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Interesting Links for 21-04-2025
Apr. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Scandal of Financial Nihilism
- (tags:life money philosophy )
- 2. As unions decline, inequality rises
- (tags:unions inequality )
- 3. Happy Easter! 'Chris is Risen'!
- (tags:spelling fail easter UK religion Christianity )
- 4. 'Biological reality': What genetics has taught us about race
- (tags:race racism genetics history politics USA )
Interesting Links for 20-04-2025
Apr. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 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 19-04-2025
Apr. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Glad to see the LibDems taking the Supreme Court ruling on trans rights seriously
- (tags:lgbt transgender bigotry libdem uk law )
- 2. Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
- (tags:genocide USA politics satire )
- 3. No obligation to exclude trans women under 'misunderstood' Supreme Court ruling, former top judge says
- (tags:transgender UK law )
- 4. Scientists create the world's largest lab-grown chicken nugget, complete with artificial veins
- (tags:food technology )
- 5. Turns out you can have cheap green hydrogen buses - if you live next to a chemical works that has hydrogen waste
- (tags:hydrogen transport buses doom )
- 6. But good sir, what is electricity?
- (tags:electricity )
Interesting Links for 18-04-2025
Apr. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How do we combat Reform and outmanoeuvre the insurgent right-wing revolters?
- (tags:politics uk viaFrancescaElston)
- 2. Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss
- (tags:weight fat epigenetics )
- 3. Reminder that the head of the UK equalities watchdog is a transphobe who bullied 40% of her LGBT staff out.
- (tags:lgbt bullying equality uk OhForFucksSake transgender bigotry )
- 4. Employment lawyer answers questions about Supreme Court ruling on trans women and single-sex spaces
- (tags:gender UK law transgender LGBT )
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Interesting Links for 17-04-2025
Apr. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Bringing meat and cheese back to Britain from the EU is now illegal
- (tags:europe uk trade )
- 2. Your reminder that the current wave of transphobia was started in 2017 by the Christian Right to split the LGBT alliance
- (tags:transgender bigotry politics USA LGBT )
- 3. A closer look at the restoration work going on on Edinburgh's North Bridge
- (tags:edinburgh bridge art )
Interesting Links for 15-04-2025
Apr. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. What's the opposite of DEI?
- (tags:usa politics OhForFucksSake comic )
- 2. Edinburgh Trams introduces Tap-On Tap-off... soon
- (tags:Edinburgh trams buses transport )
- 3. These game case animations are gorgeous
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- 4. The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien's fantasy world
- (tags:lotr fantasy maps )
- 5. China's 'dreamy' new ship aims to drill 7km below the ocean floor
- (tags:ocean research geology )
- 6. NHS England is holding back a report on suicide in trans kids that was finished a year ago.
- (tags:suicide LGBT transgender children NHS UK OhForFucksSake )
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 12-04-2025
Apr. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The AI That Writes Every Pop Song
- (tags:ai satire music video )
- 2. Wes Streeting's war on trans people continues
- (tags:NHS healthcare UK LGBT transgender labour OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Trump's tarrifs are about to destroy the board-game industry (for Americans)
- (tags:boardgames economics USA china business )
- 4. "The End of Creative Scarcity" (a short story)
- (tags:short_story creativity scifi ai )
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Interesting Links for 11-04-2025
Apr. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Plan to remove all hedgehogs from Hebridean isles
- (tags:animals scotland )
- 2. Parliament and government have a once in a generation opportunity to reform the House of Lords: now is the time to seize it
- (tags:LordsReform government uk )
- 3. 9 Rules for New Technology (I don't agree, but I think they're interesting to consider)
- (tags:Technology viaPatrickHadfield )
- 4. How a $2,000 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured
- (tags:manufacturing phones USA )
- 5. Being online doesn't make people more aggressive or hostile; it allows a small number of aggressive people to attack a much larger set of victims.
- (tags:internet communication bullying psychology )
- 6. Levitating Bugs With Sound Could Transform Scientific Photography
- (tags:photography sound insects )
Interesting Links for 10-04-2025
Apr. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Chili sauce in mascara: Wes Streeting's complicity in conversion abuse
- (tags:Labour torture transgender LGBT UK NHS )
- 2. Fox News, Conservative Influencers Say Tariffs Will Restore Masculinity (Somehow not satire)
- (tags:patriarchy usa politics )
- 3. Prostitute Falls Asleep During 'Star Wars' - Area Sex Worker Not As Into It As Client Had Hoped
- (tags:StarWars sexwork funny )
- 4. The Murderbot trailer looks like fun
- (tags:scifi TV trailer video )
- 5. LIsa Nandy changes her mind about abolishing monarchy
- (tags:UK monarchy Labour OhForFucksSake )
- 6. UK Postboxes upgraded with solar panels in high-tech parcel trial
- (tags:royalmail Technology solarpower viaDanielDWilliam )
- 7. The study linking Flouride with children's intelligence is fradulent nonsense
- (tags:children Intelligence teeth fraud research )
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Interesting Links for 09-04-2025
Apr. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Confusion surrounds ETA visa waiver process for some dual national Brits
- (tags:migration uk passport )
- 2. Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals
- (tags:Intelligence crows primates evolution )
- 3. No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
- (tags:ai Technology images )
- 4. Trump tariffs based on massive error (as well as being total nonsense)
- (tags:mathematics trade incompetence EpicStupidity politics usa )
- 5. Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy (current payback time for a solar panel in Pakistan is 2-3 years)
- (tags:pakistan solarpower GoodNews )
- 6. People conceived during colder months may end up with a lower body mass index and less fat around internal organs
- (tags:weather temperature fat )
- 7. What's going on with the announcements of "bringing dire wolves back from extinction"
- (tags:prehistory DNA animals wolves genetics viaPatrickHadfield )
- 8. Bracket City - a fun new daily puzzle!
