Interesting Links for 16-02-2024

Feb. 16th, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. All of the parties have shared their proposed budgets for Edinburgh
(tags:edinburgh politics money )
2. UK MPs will be helped to spot conspiracy theories
(tags:research conspiracy uk politics )
3. Neil Gaiman is in disagreement with half of his fans of the genre of Good Omens
(tags:neilgaiman comedy TV genre funny )
4. The 2023 Hugo Fraud and Where We Go From Here
(tags:Hugo awards scifi fraud )
5. What it takes to scam someone out of $50,000
(tags:money fraud )
6. Service change from Sunday 24 March - Lothian Buses
(tags:Edinburgh buses transport )
7. Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article
(tags:ai rats genitals penis wtf )
8. Greece legalizes same-sex marriage in a first for an Orthodox Christian nation
(tags:greece lgbt marriage christianity )
9. Solar & Battery Storage to Make Up 81% of New U.S. Electric-Generating Capacity in 2024
(tags:solarpower GoodNews usa batteries )
10. The Fraud of Plastic Recycling (and the companies that have covered it up for 50 years)
(tags:recycling plastic fraud doom )
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Interesting Links for 24-03-2023

Mar. 24th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. Sex Worker-Led Payment Platform Shuts Down After Being Cut Off by Processor
(tags:sexwork payment banking OhForFucksSake )
2. Who, really, *is* Brandon Sanderson? (Other than the biggest fantasy writer in the world)
(tags:writing fantasy )
3. Sometimes card tricks look so impossible that they just have to be magic
(tags:magic cards video impressive )
4. Women comparing themselves with 'perfect' genitals in porn is contributing to a 300% rise in labiaplasty
(tags:genitals vagina surgery porn society )
5. Who knew octopi would be so clingy?
(tags:octopus cute video )
6. Epic's new motion-capture animation tech has to be seen to be believed
(tags:motioncapture impressive faces )
7. Nasal Covid vaccine shows promise in early clinical trial
(tags:pandemic noses vaccine )
8. Armed Metropolitan Police officer escapes domestic abuse prosecution after controlling 'every step' of his investigation
(tags:police abuse UK OhForFucksSake )
9. JPMorgan Chase thought it had $1.3 million worth of nickel stored in a warehouse. A closer examination revealed bags of stones.
(tags:fraud metal trade )
10. A Doctor Who game - join them together and try to reach 13. (I've gotten as far as the War Doctor)
(tags:drwho games )
11. Nearly one in five people find everyday sounds intolerable
(tags:sound psychology )
12. A machine that learns to play noughts and crosses, built from 304 matchboxes
(tags:ai games )
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Interesting Links for 04-08-2022

Aug. 4th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. Millennial Dads Spend Massively More Time With Their Kids
(tags:fatherhood parenting men viaSwampers )
2. Girls as young as nine sent £300 bill to play for Leicester City Footbal Academy - where boys train for free
(tags:football patriarchy uk )
3. Wikipedia Articles Sway Some Legal Judgments
(tags:wikipedia law )
4. Major chemical database investigates hundreds of suspicious crystal structures for academic fraud
(tags:fraud chemistry viaPatrickHadfield )
5. The language of law is inadequate to address emotive speech.
(tags:law language emotion lies politics )
6. I definitely need a chocolate safe to keep my millionaire's shortbread in!
(tags:chocolate cake video impressive )
7. Less than half of adults can correctly label the vagina - how about you?
(tags:genitals vagina Education women )
8. Why Batgirl was cancelled (tax avoidance!)
(tags:comics tax movies OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 03-01-2020

Jan. 3rd, 2020 12:00 pm
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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 27-09-2018

