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Interesting Links for 27-09-2025
Sep. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly
- (tags:history business Scotland )
- 2. Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification
- (tags:transgender bigotry USA politics murder guns )
- 3. Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance
- (tags:fascism satire politics USA )
- 4. The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. "Liberals" Are Helping
- (tags:transgender bigotry politics )
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 03-07-2025
Jul. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Lemkin Institute Anti-genocide group issues 'red flag' to UK over transgender rights
- (tags:lgbt transgender UK rights OhForFucksSake bigotry )
- 2. The UK has an extremely low rate of homes per person
- (tags:UK housing doom )
- 3. Israel limits entry of baby formula in Gaza as infants die of hunger
- (tags:Israel babies murder Hunger genocide gaza Palestine )
- 4. Poor internet and offices partly to blame for length of Edinburgh Tram Inquiry
- (tags:edinburgh trams enquiry internet organisation )
- 5. TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3
- (tags:ai racism videos socialmedia )
Interesting Links for 19-06-2025
Jun. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Doctor uses robot to remotely perform surgery on patient thousands of miles away
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- 2. General-purpose robots are very nearly here
- (tags:robots ai video impressive )
- 3. How roundabouts transformed Carmel, Indiana
- (tags:transport planning roads design usa )
- 4. Beware the gaze of raccoons!
- (tags:raccoon comic funny literature )
- 5. Banning smartphones in schools has little or no impact on the wellbeing of students or their education or on the prevalence of online bullying
- (tags:phones school )
- 6. A Provocative Argument About What Creates Serial Killers (possibly Heavy Metals)
- (tags:murder brain pollution )
- 7. Scottish Government advice on school uniforms now says that you shouldn't need branded items.
- (tags:school clothing GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 13-05-2025
May. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How Gandalf Proved Mightiest: Spiritual Power in Tolkien
- (tags:lotr Tolkien magic viaDanielDWilliam )
- 2. ScotRail trials wi-fi using Elon Musk's Starlink satellites
- (tags:Scotland trains internet )
- 3. Continuous glucose monitors reveal variable glucose responses from the same people to the same meals
- (tags:insulin sugar eating food )
- 4. The charts showing the big flaw in Starmer's immigration plan
- (tags:migration economy uk doom )
- 5. Moderna's combo Covid and flu mRNA shot outperforms current vaccines in large trial
- (tags:vaccine pandemic flu )
- 6. Despair at Starmer's divisive language as he channels Enoch Powell
- (tags:bigotry immigration UK Labour OhForFucksSake )
- 7. US Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn't always fair use
- (tags:ai copyright USA politics )
- 8. Edinburgh traffic bans in city centre to be made permanent following trial
- (tags:traffic transport Edinburgh )
- 9. Top UK Special Forces general oversaw blocking of Afghan war-crime witnesses to Britain
- (tags:UK military crime war OhForFucksSake Afghanistan )
- 10. How the news feels right now
- (tags:news satire doom )
- 11. Mass vote losses to Lib Dems and Greens would cost Labour twice as many seats as mass Reform switch
- (tags:labour libdem green )
- 12. Getting to know 'Reform curious Labour voters'
- (tags:Labour politics UK )
- 13. Zodiac Killer Revealed by His Love of Comic Books, Author Says
- (tags:comics murder usa history )
- 14. London, Brighton, Birmingham and Manchester Prides suspend political parties from taking part (over trans rights)
- (tags:lgbt transgender protest uk politics )
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Interesting Links for 09-05-2025
May. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Elon Musk is responsible for killing the world's poorest children, says Bill Gates
- (tags:ElonMusk children murder billgates )
- 2. Human transcribers significantly more accurate than AI
- (tags:ai language )
- 3. Woman accused of illegal abortion cleared by jury
- (tags:abortion law UK )
- 4. Wizardry and the medieval church
- (tags:religion magic history )
- 5. A brief explanation of the new pope
- (tags:pope Catholic USA politics )
- 6. UK announces fresh Russia sanctions aimed at Putin's shadow fleet
- (tags:uk russia ukraine shipping )
- 7. AI use damages professional reputation
- (tags:ai work )
- 8. Who wants an edible robot cake?
- (tags:robots cake cooking )
- 9. "My abuser would be charged under new Scottish law"
- (tags:law abuse scotland GoodNews )
- 10. Michael Ellam: The EU Sherpa Resetting The UK-EU Relationship
- (tags:europe uk diplomacy politics )
- 11. Gaza will be concentration camp, declares Netanyahu
- (tags:gaza OhForFucksSake israel )
Interesting Links for 15-03-2025
Mar. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Tired and depressed people are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories
- (tags:depression sleep conspiracy psychology )
- 2. Origami measuring spoon incites fury after 9 years of Kickstarter delay hell
- (tags:manufacturing kickstarter design )
- 3. Why Do Transit Agencies Keep Falling for the Hydrogen Bus Myth?
