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Interesting Links for 30-05-2025
May. 30th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Quakers refuse to exclude trans people from their facilities: 'This is what Love requires of us'
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- 2. Global warming is now destroying Swiss villages
- (tags:globalwarming Switzerland doom )
- 3. Quakers first British church to state belief that genocide underway in Gaza
- (tags:religion genocide gaza Palestine )
- 4. Walkers' Sensations Poppadoms vs HMRC: the Chip of Theseus
- (tags:tax food ontology potato uk law )
- 5. Make money to cover competing at the Olympics? Not if you do it sexily!
- (tags:money sexwork Olympics OhForFucksSake )
- 6. AI video just took a startling leap in realism. Are we doomed?
- (tags:ai video doom )
- 7. Your next gaming dice could be shaped like a dragon or armadillo
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- 8. Scotland's travellers suffered 'cultural genocide', report finds
- (tags:Scotland society history )
- 9. Scientists finally crack mystery of how clapping generates sound
- (tags:sound physics )
- 10. Attorney General compares Reform and Tories' policy to actions of Nazi Germany
- (tags:law UK Nazis history )
- 11. UnitedHealth reportedly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers
- (tags:USA healthcare OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 23-05-2025
May. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Why are Scotland's councils so short of cash when tax is going up?
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- 2. Greenland Signs Lucrative Minerals Deal with Europe in Blow to Trump
- (tags:Europe USA materials Greenland trade )
- 3. How I Beat NES Mario in 0.000005 Seconds (the nerdiest video I have ever watched. If you've seen something nerdier then do let me know)
- (tags:video games programming technology mario )
- 4. Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa
- (tags:USA politics Africa southafrica )
- 5. Programmers spend 5% of their time editing code, the rest is mostly understanding it/the issue they're trying to solve..
- (tags:programming research )
- 6. Which word made you old? (Mine was GOAT)
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- 7. Explaining "what a species is" turns out to be very very tricky
- (tags:video ontology life )
Interesting Links for 14-02-2025
Feb. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Why the UK's Public Finances are in Even Worse Shape than You Think (A different measure of the economy that shows how bad things have gotten over the last few decades)
- (tags:UK economics video doom )
- 2. What language do the British people find offensive?
- (tags:language offensive UK swearing viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Statement on Ukraine by Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, the European External Action Service and the European Commission
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- 4. US Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.
- (tags:USA economics statistics poverty )
- 5. The one true test of whether something is a sandwich
- (tags:ontology food )
- 6. A 'True Crime' Documentary Series Has Millions of Views. The Murders Are All AI-Generated
- (tags:crime fraud ai lies viaPatrickHadfield )
- 7. German Navy Says Warships Were Sabotaged, Warns of Russian Threat
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Interesting Links for 09-08-2022
Aug. 9th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range
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- 2. Met Police strip-searching hundreds of children, mostly black boys
- (tags:racism children UK police OhForFucksSake )
- 3. The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends"
- (tags:trains children authoritarianism morality writing tv )
- 4. This slide down a waterslide is a *world* of nope from me.
- (tags:height water video aieeee! )
- 5. A Proposed African Superstate: the East African Federation
- (tags:africa trade politics )
- 6. What is Race?
- (tags:race ontology video )
- 7. One in five civil servants can't afford travel to work and a third skip meals due to cost of living crisis
- (tags:uk poverty )
- 8. Supermarkets to label 'green' foods from pesto to sausages as study finds vegan products 90% more eco-friendly
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- 9. The plans for giant seaweed farms in European (and Scottish) waters
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Interesting Links for 05-08-2022
Aug. 5th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The many levels of racism
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- 2. Behind a nice conceit and good packaging, the Mr Men and Little Miss books are very, very bad
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- 3. Turning off the UK's analogue phone system is proving harder than they thought
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- 4. Putin is recruiting prisoners from Russian jails to fight on frontline in Ukraine
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- 5. Edinburgh North Bridge to remain closed until 2025 after discovery of 'previously concealed' issues
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- 6. How to really change someone's mind
- (tags:belief communication viaDanielDWilliam )
- 7. The monkeypox situation keeps getting worse - here's why
- (tags:monkey pandemic vaccination doom viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. Playing action video games boosts brain activity and decision-making skills
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- 9. Apple retaliated against women who complained about rape, assault, and harrassment
- (tags:apple rape harrassment assault OhForFucksSake )
- 10. Who knew that watching fences being knitted would be so soothing
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- 11. Summers are getting so hot in Florida that turtles there are mostly born female
- (tags:florida usa globalwarming turtle gender )
- 12. Scottish prosecutors angered by US criticism of record on child slavery
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- 13. It's lovely to see sheer joy in playing with technology
- (tags:Technology weather viaSwampers touchscreen happiness )
- 14. What happens to Russian soldiers who refuse to continue fighting in Ukraine?
