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Interesting Links for 08-04-2026
Apr. 8th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. If you're wondering when the oil shortages are going to bite, ths map on this page is very helpful
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- 2. German rollout of renewables is decoupling the price from that of gas.
- (tags:germany renewables GoodNews )
- 3. Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026
- (tags:uk renewables GoodNews solarpower windpower electricity )
- 4. Native Americans had dice and games of probability before other cultures (about 12,000 years ago)
- (tags:dice America prehistory )
- 5. Longwell Green Women's Institute closes after 62 years because of transgender ban
- (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake women UK )
- 6. The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki
- (tags:ghibli art history )
- 7. Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others
- (tags:Intelligence )
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Interesting Links for 26-03-2026
Mar. 26th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. UK 'runs out' of warships - leaving Germany to take over key Nato mission
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- 2. UK confirms ban on cryptocurrency donations and limit on foreign donors in blow for Reform
- (tags:UK politics money reform regulation )
- 3. Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk
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- 4. UK university students are being paid to support Chinese propaganda
- (tags:china uk propaganda university )
- 5. Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever — in the back of CERN's truck
- (tags:physics antimatter viaSwampers )
- 6. Democrat wins Florida state seat containing Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate (over 20% change)
- (tags:hope elections USA politics )
- 7. UK car and steel firms fear being frozen out of 'Made in Europe' deals by EU
- (tags:Europe UK trade manufacturing doom )
- 8. The Revolutionary Guards are taking over Iran (control has fragmented and there is nobody to negotiate with)
- (tags:Iran military USA OhForFucksSake war )
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Interesting Links for 20-03-2026
Mar. 20th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Earth's first mass extinction may have been far worse than believed
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- 2. People using AI to give law advice finally reaches Scotland.
- (tags:ai law scotland )
- 3. Denmark was preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations.
- (tags:war usa norway germany france denmark )
- 4. This perfectly encapsulates why I won't surf the web without an ad-blocker
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- 5. How *did* a multi-storey car park get built in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle?
- (tags:edinburgh cars history )
- 6. Waymo self driving cars are 13x safer than humans
- (tags:safety automation driving cars )
- 7. Police Scotland announce they don't want trans people to report any crimes
- (tags:transgender LGBT bigotry OhForFucksSake Scotland )
- 8. The change that made lighthouses work much better - and why it drove the keepers mad. (Lots and lots of mercury)
- (tags:mercury light history safety ships )
- 9. Gen Z is broke, stressed and exhausted - but boomers won't accept it
- (tags:stress society doom )
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Interesting Links for 16-12-2025
Dec. 16th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Vocabulary Test: How Many English Words Do You Know? (I scored 21,900, above 92% of native speakers)
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- 2. I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
- (tags:kenya english language ai style )
- 3. The giant heat pumps designed to warm whole districts (in Germany. UK is miles behind)
- (tags:heating Technology germany )
- 4. Hungary is leading the world in solar adoption (25% of its electricity is solar)
- (tags:solarpower hungary europe )
Interesting Links for 07-12-2025
Dec. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Tides are weirder than you think
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- 2. Zuckerberg Basically Giving Up on Metaverse... After Renaming Entire Company "Meta"
- (tags:Facebook VirtualReality )
- 3. Reminder that the UK just had independent ADHD investigation which found it was under diagnosed and under supported.
- (tags:UK ADHD healthcare NHS )
- 4. Trans Holocaust History
- (tags:history LGBT transgender holocaust Germany Nazis )
- 5. America has identified its greatest enemy: Western Europe
- (tags:USA politics racism Europe )
- 6. Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image
- (tags:trains ai fraud photos )
Interesting Links for 07-10-2025
Oct. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
- (tags:solarpower germany )
- 2. UK families to save hundreds of pounds in major homebuying overhaul
- (tags:housing uk regulation GoodNews )
- 3. Edinburgh's "Auld Hoose" pub is up for rent, if anyone fancies running one of my old favourite pubs
- (tags:pubs edinburgh )
- 4. Australian experts review The Cass Review and find it full of 'stigma and misinformation'
- (tags:LGBT transgender healthcare bigotry UK Australia )
- 5. Global solar power grows 31% as coal use drops
- (tags:renewables coal electricity GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 25-08-2025
Aug. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Oldest Unopened Bottle of Wine in the World (Circa 350 AD)
- (tags:wine archeology rome Germany )
- 2. 26% of recent posts on Brexit and Scot independence are made by Iran
- (tags:iran disinformation internet UK Scotland Europe independence )
- 3. For some people, music doesn't connect with any of the brain's reward circuits
- (tags:music happiness psychology )
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Interesting Links for 09-08-2025
Aug. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How to make a carpet (hypnotizing video)
- (tags:video craft impressive )
- 2. How Britain became the libel capital of the world
- (tags:law libel uk history OhForFucksSake viaKenny )
- 3. A business card that runs a fluid simulation
- (tags:business advertising impressive technology )
- 4. Research: When Juggling Work and Family, Women Offer More Emotional Support Than Men
- (tags:women men work family support research )
- 5. Germany halts military exports to Israel for use in Gaza
- (tags:Germany Israel gaza trade )
- 6. Students who listened to material scored worse than those who read it
- (tags:reading hearing learning psychology )
- 7. The new ChatGPT is less personal sounding than the old one. The women with AI boyfriends are not happy.
