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Interesting Links for 09-12-2025
Dec. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Tribunal dismisses Sandie Peggie's claims against trans doctor (but finds NHS Fife did harass her)
- (tags:transgender LGBT law UK NHS GoodNews )
- 2. "The Matilda Effect": How Pioneering Women Scientists Have Been Written Out of Science History
- (tags:science women history patriarchy )
- 3. SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System
- (tags:immune_system Pandemic doom heart )
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Interesting Links for 08-12-2025
Dec. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. mRNA Vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality over 4 years
- (tags:death health vaccine pandemic )
- 2. All the ways Russia is waging 'grey war' on the UK - from drones to local agents
- (tags:russia war uk )
- 3. Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters'
- (tags:Japan snow monsters )
- 4. Is anyone surprised that US tech billionaires want to fund fascist city states?
- (tags:fascism technology USA )
- 5. Vintage Photographs of People Reading Newspapers Before the Invention of That Grossly Antisocial Device: The Smartphone
- (tags:photos newspapers reading society history )
- 6. Impacts of working from home on mental health tracked in study of 16,000 Australians
- (tags:australia work homes mentalhealth )
Interesting Links for 19-11-2025
Nov. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Schizophrenia might make you like cats!
- (tags:schizophrenia cats ToxoplasmaGondii )
- 2. What it's like being pregnant on a remote Scottish island
- (tags:babies scotland video )
- 3. The UK Boiler Upgrade Scheme has been expanded to include air-to-air heat pumps, and can do cooling as well as heating
- (tags:heating UK )
- 4. Top writers ruled out of NZ book awards due to AI covers
- (tags:AI awards writing art newzealand )
- 5. Strange Structures Found Lurking in The Blood of People With Long COVID
- (tags:viaKenny Pandemic blood )
- 6. On the front line of Europe's standoff with Russia's shadow fleet
- (tags:shipping Russia trade oil )
Interesting Links for 17-11-2025
Nov. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. A Crucial Genetic Mutation Behind Crohn's Disease Has Finally Been Revealed
- (tags:disease genetics )
- 2. The North-South Tramline: Building a Connected, Prosperous Edinburgh?
- (tags:transport economics Edinburgh )
- 3. Behold - the Future of Poltics!
- (tags:politics satire comic conspiracy )
- 4. The sad truth about most end of life healthcare
- (tags:healthcare age satire funny comic )
- 5. Repeated mRNA Covid vaccinations make a more diverse and stronger T-cell response
- (tags:vaccine pandemic GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 09-11-2025
Nov. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Women are three times more likely than men to get severe long COVID
- (tags:women Pandemic )
- 2. We've found a biomarker for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- (tags:babies death )
- 3. Chinese Authorities Shut Down Film Festival in New York (By harrassing filmmakers and their families)
- (tags:china censorship movies usa OhForFucksSake )
- 4. The modern homes hidden inside ancient ruins
- (tags:architecture history )
- 5. What do voters think would count as Labour breaking their promises on tax?
- (tags:tax labour polls politics uk )
- 6. A Gene Editing Therapy Cut Cholesterol Levels by Half (trial only lasted 60 days)
- (tags:genetics health )
- 7. Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the U.S. Took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans
- (tags:history USA maps visualisation )
- 8. Why didn't Democrats codify Roe v. Wade when Obama had a fillibuster proof majority in 2009?
- (tags:abortion politics USA )
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Interesting Links for 05-11-2025
Nov. 5th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. EU moves to prevent 'Trojan horses' from joining bloc
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- 2. Confused about JCVI and COVID shots
- (tags:pandemic vaccination )
- 3. Elon Musk does not understand The Lord Of The Rings
- (tags:ElonMusk lotr )
- 4. Tolkien, Lewis, and The Silver Chair Theory
- (tags:Tolkien CSLewis history writing lotr narnia relationships )
- 5. What happens when you try to meet transphobes halfway
- (tags:bigotry LGBT transgender )
- 6. Takeaways from Tuesday's US elections
- (tags:USA elections GoodNews )
- 7. 3/4 of CEOs believe they have to have an AI strategy or they'll be replaced (which explains why there's so much investment into it)
- (tags:ai business )
- 8. Why is land reform on the agenda in Scotland?
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- 9. Covid jabs gave under-18s heart problems - but were less risky than catching virus
- (tags:pandemic safety vaccination )
Interesting Links for 03-11-2025
Nov. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. A Review of Grokipedia
- (tags:ai wiki encyclopedia )
- 2. We Don't Take Covid Seriously Enough (lots and lots of research condensed here)
- (tags:Pandemic doom )
- 3. Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark
- (tags:gaming linux steam )
- 4. The FT is now asking when the AI bubble will burst.