Sep. 27th, 2018 12:00 pm
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Science Says Toxic Masculinity — More Than Alcohol — Leads To Sexual Assault
(tags: rape society psychology )
Walmart Requires Lettuce, Spinach Suppliers to Join Blockchain
(tags: blockchain Technology vegetables business tracking shopping )
Tackling the problem of 'noisy' electricity
(tags: electricity )
Jeremy Corbyn offers Brexit truce with Theresa May if her final deal is sensible
(tags: uk europe labour )
EU steps up plans for no-deal Brexit as Labour stance alarms capitals
(tags: Europe UK Labour doom )
Skripal suspect 'real name' revealed as Anatoliy Chepiga
(tags: Russia assassination identity )
From Russia With Blood: 14 Suspected Hits On British Soil That The Government Ignored
(tags: uk russia assassination government wtf )
UK appoints food supplies minister amid fears of no-deal Brexit
(tags: UK Europe food doom )
Nobody can say that social media isn't a book to society
(tags: funny genitals cards twitter )
Jeremy Corbyn to meet with EU chief Brexit negotiator
(tags: Labour UK europe )
Limiting children's screen time to two hours and making sure they get tons of sleep linked to better cognition
(tags: sleep children computers achievement )
After century of removing appendixes, docs find antibiotics can be enough
(tags: disease antibiotics surgery )
Reclassification recommendations for drug in magic mushrooms
(tags: psilocybin magic_mushrooms medicine psychedelics )
Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information
(tags: facebook surveillance privacy advertising )
No-deal Brexit could lead to NI electricity blackouts
No wonder reunification polls are hitting 58%!
(tags: uk europe NorthernIreland )
Emmanuel Macron says Britain could stay in the EU ‘for sure’ if it changes its mind on Brexit
(tags: europe uk france )
Customs union: What is it, what would leaving it mean and what post-Brexit alternatives are there?
(tags: uk europe trade doom )
How to look generous and get more, in one simple step
(tags: behaviour psychology )
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Interesting Links for 16-06-2018

Jun. 16th, 2018 12:00 pm
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DNA previously written off as 'junk' actually determines genitals at birth
(tags: dna genitals )
'Star Trek: Discovery' fires showrunners over bullying
(tags: StarTrek abuse OhForFucksSake tv )
UK has awful social mobility - it can take five generations to reach average income
(tags: society inequality uk )
Like Joy Division? Love the cover to Unknown Pleasures? Want it on a pair of boots?
(tags: shoes design music wtf )
Upskirting: Why a new law is needed to stop mobile phones being shoved up women’s skirts
(tags: law UK abuse )
How the transistor came to be
(tags: computers technology history )
New form of matter may lie just beyond the periodic table
(tags: physics materials )
Internet over pigeon is real!
(tags: pigeons internet )
Every so often, I get the urge to drag someone into a cave, and show them something unspeakable.
(tags: prehistory art )
Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies
(tags: usa pregnancy work )
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Interesting Links for 13-03-2018

Mar. 13th, 2018 12:00 pm
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Effortless French: Mt. Gox and Bitcoin’s roller coaster ride
(tags: bitcoin fraud documentary )
Church of England says schools 'should promote celibacy', can fuck right off
(tags: schools sex ChurchOfEngland OhForFucksSake )
Marijuana seems to help with blood sugar control
(tags: insulin diabetes marijuana )
Children with higher working memory are more inclined to finger count (and less able kids should be encouraged to do the same)
(tags: children numbers memory )
Married couple in China discover they appeared in same photograph as teenagers
(tags: china photo viaSwampers )
Study Identifies 4 Types Of Facebook Users. (I'm sometimes a town crier, but a relationship builder to a much smaller group of people)
(tags: facebook personality viaSwampers )
Carbon Taxes Are Coming, and We Have Colleges to Thank
(tags: co2 globalwarming university tax usa )
National Geographic: For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It
(tags: racism usa media history )
Girls' guide to what a 'normal' vulva looks like - so that less of them want plastic surgery
(tags: genitals women )
Husband of anti-cannabis UK Drugs Minister grows cannabis
(tags: conservatives marijuana OhForFucksSake )
Can pursuing happiness make you unhappy?
(tags: happiness psychology )
University vice-chancellors are paid far more than public sector peers
(tags: pay academia )
The truth about Somali Pirates
(tags: somalia pirates )
Lead exposure linked to 412,000 premature deaths in US each year
(tags: lead death usa )
A Doctor Who fan has not only made a police box, but a *whole control room* too. And they're linked!
(tags: drwho awesome )
Mozilla working on in-page popup blocker for Firefox
(tags: firefox advertising )
Across Myanmar, Denial of Ethnic Cleansing and Loathing of Rohingya
A couple of hours outside Yangon, the country’s largest city, U Aye Swe, an administrator for Sin Ma Kaw village, said he was proud to oversee one of Myanmar’s "Muslim-free" villages, which bar Muslims from spending the night, among other restrictions. "Kalar are not welcome here because they are violent and they multiply like crazy, with so many wives and children," he said. Mr. Aye Swe admitted he had never met a Muslim before, adding, "I have to thank Facebook because it is giving me the true information in Myanmar."
(tags: bigotry facebook islam genocide )
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Interesting Links for 05-02-2018

