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Interesting Links for 22-04-2026
Apr. 22nd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source"
- (tags:solarpower renewables GoodNews )
- 2. Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed
- (tags:cigarettes law uk age )
- 3. Define "Jewish State"
- (tags:Israel Jews nationalism )
- 4. Hungary's anti-LGBTQ+ legislation violates EU law, court finds
- (tags:Hungary LGBT Europe law bigotry )
- 5. There should be a biopic about Jim Henson, in his biggest flop!
- (tags:biography tv muppets )
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Interesting Links for 03-04-2026
Apr. 3rd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical (now my favourite April Fool of 2026)
- (tags:AprilFool warhammer musical video )
- 2. Renewables were 86% of 2025's newly installed generating capacity
- (tags:electricity renewables GoodNews )
- 3. US-Israeli bombing destroys oldest medical research center in Iran
- (tags:Iran healthcare war USA Israel )
Interesting Links for 23-03-2026
Mar. 23rd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Trump has delighted apocalyptic Christians. They say the End Times are coming
- (tags:apocalypse religion Christianity politics Israel middle_east Palestine )
- 2. VFX artists vs. The Golden Gate Bridge
- (tags:cgi bridge sanfrancisco )
- 3. The seven new towns set to be built across the UK, mapped
- (tags:UK housing )
- 4. Iran says coastal attack will lead to full Gulf closure and mine-laying
- (tags:iran middle_east usa war doom )
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Interesting Links for 17-03-2026
Mar. 17th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. "Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don't rewrite an Iran missile story"
- (tags:iran israel journalism gambling ohforfuckssake )
- 2. Subnautica 2 Publisher Followed ChatGPT's Advice On How To Break The Law
- (tags:law ai games OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Nvidia's Next-Gen Photo-Realistic Lighting looks, frankly, amazing
- (tags:games lighting nvidia video )
- 4. Regression, Not Progress: A Response to World Athletics' Return to Sex Testing
- (tags:gender testing OhForFucksSake women LGBT transgender biology )
- 5. Have some simple but inspiring images about growth through making mistakes
- (tags:inspiration visualisation )
- 6. Almost 25 years ago, a war game exercise had an Iran-stand in use asymmetric warfare to obliterate a US military force. So they re-ran it to force a US victory.
- (tags:usa military ohforfuckssake iran games )
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Interesting Links for 28-02-2026
Feb. 28th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Behold the wonder of The Naked Mole Rat!
- (tags:rats nature comic )
- 2. Earth's heat to produce electricity for homes in UK clean energy first
- (tags:heat electricity UK )
- 3. AI and Dreamwidth
- (tags:dreamwidth ai )
- 4. "Pretty Lethal" Trailer (captured ballet dancers kick arse. Blood and quips, looks like a lot of fun)
- (tags:movies trailer video ballet viaLilysea )
- 5. What is going on with Britain (and the US) on the Chagos Islands?
- (tags:UK USA diplomacy )
- 6. Liberal Jews denounce bill to ban non-Orthodox prayers at Western Wall
- (tags:Israel Judaism religion OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 25-01-2026
Jan. 25th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Google won't stop replacing news headlines with terrible AI
- (tags:Google news headlines AI OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Israeli agricultural exports face looming 'collapse' as world rejects products over Gaza genocide
- (tags:Israel trade fruit gaza )
- 3. A very short piece of fantasy. One of the few things I've ever read that feel like Terry Pratchett.
