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Interesting Links for 12-06-2026
Jun. 12th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Davros envious after Russell T Davies successfully kills Doctor Who
- (tags:drwho funny satire bbc )
- 2. But are AIs conscious?
- (tags:ai consciousness comic funny )
- 3. What's happened to UK defence spending?
- (tags:uk military money government )
- 4. Digital Sovereignty Becomes An Imperative As the US Reads Dutch Emails
- (tags:usa netherlands spying email )
- 5. Please I Beg of You Do Not Use "AI" In Your Business Communications
- (tags:ai communication )
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Interesting Links for 05-06-2026
Jun. 5th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. FCC To Investigate TV Shows Where The Mom Has Job
- (tags:tv politics satire usa fascism patriarchy )
- 2. How Spain Avoided the Global Populist Backlash
- (tags:inequality spain politics )
- 3. Opinion: It's only funny when the joke is about things I don't like
- (tags:humour funny )
- 4. Cheap, Fast DNA Synthesis
- (tags:genetics )
- 5. What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?
- (tags:migration japan doom society )
- 6. Queen bees emerge from special wax chambers
- (tags:bees )
Interesting Links for 03-06-2026
Jun. 3rd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. 3D zipper technology can create rigid shapes on demand
- (tags:Technology design 3dprinting )
- 2. The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
- (tags:technology AI catholicism funny viaSwampers )
- 3. The UK Supreme Court is enabling some fascist shit against disabled people
- (tags:UK law disability OhForFucksSake )
- 4. The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang
- (tags:memory technology writing society relationships short_story scifi )
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Interesting Links for 22-05-2026
May. 22nd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Amnesty International on the growth of transphobia in the UK
- (tags:UK bigotry LGBT transgender media )
- 2. Health and Safe-Tea at Work: Brewing Time (an advert that made me giggle on the bus)
- (tags:tea video advertising funny )
- 3. What does the new EHRC guide say about trans people
- (tags:transgender rights LGBT UK OhForFucksSake bigotry )
- 4. Edinburgh in 2026, by the numbers
- (tags:Edinburgh stats )
- 5. What is the Gen Alpha Melody, where does it come from, and why has nobody been sued yet?
- (tags:music video copyright viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 20-05-2026
May. 20th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Did Zohran Mamdani's New Budget Really Eliminate New York City's Deficit?
- (tags:budget tax newyork facts )
- 2. Standard Thermal - dirt cheap thermal energy from renewables
- (tags:renewables heating energy )
- 3. Impressive Gassian splat of a bumblebee. Amazing level of detail.
- (tags:photography bee )
- 4. What do Labour members think of Streeting, Burnham, and other leadership contenders?
- (tags:labour politics uk polls )
- 5. A good video guide to Ozempic, how it works, and what the long term looks like
- (tags:obesity medicine video )
- 6. More than 60 Labour MPs call for review of UK voting system
- (tags:voting reform labour UK politics )
- 7. Autistic children are the best
- (tags:children autism funny )
Interesting Links for 09-05-2026
May. 9th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. A year ago the CDC's cruise ship inspectors were laid off. What could have gone wrong?
- (tags:disease USA republicans OhForFucksSake )
- 2. How a potato-based diet changed the genetics of people for generations
- (tags:potato food SouthAmerica genetics )
- 3. The roleplaying magazine with a 51 year history
- (tags:history roleplaying publishing )
- 4. What even *is* a hundred?
- (tags:language numbers history )
- 5. Poland is a model for economic growth
- (tags:Poland economics growth europe )
- 6. "Hot, sexy, dangerous boys cannot be copyrighted"
- (tags:publishing romance copyright law USA viaLilysea )
- 7. Reform support seems to have dropped from its peak
- (tags:politics uk )
- 8. "No, you can't bring back hanging." A handy guide for newly elected Reform councillors
- (tags:politics funny satire UK )
- 9. Trans youth denied hormones twice as likely to attempt suicide
- (tags:suicide transgender children bigotry LGBT )
- 10. 'Tortured by transphobia': The woman left in pain by the NHS
- (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry NHS pain )
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Interesting Links for 09-04-2026
Apr. 9th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Parent concerned at time children spend playing computer games, also quietly grateful for it
- (tags:parenting children funny technology )
- 2. AI-Generated Interview With One Piece Actor Published By Esquire
- (tags:ai interview wtf )
- 3. Tankers passing through Strait of Hormuz will have to pay cryptocurrency toll
- (tags:Iran blockchain trade shipping )
- 4. Record-Breaking Drone Light Show (22,000 of them)
- (tags:drone video impressive )
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Interesting Links for 25-03-2026
Mar. 25th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Plug-in solar power could be in UK shops within months
- (tags:solarpower uk GoodNews )
- 2. What is a polite way to say "I have to poop" as a woman? (the responses are hilarious)
- (tags:funny women society poo )
- 3. Even Scotland's richest back higher taxes on the wealthy, poll finds
- (tags:polls tax wealth Scotland )
Interesting Links for 19-03-2026
Mar. 19th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer
- (tags:weaponry technology 3dprinting )
- 2. Kagi Translate's AI answers the question "What would horny Margaret Thatcher say?"
- (tags:language translation margaretthatcher wtf )
- 3. Ever wanted to be able to translate from English to LinkedIn? Now you can!
- (tags:language funny translation viaswampers )
- 4. Grok, explain Butlerian Jihad [ai]
- (tags:funny scifi )
- 5. Austin build new housing - rents came down
- (tags:economics housing usa )
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Interesting Links for 18-03-2026
Mar. 18th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Coming soon to Netflix... a movie that requires none of your attention!
- (tags:movies netflix attention video satire funny )
- 2. Everyone but Trump Understands What He's Done
- (tags:politics UK USA middle_east Ukraine Russia NATO )
- 3. Scotland's assisted dying bill rejected after emotional debate
- (tags:Scotland euthanasia )
- 4. More reports show that forcing people back to the office hurts productivity
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Interesting Links for 02-03-2026
Mar. 2nd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. UN Human Rights Council Castigates The EHRC For Their Proposed Trans Exclusion
- (tags:UnitedNations rights transgender UK bigotry )
- 2. How to write (and, frankly, understand what it's like to be) women
- (tags:women writing )
- 3. New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue (in mice)
- (tags:nanotech mice materials cancer )
- 4. Keir Starmer's statement on Iran in full as US granted access to UK bases
- (tags:usa uk iran war )
- 5. A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator
- (tags:design business video funny awful norway )
Interesting Links for 21-02-2026
Feb. 21st, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies
- (tags:brain scanning )
- 2. The political effects of X's feed algorithm (a swing to the right of nearly 5%)
- (tags:politics socialmedia USA twitter )
- 3. What happens when you don't proofread your emails
- (tags:language epicfail funny )
Interesting Links for 20-02-2026
Feb. 20th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Looksmaxxing: Myth Vs. Fact
- (tags:funny trends beauty society bodyimage )
- 2. An excellent break down of the EHRC trangender toilet case, and the High Court findings. It is, as you might expect, a mess.
- (tags:law transgender uk lgbt )
- 3. Sizing chaos - an incredibly visualised look at how and why women's clothes sizing is a mess that lets down half of all women
- (tags:women clothing visualisation OhForFucksSake history society )
- 4. Psychology of Gen X Parents (I feel called out. Or described. Or something)
- (tags:psychology demographics history video )
- 5. What is Going on with Colorectal Cancer in young people?
- (tags:cancer age statistics )
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