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Interesting Links for 20-04-2025
Apr. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. In Gaza, we are seeing the normalisation of evil
- (tags:gaza Israel Palestine )
- 2. On language and trans people, some tips
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- 3. Life before the Equalities Act 2010
- (tags:transgender gender equality rights UK law history )
- 4. The lead civil servant on drafting the Equality Act says the aim was to include trans people.
- (tags:equality lgbt transgender OhForFucksSake law uk )
- 5. The Minister who introduced the Gender Recognition Bill in the House of Lords in 2003 made it clear that "a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act [the predecessor to the Equality Act] as a person of the acquired sex or
- (tags:transgender lgbt law uk history )
- 6. Settlers of Catan - Globe Edition
- (tags:3dprinting boardgames SettlersOfCatan )
- 7. Thousands of trans rights protesters on Edinburgh streets following court ruling
- (tags:Edinburgh transgender protests )
- 8. Musk to Force Pentagon to Build and Then Pay Him to Use Network of Killer Satellites
- (tags:ElonMusk corruption space )
- 9. Hungary's Orbán urges Hungarians to vote against Ukraine's membership of EU
- (tags:Hungary Ukraine Europe OhForFucksSake )
- 10. The UK is going to have to start making choices about Europe and the USA
- (tags:UK USA Europe )
- 11. Fusion power plants would require titanic amounts of lithium.
- (tags:materials fusion )
- 12. "Masking Is Life": Experiences of Masking in Autistic and Nonautistic Adults
- (tags:autism society psychology )
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Interesting Links for 18-04-2025
Apr. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How do we combat Reform and outmanoeuvre the insurgent right-wing revolters?
- (tags:politics uk viaFrancescaElston)
- 2. Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss
- (tags:weight fat epigenetics )
- 3. Reminder that the head of the UK equalities watchdog is a transphobe who bullied 40% of her LGBT staff out.
- (tags:lgbt bullying equality uk OhForFucksSake transgender bigotry )
- 4. Employment lawyer answers questions about Supreme Court ruling on trans women and single-sex spaces
- (tags:gender UK law transgender LGBT )
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Interesting Links for 15-04-2025
Apr. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. What's the opposite of DEI?
- (tags:usa politics OhForFucksSake comic )
- 2. Edinburgh Trams introduces Tap-On Tap-off... soon
- (tags:Edinburgh trams buses transport )
- 3. These game case animations are gorgeous
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- 4. The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien's fantasy world
- (tags:lotr fantasy maps )
- 5. China's 'dreamy' new ship aims to drill 7km below the ocean floor
- (tags:ocean research geology )
- 6. NHS England is holding back a report on suicide in trans kids that was finished a year ago.
- (tags:suicide LGBT transgender children NHS UK OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 12-04-2025
Apr. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The AI That Writes Every Pop Song
- (tags:ai satire music video )
- 2. Wes Streeting's war on trans people continues
- (tags:NHS healthcare UK LGBT transgender labour OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Trump's tarrifs are about to destroy the board-game industry (for Americans)
- (tags:boardgames economics USA china business )
- 4. "The End of Creative Scarcity" (a short story)
- (tags:short_story creativity scifi ai )
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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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Interesting Links for 07-04-2025
Apr. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand
- (tags:Tesla crash motorcycle OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Petition To Hold a Royal Commission on reform of the Westminster voting system
- (tags:UK voting reform )
- 3. Remind me, how well does telling investors not to panic work?
- (tags:investment doom )
- 4. 2025 Hugo final ballot: Goodreads / LibraryThing stats
- (tags:hugo awards scifi )
- 5. Dietary fructose enhances tumour growth
- (tags:sugar fructose cancer )
- 6. Neurotoxic worms growing up to 3ft long are in Ontario and you should kill them on sight
- (tags:worm Canada aieeee! )
- 7. Trust in the USA Is Dead. Trump Keeps Selling the Corpse.
- (tags:USA politics trade doom )
- 8. Russia's secret war in UK waters
- (tags:russia uk navy war viaDanielDWilliam )
Interesting Links for 06-04-2025
Apr. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Darkest Timeline For Board Games
- (tags:games economics usa OhForFucksSake doom )
- 2. Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans
- (tags:usa healthcare europe inequality )
- 3. Exeter's unassuming Co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'
- (tags:HeavyMetal design logo Devon UK )
- 4. Science Stopped Believing in Porn Addiction. You Should, Too
- (tags:addiction porn psychology morality )
- 5. UK bans fake reviews and hidden online shopping fees under new law
- (tags:UK regulation shopping )
- 6. The bits of Excel that you didn't know about (and might make your life easier)
- (tags:excel spreadsheet video advice )
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Interesting Links for 25-03-2025
Mar. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. "HR said I was only allowed to have 3 seizures a month" (in case you were wondering why disabled people are employed less often)
- (tags:disability employment OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Anyone fancy being our neighbours?
