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Interesting Links for 07-11-2025

1. Researchers uncover AI bias against older working women: (tags:women age ai OhForFucksSake bias )
2. Britain Is Having the World's Most Extreme Immigration Debate: (tags:UK immigration OhForFucksSake )
3. What percentage of English derives from which languages?: (tags:language english uk history )
4. Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity: (tags:australia electricity solarpower economics )
5. Rockstar Games Employee posts about recent union-busting efforts: (tags:rockstar gta unions OhForFucksSake )
6. Metformin reduces the benefits of exercise in people with diabetes: (tags:diabetes exercise drugs )
7. Labour spending billions on actually building social housing. Finally!: (tags:labour housing GoodNews )
8. The UK Personal Finance Flowchart (an excellent guide to help you think about your finances): (tags:finances uk advice )

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Interesting Links for 28-10-2025

1. Why Busy Beaver Hunters Fear the Antihydra: (tags:mathematics computers numbers )
2. Trump Defends Demolition Of Yggdrasil, Ancient Tree Of Life: (tags:satire politics USA )
3. No One Actually Knows What a Moon is: (tags:language space moon )

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Interesting Links for 15-10-2025

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 05-09-2025

1. K-pop Demon Hunters explained by a Korean teacher 😈🧑‍🏫: (tags:Korea music language movie demon video )

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Interesting Links for 24-06-2025

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 23-05-2025

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

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

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

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

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

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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