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Interesting Links for 04-10-2025
Oct. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Here Is Your Periodic Reminder that Stars Move
- (tags:space time )
- 2. Anti trans school guidance causes children to not use school toilets leading to worse physical and mental health.
- (tags:children bigotry lgbt school scotland uk transgender )
- 3. What Did People Do Before Smartphones? (I carried a book at all times)
- (tags:phones history boredom )
- 4. Common mistakes when drawing the moon
- (tags:moon drawing video )
Interesting Links for 29-04-2024
Apr. 29th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. American Airlines keeps mistaking 101-year-old passenger for baby
- (tags:computers age )
- 2. Police use of forensics slashed as budgets cut
- (tags:forensics police UK austerity )
- 3. The telemetry data from the Apollo missions may be very nearly beyond retrieval
- (tags:archive moon space NASA history doom )
- 4. Law to ban politicians from lying backed by two-thirds of public - Wales is looking at this right now
- (tags:lying politics law wales )
- 5. Transgender Athletes Could Be At A Physical Disadvantage, New Research Funded by the International Olympic Committee Finds
- (tags:transgender sports olympics lgbt )
- 6. The Millennial CAPTCHA
- (tags:age demographics funny history )
Interesting Links for 12-02-2024
Feb. 12th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Welcome to the UK, where women have no choice but to have faith in a justice system that keeps letting them down
- (tags:UK police women OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Originality in copyright law: How does the UK define it?
- (tags:UK copyright creativity law )
- 3. 28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid
- (tags:electricity moon ocean tides )
- 4. The robots delivering takeaways to Edinburgh students
- (tags:edinburgh robots food )
- 5. The Brexit bill: £100bn hit to UK exports as toy, medical kit and jewellery sales slump
- (tags:uk europe doom economy )
Interesting Links for 08-02-2024
Feb. 8th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What does it mean that BlueSky is designed to be more open?
- (tags:socialnetworking design computers )
- 2. Rishi Sunak Refusing To Apologise For Trans Jibe In Front Of Murdered Trans Teen's Mum
- (tags:transgender Conservatives bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Man from Dildo takes photo of iceberg shaped like a penis. In Conception Bay
- (tags:penis Canada photos iceberg names )
- 4. Lothian bus journeys increased by over 17% from 94 million in 2022 to 110 million last year (I wonder what it was in 2019)
- (tags:buses transport Edinburgh GoodNews )
- 5. EU sets maximum bank transfer time to 10 seconds
- (tags:Europe banking regulation time )
- 6. After Libs of TikTok posted, at least 21 bomb threats followed
- (tags:terrorism USA )
- 7. Beard-seconds, Chains, Pirate-Ninjas, and other Units of Measure
- (tags:measurement viaSwampers )
- 8. Mimas' surprise: Saturn's tiny moon hides a young ocean beneath its icy shell
- (tags:moon saturn ocean water )
- 9. 13 Worst Bike Lanes in the World (Edinburgh is #1! Woohoo!)
- (tags:edinburgh cycling epicfail )
- 10. Poll Shows 74 Percent of Republicans Like Donald Trump's Dictator Plan
- (tags:usa dictators doom )
- 11. Apple releases an AI to help you edit images
- (tags:apple ai images editing )
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Interesting Links for 28-12-2023
Dec. 28th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh pubs: The Auld Hoose announces sudden closure
- (tags:Scotland alcohol )
- 2. Who fancies a group of people to quietly read next to?
- (tags:reading books silence sociability )
- 3. Cathedral, Mountain, Moon (an incredible photo)
- (tags:photo religion moon mountain NASA )
- 4. All I want for Christmas is one terawatt of solar deployed annually
- (tags:solarpower thefuture )
- 5. What the Solow Model can teach us about China's slowing growth
- (tags:china economics viaDanielDWilliam )
- 6. Injection of "smart insulin" regulates blood glucose levels for one week (in mice and pigs)
- (tags:diabetes sugar insulin )
- 7. Exposing the secret money behind Starmer's rise to power
- (tags:labour corruption politics UK )
Interesting Links for 31-10-2023
Oct. 31st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Which UK university towns have the highest cost of living?
- (tags:university edinburgh money uk )
- 2. The future of warfare: A $400 drone destroying a $2M tank
- (tags:war drone )
- 3. People with autism less likely to succumb to bystander effect
- (tags:psychology autism )
- 4. Getting angry may help you achieve your goals, so long as they are hard ones.
- (tags:anger achievement psychology )
- 5. What Happens to a Werewolf on the Moon? - a call for research!
- (tags:viaSimonTatham wolves supernatural funny research moon space )
- 6. Use your own controller to work with an Xbox? Not if Microsoft has anything to do with it!
- (tags:Microsoft OhForFucksSake consoles )
- 7. Woman uses man's name on delivery app, notices marked change in service
- (tags:patriarchy food OhForFucksSake )
- 8. To find out how wildlife is doing, scientists used AI to listen to the forest
- (tags:sound nature ai birds )
- 9. Facebook and Instagram launch ad-free subscription tier in EU (not UK though)
- (tags:facebook socialnetworking advertising GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 26-01-2023
Jan. 26th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Justin Roiland: Rick and Morty creator and star dropped by Adult Swim (over assault charges)
- (tags:USA assault tv )
- 2. Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots (what happens when you train an AI on all the text a person leaves behind)
- (tags:ai writing communication death memory viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. A lovely remembrance of a dying friend, and the last things he wanted to do.
