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Interesting Links for 27-02-2026
Feb. 27th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. The "forever chemicals" known as PFAS appear to be aging men faster in their 50s and early 60s
- (tags:materials age men doom )
- 2. On a technical level this video is very impressive. On a copyright level, someone's getting their bum sued off.
- (tags:video ai copyright netflix WarnerBrothers )
- 3. Red Dwarf's 'visionary' co-creator Rob Grant dies aged 70
- (tags:obituary death RedDwarf )
- 4. Esther Rantzen accuses peers of 'sabotage' as assisted dying bill looks set to fail (House of Lords proposes over a thousand amendments)
- (tags:UK law euthanasia OhForFucksSake houseoflords )
- 5. Burger King rolls out AI headsets that track employee 'friendliness'
- (tags:restaurant ai surveillance OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 02-02-2026
Feb. 2nd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Vitamin D cuts heart attack risk by 52%. Why?
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- 2. Democrats flip Texas state Senate seat in shock upset
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- 3. Evidence beats ideology: What Hampstead Ponds tells us about trans inclusion
- (tags:LGBT transgender UK )
- 4. Who Goes Nazi? (A newspaper article from 1941)
- (tags:nazis history viaKenny )
- 5. Why was the Puppet Masters movie so bad?
- (tags:movies heinlein scripts writing )
- 6. I have no mouth and I must scream at Black people: Scott Adams, 1957-2026
- (tags:dilbert history politics obituary )
- 7. Following the link about a "running a bookshop" holiday, I was recommended the game "Tiny Bookshop"
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- 8. A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words! |
- (tags:words game doom )
- 9. Did people drink water in the Middle Ages?
- One of the oddest myths about the Middle Ages is that people did not drink water.
(tags:water history ) - 10. Inside the Salford secondary school where every pupil gets a job when they leave (because they're properly supported)
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Interesting Links for 13-12-2025
Dec. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How Screen Time Affects Childhood Brain Development
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- 2. Four reasons why the UK is already at war with Russia
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- 3. Looking Back at the Work of John Varley, 1947-2025
- (tags:scifi obituary )
- 4. Dating a man who's most likely autistic
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Interesting Links for 18-11-2025
Nov. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. There has to be a better way to make titanium
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- 2. Reselling tickets above face value set to be banned by UK government
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- 3. Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died
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Interesting Links for 21-03-2024
Mar. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Diane Abbott is a political pawn in Labour's farcical disciplinary process
- (tags:politics labour racism OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Paris Preserves Its Mixed Society by Pouring Billions Into Public Housing
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- 3. Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden
- (tags:sweden rape prostitution sexwork )
- 4. Elon Musk's X Is Suspending Accounts That Reveal a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist's Identity
- (tags:nazis twitter ElonMusk OhForFucksSake )
- 5. The cutest baby thing I've seen in a long time
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- 6. Vernor Vinge (1944-2024) - Author and creator of the concept of The Singularity
- (tags:scifi singularity obituary writers )
- 7. Neuralink video shows patient playing chess using brain implant
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- 8. NIH Researchers Identify Brain Connections Associated With ADHD in Youth
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- 9. An Anthropocene Worth Having
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Interesting Links for 30-11-2023
Nov. 30th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. UK humans rights watchdog under review by the UN over approach to trans people
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- 2. On portrayals of tech billionaires in science fiction
- (tags:scifi inequality )
- 3. Edinburgh trams 'wouldn't have gone ahead if councillors weren't lied to on cost'
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- 4. 27% Of New Cars In France Now Plugin Electric Cars!
- (tags:electricity cars France )
- 5. 1850s Tumblr Simulator
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- 6. Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America's Ruling Class, Finally Dies
- (tags:death history USA OhForFucksSake politics obituary war republicans )
- 7. Elon Musk Just Told Advertisers, 'Go Fuck Yourself' (because they didn't want to support antisemitism)
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Interesting Links for 05-04-2023
Apr. 5th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. There's no evidence that any ethnic group is responsible for child sexual exploitation, but that won't stop the Tories from blaming Pakistanis
- (tags:racism Conservatives children abuse )
- 2. Raising an autistic child for 12 years has shown me all the ways neurotypical people are flawed
- (tags:autism children society )
- 3. Conservatives continue to agree that housing in the UK is broken. And then not do anything about it.
