Interesting Links for 25-07-2025

Jul. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 24-06-2025

Jun. 24th, 2025 12:00 pm
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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 )
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Interesting Links for 12-06-2025

Jun. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 23-05-2025

May. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pm
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1. Why are Scotland's councils so short of cash when tax is going up?
(tags:scotland tax )
2. Greenland Signs Lucrative Minerals Deal with Europe in Blow to Trump
(tags:Europe USA materials Greenland trade )
3. How I Beat NES Mario in 0.000005 Seconds (the nerdiest video I have ever watched. If you've seen something nerdier then do let me know)
(tags:video games programming technology mario )
4. Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa
(tags:USA politics Africa southafrica )
5. Programmers spend 5% of their time editing code, the rest is mostly understanding it/the issue they're trying to solve..
(tags:programming research )
6. Which word made you old? (Mine was GOAT)
(tags:language age change comic )
7. Explaining "what a species is" turns out to be very very tricky
(tags:video ontology life )
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Interesting Links for 09-05-2025

May. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm
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1. Elon Musk is responsible for killing the world's poorest children, says Bill Gates
(tags:ElonMusk children murder billgates )
2. Human transcribers significantly more accurate than AI
(tags:ai language )
3. Woman accused of illegal abortion cleared by jury
(tags:abortion law UK )
4. Wizardry and the medieval church
(tags:religion magic history )
5. A brief explanation of the new pope
(tags:pope Catholic USA politics )
6. UK announces fresh Russia sanctions aimed at Putin's shadow fleet
(tags:uk russia ukraine shipping )
7. AI use damages professional reputation
(tags:ai work )
8. Who wants an edible robot cake?
(tags:robots cake cooking )
9. "My abuser would be charged under new Scottish law"
(tags:law abuse scotland GoodNews )
10. Michael Ellam: The EU Sherpa Resetting The UK-EU Relationship
(tags:europe uk diplomacy politics )
11. Gaza will be concentration camp, declares Netanyahu
(tags:gaza OhForFucksSake israel )
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Interesting Links for 01-05-2025

May. 1st, 2025 12:00 pm
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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 30-04-2025

Apr. 30th, 2025 12:00 pm
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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 )
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Interesting Links for 25-04-2025

Apr. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm
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1. Offshore wind farm capable of powering half of Scotland's homes is being switched on
(tags:scotland windpower )
2. First Scottish Gaelic translation of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit
(tags:Gaelic scotland language TheHobbit )
3. Thanks to Dominic Cummings there's an £800m research agency run by the government that's allowed to hide everything it does from you.
(tags:secrecy uk government research )
4. 2/3 of people with peanut allergies cured in new trial
(tags:allergies peanuts GoodNews )
5. The Beano comic captures Musk and Trump perfectly
(tags:politics USA comics UK satire )
6. Israel has completely wiped out Rafah, turning a fifth of Gaza's territory into a giant buffer zone.
(tags:Israel gaza OhForFucksSake )
7. Male non-hormonal contraceptive implant shown to work for 24 months in trials
(tags:contraception men )
8. New British recycling tax set to drive up use of... plastic
(tags:uk recycling OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 20-04-2025

Apr. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm
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1. In Gaza, we are seeing the normalisation of evil
(tags:gaza Israel Palestine )
2. On language and trans people, some tips
(tags:transgender language )
3. Life before the Equalities Act 2010
(tags:transgender gender equality rights UK law history )
4. The lead civil servant on drafting the Equality Act says the aim was to include trans people.
(tags:equality lgbt transgender OhForFucksSake law uk )
5. The Minister who introduced the Gender Recognition Bill in the House of Lords in 2003 made it clear that "a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act [the predecessor to the Equality Act] as a person of the acquired sex or
(tags:transgender lgbt law uk history )
6. Settlers of Catan - Globe Edition
(tags:3dprinting boardgames SettlersOfCatan )
7. Thousands of trans rights protesters on Edinburgh streets following court ruling
(tags:Edinburgh transgender protests )
8. Musk to Force Pentagon to Build and Then Pay Him to Use Network of Killer Satellites
(tags:ElonMusk corruption space )
9. Hungary's Orbán urges Hungarians to vote against Ukraine's membership of EU
(tags:Hungary Ukraine Europe OhForFucksSake )
10. The UK is going to have to start making choices about Europe and the USA
(tags:UK USA Europe )
11. Fusion power plants would require titanic amounts of lithium.
(tags:materials fusion )
12. "Masking Is Life": Experiences of Masking in Autistic and Nonautistic Adults
(tags:autism society psychology )
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Interesting Links for 22-03-2025

Mar. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 14-02-2025

Feb. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm
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1. Why the UK's Public Finances are in Even Worse Shape than You Think (A different measure of the economy that shows how bad things have gotten over the last few decades)
(tags:UK economics video doom )
2. What language do the British people find offensive?
(tags:language offensive UK swearing viaPatrickHadfield )
3. Statement on Ukraine by Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, the European External Action Service and the European Commission
(tags:Ukraine Europe uk )
4. US Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.
(tags:USA economics statistics poverty )
5. The one true test of whether something is a sandwich
(tags:ontology food )
6. A 'True Crime' Documentary Series Has Millions of Views. The Murders Are All AI-Generated
(tags:crime fraud ai lies viaPatrickHadfield )
7. German Navy Says Warships Were Sabotaged, Warns of Russian Threat
(tags:germany navy russia sabotage ships )
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Interesting Links for 13-01-2025

Jan. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 08-01-2025

Jan. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm
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1. All 105 large developments going on in Edinburgh in 2025, on Google Earth.
(tags:google map construction edinburgh )
2. Edinburgh Development Summary 2025
(tags:edinburgh construction )
3. Five key ways to tackle child sex abuse that still haven't been implemented
(tags:children rape politics uk )
4. Cuts to England's bus network cost economy £2.6bn a year
(tags:england economics buses transport )
5. Is *your* TV too high?
(tags:tv height )
6. How a populist think tank is stoking Scotland's culture war
(tags:hungary bigotry Scotland )
7. JK Rowling Slammed After Claiming That 'There Are No Trans Kids' In Hateful Rant
(tags:jkrowling transgender bigotry children )
8. Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness'
(tags:Facebook OhForFucksSake bigotry LGBT )
9. How do we know how Latin was pronounced, and how did the official church pronunciation come to be different to that?
(tags:Latin history language )
10. Landlords to be banned from demanding several months' rent in advance
(tags:rental England )
11. Stats for the Omni-Centre cycle lane in Edinburgh show that usage is up 40% in a year
(tags:cycling edinburgh )
12. 'I realised I had autism when my children were diagnosed'
(tags:autism scotland )
13. Trump threatens Nato, Hamas, Greenland, Panama, and Canada in press conference
(tags:politics usa )
14. Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams in Classical Latin
(tags:music video latin )
15. Six things you must know about how the grooming gangs scandal was handled
(tags:rape children religion racism uk government )
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