- 1. Who wants some Indian rap-metal about cooking?
- (tags:food music video HeavyMetal )
- 2. A short summary of the Sandie Peggie V. Fife Health Board and Dr Beth Upton employment tribunal judgment
- (tags:transgender law UK GoodNews )
- 3. Did Nano Banana Pro Kill Photography or Just Photo Editing?
- (tags:ai photography video )
- 4. Clinic Closures Force More Rural Americans To Rely On Horse Who Stomps Twice When Patient Has Cancer
- (tags:USA healthcare horses cancer satire )
- 5. Study: Leaving Religion May Make You More Liberal
- (tags:politics liberal religion psychology )
- 6. UK issues sanctions against Russia amid accusations of information warfare
- (tags:uk russia disinformation )
- 7. Prenatal phenol exposure linked to child behaviour
- (tags:pollution behaviour children )
- 8. US to ask tourists for five-year social media history before entry
- (tags:socialmedia usa OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 02-05-2025
May. 2nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Summerisle Arcana - Wicker Man Inspired Tarot
- (tags:tarot horror movies )
- 2. Seattle Worldcon science fiction convention vets panelists with ChatGPT
- (tags:ai conventions scifi OhForFucksSake )
- 3. No One Knows What's Inside the Smallpox Vaccine
- (tags:disease history vaccines cows horses )
- 4. The White House's Plan For Reversing The Declining Birth Rate
- (tags:satire children usa politics )
- 5. For Women Scotland: a legal critique of the recent judgment on transgender rights
- (tags:LGBT transgender rights law UK )
- 6. US abandons $350bn debt claim in Ukraine minerals deal - but Trump hasn't noticed
- (tags:usa ukraine war trade )
- 7. AI extends the career of a porn actress. Also Jack Nicklaus, Snoop Dog, and KISS
- (tags:ai celebrity business )
- 8. 100 Men vs. 1 Gorilla: Primatologists Explain Who Would Win
- (tags:gorillas violence funny internet ViaDrCross )
- 9. How the UK Establishment Crushed Trans Rights
- (tags:LGBT transgender guardian DailyMail journalism UK politics bigotry )
- 10. How would zonal energy pricing work? (And why it would lower *everyone'ss* prices)
- (tags:electricity uk economics )
- 11. Rector wins appeal over St Andrews University Gaza row
- (tags:Scotland Israel gaza Palestine genocide university StAndrews freespeech )
- 12. Waymo automated taxies make the roads safer for bikes and pedestrians
- (tags:driving automation safety )
- 13. I finally understand why all those Soulslike bosses hated me so much, thanks to The Dark Queen of Mortholme, which pits you up against some plucky upstart who just keeps coming back
- (tags:games review )
- 14. Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits
- (tags:headline dragons law EpicWTF )
- 15. Do any of you like puzzles?
- (tags:puzzles )
Interesting Links for 05-04-2025
Apr. 5th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Musk Announces All 340 Million Americans Must Strip And Take Turn Pushing The Wheel Of Pain
- (tags:USA politics satire )
- 2. Nation Could Have Sworn Russell Brand Was Already Convicted Sex Offender
- (tags:satire rape celebrity )
- 3. The slow and painful death of horse racing in the UK
- (tags:horses gambling UK sports )
- 4. Probably the best explanation you'll see of how little sense Trump's tarrifs make
- (tags:economics idiocy USA politics )
- 5. The Sad Puppies Revisited: How the Hugo awards were gamed a decade ago
- (tags:history Hugo awards )
- 6. Trapping Images in Feedback Loops & Creating Fractal Galaxies
- (tags:fractal video )
- 7. How US-funded anti-abortion activism in the UK now threatens US-UK trade deal
- (tags:UK USA abortion religion Christianity )
Interesting Links for 13-06-2024
Jun. 13th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Exclusive Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined
- (tags:submarine epicfail safety OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Israel and Hamas added to UN list for violating children's rights
- (tags:children UnitedNations rights Israel Gaza )
- 3. MSPs approve buffer zones at abortion clinics in Scotland
- (tags:Scotland abuse abortion GoodNews )
- 4. Plans for 8,500-capacity Edinburgh Park arena approved by council
- (tags:Edinburgh music construction performance )
- 5. Real-Time Settlers Of Catan
- (tags:games )
- 6. NASA accidentally broadcasts simulation of distressed astronauts on space station (I don't see how this could happen, and it sounds like the start of a bad movie)
- (tags:NASA video conspiracy )
- 7. Where does SNP claim of £18bn cuts under Labour come from?