- (tags:Conservatives housing uk epicfail )
- 4. Frequently shouting at, isolating, and physically punishing young children made it 1.5 times more likely that a child would be at high risk of developing poor mental health by age nine
- (tags:children mentalhealth parenting abuse )
- 5. People Are More Prone to Believe in God than Identify as Religious. Western Europe is the least-religious part of the world
- (tags:religion belief polls )
- 6. Grooming gangs and ethnicity: What does the evidence say?
- (tags:ethnicity children rape abuse uk )
- 7. Driverless bus service goes live in Scotland in world first (will still have a safety driver aboard, and someone to assist people).
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- 8. Catan creator, board game pioneer Klaus Teuber dead at 70
- (tags:games SettlersOfCatan obituary )
- 9. People who live beyond 100 have a better immune system than average
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- 10. A Toxic Time Bomb Is Ticking in the Arctic
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- 11. Conflict in Israel and Gaza: What do Jews in the UK think?
- (tags:israel Jews uk )
- 12. Very! Bad! Volume! Controls!
- (tags:design ux music funny )
- 13. Key lessons from the quest design of The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077
- (tags:design games )
- 14. Why people sometimes feel a 'presence' in an empty room
- (tags:psychology hallucinations )
- 15. The Rule of Three - how organisations change as they grow
- (tags:business organisation psychology )
- 16. Apparently the EHRC doesn't understand how book clubs work
- (tags:books bigotry gender UK wtf )
- 17. Using AI to describe logos and then recreate them from that yields some lovely results (I think Twitter is my favourite)
- (tags:logo ai design )
- 18. More games should use "Overkill"
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Interesting Links for 09-03-2023
Mar. 9th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Oh look, some political leadership I can get behind
- (tags:snp politics UK asylum )
- 2. Let's be clear, Suella Braverman's asylum bill is absolute moral degeneration
- (tags:asylum uk OhForFucksSake )
- 3. LA Sheriff's Department Has Gang Members at Highest Levels
- (tags:gangs usa police OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Legislation as an annual or biennial virility event
- (tags:UK law )
- 5. The Tories are coming for sex education
- (tags:conservatives sex education OhForFucksSake )
- 6. A rare photo of Schrödinger's Cat
- (tags:quantum photo funny viaLinkMachineGo )
- 7. The jacket of women's invisibility
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- 8. Chaim Topol dead: Fiddler on the Roof actor dies aged 87
- (tags:movies obituary Jews )
- 9. The US Air Force Is Moving Fast on AI-Piloted Fighter Jets
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- 10. EU tells Rishi Sunak small boats plan violates international law (and thus endangers our trade agreement with them)
- (tags:UK Europe asylum law )
Interesting Links for 23-12-2022
Dec. 23rd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Glaswegian who invented chicken tikka masala dies
- (tags:India Glasgow food history obituary )
- 2. Gender reform bill to make it easier for transgender people to self-identify passes in Scotland
- (tags:Scotland transgender LGBT GoodNews )
- 3. Large swathes of English people use "English" and "British" interchangeably
- (tags:UK nationality England britain viaDanielDWilliam )
- 4. Mastodon is hurtling toward a tipping point
- (tags:mastodon socialnetworking )
- 5. A look behind the scenes at how Scotland finally passed a Gender Recognition Reform Act, and how the Tories, knowing they would fail to vote it down, tried to filibuster it.
- (tags:LGBT transgender Scotland politics conservatives )
- 6. The law of participation inequality (that the vast majority of users of a social network read, but don't interact, some interact a bit, a tiny number provide most content)
- (tags:socialnetworking )
- 7. Spain approves self-id transgender bill
- (tags:Spain LGBT transgender GoodNews )
- 8. Strange, tentacled microbe may resemble ancestor of complex life
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Interesting Links for 09-09-2022
Sep. 9th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Scotland has been having some pretty heavy rain
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- 2. Reminder that monarchy travels faster than light
- (tags:physics satire monarchy terrypratchett funny )
- 3. Accurate obituary construction for the Queen
- (tags:Queen death obituary funny journalism satire )
- 4. Brands and their tributes to The Queen
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- 5. The short unhappy life of Elizabeth Windsor
- (tags:Queen obituary )
- 6. Raccoon! In! A! Hammock!
