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Interesting Links for 11-08-2025

1. Torn Apart: Robot Crab Meets Terrible Fate When Its True Nature Is Discovered by Real Crabs
(tags:robot crabs )
2. One of the things I'm enjoying about parenthood is being introduced to new music by the kids. In this case "Golden" from the "KPop Demon Hunters" soundtrack
(tags:music korea video )
3. Shirley Temple Shares Her Experience with Naked Producers At MGM (when she was twelve)
(tags:video history movies Child_abuse interview )
4. Against Sundials
(tags:time society technology poetry )
5. New open letter demands change to latest RSHE guidance to prevent another Section 28
(tags:UK school bigotry LGBT transgender )
6. Always ignore the fun police
(tags:fun society advice )
7. Denying unanimous consent (one way the Democrats are slowing down Trump)
(tags:politics usa )
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2025-04-29 12:07 pm
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Interesting Links for 29-04-2025

1. NHS to allegedly test trans young people for autism and ADHD
(tags:adhd autism transgender lgbt uk nhs viaSwampers )
2. Spain, Portugal and parts of France hit by massive power outage
(tags:spain france electricity )
3. Donald Trump Demands Investigations Into Negative Approval Rating Polls
(tags:polls usa politics viaKenny )
4. New Edinburgh Airport scanners allow liquids to remain in bags
(tags:edinburgh security airport )
5. I WANT TO LIVE IN THIS HOUSE!
(tags:Housing fun video )
6. Islanders say they cannot escape mysterious humming sound
(tags:sounds Scotland )
7. Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts
(tags:funny politics USA )
8. What Even *Is* Consciousness?
(tags:consciousness comic funny )
9. Trans former judge plans to challenge gender ruling at European court
(tags:transgender rights echr law )
10. Doctors condemn Supreme Court ruling on trans women as ‘scientifically illiterate’
(tags:UK doctors transgender science law bigotry )
11. Irn-Bru - How they collect Unicorn Tears for their new recipe
(tags:video viaSwampers funny unicorns advertising Scotland )
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2024-12-19 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 15-11-2023

1. A Single Infusion of a Gene-Editing Treatment Lowered High Cholesterol (in a small percentage of people)
(tags:genetics health )
2. The UK is finally looking into giving the chickenpox vaccine to children
(tags:chicken disease vaccination uk )
3. Fascinating discussion of how "The bigger they are the harder they fall" came by its meaning. Totally worth reading the comments
(tags:language history English viaNancyLebov )
4. What can *you* find on Floor 796?
(tags:fun meme viaSwampers )
5. Eating all your food for the day in a 10-hour window can significantly improve your mood, boost energy levels and reduce hunger
(tags:food health )
6. I highly recommend the Edinburgh Minute newsletter (I get it via RSS, but you can also get it via email)
(tags:news edinburgh )
7. Edinburgh's new bus tracker system is showing timetables not real time updates (until the start of next year, apparently)
(tags:edinburgh buses OhForFucksSake )
8. 'Who do we vote for now?': The Muslim Labour supporters losing faith in Starmer over Gaza
(tags:labour islam palestine )
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2023-04-27 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 27-04-2023

1. Transgender woman and gay man targeted in Whitechapel arson attack hate crime
(tags:lgbt transgender bigotry london uk )
2. UK secretly deported 100 Nepali guards who protected staff in Kabul
(tags:uk immigration nepal OhForFucksSake )
3. Not proven verdict to be scrapped in Scottish courts
(tags:scotland law )
4. EU names 19 large tech platforms that must follow Europe's new Internet rules
(tags:europe internet regulation )
5. 45% of people with concussion show brain injury symptoms six months later
(tags:brain injury )
6. The world's most dangerous golf courses
(tags:golf sports dangerous safety )
7. Every hobby is actually 4 hobbies.
(tags:fun activity behaviour )
8. Dragon scale: Why it's impossible to size up Tolkien's Middle-earth
(tags:lotr mythology storytelling )
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2022-11-28 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 28-11-2022