- (tags:fantasy funny short_story )
Interesting Links for 14-01-2026
Jan. 14th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Trump v BBC - a guide to the case
- (tags:usa uk bbc politics law )
- 2. Iranian-linked Scottish accounts fall silent again with Iran's internet blackout
- (tags:iran scotland propaganda )
- 3. Adelaide Writers' Week cancelled amid controversy over disinvitation of author Randa Abdel-Fattah
- (tags:Australia Palestine Israel writing festival )
- 4. New Tesla feature to automatically create explicit images of pedestrians it passes on the street
- (tags:satire funny Tesla nudity )
- 5. Zoe Saldaña Becomes Highest-Grossing Actor of All Time With 'Avatar: Fire and Ash'
- (tags:movies money )
- 6. Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK
- (tags:IDCards Labour )
- 7. Warhammer Maker Games Workshop Bans Its Staff From Using AI in Its Content or Designs, Says None of Its Senior Managers Are Currently Excited About the Tech
- (tags:AI GamesWorkshop Warhammer )
- 8. Making a natural freezer
- (tags:temperature video ice )
- 9. A divorce lawyer on the concept of "soulmates"
- (tags:love relationships video )
- 10. The polls in Wales are, frankly, unprecedented
- (tags:Wales polls )
- 11. Contract secured for one of world's largest offshore wind farms Berwick Bank (off the coast of Scotland)
- (tags:scotland electricity windpower )
- 12. Scientists confirm 2025 was the third hottest year on record
- (tags:globalwarming doom )
- 13. What's the stick in *your* stream?
- (tags:advice life )
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Catchup links for 30-12-2025
Jan. 1st, 2026 10:48 am- 1. Santa prepares public statement following accusations that ‘he clearly prefers rich kids’
- (tags:inequality funny Christmas )
- 2. "I Am the Very Model of a Miniature Tyrannosaur" (clearly the best way to publicise new dinosaur knowledge)
- (tags:dinosaurs video music viaSwampers )
- 3. Tiny! Cute! Bat! (Second attempt)
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- 4. O Generous One! -(The Origin of "Carol of the Bells")
- (tags:christmas ukraine history music video translation )
- 5. The deep ocean has a missing link between deep and surface food webs - and scientists finally found it
- (tags:ocean food nature )
- 6. The complicated life of Francesca Albanese: A rising figure in Italy but barred from every bank by Trump’s sanctions
- (tags:usa italy palestine israel banking OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI
- (tags:ai libraries books OhForFucksSake )
- 8. Delay to post-Brexit deal costs UK £100m a week
- (tags:uk europe trade )
Just noticed these didn't post on the day!
Interesting Links for 29-12-2025
Dec. 29th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Why all the Criticism of Good Men Fighting for Healthier Masculinity?
- (tags:masculinity gender men patriarchy society )
- 2. German journalist on flotilla accuses Israeli guards of rape
- (tags:israel rape )
- 3. Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI
- (tags:AI business fail )
- 4. My Open Letter To That Open Letter About AI In Writing And Publishing - Chuck Wendig
- (tags:ai scifi publishing )
- 5. Tiny! Cute! Bat!
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Interesting Links for 22-12-2025
Dec. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Trail hunting to be banned under new animal welfare push
- (tags:foxes uk law )
- 2. Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere
- (tags:batteries electricty co2 )
- 3. Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most
- (tags:relationships friends parents psychology )
- 4. Why British Jews are experiencing their biggest change in 60 years
- (tags:Jews UK Israel bigotry demographics )
- 5. Exceptional adults reach peak performance gradually with broader, multidisciplinary practice.
- (tags:learning development education )
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Interesting Links for 30-11-2025
Nov. 30th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast (is certainly a sentence describing events in the world)
- (tags:wtf headline psilocybin )
- 2. UN panel says Israel operating 'de facto policy of torture'
- (tags:torture UnitedNations israel palestine )
- 3. Bronze Age mega-settlement in Kazakhstan reveals advanced urban planning and metallurgy
- (tags:cities prehistory kazakhstan )
- 4. Exploring the link between religion and acceptance of homosexuality across different countries
- (tags:religion polls lgbt )
- 5. Scientists are finally studying women's bodies. This is what we're learning.
- (tags:women research patriarchy GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 21-10-2025
Oct. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Gamifying Hobbies Is Ruining Them
- (tags:fun gaming apps doom )
- 2. UK Public Wants More Balanced Coverage Of Political Parties
- (tags:UK politics journalism )
- 3. Anxiety Toolkit (a set of tools for helping with anxiety)
- (tags:anxiety advice )
- 4. Populism is bad for economic propsperity
- (tags:economics fascism )
- 5. Some 60,000 kids have avoided peanut allergies due to landmark 2015 advice, study finds
- (tags:allergies children GoodNews peanuts )
- 6. Goblin Tools - a collection of AI tools for neurodivergent people who struggle with things feeling too big and complicated.
