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Interesting Links for 18-10-2025
Oct. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Endometriosis diagnosis from menstrual blood could make diagnosis dramatically faster (still a few years away though)
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- 2. Church of England bishops stop plans to trial blessing services for gay couples
- (tags:LGBT bigotry religion ChurchOfEngland marriage relationships )
- 3. Russia's funding for Ukraine war set to 'contract' as new sanctions loom
- (tags:Russia Ukraine war economics trade )
- 4. The Anglican Church just split in half (40-50 million in each side)
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- 5. Judge rules that trans man can't be denied gender recognition certificate because he is trying to conceive.
- (tags:transgender law UK children GoodNews )
- 6. Happy Tenth Anniversary to the "Leopards Eating People's Faces Party"
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- 7. Liberal Democrats win all six seats in Surrey council by-elections (clearly things afoot in the South-East)
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- 8. Why FindOutNow polls differ from other polling companies
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- 9. Some reasons to be hopeful about the future (if we can get through 2026)
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- 10. Treating male partners halves the recurrence rate of Bacterial Vaginosis
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- 11. Lothian Buses celebrates a century of keeping Edinburgh moving through the night with the Night Bus
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- 12. Turkey proposes radical new "reforms" to attack LGBTQ+ marriage, media, & trans people
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Interesting Links for 30-07-2025
Jul. 30th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles
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- 2. The case for memes as a new form of comics
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- 3. 29 years ago today, 4 Liverpool women were acquitted after damaging fighter jet to stop genocide
- (tags:UK history military protests genocide )
Interesting Links for 06-12-2024
Dec. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. People will share misinformation that sparks "moral outrage"
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- 2. The artist who uses mountains as his canvas
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- 3. Israel bans Islamic call to prayer
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- 4. LA Times Owner To Personally Review Opinion Headlines To Avoid Offending Elon Musk
- (tags:ElonMusk journalism USA OhForFucksSake censorship viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. Democrats must combat Trump's culture wars, new progressive chair says
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- 6. Amnesty report concludes Israel's actions against Palestinians in Gaza constitute genocide
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- 7. Labour's childcare plan won't work due to funding crisis, nurseries say
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- 8. Bitter Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network'
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- 9. See how lab-grown diamonds are made, step by step
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- 10. Happy 20th anniversary to Numa Numa!
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Interesting Links for 23-10-2024
Oct. 23rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. How does WhatsApp make money?
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- 2. You Don't Need Words to Think
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- 3. Who wants to hear interesting facts about the English language?
- (tags:language writing history video English )
- 4. Bohemian Rhapsody, told in memes
- (tags:meme queen music funny )
- 5. George R.R. Martin Announces He's Written Every 'And' That Will Appear In Next Book
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- 6. Keir Starmer scores first major Brexit reset success with landmark defence deal with Germany
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- 7. Edinburgh city centre to get first major new public gardens for 200 years
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- 8. Scientists Say Our Water Cycle Has Started Breaking Down
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- 9. Meet the winners of Nikon's 2024 photomicrography contest
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- 10. California Is Flooding School Cafeterias With Vegan Meals—and Kids Like It
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- 11. What explains the timing and manner of the Chagos Islands sovereignty deal? (the USA)
- (tags:usa uk india politics )
- 12. UK Supreme Court rules that individuals can take regulators to court to make them do their job.
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- 13. "Autism" is at least four different things.
- (tags:autism genetics development children )
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Interesting Links for 09-03-2024
Mar. 9th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. UK joins coalition shipping emergency aid from Cyprus to Gaza
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- 2. MPs report calls for a complete ban on non-disclosure agreements in sexual harassment cases
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- 3. To unravel the origin of life, treat findings as pieces of a bigger puzzle
- (tags:life research viaPatrickHadfield )
- 4. When Is a Bird a 'Birb'? An Extremely Important Guide
- (tags:birds meme viaPatrickHadfield )
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Interesting Links for 15-11-2023
Nov. 15th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. A Single Infusion of a Gene-Editing Treatment Lowered High Cholesterol (in a small percentage of people)
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- 2. The UK is finally looking into giving the chickenpox vaccine to children
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- 3. Fascinating discussion of how "The bigger they are the harder they fall" came by its meaning. Totally worth reading the comments
- (tags:language history English viaNancyLebov )
- 4. What can *you* find on Floor 796?
- (tags:fun meme viaSwampers )
- 5. Eating all your food for the day in a 10-hour window can significantly improve your mood, boost energy levels and reduce hunger
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- 6. I highly recommend the Edinburgh Minute newsletter (I get it via RSS, but you can also get it via email)
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- 7. Edinburgh's new bus tracker system is showing timetables not real time updates (until the start of next year, apparently)
- (tags:edinburgh buses OhForFucksSake )
- 8. 'Who do we vote for now?': The Muslim Labour supporters losing faith in Starmer over Gaza
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Interesting Links for 02-09-2023
Sep. 2nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. MPs call for magic mushrooms and psychedelic drugs to be downgraded (and consumption rooms to be trialled)
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- 2. Astoundingly, giving money to homeless people helps them.
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- 3. Musk's changes at Twitter helped spread Russian propaganda
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- 4. The algorithm that blew up Italy's school system
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- 5. Higher Intakes of Potassium and Magnesium, but Not Lower Sodium, Reduce Cardiovascular Risk
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- 6. US, UK: Please take a moment to contact your elected officials!
