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Interesting Links for 17-12-2025
Dec. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Trans scholars being pushed out of academia, researchers warn
- (tags:transgender bigotry LGBT UK academia OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Scottish Trans and LGBT Youth Scotland response to Scottish Government consultation on updating school buildings regulations
- (tags:school transgender consultation Scotland )
- 3. Magic mushroom compound psilocybin found to break depression spiral
- (tags:depression psilocybin psychedelics )
- 4. Creepy McDonalds AI Actor Responds To Backlash
- (tags:ai advertising actors copyright video )
- 5. The official Fallout season 1 recap is filled with AI and thinks the show is set in the 1950s
- (tags:Amazon AI misinformation )
- 6. Police Scotland warn mental health call-outs are unsustainable
- (tags:police Scotland mentalhealth )
- 7. Tesla Robotaxis crash 12x as often as humans
- (tags:automation driving Tesla )
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Interesting Links for 16-11-2025
Nov. 16th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. What's behind Rachel Reeves's hokey cokey on income tax rises?
- (tags:tax uk politics )
- 2. US police propagandists get paid to oppose views of the actual polled police
- (tags:police propaganda )
- 3. Alastair Campbell says senior BBC staff 'in the JK Rowling camp'
- (tags:LGBT transgender BBC bigotry )
- 4. Are Dogs and Cats on TikTok Really "Talking" with Buttons?
- (tags:animals language communication )
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Interesting Links for 10-11-2025
Nov. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
- (tags:politics fascism ElonMusk twitter bias )
- 2. James Watson: From DNA pioneer to untouchable pariah
- (tags:biography DNA history viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani
- (tags:politics usa satire funny )
- 4. Reminder that the New York Times regularly prints hateful nonsense (an article about someone they tried to interview about Zohran Mamdani)
- (tags:politics newyork journalism OhForFucksSake USA viaKenny )
- 5. A bunch of engineers built a drifting wheelchair for an injured coworker. It looks awesome.
- (tags:disability engineering video )
- 6. The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system
- (tags:biology genetics earth )
- 7. Meet the teen behind the Louvre 'Fedora Man' mystery photo
- (tags:france police photos crime Paris style )
- 8. New flu virus mutation could see 'worst season in a decade' (get your vaccinations!)
- (tags:flu doom )
- 9. Long-term Melatonin use associated with much higher risk of heart problems and death
- (tags:medicine heart )
- 10. Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake
- (tags:usa politics )
- 11. Scotland's first commercial windfarm will be able to deliver five times more clean power than before after being upgraded
- (tags:scotland windpower GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 24-07-2025
Jul. 24th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 45% of microplastics come from tyres
- (tags:plastic environment )
- 2. UK wealth tax: high risk and anti-growth
- (tags:economics taxes uk )
- 3. Cuba becomes 22nd country to move to self-id for gender change
- (tags:GoodNews LGBT transgender Cuba )
- 4. Starmer's response to far-right protests exposes Britain's moral decline
- (tags:UK racism politics OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Shocking Video Captures Calm Police Officers Handling Situation Nonviolently
- (tags:usa satire video violence police )
- 6. How does Britain's pension predicament compare with other countries
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Interesting Links for 17-07-2025
Jul. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The UK is stuck in a fiscal corner (The only way I see out of it is the trade bump we'd get from rejoining the EU)
- (tags:uk economics doom viaKenny )
- 2. Babies from three people's DNA prevents heriditary disease
- (tags:disease genetics babies )
- 3. Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements
- (tags:morality brain psychology )
- 4. Which of us has not been woken at night by a religious leader dressed as a yeti, so that we can swear a blood oath?
- (tags:catholicism wtf )
- 5. Police participation in pride ruled unlawful
- (tags:police LGBT OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 15-05-2025
May. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour doesn't believe British people should be allowed to live here with their families
- (tags:family migration UK OhForFucksSake Labour )
- 2. Crossness Pumping Station: seduced by symmetry
- (tags:art design architecture history London UK )
- 3. Dammit. I'm going to have to get a babysitter so I can go see Superman
- (tags:superman movies trailer comics video )
- 4. Would you like to see someone have their dream come true live on stage?
