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Interesting Links for 19-12-2025
Dec. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Combining over 650 "Greatest Comic Book" lists to find the critical consensus on the 200 Greatest Comics of All Time
- (tags:viaLinkMachineGo comics recommendation )
- 2. Jury trial reforms: How did the court backlog get so bad?
- (tags:uk law austerity )
- 3. Facebook tests £9.99 monthly subscription for sharing more than two links
- (tags:facebook business )
- 4. Heart and Kidney Diseases, plus Type 2 Diabetes, May Be One Illness
- (tags:heart disease diabetes )
- 5. Christian couple who believe homosexuality is 'wrong' blocked from fostering children (case went to the high court)
- (tags:bigotry adoption LGBT UK religion )
- 6. 2025 in polls
- (tags:uk polls politics )
- 7. £100 UK contactless card limit to be lifted from March
- (tags:uk money Technology )
- 8. YouTube bans two popular channels that created fake AI movie trailers
- (tags:youtube ai trailers fraud )
- 9. How Dinosaurs Thrived in the Snow
- (tags:dinosaurs snow weather cold )
Interesting Links for 09-12-2025
Dec. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Tribunal dismisses Sandie Peggie's claims against trans doctor (but finds NHS Fife did harass her)
- (tags:transgender LGBT law UK NHS GoodNews )
- 2. "The Matilda Effect": How Pioneering Women Scientists Have Been Written Out of Science History
- (tags:science women history patriarchy )
- 3. SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System
- (tags:immune_system Pandemic doom heart )
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- patriarchy,
- science,
- transgender,
- uk,
- women
Interesting Links for 10-11-2025
Nov. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
- (tags:politics fascism ElonMusk twitter bias )
- 2. James Watson: From DNA pioneer to untouchable pariah
- (tags:biography DNA history viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani
- (tags:politics usa satire funny )
- 4. Reminder that the New York Times regularly prints hateful nonsense (an article about someone they tried to interview about Zohran Mamdani)
- (tags:politics newyork journalism OhForFucksSake USA viaKenny )
- 5. A bunch of engineers built a drifting wheelchair for an injured coworker. It looks awesome.
- (tags:disability engineering video )
- 6. The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system
- (tags:biology genetics earth )
- 7. Meet the teen behind the Louvre 'Fedora Man' mystery photo
- (tags:france police photos crime Paris style )
- 8. New flu virus mutation could see 'worst season in a decade' (get your vaccinations!)
- (tags:flu doom )
- 9. Long-term Melatonin use associated with much higher risk of heart problems and death
- (tags:medicine heart )
- 10. Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake
- (tags:usa politics )
- 11. Scotland's first commercial windfarm will be able to deliver five times more clean power than before after being upgraded
- (tags:scotland windpower GoodNews )
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- usa,
- viakenny,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- video,
- windpower
Interesting Links for 23-07-2025
Jul. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour has brought back Section 28, here's how it will harm children
- (tags:children education Labour OhForFucksSake bigotry transgender UK )
- 2. The Louder the Monkey, the Smaller Its Balls, Study Finds
- (tags:monkeys genitals science )
- 3. Labour ministers lying about Scottish water quality to make it look like privatisation isn't the problem
- (tags:Scotland UK England Labour lies water privatisation )
- 4. French Press Association journalists in Gaza are starving to death
- (tags:Israel gaza Palestine OhForFucksSake journalism food )
- 5. metabolite produced by gut bacteria is a driver of atherosclerosis, the disease behind most heart attacks and strokes.
- (tags:heart disease microbiome )
- 6. Why Facts Don't Change Minds in the Culture Wars—Structure Does
- (tags:belief discussion communication )
- 7. The US is erasing women from the top ranks of the military
- (tags:usa military misogyny OhForFucksSake )
- 8. Why you can't color calibrate (deep) space photos
- (tags:space colour photography )
- 9. Countries across the world see food price shocks from climate extremes
- (tags:food prices doom globalwarming )
- 10. If somebody is doing a good thing, and you try to force them to do a different, better thing, they usually end up doing neither
- (tags:communication management organisation )
- 11. Whites-only communities are spreading in the USA
- (tags:USA racism )
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- usa,
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Interesting Links for 01-05-2024
May. 1st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Trans women have been on female wards for decades. Kier Starmer wants to end that
- (tags:LGBT NHS transgender labour OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Many Welsh anti-20mph campaign groups are run by Tory politicians.... who live in England....and support 20mph where they live....
