Interesting Links for 21-06-2025

Jun. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 10-06-2025

Jun. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm
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1. This seems like a reasonable overview of how Labour are doing on the economy
(tags:economics labour uk )
2. The Trump Administration's Nasty Campaign Against Trans People
(tags:lgbt bigotry usa transgender OhForFucksSake )
3. The Allegory Of The Cave - Further Details
(tags:comic philosophy funny )
4. Fiber Optic Bird's Nest Heralds A Fiber Drone Summer In Ukraine
(tags:Ukraine fibreoptics drone war nature birds technology )
5. World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says
(tags:fertility population )
6. Civil servants told to consider quitting if they disagree with policy over Gaza
(tags:uk gaza government )
7. Give new dads six weeks off work at nearly full pay, MPs say
(tags:uk parenting fatherhood )
8. Uber brings forward trialling driverless taxis in UK
(tags:automation taxi uk driving transport )
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Interesting Links for 14-03-2024

Mar. 14th, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. Did you know there was an old rifle range under Edinburgh's Waverley Station? (6 minutes in to this video)
(tags:guns edinburgh history trains )
2. What's been going on with Boeing? (they seem to have forgotten that making planes requires attention to detail)
(tags:airplanes safety epicfail OhForFucksSake engineering manufacturing )
3. A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major internet platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.
(tags:internet abuse crime )
4. Giant redwoods: The world's largest trees are thriving in the UK. (Except for not reproducing)
(tags:trees UK )
5. The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets
(tags:food business economics )
6. The Existential Relief of Having Children
(tags:philosophy anxiety stress parenting children life )
7. The Abyss 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray UK release | The BBFC comments on its cancellation
(tags:rats abuse animals movies jamescameron BluRay )
8. Do your pets help you make food? You ain't seen nothing yet!
(tags:food cows video funny )
9. LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6% (and dramatically higher in Gen Z)
(tags:demographics LGBT USA )
10. AI reveals prostate cancer has two distinct subtypes
(tags:ai cancer prostate )
11. The full version of Tenacious D's - ...Baby One More Time cover is out. And even more awesome than you'd expect
(tags:music video BritneySpears awesome panda )
12. Yes, the Tories are outrageously racist and sexist - but Labour is guilty too (writes Diane Abbott)
(tags:politics racism UK Labour conservatives )
13. Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town
(tags:sand heat battery finland )
14. The only other mammals to go through the menopause live longer because of it
(tags:menstruation whales longevity )
15. New ONS figures show how Edinburgh's share of short term lets is massive by comparison to practically everywhere else in the UK
(tags:edinburgh rental holidays housing tourism )
16. New extremism definition unveiled by British government. Is very vague.
(tags:uk government language )
17. I see that J.K. Rowling is now engaging in anti-trans Holocaust denial
(tags:transgender Holocaust jkrowling OhForFucksSake bigotry lgbt )
18. Assisted dying in Canada is accepted - but the UK should tread carefully
(tags:euthanasia canada )
19. I was getting bored of running - then I found joggling
(tags:juggling running jogging exercise edinburgh )
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Interesting Links for 29-02-2024

Feb. 29th, 2024 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 13-10-2023

Oct. 13th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. Misery for motorists as Rishi Sunak's HS2 cut set to put half a million more lorries on the road
(tags:transport doom uk hs2 )
2. Bentham's Mugging (a short play, wherein moral purity is found wanting)
(tags:morality philosophy funny )
3. WordPress makes its posts available via the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc)
(tags:WordPress socialmedia )
4. 'Brahmastra Part One: Shiva' - for those people who like a very pretty religious superhero musical
(tags:religion movies trailer video india )
5. On Whataboutery in response to Hamas.
(tags:israel palestine terrorism )
6. Breakthrough in reading unopened ancient scrolls by scanning them
(tags:archaeology ai technology prehistory )
7. France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations
(tags:France Palestine protests )
8. Covid can cause our brain cells to fuse together causing cognitive impairment.
(tags:Pandemic brain Doom )
9. Edinburgh Princes Street closed due to 'incident' as buses and trams affected
(tags:Edinburgh transport buses trams )
10. Edinburgh's Princes Street closed and buses and trams disrupted after man found dead in early hours
(tags:death edinburgh )
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Interesting Links for 04-03-2023

Mar. 4th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. Privileges Committee Believes Boris Johnson May Have Misled House On Partygate
(tags:BorisJohnson lies fraud politics pandemic )
2. EU countries postpone vote on combustion engine ban (because Germany wants to be allowed to keep making them)
(tags:politics europe cars pollution )
3. ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, And having it pretend to be one leads us in very difficult directions
(tags:philosophy morality ai language )
4. There's a Good Reason Why So Many Terrorists Are Engineers
(tags:terrorism engineering )
5. "Eat Out To Help Out" caused an increase in Covid cases. Matt Hancock covered it up.
(tags:Pandemic restaurant OhForFucksSake murder censorship )
6. Iowa: Republicans propose ban on same-sex marriage
(tags:LGBT marriage USA republicans OhForFucksSake )
7. Happy Weird Pride Day!
(tags:weird pride )
8. Food Timeline: food history research service
(tags:food history )
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Interesting Links for 15-11-2022