- (tags:Labour austerity OhForFucksSake )
- 8. Wild horses have returned to the Golden Steppe of Kazakhstan for the first time in at least 200 years
- (tags:horses kazakhstan )
- 9. Greatest Comics of All Time as Chosen by 45 Writers and Artists
- (tags:comics recommendation )
Interesting Links for 11-06-2024
Jun. 11th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. 4,000 years ago a mutation in horses made them easier to ride. Within 300 years we had spread them everywhere.
- (tags:horses europe prehistory genetics )
- 2. No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making huge strides.
- (tags:weather ai )
- 3. China Miéville Writes a Secret Novel With the Internet's Boyfriend (It's Keanu Reeves)
- (tags:KeanuReeves ChinaMieville writing )
- 4. How Norway's calm, cushy prisons put Britain's model to shame
- (tags:prison norway )
- 5. The Conservatives have overseen a 400% increase in sexual orientation hate crimes and a 1,400% increase in transphobic ones
- (tags:bigotry UK crime LGBT )
- 6. Here's a frankly great political manifesto
- (tags:politics UK libdem )
- 7. A possible direct exposure of the Earth to the cold dense interstellar medium 2-3 Myr ago
- (tags:sun solarsystem space )
- 8. I am currently earwormed by the song my children brushed their teeth to this morning. I would like to not be.
- (tags:music teeth video )
- 9. UN Security Council votes in favour of Gaza ceasefire resolution
- (tags:UnitedNations gaza palestine israel )
- 10. What's happened the previous times the Conservative Party have imploded?
- (tags:Conservatives history politics uk )
- 11. Ed Davey says Lib Dems would fight for UK to rejoin EU single market and eventually overturn Brexit
- (tags:libdem uk europe politics )
- 12. Before 'Fans,' There Were 'Kranks,' 'Longhairs,' and 'Lions'
- (tags:fandom history )
- 13. Inside the Lib Dem election stunt factory: 'We had to make Ed look very silly'
- (tags:libdem politics )
Interesting Links for 25-04-2023
Apr. 25th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. MouthPad - control your device with your tongue!
- (tags:disability Technology )
- 2. Dreamwidth access in Russia: please stay safe!
- (tags:dreamwidth russia )
- 3. Why Russian and Ukrainian activism is not mutually exclusive
- (tags:russia ukraine )
- 4. The Russian Erotic Equine Space Mystery!
- (tags:space horses art mysteries comic )
- 5. Snuggle Pupping, and how WW1 led the USA into a spiral of European depravity
- (tags:sex society history Europe USA wwi )
- 6. Clock, Shakespeare's Sonnet 12, read by Neil Gaiman and set to a haunting musical backdrop by Australia's FourPlay String Quarte
- (tags:neilgaiman music video shakespeare clock )
- 7. Bilingualism Affords No General Cognitive Advantages
- (tags:language Intelligence psychology )
- 8. How realistic is sudden exponential AI takeoff?
- (tags:ai singularity )
Interesting Links for 28-11-2022
Nov. 28th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books
- (tags:library history women horses usa )
- 2. AI image generation is improving quickly
- (tags:AI art )
- 3. America is a Christian Nationalist Hellhole, license plate edition
- (tags:OhForFucksSake Christianity USA religion fascism driving )
- 4. One nice thing about Mastodon is that, for example, the EU can set up an instance and then you can trust every post on there is a verified EU institution/entity
- (tags:Europe socialnetworking identity )
- 5. How supportive would Britons be of a family member coming out? (also compared to other countries)
- (tags:LGBT polls )
- 6. French man wins right to not be 'fun' at work in wrongful termination case
- (tags:work France fun law )
- 7. Ineos in talks with Rolls-Royce to build mini nuclear reactor and power Scottish chemical refinery
- (tags:scotland nuclearpower viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. The High-Temperature Superconductivity Mystery Is Finally Solved
- (tags:physics )
- 9. How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence
- (tags:disgust terrorism violence bigotry )
- 10. Power grid boost as two Scottish firms net £14m to work on energy storage systems
- (tags:storage electricity scotland )
Interesting Links for 09-01-2022
Jan. 9th, 2022 12:00 pm- Covid in Scotland: Virus hospital patients increase by 50% in a week
- (tags:Pandemic Scotland NHS Doom )
- Remarkably, NASA has completed deployment of the Webb space telescope
- (tags:space technology amazing )
- "That's not a bug - the world is just like that!"
- (tags:flight simulation bugs funny games )
- When you ask the internet for mind horses it will provide!