- (tags:housing Edinburgh )
- 3. Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage
- (tags:pandemic doom )
- 4. The Lost Towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline Wars
- (tags:history Italy )
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Interesting Links for 21-03-2025
Mar. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. EU sends Apple first DMA interoperability instructions for apps and connected devices
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- 2. Big drop in overseas students at Scottish universities (driven by changes in immigration visas)
- (tags:scotland university uk migration visa doom )
- 3. "We'll deport you if we have evidence against you, and if we do not" - An extraordinary witness statement by the US government
- (tags:usa migration OhForFucksSake law )
- 4. New study reveals bacterial vaginosis is actually a sexually transmitted infection
- (tags:sex disease women viaDrJon )
- 5. Vivian Jenna Wilson on Being Elon Musk's Estranged Daughter, Protecting Trans Youth and Taking on the Right Online
- (tags:LGBT transgender ElonMusk USA politics bigotry )
- 6. PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
- (tags:games computers )
- 7. Tesla cars disengage autopilot if you're about to crash
- (tags:Tesla automation OhForFucksSake driving crash )
- 8. Battery storage is dramatically reshaping the California grid, and finally moving it away from gas
- (tags:batteries electricity GoodNews California )
- 9. What evidence does the CIA have that Hitler was still alive in South America in the 1950s?
- (tags:history hitler USA cia colombia wtf )
- 10. Apple Is Losing Over $1 Billion per Year on Streaming Service, Has 45 Million Apple TV+ Subscribers
- (tags:Apple TV business )
- 11. I thankfully don't have to worry about dating apps. But I do find it fascinating what kind of person makes them work for them.
- (tags:dating advice )
- 12. Germany and Britain issue warnings about traveling to America
- (tags:usa travel germany uk )
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Interesting Links for 19-03-2025
Mar. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. I am very amused to discover that I'm distantly related to Magnus Hirschfeld.
- (tags:lgbt history sex family )
- 2. Why does every book come from the same country? And why is its capital city Swindon?
- (tags:books viaSwampers numbers )
- 3. Basic Woman's Entire Personality Revolves Around Things She Enjoys
- (tags:happiness satire funny )
- 4. How Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
- (tags:apple OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Naoshima - Japan's island of art
- (tags:japan art )
- 6. Benefit cuts aren't going to help.
- (tags:welfare uk OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 18-03-2025
Mar. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How much welfare is fraudulently claimed, and how much bigger is the tax lost through evasion?
- (tags:tax welfare fraud )
- 2. Edinburgh's Summerhall arts venue has 'bright future' after signing of 10-year lease
- (tags:Edinburgh art GoodNews )
- 3. Nietzsche! Vs! Spicy! Food!
- (tags:food philosophy pain )
- 4. A rational way of feeling about the present state of the world.
- (tags:usa politics comic )
- 5. Planet Definitions
- (tags:planets space comic )
- 6. "My brother stole a phone - 13 years on, he's still in prison"
- (tags:prison uk OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 13-03-2025
Mar. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Installing solar panels in deserts improves soil quality and biodiversity by providing areas of shade and shelter.
- (tags:desert solarpower environment viaMyBrotherHugh )
- 2. Labour are going the wrong way on getting people in to work.
- (tags:work welfare uk labour OhForFucksSake )
- 3. If you want to fix modern society then one of the things you'll need to do is build more homes
- (tags:housing society inequality )
- 4. Edinburgh councillors approve new site for Social Bite Village in Granton
- (tags:Edinburgh housing homelessness )
- 5. How locational, or "zonal" pricing could give Scotland the cheapest power in Europe ... and give everyone else in GB cheaper power too.
- (tags:electricity economics UK )
- 6. Edinburgh's Big Wheel could be in place from July to New Year
- (tags:edinburgh tourism )
- 7. Some interesting researhc going on with plastic recycling
- (tags:recycling plastic research )
- 8. "I Was a U.S. Diplomat. Customs and Border Protection Only Cared That I Was Black."
