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Interesting Links for 31-12-2025
Dec. 31st, 2025 12:00 pmTags:
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- uk,
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- water
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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- psychology,
- rome,
- scotland,
- uk,
- wine
Interesting Links for 28-03-2025
Mar. 28th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Art projected onto The National Gallery of Scotland
- (tags:art edinburgh scotland )
- 2. Why I recommend against Brave Browser
- (tags:browser advertising fraud )
- 3. Nintendo's new system for sharing digital Switch games, explained
- (tags:games Nintendo )
- 4. New research shows that monogamy is just as good as polyamory
- (tags:research relationships happiness polyamory ViaDrCross )
- 5. Two-way traffic returns to Edinburgh's North Bridge ahead of schedule
- (tags:edinburgh transport )
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Interesting Links for 19-03-2025
Mar. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. I am very amused to discover that I'm distantly related to Magnus Hirschfeld.
- (tags:lgbt history sex family )
- 2. Why does every book come from the same country? And why is its capital city Swindon?
- (tags:books viaSwampers numbers )
- 3. Basic Woman's Entire Personality Revolves Around Things She Enjoys
- (tags:happiness satire funny )
- 4. How Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
- (tags:apple OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Naoshima - Japan's island of art
- (tags:japan art )
- 6. Benefit cuts aren't going to help.
- (tags:welfare uk OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 07-11-2024
Nov. 7th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. America Defeats America - The Onion
- (tags:USA politics satire )
- 2. South Korea is having social issues
- (tags:society Korea women doom )
- 3. Because drama attracts more people I rarely see happy relationship things. It's delightful to see examples of couples being in deeply in love.
- (tags:love happiness relationships )
- 4. Some positive results from the 2024 elections
- (tags:USA elections GoodNews )
- 5. I tracked down the guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing for over 8,000 hours, and came away convinced he was right
- (tags:games review )
- 6. New technology allows you to look like anyone, in video, in realtime.
- (tags:video faces lighting Technology )
- 7. How are people reacting to the Trump election (broken down by age and gender)
- (tags:polls usa politics )
- 8. Why some people only get mild Covid, flu and colds
- (tags:pandemic disease inflammation immune_system colds flu )
Interesting Links for 13-05-2024
May. 13th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Terry Pratchett On Trans Folk
- (tags:transgender terrypratchett )
- 2. What's the difference between the British and Finnish welfare systems?
- (tags:welfare UK Finland )
- 3. Wes Streeting explains why Labour are fine with starving children
- (tags:Labour children welfare poverty OhForFucksSake )
- 4. What happened to the Great Library of Alexandria?
- (tags:library history )
- 5. 30,000 rare oysters being reintroduced to Firth of Forth
- (tags:Scotland seafood nature )
- 6. Small nuclear reactors don't add up as a viable energy source
- (tags:nuclearpower economics )
- 7. Internet use is linked to higher wellbeing
- (tags:happiness internet )
- 8. Economic performance is stronger when Democrats hold the White House
- (tags:economics usa republicans democrats politics )
- 9. The Aurora Borealis from Calton Hill, Edinburgh.
- (tags:edinburgh auroraborealis photos )
- 10. Scientists document remarkable sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet'
- (tags:whales speech language )
- 11. Have no doubt: we are at war with Russia
- (tags:russia war )
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- photos,
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- terrypratchett,
- transgender,
- uk,
- usa,
- war,
- welfare,
- whales
Interesting Links for 24-02-2024
Feb. 24th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The first round of U.S. secondary sanctions on Russia is working
- (tags:USA Russia money war Ukraine )
- 2. "Our Company Is Doing So Well That You're All Fired"
- (tags:business satire unemployment funny )
- 3. Water firms allowed to dump sewage into rivers using permits from the 1950s
- (tags:UK water pollution regulation OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Monsterfucking is out. Monsterparenting is in.
- (tags:monsters parenting funny stories )
- 5. Germany's Bundestag votes for cannabis legalization
- (tags:Germany marijuana legalisation GoodNews )
- 6. What's going on with the collapsed culvert at Cameron Toll?
- (tags:roads river Edinburgh )
- 7. Study finds that returning to the office doesn't improve company value, but does make employees miserable
- (tags:business work office happiness )
Interesting Links for 09-02-2024
Feb. 9th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Debunking common attacks on transgender people
- (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry debunking )
- 2. Survey of 90,000 trans people shows increased life satisfaction after transition
- (tags:transgender happiness psychology society USA )
- 3. Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
- (tags:led colour technology history video )
- 4. Blizzard are an absolutely terrible company and nobody should ever work for them
- (tags:games jobs OhForFucksSake )
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- games,
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- ohforfuckssake,
- psychology,
- society,
- technology,
- transgender,
- usa,
- video
Interesting Links for 09-01-2024
Jan. 9th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What really has a 1 in a million chance?
