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Interesting Links for 08-12-2025
Dec. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. mRNA Vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality over 4 years
- (tags:death health vaccine pandemic )
- 2. All the ways Russia is waging 'grey war' on the UK - from drones to local agents
- (tags:russia war uk )
- 3. Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters'
- (tags:Japan snow monsters )
- 4. Is anyone surprised that US tech billionaires want to fund fascist city states?
- (tags:fascism technology USA )
- 5. Vintage Photographs of People Reading Newspapers Before the Invention of That Grossly Antisocial Device: The Smartphone
- (tags:photos newspapers reading society history )
- 6. Impacts of working from home on mental health tracked in study of 16,000 Australians
- (tags:australia work homes mentalhealth )
Interesting Links for 25-11-2025
Nov. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Britain is one of the world's richest countries. So why do a third of its children live in poverty?
- (tags:uk poverty children )
- 2. Brexit costing the UK up to £90bn in lost tax a year, new analysis shows (People are around £3k per year worse off)
- (tags:uk europe OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Footage of Japan's new train zooming down the track at 310mph leaves spectators speechless
- (tags:trains magnets Japan video )
- 4. Five pivotal ages in your brain's development revealed in new scientific study (0-9, 9-32, 32-66, 66-83, 83+)
- (tags:development brain age )
Interesting Links for 06-07-2025
Jul. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Forced participation in religious activities to be classified as child abuse in Japan
- (tags:religion abuse children Japan )
- 2. 'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
- (tags:ai research )
- 3. Xi Has Spent Decades Preparing for a Cold War With the U.S.
- (tags:china USA trade )
- 4. Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after century-long ban
- (tags:France Paris water pollution sewage )
Interesting Links for 24-06-2025
Jun. 24th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Mechanical Watch: Exploded View
- (tags:watches design )
- 2. Language is complicated (Japanese star edition)
- (tags:japan English language )
- 3. Reminder that you can be lovely to your friends and family and still a disgustingly awful genocidal murderer
- (tags:Nazis history people )
- 4. What Britain looks like after Brexit (written in 2016, about 2025). Anyone want to assign it marks for accuracy?
- (tags:UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Voyager 2 Illuminates Boundary of Interstellar Space
- (tags:space )
- 6. Upcycling plastic into painkillers: Microbes transform everyday waste into acetaminophen
- (tags:plastic medicine recycling )
- 7. Some great photos from Edinburgh's Pride March
- (tags:lgbt edinburgh photos )
- 8. Businesses still gatekeep jobs for graduates - it's harmful and cruel
- (tags:business academia university OhForFucksSake )
- 9. What does the new Industial Strategy mean for Scotland?
- (tags:scotland government )
- 10. The USA is definitely not at war. Probably. Maybe. Kinda.
- (tags:war USA Iran Israel video funny )
Interesting Links for 26-03-2025
Mar. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Cute Japanese mascots squeezing through tight spaces!
- (tags:cute japan photos viaSwampers )
- 2. UK on alert after H5N1 bird flu spills over to sheep in world-first
- (tags:uk disease birds sheep )
- 3. Labour should follow German plan for economic investment
- (tags:uk germany economy investment austerity )
- 4. Tesla deliveries down 43% in Europe while EVs are up 31%
- (tags:Tesla electricity cars business europe )
- 5. UK Schools to run anti-misogyny classes for boys in bid to tackle rising toxic masculinity
- (tags:school UK teenagers boys misogyny )
- 6. Universal Coronavirus Vaccine Breakthrough: A Single Shot That Could Protect You From COVID, MERS, and the Common Cold (in animal studies so far)
- (tags:disease vaccine research viaPatrickHadfield )
- 7. Discrimination and autism: an analysis from a queer, autistic woman
- (tags:autism society )
Interesting Links for 19-03-2025
Mar. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. I am very amused to discover that I'm distantly related to Magnus Hirschfeld.
