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Interesting Links for 08-10-2025
Oct. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Iran's Bad Options
- (tags:iran nuclearweapons )
- 2. The work to move the UK's electricity from where it's generated to where it's needed won't be finished until 2030.
- (tags:electricity infrastructure uk thefuture planning )
- 3. England's Green Party comes out in favour of drug legalisation
- (tags:legalisation drugs UK GreenParty )
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Interesting Links for 16-08-2025
Aug. 16th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. This is how the Swiss would have done HS2
- (tags:Switzerland infrastructure hs2 investment )
- 2. The ease of collective action induces more egalitarian behavior by individuals in a position of power and makes those without power less willing to accept unfairness.
- (tags:unions community society equality power psychology )
- 3. Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ figure Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
- (tags:facebook bigotry lgbt )
- 4. Photos: Wildfires Rage Across Southern Europe (CW: burned animal about 20 pictures down)
- (tags:fire europe photos )
- 5. Are you ready for polyaninmosity in your life?
- (tags:polyamory satire video funny )
- 6. There's something I love about stories that take a very simple concept and push it a far as they can
- (tags:scifi video fiction short_story )
- 7. Sauron the Economist
- (tags:lotr comic economics funny )
- 8. Chinese economists recruit Ray Dalio and MMT in their battle over deficit spending
- (tags:economics china )
- 9. The Electric Fence Stopped Working Years Ago - A metaphor for friendship
- (tags:advice friendship )
- 10. Once Again, Oil States Thwart Agreement on Plastics
- (tags:plastic pollution doom diplomacy )
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- switzerland,
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Interesting Links for 11-06-2025
Jun. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. UK sanctions Israeli ministers over Gaza comments
- (tags:uk israel gaza )
- 2. Rough sleeping to be decriminalised in England and Wales
- (tags:homelessness England law )
- 3. The pictures that show why the UK has run up a £49bn repair bill
- (tags:UK infrastructure OhForFucksSake austerity )
- 4. Krakencoder predicts brain function 20x better than past methods
- (tags:brain algorithms )
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Interesting Links for 30-04-2025
Apr. 30th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Trump plans to put military on the streets to catch criminals (See section 4)
- (tags:usa police military doom fascism )
- 2. Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search
- (tags:search web )
- 3. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in Canadian Parliament
- (tags:canada Conservatives politics funny )
- 4. Burying cables costs 10x-20x more than pylons
- (tags:electricity infrastructure )
- 5. "Induced Atmospheric Vibration" may have caused the outages across Spain and Portugal. But what is it?
- (tags:electricity )
- 6. People eat more when given ultra-processed foods than when given unprocessed food.
- (tags:diet food weight )
- 7. White House hits back at Amazon plan to show tariff price rises
- (tags:Amazon economics business politics USA )
- 8. Popular LLMs Found to Produce Vulnerable Code by Default
- (tags:security ai fail )
- 9. Trump is the Godfather in Reverse
- (tags:politics economics usa canada china )
- 10. Why translating Chinese food names into English is 'an impossible task'
- (tags:translation language china English food )
- 11. The British Government is not taking climate threats seriously
- (tags:uk globalwarming doom )
Interesting Links for 13-04-2025
Apr. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Key principles on in-game virtual currencies in the EU
- (tags:regulation money games Europe )
- 2. Is Airplane Mode on Flights Necessary or Outdated?
- (tags:airplanes phones technology )
- 3. After Paris curbed cars, air pollution maps reveal a dramatic improvement
- (tags:air pollution cars Paris GoodNews )
- 4. The Solid-State Shift: Reinventing the Transformer for Modern Grids
- (tags:electricity infrastructure Technology )
- 5. The largest flood in Earth's history burst through Gibraltar and Sicily and refilled the entire Mediterranean in just a few years
- (tags:geology sea Europe flooding )
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Interesting Links for 17-03-2025
Mar. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Major electricity cable work in Edinburgh's Grange 2025-26
- (tags:electricity infrastructure Edinburgh )
- 2. A thought experiment on Canada and the EU
- (tags:Canada Europe )
- 3. Can we power the world with only clean energy?