- (tags:horses art memory )
- Government invites fossil fuel companies to help write rulebook on whether drilling for oil is green
- (tags:OhForFucksSake corruption globalwarming oil UK conservatives )
Interesting Links for 16-10-2020
Oct. 16th, 2020 12:00 pm- Microwaving plastic waste can generate clean hydrogen
- (tags:hydrogen plastic microwave )
- We have so many things to learn from nature
- (tags:nature comic funny )
- How to Keep Players Engaged (Without Being Evil)
- (tags:games design video )
- Fire and smoke alarms: changes to the law in Scotland (affects every home)
- (tags:safety Scotland fire regulation )
- MPs to investigate whether artists are paid fairly for streaming music (turns out the labels keep almost 90% of the cash)
- (tags:music streaming money )
- MPs vote to allow undercover agents to commit murder, torture and rape
- (tags:murder rape torture law UK )
- The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time
- (tags:books fantasy )
- UK banks not ready for negative interest rates
- (tags:UK banking )
- If Google disables your account then you can't find out why - even if your husband works there.
- (tags:Google OhForFucksSake )
- Coronavirus immunity likely to last for several months after infection
- (tags:virus immune_system )
- Centaurs are clearly insects
- (tags:fantasy horses insects )
- VIDEO: Amazing Recreation of 14th-Century Construction of Charles IV Bridge in Prague
- (tags:construction architecture history video )
- World's most prestigious scientific publications issue unprecedented critiques of the Trump administration
- (tags:science politics USA viaElfy )
- The closed Edinburgh cinema costing £20,000 a month to run
- (tags:cinema Edinburgh Scotland pandemic )
- Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search
- (tags:music search google )
- 3.6 million people in the UK locked out of home buying. And (in a net basis) the last ten years of house building went to landlords.
- (tags:UK housing OhForFucksSake )
- 'I'm sick of influencers asking for free cake' (and some good examples of them working well together)
- (tags:advertising food socialmedia )
- Betelgeuse Is Neither as Far Nor as Large as We Thought
- (tags:space )
Interesting Links for 07-11-2019
Nov. 7th, 2019 12:03 pm- Revealed: Russian donors have stepped up Tory funding
- (tags:conservatives Russia OhForFucksSake )
- Transgender Laws in Transition: European Courts on Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- (tags:law gender europe )
- "Orbital Comics" of London to Stop Selling New Weekly Comics
- (tags:comics doom UK )
- The proposed ITV debate format is flawed. Other countries do it better.
- (tags:uk debate politics tv )
- A thread of rating every horse emoji
- (tags:horses emoji )
- Help me ask "Why you didn't just…?"
- (tags:advice questions etiquette )
- If You Like to Complain About 'Decimate'...
- (tags:language rome English )
- Evidence That the Clitoris Is Important for Reproduction
- (tags:women orgasm reproduction )
- Lib Dems, Greens and Plaid agree 60-seat 'Remain alliance' election pact
- (tags:politics hope UK Europe )
- Former Twitter employees charged with spying on users for Saudis
- (tags:saudiarabia spying twitter )
- October was hottest in Earth's recorded history
- (tags:globalwarming doom )
- A Study of Meditation Under the Influence of Psilocybin
- (tags:psilocybin meditation psychology )
- The Tories are having a _terrible_ start to their election campaign. Do not be reassured by this.
- (tags:elections Conservatives politics uk )
- Craigslist's 'erotic services' alone reduced the murder of women in the US by 10-17%. (almost 500 women per year)
- (tags:women murder USA sexwork )
- The Vampire Apocalypse Calculator
- (tags:vampires visualisation )
- People have strange internalised rules about money and food
- (tags:food money psychology behaviour )
- It's Time to Take Down the Mona Lisa
- (tags:art history )
- "I was an astrologer - here's how it really works, and why I had to stop"
- (tags:astrology fraud )
Interesting Links for 03-12-2018
Dec. 3rd, 2018 11:00 am- 'I am worried': Macron's chat with Saudi prince captured at G20
- (tags: France saudiarabia )
- The World's Most Efficient Languages
- (tags: language viaFanf )
- The Scottish Tories are sending politicians out to food banks as a PR move
- (tags: conservatives Scotland poverty ViaDrCross )
- Madrid bans polluting vehicles from city centre
- (tags: Spain transport pollution )
- Fractal structure produces fractal electrons with fractal energies
- (tags: fractal quantum physics )
- Forget Christmas! It's time for Mari Lwyd, the Welsh midwinter horse skull rap battle tradition!
- (tags: Wales winter horses )
- 53% of British people have no religion. Including 71% of young adults.