- (tags:ukraine russia military war viaDanielDWilliam )
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Interesting Links for 05-01-2022
Jan. 5th, 2022 12:00 pm- Are pheasants livestock or wildlife? (Schroedinger would be proud)
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- Here are the arguments Prince Andrew's lawyer is trying to use to get the rape case dismissed
- (tags:rape monarchy USA law )
- '90 Day Fiancé' star retires from selling farts after heart attack scare
- (tags:headline gas wtf )
- The UX on this small child is terrible
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- You Can Skip the First Few Seasons of Your Child's Life, Because It Doesn't Really Get Good Until Season 6 (This is remarkably accurate)
- (tags:children satire TV funny parenting viaSwampers )
- Public overwhelmingly against Tony Blair knighthood, poll finds
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- Sony confirms PlayStation VR2's specs, first official game
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- Female patients are more likely to die if thesurgeon is male
- (tags:surgery women men society OhForFucksSake patriarchy )
Interesting Links for 09-05-2021
May. 9th, 2021 12:00 pm- There's no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
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- The mandate for a Scottish independence referendum
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- Interesting changes in the Blue Wall English Remainer areas
- (tags:UK politics Europe )
- People aged 105 and over have more efficient DNA repair
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- "I wrote the book on user-friendly design. What I see today horrifies me"
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Interesting Links for 29-01-2021
Jan. 29th, 2021 12:00 pm- Boosted by tech stocks, Norway wealth fund earns £90 billion in 2020
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- Are Psychiatric Conditions Spectra or Discrete?
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- The casting for the Sandman TV series is not what I expected, and that delights me
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1354806599714369544.html
(tags:sandman TV ) - The SNP taking steps in the right direction over transphobia. (Looking forward to their definition)
- (tags:snp LGBT transgender bigotry )
- The contents of Magna Carta - how much is still valid today?
- (tags:history law UK )
- Drone Swarms Are Getting Too Fast for Humans to Fight, U.S. General Warns
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- How we we could have - and should have - avoided more than100,000 people dying from Covid in the UK
- (tags:pandemic death UK incompetence )
- UN court rules UK has no sovereignty over Chagos islands
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- Nobody uses the word "technocrat" except when they're criticizing something.
- (tags:government organisation civilization rationality )
- GOP Congresswoman blamed deadly forest fire on Jewish space laser
- (tags:OhForFucksSake conspiracy Jews lasers wtf republicans )
- There were more Covid outbreaks in offices last year than in supermarkets, construction sites, warehouses, restaurants and cafes combined.
- (tags:pandemic office doom )
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Interesting Links for 29-08-2020
Aug. 29th, 2020 12:00 pm- How to Piss Off Advertisers With Your iOS 14 Settings (I just did similarly on my Android phone)
- (tags:advertising iPhone Apple privacy viaSwampers )
- Bro, This Is Not The 'Beowulf' You Think You Know
- (tags:writing English translation history language review )
- JK Rowling returns human rights award to group that denounces her transphobic views
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- Children are not the primary drivers of Covid-19 transmission to adults in schoolz
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- Chadwick Boseman: Black Panther star dies of cancer aged 43
- (tags:Cancer OhForFucksSake marvel movies )
- Since the invention of categories people argued over which one jellyfish fit in to.
- This then led me on to read about Ctenophora - which are still being argued about!
(tags:history animals ontology ) - How Bella Thorne messed up Only Fans and caused a disaster for sex workers
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1299467098100396032.html
(tags:sexwork payment OhForFucksSake ) - Finally, a position I can vote for
- (tags:politics media uk )
Interesting Links for 23-06-2020
Jun. 23rd, 2020 12:00 pm- Why Meatpacking Plants Have Become Covid-19 Hot Spots
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- The plight of the funny woman (an investigation into why women aren't funny.)
- (tags:women society humour comedy viaElfy )
- The Silurian hypothesis: would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?
- (tags:prehistory civilization technology )
- Brexit has, on average, made people £500 to £1000 worse off each year. And very little has actually changed yet...
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1274956533525295119.html
(tags:economics UK Europe Doom OhForFucksSake ) - How do you visualize the calendar year in your head? As a timeline? A circle? A round strip (like a band) that comes back around?
- (tags:time visualisation viaElfy )
- Why biological groups of animals and common language ones don't agree
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- Reminder that most women in the UK support trans rights
- (tags:transgender women polls UK )
- Who's to Blame for Plastic Microfiber Pollution?
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- Britain nearly went bust in March, says Bank of England
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- Britain's big race divide
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- Authors quit JK Rowling agency over transgender rights
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- Crows can discriminate between languages
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- When it comes to our gut, does exercise really make us healthier?
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- This is probably the best thing that could happen when you invite a cat into your hammock
- (tags:cats funny animals )
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Interesting Links for 20-05-2020
May. 20th, 2020 12:00 pm- Who had Michael Bay in the "making a movie about the pandemic far too soon" sweepstakes?
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- Recovered COVID-19 patients test positive but not infectious
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- The public do not??understand logarithmic graphs used to portray COVID-19
- (tags:visualisation communication pandemic )
- Why some Animal Crossing players are restarting Islands they've put hundreds of hours into
- (tags:games stress pandemic viaSwampers )
- Life in lockdown - from a seven-year-old's perspective!