- (tags:statistics )
- 2. Recollections of the Holodomor (when Russia starved 4 million Ukranians to death)
- (tags:genocide food ukraine russia )
- 3. Visualising 1 million (If you've always wanted to see a million circles in one image, this is your big moment.)
- (tags:numbers )
- 4. "Are you having fun, son?" - a rambling post about extracting happiness from the world
- (tags:happiness )
Interesting Links for 02-11-2023
Nov. 2nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. A Jewish woman finds that staff at The Guardian are about as compassionate as you'd expect
- (tags:Jews guardian Israel Palestine OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Latest Long Covid research update
- (tags:Pandemic )
- 3. Giant white stag made of boulders re-emerges on Aberdeenshire hill
- (tags:Scotland deer viaDanielDWilliam art )
- 4. Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations
- (tags:mathematics communication doctors )
- 5. The Family Recipes That Live On in Cemeteries
- (tags:death recipe )
- 6. City of Edinburgh Council set to declare housing emergency
- (tags:housing edinburgh )
- 7. Autumn colours in Scotland's woodlands, parks and streets
- (tags:autumn scotland photos )
- 8. Religious people have the most positive experiences. People in less religious countries have the most positive experiences. What a fascinating contradiction.
- (tags:religion experience happiness )
- 9. BT are going to remove 85 phone kiosks from Edinburgh, clearing up a bunch of vandalised eyesores.
- (tags:edinburgh phones )
- 10. "I'm only going to have sober sex - even one drink can ruin it"
- (tags:sex alcohol )
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Interesting Links for 21-08-2023
Aug. 21st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. West Virginia can't require incarcerated atheist to participate in religious programming
- (tags:atheism religion USA law prison viaSwampers )
- 2. English Chess Federation will not exclude trans women
- (tags:LGBT chess UK viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. The ecological impact of wolf reintroduction to Britain.
- (tags:wolves ecology viaDanielDWilliam )
- 4. Why does global warming lead to both droughts and flooding?
- (tags:globalwarming disaster flooding drought )
- 5. Artists have forgotten how to draw
- (tags:art education drawing )
- 6. Saying Hello To Your Neighbors Linked to Higher Wellbeing, but With Limits
- (tags:happiness health community psychology )
- 7. Two Drums and a Cymbal Fall off a Cliff
- (tags:funny video jokes )
- 8. I am really delighted by how well Rick Astley has done recently. (Here pulled into an impromptu collaboration with the Foo Fighters)
- (tags:music rickroll video viaDanielDWilliam )
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Interesting Links for 13-08-2023
Aug. 13th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Stop the 'forever wars' to end the refugee crisis
- (tags:Europe middle_east war asylum refugee )
- 2. What Disney could learn from the success of Nimona
- (tags:animation lgbt advice Disney )
- 3. There are currently no safe and legal routes by which to travel to the UK for the purpose of claiming asylum.
- (tags:asylum UK OhForFucksSake )
- 4. The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they're jacking up prices
- (tags:streaming TV business )
- 5. No regrets: Gender-affirming chest surgery in adults has long-term satisfaction
- (tags:surgery LGBT transgender happiness )
- 6. Students left in 'nightmare' accommodation as UK cities short of 620,000 beds by 2026
- (tags:housing UK students OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Safety posters from an alternate reality
- (tags:posters funny fantasy )
Interesting Links for 28-06-2023
Jun. 28th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Hybrid working has not hurt civil service productivity
- (tags:work efficiency )
- 2. Just how big is 52 factorial?
- (tags:mathematics video )
- 3. Thinking of yourself as being responsible for the animal (which is also you) can be a really powerful metaphor
- (tags:advice happiness animals training )
- 4. Colour-cycling pixel art is gorgeous
- (tags:animation colour art )
- 5. John Roberts has wrested back control of the US Supreme Court.
- (tags:USA law )
Interesting Links for 18-01-2023
Jan. 18th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The Parliamentary Inquiry into English Childcare is looking for feedback. If you're in England then have your say on the state of childcare
- (tags:children UK childcare )
- 2. Brexit has created shortage of 330,000 workers in UK
- (tags:UK work migration Doom Europe )
- 3. What was life like for a poor family in London in 1900?
- (tags:life history family poverty uk )
- 4. Edinburgh council starts taking work back from private contractors to improve quality of service and conditions for staff
- (tags:edinburgh work outsourcing )
- 5. Artists file class-action lawsuit against AI image generator companies
- (tags:ai images copyright )
- 6. What measurement system does the UK use? (ALL OF THEM!)