Feb. 5th, 2018 12:00 pm
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Uma Thurman Almost Died While Filming Kill Bill
(tags: movies QuentinTarantino OhForFucksSake safety )
Wales is leading the way on democratic reform. The Prime Minister should take note
(tags: voting UK Wales England scotland )
Venice without water
(tags: Italy water transport )
Things that were more likely to kill you in 1970s Britain than today
(tags: uk death GoodNews )
When Jacob Rees Mogg says that Brexit will reduce the cost of food, wine and clothes “by 20 per cent”, whose model, and assumptions, is he relying on?
(tags: economics uk europe OhForFucksSake )
A ten-second video which sums up how much of a dick cats are
(tags: cats evil video )
Almost-Classics: SF Concepts and Settings That Deserve Better Execution
(tags: writing scifi )
How Superman is finally defeated
(tags: comics funny comic superheroes )
The Economists for Brexit predictions are inconsistent with the basic facts of international trade
(tags: economics trade europe uk fraud viaPatrickHadfield )
Ann Widdecombe isn’t a harmless comedy old lady – she’s a homophobe
(tags: abortion lgbt Conservatives )
Some amusing examples of people improvising when they didn't know the language
(tags: language funny )
A brief note on the genitals on transgender people
(tags: transgender genitals lgbt )
In praise of open borders
(tags: immigration usa )
You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entangled time
(tags: quantum time )
People Aren’t Having Babies Because the Rent Is Too Damn High
(tags: money housing children society cities )
Actual Nazi Will Be GOP Nominee In Illinois Congressional Race
(tags: nazis republicans holocaust OhForFucksSake politics usa )
The Icefish Has Clear Blood (because it's so damn cold oxygen dissolves into plasma)
(tags: fish blood oxygen cold )
Solo: A Star Wars Story (first teaser)
(tags: trailer StarWars )
DPD courier who was fined for day off to see doctor dies from diabetes
(tags: business death health OhForFucksSake delivery )
Modern CSS Explained For Dinosaurs
(tags: css )
Baby boomers to get far more welfare support than Generation X and Millennials
(tags: welfare OhForFucksSake uk )
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Interesting Links for 16-08-2017

Aug. 16th, 2017 12:00 pm
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Advice to the Only Actor Who's Realized They're in a Shitty Film 
(tags: movies bad advice )
Why Nazi symbols should not be covered by Freedom of Speech
(tags: freespeech nazis )
Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong
(tags: mathematics research )
Who runs a social media campaign without checking how it can be abused?????
Seriously. How incompetent do you have to be nowadays???
(tags: twitter fail OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )
Words Used to Describe Genitals in Fanfic
(tags: fanfic genitals funny language )
Amazon’s Instant Pickup turns it into Argos
(tags: Amazon )
Same-sex couples do not influence their adoptive children's gender identity
(tags: lgbt gender children )
Video presentation on C# 7
(tags: programming c# microsoft )
Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome (fascinating, and related to autism)
(tags: social anxiety autism psychology )
Red panda and bull amongst animals that escaped Edinburgh Zoo - one of which made it to Cramond!
(tags: zoo edinburgh animals fail )
America At The End of All Hypotheticals
(tags: freespeech nazis politics usa )
The companies who want to dissolve your dead body
(tags: death chemistry technology business )
Deep in the belly of a giant fiberglass triceratops, eight rare bats have made a home
(tags: bats dinosaurs )
SNP-Labour coalition in Edinburgh reveals plans for the next five years
(tags: Edinburgh )
More intelligent people are quicker to learn (and unlearn) social stereotypes
This would be me. I had to go through stereotypes and out the other side to get any kind of understanding of people.
(tags: stereotypes Intelligence )
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Interesting Links for 03-07-2017