- (tags:lgbt history sex family )
- 2. Why does every book come from the same country? And why is its capital city Swindon?
- (tags:books viaSwampers numbers )
- 3. Basic Woman's Entire Personality Revolves Around Things She Enjoys
- (tags:happiness satire funny )
- 4. How Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
- (tags:apple OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Naoshima - Japan's island of art
- (tags:japan art )
- 6. Benefit cuts aren't going to help.
- (tags:welfare uk OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 15-02-2025
Feb. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Park Service erases 'transgender' and 'queer' from Stonewall monument website
- (tags:LGBT history censorship USA )
- 2. Edinburgh's North Bridge to close for six weeks to northbound traffic with bus diversions in place
- (tags:Edinburgh bridge transport )
- 3. "Welcome to the Jungle" played on the Shamisen sounds epic
- (tags:music Japan GunsNRoses video viaSwampers )
- 4. Who needs to see a compilation of dogs dancing?
- (tags:dogs dancing video viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 15-10-2024
Oct. 15th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Psilocybin Bests SSRI for Major Depression in First Long-Term Comparison
- (tags:psilocybin medication depression )
- 2. Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat
- (tags:satire usa law funny demon )
- 3. The US just lost a war and nobody noticed
- (tags:usa yemen war )
- 4. Post-COVID psychosis occurs in people with no prior history. The risk is low but episodes are frightening
- (tags:mentalhealth pandemic brain )
- 5. UK Brexit reset plans are too vague, EU diplomatic sources say
- (tags:uk europe labour )
- 6. There's a lot of confusion over how to pronounce "Ghibli"
- (tags:ghibli language japan )
- 7. Tesla showed off AI robots. Turns out they were remote controlled by people
- (tags:robots fraud Tesla )
Interesting Links for 27-09-2024
Sep. 27th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. It makes me so happy when people make their own fun in games
- (tags:games fashion )
- 2. Japan's Transgender Treatment Guidelines Receive Update - and is pretty dismissive of the Cass Review
- (tags:lgbt transgender japan )
- 3. Over 300 New 'Nazca Lines' Geoglyphs Have Been Revealed by AI
- (tags:prehistory art America ai )
- 4. Did a top NIH official manipulate Alzheimer's and Parkinson's studies for decades?
- (tags:research alzheimers fraud OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 08-09-2024
Sep. 8th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. UK solar power wins record backing in latest auction
- (tags:solarpower UK )
- 2. UK's biggest solar farm given go-ahead in Government's anti-Nimby drive
- (tags:UK solarpower GoodNews )
- 3. AI worse than humans at summarising information, trial finds
- (tags:ai fail )
- 4. First of Edinburgh's fully electric double deck buses hit the road
- (tags:electricity Edinburgh buses transport )
- 5. Why are Remainers so weak in post-Brexit Britain?
- (tags:UK Europe voting )
- 6. Automation Bias - when people don't double check computers properly
- (tags:psychology bias automation )
- 7. What they're getting wrong about the Minecraft movie
- (tags:movies games )
- 8. 10+ Things to Know about The Great Wave
- (tags:art Japan history )
- 9. Startup Alarmed When Its AI Starts Rickrolling Clients
- (tags:ai funny video music )
Interesting Links for 20-08-2024
Aug. 20th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour
- (tags:space speed )
- 2. Why we should always be alert to the possibilities of miscarriages of justice
- (tags:law uk history )
- 3. Labour incapable of tackling racism and Islamophobia amid far-right violence, member of party committee says
- (tags:labour uk racism islam )
- 4. 53% of British school librarians asked to remove LGBTQ+ books
- (tags:censorship LGBT UK school OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Investors Are Suddenly Getting Very Concerned That AI Isn't Making Any Serious Money
- (tags:ai business )
- 6. Google's AI Search Gives Sites Dire Choice: Share Data or Die
- (tags:Google ai doom OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Thirty six flights were cancelled and 201 delayed at a Japanese airport on the weekend after a pair of scissors went missing in a store near the boarding gates.