- (tags:viaSwampers ai adhd autism )
- 7. Either public safety is an absolute priority at sporting events or it is not.
- (tags:israel football uk safety politics OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 15-10-2025
Oct. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Commissioner for human rights for the Council of Europe warns that Britain's treatment of trans people could breach the ECHR
- (tags:rights europe uk transgender lgbt )
- 2. Have you made the Ur-Ur error?
- (tags:language history )
- 3. A human-faced stone from 12 thousand years ago was found in Karahan Tepe (Turkey)
- (tags:turkey archeology prehistory )
- 4. Afghanistan commando who served with British Army is deported to Taliban (because the Home Office failed to get paperwork done)
- (tags:Afghanistan UK military migration OhForFucksSake )
- 5. How UK recognising Palestine helped win Arab support for Trump's Gaza deal
- (tags:UK Gaza Israel diplomacy )
- 6. Enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.
- (tags:organdonor technology GoodNews )
- 7. Waymo's Robotaxis Are Coming to London in 2026
- (tags:taxis automation Technology london uk )
- 8. So far, in 2025, Britain has wasted more than £1Billion switching off wind turbines and paying gas plants to switch on.
- (tags:waste electricity uk OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 10-10-2025
Oct. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable, coroner rules
- (tags:suicide transgender NHS UK OhForFucksSake LGBT )
- 2. British people don't want to leave the ECHR
- (tags:echr polls uk )
- 3. Where are Reform's Scottish votes coming from?
- (tags:Scotland voting polls )
- 4. How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel's 3D propaganda
- (tags:propaganda video war israel palestine )
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Interesting Links for 26-09-2025
Sep. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Every UK adult will need 'Brit card' digital ID under Starmer plan to tackle illegal migration
- (tags:uk identity )
- 2. The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand (a review)
- (tags:fanfic stephen_king review )
- 3. Ukraine's Plan to Starve the Russian War Machine (by using their new drone factories to destroy Russian oil refineries and processing plants)
- (tags:oil russia ukraine war drones )
- 4. AI-generated fiction homogenises culture, painting surface-level details over the same story every time.
- (tags:ai fiction society )
- 5. An English teacher experiments with his class and AI. The results are complex and nuanced.
- (tags:ai writing university )
- 6. Microsoft block Israel's access to Azure and genAI tech used to surveil millions of Palestinian phone calls
- (tags:microsoft israel )
Interesting Links for 25-09-2025
Sep. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages by Taking People's Side (I'm a little sceptical about how good these relationships were)
- (tags:ai relationships doom )
- 2. Italy and Spain deploy ships to help Gaza aid flotilla targeted in drone attack
- (tags:Italy Spain Israel aid Palestine )
- 3. AI 'Workslop' Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable
- (tags:ai work doom )
- 4. Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
- (tags:disease GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 22-09-2025
Sep. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Canada, Australia and UK recognize Palestinian statehood (France soon)
- (tags:Palestine France UK Australia Canada )
- 2. Among UK Jews, opposition to Palestinian political autonomy is vanishing
- (tags:UK Palestine Israel )
- 3. Examining overlap and homogeneity in ASD, ADHD, and OCD: a data-driven, diagnosis-agnostic approach
- (tags:ADHD autism psychology )
- 4. South Korea's President Lee says U.S. investment demands would spark a financial crisis
- (tags:usa korea economics doom )
Interesting Links for 16-09-2025
Sep. 16th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Channel 4 To Air Marathon of Trump Lies Amid UK State Visit
- (tags:USA UK politics TV lies )
- 2. Hundreds of firms warn new guidance on single sex spaces is 'unworkable' and would cause 'significant economic harm'
- (tags:lgbt uk transgender bigotry )
- 3. Edinburgh trams: Part of line to close for three days while engineers replace track points
- (tags:edinburgh trams )
- 4. Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza
- (tags:israel gaza genocide )