- (tags:hydrogen buses transport fraud )
- 4. I love Tumblr's enthusiastic celebration of the Ides of March
- (tags:history funny murder Roml )
- 5. A trans refugee's court case against Hungary just improved Trans+ rights across all of Europe
- (tags:transgender LGBT rights Europe GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 03-02-2025
Feb. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Why would people rate a ten hour film about paint drying so highly, and how does the creator feel about it?
- (tags:painting movies video weird community viaSwampers )
- 2. EU patience 'wearing thin' in Brussels over Starmer's Brexit reset
- (tags:UK Europe doom )
- 3. How the UK's biggest solar project could be shaped by sheep farmers
- (tags:sheep solarpower UK )
- 4. USDA orders removal of climate change mentions from public websites
- (tags:USA globalwarming viaElfy OhForFucksSake censorship )
- 5. Platypus venom is what led to Ozempic!
- (tags:viaDrJon diabetes )
- 6. The four questions from the Lucy Letby case as defence to unveil new evidence
- (tags:murder law evidence )
- 7. Reminder that working more than 40 hours per week produces *negative* marginal gains if you do if for more than a few weeks.
- (tags:work working_hours efficiency )
- 8. Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space
- (tags:books visualisation )
- 9. basically every video essay (in 14 seconds)
- (tags:funny video videos satire )
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Interesting Links for 06-12-2024
Dec. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. People will share misinformation that sparks "moral outrage"
- (tags:socialmedia fraud )
- 2. The artist who uses mountains as his canvas
- (tags:art mountains france )
- 3. Israel bans Islamic call to prayer
- (tags:Israel Islam )
- 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
- (tags:USA politics democrats )
- 6. Amnesty report concludes Israel's actions against Palestinians in Gaza constitute genocide
- (tags:Israel genocide Palestine )
- 7. Labour's childcare plan won't work due to funding crisis, nurseries say
- (tags:uk childcare money )
- 8. Bitter Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network'
- (tags:murder healthcare usa )
- 9. See how lab-grown diamonds are made, step by step
- (tags:diamonds manufacturing )
- 10. Happy 20th anniversary to Numa Numa!
- (tags:meme history video music )
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Interesting Links for 27-11-2024
Nov. 27th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. How Murderbot Saved Martha Wells' Life (and got her nominated for a bunch of awards)
- (tags:scifi murder robots )
- 2. Bluesky boom worries Chinese media
- (tags:socialnetworking china )
- 3. The Five Stages of Processing a New Star Wars Announcement
- (tags:StarWars Disney movies video )
- 4. Earth has tilted by 31.5 inches and humans are to blame - pumping 2 trillion tons of groundwater
- (tags:water earth doom )
Interesting Links for 20-10-2024
Oct. 20th, 2024 12:17 pm- 1. The Lucy Letby case - here’s why experts are still arguing about it
- (tags:murder statistics healthcare evidence )
- 2. Microsoft creates fake Azure tenants to pull phishers into honeypots
- (tags:security Microsoft )
- 3. Playing video games may make you sharper – but moderate exercise does not
- (tags:exercise games intelligence )
- 4. EU court upholds right to sell PlayStation add-ons, in loss for Sony
- (tags:Sony games mod intellectual_property Europe GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 09-10-2024
Oct. 9th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. MI5 have foiled 48 mass murder plots from Russia and Iran in the last 7 years
- (tags:russia Iran murder war UK intelligence )
- 2. Hurricane! Milton! From! Space!
- (tags:video space wind weather )
- 3. US finalizes rule to remove lead pipes within a decade. (Do many other countries still use lead water pipes?)
- (tags:lead water USA )
- 4. Trailer for Midgies horror movie released ahead of filming
- (tags:Scotland insects horror comedy )
- 5. Companies Are Forcing People to Work Through Disasters.
- (tags:usa weather safety OhForFucksSake business mcdonalds )
- 6. Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
- (tags:google ai images doom fraud )
Interesting Links for 17-06-2024
Jun. 17th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Welsh Labour councillor quits party after learning it hid evidence that cleared him of complaint
- (tags:Labour corruption OhForFucksSake )
- 2. On Wikipedia and how it works
- (tags:Wikipedia )
- 3. Why some cities (including Edinburgh) are banning fossil fuel advertisements
- (tags:Edinburgh Scotland advertising oil )
- 4. Frankly, Labour are going to stomp this election, so vote for whoever you like. But if you want tactical voting advice for your constituency here it is
- (tags:voting advice conservatives )
- 5. Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccines
- (tags:USA military propaganda vaccine OhForFucksSake )
- 6. What is Box Breathing? (This helped me sleep when I was stressed)
- (tags:sleep stress )
- 7. Australia and New Zealand explicitly reject Cass review (joining USA and Canada)
- (tags:healthcare transgender Canada USA Australia newzealand LGBT )
- 8. Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths
- (tags:greece migration murder )
- 9. Small modular nuclear reactors are over-budget, taking years longer to build, and are never getting built.
