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Interesting Links for 26-02-2025
Feb. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How To Force Women Back Into the Kitchen In 5 Obvious Steps
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- 2. States that passed no-fault divorce laws saw total female suicide decline by around 20 percent
- (tags:divorce suicide law )
- 3. Edinburgh University to seek £140m in savings
- (tags:Edinburgh university migration )
- 4. "They Live" meets the Trump Era
- (tags:movies Technology )
- 5. FDA Approves Novel Non-Opioid Treatment for Moderate to Severe Acute Pain
- (tags:pain medicine )
- 6. 'Consider Phlebas' Series Set At Amazon From Charles Yu & Chloé Zhao
- (tags:IainBanks scifi TV Amazon )
- 7. Why EM Forster's writing tailed off
- (tags:writing sex lgbt gay )
- 8. Seizafe - Epilepsy Alert for YouTube (Chrome extension)
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Interesting Links for 24-01-2025
Jan. 24th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Couples wed in a riot of colour as Thailand legalises same-sex marriage
- (tags:wedding law Thailand LGBT GoodNews )
- 2. Massive study shows the results of GLP-1 receptor agonists like Ozempic
- (tags:medicine health )
- 3. Leith's "Pride Bridge" to be centrepiece of new public open space as regeneration plan approved
- (tags:Edinburgh LGBT )
- 4. After 18 years, Sony's Blu-ray media production draws to a close — shuts its last factory in Feb
- (tags:BluRay Sony )
- 5. Am I expected to work during Storm Éowyn? Your rights
- (tags:work weather UK rights )
- 6. Twister spotted in Kerry : r/ireland
- (tags:funny video weather )
- 7. 40m tall iceberg twice the size of Greater London will hit British island! (Near Antarctica)
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- 8. Pixelfed & Loops are the Federated equivalents of Instagram and TikTok. And they're running a Kickstarter right now.
- (tags:socialnetworking kickstarter )
Interesting Links for 01-09-2024
Sep. 1st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A French comedian performs their poem "Wine in a can" - I don't think they're in favour
- (tags:wine poetry society funny viaSwampers )
- 2. General World Models (one of the new approaches of AI)
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- 3. Thoughts about separating the art from the artist (specifically Alice Munro)
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- 4. Renowned Surgeon and Lead Author of New Lancet Study Tortured by Israeli Military
- (tags:Israel torture medicine OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Autistic man stranded on desert island asks rescue team for a couple more weeks
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Interesting Links for 10-07-2024
Jul. 10th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What's the state of housing in the UK (spoilers: terrible)
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- 2. More than half of anti-abortion MPs lose seats in election
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- 3. Vatican to trans people - please resist the urge to become God
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- 4. Scotland's 2024 General Election in numbers
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- 5. This is the best write-up I've seen of the Neil Gaiman assault allegations. The whole thing sounds like a mess.
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- 6. New weight-loss and diabetes drugs linked to lower risk of 10 cancers (if you have diabetes)
- (tags:diabetes cancer medicine )
- 7. Iain (M) Banks: Two Authors, One Man (An exhibition at the University of Stirling)
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- 8. UK's sugar tax led to a nearly 50 per cent reduction in children's added sugar intake from sodas and other soft drinks
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- 9. Evolution explained by Rage Against The Machine
- (tags:music evolution funny viaMyBrotherMike )
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Interesting Links for 30-01-2024
Jan. 30th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Dark Souls - Walking through memories (a video I bumped into, and want to be able to find again later)
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- 2. The Illusionist: The Mind-Bending Installations of Artist Felice Varini
- (tags:art optical_illusion )
- 3. Functional 16-bit CPU built and runs in Excel, 3Hz processor includes 128KB of RAM, 16-color display, and a custom assembly language | Tom's Hardware
- (tags:excel computer impressive viaSwampers )
- 4. The Northern Irish government is fascinating and dysfunctional - the report here on how to reform it is very interesting (pages 33-42)
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- 5. A fascinating and intriguing look behind the scenes of the audio version of Sandman
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- 6. A simple, cheap drug could prevent STIs. So why isn't the NHS providing it?