1. The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books
(tags:library history women horses usa )
2. AI image generation is improving quickly
(tags:AI art )
3. America is a Christian Nationalist Hellhole, license plate edition
(tags:OhForFucksSake Christianity USA religion fascism driving )
4. One nice thing about Mastodon is that, for example, the EU can set up an instance and then you can trust every post on there is a verified EU institution/entity
(tags:Europe socialnetworking identity )
5. How supportive would Britons be of a family member coming out? (also compared to other countries)
(tags:LGBT polls )
6. French man wins right to not be 'fun' at work in wrongful termination case
(tags:work France fun law )
7. Ineos in talks with Rolls-Royce to build mini nuclear reactor and power Scottish chemical refinery
(tags:scotland nuclearpower viaDanielDWilliam )
8. The High-Temperature Superconductivity Mystery Is Finally Solved
(tags:physics )
9. How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence
(tags:disgust terrorism violence bigotry )
10. Power grid boost as two Scottish firms net £14m to work on energy storage systems
(tags:storage electricity scotland )
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2022-10-10 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 10-10-2022

1. Note that the Tories aren't suggesting cheaper childcare or more child benefit. They're suggesting tax cuts. Tells you who they want to have kids
(tags:children conservatives OhForFucksSake tax )
2. Cool bird time lapse
(tags:birds timelapse viaPatrickHadfield )
3. Tala the nonbinary alien, and how I got my library to go easy on gender
(tags:gender children libraries )
4. 10l of water, 40g of powder, and Sophia is having "The best day ever!" in a slime bath
Half an hour later and I just had to help the most slippery 4 year old ever out of the bath to go to the toilet, while her feet had no friction whatsoever. And then I had to wash slime off of *everything*, including the hair trap in the shower, which was full of very slimy hair! She's currently showering off the last of the slime, and has already told me she's looking forward to next time...
(tags:baths fun )
5. Juggling seen from above
(tags:juggling video )
6. A Drum Machine With Congenital Heart Disease
(tags:heart art children health )
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2022-09-22 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 22-09-2022

1. Russia has lost the capacity to mobilise
(tags:Russia war Ukraine epicfail )
2. An Open Letter to Bluey's Parents: Please Stop
We have totally had to play Heavy on many occasions.
(tags:parenting dogs viaSwampers animation funny )
3. Mountain Goats Are Being Airlifted Out of a National Park Because They Crave Human Pee
(tags:urine Goats headline )
4. Artist finds private medical record photos in popular AI training data set
(tags:healthcare dataprotection ai photos )
5. Just how long have men and women been switching gender roles for?
(tags:history gender newspapers )
6. Far too much fun in the snow in Northern China
(tags:China snow video fun )
7. Glasgow students without flats told to consider quitting university
(tags:housing university Glasgow )
8. Tucker Carlson accuses schools and hospitals of "sex crimes" and tells viewers they have a moral duty to dole out "instant justice" "no matter what the law says"
(tags:USA murder LGBT TV school hospital OhForFucksSake )
9. The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality
(tags:death poverty capitalism )
10. US installs record solar capacity as prices keep falling
(tags:solarpower usa GoodNews )
11. $500,000,000 in funding, 10 years in development, and Star Citizen still doesn't have a release date
(tags:games epicfail )
12. For the first time the British Social Attitudes Survey shows a majority for proportional representation
(tags:reform elections voting proportional_representation UK )
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2022-03-06 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 30-11-2021

83% of English people support mask wearing in shops and on public transport
(tags:UK Pandemic polls )
Nicola Sturgeon: The first minister's conference speech fact-checked
(tags:facts Scotland snp )
Northern Ireland economy has outperformed rest of UK
(tags:economy UK Europe trade NorthernIreland )
If you think punter forums are grim you should see how this parenting website talks about sex workers
(tags:sexwork women mother OhForFucksSake )
I am not quite this dad. I do aspire to this level of ridiculousness though
(tags:fun fatherhood video dancing viaClare )
How do people cope with death in the age of social media?
(tags:death socialmedia neilgaiman )
The $5 billion hoard of metal the world wants but can't have
(tags:meta trade )
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition to still matter today, but it does
(tags:religion history sociology spain )
Are humans good or bad?
(tags:morality comic )
Richard Dawkins Doesn't Know What a Woman Is
(tags:RichardDawkins lgbt transgender genetics )
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2020-11-14 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 13-11-2020