- (tags:conservatives Wales speed hypocrisy )
- 3. How to increase your chances of survival from a heart attack when alone
- (tags:heart health )
- 4. Who dresses better - Piers Morgan or Kermit The Frog?
- (tags:clothing Muppets )
- 5. U.S. to require automatic emergency braking on new vehicles in 5 years
- (tags:cars safety usa regulation )
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- regulation,
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- speed,
- transgender,
- usa,
- wales
Interesting Links for 11-03-2024
Mar. 11th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Children with lazy eyes at higher risk of developing diabetes, heart disease and other serious health conditions later in life
- (tags:disease eyes heart )
- 2. Plastic Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques From Clogged Arteries (increases risk of strokes and heart attacks more than 4x)
- (tags:plastic heart stroke disease doom )
- 3. Really in-depth look at the past, present and future of Moore's Law
- (tags:technology history thefuture cpu processor )
- 4. Princess of Wales: Kate image withdrawn by four news agencies amid manipulation concerns
- (tags:monarchy UK fraud photo )
- 5. "This is just weird": BuzzFeed News' former royals reporter on Kate Middleton, Palace PR, and distrust in the media
- (tags:journalism monarchy conspiracy UK )
- 6. "AI gives the news you need" (a short story)
- (tags:ai short_story scifi )
- 7. CaltonHillitus - this chronic condition affects hundreds of photographers.
- (tags:photography photos edinburgh )
- 8. Lead in gasoline blunted IQ of half the U.S. population, study says
- (tags:lead Intelligence usa )
- 9. LocaLSend - Share files to nearby devices. Free, open-source, cross-platform. (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android)
- (tags:sharing Technology )
- 10. One quarter of adult children estranged from a parent
- (tags:children parents )
- 11. Single dose of LSD provides immediate, lasting anxiety relief
- (tags:anxiety lsd )
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Interesting Links for 06-03-2024
Mar. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. French decision to protect right to abortion shows 'real fear far-right populists could gain power'
- (tags:abortion rights France )
- 2. How much effort it takes to clean a professional kitchen (and how much the cook will hate you if you walk in 10 minutes before closing)
- (tags:restaurant cleaning )
- 3. More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved
- (tags:research academia fail viaPatrickHadfield )
- 4. Why Edinburgh's potholes are winning
- (tags:edinburgh roads weight )
- 5. How Hugo ballots used to be counted
- (tags:software hugo awards )
- 6. Sugary drinks increase your risk of a heart condition by 10%. Drinks with sweeteners raise it by 20%
- (tags:sugar drink heart doom )
- 7. The man who spends £8,500 a year to live on a train
- (tags:trains germany viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. This is The Longest Train Route in the World (as of 2024)
- (tags:trains china Russia Spain Portugal )
- 9. What is your objective?
- (tags:advice life )
- 10. European Court of Human Rights Confirms: Weakening Encryption Violates Fundamental Rights
- (tags:encryption privacy Europe rights )
- 11. Racism is embedded in LLMs (in this case, based on dialect)
- (tags:racism ai )
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Interesting Links for 25-10-2023
Oct. 25th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Cap on bankers' bonuses to be scrapped next week in post-Brexit shake-up of financial rules
- (tags:tax bonus uk banking )
- 2. COVID's Damage Lingers in the Heart
- (tags:pandemic inflammation heart )
- 3. Amazon Let Its Drivers' Urine Be Sold as an Energy Drink
- (tags:amazon urine )
- 4. Large language models and copyright, what next?
- (tags:copyright ai )
- 5. Women's Pockets are Inferior. As proven with science!
