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Interesting Links for 08-09-2025
Sep. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Greens now leading Labour amongst LGB voters
- (tags:LGBT polls politics UK )
- 2. Palestinian prisoners are being starved, Israel's top court says
- (tags:food palestine israel OhForFucksSake )
- 3. How Britain built some of the world's safest roads (The death rate per mile driven has declined 22-fold since 1950.)
- (tags:death safety uk driving GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 07-09-2025
Sep. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. This is why we don't read the Golden Age of science fiction any more.
- (tags:scifi history society )
- 2. Ghost sharks grow forehead teeth to help them have sex
- (tags:sharks teeth sex headline )
- 3. The tax-evading Princes Street shops costing Edinburgh taxpayers thousands
- (tags:tax Edinburgh fraud shops OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 06-09-2025
Sep. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Graham Linehan goes on trial over harassment of trans teenager
- (tags:LGBT bigotry transgender crime UK )
- 2. US imposes sanctions on Palestinians who asked for Israel war crimes probe
- (tags:usa israel palestine OhForFucksSake )
- 3. M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial
- (tags:UK ai government )
- 4. Weak Forms: Why 'natives' and 'non-natives' sound different when they speak English
- (tags:English language video sounds )
- 5. AI company Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with authors
- (tags:publishing ai law )
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- uk,
- usa,
- video
Interesting Links for 04-09-2025
Sep. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour's weirdness over flags is deranged, not patriotic
- (tags:Labour nationalism flags weird )
- 2. Why bans on smartphones or social media for teenagers could do more harm than good
- (tags:phones internet children )
- 3. One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants
- (tags:ants reproduction viaPatrickHadfield weird cloning )
- 4. DragonCon ejects AI 'artist', to approval of all
- (tags:art ai conventions )
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- flags,
- internet,
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- phones,
- reproduction,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- weird
Interesting Links for 03-09-2025
Sep. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Blocky Planet — Making Minecraft Spherical
- (tags:Minecraft sphere )
- 2. Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America!
- (tags:satire doom USA )
- 3. Edinburgh primary school mobile phone ban set to go ahead later this year
- (tags:school Edinburgh Scotland phones children )
- 4. Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks in England
- (tags:caffeine children England regulation )
- 5. Starmer appoints ex-director of anti trans campaign group as as comms director
- (tags:LGBT Labour bigotry transgender OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Dubstep artist Skrillex could protect against mosquito bites
- (tags:music mosquito funny headline )
Interesting Links for 01-09-2025
Sep. 1st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Big Tech Companies in the US Have Been Told Not to Apply the EU's Digital Services Act
- (tags:Europe USA socialnetworking regulation )
- 2. How far away is quantum computing from affecting current cryptography?
- (tags:cryptography quantum )
- 3. Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
- (tags:quantum mathematics )
- 4. What do AI fashion models mean for the future of beauty standards
- (tags:ai fashion beauty )
- 5. Why Labour Looking Into Changing The ECHR Matters
- (tags:Labour rights OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Who will win the Eternal Struggle?
- (tags:war funny )
- 7. The Qweremin (a qwerty theremin)
- (tags:music technology )
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- quantum,
- regulation,
- rights,
- socialnetworking,
- technology,
- usa,
- war
Interesting Links for 29-08-2025
Aug. 29th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. My Top Five Favorite Techno Songs and Why They're All the Mortal Kombat Theme Song
- (tags:music satire )
- 2. A historian reviews King & Conqueror (neither good nor accurate)
- (tags:history UK TV review )
- 3. Spineless fence-sitter thinks killing children is bad no matter who does it
- (tags:israel palestine satire politics murder children gaza )
Interesting Links for 28-08-2025
Aug. 28th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded. Now they want to silence him.
