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Interesting Links for 10-08-2024
Aug. 10th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh council is carrying out a consultation on Firework control zones - have your say here
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- 2. More than 2,000 people died from the heat in England last summer
- (tags:heat death UK )
- 3. The truth about Trump's press conference
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- 4. A Huge New York office building sold for a 97% discount. How much worse can the office space market get?
- (tags:office newyork economics )
- 5. Love this review of "The Crush House" a game that has you working as a camera operator on a reality show, forced to balance the needs of competing audiences and the demands of the contestants.
- (tags:games reality TV review )
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Interesting Links for 21-05-2024
May. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. £5bn Brexit border checks system still has no timetable for launch
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- 2. Flying sharks save fuel (at least, applying shark-like skin to your plane does)
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- 3. The UK's Infected blood report's key findings at a glance
- (tags:UK blood history OhForFucksSake )
- 4. The results of the UK's infected blood inquiry should surprise us, but they won't.
- (tags:UK OhForFucksSake blood lies government )
- 5. Trans-inclusive roller derby team helps strike down New York's trans sports ban
- (tags:newyork LGBT transgender GoodNews law sports )
- 6. What's the name for the emotion you feel when you see something cute?
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- 7. What will it be like when AI can create great art?
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- 8. 2022 Census: Majority of Scots have no religion
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Interesting Links for 10-04-2024
Apr. 10th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Solar eclipse viewed from a Starlink satellite
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- 2. Sunday's Eclipse as seen from a weather satellite
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- 3. People who work in advertising are much more likely to use adblockers
- (tags:advertising adblock viaPatrickHadfield )
- 4. A teacher promised his 1978 class an eclipse party. He just hosted it.
- (tags:teaching space newyork history )
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Interesting Links for 30-03-2024
Mar. 30th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Maersk is transitioning its fleet to methanol
- (tags:globalwarming pollution shipping GoodNews )
- 2. Zimbabweans abandon plans to plug UK care gaps after changes to visa rules
- (tags:UK Zimbabwe care immigration OhForFucksSake )
- 3. MSPs split over plans for rape trials without juries
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- 4. The Next Heat Pump Frontier? NYC Apartment Windows
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- 5. 16 million miles of England's bus routes axed since 2010
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- 6. Dundee seen through the lens of a 20,000 photo collage
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Interesting Links for 01-12-2023
Dec. 1st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The Fairytale Of New York is over - Shane MacGowan dies
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- 2. Britons support rejoining the single market, even if it means free movement
- (tags:polls UK europe GoodNews )
- 3. 'Napoleon' & 'Flower Moon' Flopped Harder Than 'Marvels' — Why the Different Narrative?
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- 4. How do you weigh an octopus?
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Interesting Links for 06-09-2023
Sep. 6th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The End of Airbnb in New York
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- 2. The strange, secretive world of North Korean science fiction
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- 3. Stalker found Japanese singer through reflection in her eyes
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- 4. Study of over 80,000 UK couples finds that in love opposites don't actually attract
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- 5. "AI took my job, literally"—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to glitchy AI translator
- (tags:ai translation jobs OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Misinformation about contraception on social media may be contributing to Scotland's record high abortion figures
- (tags:disinformation contraception Scotland abortion OhForFucksSake )
- 7. The Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Detection Explained
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Interesting Links for 05-07-2022
Jul. 5th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. What might trigger a second US civil war
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- 2. I was not expecting to encounter The Battle Of Verdun recreated in Lego
- (tags:history wwi lego video )
- 3. The UK is being trolled on Twitter by China. It deserves it.
- (tags:uk china NorthernIreland europe trade )
- 4. How autism is being missed in women and girls: 'I wasn't male enough for a diagnosis'
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- 5. Denver's Program to Dispatch Mental Health Teams Instead of Police is So Successful it is Expanding 5-Fold
- (tags:mentalhealth police USA GoodNews viaEatSoylentGreen )
- 6. Home Office says terminally ill mother should not join children in the UK because 'sacrifices have to be made'
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- 7. New York is... odd
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- 8. The physics of the Greenhouse Effect is different to what I thought
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- 9. Tory attorney general threatens to block Scotland's reform of gender laws
- (tags:LGBT transgender conservatives OhForFucksSake Scotland )
- 10. Edinburgh's 95% public satisfaction rate tells its own story
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- 11. Shelved! The books abandoned by their authors
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- 12. 12ft Ladder - a paywall bypass
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- 13. Archive.today - a paywall bypass and archive site
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- 14. How normal am I? (A fascinating look at how faces are analysed, using your own face as an example, if you let it)
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Interesting Links for 06-05-2022
May. 6th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Boris Johnson shelves plan ensure restaurant workers keep tips
- (tags:money work uk Conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- 2. NY Times says Wordle drove tens of millions of new users, record growth
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- 3. Transphobes refused permission to appeal over puberty blocker treatment
- (tags:LGBT transgender law GoodNews )
- 4. Tory-linked group that campaigns against net zero climate action is funded by US oil interests
- (tags:UK conservatives globalwarming OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Why society owes a debt of gratitude to a gay psychiatrist in a clown mask
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- 6. Protesters block Edinburgh immigration detentions
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- 7. No, local Conservatives aren't any better than the ones in Westminster
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- 8. Transphobes taking legal action against sexual violence charities
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- 9. Swarming drones autonomously navigate a dense forest (and chase a human)
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- 10. Are Sins Finite
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- 11. A Vast Underground Water System Helps Drive Antarctica's Glaciers
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- 12. Where Americans Stand On Abortion, In 5 Charts
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- 13. The UK's justice minister wants to take personal control of who gets parole. This is dangerous nonsense.