- (tags:medicine sex infection disease NHS OhForFucksSake )
- 7. 'Tidal wave' of sex abuse in music industry, MPs told
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- 8. Patients say keto helps with their mental illness. Science is racing to understand why
- (tags:diet health mentalhealth )
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Interesting Links for 09-06-2023
Jun. 9th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh short-term lets plan ruled unlawful
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- 2. Researchers discover that COVID-19 can cause brain cells to fuse
- (tags:brain Pandemic viaPatrickHadfield Doom )
- 3. 30 Terrible Designs Created By People Who Don't Have To Clean Them
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- 4. "Here's All The Titles Leaving Plex This Month Because My Hard Drive Is Full"
- (tags:streaming funny satire viaJohnBobShaun )
- 5. How Russia just destroyed the agricultural lands of Ukraine
- (tags:Ukraine Russia farming agriculture water canal Doom war )
- 6. Nanoplastic Ingestion Causes Neurological Deficits In Mice
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- 7. Common diabetes medication Metformin reduces the risk of developing long Covid by 40%
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Interesting Links for 06-06-2023
Jun. 6th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The "death of self-driving cars" has been greatly exaggerated
- 2. Cameron-Osborne austerity left UK 'hugely unprepared' for Covid
- (tags:Pandemic austerity UK doom )
- 3. Lung cancer pill which cuts risk of death by half 'should change the way patients are treated'
- (tags:cancer medicine )
- 4. Austrian party reverses leadership result after spreadsheet hiccup
- (tags:spreadsheet elections fail viaSwampers )
- 5. Twitter U.S. advertising sales sink to less than half of what they were a year ago
- (tags:Twitter advertising Doom )
- 6. There's an unusual case of Covid that is being tracked through waste water - not not accurately enough to find the person
- (tags:Pandemic infection USA )
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Interesting Links for 21-05-2023
May. 21st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. China calls in loans to Pakistan, Kenya, dozens more (many of such loans were made secretly, on unfair terms, and used for corruption)
- (tags:corruption China loans economics Doom )
- 2. How many of these dating deal-breakers apply to you?
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- 3. Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. But why?
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- 4. People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting.
- (tags:addiction medicine )
- 5. The Aristotelian Monroe-Warhol Bean Conspiracy
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- 6. Canon! Vs! Fanfic!
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- 7. How involved were the Osage with Killers of the Flower Moon?
- (tags:movies history USA )
- 8. Pfeilstorch - how an African spear told us what happens to birds in the winter
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- 9. Sex Ed Books Don't "Groom" Kids and Teens. They Protect Them.
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Interesting Links for 09-02-2023
Feb. 9th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. A Crucial Group of Covid Drugs Has Stopped Working (Monoclonal antibodies)
- (tags:pandemic medicine doom )
- 2. Prostate cancer: Scientists create new blood test that is 94% accurate
- (tags:prostate cancer blood testing )
- 3. Text messages with kisses can cause rape cases to collapse, top barrister warns
- (tags:communication rape law RapeCulture OhForFucksSake uk )
- 4. Mary Queen of Scots: Secret letters written during imprisonment decoded
- (tags:history cryptography uk scotland )
- 5. "I returned to modelling at 42 because there is more demand than ever for older models"
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Interesting Links for 15-11-2022
Nov. 15th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. AI can now generate video snippets from text descriptions
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- 2. Are you an architecture nerd? Or biology? Or astronomy? Or politics? Then here are some awesome gifts for you...
- (tags:presents geekery politics philosophy psychology architecture physics biology medicine mathematics )
- 3. A strapon inspired by the facehugger from Alien! Who wouldn't want one?
- (tags:alien sextoys )
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Interesting Links for 15-07-2022
Jul. 15th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Unknown Vincent Van Gogh self-portrait discovered in Edinburgh gallery
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- 2. James Webb Space Telescope vs Hubble Telescope Comparison
- (tags:astronomy )
- 3. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV series looks quite pretty
- (tags:tv lotr )
- 4. Where's the Beef? A First-Hand Assessment of Cultivated Meat Progress
- (tags:meat technology viaDanielDWilliam )
- 5. Should the Human Rights Act be replaced with a Bill of Rights? (The UK parliament human rights committee wants to know your opinions)
- (tags:rights UK )
- 6. How surnames work
- (tags:names funny )
- 7. Edinburgh's North Bridge to remain partially closed for nine months longer after council discovers more repairs needed
- (tags:Edinburgh bridge transport )
- 8. Edinburgh council gives £100 per child payments to families hardest hit by cost of living crisis
- (tags:Edinburgh austerity )
- 9. Princess Mononoke: The masterpiece that flummoxed the US
- (tags:movies ghibli USA neilgaiman )
- 10. UK tech talent shortage threatens to stifle growth in the industry
- (tags:technology Jobs UK )
- 11. Keir Starmer scraps yet another pledge - this time to end NHS private sector outsourcing
- (tags:nhs labour lies )
- 12. Researchers identify two drugs effective at treating insomnia
- (tags:sleep medicine )
Interesting Links for 15-03-2022
Mar. 15th, 2022 12:00 pm- Covid in Scotland: Omicron sub-variant driving increase case numbers (about 85% of them now)
- (tags:pandemic scotland doom )
- The Johnson-Lebedev Letters: A Back-Channel to Vladimir Putin?