- (tags:finance economics ai doom bubble )
Interesting Links for 14-10-2025
Oct. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Ofcom fines 4chan £20K for Online Safety Act failings
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- 2. California stops using coal
- (tags:coal california electricity usa GoodNews environment )
- 3. Malinche has long been blamed for the fall of Aztec empire. Now she's being viewed in a different light
- (tags:history mexico )
- 4. Firefox is the best mobile browser
- (tags:firefox phones browsers )
- 5. Google, Meta and Microsoft have all opted to stop showing political ads in the EU as new rules kick in
- (tags:advertising politics europe )
- 6. England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave
- (tags:Pandemic )
- 7. How ultrasound is ushering a new era of surgery-free cancer treatment
- (tags:cancer ultrasound )
- 8. Multiple news outlets say they won't sign new Pentagon rules on access
- (tags:usa journalism censorship military )
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Interesting Links for 06-10-2025
Oct. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Scientists Reveal Biological Basis of Long Covid Brain Fog
- (tags:Pandemic brain disease )
- 2. Fire destroys Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
- (tags:Korea data epicfail backup )
- 3. Disastrous South Korean data centre fire is connected to North Korean hacking
- (tags:NorthKorea korea hacking sabotage )
Interesting Links for 19-09-2025
Sep. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour's plan to jumpstart city building after Rayner's 1.5m homes drive stalls
- (tags:housing uk )
- 2. Chimps consume a pint of lager's worth of alcohol every day in fruit
- (tags:alcohol chimpanzees )
- 3. Man with Covid for over two years became virus incubator, as it evolved into new variants of concern
- (tags:pandemic virus evolution )
- 4. Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads (and so I will never buy one)
- (tags:advertising Samsung technology OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms (in Canada)
- (tags:Canada girls sports school LGBT transgender bigotry )
- 6. Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
- (tags:politics Child_abuse satire usa uk royalty )
- 7. An "At The Mountains Of Madness" game, where you play as a penguin.
- (tags:penguins hplovecraft games wtf )
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Interesting Links for 23-08-2025
Aug. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Elizabeth I and the 'Blackamoors': the Deportation that never was
- (tags:viaNancyLebov racism history uk )
- 2. The public reject the use of ChatGPT by politicians (60% - 25%)
- (tags:ai politics polls )
- 3. M&S insists bra fitting services are trans inclusive
- (tags:shopping women transgender UK LGBT )
- 4. How much of your history do you have to share with someone before sexual intimacy isn't considered a crime?
- (tags:assault transgender sex UK law )
- 5. Canada is getting new Covid vaccines. Place your bets on whether they reach the UK...
- (tags:canada pandemic vaccination )
Interesting Links for 20-08-2025
Aug. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Study: Giving cash to mothers in Kenya cut infant deaths in half
- (tags:kenya money death babies )
- 2. Regina Valkenborgh's 8-Year-Long Photo Captures the Sun's Movement Through the Sky
- (tags:viaSwampers sun photography )
- 3. Spreadshirt to artists: We're taking your designs for AI
- (tags:clothes ai )
- 4. Map Of European Cultural Superiority
- (tags:maps Europe society )
- 5. Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
- (tags:Pandemic immune_system doom )
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Interesting Links for 19-08-2025
Aug. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. This story about how a parent's love grows for their child rang true for me, even if it was written about adoption
- (tags:love children parenting adoption )
- 2. An alternative to LASIK—without the lasers (melt your eyes, mould them into a new shape, let them resolidify)
- (tags:eyes eyesight )
- 3. Trump helped Netanyahu's cyber chief evade child sex crime charges
- (tags:Israel USA Child_abuse OhForFucksSake law )
- 4. On the recognition of Palestine - and its legality
- (tags:law palestine )
- 5. Tennessee woman denied prenatal care for being unmarried
- (tags:women healthcare USA OhForFucksSake marriage society )
- 6. Covid and Our Arteries
- (tags:pandemic blood health doom )
- 7. 97% of Edinburgh Airbnb-style flat plans refused
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- 8. The Church Is Moving!
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Interesting Links for 27-05-2025
May. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The US health system is now overseen by vaccine deniers. The effects are entirely predictable
- (tags:disease pandemic usa vaccines doom )
- 2. Hong Kong children urged to get Covid jabs as 'whole paediatric ward full'
- (tags:pandemic HongKong china children doom vaccination )
- 3. An Oral History of 'Lilo & Stitch' (the original)
- (tags:animation movies Disney Hawaii history )
- 4. German court rules cookie banners must offer "reject all" button (if they have an "accept all" button)
- (tags:cookies surveillance germany dataprotection GoodNews )
- 5. It makes no sense to cut funding to mental health services when that costs you money in the long run.
- (tags:mentalhealth money edinburgh )
- 6. How much energy does AI use?
- (tags:ai electricity )
- 7. Owls! in! Towels!
- (tags:owls cute photos )
- 8. Explaining a 31-month sentence for a tweet
- (tags:racism riots uk law )
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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
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- 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
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- 11. Mass vote losses to Lib Dems and Greens would cost Labour twice as many seats as mass Reform switch
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- 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 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 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 27-02-2025
Feb. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Covid shots protect kids from long Covid —and don't cause sudden death
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- 2. Eight Psychiatric Disorders Share the Same Genetic Causes
- (tags:autism anorexia ADHD anxiety genetics schizophrenia bipolar depression )
- 3. Washington Post opinion chief quits as Bezos makes new editorial demands
- (tags:USA journalism doom )
- 4. TypeScript types can run DOOM (ridiculous and nerdy)
- (tags:doom type-systems wtf impressive video )
- 5. Musk tweets about a Mexican telecoms owner cost him billions
- (tags:telecoms ElonMusk business epicfail )
- 6. Consultation on Edinburgh's Seafield regeneration plan.
- (tags:edinburgh housing )
- 7. Edinburgh's Seafield sewage works records 165 spills in a year
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