- (tags: religion uk )
- The Stereotypes Gay Men and Lesbians Hold About Bisexual Persons
- (tags: lgbt stereotypes )
Interesting Links for 23-02-2018
Feb. 23rd, 2018 12:00 pm- This is your daily dose of "What the hell is wrong with people???"
- (tags: urine eyes wtf OhForFucksSake EpicStupidity )
- I remember the 80s
- (tags: music history )
- What Ever Happened To Brendan Fraser?
- (tags: Hollywood abuse OhForFucksSake )
- Mysterious origin of domesticated horses ‘turned upside down’ by DNA analysis
- (tags: horses genetics )
- "We At The New York Times Have Not Gone Far Enough"
- (tags: satire journalism usa society politics racism cannibalism )
- How opinion on Brexit has moved since the referendum
- (tags: Europe UK polls referendum )
- After Columbine over 10,000 school police officers were hired just in case a school shooting happened. Two decades later, they haven't stopped a *single* school shooting. Instead they've arrested over 1 million kids, mostly students of color, for routine
- (tags: guns USA schools OhForFucksSake )
- The trouble knowing how much screen time is 'OK'
- (tags: computers health mentalhealth )
Interesting Links for 15-11-2017
Nov. 15th, 2017 12:00 pm- How One Woman's Digital Life Was Weaponized Against Her
- (tags: abuse Technology OhForFucksSake )
- The ice ceiling that held women back from Antarctic exploration
- (tags: antarctic women history )
- A New Study of Economics as a Science Says It's Still Dismal
- (tags: research fail economics )
- Firefox 57 gets a Preference to open bookmarks in a new tab
- (tags: firefox )
- Star Wars: Battlefront II is, basically, Pay-To-Win
- (tags: games StarWars OhForFucksSake )
- The Words Men and Women Use When They Write About Love
- (tags: gender writing love )
- Edinburgh needs 3,000 new homes a year (for the next twenty years)
- (tags: housing edinburgh scotland )
- Nigel Farage forced to retract remarks about anti-fascist charity Hope Not Hate after losing £100k legal battle
- (tags: law UK UKIP )
- Estate agent says millennials buy too many sandwiches
- (tags: housing OhForFucksSake )
- Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal
- Interesting news on cap & trade too
(tags: Germany coal globalwarming ) - What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like?
- (tags: food history )
- Deliveroo claims victory in self-employment case
- (tags: law jobs uk )
- Down with the negation sign!
- (tags: mathematics )
- Mutant gene found in Amish people that makes them live 10 years longer
- (tags: age death genetics )
- Australians back marriage equality in non-binding vote
- (tags: lgbt australia marriage )
- Zimbabwe's Military in Apparent Takeover, Says It Has Custody of President
- (tags: zimbabwe )
- Grading foxes
- (tags: fox cute )
- Horses: dragons in disguise?
- (tags: horses dragons )
- If you enjoy the tearing apart of terrible vampire fiction...
- (tags: vampires fiction awful )
- Explaining the proportions on Neolithic statues of women
- (tags: archaeology art women )
- Former British MI6 spy reveals how to remember information without writing it down
- (tags: memory spying )
Interesting Links for 13-07-2017
Jul. 13th, 2017 12:00 pm- How video encoding works (a very simple introduction)
- (tags: video Technology )
- The touching effect of putting an autistic hero into a computer game
- (tags: games diversity autism )
- Overwatch: Bigger than the Premier League? (No. But people are trying...)
- (tags: games sports money competition )
- Is Decentralized Storage Sustainable?
- (tags: design storage internet economics decentralisation )
- Greening announces 'evidence champion' for schools
- (tags: Education )
- Pthalates linked to chronic disease in men
- (tags: pthalates plastic disease )
- Government refuses to release report into Saudi Arabia’s funding of Islamist extremism in UK
- (tags: saudiarabia terrorism politics uk )
- Inside the World of Chinese Bitcoin ‘Mining’ (Some great photos)
- (tags: bitcoin china )
- At 56, a ‘Light Bulb’ Goes Off and a Firefighter Emerges
- (tags: fire age life )
- The British View the War of 1812 Quite Differently Than Americans Do
- As a Brit I have to admit that I had no idea that there _was_ a war with America in 1812
(tags: war uk usa france canada history ) - The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem
- (tags: facebook algorithm mother OhForFucksSake fail )
- Radiohead releases a surprise ZX Spectrum program for OK Computer anniversary
- (tags: music software )
- Visa To Pay Restaurants To Stop Taking Cash
- (tags: restaurant money Technology )
- A Kingdom for a Horse: Kokpar and the Future of Kazakhstan
- “There are no Kazakhs,” he says. “Stalin made us up.”