- (tags:archaeology death viaDanielDWilliam )
- 4. Edinburgh's iconic Granton gas holder to be transformed into new city park
- (tags:Edinburgh gas park )
- 5. Clearly the best console gaming setup ever
- (tags:gaming consoles video impressive )
- 6. Facebook follows Twitter in un-banning Donald Trump ahead of 2024 presidential bid, Nick Clegg confirms
- (tags:Facebook politics USA )
- 7. What time is it on the moon?
- (tags:time moon physics )
- 8. Christian decline UK: How it's measured and what it means
- (tags:religion uk census demographics )
- 9. The UK's Biggest Cooking Myths
- (tags:uk cooking myths )
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- viapatrickhadfield,
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Interesting Links for 15-08-2022
Aug. 15th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. A former detransitioner talks about their experiences and mindset
- (tags:LGBT transgender )
- 2. This is an amazing optical illusion
- (tags:illusion brain video )
- 3. Revealed: The future of unpleasantly sexual lighting!
- (tags:sex lighting )
- 4. Why incel ideas and misogyny spread faster in tough economic times
- (tags:misogyny inequality psychology )
- 5. Russia and Ukraine: The Culture War and the Actual War
- (tags:LGBT transgender society Russia Ukraine )
- 6. Time lapse of the super moon rising over Edinburgh
- (tags:timelapse video moon edinburgh viaPatrickHadfield )
- 7. A Night at the Garden - a 7 minute documentary about a 20,000 strong Nazi rally in 1939 New York. Chilling
- (tags:documentary nazis usa video history )
- 8. Right to free period products becomes law in Scotland
- (tags:Scotland menstruation )
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- brain,
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- scotland,
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- society,
- timelapse,
- transgender,
- ukraine,
- usa,
- viapatrickhadfield,
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Interesting Links for 14-05-2022
May. 14th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. When there's a choice candidates vote alphabetically over 80% of the time
- (tags:names voting bias )
- 2. Who wants to see a standing wave in a swimming pool?
- (tags:water physics )
- 3. Why the Sudden Infant Death syndrome finding might not be very useful
- (tags:death children viaNancyLebov )
- 4. Alliance Party In Northern Ireland Could Rewrite Power Sharing
- (tags:politics NorthernIreland )
- 5. Trying (and failing) to track down why American outhouses have crescent moons on them
- (tags:moon toilet USA history )
- 6. Wakefield Labour executives resign en masse amid row over by-election selection process
- (tags:labour OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Edinburgh Councillors celebrate as Water of Leith walkway reopens after years of closure
- (tags:Edinburgh walking rivers )
Interesting Links for 13-05-2022
May. 13th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy
- (tags:viaPatrickHadfield space )
- 2. How is the EU likely to react to the UK breaking the Northern Ireland Protocol?
- (tags:UK Europe NorthernIreland trade )
- 3. What Foods Looked Like Before Genetic Modification
- (tags:food evolution )
- 4. Early at-home abortions will continue in Scotland
- (tags:Scotland abortion GoodNews )
- 5. Researchers Pinpoint Common Factor In Infants Die From SIDS
- (tags:children babies death viaPatrickHadfield )
- 6. UK withholds security advice over peerage for oligarch's son
- (tags:security UK Russia politics corruption )
- 7. Plants will grow in lunar regolith, but they don't like it
- (tags:plants moon space )
- 8. How easy is it to land a plane with no flying experience?
- (tags:airplanes emergency )
Interesting Links for 27-01-2022
Jan. 27th, 2022 03:49 pm- SpaceX rocket on course to crash into Moon
- (tags:Spacex moon )
- LGBT Foundation to sever all ties with the EHRC
- (tags:LGBT rights UK transgender OhForFucksSake )
- Stonewall response to EHRC statements on upcoming LGBTQ+ legislation
- (tags:LGBT transgender rights uk OhForFucksSake )
- Equality Network on the EHRC.
- (tags:transgender rights Scotland LGBT )
- I'd missed that the EHRC had come out *in favour* of conversion therapy
- (tags:OhForFucksSake UK transgender LGBT )
- Erasers are wonderful tools
- (tags:creativity art advice comic )
- The creator of Bluey on creating a critically-acclaimed global hit.
- (tags:children TV Australia )
- Chemicals in plastic consumer products may trigger obesity and weight gain
- (tags:plastic hormones fat )
- Why Don't We Use the Maths We Learn in School?
- (tags:mathematics Education )
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Interesting Links for 07-01-2022
Jan. 7th, 2022 12:00 pm- Electric cars and batteries: how will the world produce enough?