- (tags:politics law uk OhForFucksSake )
- 14. "Bambi" Is Even Bleaker Than You Thought (and its Jewish author more interesting)
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Interesting Links for 01-02-2022
Feb. 1st, 2022 12:00 pm- Sue Gray says she's not able to present 'meaningful report' due to Metropolitan Police investigation
- (tags:UK police conservatives BorisJohnson party )
- What do you when the new hire who showed up is not the same person you interviewed?
- (tags:work fraud identity wtf interviews )
- The New York Times Buys Wordle
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- People have the weirdest ideas: astronomy edition
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- The longer you watch this the more kittens appear
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- Police given 500 pieces of paper and 300 photographs of evidence on partygate
- (tags:police party Pandemic )
- Peter Dinklage Called Out By Actors With Dwarfism For His Accusations Against Disney
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- Scotland's new smoke alarms law comes into force
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- This Osprey Looks Right At His Rescuer As He Frees Him
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- Sophia's nursery is the first childcare business in Scotland to transition to being owned by its staff!
- (tags:children business ownership Scotland )
Interesting Links for 14-01-2022
Jan. 14th, 2022 12:00 pm- In bad news for US cloud services, Austrian website's use of Google Analytics found to breach GDPR
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- Covid in pregnancy linked to birth-related complications (but vaccination isn't)
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- New external system for complaints against Scottish ministers
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- A collection of Simpsons/Watchmen mashups
- (tags:funny Simpsons mashup Watchmen comics )
- The Inside Story of Politics for All, Twitter's Infamous UK News Account
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- Beautiful butterfly dresses!
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- How to communicate with difficult doctors
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- What If…. the Scottish Conservatives once more become a separate party?
- (tags:scotland Conservatives politics viaDanielDWilliam )
- Unvaccinated in New York 13 times more likely to get hospitalized
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- Orwell on Political Correctness
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- Putting cows into the Mootrix increases their milk production
- Prior art http://pvponline.com/comic/mon-may-12
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Interesting Links for 26-12-2021
Dec. 26th, 2021 12:00 pm- There are two reasons not to judge people for wanting what they want. This is the other one
- (tags:life trauma mylittlepony childhood children )
- Clearly the best way of doing jigsaw puzzles
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- The costume design in Muppet Christmas Carol is far better than it needed to be
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- New York City is banning natural gas hookups for new buildings
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- Having fun in a Northern Chinese winter
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- Where did Britain get half its genes from? France...
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- Huge rise in first Covid jabs as vaccine refuseniks come forward
- (tags:vaccine GoodNews UK Pandemic )
Interesting Links for 29-04-2021
Apr. 29th, 2021 12:00 pm- Samsung's Lee family to pay more than $10.8 bln inheritance tax
- (tags:inheritance tax Korea Samsung )
- Ford's Ever-Smarter Robots Are Speeding Up the Assembly Line
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- Vertical turbines far more efficient in large-scale wind farms
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- What are the consequences for politicians who lie?
- (tags:lying politics UK parliament )
- Government Orders Extra 60 Million Doses Of Pfizer Vaccine For Covid Booster Shots This Autumn
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- Interview questions for DevOps/system administrators
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- This Artist Faked Being a Billionaire to Photograph New York City's Best Views
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Interesting Links for 15-01-2021
Jan. 15th, 2021 12:00 pm- Emergency measure planned at ports to prevent food shortages because of Brexit
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- US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters
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- The Scottish postman behind 'Sea Shanty TikTok'
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- Eyes Wide Shut is an anti-consumerist Christmas classic
- (tags:christmas StanleyKubrick movies capitalism )
- Highway to the Danger Zone: Top Gun and the dangers of flirting with heterosexuality
- (tags:lgbt satire planes TomCruise homosexuality heterosexuality movies review )
- People are great at following the lockdown rules - except for the one that matters the most
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1349459843833352192.html
(tags:pandemic Doom OhForFucksSake viaFrancescaElston ) - Dire Wolves Were Not Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal
- (tags:wolves genetics USA )
- Takeaways in Scotland: 'I put £2,000 in every week just to stay open'
- (tags:takeaway food Scotland business pandemic )
- Why was NYC able to roll out a vaccine 50x faster in the 40s?
- (tags:history vaccine USA nyc newyork )
- The reluctance of the Home Office to deny publicly that it is reconsidering the restoration of the death penalty - an example of government-media relations
- (tags:government journalism UK death_penalty )
- An outbreak of common colds at an Antarctic base after seventeen weeks of complete isolation
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- What next for Scottish Labour?