(tags: kazakhstan horses ) - Scientists replay movie encoded in DNA
- (tags: dna genetics movies )
- "I think I am becoming accustomed to the sight of guns."
- (tags: guns society UK France Scotland )
- Unix Time 1,500M – Friday July 14 02:40GMT
- (tags: time unix thefuture )
- New corporate criminal offences of failure to prevent tax evasion effective from 30 September
- (tags: law tax uk )
- Post-apocalyptic Dilbert
- (tags: dilbert apocalypse comic )
Interesting Links for 01-11-2015
Nov. 1st, 2015 12:31 pm- How Donald Trump comes up with his ideas
- Watching actors being awesome with knives never gets old
- The Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine That Science Says Doesn't Work
- Jeremy Corbyn comes to Scotland and discovers he has nothing to say
- There's an unusually high number of cases of Bubonic Plague in the USA this year
- Polo pony cloning is set revolutionise the sport
Interesting Links for 25-08-2015
Aug. 25th, 2015 12:00 pm- Crowdfunding Is Driving A $196 Million Board Game Renaissance
- This is a clever horse.
- Doing things that are sexist
- The upside of Saturday's events for John C. Wright
- Crippling court costs force poverty-stricken people to plead guilty to crimes they didn't commit
- Over the Hill at 24: Persistent Age-Related Cognitive-Motor Decline in Reaction Times.
- Backstreet Boys and 'NSync to make zombie horror film
- Which rappers have the largest vocabulary?
- 50 years ago today the word "hypertext" was introduced
Interesting Links for 15-07-2014
Jul. 15th, 2014 12:00 pm- Man misdiagnosed as delusional for 20 years sues
- Executive pay is 180 times the average - up from 60x in the 90s
- Slytherin 101: How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Restaurant CEOs Make More Money in Half a Day Than Their Employees Make in a Year
- The Beautiful Death's of Game Of Thrones
- What is it that Michael Bay does?
- I find myself obsessed with reviews that rip Transformers 4 to shreds. I have no idea why - they're just so much fun!
- A six-pack doesn't cut it in Hollywood anymore. How today's male stars get into the ridiculous shape they need to.
- When I Started Writing ‘Game Of Thrones,’ I Didn’t Know What Horses Looked Like
- You'll all be glad to know this didn't happen on our anniversary
- FCA imposes cap on payday loans
- Reshuffle: One Nation Toryism has gone to meet its maker
- X-Rays of Flowers (the ones of toys are also very cool)
Interesting Links for 23-08-2013
Aug. 23rd, 2013 12:00 pm- 10 Simple, Science-Backed Ways To Be Happier Today
- The oddest cover version I've heard in a while.
- More evidence that all police officers should be wearing cameras.
- This is a lovely piece of technology that I hope Apple can't patent.
- This will be Julie age 60.
- This is the _right_ way for cats to be involved in demonic rituals.
- Huge sinkhole swallows tree (the video is frankly terrifying)
- Brown skin? Live in the USA? Do not travel on Ramadan.
- Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
- The stress and cancer link: 'Master-switch’ stress gene enables cancer's spread
- Restricting food and fluids during labor is unwarranted
- Office of Fair Trading finally cracking down on furniture store "sales"
- What's life like for the class of 2017?
Interesting Links for 23-01-2013
Jan. 23rd, 2013 11:00 am- The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress
- Onesie wearing Shetland ponies are incredibly cute.
- Bits of Ireland want to give drink-driving permits to older people.
- Financial transactions tax in Europe given go-ahead
- Increases in inequality account for a substantial amount of the deficit
- Bringing your religious beliefs to work – what are the limits?
- Companies are paying 19% more tax than they were in 2005.
- Windows Phone managed to grab nearly 5% of the UK market over Christmas. Much better than I was expecting.
- What percentage of people are famous?
- Why A Straight Man Like Me Cares About Transgender Rights
Ok, it's mostly because I'm not a bigoted idiot.
- MIDI From The Inside - a fascinating history by one of the people who made it all happen
- Gaming Beats Dating Websites When it Comes To Love
- All Clinical Trials Should Be Registered. All Results Reported
- Seven EU myths you should never believe
- '2 girls 1 cup' producer sentenced to 4 years in federal prison
- Lib Dems still arguing against a Trident replacement.
- How Keys Work - explained in one GIF
- Robot Serves Up 360 Hamburgers Per Hour. Mmmmm, burgers.
- ‘That’s not art’ says Apple as it pulls nudes from AppStore