There's Something Super Weird About Netflix Anime
(tags:Netflix anime )
How did "Defund the police" stop meaning "Defund the police"? - Why mainstream progressives have a strong incentive to 'sanewash' hard leftist positions.
(tags:police politics USA )
Alcohol ban introduced on Scotland's railway
(tags:Scotland railways alcohol )
Mapping the connections between Tory politicians and companies being awarded government contracts during the pandemic
(tags:conservatives corruption visualisation )
Not Too Scary, Not Too Tame: Horror Experiences Need To Hit A "Sweet Spot" To Be Enjoyable
(tags:fear fun horror scary psychology )
Louisville Metro Police concealed at least 738,000 records documenting the sexual abuse of Explorer Scouts by two officers — then lied to keep the files from the public
(tags:police abuse USA OhForFucksSake )
Government refuses to guarantee COVID vaccine supplies won't be impacted by 'Brexit disruption'
(tags:UK pandemic vaccine Europe Doom )
New invention helps people sober up by exhaling alcohol
(tags:alcohol )
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2019-07-30 12:31 pm
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Interesting Links for 30-07-2019

Famous dance scenes from movies with the wrong music. (favourites are Saturday Night Fever Vs Metallica and Flashdance Vs Bon Jovi
(tags:music video movies dancing viaSwampers )
I did not realise you could dissolve an infinite amount of candyfloss in water
(tags:video chemistry fun )
Can *you* throw like a girl?
(tags:video women sports )
If MPs no-confidence the government then it will be forced to seek an Article 50 extension
(tags:politics law uk europe hope )
Improved seam carving with forward energy
(tags:images photoshop computing )
New York governor signs bill decriminalizing marijuana use
(tags:marijuana decriminalization newyork )
How the EU sees the withdrawal agreement, and why they hate the backstop
(tags:uk europe trade )
Would you give up your best friends in search of the truth? Neither would flat earthers
(tags:belief community internet )
'Dilbert' Creator Scott Adams Tries to Sell Interviews with Shooting Survivors
(tags:guns Death business )
New trains run on Glasgow to Edinburgh route for first time
(tags:trains Edinburgh glasgow transport Scotland )
Anti trans bigots have been compiling lists of trans people and harassing them. Thankfully this is illegal on multiple counts
(tags:harassment LGBT transgender privacy viaSwampers )
A fascinating, detailed look at what it takes for fans to translate an ancient console game in to English
(tags:translation japan games nintendo )
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2019-06-25 04:22 pm
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Interesting Links for 25-06-2019

A brief word about 'the spirit and determination of the British people' being what supposedly wins wars
(tags:propaganda UK history )
Humans have made 8.3bn tons of plastic since 1950. The vast majority is still here.
(tags:plastic environment waste )
What Happens After Amazon's Domination Is Complete? Its Bookstore Offers Clues
(tags:amazon counterfeit OhForFucksSake )
The US island that speaks Elizabethan English
(tags:language history usa uk )
How big an effect do parents have on their children's educational achievement?
(tags:parents children Education )
If your trailer isn't at least this good then nobody should buy your game
(tags:games trailer video fun )
Is JK Rowling anti trans?
(tags:jkrowling transgender OhForFucksSake )
Any attempt to design a system for efficiency or speed has to take into account the people using it as a component of the system. (Let's talk boarding planes.)
(tags:planes efficiency organisation )
The Petrie multiplier: how oppression is amplified against minorities.
(tags:minorities mathematics society bigotry viaFanf )
Transitioning Helps Transgender Men See Sexism From Both Sides
(tags:Transgender LGBT society gender testosterone behaviour )
The IT poverty trap
(tags:poverty Technology Jobs viaFJM )
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Interesting Links for 15-10-2018

Why the Nordic Model hurts sex workers
(tags: sexwork fail law )
Five days left to support trans and non binary people in England and Wales
(tags: lgbt transgender UK )
Carlsberg brewery abandons plastic rings and glues beer cans together
(tags: plastic alcohol design GoodNews )
Theresa May's domestic vulnerability leaves Brexit talks on knife-edge
If only she hadn't called an election and lost her majority
(tags: UK europe doom )
Pregabalin: There’s Been A Huge Surge In Deaths Linked To ‘The New Valium’
(tags: drugs abuse death UK addiction )
Government urged to make UK a zero carbon country by 2050
(tags: globalwarming co2 UK thefuture )
Offshore wealth: loopholes found in EU anti-tax evasion rules
(tags: tax europe )
The Big List of RPG Plots
(tags: roleplaying plot writing )
I am totally doing this with Sophia when she's older
(tags: children fun video )
Categorising children makes them more likely to give up when things go wrong
(tags: children psychology )
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Interesting Links for 11-09-2018

