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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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- ohforfuckssake,
- patriarchy,
- politics,
- research,
- royalmail,
- scifi,
- sexwork,
- solarpower,
- starwars,
- technology,
- teeth,
- torture,
- trailer,
- transgender,
- tv,
- uk,
- usa,
- viadanieldwilliam,
- video
Interesting Links for 21-12-2024
Dec. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Unionist parties to pull Stormont Brake for first time
- (tags:politics NorthernIreland europe uk doom )
- 2. Doctors Without Borders exposes Israel's campaign of total destruction
- (tags:genocide israel palestine )
- 3. Waymo Autonomous Vehicles Are Safer Than Latest-Generation Human-Driven Vehicles
- (tags:driving automation safety )
- 4. Poll: Scottish Independence support at 59% if Scotland ditches monarchy
- (tags:scotland independence monarchy )
- 5. Elon Musk Took $190 Million Away From Kids With Cancer
- (tags:ElonMusk cancer children )
Interesting Links for 16-11-2024
Nov. 16th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. LinkMachineGo - a collection of interesting links (I get regular things from them)
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- 2. Why is London's phone signal so bad? (Central Edinburgh is also really bad)
- (tags:phones epicfail london )
- 3. Six inane arguments about Electric Vehicles and how to handle them at the dinner table
- (tags:electricity cars transport myths )
- 4. Revealed: the property empires that make Charles and William millions (They pay no inheritence tax, capital gains or corporation tax and do not have to comply with property laws such as compulsory purchase orders.)
- (tags:uk tax monarchy OhForFucksSake )
- 5. I just found over 200 of my Twitter friends on BlueSky by installing "Sky Bridge" in my browser and letting it match based on username/display name.
- (tags:socialnetworking twitter )
- 6. Israel's war conduct in Gaza "is consistent with the characteristics of genocide," including mass civilian casualties and using starvation as a weapon, UN Special Committee finds
- (tags:Israel Gaza WarCrimes )
- 7. Valve gets the original Half-Life 2 development team back together for a huge 20th anniversary update—and the game is now free for the weekend on Steam
- (tags:games half-life history )
Interesting Links for 24-05-2024
May. 24th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. New pylons to be installed across the UK in National Grid's £30bn green upgrade
- (tags:uk electricity infrastructure )
- 2. For whom Good Omens is being written
- (tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett alzheimers TV writing )
- 3. Football Association resists government pressure to change its transgender inclusion policy
- (tags:football UK transgender LGBT GoodNews sports )
- 4. The next food marketing blitz is aimed at people on new weight-loss drugs
- (tags:food weight drugs )
- 5. Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking for first time in US
- (tags:marijuana alcohol usa )
- 6. The Suit Died, but for Good Reasons
- (tags:history clothing UK monarchy class USA )
- 7. Managers - what are they good for?
- (tags:management engineering software )
- 8. Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue
- (tags:Reddit Google ai OhForFucksSake safety advice headline epicfail )
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- alzheimers,
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- food,
- football,
- goodnews,
- google,
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- history,
- infrastructure,
- lgbt,
- links,
- management,
- marijuana,
- monarchy,
- neilgaiman,
- ohforfuckssake,
- reddit,
- safety,
- software,
- sports,
- terrypratchett,
- transgender,
- tv,
- uk,
- usa,
- weight,
- writing
Interesting Links for 05-05-2024
May. 5th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Delighted to see the Conservatives do badly in the local elections, and the Greens and Lib Dems do so well.
- (tags:politics UK )
- 2. North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
- (tags:language English sign UK OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Liz Truss pushing up mortgage rates may have handed the election to Labour
- (tags:conservatives mortgages economics labour )
- 4. Why do lorries hit bridges?
- (tags:UK transport bridge accident )
- 5. New poll finds support for monarchy in Scotland falling rapidly (majority now support an elected head of state)
- (tags:monarchy Scotland polls )
Interesting Links for 11-03-2024
Mar. 11th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Children with lazy eyes at higher risk of developing diabetes, heart disease and other serious health conditions later in life
- (tags:disease eyes heart )
- 2. Plastic Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques From Clogged Arteries (increases risk of strokes and heart attacks more than 4x)
- (tags:plastic heart stroke disease doom )
- 3. Really in-depth look at the past, present and future of Moore's Law
- (tags:technology history thefuture cpu processor )
- 4. Princess of Wales: Kate image withdrawn by four news agencies amid manipulation concerns
- (tags:monarchy UK fraud photo )
- 5. "This is just weird": BuzzFeed News' former royals reporter on Kate Middleton, Palace PR, and distrust in the media
- (tags:journalism monarchy conspiracy UK )
- 6. "AI gives the news you need" (a short story)
- (tags:ai short_story scifi )
- 7. CaltonHillitus - this chronic condition affects hundreds of photographers.