- (tags:racism usa immigration )
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Interesting Links for 11-03-2025
Mar. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. British cartoonist R.E. Burke detained by ICE on backpacking trip
- (tags:travel usa OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
- (tags:economics USA doom funny )
- 3. What is mathematics?
- (tags:mathematics )
- 4. New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review
- (tags:Germany Austria Switzerland transgender healthcare LGBT )
- 5. A short list of things that will be just fine.
- (tags:hope thefuture )
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Interesting Links for 09-03-2025
Mar. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Social housing to be demolished as post-Grenfell repairs are too expensive
- (tags:UK housing OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions
- (tags:cars driving ux )
- 3. Game-Changing Vaccine Offers Long-Lasting Protection Against COVID-19 & Flu
- (tags:vaccine pandemic flu GoodNews )
- 4. The Person Centred Association comes out against transphobia
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(tags:LGBT transgender bigotry GoodNews counselling ) - 5. Asimov's, Analog, and Fantasy and Science Fiction have all been purchased
- (tags:scifi publishing )
- 6. Why the Edinburgh South Suburban tram/train is unlikely to happen
- (tags:trains trams edinburgh economics )
- 7. The Relationship between Autism and Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes/Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders
- (tags:autism genetics bodies )
- 8. Scandal of the sick: Ill and disabled PIP benefit claimants die while waiting for payments
- (tags:UK welfare austerity OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 07-03-2025
Mar. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Denmark's postal service to stop delivering letters
- (tags:denmark mail )
- 2. How the Danish cracked work-life balance
- (tags:denmark working_hours work life )
- 3. The Closely Guarded Secrets Of Manhattan Doormen
- (tags:usa money jobs )
- 4. Masterplan for new Edinburgh village Redheughs reveals 1,300 homes, community hub, central square and primary school
- (tags:Edinburgh housing )
- 5. Four Reasons Why English Should Not be the Official Language of the United States
- (tags:language usa English )
- 6. War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge
- (tags:usa OhForFucksSake military women )
- 7. Starlink's European rival Eutelsat says it can do the job in Ukraine
- (tags:ukraine space communication europe )
- 8. How much do Britons read?
- (tags:uk reading polls )
Interesting Links for 06-03-2025
Mar. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Scottish Tories propose 14 years old for school leaving age
- (tags:Education children scotland Conservatives )
- 2. Those who oppose the Chagos deal are wilfully ignoring the facts
- (tags:diplomacy uk usa law )
- 3. Jeep Owners Fed Up With In-Car Pop-Up Ads
- (tags:cars advertising OhForFucksSake )
- 4. UK's highest railway the Cairngorm funicular returns to service after 17-month closure
- (tags:tourism Scotland trains mountains )
- 5. Neil Gaiman's defense against legal claims
- (tags:neilgaiman rape law )
- 6. Doctors back total ban on hitting children in England
- (tags:England children violence )
- 7. Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need
- (tags:Finland homelessness GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 03-03-2025
Mar. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. You need governmental approval to run psychological tests on job applicants in Canada
- (tags:Canada psychology jobs viaDewline )
- 2. Edinburgh are having a consultation on dogs on beaches and in green spaces, as well as buskers and green-space management.
- (tags:Edinburgh consultation dogs )
- 3. New study says TikToks are bad for you! Thankfully it's complete nonsense!
- (tags:science brain videos )
- 4. The Cuddled Little Vice - a fascinating, in-depth, dissection of Neil Gaiman's career.
- (tags:neilgaiman rape history writing sandman comics )
- 5. German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility
- (tags:USA tourism prison OhForFucksSake )
- 6. The US Defense Department removes thousands of serving transgender people
- (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry USA republicans )
- 7. Church of England: just 25% now have a favourable view - 49% unfavourable.
- (tags:religion uk polls )
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Interesting Links for 23-02-2025
Feb. 23rd, 2025 12:01 pm- 1. Ancient switch to soft food gave us an overbite—and the ability to pronounce 'f's and 'v's
- (tags:speech food bone bodies prehistory )
- 2. Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
- (tags:abortion texas childbirth safety death OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename 'Krasnov' Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief
- (tags:spying Russia USA politics )
- 4. Trove.scot just opened up access to huge amounts of Historic Scotland's archive
- (tags:history Scotland )
- 5. Today I discovered the Fish Delousing Laser
- (tags:lasers fish video )
- 6. It's amazing what you can do with a bit of makeup
- (tags:makeup video impressive )
