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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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- women
Interesting Links for 29-11-2025
Nov. 29th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Switzerland: Data Protection Officers Impose Broad Cloud Ban for Authorities
- (tags:Switzerland dataprotection cloud )
- 2. Credit Report Shows Meta Keeping $27 Billion Off Its Books Through Advanced Geometry
- (tags:satire law accounting Facebook true )
- 3. I think there's a teeny tiny error in the data here on the Bridget Jones movies
- (tags:movies mistake funny )
- 4. 'They don't have symptoms': CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission
- (tags:immune_system disease GoodNews viaKenny )
- 5. How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America (The level at which the US measures poverty is wrong)
- (tags:usa poverty economics doom )
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- poverty,
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- switzerland,
- true,
- usa,
- viakenny
Interesting Links for 14-11-2025
Nov. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
- (tags:usa racism )
- 2. Lupus may be caused by the common Epstein-Barr virus (as well as MS)
- (tags:disease virus immune_system )
- 3. Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix
- (tags:automation driving usa )
- 4. The last-ever US penny was minted today in Philadelphia
- (tags:usa money cash )
- 5. Inside China's Mini PC Production: How Tiny Computers Are Made (a 22 minute factory tour)
- (tags:computers video manufacturing )
- 6. Marble: generating 3D scenes from text and imagery prompts
- (tags:3d design ai )
- 7. GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE (apocalyptically strange looking film, I rather fancy it)
- (tags:movies trailer weird video )
- 8. 5 key points as legal experts grilled by MSPs on indyref2
- (tags:scotland independence law )
- 9. Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World (down 17% in a decade, to less than half)
- (tags:religion USA )
- 10. UK tax calculator showing tax rates and marginal rates under various suggestions by different groups/parties
- (tags:tax UK visualisation )
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Interesting Links for 22-10-2025
Oct. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Cancer patients who got a mRNA vaccine lived nearly twice as long - even though the vaccine wasn't aimed at cancer.
- (tags:cancer immune_system viaKenny vaccine GoodNews )
- 2. Penguin and Club biscuit bars can no longer be described as chocolate
- The price of cocoa has soared by 4x, and the amount of chocolate in a biscuit has dropped significantly.
(tags:chocolate food biscuits ) - 3. If you're still using Windows 10 (like me!) make sure you've signed up for Extended Support Updates to protect you from security issues
- (tags:Windows security )
- 4. Pop quiz: who is the only scientist to have won both an Ig Nobel and a Nobel prize?
- (tags:science nobel graphene frog magnets levitation )
- 5. If Labour want more houses then they need to stop mucking about with consents and put up the cash
- (tags:money housing uk )
- 6. Brexit has been awesome - for making Europe less divided
- (tags:uk europe )
- 7. Kew woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down a street drain
- (tags:waste water location regulation UK London )
- 8. Humans can absorbe oxygen anally
- (tags:humans oxygen bodies )
- 9. Lawsuit alleges Prime Day is a fraud
- (tags:USA Amazon fraud shopping )
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Interesting Links for 12-09-2025
Sep. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. What holes are there in the Big Bang theory?
- (tags:BigBangTheory physics science history )
- 2. "Gender Ideology" Is a Conspiracy Theory
- (tags:transgender bigotry conspiracy LGBT )
- 3. Would you like some reasons to have hope about the environment?