- (tags:photography photos edinburgh )
- 8. Lead in gasoline blunted IQ of half the U.S. population, study says
- (tags:lead Intelligence usa )
- 9. LocaLSend - Share files to nearby devices. Free, open-source, cross-platform. (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android)
- (tags:sharing Technology )
- 10. One quarter of adult children estranged from a parent
- (tags:children parents )
- 11. Single dose of LSD provides immediate, lasting anxiety relief
- (tags:anxiety lsd )
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Interesting Links for 18-11-2023
Nov. 18th, 2023 09:33 pm- 1. This series of The Crown is the best yet
- (tags:TV review monarchy Queen UK )
- 2. Finally, a solution to the Teleporter problem!
- (tags:StarTrek funny death comic )
- 3. "Personalised Learning" is not the best approach to teaching children
- (tags:children Education )
- 4. Criticisms of BMI have been grossly overstated
- (tags:BMI weight health )
- 5. Half-Life gets a big update for its 25th anniversary
- (tags:games valve half-life )
- 6. Edinburgh named as one of worst cities in Scotland for vacant homes with almost 7,000 lying empty
- (tags:housing Edinburgh epicfail )
- 7. Apple, Disney, Comcast and Warner Brothers Discovery have all halted advertising on X amid antisemitism storm
- (tags:bigotry Jews advertising twitter ElonMusk )
Interesting Links for 12-07-2023
Jul. 12th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh Zoo meerkats to move in to Sick Kids hospital to help youngsters connect with nature
- (tags:children hospital animals zoo Edinburgh Scotland )
- 2. Michael Gove gives £1.9bn of housing cash back to Treasury rather than improving safety or building more
- (tags:housing UK conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- 3. More Than 20,000 Moviegoers Have Already Booked 'Barbie'-'Oppenheimer' Double Features
- (tags:movies funny toys )
- 4. Was Richard III a Bad King? Or just a disastrous one?
- (tags:monarchy history uk )
Interesting Links for 12-05-2023
May. 12th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Jodie Whittaker to narrate Tabby McTat for next Julia Donaldson Christmas short
- (tags:animation cats TV )
- 2. Sand was not used to fill potholes along the coronation procession route
- (tags:monarchy roads UK FactCheck )
- 3. Twitter will mark your account inactive after 30 days.
- (tags:Twitter wtf )
- 4. The Asus ROG Ally beats the Steam Deck at all but the most important things
- (tags:games review consoles )
- 5. Why inflation is so much worse in the UK than in the US and Europe
- (tags:inflation uk economy europe )
Interesting Links for 07-05-2023
May. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Sad that Edinburgh Lib Dem councillors voted for monarchy
- (tags:Edinburgh monarchy politics )
- 2. Why you want writers on-set when you're filming
- (tags:writing TV movies )
- 3. How to paint a realistic dog. (A very patient one, from the look on its face)
- (tags:dogs funny art video )
- 4. Writer memes
- (tags:meme writing funny )
Interesting Links for 06-05-2023
May. 6th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. For the first time ever, the Green Party run an English council
- (tags:politics green uk england )
- 2. the bumbling WW2 German espionage attempt that was stopped in its tracks at Edinburgh's Waverley Station
- (tags:wwii history spying germany uk viaDanielDWilliam )
- 3. Is there anything finer than watching the Conservatives descending into civil war?
- (tags:conservatives politics )
- 4. The Harmful Side Effect of Cleaning Up the Ocean
- (tags:ocean waste cleaning life )
- 5. If you can't fart in front of your partner, what the hell are you doing together?
- (tags:relationships )
- 6. Science Fiction Movie Lettering
- (tags:movies scifi font )
- 7. Babylon 5 animated movie on the way
- (tags:movies Babylon5 animation )
- 8. Essays on Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies
- (tags:movies font scifi viaFanf )
- 9. Waymo are running a successful driverless taxi service. Why is it expanding so slowly?
- (tags:driving automation business )
- 10. Republican protesters being arrested ahead of coronation
- (tags:monarchy protests OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 03-05-2023
May. 3rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Duke of Edinburgh: Edinburgh council urged not to recognise Royal pair's 'illegitimate' titles
- (tags:edinburgh monarchy )
- 2. Keir Starmer breaks another pledge - this time on scrapping university tuition fees
- (tags:labour university fees tuition )
- 3. How do people feel about bill-splitting in restaurants?