- (tags:electricity renewables thefuture video )
- 4. Justice Department Official Fired After Opposing Mel Gibson's Gun Rights Restoration
- (tags:guns usa corruption )
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Interesting Links for 17-01-2025
Jan. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. A meteorite strike has been captured on video for the first time ever
- (tags:meteor space video )
- 2. Gagging clauses that stop employees exposing sexual harassment set to be banned
- (tags:harrassment law censorship )
- 3. Yes, AI really can be used to tackle potholes
- (tags:ai roads infrastructure )
- 4. Edinburgh Zoo: Trying out the £2,000 bespoke private tour
- (tags:zoo edinburgh tour )
- 5. Hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost (why Israel's approach isn't doing any good)
- (tags:Israel Palestine )
- 6. Is the USA Becoming Uninsurable?
- (tags:insurance usa doom )
Interesting Links for 02-12-2024
Dec. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What enters the public domain in 2025
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- 2. The forgotten Edinburgh street found behind a hidden library door
- (tags:edinburgh history library architecture viaLSAnderson )
- 3. The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics explains why some societies are staggeringly richer than others
- (tags:democracy economics society infrastructure video )
- 4. I just noticed that a majority of brits want to separate chuch and state *and* keep the king as head of the church. So, republicanism it is!
- (tags:uk ChurchOfEngland politics religion )
Interesting Links for 22-11-2024
Nov. 22nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What good cycling infrastructure looks like when it interacts with roads and pavements
- (tags:cycling netherlands infrastructure design roads )
- 2. Why were two Scottish ferries 6 years late and four times over budget?
- (tags:scotland ships epicfail )
- 3. How Democrats killed #MeToo
- (tags:politics misogyny democrats USA )
Interesting Links for 20-11-2024
Nov. 20th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Canadian wolves are being dropped into Michigan to kill moose. (With awesome cute video)
- (tags:wolves video Canada USA )
- 2. Joint Declaration by the Foreign Ministers of Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom on Russia
- (tags:Russia Germany Italy Spain UK France Poland )
- 3. Looks like we've found the ship sabotaging internet cables in Europe
- (tags:ship internet sabotage infrastructure Europe )
Interesting Links for 19-11-2024
Nov. 19th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Shell Is Closing 1,000 Gas Stations To Focus On EV Charging
- (tags:oil electricity cars viaDanielDWilliam )
- 2. Coca-Cola remade its iconic Christmas ad with AI - and it looks as terrible as you'd expect
- (tags:advertising christmas ai cocacola )
- 3. This is how polls should be reported
- (tags:polls visualisation )
- 4. High gas and electricity prices likely to be the new normal
- (tags:gas electricity economics )
- 5. Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted, sparking warnings of possible 'hybrid warfare'
- (tags:Finland Germany infrastructure Russia )
- 6. Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence in primary schools
- (tags:bullying psychology research school )
- 7. Only farms worth more than £3m will be taxed
- (tags:farming farm tax UK )
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Interesting Links for 13-11-2024
Nov. 13th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. New Electricity links between GB and island of Ireland approved
- (tags:electricity uk ireland infrastructure )
- 2. Assisted dying bill: What is in the proposed law?
- (tags:euthanasia law uk )
- 3. HS2's £100m 'bat shed' protects colony of 300 that doesn't live in same woodland
- (tags:bats environment hs2 OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Edinburgh University students tell of discrimination on campus
- (tags:scotland university OhForFucksSake bigotry )
- 5. Beluga whale was Russian military asset - but no spy
- (tags:whales russia )
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Interesting Links for 12-11-2024
Nov. 12th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A portrait of the fascist as a young gamer
- (tags:gaming bigotry )
- 2. The UK has a £47bn bill in outstanding compensation claims
- (tags:uk money )
- 3. Want to shoot down a drone fleet? You need a machine gun, a camera, and some automation
- (tags:technology drone guns automation )
- 4. How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom
- (tags:ai computers neurons images )
- 5. Israel's Smotrich tells authorities to prepare for West Bank annexation
- (tags:Israel )
- 6. What Britain's £100m bat tunnel can tell us about why Britain can't build infrastructure
- (tags:UK infrastructure bureaucracy hs2 epicfail )
- 7. Water expands a ridiculous amount when it turns into steam, and you do not want to be nearby if it happens very quickly
- (tags:video water heat )
- 8. I have been reading Sophia these jokes and she has been explaining to me, one by one, why they make no sense.
- (tags:jokes children )
- 9. Chi-Fi Tuning - Why It Sounds So Damn Piercing To Western Ears?