- (tags:hope nature history environment )
- 4. Pharmaceutical companies are pulling out of the UK because the UK government isn't investing in life sciences
- (tags:UK healthcare investment doom pharmaceuticals )
- 5. Factsheet: The immune system and ME/CFS
- (tags:ChronicFatigueSyndrome health immune_system )
- 6. Hyundai is now delaying its EV battery plant that was raided by ICE
- (tags:manufacturing usa racism doom korea )
- 7. You have a chance to collect meteorite fragments from Scottish highland hills for first time in 100 years
- (tags:scotland space rocks )
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Interesting Links for 20-08-2025
Aug. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Study: Giving cash to mothers in Kenya cut infant deaths in half
- (tags:kenya money death babies )
- 2. Regina Valkenborgh's 8-Year-Long Photo Captures the Sun's Movement Through the Sky
- (tags:viaSwampers sun photography )
- 3. Spreadshirt to artists: We're taking your designs for AI
- (tags:clothes ai )
- 4. Map Of European Cultural Superiority
- (tags:maps Europe society )
- 5. Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
- (tags:Pandemic immune_system doom )
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Interesting Links for 15-06-2025
Jun. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. U.K. lesbians are resisting state-mandated transphobia
- (tags:LGBT lesbians transgender )
- 2. Cray supercomputer Vs Raspberry Pi
- (tags:computers history )
- 3. In San Francisco, Waymo Has Now Bested Lyft. Uber Is Next
- (tags:USA automation driving taxi )
- 4. For some people chronic pain could be an autoimmune disorder
- (tags:pain immune_system )
- 5. People asking LLM AIs about their medical issues get the right result ⅓ of the time (Vs ½ the time for doing their own research)
- (tags:ai medicine )
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Interesting Links for 04-05-2025
May. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes
- (tags:automation driving delivery )
- 2. "I like being autistic": Assessing the benefit of autistic-led psychoeducation for autistic children
- (tags:autism education children )
- 3. Snake enthusiast survived hundreds of bites. Now his blood is aiding the search for a universal antivenom
- (tags:snakes immune_system genetics viaKenny )
- 4. They Sent the Message. But Did They Write It? (How AI is disrupting actual communication)
- (tags:communication ai doom )
- 5. Love in the time of cancer
- (tags:cancer love death )
- 6. Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director
- (tags:TV Australia art animation )
Interesting Links for 04-03-2025
Mar. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Cops confront lesbian in AZ Walmart bathroom over masculine look
- (tags:USA bigotry toilets women )
- 2. The Australian whose blood saved 2.4 million babies has died
- (tags:babies blood immune_system viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Doctor Who was a top 5 series on Disney+ globally every week it aired
- (tags:drwho TV Disney bbc )
- 4. A crypto mogul who invested millions into Trump coins is getting a reprieve on civil fraud charges
- (tags:corruption usa )
- 5. Global sales of combustion engine cars peaked in 2018
- (tags:cars pollution GoodNews )
- 6. Europe is rearming
- (tags:Europe military )
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 08-10-2024
Oct. 8th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Why are absurd house-remodelling videos going viral?
- (tags:housing video china weird )
- 2. We should have given Ukraine more weapons earlier, says ex-NATO chief
- (tags:nato ukraine )
- 3. World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission
- (tags:immune_system )
- 4. How much controversy was there over the introduction of car numberplates in the UK?
- (tags:uk cars identity law history )
- 5. Here's the UK's head of Infection Prevention & Control giving frankly appalling answers to the UK's Covid inquiry
- (tags:uk pandemic OhForFucksSake incompetence healthcare )
- 6. So, you want a movie that's *original* do you?
- (tags:movies bodies trailer video )
- 7. Scotland's population rising at fastest rate since 1940s (mostly due to people moving here from the remainder of the UK and elsewhere)
- (tags:scotland immigration )
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Interesting Links for 22-07-2024
Jul. 22nd, 2024 12:00 pmTags:
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Interesting Links for 15-06-2024
Jun. 15th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. AI Photo Contest Winner Disqualified Because It's Real
- (tags:ai photos competition photography viaSwampers )
- 2. What causes long COVID? Case builds for rogue antibodies
- (tags:immune_system pandemic )
- 3. The makers of critically acclaimed computer game Disco Elysium seem to have destroyed their own company
- (tags:games management epicfail )
- 4. Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation of Studies
- (tags:healthcare research LGBT transgender )
- 5. The #3 Game On Steam Is Just A Picture Of A Banana
- (tags:banana games wtf )
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Interesting Links for 12-06-2024
Jun. 12th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. My other earworm of today is C-A-P-Y-B-A-R-A [an AI-generated song with an AI-generated video]
- (tags:cute animals video music ai )
- 2. It's not the screen of your phone that stops you going to sleep, it's the distraction it causes.
- (tags:screens Technology sleep )
- 3. Genes protective during the Black Death may now be increasing autoimmune disorders
- (tags:disease immune_system history genetics )
- 4. Donuts, Uhauls, snuggly farm cats, and international law - what happens when a chunk of spacecraft falls on your property?
- (tags:spaceflight Spacex law Canada USA viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. Objective or Biased - On the questionable use of Artificial Intelligence for job applications
- (tags:ai jobs bias )
- 6. On the Americanisation of Winnie The Pooh
- (tags:WinnieThePooh USA )
- 7. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says the battle for America "can't be compromised," and that one political party will "win."