- (tags:musicals video singing impressive )
- 5. Scottish Water warning after driest period in 60 years
- (tags:Scotland water )
- 6. What it's like being a nanny for the super-rich
- (tags:wealth children childcare )
- 7. EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis
- (tags:europe advertising privacy law )
- 8. How to Sniff Out 'Copaganda': When the Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
- (tags:police propaganda media journalism )
- 9. Audible to use AI narrators and translators
- (tags:books audio ai translation )
- 10. South Korea's robot chefs worry human workers, disappoint customers
- (tags:food cooking robots )
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Interesting Links for 30-04-2025
Apr. 30th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Trump plans to put military on the streets to catch criminals (See section 4)
- (tags:usa police military doom fascism )
- 2. Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search
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- 3. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in Canadian Parliament
- (tags:canada Conservatives politics funny )
- 4. Burying cables costs 10x-20x more than pylons
- (tags:electricity infrastructure )
- 5. "Induced Atmospheric Vibration" may have caused the outages across Spain and Portugal. But what is it?
- (tags:electricity )
- 6. People eat more when given ultra-processed foods than when given unprocessed food.
- (tags:diet food weight )
- 7. White House hits back at Amazon plan to show tariff price rises
- (tags:Amazon economics business politics USA )
- 8. Popular LLMs Found to Produce Vulnerable Code by Default
- (tags:security ai fail )
- 9. Trump is the Godfather in Reverse
- (tags:politics economics usa canada china )
- 10. Why translating Chinese food names into English is 'an impossible task'
- (tags:translation language china English food )
- 11. The British Government is not taking climate threats seriously
- (tags:uk globalwarming doom )
Interesting Links for 04-04-2025
Apr. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Russia escalates attacks on 'internal enemy' LGBT as it expands war in Ukraine
- (tags:lgbt bigotry russia )
- 2. Why has Russia escaped Trump's tariffs?
- (tags:Russia USA trade )
- 3. A revolutionary new understanding of autism in girls
- (tags:gender autism )
- 4. How tarrifs really work (a peek into a deranged mind)
- (tags:economics funny satire )
- 5. An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
- (tags:intellectual_property ai )
- 6. Tariffs Are Driving Up Game Prices Now
- (tags:games economics USA politics )
- 7. The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT due to over-reliance on AI
- (tags:ai security thinking doom intelligence )
- 8. Largest ever UK pumped hydro scheme granted consent
- (tags:UK hydroelectric Scotland )
- 9. Chickens are the true miracle animal!
- (tags:comedy funny video chicken viaSwampers )
- 10. The "Naked Gun" Teaser Trailer actually made me giggle
- (tags:police satire movies funny trailer video )
Interesting Links for 29-03-2025
Mar. 29th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Hayao Miyazaki on the use of AI: "I am utterly disgusted"
- (tags:ai ghibli art )
- 2. Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
- (tags:protest UK police )
- 3. Iron Age Britain was matrilocal (the female lines stayed still, the male lines migrated)
- (tags:archeology genetics uk )
- 4. Flight Bookings From Canada to the US Plummet Over 70%
- (tags:transport Canada USA doom )
Interesting Links for 16-02-2025
Feb. 16th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country's weapons stockpile
- (tags:USA nuclearweapons doom )
- 2. More Solar and Battery Storage Were Added to Texas' Grid Than Any Other Power Source Last Year
- (tags:solarpower batteries Texas GoodNews electricity )
- 3. Police AI program leads to incorrect ID, wrongful arrest, 17 months in jail
- (tags:police ai USA OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 20-01-2025
Jan. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Julia Donaldson supplants JK Rowling to become the UK's all-time top author by volume
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- 2. Under new law, cops bust famous cartoonist for AI-generated child sex abuse images
- (tags:sex children ai law USA )
- 3. Don't fly with Lufthansa
- (tags:flying customerservice fail )
- 4. US police are arresting the wrong people because a facial recognition program picked them off a list.