- (tags:Russia UK corruption BorisJohnson OhForFucksSake )
- Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth device into own ear to cheat in final exam
- (tags:medicine Bluetooth cheating cyborg India )
- Boris Johnson is a hypocrite over Ukraine and the EU, as well as a liar
- (tags:BorisJohnson Conservatives ukraine europe russia hypocrisy )
- Canon in D but it keeps getting jazzier
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- Gas and electricity distribution networks top UK profit margin rankings
- (tags:UK energy business )
Interesting Links for 22-02-2022
Feb. 22nd, 2022 12:00 pm- The elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency (for free!)
- (tags:fraud jobs OhForFucksSake )
- Benefits changes could have serious consequences on mental health, warns UK psychologists' body
- (tags:mentalhealth welfare uk OhForFucksSake )
- Lit-Up Fishing Nets Dramatically Reduce Catch of Unwanted Sharks, Rays and Squid
- (tags:light fish fishing sharks squid )
- First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children
- (tags:genetics Jews medicine )
- How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading
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- Some Reasons why Babies Cry in the First Three Months, How to Tell Them Apart, and What to Do
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- Where Are All the Men in Science Fiction?!?
- (tags:scifi men gender women publishing )
- The "Peacemaker" Opening Credits are just...amazing. (I just about held it together until the eagle. And then the giggling started.)
- (tags:tv superheroes video funny )
- Wordle, confirmation bias, and conspiracy theories
- (tags:conspiracy words game psychology )
- Boris Johnson takes away the tools people use to avoid killing their relatives
- (tags:conservatives Pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- We are in an unprecedented era of UK relative macroeconomic decline
- (tags:economics uk doom Conservatives viaDanielDWilliam )
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Interesting Links for 29-01-2022
Jan. 29th, 2022 12:00 pm- (3) Nobody has ever had as much fun at a party as these two are having at this party
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- Bigoted BBC journalists are making malicious complaints
- (tags:BBC LGBT transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- Second ground-breaking antiviral to be deployed to UK's most vulnerable people
- (tags:virus medicine Pandemic GoodNews )
- "There is something wrong with my arse and I'm tired of having to take photos of it"
- (tags:healthcare UK funny photography )
- Why on earth would the Metropolitan Police ask Sue Gray to redact key parts of her independent report?
- (tags:police party BorisJohnson )
- A Fractal of Lies (a tale of sex, lies, and academia)
- (tags:research lies sociology sex work power psychology )
- Crypto Co-Founder Revealed to Be Infamous Fraudster
- (tags:blockchain fraud )
- UK government finds a way to make unemployment even worse
- (tags:unemployment UK OhForFucksSake work viaPatrickHadfield )
- Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young in boycotting Spotify over their spreading of harmful lies
- (tags:Pandemic music lies )
- How the Nazis burned the first library that did research into LGBT lives
- (tags:LGBT history transgender research Nazis censorship )
- How much work do people really get done?
- (tags:work working_hours )
- The Arecibo Signal in Townscaper is the geekiest thing I've seen in some time. I love it
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Interesting Links for 01-01-2022
Jan. 1st, 2022 12:00 pm- Happy New Year everyone!
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- First Century Jerusalem - in Lego!