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Interesting Links for 04-09-2022

Sep. 4th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. What is it that Kiwi Farms does? And what is stochastic terrorism?
(tags:transgender bigotry assault murder forum terrorism )
2. Foreigners must tell the Israeli defence ministry if they fall in love with a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank
(tags:Israel Palestine relationships migration wtf )
3. The problem with having complicated conversations in a public place is the huge disparity in understanding and experience, and the impossibility of having a level of conversation that works for everyone
(tags:communication internet racism LGBT philosophy education teaching )
4. Why the Nazis weren't close to building an atomic bomb
(tags:nuclearweapons history wwii Nazis Germany )
5. Cloudflare blocks Kiwifarms
(tags:LGBT internet bigotry GoodNews transgender )
6. What has President Biden achieved?
(tags:USA politics democrats )
7. A man deliberately infected with HIV has been denied compensation because he once shouted at David Cameron
(tags:UK crime money )
8. How did "Steaming" come to be Scottish slang for"drunk"?
(tags:boats history language alcohol slang )
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Interesting Links for 24-08-2022

Aug. 24th, 2022 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 10-06-2022

Jun. 10th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. The odd and worrying situation of the legal advice on the Northern Ireland Protocol
(tags:UK NorthernIreland law Doom )
2. Privatisation in the UK looks massively higher than anywhere else!
(tags:UK privatisation )
3. Different Jewish conceptions of God
(tags:religion Jews judaism philosophy history )
4. Edinburgh council urged by Labour MSP Mercedes Villalba to reverse ban on strip clubs
(tags:Edinburgh sexwork )
5. How to understand Republicans
(tags:republicans )
6. The Million Earth Solar System
(tags:space physics scifi )
7. Conversion therapy increases self-harm and suicide amongst transgender people
(tags:lgbt abuse transgender psychology mentalhealth suicide self-harm )
8. The Immoral Design of Diablo Immortal - video takedown of the awful monetary systems built into the game
(tags:diablo games money OhForFucksSake abuse viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 06-06-2022

Jun. 6th, 2022 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 25-05-2022

May. 25th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. Chimpanzees have their own language — and scientists just learned how they put "words" together
(tags:viaNancyLebov chimpanzees language )
2. There are two proposals for minority-led Edinburgh councils, and everything depends on the Conservatives
(tags:edinburgh politics snp labour green libdem )
3. Why would the government want to run ScotRail?
(tags:trains scotland )
4. The Scottish/English dispute over gene-edited crops
(tags:uk england genetics food )
5. Occlusion Grotesque - a font designed by a tree
(tags:trees font )
6. Ricky Gervais now exists only to be bigoted
(tags:bigotry LGBT transgender OhForFucksSake )
7. Cell Tower - a word puzzle game. Nicely tricky
(tags:games language viaSwampers )
8. Someone Stole Seth Green's Bored Ape NFT (And Star Of His New NFT Show). I am very very amused
(tags:funny blockchain TV )
9. How special effects used to be painted on to glass
(tags:specialeffects history movies )
10. Misogynistic philosophers through the ages
(tags:history philosophy misogyny )
11. Is it time to move on with safe drug consumption in Scotland? (well, obviously, if Westminster will let them)
(tags:Scotland drugs health )
12. Gene-edited tomatoes could be a new source of vitamin D
(tags:vitaminD food genetics )
13. Mercedes Lackey Apologizes
(tags:race language scifi )
14. Invention For Destruction - a trailer for a gloriously hand-animated Czech movie from 1958
(tags:animation Czechoslovakia movies history trailer )
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Interesting Links for 24-05-2022

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Interesting Links for 23-04-2022

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Interesting Links for 18-04-2022

Apr. 18th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. The impact of 'pile-ons' and trolling by transphobic Twitter users
(tags:LGBT Twitter bigotry transgender )
2. Rwanda genocide orphans told to leave hostel to make room for UK asylum seekers
(tags:genocide Rwanda asylum UK OhForFucksSake )
3. On Jimmy Saville and the price of joining the British establishment
(tags:UK abuse corruption )
4. "My skin was irritated, red and blotchy for years until I found out why because of lockdown"
(tags:allergies )
5. UK Shared Prosperity Fund gives Scotland one sixth of what they got from the EU
(tags:UK Scotland Europe money OhForFucksSake )
6. The power of inflation
(tags:money economics Argentina inflation )
7. As a parent, if offered a choice of my birth child or the one I had raised I would absolutely make this same choice
(tags:children fairytale )
8. A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? Does it understand? And what does that mean?
(tags:language ai )
9. Put people in an unfamiliar place and only half their brain sleeps at a time (I wonder if this is also true of parents)
(tags:sleep humans brain )
10. The modern chicken is more than 4x the size of one from 50 years ago
(tags:chicken food history )
11. Happy "Virus Freedom Day" to everyone in Scotland!
(tags:scotland pandemic doom )
12. Two versions of the trolley problem elicit similar responses everywhere
(tags:morality philosophy psychology )
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Interesting Links for 17-04-2022

Apr. 17th, 2022 12:00 pm
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