- (tags:raccoon video cute )
- 7. Queen Elizabeth II: Edinburgh Council close major roads as monarch to arrive in capital
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- 8. The Knives Out sequel has a trailer!
- (tags:trailer mysteries murder video )
- 9. Lovecraftian horror music video, as generated by an AI
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Interesting Links for 07-06-2021
Jun. 7th, 2021 12:00 pm- Scientists develop cheap and easy method to extract lithium from seawater
- (tags:metal sea water GoodNews )
- Puppies are able to track human social cues at just eight weeks of age
- (tags:puppies dogs psychology humans viaPatrickHadfield )
- What is Scandinavian Style Proportional Representation - and what would it look like in Scotland?
- (tags:voting Scandinavia Scotland )
- When your rescue cat rescues a cat
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- Here's an interesting and unusual life
- (tags:women life obituary religion )
- Scotland's appeal to foreign investors bucks trend
- (tags:Scotland UK economics )
- Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial
- (tags:science wikipedia )
- How do people feel about life extension?
- (tags:life lifespan viaSwampers )
- How 'One Hundred and One Dalmatians' Saved Disney
- (tags:movies Technology Disney history dogs )
- Sketch for a fanfic about the One Ring
- (tags:lotr fanfic )
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Interesting Links for 23-01-2021
Jan. 23rd, 2021 12:00 pm- No, trans women do not have an advantage in sport
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- MEPs adopt a resolution condemning the current approach to tax havens as ineffective
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- The seditionists are now quoting Tolkien in their ridiculous legal cases
- (tags:law USA coup funny WTF Tolkien lotr )
- JMS remembers Mira Furlan
- (tags:obituary Babylon5 acting Yugoslavia jms )
- Get ready for 'Long Brexit'
- (tags:UK Europe Doom trade )
- 15 ideas to make Britain better
- (tags:UK advice viaPatrickHadfield )
- Pink seesaws at US-Mexico wall win design award
- (tags:Mexico USA borders art viaJane )
- Apparently you need a £180 certificate to send £20 of cheese to Europe
- (tags:Europe UK trade food Doom )
- Johann Hari spreads dangerous lies. I wish I was less surprised the Guardian supports him
- (tags:dangerous mentalhealth johannhari guardian OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 31-08-2020
Aug. 31st, 2020 12:00 pm- Diary: In Ashgabat (bribery and corruption in Turkmenistan)
- (tags:corruption oil business turkmenistan )
- A set of ADHD coping tools
- (tags:technology adhd advice )
- Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They're finding QAnon instead.
- (tags:religion conspiracy politics usa )
- Revealed: How, on every measure, Britain's response to the Covid pandemic has been woeful
- (tags:UK pandemic doom ViaDrCross epicfail )
- How technologically advanced are Britain's ports?
- (tags:UK trade technology Doom )
- How the world has changed since the 1970s
- It baffles me that anyone thinks things haven't progressed. Good to get a list!
(tags:society time science technology viaDanielDWilliam ) - The Legend of GayBlade (an early example of LGBT computer games, long thought lost)
- (tags:LGBT games history computers )
- Independent local shops enjoy business boost due to commuting drop.
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- Now this is an obituary
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Interesting Links for 25-02-2020
Feb. 25th, 2020 12:00 pm- Protecting travellers who miss flights because of airport security delays
- (tags:security flights uk libdem )
- The Scottish Gritter lorries have some excellent names.
- (tags:snow transport scotland maps names )
- Solar pv costs are dipping below wholesale electricity prices in more and more countries.