Jul. 3rd, 2017 12:15 pm
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Inside Pakistan’s sex-toy industry
(tags: Pakistan sextoys sex viaElfy )
Most US women won't dine alone with opposite sex
(tags: women food society usa )
All aboard the dog train!
(tags: dogs video trains )
Ladybirds, ladybugs, and… cows? (Is there an award for least accurately named thing?)
(tags: language names insects )
British officials drop 'cake and eat it' approach to Brexit negotiations
(tags: politics UK europe )
New 'revenge porn' law comes into force in Scotland
(tags: scotland sex abuse photos law )
Hinkley Point: EDF raises cost estimate for nuclear plant
(tags: nuclearpower uk )
Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm to bees
(tags: bees )
Do passports restrict economic growth? (Spoilers: Yes)
(tags: immigration work economics history )
Poverty report offers robust advice to Scottish government
(tags: poverty scotland advice )
Vagina surgery sought by girls as young as nine
Seems like the obvious thing to do is to include pictures of a variety of real life examples in their sex education.
(tags: uk society porn Education girls women genitals )
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Interesting Links for 25-05-2017

May. 25th, 2017 12:00 pm
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Stop Calling It a 'Vagina'
(tags: genitals women vagina language )
Conservatives’ free school breakfast pledge costed at just 7p per meal
(tags: Conservatives food money OhForFucksSake )
Have a list of marketing tricks to avoid falling for
(tags: marketing psychology viaSwampers )
Researchers find dozens of genes (mildly) associated with measures of intelligence
(tags: Intelligence genetics )
Terrorism is mass murder with a media strategy; it’s long past time to disrupt it.
(tags: terrorism media )
Laffer curve: Everything Trump and Republicans get wrong about trickle-down economics
(tags: economics tax politics usa history )
What It's Like to Carry Your Nobel Prize through Airport Security
(tags: awards science physics security viaSwampers )
China Reaches the Moon Snapping Incredible, Never-Before-Seen High-Definition Images
(tags: moon china space photos viaDrJon )
Google starts tracking what you buy at stores in person
(tags: Google shopping surveillance )
A true, real, and accurate definition of the term "fanfiction"
(tags: fanfiction funny writing )
No, ‘The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct’ Hoax Doesn’t Prove Gender Studies Is Garbage
(tags: academia fraud fail viaSupergee )
Dog sits on the editorial boards of seven international medical journals
(tags: academia dogs fraud )
Study indicates mushrooms may be the safest recreational drug
(tags: psilocybin drugs safety )
Britain stops sharing Manchester attack intelligence with US after leaks continue
(tags: usa spying OhForFucksSake )
I am terrible with names, and would totally do this
(tags: names funny comic )
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Interesting Links for 27-11-2016

Nov. 27th, 2016 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 15-09-2016

Sep. 15th, 2016 12:00 pm
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A review of "Job Simulator" by someone unfortunate enough to still have a job.
(tags: jobs VirtualReality games thefuture satire inequality society )
Work begins on affordable housing project in Edinburgh
(tags: housing edinburgh )
Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet
(tags: internet security scary )
The Hail Cannon: A device which was fired at thunderstorms to disrupt the formation of hailstones
(tags: weather sound history )
Roguelike, Roguelikelike, Roguelikelikelike, Or Rogue?
(tags: games language names )
Matt Stone and Trey Parker Spill the Secret to Keeping South Park Cool
(tags: animation satire tv SouthPark )
IMDb Voters Are Downvoting Indie Movies Before They’re Even Released
(tags: movies reviews wtf )
A judge writes in clear, simple English so that those affected by his judgement can understand.
I wonder how much harder it is to write legal judgments like this.
(tags: law language explanations )
Hinkley Point: UK approves nuclear plant deal
(tags: nuclearpower uk )
Motherless babies possible as scientists create live offspring without need for female egg
(tags: children science men thefuture )
Grammar schools benefit rich, says OECD
(tags: school uk Education )
A 3D model of a clitoris – and the start of a sexual revolution
(tags: sex women biology genitals )
My favorite response to the GBBO apocalypse
(tags: tv uk funny cooking )
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Jun. 30th, 2016 12:00 pm
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