting Links for 21-10-2019
Oct. 22nd, 2019 10:25 am- Labour to officially back bid for second Brexit referendum on Boris Johnson's deal
- (tags:UK Europe referendum labour )
- "38 People are looking at this post right now" is a lie
- (tags:lies fraud sales web )
- Facebook deletes oldest Palestinian news site's page, which had more than 5 million fans
- (tags:Palestine Facebook censorship )
- Your Home Made Perfect - behind the scenes of the property show that uses VR to show people what their home could look like
- (tags:VirtualReality property design architecture )
- In Kashmir, Freedom at a Price: Go Back to Jail if You Speak or Comment on Article 370
- (tags:India censorship freespeech politics OhForFucksSake Kashmir )
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Interesting Links for 28-04-2019
Apr. 28th, 2019 03:18 pm- Boys will be boys? How schools can be guilty of gender bias
- (tags:gender education school boys uk )
- Founder of Voat, the 'Censorship-Free' Reddit, Begs Users to Stop Making Death Threats
- (tags:usa freespeech death )
- Radioactivity detected from a half-life of once every trillion universes
- (tags:physics )
- Mystery of Universe's Expansion Rate Widens With New Hubble Data
- (tags:physics space )
- Verdant Skies (Harvest Moon/Stardew Valley - in spaaaaaace)
- (tags:games )
- A marble world submerged in a lake
- (tags:chile beautiful video viaLilysea )
- How Windows Minesweeper became Flower Field. But only in some places
- (tags:games society windows microsoft design )