- (tags:airplanes safety Japan )
Interesting Links for 09-08-2024
Aug. 9th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The recent UK fuss about the soup/shake diet reversing diabetes? Only 10% of them made it through and had it work for them.
- (tags:diabetes diet uk nhs )
- 2. Two astronauts stranded in space by Boeing Starliner may return on SpaceX in 2025 (8 day trip turns into 6 months!)
- (tags:space fail )
- 3. A Japanese Coast Guard ship rides over the tsunami waves (2011)
- (tags:Japan tsunami video )
- 4. The Scottish horror film finally released 17 years after filming
- (tags:scotland horror movies )
- 5. How would you react to prison museum's 'dark tourism'?
- (tags:psychology prison tourism )
- 6. "How I lured my teenagers out of their bedrooms"
- (tags:parenting bed teenagers )
- 7. Humza Yousaf admits ending Greens deal was his mistake
- (tags:Scotland SNP GreenParty )
- 8. Hilary Cass accused of being explicitly transphobic before the review began (see note 28 specifically)
- (tags:lgbt bigotry transgender uk )
- 9. The Government's Impartial Trans Healthcare Reviewer Isn't so Impartial, Colleagues Claim
- (tags:lgbt bigotry transgender research nhs )
- 10. Two Years of Elden Ring (a 2 minute video compilation)
- (tags:video games )
Interesting Links for 06-06-2024
Jun. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Scottish judges asked to overturn rape case rule barrier
- (tags:law rape scotland )
- 2. Tokyo government to launch dating app to boost birthrate (requiring you to confirm you want to get married and provide proof of income)
- (tags:Japan marriage relationships children viaSwampers )
- 3. Help challenge the ban on puberty blockers
- (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry law CrowdFunding UK )
- 4. Major cause of inflammatory bowel disease found
- (tags:disease inflammation genetics )
- 5. First human infection caused by avian Influenza A(H5N2) confirmed in Mexico
- (tags:Mexico flu birds doom humans )
- 6. Israel Secretly Targeted American Lawmakers With Gaza War Influence Campaign
- (tags:Israel propaganda socialnetworking USA politics )
- 7. "Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep" - trans edition
- (tags:death poetry transgender LGBT )
- 8. I cannot stand the parodies of Modern Major General
- (tags:music parody funny lyrics )
- 9. Flawed, scandalous trials tank FDA expert support for MDMA therapy
- (tags:research ecstasy regulation )
- 10. Australia wants to become a renewable energy superpower. Can it?
- (tags:australia renewables )
- 11. Russia's is acting provocatively on the Estonian border
- (tags:russia Estonia OhForFucksSake doom )
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Interesting Links for 26-05-2024
May. 26th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Lake District sewage spill runs non-stop for 42 days after decades of inaction
- (tags:water sewage pollution nature regulation UK OhForFucksSake )
- 2. How the US military made San Francisco gay
- (tags:LGBT USA history gay sanfrancisco military )
- 3. The BBC covers Google's destruction of its search tool (and useful web sites)
- (tags:Google web search OhForFucksSake )
- 4. An Age of Gods and Demons: The Greatness of Princess Mononoke
- (tags:ghibli review criticism nature Japan history fantasy )
- 5. When we're banning people from shops based on facial identification, how many errors are acceptable?
- Can happen without technology too, of course. I was nearly thrown out of a pub before I opened my mouth and the staff realised I wasn't the person who caused trouble there the week before.
(tags:faces identity society crime UK ) - 6. The most interesting thing about the Tory National Service announcement is that they're quietly cancelling the "levelling up" funds to pay for it...