- (tags:money friendship )
- 4. Brain Activity Decoder Can Reveal Stories in People's Minds
- (tags:neuroscience brain stories )
- 5. Why can you use the 60+ Oyster card as voter ID, but not the 18+ Student Oyster card?
- (tags:IDCards uk )
- 6. AI chatbots pass next intelligence milestone after researchers fail to find a single AI that would vote for Brexit
- (tags:ai uk europe funny viaMyBrotherHugh )
- 7. Lothian Buses Service change from Sunday 28 May (some pretty major changes, including my bus no longer going home->work)
- (tags:buses edinburgh transport )
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- monarchy,
- money,
- neuroscience,
- stories,
- transport,
- tuition,
- uk,
- university,
- viamybrotherhugh
Interesting Links for 18-03-2023
Mar. 18th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. In pictures: The Crown films in St Andrews
- (tags:StAndrews monarchy TV Scotland )
- 2. Studies Link Marijuana Legalization to All Sorts of Positive Public Health Outcomes
- (tags:marijuana health legalisation )
- 3. Still hard to believe that someone could go from this to losing his family and friends to bigotry
- (tags:LGBT bigotry TV writing transgender )
- 4. Your reminder that AI art is *also* wrong. It's just that it looks pretty so most people don't notice.
- (tags:art ai wrong )
Interesting Links for 31-01-2023
Jan. 31st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The inevitability of the tragedy of the commons is a false and dangerous myth - people are actually pretty good at cooperating
- (tags:economics psychology cooperation )
- 2. BBC Inquiry finds that its journalists lack an understanding of basics enconomics, and are led too strongly by Westminster narratives
- (tags:economics bbc fail )
- 3. Who are the 'Citizens of the Reich'? (Far right German conspiracy theorists who want to overthrow the government and bring back the monarchy)
- (tags:Germany terrorism monarchy )
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Interesting Links for 23-01-2023
Jan. 23rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The Broom Method of telling if you're about to walk into a cloud of burning hydrogen
- (tags:hydrogen fire history NASA )
- 2. How much would you need to sell a shirt for in the USA if you paid your employees a living wage?
- (tags:clothes economics USA )
- 3. Scientists Discover Species of Gut Microbes That Can Boost the Motivation To Exercise (in mice)
- (tags:microbiome bacteria exercise mice )
- 4. How our microbiome is shaped by family, friends and even neighbours
- (tags:microbiome bacteria )
- 5. How the 'deal' between the monarchy and the media really works
- (tags:monarchy media journalism uk )
Interesting Links for 12-01-2023
Jan. 12th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. What are the numbers on trans use of NHS maternity services?
- (tags:lgbt transgender childbirth )
- 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
- (tags:monarchy society )
- 3. Happy 10th anniversary Spiders Georg!
- (tags:statistics funny meme )
- 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?
- (tags:mother parenting children funny )
- 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
- (tags:Tolkien reading books )
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Interesting Links for 07-01-2023
Jan. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Map Art.
- (tags:maps art )
- 2. Petitioning the Scottish government to End legal loopholes for the Monarchy
- (tags:petition Scotland monarchy )
- 3. Germany reminds Musk that removing disinformation from Twitter is a must
- (tags:Twitter disinformation Europe )
- 4. Fourth membrane is discovered in the brain
- (tags:brain anatomy waste )
- 5. Male-violence survivors are re-educating men to prevent harm
- (tags:men abuse rape education )
Interesting Links for 18-09-2022
Sep. 18th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Probably the best customer service email in the history of mankind
- (tags:bakery food customerservice funny )
- 2. Research into who is in The Queue
- (tags:Queen death polls )
- 3. If we don't get rid of the monarchy then can we at least get rid of its privileges?
- (tags:monarchy law UK )
- 4. Labour MP Clive Lewis breaks ranks to criticise monarchist lies
- (tags:monarchy politics uk )
- 5. Women's software contributions are accepted more often. Unless people can tell that they're from women
- (tags:gender bias software )
- 6. American Dark Money, the Mercers and the Conservative Party: A Network of Influence
- (tags:money conservatives )
- 7. Border conflict between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. I wonder about general destabilisation in the region
- (tags:viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. 18 incredible Edinburgh buildings we can't believe were demolished
- (tags:Edinburgh history architecture viaDanielDWilliam )
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