- (tags:corruption oil globalwarming windpower propaganda usa )
- 2. Kpop Demon Hunters becomes Netflix's most viewed film ever
- (tags:movies korea music demon netflix )
- 3. Fraudsters are training AIs on a musician and then releasing songs in their name
- (tags:ai fraud music )
- 4. Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
- (tags:science socialmedia )
- 5. Liberty chief blasts Labour over ECHR tinkering
- (tags:rights Europe UK labour OhForFucksSake migration )
- 6. Dreamwidth is forced to block Mississipi
- (tags:dreamwidth mississippi OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Donald Trump state visit: Ed Davey to boycott banquet over Gaza
- (tags:USA Israel UK libdem Palestine gaza )
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- links,
- migration,
- mississippi,
- movies,
- music,
- netflix,
- ohforfuckssake,
- oil,
- palestine,
- propaganda,
- rights,
- science,
- socialmedia,
- uk,
- usa,
- windpower
Interesting Links for 27-08-2025
Aug. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Scotland's birth rate falls to lowest level since 1855
- (tags:scotland babies )
- 2. Local Restaurant Exhausted as Google AI Keeps Telling Customers About Daily Specials That Don't Exist
- (tags:ai google fraud restaurant viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Judge sides with trans-inclusive sorority: They can admit trans women if they want
- (tags:transgender women law USA GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 26-08-2025
Aug. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Consultation opens on Edinburgh's proposed new tram line
- (tags:edinburgh trams consultation )
- 2. How to justify colonialism, Julius Caesar edition
- (tags:history comic morality )
- 3. Trump is turning into Liz Truss but with more dictatorial behaviour
- (tags:USA economics authoritarianism doom )
- 4. OpenAI Usage Plummets in the Summer, When Students Aren't Cheating on Homework
- (tags:ai students )
- 5. Fixing the voting system brings in more women representatives
- (tags:women politics voting reform )
Interesting Links for 25-08-2025
Aug. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Oldest Unopened Bottle of Wine in the World (Circa 350 AD)
- (tags:wine archeology rome Germany )
- 2. 26% of recent posts on Brexit and Scot independence are made by Iran
- (tags:iran disinformation internet UK Scotland Europe independence )
- 3. For some people, music doesn't connect with any of the brain's reward circuits
- (tags:music happiness psychology )
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- archeology,
- disinformation,
- europe,
- germany,
- happiness,
- independence,
- internet,
- iran,
- links,
- music,
- psychology,
- rome,
- scotland,
- uk,
- wine
Interesting Links for 23-08-2025
Aug. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Elizabeth I and the 'Blackamoors': the Deportation that never was
- (tags:viaNancyLebov racism history uk )
- 2. The public reject the use of ChatGPT by politicians (60% - 25%)
- (tags:ai politics polls )
- 3. M&S insists bra fitting services are trans inclusive
- (tags:shopping women transgender UK LGBT )
- 4. How much of your history do you have to share with someone before sexual intimacy isn't considered a crime?
- (tags:assault transgender sex UK law )
- 5. Canada is getting new Covid vaccines. Place your bets on whether they reach the UK...
- (tags:canada pandemic vaccination )
- 1. Trans Segregation in Practice (Experiences of trans segregation following the Supreme Court ruling)
- (tags:transgender bigotry LGBT UK OhForFucksSake )
- 2. How UK inheritance tax compares with other countries
- (tags:inheritance tax uk )
- 3. Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
- (tags:ai energy co2 water )
- 4. Nigel Farage lies about the real asylum story
- (tags:asylum uk migration OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain?
- (tags:racism politics UK OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Missing Texas woman found living among lost ‘African’ tribe in Scotland
- (tags:Scotland Africa history EpicWTF weird )
- 7. Ann Summers confirms trans women welcome at bra fittings
- (tags:clothing transgender LGBT shops )
- 8. New Fireworks Control Zones to be introduced in Edinburgh
- (tags:fireworks edinburgh scotland )
- 9. Moderate drinking is not good for you.
- (tags:cancer alcohol disease )
- 10. 4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC
- (tags:law uk usa censorship )
No idea why the autoposter didn't work yesterday/today. Will investigate tonight!
Interesting Links for 20-08-2025
Aug. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Study: Giving cash to mothers in Kenya cut infant deaths in half
- (tags:kenya money death babies )
- 2. Regina Valkenborgh's 8-Year-Long Photo Captures the Sun's Movement Through the Sky
- (tags:viaSwampers sun photography )
- 3. Spreadshirt to artists: We're taking your designs for AI
- (tags:clothes ai )
- 4. Map Of European Cultural Superiority
- (tags:maps Europe society )
- 5. Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
- (tags:Pandemic immune_system doom )
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Interesting Links for 19-08-2025
Aug. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. This story about how a parent's love grows for their child rang true for me, even if it was written about adoption
- (tags:love children parenting adoption )
- 2. An alternative to LASIK—without the lasers (melt your eyes, mould them into a new shape, let them resolidify)
- (tags:eyes eyesight )
- 3. Trump helped Netanyahu's cyber chief evade child sex crime charges
- (tags:Israel USA Child_abuse OhForFucksSake law )
- 4. On the recognition of Palestine - and its legality
- (tags:law palestine )
- 5. Tennessee woman denied prenatal care for being unmarried
- (tags:women healthcare USA OhForFucksSake marriage society )
- 6. Covid and Our Arteries
- (tags:pandemic blood health doom )
- 7. 97% of Edinburgh Airbnb-style flat plans refused
- (tags:edinburgh housing )
- 8. The Church Is Moving!
- (tags:church transport sweden )
Interesting Links for 18-08-2025
Aug. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Harry Potter board game creators to donate profits to trans charities
- (tags:harrypotter transgender boardgames GoodNews LGBT viaPatrickHadfield )
- 2. Europe Divided Into Areas With An Economy Equal In Size To London (this would make everyone happy, of course)
- (tags:maps funny Europe viaSwampers )
- 3. What does a proper British diet look like?
- (tags:tea satire video funny )
- 4. Happy 20th anniversary to "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!"
- (tags:history music funny lotr video )
- 5. Britain's first transgender judge takes UK to European court over Supreme Court ruling on biological sex
- (tags:law echr rights transgender uk lgbt )
- 6. Ranking AIs by how well they score in Only Connect
- (tags:tv ai quiz )