- (tags:puzzle games )
- 9. Trade Will Move On Without the United States
- (tags:trade USA )
- 10. Great Moments in Peaceful Protest History
- (tags:protests funny satire comic )
- 11. Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws
- (tags:gender race research libraries USA censorship )
- 12. China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
- (tags:china materials USA trade doom )
- 13. How are Trump's supporters dealing with the tariff fallout?
- (tags:politics usa republicans )
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Interesting Links for 08-04-2025
Apr. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. North of Scotland electricity network to have £450m upgrade
- (tags:electricity scotland )
- 2. Online fashion sales generated 941 million plastic bags in the UK alone last year - 2.6 million bags every day.
- (tags:plastic uk postage )
- 3. 20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.
- (tags:versioncontrol history computers )
- 4. South Korea is doomed
- (tags:population Korea thefuture doom video )
- 5. First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb
- (tags:childbirth organdonor uk )
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Interesting Links for 07-04-2025
Apr. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand
- (tags:Tesla crash motorcycle OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Petition To Hold a Royal Commission on reform of the Westminster voting system
- (tags:UK voting reform )
- 3. Remind me, how well does telling investors not to panic work?
- (tags:investment doom )
- 4. 2025 Hugo final ballot: Goodreads / LibraryThing stats
- (tags:hugo awards scifi )
- 5. Dietary fructose enhances tumour growth
- (tags:sugar fructose cancer )
- 6. Neurotoxic worms growing up to 3ft long are in Ontario and you should kill them on sight
- (tags:worm Canada aieeee! )
- 7. Trust in the USA Is Dead. Trump Keeps Selling the Corpse.
- (tags:USA politics trade doom )
- 8. Russia's secret war in UK waters
- (tags:russia uk navy war viaDanielDWilliam )
Interesting Links for 06-04-2025
Apr. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Darkest Timeline For Board Games
- (tags:games economics usa OhForFucksSake doom )
- 2. Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans
- (tags:usa healthcare europe inequality )
- 3. Exeter's unassuming Co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'
- (tags:HeavyMetal design logo Devon UK )
- 4. Science Stopped Believing in Porn Addiction. You Should, Too
- (tags:addiction porn psychology morality )
- 5. UK bans fake reviews and hidden online shopping fees under new law
- (tags:UK regulation shopping )
- 6. The bits of Excel that you didn't know about (and might make your life easier)
- (tags:excel spreadsheet video advice )
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Interesting Links for 05-04-2025
Apr. 5th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Musk Announces All 340 Million Americans Must Strip And Take Turn Pushing The Wheel Of Pain
- (tags:USA politics satire )
- 2. Nation Could Have Sworn Russell Brand Was Already Convicted Sex Offender
- (tags:satire rape celebrity )
- 3. The slow and painful death of horse racing in the UK
- (tags:horses gambling UK sports )
- 4. Probably the best explanation you'll see of how little sense Trump's tarrifs make
- (tags:economics idiocy USA politics )
- 5. The Sad Puppies Revisited: How the Hugo awards were gamed a decade ago
- (tags:history Hugo awards )
- 6. Trapping Images in Feedback Loops & Creating Fractal Galaxies
- (tags:fractal video )
- 7. How US-funded anti-abortion activism in the UK now threatens US-UK trade deal
- (tags:UK USA abortion religion Christianity )
Interesting Links for 04-04-2025
Apr. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Russia escalates attacks on 'internal enemy' LGBT as it expands war in Ukraine
- (tags:lgbt bigotry russia )
- 2. Why has Russia escaped Trump's tariffs?
- (tags:Russia USA trade )
- 3. A revolutionary new understanding of autism in girls
- (tags:gender autism )
- 4. How tarrifs really work (a peek into a deranged mind)
- (tags:economics funny satire )
- 5. An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
- (tags:intellectual_property ai )
- 6. Tariffs Are Driving Up Game Prices Now
- (tags:games economics USA politics )
- 7. The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT due to over-reliance on AI
- (tags:ai security thinking doom intelligence )
- 8. Largest ever UK pumped hydro scheme granted consent
- (tags:UK hydroelectric Scotland )
- 9. Chickens are the true miracle animal!
- (tags:comedy funny video chicken viaSwampers )
- 10. The "Naked Gun" Teaser Trailer actually made me giggle
- (tags:police satire movies funny trailer video )