- (tags:politics civilwar usa law )
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- spaceflight,
- spacex,
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- viapatrickhadfield,
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Interesting Links for 02-06-2024
Jun. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code
- (tags:security viaPatrickHadfield surveillance Microsoft OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Gazans 'clinging to glimpse of hope' as Biden pushes new ceasefire proposal
- (tags:USA Israel Gaza )
- 3. Transfer of IgG from Long COVID patients induces symptomology (in mice)
- (tags:pandemic immune_system mice )
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Interesting Links for 08-04-2024
Apr. 8th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Exposure therapy for arachnophobia can benefit unrelated fears
- (tags:spiders phobia height psychology )
- 2. A New Treatment Rejuvenates Aging Immune Systems in Elderly Mice
- (tags:immune_system mice )
- 3. A Lego Model of Financial Capitalism
- (tags:economics finance lego )
- 4. Edinburgh Tram Network & possible extensions - a map
- (tags:edinburgh trams )
- 5. Wildlife groups seek views over reintroducing the lynx to Northumberland and the Scottish borders
- (tags:scotland england cats wildlife uk )
Interesting Links for 15-03-2024
Mar. 15th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The financial burden of tackling climate change will fall disproportionately on Scotland
- (tags:scotland globalwarming )
- 2. The Violence Of Relentless Positivity In The Workplace (or: "Negativity is an expensive signal of honesty")
- (tags:work honesty complaints )
- 3. Why women are at greater risk of autoimmune disease
- (tags:immune_system women disease )
- 4. The Small Company at the Center of 'Gamergate 2.0'
- (tags:harassment games writing Diversity bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Review of "Who's Afraid of Gender?" by Judith Butler - An urgent counter to trans panic
- (tags:gender society )
- 6. Urban humans have lost much of their ability to digest plants
- (tags:humans microbiome plants food )
- 7. How Michael Sheen met Neil Gaiman, and the mystery they ate when they did
- (tags:neilgaiman food )
- 8. Next-gen battery tech: Reimagining every aspect of batteries
- (tags:batteries Technology thefuture research )
- 9. There is no EU cookie banner law
- (tags:europe regulation privacy )
- 10. A Diversity of Novels with Transgender Protagonists
- (tags:transgender lgbt fiction )
- 11. The Designer Who's Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge
- (tags:water cities china design drought )
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Interesting Links for 07-02-2024
Feb. 7th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Can anyone explain to me why Edinburgh is Scotland's worst-funded local authority?
- (tags:Scotland Edinburgh money )
- 2. The UK government is running a consultation on their terrible trans children guidance for schools. Please take the time to comment on it
- (tags:lgbt transgender uk england school )
- 3. Bluesky social network drops invite-only sign ups
- (tags:socialnetworking )
- 4. No matter the law juries will not fine people for feeding the homeless
- (tags:homelessness law GoodNews USA OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Elevated body temperature is associated with depressive symptoms
- (tags:heat depression psychology )
- 6. New paper explains why females are more prone to autoimmune diseases
- (tags:gender immune_system disease )
- 7. First 3D-printed functional human brain tissue grows like the real thing
- (tags:brain 3dprinting )
- 8. UK pylons minister reshuffled after … campaigning against local pylons
- (tags:uk electricity infrastructure )
- 9. 'We feel castrated': the young British men embracing right-wing, misogynistic politics
- (tags:politics men feminism uk )
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Interesting Links for 28-09-2023
Sep. 28th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The Plot of All Objects in the Universe
- (tags:physics visualisation )
- 2. There are no good carbon offset schemes. (78% of are worthless.16% are problematic. The remaining 6% don't publish enough data to tell.)
- (tags:co2 globalwarming fraud )
- 3. How common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children
- (tags:children infection mentalhealth immune_system )
- 4. A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy
- (tags:babies injury health )
- 5. Donald Trump defrauded banks for years by exaggerating his net worth
- (tags:fraud usa politics republicans )
- 6. Trying out the first legal level 3 automated driving system in the US
- (tags:automation driving usa )
- 7. Strategic Plan for Holyrood Park (your chance to comment)
- (tags:park Edinburgh transport survey )
- 8. What Is a Woman? (a response)
- (tags:women LGBT transgender society viaPatrickHadfield )
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