Ancient farmers spared us from glaciers by profoundly changing Earth's climate
(tags: globalwarming farming prehistory )
"I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d like to pass on"
(tags: Holocaust history genocide fascism wwii Poland europe )
No, the Sweden Democrats aren’t “kingmakers”. They don’t get to choose the next government. Here’s why
(tags: SweDen politics )
Generative Art Finds Its Prodigy
(tags: art Technology )
European shipping firms begin panicking about no-deal Brexit: 'Okay, it could be serious'
(tags: UK Europe trade doom )
Brexit: Barnier says agreement possible by early November
(tags: uk europe doom )
US to close Palestinian mission in Washington
(tags: usa palestine israel )
George Orwell: Why Socialists Don't Believe In Fun
(tags: GeorgeOrwell fun happiness utopia )
Doctor Who - A New Beginning - what are the plans for the new season?
(tags: drwho )
Some publishing advice you're not going to like
(tags: publishing advice )
The intensity of shame people feel when they imagine various actions accurately predicts the degree to which others devalue them if they carry them out
(tags: shame psychology society )
People are using cash less and less as a percentage of spending. (I'm almost exclusively Contactless nowadays)
(tags: money Technology )
Global demand for fossil fuels will peak in 2023, says thinktank
(tags: co2 environment globalwarming thefuture GoodNews )
Turns out Conservative eurosceptics can't even agree with each other about what they want
(tags: europe Conservatives fail )
The Spider-Man Proposal Easter Egg has a Darker Side
(tags: spiderman relationships games )
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Interesting Links for 24-07-2018

The Times comes out for dictatorship
(tags: newspapers uk politics OhForFucksSake )
What, exactly, are the WorldCon committee up to?
(tags: conventions wtf scifi )
This is the Tories advertising for people to stand in the street tomorrow, to welcome the President of Qatar. Because we are a joke of a nation
(tags: qatar acting wtf )
Brexit: What happens if UK leaves the EU with no deal?
(tags: UK Europe doom )
Terry Crews Speaks Out In Support Of Brendan Fraser
(tags: abuse assault hollywood )
There are cultures all across the world, throughout history, who saw more than two genders
(tags: gender )
The Onion's Review of ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ is just perfect
(tags: review movies video music fun )
Offshore owners of British property to be forced to reveal names
(tags: corruption housing uk transparency )
A Complete Electron Microscopy Volume of the Brain of a fruit fly, at neuron level
(tags: brain insects scanning neuroscience )
2018’s “Board Game of the Year” award goes to… Azul!
I've played this with someone. Can't remember who!
(tags: games )
Britain only finished paying off slave owners in 2015
(tags: slavery uk debt viajoexnz )
Jeremy Corbyn to highlight economic 'benefit' of Brexit
(tags: Labour UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
First of ScotRail's new electric trains take to track
(tags: Scotland trains transport electricity )
The Genetics of Staying in School
One reason is to look at how genes and environments interact.“If you did a study like ours 100 years ago, the strongest genetic predictor of education would be how many X chromosomes you had, because society was set up in a way that it was much harder for women to get educated than men,” says Benjamin. Likewise, many of the genes that are associated with education today are likely important “because of how today’s educational system is set up. It requires people to sit at desks for hours, and listen to instructions from a teacher. People who get restless, or are less obedient to authority, will fare less well in that environment.”
(tags: genetics Education )
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Interesting Links for 20-12-2016

Don't dismiss Simon Jenkins as a strident identity apostle. He's right: men are people too!
(tags: patriarchy society uk satire )
People who are already off work having massive orgy this afternoon
(tags: work christmas fun )
India's economy surpasses United Kingdom
(tags: uk india economy )
A list of inventors killed by their own inventions
(tags: invention death lists )
Grids of defects make diamonds practical for quantum computing
(tags: diamonds quantum computers )
Can You Tell if These Still Life Objects Are Real or Rendered?
(tags: cgi graphics art )
New study reveals how nurse staffing levels link to patient outcomes
(tags: healthcare )
In defence of "Baby it's cold outside"
(tags: music history society )
Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return on Investment Than Oil
(tags: solarpower oil energy economics )
Disney breaks $7bn global box office record for 2016 (Disney + Star Wars + Marvel = Ka-Ching!)
(tags: money Disney movies marvel StarWars )
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