- (tags:poetry children Scotland pandemic video )
- In the history of Disney animated movies there have been exactly 18 types of songs
- (tags:music Disney ontology )
- Neil Gaiman: An apology
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- Blind people 'read' letters that are traced on their brains with electricity
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- UK government hasn't banned gay conversion therapy two years after pledge to end practice
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- South Korean football team apologises for using sex dolls to fill stands
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Interesting Links for 20-01-2020
Jan. 20th, 2020 12:00 pm- Serious design flaws in many housing estates
- (tags:housing UK OhForFucksSake )
- Richer Sounds founder bankrolls push to end zero-hours contracts
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- Gorgeous Lord of the Rings tarot
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- Influencers are being offered thousands for sex
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- Studio Ghibli films are coming to Netflix outside North America next month
- (tags:viaSwampers ghibli anime netflix )
- Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Aren't
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- New suction-cup system spins water to stick to rough surfaces
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Interesting Links for 12-12-2018
Dec. 12th, 2018 11:00 am- Patricio Manuel: First transgender pro boxer in US wins on debut
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- Beijing is trying to rid city of Chinglish before 2022 Winter Olympics
- (tags: China language translation funny fail )
- Nicola Sturgeon’s clarity on Brexit reminds us what a leader looks like
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- Time magazine's person of the year is journalists who were murdered imprisoned, and harassed for doing their job.
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- How “Assuming Good Intent” Undermines Diversity and Inclusion
- (tags: intentions diversity society community )
- Massive ‘deep life’ study reveals billions of tonnes of microbes living far beneath Earth’s surface
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- The brains of meditators are less affected by negative feedback
- (tags: brain psychology meditation )
- The Sun in its rearview mirror, Voyager 2 is in interstellar space
- (tags: space )
- How people would feel if the government cancelled Brexit & Britain stayed in the EU?
- 43% happy, 38% unhappy, 19% don't care/don't know/other.
(tags: polls uk europe viaDanielDWilliam ) - Scotland’s biggest chippy opens in heart of Edinburgh
- (tags: food Scotland edinburgh )
- Dear tech companies, fix your algorithms and stop causing people massive heartache
- (tags: death advertising Facebook twitter OhForFucksSake )
- Why there should not be a General Election ‘about the EU’ – and why the UK isn’t a democracy
- (tags: europe uk democracy voting )
- Impeccable timing there by the Conservatives in triggering a leadership election
- (tags: conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- Finally, a definitive ruling on whether a pop tart is a sandwich
- (tags: food ontology funny )
- How a Conservative Leadership Challenge works
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- Street paved with chocolate in Germany after colossal spill at sweets factory
- It's Christmas come early!
(tags: chocolate accident ) - Tory Brexiters demand new leadership vote insisting ‘the will of the MPs’ has changed since 2016
- (tags: politics satire true Conservatives )
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Interesting Links for 03-10-2016
Oct. 3rd, 2016 12:13 pm- Driverless, Electric Shuttles Now Operating in Lyon, France
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- ‘If I Sleep for an Hour, 30 People Will Die’ - the story of a Jewish forger
- (tags: forgery wwii Holocaust history )
- Whales are fish. And so are you.
- (tags: evolution names ontology )
- London hasn't been kind to the man behind the Tube Chat badge
- (tags: viaSwampers london transport society conversation introversion )
- What else can you do with a Big Dumb Booster Rocket?
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- Our Part of the Milky Way Is Four Times Bigger Than We Thought
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- May speech makes it clear: We’re leaving the single market
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- 21 Clueless Men Reveal The Most Obvious 'Hint' From A Girl They've Missed.
- Worth following the Source back too to see more of them.
(tags: women men relationships funny reddit ) - Brain scan study reveals dogs attend to word meaning, not just intonation
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- Meet the mathekniticians - and their amazing woolly maths creations
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Interesting Links for 19-09-2016
Sep. 19th, 2016 12:00 pm- Announcing Amazon Wind Farm Texas
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- Why the Fantasy Flight/Games Workshop split matters
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- Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming. But Why Now?
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- Can religion be based on ritual practice without belief?
- (tags: japan religion ontology philosophy belief )
- On rewriting Python code in Go and Rust
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- Where are the UK's tech jobs?
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Interesting Links for 28-01-2013
Jan. 28th, 2013 11:00 am- Birds are dinosaurs. Apes are monkeys. People are bony fish. Why classification is hard.
- 25 reasons why Sir Christopher Lee is amazing
- How the War on Sex Workers hurst women.
- How do people from the big cities such as Moscow view Russians from the more remote regions such as Siberia?
- Next time your WiFi isn't working, remember to check your badger.
- German children enjoy far more everyday freedom than their English peers
- US authorities are free to access, without a warrant, data stored by any EU citizen on a US computer.
- Poor Sleep Prevents Brain From Storing Memories