- (tags:UK conservatives OhForFucksSake money )
Interesting Links for 25-01-2024
Jan. 25th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Inside the Mating Psychology of Incels
- (tags:celibacy sex psychology )
- 2. Nicola Sturgeon shares my opinion of Boris Johnson
- (tags:BorisJohnson politics incompetence pandemic )
- 3. How people laugh online in different languages and cultures
- (tags:laughter language )
- 4. Which Shows Got Their Finale Right, and Which Didn't? A Statistical Analysis
- (tags:TV statistics )
- 5. Pizza Hut releases a ramen pizza in Japan, and it took half a year to perfect
- (tags:pizza food japan viaSwampers )
- 6. UK companies won't be allowed to add mandatory fees at checkout in the future.
- (tags:uk business shopping regulation )
- 7. What's going on with Gorgie City Farm?
- (tags:edinburgh farm animals )
- 8. Military interests are pushing new nuclear power – and the UK government has finally admitted it
- (tags:nuclearpower military uk )
- 9. Netflix password crackdown fuels sign-up surge
- (tags:netflix passwords business )
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Interesting Links for 03-01-2024
Jan. 3rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Introvert meetups are fun
- (tags:introversion social )
- 2. Japan Decides Copyright Doesn't Apply To AI Training | BIIA.com | Business Information Industry Association
- (tags:copyright ai Japan )
- 3. John Cage - 4' 33'' Death Metal Cover
- (tags:music silence video art )
- 4. New Jersey: Twins born on new year won't share same birth date nor same birth year
- (tags:twins birth date )
- 5. The Plan to Put Pig Genes in Soy Beans for Tastier Fake Meat
- (tags:meat vegetables pigs genetics )
Missing Links (misc)
Nov. 21st, 2023 10:08 amBuncha links went missing. I think this covers everything!
- 1. How are the British like the Japanese?
- (tags:UK Japan society )
- 2. Edinburgh council rules out pneumatic underground bins
- (tags:Edinburgh waste technology )
- 3. 'All the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order': The riddle of the 'Pulborough Area' torc from Sussex. (And how much effort it takes to find a fraud)
- (tags:history archeology fraud )
- 4. Meta is now allowing lies about the 2020 election in political ads
- (tags:facebook advertising fraud politics usa OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Transforming the future of music creation with AI
- (tags:music ai )
- 6. Elephants might give each other names
- (tags:elephants names )
- 7. for babies born before 34 weeks, delaying the clamping of the cord for a minimum of 60 seconds after birth reduces death by nearly a third
- (tags:babies death )
- 8. Young Animator of the Year UK - an impressive piece for anyone, but for a 16 year old...
- (tags:animation children impressive video )
- 9. Are you a victim of Executive Function Theft
- (tags:behaviour work )
- 10. 'Nimona' breaks LGBT barriers and survives to tell the tale
- (tags:LGBT movies animation Disney )
- 11. Apple announces RCS support for iMessage
- (tags:Apple sms communication )
- 12. Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024
- (tags:adblock Google Chrome web OhForFucksSake )
- 13. IBM suspends ads on X after they appeared next to Nazi posts
- (tags:Twitter Nazis ibm advertising )
- 14. Nihilist Penguin (Werner Herzog)
- (tags:penguin video )
- 15. Incredible video of Starling murmuration
- (tags:video birds )
- 16. World-first gene therapy that aims to cure sickle-cell disease
- (tags:genetics disease GoodNews )
- 17. Royal Mail owner says 'reform is urgent' after group slumps to a £319m loss
- (tags:royalmail uk )
- 18. People living in Europe are about to get a much better Windows 11
- (tags:europe windows regulation )
- 19. Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language (3,000 years old, transliterated into Hittite)
- (tags:language archeology )
- 20. From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us
- (tags:Technology ai art )
- 21. 'I was deported for wearing tinted moisturiser': Qatar's new LGBT crackdown
- (tags:qatar lgbt OhForFucksSake )
- 22. Why are some jobs so "greedy"?
- (tags:jobs )
- 23. South Korea announces plans to ban consumption of dog meat
- (tags:dogs korea food )
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