- (tags:women clothing patriarchy viaPatrickHadfield )
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Interesting Links for 01-10-2023
Oct. 1st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Megget Reservoir: The valley quenching Edinburgh's thirst
- (tags:history Edinburgh water Scotland )
- 2. Netflix ships last DVD
- (tags:Netflix DVD )
- 3. Everything Should Be As Easy to Upgrade As the Steam Deck
- (tags:technology hardware regulation )
- 4. Short-term lets licensing scheme comes into force in Scotland
- (tags:Scotland rental housing GoodNews )
- 5. Covid infection triggers inflammatory responses in human coronary vessels
- (tags:blood heart Pandemic inflammation )
- 6. 17 Edinburgh transport projects coming down the track
- (tags:Edinburgh transport thefuture )
Interesting Links for 02-09-2023
Sep. 2nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. MPs call for magic mushrooms and psychedelic drugs to be downgraded (and consumption rooms to be trialled)
- (tags:psychopath drugs law UK )
- 2. Astoundingly, giving money to homeless people helps them.
- (tags:GuaranteedIncome homelessness )
- 3. Musk's changes at Twitter helped spread Russian propaganda
- (tags:Russia propaganda Twitter )
- 4. The algorithm that blew up Italy's school system
- (tags:computers teaching Italy OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Higher Intakes of Potassium and Magnesium, but Not Lower Sodium, Reduce Cardiovascular Risk
- (tags:heart health )
- 6. US, UK: Please take a moment to contact your elected officials!
- (tags:uk usa censorship web )
- 7. Our Human Ancestors Very Nearly Went Extinct 900,000 Years Ago, Genetics Suggest, With A Population of less than 1,300
- (tags:prehistory genetics humans )
- 8. The 'bank of family' is deeply unfair - and not the answer to the housing crisis
- (tags:uk housing inequality )
- 9. Will post-Brexit food checks ever happen?
- (tags:food uk europe )
- 10. Happy 20th birthday to Badger Badger Badger!
- (tags:meme badgers history viaEatSoylentGreen )
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- prehistory,
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- russia,
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- twitter,
- uk,
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- viaeatsoylentgreen,
- web
Interesting Links for 22-02-2023
Feb. 22nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. I could hear the Indiana Jones music watching this, even with the sound off
- (tags:video indianajones music )
- 2. The seven ways the matter of Brexit and the island of Ireland can be ultimately resolved
- (tags:Ireland UK Europe trade )
- 3. Brexit and the UK's tomato shortage
- (tags:UK Europe trade vegetables epicfail )
- 4. CNN on Rowling's history of anti-trans comments
- (tags:lgbt transgender jkrowling bigotry )
- 5. Why disabled people answer questionnaires wrongly. (Because they're supposed to be filled in by medical professionals, but cutbacks mean they aren't)
- (tags:disability questions OhForFucksSake austerity autism )
- 6. Unvaccinated more likely to have heart attack, stroke after COVID
- (tags:vaccination heart health Pandemic )
- 7. Three social failure modes
- (tags:social fail communication )
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- ohforfuckssake,
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- uk,
- vaccination,
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Interesting Links for 23-11-2022
Nov. 23rd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Nigel Farage Has Praised Keir Starmer's Speech On Immigration
- (tags:immigration labour UKIP OhForFucksSake )
- 2. The Return of James Cameron, Box Office King (and his movie, that will almost certainly not make a profit)
- (tags:movies jamescameron space )
- 3. Red panda eating grapes is terribly cute
- (tags:cute panda video )
- 4. Tesla builds Europe's largest battery near Dogger Bank offshore wind power landfall
- (tags:batteries UK windpower Tesla )
- 5. God of War: Ragnarok contains a tribute to the real life love, and death, of one of their developers
- (tags:death love games )
- 6. The Scottish government cannot hold an independence referendum without UK government's consent, the Supreme Court has ruled
- (tags:scotland independence uk law )
- 7. More relaxed immigration policies could win over UK swing voters
- (tags:immigration uk polls GoodNews )
- 8. Meta researchers create AI that masters Diplomacy, tricking human players
- (tags:games diplomacy ai )
- 9. Brain structure changes during pregnancy, returning to its original state a year after birth
- (tags:brain pregnancy )
- 10. Studies on "good" cholesterol only included white participants, the results don't seem to hold more generally
- (tags:race research health heart )