- (tags:batteries electricty cars )
- Johann Hari is talking nonsense about attention spans
- (tags:attention research fraud )
- It takes an average of three days for people to test positive on a nasal-based lateral flow test after their first positive PCR result for Omicron
- (tags:noses testing Pandemic Doom )
- Drone carrying a defibrillator saves its first heart attack patient in Sweden
- (tags:heart drone Sweden )
- The latest Moonfall trailer is even more ridiculous than the previous one! So looking forward to this!
- (tags:movies moon trailer )
- Wordle Is a Love Story
- (tags:words games english language )
- Dealing with Student Deceptions: What to do with 'Death in the Family' Excuses
- (tags:death university lies )
Interesting Links for 03-09-2021
Sep. 3rd, 2021 12:00 pm- Sexual Arousal Lessens Disgust
- (tags:disgust sex )
- An experimental birth control gives women antibodies to sperm
- (tags:vaccination sperm contraception )
- Do you like ridiculous disaster movies? Would you like to see the moon crash into the earth? It's your lucky day!
- (tags:movies apocalypse trailer moon )
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Interesting Links for 13-05-2021
May. 13th, 2021 12:00 pm- Pet a dog and you'll do better for weeks!
- (tags:mentalhealth stress psychology dogs viaMyBrotherHugh )
- Photoshopping Paddington into movies: Star Wars edition
- (tags:bears photoshop StarWars )
- Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B in revenue
- (tags:tax OhForFucksSake Netherlands )
- Covid vaccine: UK decision to delay second dose vindicated by new research
- (tags:UK pandemic vaccination )
- National Trust archaeologists surprised by likely age of Cerne Abbas Giant (late Saxon)
- (tags:history UK art )
- "Help! A Male Colleague Thinks I'm Scary"
- (tags:gender work scary society )
- Solar and wind's competitiveness over coal is accelerating (80% of US coal plants either non-competitive or actively shutting down)
- (tags:electricity GoodNews solarpower windpower coal viaDanielDWilliam )
- France blocks post-Brexit EU financial services deal with UK over fishing row
- (tags:uk europe trade finance fish )
- Richard Garfield: Getting Lucky (a fascinating analysis of the role of luck in games, and why it's so important)
- (tags:games luck viaDanielDWilliam )
- The different ways of calculating the end of Ramadan
- (tags:islam moon calendars time viaLilysea )
- xkcd's "Map Projections", animated
- (tags:maps xkcd visualisation video funny )
- Member of the Scottish Parliament takes oath of allegiance in Welsh (also, BSL, Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, Doric, Scots, Gaelic, Canadian French, German, Welsh, Orcadian and Zimbabwean Shona)
- (tags:scotland wales language )
- British government is lying when refusing to rescue visa-free music tours of EU, lawyers confirm
- (tags:uk government lying BorisJohnson Conservatives music europe )
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- viadanieldwilliam,
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Interesting Links for 10-03-2021
Mar. 10th, 2021 12:00 pm- Another Covid surge inevitable, Chris Whitty warns MPs
- (tags:pandemic doom uk )
- Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
- (tags:sweden shopping automation )
- Here's why "to be" is frequently missing in Scottish sentences.
- (tags:language scotland usa )
- This article on Harry and Meghan is just perfect (and hilarious)
- (tags:viaJennieRigg royalty celebrity UK racism media )
- Banks in Germany Tell Customers to Take Deposits Elsewhere
- (tags:Germany Europe banking )
- Russia turns away from NASA, says it will work with China on a Moon base
- (tags:USA Russia China space moon )
- Kate Winslet hasn't weighed herself in twelve years. Neither should you.
- (tags:weight health )
- Zoom Assault Hearing Goes Off the Rails After Court Discovers Alleged Abuser in the Same Apartment as Alleged Victim
- (tags:law USA video )
- Stop Calling Women Nags — How Emotional Labor is Dragging Down Gender Equality
- (tags:women men work homes family )
- Vegans get worse scars
- (tags:bodies vegan health )
- Humans throw away TOO MUCH CRAP IT HAS TO STOP
- (tags:Europe technology rights obsolescence )
- When we ask our simulation creator how the universe works we are going to be disappointed
- (tags:simulation comic funny )
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Interesting Links for 29-10-2020
Oct. 29th, 2020 12:00 pm- Covid in Scotland: 78 patients sent to care homes after testing positive
- (tags:Scotland pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- What SOFIA's discovery of water on the Moon is, and isn't
- (tags:water moon )
- What's going on with the sentencing of the police officer who murdered his lover
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1321425591531425792.html
(tags:murder police law UK ) - Sexual Eeling (or how people spent 2000 years thinking new Eels spontaneously generate
- (tags:fish reproduction history sex )
- The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
- (tags:earth noise weird )
- If you want people to work together on a shared solution take away the option to have their own private one. (this is why I'm against private schools)
- (tags:psychology inequality society )
- Exposed: Special procurement channels for 'VIPs' and Cabinet contacts - offering up to 45% profit
- (tags:UK corruption pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- This hot tub brings all the birds to the yard
- (tags:birds video winter )
- Reminder that you don't actually own videos you "buy" from Amazon (or most other providers)
- (tags:videos intellectual_property amazon )
- Zardoz child is the best Halloween costume
- (tags:halloween children funny )
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