- (tags:electricity UK solarpower viaDanielDWilliam )
- 'Hidden Figures' Mathematician Katherine Johnson Dies
- (tags:obituary NASA mathematics race history women )
- The "marshmallow test" said patience was a key to success. A new replication tells us it's really not
- (tags:self-control research history fail )
- Why crossing the academic picket line is never a kindness
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- How to Buy a Camel (with delightful pictures)
- (tags:camels advice ViaDrCross )
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Interesting Links for 13-11-2018
Nov. 13th, 2018 11:00 am- Every Brexit headline for the last six months
- (tags: UK europe doom )
- Art of SFF: Charles Vess on Working with Ursula Le Guin on The Books of Earthsea
- (tags: art UrsulaKLegGuin fantasy )
- Cost of wind and solar fall below cost of coal and gas
- (tags: solarpower windpower renewables GoodNews gas coal usa )
- Samsung’s foldable smartphone reportedly costs $1,770. I'll take two!
- (tags: phones design samsung android )
- Democrats Say Their First Bill Will Focus On Strengthening Democracy At Home
- (tags: democracy usa democrats )
- Israel-Gaza violence erupts after covert op killings
- (tags: israel palestine )
- 'No completion date' for new Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh
- (tags: Edinburgh hospital fail construction )
- Stan Lee Dead: Marvel Comics' Real-Life Superhero Was 95
- (tags: obituary comics marvel )
- Children with autism thrive in mainstream pre-schools
- (tags: autism children )
- Voters in most vulnerable Tory seats back fresh Brexit referendum
- (tags: UK europe referendum Conservatives )
- Nearly entire class throws Nazi salute for photo. FFS
- (tags: OhForFucksSake nazis school usa )
- Female prisoners in England left to give birth alone in their cells
- (tags: prison women birth OhForFucksSake )
- "Detective Pikachu” looks delightfully weird
- (tags: movies games pokemon trailer )
- London women tell UN poverty envoy about impact of welfare cuts
- (tags: austerity UK OhForFucksSake )
- Minister responsible for getting a Brexit deal is pushing for no deal.
- (tags: UK europe doom )
- Jony Ive's latest design is the ultimate diamond ring – made only of diamond.
- (tags: diamonds apple charity design )
- People are “consistently inconsistent” in how they reason about controversial scientific topics
- (tags: logic thinking science rationality psychology )
- Aardman Animation is Giving The Company to Their Employees
- (tags: animation business employment ownership )
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Interesting Links for 11-10-2018
Oct. 11th, 2018 12:00 pm- Mental health care in the NHS is terrible.
- (tags: mentalhealth NHS UK OhForFucksSake )
- Uncoiling the spiral: Maths and hallucinations
- (tags: vision brain mathematics patterns )
- Theresa May told to scrap fit-to-work assessments after nearly 50% of women attempted suicide during process
- (tags: suicide welfare uk OhForFucksSake )
- A brief history of Grace Kelly
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- Now this is an awesome obituary
- (tags: death obituary funny viaSwampers )
- Pro-remain Tory MPs will form group to vote down May's Brexit deal
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- Declassified documents show why the US and the USSR came close to war in 1973
- (tags: history war USA russia )
- Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots
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- Waymo's self-driving cars have logged 10 million miles
- (tags: automation cars driving )
- Feeding 10 billion people by 2050 within planetary limits may be achievable
- (tags: food population thefuture )
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Interesting Links for 28-04-2018
Apr. 28th, 2018 12:00 pm- Gustav Born had an intensely interesting life
- (tags: Germany obituary medicine research )
- Why there has never been a movie like Avengers: Infinity Wars before
- (tags: movies marvel )
- Forty-four genomic variants linked to major depression
- (tags: depression genetics )
- Dammit, I want a capybara
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- Melatonin’s role in labor progress
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- EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming neonicotinoids,
- (tags: bees europe GoodNews )
- Voter ID plans 'deeply flawed', says Electoral Reform Society
- (tags: reform voting identity uk )
- Why Do Judges Cite Jane Austen in Legal Decisions?
- (tags: writing women law usa )
- Wooden Statue Found in Late 1890s Likely Dates Back More Than 11,000 Years
- (tags: archaeology prehistory )
- Prof says he'll grade students on a curve, so they organize a boycott of the exams and all get As
- (tags: exams university )
- Quiz: can you guess the world city from its cold war Soviet spy map? (I got 9/11)
- (tags: maps russia )