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- 7. Our Human Ancestors Very Nearly Went Extinct 900,000 Years Ago, Genetics Suggest, With A Population of less than 1,300
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- 8. The 'bank of family' is deeply unfair - and not the answer to the housing crisis
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- 9. Will post-Brexit food checks ever happen?
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- 10. Happy 20th birthday to Badger Badger Badger!
- (tags:meme badgers history viaEatSoylentGreen )
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Interesting Links for 30-08-2023
Aug. 30th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. If an Iowa student named Michael wants to be called Mike then they need permission from their parents
- (tags:names usa OhForFucksSake bigotry lgbt transgender )
- 2. These musicians were so preoccupied with whether they could cover "They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard", they didn't stop to think if they should.
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Interesting Links for 19-08-2023
Aug. 19th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. What gender gap in chess?
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- 2. Happy eighteenth anniversary to "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard"!
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- 3. I hear some of you like really impressive drumming
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- 4. What would be happening if Corbyn was still LAB leader
- (tags:labour polls UK politics )
- 5. Banning Trans Women from Chess Tournaments is Ridiculous
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- 6. Reknowned restaurant Le Gavroche to close doors after 56 years in London
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- 7. Twitter, now X, to remove blocking feature
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- 8. Nature and origin of "squirting" in female sexuality
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Interesting Links for 07-05-2023
May. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Sad that Edinburgh Lib Dem councillors voted for monarchy
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- 2. Why you want writers on-set when you're filming
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- 3. How to paint a realistic dog. (A very patient one, from the look on its face)
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- 4. Writer memes
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Interesting Links for 01-05-2023
May. 1st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. This computer game is going to have entirely embroidered character art
- (tags:games art craft viaSwampers )
- 2. Just in case anyone was wondering, the very concept of monarchy can fuck off
- (tags:monarch UK OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Did you know you can replace large chunks of an orchestra with an accordion
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- 4. Cat! Can! Has! Cheeseburger!
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- 5. New water treatment zaps 'forever chemicals' for good
- (tags:water cleaning GoodNews )
- 6. I don't understand how anyone thinks that Disney movies are improved by photorealism
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- 7. Was not expecting Kirsty Allsopp to come out in favour of trans rights. Am delighted
- (tags:LGBT transgender UK rights )
Interesting Links for 12-01-2023
Jan. 12th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. What are the numbers on trans use of NHS maternity services?
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- 2. Why Harry and Meghan might be the best people to move the conversation about the monarchy on, even if they aren't the best people
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- 3. Happy 10th anniversary Spiders Georg!
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- 4. What if the Open Gaming License didn't actually give you anything?
- (tags:law intellectual_property copyright games dungeonsanddragons )
- 5. Hey, New Mom, Have You Considered Relaxing?
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- 6. Tracing the "Tree Swing" design/delivery cartoons back to their origin (in the 70s!)
- (tags:design history technology )
- 7. Removing a prominent, polarizing individual can reduce the toxicity of online discourse: Evidence from President Trump's Account Deletion
- (tags:politics discussion socialnetworking abuse )
- 8. Tolkien as a gateway author
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Interesting Links for 07-07-2022
Jul. 7th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. What if Boris Johnson refuses to resign?
- (tags:BorisJohnson Conservatives politics constitution uk )
- 2. The Firth of Forth looking majestic.
- (tags:Scotland photo Edinburgh )
- 3. Finally a Downfall meme for Johnson!
- (tags:BorisJohnson meme video Hitler viaPatrickHadfield )
- 4. Reminder that if you "buy" a movie online then it might suddenly just vanish with no refund
- (tags:copyright media streaming Sony )
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Interesting Links for 16-12-2021
Dec. 16th, 2021 12:00 pm- How autistic people are different - what's the research?
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- Why doesn't Scotland have tougher Covid measures? (Because Westminster won't give them the money to pay for them)
- (tags:uk scotland pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- Leave voters go cold on Boris Johnson's Brexit deal
- (tags:uk europe BorisJohnson )
- Pfizer's anti-COVID drug still looks effective after further analysis (no deaths, 80% drop in hospitalisation)
- (tags:pandemic GoodNews )
- Mayo Clinic research finds immune system responds to mRNA treatment for cancer
- (tags:immune_system cancer GoodNews )
- log4j memes (If you laughed at these then I'm sorry about how your last few days have gone)
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- Polar bear cub born at Highland Wildlife Park
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Interesting Links for 20-10-2021
Oct. 20th, 2021 12:00 pm- The Tragedy of The Last Duel Flopping at the Box Office (I do actually fancy this. But I'm not going to a cinema until cases are 1/20 of what they are now)
- (tags:movies pandemic viaSwampers RidleyScott )
- The British ambassador to Afghanistan repeatedly warned Dominic Raab that Kabul would swiftly fall into Taliban hands
- (tags:uk afghanistan epicfail OhForFucksSake )
- New Delta sub-variant is 15% more transmissible
- (tags:pandemic )
- New Edinburgh primary school to get one of three names as shortlist unveiled (Sophia will be there in 2 years)
- (tags:school Edinburgh names )
- The time Claudia Black gave James McAvoy advice
- (tags:acting scifi advice )
- So You Want To Abolish Time Zones...
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- Android 12's Extra Dim Feature is One of My Favorites
- (tags:Android darkness light phones )
- An interesting fact that political campaigners ought to know
- (tags:politics marketing comics )
- Memes of classical history
- (tags:history meme funny )
- Engineers know who is to blame for the Trolley Problem
- (tags:philosophy engineering )
- Surgeons perform first successful transplant using pig kidney in a human
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