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Interesting Links for 30-07-2025
Jul. 30th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles
- (tags:USA politics satire )
- 2. The case for memes as a new form of comics
- (tags:meme comics )
- 3. 29 years ago today, 4 Liverpool women were acquitted after damaging fighter jet to stop genocide
- (tags:UK history military protests genocide )
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
- (tags:transgender language )
- 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 09-04-2025
Apr. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Confusion surrounds ETA visa waiver process for some dual national Brits
- (tags:migration uk passport )
- 2. Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals
- (tags:Intelligence crows primates evolution )
- 3. No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
- (tags:ai Technology images )
- 4. Trump tariffs based on massive error (as well as being total nonsense)
- (tags:mathematics trade incompetence EpicStupidity politics usa )
- 5. Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy (current payback time for a solar panel in Pakistan is 2-3 years)
- (tags:pakistan solarpower GoodNews )
- 6. People conceived during colder months may end up with a lower body mass index and less fat around internal organs
- (tags:weather temperature fat )
- 7. What's going on with the announcements of "bringing dire wolves back from extinction"
- (tags:prehistory DNA animals wolves genetics viaPatrickHadfield )
- 8. Bracket City - a fun new daily puzzle!
- (tags:puzzle games )
- 9. Trade Will Move On Without the United States
- (tags:trade USA )
- 10. Great Moments in Peaceful Protest History
- (tags:protests funny satire comic )
- 11. Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws
- (tags:gender race research libraries USA censorship )
- 12. China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
- (tags:china materials USA trade doom )
- 13. How are Trump's supporters dealing with the tariff fallout?
- (tags:politics usa republicans )
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Interesting Links for 31-03-2025
Mar. 31st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
- (tags:USA computers FBI )
- 2. Youth Demand reacts to arrest for plans to 'shut down London'
- (tags:protests UK London )
- 3. Which of us has never thought "My vacuum cleaner is okay, but it would be awesome if it could make phone calls!"
- (tags:viaPatrickHadfield cleaning phone wtf )
Interesting Links for 05-08-2024
Aug. 5th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What fueled the Southport riots?
- (tags:protests riots migration bigotry UK disinformation russia )
- 2. Tory PCC puts deleted statement on far-right riots which drew support from Tommy Robinson back on her website
- (tags:UK conservatives bigotry riots )
- 3. Retribution will be swift, Starmer warns racist rioters
- (tags:racism riots uk )
- 4. Edinburgh council leader wants powers devolved from Scottish Government to regions
- (tags:Scotland government )
- 5. How the UK criminal justice system deals with a riot
- (tags:UK riots crime )
- 6. The UK laws in place to tackle rioters and the prison sentences they carry
- (tags:UK riots law )
- 7. Error and fraud in business tax schemes cost the UK £4.1bn
- (tags:uk research tax OhForFucksSake fraud )
- 8. Children of freed sleeper agents learned they were Russians on the flight
- (tags:spying children russia )
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- racism,
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- russia,
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Interesting Links for 24-04-2024
Apr. 24th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Labour's shadow justice secretary is homophobic
- (tags:LGBT Labour bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Labour's Shadow justice secretary is transphobic
- (tags:LGBT transgender labour bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Elon Musk - Dead at 52 - Says There Is No Need for Misinformation Laws
- (tags:satire ElonMusk misinformation funny )
- 4. "I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Don't Believe What You're Being Told About 'Campus Antisemitism'"
- (tags:Jews Palestine Israel university protests )
- 5. Long-lost first model of the USS Enterprise from 'Star Trek' boldly goes home after twisting voyage
- (tags:StarTrek )
- 6. Microplastics make their way from the gut to the the kidney, liver, and brain. (In mice)
- (tags:plastic organs )
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Interesting Links for 04-03-2024
Mar. 4th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The 'banned' Star Trek episode that promised a united Ireland
- (tags:StarTrek UK Ireland terrorism )
- 2. Hunt unable to name 'extremist' groups Sunak says hijacked marches
- (tags:islam terrorism protests uk wtf conservatives )
- 3. Here's what will happen if Colorado River system doesn't recover from the historic drought that's so far lasted three decades
- (tags:globalwarming drought rivers USA doom viaDanielDWilliam )
- 4. Why Vertigo's Lucifer Morningstar Matters (in 4 parts)
- (tags:comics sandman neilgaiman Lucifer religion )
- 5. Endometriosis now takes nearly nine years to diagnose in the UK, with the vast majority of women being fobbed off by their doctor.
- (tags:uk women healthcare epicfail nhs )
- 6. Number of long-term sick blows £3bn black hole in the UK's budget.