- (tags:faces recognition police OhForFucksSake )
- 5. The Undocumented Immigrant Offending Rate Is Lower Than The U.S.-Born Citizen Rate
- (tags:usa crime immigration )
- 6. The Gaza war has nurtured more hate than any conflict since 1945
- (tags:gaza palestine usa israel )
- 7. Hulu is now making people answer a question from an advertisement to continue watching.
- (tags:tv advertising OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 27-12-2024
Dec. 27th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Rationality is badly correlated with intelligence
- (tags:intelligence rationality psychology viaLProven )
- 2. "Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" - the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
- (tags:books history search librarian short_story Christmas viaFJM )
- 3. Games Workshop: When Geeks Create a Monster (of a) Company
- (tags:GamesWorkshop Warhammer business )
- 4. How robot submarines fight to keep the UK's lights on in North Sea drone battle
- (tags:drones submarine UK Russia war )
- 5. 'I was denied a promotion just for joining a black police association'
- (tags:police racism UK )
- 6. The Muppet Christmas Carol: A festive classic's dark backdrop
- (tags:history muppets christmas )
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Interesting Links for 14-12-2024
Dec. 14th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Woman says 'Delay, Deny, Depose' gets locked up for threatening behaviour
- (tags:police healthcare USA )
- 2. Australia takes an important step towards choking off a key source of financing for fossil fuel companies.
- (tags:Australia environment power GoodNews )
- 3. For sale: Hand-painted mug, probably haunted terrible eyes whispers in dreams at night | eBay
- (tags:horror eBay auctions )
- 4. Stressing autistic people can make them suicidal. Shocking if true.
- (tags:stress suicide autism viaFergus )
Interesting Links for 30-05-2024
May. 30th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Corsica, Sardinia, and accidents of history (and why a Europe of The Regions is a good thing)
- (tags:Europe history Italy France viaPatrickHadfield )
- 2. Decoding the EU AI Act
- (tags:europe regulation ai Technology )
- 3. How North Korea infiltrates large tech companies
- (tags:NorthKorea espionage fraud technology USA )
- 4. Police Scotland apology to the LGBTQI+ communities of Scotland
- (tags:Scotland LGBT police )
- 5. Road planners embrace an unconventional intersection
- (tags:roads design USA )
- 6. infection with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii makes wolves 46 times more likely to become a pack leader
- (tags:wolves ToxoplasmaGondii behaviour viaPatrickHadfield )
- 7. Tory, Labour, Lib Dem and Green environment pledges, ranked by experts
- (tags:environment uk politics )
- 8. Risky business: Linking Toxoplasma gondii infection and entrepreneurship behaviours across individuals and countries
- (tags:business behaviour ToxoplasmaGondii fear )
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Interesting Links for 29-04-2024
Apr. 29th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. American Airlines keeps mistaking 101-year-old passenger for baby
- (tags:computers age )
- 2. Police use of forensics slashed as budgets cut
- (tags:forensics police UK austerity )
- 3. The telemetry data from the Apollo missions may be very nearly beyond retrieval
- (tags:archive moon space NASA history doom )
- 4. Law to ban politicians from lying backed by two-thirds of public - Wales is looking at this right now
- (tags:lying politics law wales )
- 5. Transgender Athletes Could Be At A Physical Disadvantage, New Research Funded by the International Olympic Committee Finds
- (tags:transgender sports olympics lgbt )
- 6. The Millennial CAPTCHA
- (tags:age demographics funny history )
Interesting Links for 12-02-2024
Feb. 12th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Welcome to the UK, where women have no choice but to have faith in a justice system that keeps letting them down
- (tags:UK police women OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Originality in copyright law: How does the UK define it?
- (tags:UK copyright creativity law )
- 3. 28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid
- (tags:electricity moon ocean tides )
- 4. The robots delivering takeaways to Edinburgh students
- (tags:edinburgh robots food )
- 5. The Brexit bill: £100bn hit to UK exports as toy, medical kit and jewellery sales slump
- (tags:uk europe doom economy )