- (tags:Lego history Israel impressive viaSwampers )
- Why do people link hands to sing Auld Lang Syne? (Freemasons)
- (tags:Scotland music history )
- A century of tragedy: How the car and gas industry knew about the health risks of leaded fuel but sold it for 100 years anyway
- (tags:lead pollution corruption OhForFucksSake )
- Belgian scientific base in Antarctica engulfed by Covid-19 despite strict measures
- (tags:antarctic Pandemic Doom )
- List of games that Buddha would not play (weirdly does not include Doom)
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- What you need to know about the UK's new Covid pill
- (tags:Pandemic medicine )
- Why the UK doesn't have any lateral flow tests right now
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- This story of train times and relationships did not go where I expected it to!
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Interesting Links for 23-12-2021
Dec. 23rd, 2021 12:00 pm- FDA authorizes Pfizer's Paxlovid for COVID-19 - cuts hospitalisation by 89%
- (tags:Pandemic virus medicine GoodNews )
- 10 Not-So-Christmas Christmas Movies to Watch This Season
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- Covid: Ministers watch data as studies say Omicron risk lower - BBC News
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- Christmas: A guide for perplexed Jews
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Interesting Links for 12-12-2021
Dec. 12th, 2021 12:00 pm- This Digital Bank Is Designed for the LGBTQ+ Community
- (tags:LGBT banking finance usa )
- Covid pill being rolled out among vulnerable Britons could fuel dangerous mutations
- (tags:Pandemic medicine Doom mutation )
- The Prisoner Of War who escaped a Nazi camp in full naval uniform
- (tags:wwii impressive viaDanielDWilliam )
- The internet (and many large companies) are dependent on software maintained by people in their spare time, for free. This may not be sustainable
- (tags:software opensource security )
- Britney Spears: Muppet murderer!
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- Here's a collection of good news from 2021
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- "It's hard to overestimate the impact Moominland Midwinter had on me" (looking forward to reading these to Sophia)
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- A pictorial history of Santa Claus
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- McDonald's McRib NFT Project Links to Racial Slur Recorded on Blockchain
- (tags:funny McDonalds blockchain race food )
Interesting Links for 20-11-2021
Nov. 20th, 2021 12:00 pm- What's life like with executive dysfunction?
- (tags:behaviour mentalhealth comic organisation tidiness )
- York council are making it impossible for people with disabilities to access the city centre
- (tags:disability yorkshire OhForFucksSake )
- Necromolds: When wargaming meets Playdoh!
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- Boris Johnson strips Transport for the North of powers after it criticises his rail plan
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- New Covid Drugs Are Here—and They Could Change the Pandemic
- (tags:Pandemic medicine )
- Games Workshop fights back against fascist hate symbols in the Warhammer 40K community
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- The Ones Who Take the Train to Omelas (mostly for the pictures)
- (tags:scifi short_story )
- Pangea Aerospace successfully hot fire tests the first MethaLox aerospike engine in the world
- (tags:space engineering )
- Looks like I'll be skipping the Wheel of Time TV show
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Interesting Links for 17-11-2021
Nov. 17th, 2021 12:00 pm- Racism Is Institutional In British Cricket
- (tags:UK cricket racism OhForFucksSake )
- Supersaurus: Scientists realise dinosaur might have been the longest ever after fixing fossil mix-up
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- Chile wants to export solar energy to Asia via 15,000km submarine cable (losses would be just under 50%)
- (tags:solarpower chile Asia )
- Joanna Cherry's popularity is not going up
- (tags:LGBT SNP transgender politics Scotland )
- Englandâs austerity-hit courts losing days of work to collapsing ceilings, broken lift and arctic conditions
- (tags:justice UK OhForFucksSake )
- There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada
- (tags:Canada transport roads weather )
- Remarkably accurate neurosurgery residency interview
- (tags:medicine USA surgery doctors funny satire video interview )
- Activision CEO Bobby Kotick told an employee he would have her killed. He kept an exec from being fired after a sexual harassment claim. He didn't tell his board of alleged rapes and other misconduct.
- (tags:games rape abuse misogyny OhForFucksSake )
- John Carmack on Steve Jobs
- (tags:Doom games Apple stevejobs johncarmack history computers graphics opengl )
- Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in UK
- (tags:UK Amazon visa credit wtf )
- The students losing thousands in an Edinburgh rental scam
- (tags:edinburgh property fraud )
- âClear riskâ UK joining Pacific trade deal will raise drug prices for NHS
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- The FTC is moving to end âclick to subscribe, call to cancelâ
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- Netflix has started publishing its top 10 watched movies and TV shows
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- Dogs! Being! Kissed!
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