- (tags:measurement UK funny video )
- 7. How MPs voted on blocking Scotland's gender reform bill (Labour whipped to abstain)
- (tags:UK voting )
- 8. A look at the arguments the UK government has put forward for blocking Scotland's gender reform act
- (tags:Scotland UK law LGBT transgender viaDanielDWilliam )
- 9. What if you could be nudged to do the right thing? (Read on beyond the fake research writeup to the short story)
- (tags:scifi behaviour psychology happiness augmentedreality )
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Interesting Links for 27-09-2022
Sep. 27th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Labour members back calls for electoral reform
- (tags:voting reform labour )
- 2. Red Wall voters support changing voting system to proportional representation, by 47:12
- (tags:proportional_representation voting UK polls )
- 3. Idaho bans talking about abortion
- (tags:abortion USA OhForFucksSake censorship )
- 4. Animals Being Freed For The First Time (a video collection)
- (tags:animals video freedom )
- 5. The Tripitaka Koreana is an incredible feat
- (tags:religion history Korea Buddhism )
- 6. Abolishing non-dom tax status would raise more than £3.2bn each year
- (tags:tax uk )
- 7. The Polar Vortex is already destabilising, which could lead to some very cold periods this winter
- (tags:globalwarming winter weather arctic )
- 8. We live in a time of wonders, and yet nobody is happy
- (tags:comic funny manufacturing food happiness society )
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Interesting Links for 13-08-2022
Aug. 13th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The baseline that women will accept from a relationship is rising. Men need to skill up if they don't want to stay single
- (tags:relationships happiness communication )
- 2. The unlikely origin of the name "Fiona"
- (tags:names viaSwampers history Scotland transgender )
- 3. Samsung is above the law in South Korea
- (tags:Korea Samsung law corruption )
- 4. Adventurers and dragons and gold, oh my!
- (tags:funny blockchain fantasy dungeonsanddragons dragons )
- 5. Just how good is green screen work nowadays?
- (tags:cgi animation video viaPatrickHadfield )
- 6. The UK cannot leave the ECHR without breaching the Good Friday Agreement
- (tags:UK NorthernIreland rights Europe )
Interesting Links for 05-08-2022
Aug. 5th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The many levels of racism
- (tags:racism ontology )
- 2. Behind a nice conceit and good packaging, the Mr Men and Little Miss books are very, very bad
- (tags:books children )
- 3. Turning off the UK's analogue phone system is proving harder than they thought
- (tags:uk phones )
- 4. Putin is recruiting prisoners from Russian jails to fight on frontline in Ukraine
- (tags:russia ukraine war prison )
- 5. Edinburgh North Bridge to remain closed until 2025 after discovery of 'previously concealed' issues
- (tags:Edinburgh bridge )
- 6. How to really change someone's mind
- (tags:belief communication viaDanielDWilliam )
- 7. The monkeypox situation keeps getting worse - here's why
- (tags:monkey pandemic vaccination doom viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. Playing action video games boosts brain activity and decision-making skills
- (tags:videogames games psychology )
- 9. Apple retaliated against women who complained about rape, assault, and harrassment
- (tags:apple rape harrassment assault OhForFucksSake )
- 10. Who knew that watching fences being knitted would be so soothing
- (tags:video )
- 11. Summers are getting so hot in Florida that turtles there are mostly born female
- (tags:florida usa globalwarming turtle gender )
- 12. Scottish prosecutors angered by US criticism of record on child slavery
- (tags:scotland children slavery )
- 13. It's lovely to see sheer joy in playing with technology
- (tags:Technology weather viaSwampers touchscreen happiness )
- 14. What happens to Russian soldiers who refuse to continue fighting in Ukraine?
- (tags:ukraine russia military war viaDanielDWilliam )
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- monkey,
- ohforfuckssake,
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- pandemic,
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- scotland,
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- turtle,
- uk,
- ukraine,
- usa,
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- viadanieldwilliam,
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- war,
- weather
Interesting Links for 27-07-2022
Jul. 27th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Art designed to be zoomed in on
- (tags:art )
- 2. The business card that's also a DIY abortion kit
- (tags:abortion )
- 3. Porn makes men worse in bed - and women better
- (tags:porn sex )
- 4. SNP to consider raising Scotland school starting age to six years old
- (tags:school Scotland age )
- 5. Passenger gets stranded in Frankfurt airport when her flight is cancelled. All the white passengers get to go to hotels, she gets left with no food, water, or place to stay
- (tags:OhForFucksSake flying viaPatrickHadfield racism germany )
- 6. Gaming time has no link with levels of well-being
- (tags:gaming happiness mentalhealth psychology )
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- porn,
- psychology,
- racism,
- school,
- scotland,
- sex,
- viapatrickhadfield
Interesting Links for 17-07-2022
Jul. 17th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Follow-up questions for abortion ban supporters
- (tags:abortion politics )
- 2. A person-centred approach can help homeless people who have been failed for decades
- (tags:homelessness epicwin )
- 3. Person attempting to escape from police has clearly played too much GTA
- (tags:games gta video police )
- 4. Do you have a Third Place you can be? (Mine are entirely virtual)
- (tags:society psychology homes work happiness )