Interesting Links for 10-10-2022
Oct. 10th, 2022 12:00 pm- 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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Catch-up links for 12/9/2022
Sep. 15th, 2022 09:01 am- 1. Even in death the Queen's taste in music is impeccable
- (tags:music Queen video funny )
- 2. Depluralising films
- (tags:language mathematics movies funny )
- 3. Persistent cardiac symptoms in individuals with mild initial COVID-19
- (tags:Pandemic heart Doom )
- 4. A collection of black girls seeing The Little Mermaid trailer
- (tags:Disney race children trailer video )
- 5. Arrested after asking "who elected him?" at the proclamation of King Charles
- (tags:democracy protests monarchy uk OhForFucksSake police )
- 6. This is now my favourite story about The Queen
- (tags:queen tourism video )
Interesting Links for 28-08-2022
Aug. 28th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Some bleak truths for Britain
- (tags:UK Doom economics )
- 2. 'A Dream of a Thousand Cats' - from comic to fully painted animation
- (tags:animation cats sandman painting TV )
- 3. Trump: national security threat - 30 examples
- (tags:security politics republicans USA viaPatrickHadfield )
- 4. Netflix's main criteria for renewal is number of people who complete a series in 28 days. Savouring a show thus leads to its cancellation
- (tags:Netflix algorithms OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Britain's civil rights history is often overshadowed by America's, but we had a bus boycott too
- (tags:UK rights racism history )
- 6. Cardiac patients die less when their doctors are away at conferences
- (tags:heart healthcare )
- 7. Derinkuyu: Strange underground city found in man's basement
- (tags:Turkey cities archeology )
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Interesting Links for 19-07-2022
Jul. 19th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Forests Now Cover 2% of Iceland (up 6x since 1990)
- (tags:iceland forests )
- 2. A new milestone in augmented reality: Functional contact lenses
- (tags:augmentedreality contact_lenses Technology impressive )
- 3. Want to be an artist? Having millionaire parents *really* helps!
- (tags:wealth inequality art )
- 4. Keir Starmer rules out 'any agreement' with the Lib Dems after next election
- (tags:labour libdem OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Mint is not a necessary part of toothpaste. If you don't like it then feel free to use other flavours
- (tags:teeth health )
- 6. The future of sports: Revealed!
- (tags:sports technology funny video )
- 7. Ballet imposes gender roles on dancers
- (tags:gender dance ballet )
- 8. Audiobooks or Reading? To Our Brains, It Doesn't Matter
- (tags:reading audio brains psychology books )
- 9. Stray, a game where you play as a cat in a world populated by robots is clearly not going to make any money at all
- (tags:games cats review video )
- 10. Scientists design contraceptives to limit grey squirrels
- (tags:squirrel UK contraceptive fertility )
- 11. Cheese reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart failure, coronary heart disease, hypertension, and ischemic stroke
- (tags:cheese health heart diabetes )
- 12. Heat wave kills more than 1,100 people in Spain and Portugal
- (tags:heat globalwarming death spain portugal )
- 13. UK set to have world's biggest automated drone superhighway
- (tags:drone uk )
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Interesting Links for 09-03-2022
Mar. 9th, 2022 12:00 pm- Replace saturated fats with unsaturated ones, not with carbs and sugars
- (tags:fat heart health diet carbohydrates sugar )
- The most complete family tree of all of humanity has been created
- (tags:humans family genetics )
- Gender pay gap bot lets you know how hypocritical employers are on International Women's Day
- (tags:women pay inequality viaSwampers bots )
- Some polling on whether Russians support the Ukraine invasion
- (tags:Ukraine Russia polls war )
- Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic
- (tags:antarctic history ship )
- 'Genius' Twitter 'bot' reveals gender pay gaps of brands celebrating International Women's Day
- (tags:gender pay inequality funny )
- To understand Russia, you need to understand that it's a Mafia-run economy
- (tags:russia crime mafia economy viaDanielDWilliam )
- EU Buried Its Own $400,000 Study Showing Unauthorized Downloads Have Almost No Effect On Sales (2017)
- (tags:europe piracy copyright business )
- Scientists reverse ageing in elderly mice by rejuvenating their tissues
- (tags:age mice )
- Mouse born from unfertilised egg - without sperm - survives to adulthood, gives birth to healthy pups
- (tags:childbirth biology mice )
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