- (tags:china music Technology sound )
- 10. Expert Explains Why, Essentially, You're Fucked
- (tags:video doom funny )
- 11. Why I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering (or anything else that's badly managed)
- (tags:life programming organisation systems anger )
- 12. Do Not Obey In Advance
- (tags:fascism bureaucracy heroism )
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Interesting Links for 08-11-2024
Nov. 8th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Is it time to limit fireworks to licensed displays only?
- (tags:fireworks regulation scotland edinburgh )
- 2. Grand Designs - Condensed
- (tags:funny homes architecture building )
- 3. How to cope with living through the next few years
- (tags:mentalhealth news internet socialmedia )
- 4. Bat safety shed will cost £100m, says HS2 chairman
- (tags:infrastructure UK bats OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 05-11-2024
Nov. 5th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Silicon Valley and Wall Street invent collateralized GPU obligations. Surely this will work out fine?
- (tags:economics technology ai doom )
- 2. Is it not enough to simply have a hundred anuses? Must you also use them?
- (tags:animals food bodies weird viaSwampers )
- 3. Brain atrophy in later life linked to bad quality sleep. (Sleeping less isn't the issue, sleeping badly is)
- (tags:sleep brain health )
- 4. Blood Sugar Control is a Key Factor in Slowing Brain Aging
- (tags:sugar brain aging )
- 5. UK's Green energy plan needs 600 miles of power lines
- (tags:uk electricity infrastructure )
- 6. Center Parcs plans first Scottish holiday village near Hawick
- (tags:scotland holidays )
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Interesting Links for 24-05-2024
May. 24th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. New pylons to be installed across the UK in National Grid's £30bn green upgrade
- (tags:uk electricity infrastructure )
- 2. For whom Good Omens is being written
- (tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett alzheimers TV writing )
- 3. Football Association resists government pressure to change its transgender inclusion policy
- (tags:football UK transgender LGBT GoodNews sports )
- 4. The next food marketing blitz is aimed at people on new weight-loss drugs
- (tags:food weight drugs )
- 5. Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking for first time in US
- (tags:marijuana alcohol usa )
- 6. The Suit Died, but for Good Reasons
- (tags:history clothing UK monarchy class USA )
- 7. Managers - what are they good for?
- (tags:management engineering software )
- 8. Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue
- (tags:Reddit Google ai OhForFucksSake safety advice headline epicfail )
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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 07-12-2023
Dec. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The internet helps solve an X-Files question that fans have been wondering about for 25 years
- (tags:x-files music Twitter )
- 2. Why are movies full of CGI lying about it?
- (tags:cgi movies fraud )
- 3. Incidence and burden of long COVID in Africa - the rates are *staggering*
- (tags:Africa Pandemic Doom )
- 4. Building end-to-end security for Facebook Messenger
- (tags:Facebook communication encryption )
- 5. No, having a cat doesn't increase your risk of developing schizophrenia. Probably.
- (tags:cats schizophrenia ToxoplasmaGondii )
- 6. Services across England now lag far behind East Germany, as experts call for 'universal basic infrastructure' in UK
- (tags:uk germany OhForFucksSake infrastructure austerity )
- 7. Commuting longer than 30 minutes os associated with depression
- (tags:travel work depression mentalhealth )
- 8. Can the new Rwanda bill work and what could stop it?
- (tags:law immigration uk rights echr )
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Interesting Links for 07-11-2023
Nov. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Happy Mastoversary!
- (tags:mastodon socialnetworking )
- 2. Can solar and wind power Britain? An update of David MacKay's numbers
- (tags:renewables windpower solarpower uk )
- 3. Dengue rates plunged by up to 97% after release of lab-altered mosquitoes
- (tags:disease mosquito GoodNews )
- 4. It's nice to know that I'm not the only person who looks up the plots of movies too scary for me to watch on Wikipedia
- (tags:Wikipedia horror movies video funny )
- 5. File this under "Headlines that should be satire but somehow aren't."
- (tags:headline Israel Palestine wtf OhForFucksSake health weight )
- 6. The UK planning system is a disaster
- (tags:UK planning building infrastructure OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Not content with scamming people out of large amounts of money for bad monkey art, NFC companies are now trying to blind them
- (tags:eyesight light OhForFucksSake EpicStupidity blockchain )
- 8. EU equality laws to be reinstated by the UK to avoid 'gap in protections' for workers
- (tags:UK Europe equality law )
- 9. Scottish ministers refuse to comply with UK government strike plan
- (tags:uk scotland unions strike )
- 10. Is 'Long Covid' similar to 'Long SARS'? (If so it can persist permanently)
- (tags:pandemic disease )
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