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Interesting Links for 15-05-2025

1. Labour doesn't believe British people should be allowed to live here with their families: (tags:family migration UK OhForFucksSake Labour )
2. Crossness Pumping Station: seduced by symmetry: (tags:art design architecture history London UK )
3. Dammit. I'm going to have to get a babysitter so I can go see Superman: (tags:superman movies trailer comics video )
4. Would you like to see someone have their dream come true live on stage?: (tags:musicals video singing impressive )
5. Scottish Water warning after driest period in 60 years: (tags:Scotland water )
6. What it's like being a nanny for the super-rich: (tags:wealth children childcare )
7. EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis: (tags:europe advertising privacy law )
8. How to Sniff Out 'Copaganda': When the Police and the Media Manipulate Our News: (tags:police propaganda media journalism )
9. Audible to use AI narrators and translators: (tags:books audio ai translation )
10. South Korea's robot chefs worry human workers, disappoint customers: (tags:food cooking robots )

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Interesting Links for 01-05-2025

1. Port of Los Angeles sees shipping volume down 35% next week as tariffs bite: (tags:USA trade doom china )
2. Council Tax is broken - It's time to fix it: (tags:politics tax uk )
3. A Criminal, Social, And Linguistic Rollercoaster (and a historical mugging in Glasgow): (tags:Scotland language crime funny Glasgow )
4. Solar panels on (nearly) all new UK homes by 2027 under new Labour plan: (tags:solarpower housing GoodNews labour )
5. US judge rules Apple violated order to reform App Store: (tags:apple law usa )
6. Ukraine agrees crucial minerals and economic investment deal with US: (tags:usa ukraine trade mining )
7. Brexit led to 1,500 deaths a year as EU nurses left UK: (tags:uk europe healthcare nhs death OhForFucksSake )
8. How Labour strategist Morgan McSweeney used 'any means necessary' to destroy Corbyn as leader and install Starmer.: (tags:Labour corruption )
9. A robot that can fold laundry! (This is actually massive - handling flexible/floppy fabrics is incredibly hard): (tags:robots clothing video impressive )

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Interesting Links for 06-02-2025

1. In-patient services at Edinburgh's Astley Ainslie hospital to be transferred to East Lothian: (tags:edinburgh nhs scotland )
2. The Curta Mechanical Calculator (I'd love to have one if they didn't cost so much): (tags:calculator mechanics impressive video viaSwampers )
3. AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU: (tags:ai europe regulation )
4. Scotland! Will! Not! Ban! Cats!: (tags:scotland cats wtf )
5. Time limit for child sex abuse claims to be removed in England and Wales: (tags:rape children abuse law uk GoodNews england )
6. The greatest families behind the greatest showmen - what it's like living life on the road, and how that affects the children: (tags:children family uk )
7. Probably the most sensible thing I've read about Neil Gaiman: (tags:neilgaiman )
8. Nurse who objected to transgender woman in changing room admits harassment: (tags:LGBT transgender NHS harassment )
9. Assaulted woman's divorce case was turned down by 116 Scottish legal aid lawyers: (tags:Scotland law austerity divorce assault )
10. Scientists explore how to make quantum bits with spinel gemstones: (tags:quantum materials )
11. CIA sent unclassified email with names of recent hires - at Whitehouse insistence.: (tags:usa Intelligence OhForFucksSake doom )
12. "I looked for dating advice online - and got sucked into the toxic manosphere": (tags:men relationships feminism patriarchy OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 14-01-2025