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1349830451742060545.html
(tags:Scotland politics labour )
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Interesting Links for 03-11-2020
Nov. 3rd, 2020 12:00 pm- Want to buy books online while supporting indie booksellers? Now you can!
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- Your Scottish Covid questions answered
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- Baby Shark becomes YouTube's most-watched video of all time
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- Coronavirus: Scottish Police break up over 300 house parties over Halloween
- (tags:Halloween pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- Less than a quarter of UK voters would vote for Trump
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- Thor: Ragnarok - alternate scene introducing Hela. (I hadn't seen this before, not sure if I prefer it)
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- Liverpool to be offered new 'rapid result' coronavirus tests in city-wide pilot
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- Did you know about the first illegal prime number?
- (tags:PrimeNumbers law USA copyright )
- "How I talk to the victims of conspiracy theories"
- (tags:conspiracy UK psychology debate conversation communication )
- Why Tunnels in The US Cost Much More Than Anywhere Else in The World
- (tags:tunnels cost economics USA newyork )
- The Hyper-Regional Chippy Traditions of Britain and Ireland
- (tags:UK Ireland fish food )
- The TRUTH about Article 61 of Magna Carta
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Interesting Links for 21-09-2020
Sep. 21st, 2020 12:00 pm- Studio Ghibli releases a ton of high resolution stills from their movies
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- The road from Barnard Castle - government and the problem of illegality
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- Trafalgar Square protests end with 32 arrests as hundreds of anti-vaxxers and lockdown critics clash with police
- (tags:vaccination protest pandemic UK police )
- Just how problematic is JK Rowling's new 'cross-dressing serial killer book'?
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- Mortality Rates From COVID-19 Are Lower In Unionized Nursing Homes ( 30% relative decrease)
- (tags:unions pandemic newyork usa )
- Leaked documents involving about $2tn of transactions have revealed how some of the world's biggest banks have allowed criminals to move dirty money around the world. (London is a major hub)
- (tags:crime finance uk USA money )
- The "WandaVision" trailer looks glorious
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- The mystery of Boris Johnson's "trip to Perugia"
- (tags:wtf BorisJohnson Italy Russia )
- UK scraps rail franchise system
- (tags:UK transport trains pandemic )
Interesting Links for 31-03-2020
Mar. 31st, 2020 12:00 pm- The slice of bread here was made with leavening cultures sampled from ancient Egyptian baking vessels, using ancient Emmer wheat, with an ancient Egyptian recipe, using ancient Egyptian baking tools, and no oven!
- (tags:bread history viaDanielDWilliam )
- And now the police are getting overexcited about Easter eggs!
- (tags:OhForFucksSake police Easter eggs )
- "Panic Buying" was about 15% higher than normal shopping levels. And spending has already returned to normal levels
- Of course, my local supermarket had no pasta and almost no bread when I was in last...
(tags:shopping money ) - Hungary hands unlimited power to Orban, with no time limit
- (tags:pandemic fascism hungary )
- Alex Salmond was a bully and a sex pest, his own QC says on train
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- "Whatever it takes." Getting into the specifics of fiscal policy to fight COVID-19
- (tags:pandemic economics viaDanielDWilliam )
- FactCheck: how many people are dying from Covid-19 in the UK?
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- UK faces cardboard shortage due to coronavirus crisis
- (tags:materials packaging Doom uk recycling )
- This is terribly cute and I must do something similar for Sophia when she's older
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- The Empire State Building looks amazing right now
- (tags:design colour video pandemic newyork USA )
- Orangutans and otters pictured playing together in photos shared by Belgian zoo
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- Posiopaths: Positive only attitude can be toxic
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Interesting Links for 05-03-2020
Mar. 5th, 2020 12:00 pm- What's so great about Elizabeth Warren?
- (tags:politics USA economics democrats )
- Coronavirus means that new Bond movie is delayed until November
- (tags:JamesBond movies disease virus )
- Visitors to be able to climb Forth Bridge
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- Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees
- (tags:employment law France )
- The Mafia is all but dead in Western New York. So what killed it?
- (tags:mafia gambling crime newyork pizza history )
- School scraps racist hair rules as they're influenced by white supremacy
- (tags:racism hair school children GoodNews )
- I've signed this letter to the Guardian protesting the pattern of abusive articles about trans people. Please do likewise
- (tags:transgender LGBT petition guardian bigotry )
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Interesting Links for 15-02-2020
Feb. 15th, 2020 12:00 pm- A couple of clicks in a bank's spreadsheet caused the biggest fluctuation in Britain's trade figures in modern history.
- (tags:gold UK trade weird )
- What's going on with geothermal wells?
- (tags:electricity energy earth heat )
- An Inflammation of Place (the historical diagnosis of NewYorkitis)
- (tags:newyork disease cities stress )
- Don't aim for passion, be *curious*
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- Moving home can affect your children's health and education
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- Some tips on writing British characters
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- Flow-Charts of Programming Language Constructs
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- Dentists threatened by face-mask shortage because of coronavirus
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- There and Snack Again: How to eat everything in Lord of the Rings
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- How real is "grade inflation"?
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