- (tags:AI relationships )
Interesting Links for 08-07-2025
Jul. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 7 Engineers Suspended After $2.3 Million Bridge Includes Bizarre 90-Degree Turn
- (tags:architecture design epicfail India )
- 2. Edinburgh Airport liquid limit increased from 100ml to two litres
- (tags:airport security Technology )
- 3. The Time Someone Plagiarized Calvin & Hobbes and Nobody Noticed or Cared
- (tags:comics plagiarism history art ai )
- 4. Turns out a great way to get children to want to learn their times tables is to set them to pop songs
- (tags:numbers video music )
- 5. Employers to be banned from silencing harassed or abused staff
- (tags:regulation abuse work UK law )
- 6. Some English children are living in 'Dickensian' poverty, says commissioner
- (tags:england poverty children OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Electricity from large solar arrays with batteries now cheaper than from fossil plants in Germany
- (tags:electricity solarpower batteries germany GoodNews )
- 8. O Fortuna Misheard Lyrics
- (tags:music hearing words illusion funny video )
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Interesting Links for 02-06-2025
Jun. 2nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Legalise Cannabis, save lives: it's time to take power back from criminal gangs
- (tags:marijuana legalisation )
- 2. Church of Scotland membership down by 1/3 in the last decade (5% in the last year). 59% of members are aged 65+ (see section 27.1)
- (tags:scotland religion )
- 3. This is pretty-much how I feel about souls
- (tags:comic philosophy )
- 4. The Best Part of Researching Trans History Is When I'm Wrong (discovering the unlikely happy ending for the trans woman born in 1892)
- (tags:transgender history nazis lgbt germany Czechoslovakia )
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Interesting Links for 27-05-2025
May. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The US health system is now overseen by vaccine deniers. The effects are entirely predictable
- (tags:disease pandemic usa vaccines doom )
- 2. Hong Kong children urged to get Covid jabs as 'whole paediatric ward full'
- (tags:pandemic HongKong china children doom vaccination )
- 3. An Oral History of 'Lilo & Stitch' (the original)
- (tags:animation movies Disney Hawaii history )
- 4. German court rules cookie banners must offer "reject all" button (if they have an "accept all" button)
- (tags:cookies surveillance germany dataprotection GoodNews )
- 5. It makes no sense to cut funding to mental health services when that costs you money in the long run.
- (tags:mentalhealth money edinburgh )
- 6. How much energy does AI use?
- (tags:ai electricity )
- 7. Owls! in! Towels!
- (tags:owls cute photos )
- 8. Explaining a 31-month sentence for a tweet
- (tags:racism riots uk law )
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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 27-04-2025
Apr. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem
- (tags:protest politics USA law jobs )
- 2. Statement on the Genocidal Nature of the Gender Critical Movement's Ideology and Practice
- (tags:genocide transgender LGBT )
- 3. Recreating the Mini Motorways game as a functional 3D printed map
- (tags:games transport 3dprinting viaSwampers )
- 4. Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and USA (raising money through an auction)
- (tags:scifi fandom auctions transgender rights LGBT )
- 5. The record-breaking tunnel being built from Denmark to Germany
- (tags:Denmark Germany tunnel )
- 6. Mike Lindell's lawyers used AI to write brief—judge finds nearly 30 mistakes
- (tags:law ai epicfail )
- 7. Stimming increases self-efficacy in autistic people
- (tags:psychology autism )
- 8. "I have lived on an Edinburgh canal boat for nearly five years and I have no plans to jump ashore"
- (tags:housing boats Edinburgh Scotland )
Interesting Links for 26-03-2025
Mar. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Cute Japanese mascots squeezing through tight spaces!