1. The woman who gave herself a caesarean - and survived!: (tags:childbirth surgery women aieeee! viaElfy )
2. The Dark Secrets Behind the Neil Gaiman Abuse Accusations: (tags:neilgaiman abuse )
3. Joss Whedon drives the final nails into the coffin of his own legacy: (tags:JossWhedon )
4. The UK government's push for AI is down to Tony Blair and made up numbers: (tags:UK ai OhForFucksSake )
5. World's hottest year: 2024 first to pass 1.5C of warming: (tags:globalwarming doom )
6. "Project Russia," Unknown in the West, Reveals Putin's Playbook: (tags:russia )
7. Why poor households are worse off in the UK than they are in the EU (housing is 44% more expensive than the average): (tags:uk inequality housing )
8. Dragonflies swim to cool down and then do somersaults to dry off: (tags:insects flying impressive )
9. The Sonos App went so badly wrong that their CEO just had to resign - here's the technical reasons why: (tags:music Technology epicfail )

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Interesting Links for 23-07-2024

1. Unions are spreading through the games industry (Bethesda this time): (tags:unions games )
2. How to stop released prisoners reoffending: what the evidence says: (tags:crime prison society psychology )
3. The Sun and the Sunday Times backed Labour at this month's general election after News UK received private assurances that a Starmer-led government would not pursue Leveson 2, or introduce restrictions on press freedom: (tags:regulation journalism UK Labour OhForFucksSake )
4. One in six Conservative voters likely to die before next election: (tags:Conservatives age politics uk )
5. Are these photos Real or AI? (I got 10/10): (tags:photos ai quiz )
6. Dark oxygen made by deep sea 'batteries': (tags:ocean oxygen electricity )
7. News Happening Faster Than Man Can Generate Uninformed Opinions: (tags:news opinion funny satire )
8. No Man's Sky had a terrible launch, and I really get the feeling they've spent the 8 years since then going "No, really, we can make the game we imagined if we just keep going a little longer." (and now it looks amazing): (tags:games video impressive )
9. In Australia, the war on smoking has turned violent: (tags:crime smoking australia )

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Interesting Links for 16-05-2024

1. What's it like being one of the vast hidden teams of OnlyFans chatters who pretend to be sexy women.: (tags:sexwork fraud communication )
2. The future of motorway rehabilitation - a bridge that runs along the length of the motorway so that repairs can happen underneath: (tags:design Technology video impressive )
3. 2023 temperatures were warmest we've seen for at least 2,000 years: (tags:globalwarming doom )
4. Edinburgh planning: £80 million two tower blocks in Leith approved: (tags:Edinburgh housing )
5. Body temperature and depression seem to interact with each other in interesting ways: (tags:temperature depression )
6. Sex Education - Benefits and Statistics: (tags:education sex children )
7. Raw Milk Sales Skyrocket in the USA as Idiots Believe Drinking Bird Flu Will Give Them Immunity: (tags:virus disease birds milk EpicStupidity USA )
8. A fantastic review of Chuck Tingle's trans wizard novel.: (tags:lgbt harrypotter transgender review fantasy satire )
9. 'It's destroyed us': Parents of children with long Covid accused of making it up - threatened with having their children taken away: (tags:pandemic children OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 30-01-2024

1. Dark Souls - Walking through memories (a video I bumped into, and want to be able to find again later): (tags:games video memory )
2. The Illusionist: The Mind-Bending Installations of Artist Felice Varini: (tags:art optical_illusion )
3. Functional 16-bit CPU built and runs in Excel, 3Hz processor includes 128KB of RAM, 16-color display, and a custom assembly language | Tom's Hardware: (tags:excel computer impressive viaSwampers )
4. The Northern Irish government is fascinating and dysfunctional - the report here on how to reform it is very interesting (pages 33-42): (tags:NorthernIreland politics government )
5. A fascinating and intriguing look behind the scenes of the audio version of Sandman: (tags:sandman audio neilgaiman )
6. A simple, cheap drug could prevent STIs. So why isn't the NHS providing it?: (tags:medicine sex infection disease NHS OhForFucksSake )
7. 'Tidal wave' of sex abuse in music industry, MPs told: (tags:abuse women UK music OhForFucksSake )
8. Patients say keto helps with their mental illness. Science is racing to understand why: (tags:diet health mentalhealth )