- (tags:nuclearpower epicfail viaDanielDWilliam )
- 10. £130m Dundee Eden Project set for approval
- (tags:scotland nature architecture tourism )
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Interesting Links for 02-04-2024
Apr. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Israel Created 'Kill Zones' in Gaza. Anyone Who Crosses Into Them Is Shot
- (tags:Israel Palestine murder )
- 2. Edinburgh's Cameron Toll roundabout to close 'in its entirety' for up to a month with bus diversions in place
- (tags:Edinburgh bridge roads buses )
- 3. Why Westminster can prevent Scotland from banning glue traps for mice, even though it's not a reserved matter
- (tags:Scotland UK law trade )
- 4. The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent is Now 20 Years Old
- (tags:copyright history piracy )
- 5. The Tale of Daniel (the oldest name in continuous use)
- (tags:names history Israel middle_east )
- 6. Ketogenic Diet Effects On Bipolar and Schizophrenia
- (tags:diet mentalhealth bipolar schizophrenia )
- 7. The Deodorant AI Woman Spokesmodel Is Real, Sort Of
- (tags:ai advertising )
Interesting Links for 01-04-2024
Apr. 1st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The AI industry has spent $50Bn on chips to generate $3Bn in revenue
- (tags:ai business doom )
- 2. I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (a short story)
- (tags:simulation computers quantum )
- 3. How do giant turbines travel on rural Scottish roads?
- (tags:Scotland transport windpower )
- 4. How the amazing Sagrada Família came to be
- (tags:architecture Spain history )
- 5. Tory mismanagement of the NHS kills 250 people each week in 2023 - and that's just in A&E
- (tags:conservatives austerity NHS OhForFucksSake murder )
- 6. Stuff that is backwards in Australia
- (tags:Australia )
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Interesting Links for 21-12-2023
Dec. 21st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Police Scotland to roll out body cameras from next summer
- (tags:scotland police transparentsociety cameras )
- 2. Waymo significantly outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7+ million miles
- (tags:automation driving safety )
- 3. The Irish government is set to launch a human rights case against the UK over its decision to grant immunity for crimes committed during the Troubles.
- (tags:rights murder NorthernIreland history )
- 4. Teenagers found guilty of stabbing trans girl Brianna Ghey to death in park
- (tags:murder LGBT transgender UK )
- 5. Data from internet-linked vibrators unearths when women like to have their orgasms.
- (tags:masturbation sextoys viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 20-12-2023
Dec. 20th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. A tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to “hacks-for-hire” controversy.
- (tags:Technology hacking india censorship )
- 2. Animation vs. Physics
- (tags:physics animation video )
- 3. Baby It’s Cold Outside discourse is the same as Macbeth discourse.
- (tags:shakespeare funny )
- 4. NHS dentistry as we know it 'gone for good'
- (tags:UK NHS teeth OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Why MAs at Oxford had to swear an oath against a man who'd been dead for over 500 years.
- (tags:history university uk oxford murder viaPatrickHadfield )
- 6. New income tax band for people in Scotland earning over £75,000
- (tags:scotland income tax )
- 7. Teams are more creative when they're sitting next to each other
- (tags:creativity teams work psychology )
- 8. Iceland volcano erupts leaving 2.5-mile crack (with live video)
- (tags:iceland volcano )
- 9. Tom Bombadil and The Ring, a Christmas story
- (tags:Christmas lotr fanfic )
- 10. Lord of the Rings fan fiction writer tries to sue Amazon/Tolkien, gets countersued into a smoking crater
- (tags:copyright fanfic EpicStupidity lotr Tolkien )
- 11. A series of charts showing how awful the Conservatives are for the economy
- (tags:UK economy conservatives Labour )
- 12. Tory attempts to ban social transitioning in schools held up by lack of evidence showing it causes any problems
- (tags:LGBT law schools UK )
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Interesting Links for 07-10-2023
Oct. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. 4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images
- (tags:ai racism 4chan )
- 2. The man who tried to kill the queen was egged on by an overly-supportive AI chatbot
- (tags:ai murder queen )
- 3. A prehistoric cosmic airburst preceded the advent of agriculture in the Levant
- (tags:middle_east agriculture prehistory )
- 4. What does "Metabolically Healthy Obesity" mean, and how healthy is it?
- (tags:health obesity )
- 5. 'Long colds' just as common as long COVID and can leave prolonged symptoms (We clearly need a diagnostic test for "Your body is still processing an attack")
- (tags:disease pandemic colds )
- 6. It's time for the SNP to smell the coffee
- (tags:Scotland politics snp labour )
- 7. This is the best write-up I've seen of how current AIs work.
- (tags:technology AI words language viaLProven )
- 8. A brief list of things in the universe surprisingly younger than sharks
- (tags:sharks age viaPatrickHadfield )
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