- (tags:cute japan photos viaSwampers )
- 2. UK on alert after H5N1 bird flu spills over to sheep in world-first
- (tags:uk disease birds sheep )
- 3. Labour should follow German plan for economic investment
- (tags:uk germany economy investment austerity )
- 4. Tesla deliveries down 43% in Europe while EVs are up 31%
- (tags:Tesla electricity cars business europe )
- 5. UK Schools to run anti-misogyny classes for boys in bid to tackle rising toxic masculinity
- (tags:school UK teenagers boys misogyny )
- 6. Universal Coronavirus Vaccine Breakthrough: A Single Shot That Could Protect You From COVID, MERS, and the Common Cold (in animal studies so far)
- (tags:disease vaccine research viaPatrickHadfield )
- 7. Discrimination and autism: an analysis from a queer, autistic woman
- (tags:autism society )
Interesting Links for 21-03-2025
Mar. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. EU sends Apple first DMA interoperability instructions for apps and connected devices
- (tags:Europe apple regulation )
- 2. Big drop in overseas students at Scottish universities (driven by changes in immigration visas)
- (tags:scotland university uk migration visa doom )
- 3. "We'll deport you if we have evidence against you, and if we do not" - An extraordinary witness statement by the US government
- (tags:usa migration OhForFucksSake law )
- 4. New study reveals bacterial vaginosis is actually a sexually transmitted infection
- (tags:sex disease women viaDrJon )
- 5. Vivian Jenna Wilson on Being Elon Musk's Estranged Daughter, Protecting Trans Youth and Taking on the Right Online
- (tags:LGBT transgender ElonMusk USA politics bigotry )
- 6. PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
- (tags:games computers )
- 7. Tesla cars disengage autopilot if you're about to crash
- (tags:Tesla automation OhForFucksSake driving crash )
- 8. Battery storage is dramatically reshaping the California grid, and finally moving it away from gas
- (tags:batteries electricity GoodNews California )
- 9. What evidence does the CIA have that Hitler was still alive in South America in the 1950s?
- (tags:history hitler USA cia colombia wtf )
- 10. Apple Is Losing Over $1 Billion per Year on Streaming Service, Has 45 Million Apple TV+ Subscribers
- (tags:Apple TV business )
- 11. I thankfully don't have to worry about dating apps. But I do find it fascinating what kind of person makes them work for them.
- (tags:dating advice )
- 12. Germany and Britain issue warnings about traveling to America
- (tags:usa travel germany uk )
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Interesting Links for 11-03-2025
Mar. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. British cartoonist R.E. Burke detained by ICE on backpacking trip
- (tags:travel usa OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
- (tags:economics USA doom funny )
- 3. What is mathematics?
- (tags:mathematics )
- 4. New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review
- (tags:Germany Austria Switzerland transgender healthcare LGBT )
- 5. A short list of things that will be just fine.
- (tags:hope thefuture )
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Interesting Links for 14-02-2025
Feb. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Why the UK's Public Finances are in Even Worse Shape than You Think (A different measure of the economy that shows how bad things have gotten over the last few decades)
- (tags:UK economics video doom )
- 2. What language do the British people find offensive?
- (tags:language offensive UK swearing viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Statement on Ukraine by Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, the European External Action Service and the European Commission
- (tags:Ukraine Europe uk )
- 4. US Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.
- (tags:USA economics statistics poverty )
- 5. The one true test of whether something is a sandwich
- (tags:ontology food )
- 6. A 'True Crime' Documentary Series Has Millions of Views. The Murders Are All AI-Generated
- (tags:crime fraud ai lies viaPatrickHadfield )
- 7. German Navy Says Warships Were Sabotaged, Warns of Russian Threat
- (tags:germany navy russia sabotage ships )
Interesting Links for 10-01-2025
Jan. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. On the Depressing Doings of Trillion Dollar Companies, January 2025 Edition
- (tags:facebook twitter politics socialnetworking )
- 2. Edinburgh's Gorgie farm: New operators set to be approved (no animals on the site)
- (tags:farm Edinburgh )
- 3. How Elon Musk seized on baseless memo claim to create wave of misinformation
- (tags:fraud ElonMusk UK children rape OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Leaked Meta Training: Users Are Free to Post "Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!" or "Trans People Are Immoral"
- (tags:bigotry Facebook OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES
- (tags:funny anime relationships review dolls )
- 6. Posts shared across Facebook claim to show the average energy costs for different European countries. They don't.
- (tags:disinformation energy money europe )
- 7. Price of resale tickets to be capped under plans to tackle touts
- (tags:uk business economics music concerts tickets )
- 8. Can a Dutch case about RSS teach us anything about AI copyright?
- (tags:ai copyright rss law computers europe )
- 9. The metabolism myth - and why exercise won't make you thinner
- (tags:exercise metabolism diet health )
- 10. How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
- (tags:history germany nazis politics democracy )
- 11. The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize
- (tags:uk empire history )
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