- (tags:uk budget sick doom )
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Interesting Links for 27-10-2023
Oct. 27th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Radical new forecast shows how rapidly the energy economy is changing
- (tags:electricity renewables co2 thefuture )
- 2. Doctor Who Fandom in China
- (tags:china conventions drwho )
- 3. Protesters face prison and £200,000 bill over injunction they knew nothing about
- (tags:law UK OhForFucksSake protests )
- 4. Frodo laid a geas (Something I'd never noticed about the Lord of The Rings
- I haven't read it for 30 years. Must do so when I'm reading again...
(tags:lotr ) - 5. Unprecedented diarrheal outbreak erupts in UK as cases spike 3x above usual
- (tags:infection faeces health swimming uk )
- 6. What Palestinians Really Think of Hamas (They don't like them, wouldn't vote for them, and would like a two-state solution)
- (tags:gaza palestine )
- 7. Pregnant women in Gaza are being forced to have C-sections without anaesthetic
- (tags:gaza palestine OhForFucksSake israel war childbirth )
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Interesting Links for 13-10-2023
Oct. 13th, 2023 12:00 pm- 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 )
Interesting Links for 16-06-2023
Jun. 16th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. I have watched this terribly cute video about 15 times and it never fails to make me grin
- (tags:funny cute hats video )
- 2. Abortion clinic 'buffer zone' bill lodged in Scottish Parliament
- (tags:scotland abortion protests GoodNews )
- 3. AO3 is diverging badly from basic, fundamental Trust and Safety best practices
- (tags:safety internet abuse OhForFucksSake )
- 4. UK time trial cycling excludes over 10% of elite female cyclists for having too much testosterone
- (tags:testosterone OhForFucksSake women cycling UK sports )
- 5. Daily Mail hires liar as new columnist
- (tags:DailyMail BorisJohnson lying )
- 6. 'Synthetic' human embryos created without eggs or sperm
- (tags:life research ArtificialLife )
- 7. Google made millions from ads for "crisis pregnancy centers" that work to prevent women from accessing abortions.
- (tags:abortion advertising google OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 06-05-2023
May. 6th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. For the first time ever, the Green Party run an English council
- (tags:politics green uk england )
- 2. the bumbling WW2 German espionage attempt that was stopped in its tracks at Edinburgh's Waverley Station
- (tags:wwii history spying germany uk viaDanielDWilliam )
- 3. Is there anything finer than watching the Conservatives descending into civil war?
- (tags:conservatives politics )
- 4. The Harmful Side Effect of Cleaning Up the Ocean
- (tags:ocean waste cleaning life )
- 5. If you can't fart in front of your partner, what the hell are you doing together?
- (tags:relationships )
- 6. Science Fiction Movie Lettering
- (tags:movies scifi font )
- 7. Babylon 5 animated movie on the way
- (tags:movies Babylon5 animation )
- 8. Essays on Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies
- (tags:movies font scifi viaFanf )
- 9. Waymo are running a successful driverless taxi service. Why is it expanding so slowly?
- (tags:driving automation business )
- 10. Republican protesters being arrested ahead of coronation
- (tags:monarchy protests OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 04-05-2023
May. 4th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh Council has a critical shortage of staff
- (tags:edinburgh work doom )
- 2. Who do LGBTQ people vote for in the next UK general election
- (tags:lgbt uk politics )
- 3. AI-generated beer commercial contains joyful monstrosities, goes viral
- (tags:alcohol advertising ai weird )
- 4. Apple, Google partner on an industry specification to address unwanted tracking
- (tags:apple google tracking surveillance )
- 5. Mozilla acquires review-checking, scammer-spotting service Fakespot for Firefox
- (tags:firefox fraud )
- 6. FBI former agent arrested over Jan. 6 (more than 1,000 people arrested so far)
- (tags:fbi usa politics crime )
- 7. it's a(door)able - a one-minute minigame.
- (tags:love games )
- 8. The Internet Isn't Meant To Be So Small
- (tags:web internet socialmedia )
- 9. The most draconian assault on free speech in living memory is now UK law
- (tags:uk law freespeech protests )
- 10. Port of Aberdeen welcomes UK government funding for world's first liquid hydrogen autonomous vessel project
- (tags:automation shipping scotland hydrogen viaJane )
- 11. The web's most important decision
- (tags:internet web history computers opensource )
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Interesting Links for 19-04-2023
Apr. 19th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Kitkat ads made using AI satirise making things with AI
- (tags:ai advertising food chocolate )
- 2. Iowa passes a law allowing child labour
- (tags:USA children work OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Two-for-One: Chickenpox Vaccine Lowers Shingles Risk in Children
- (tags:chicken virus vaccination )
- 4. Manager at radical French publisher arrested on terror charges en route to London Book Fair (for taking part in protests against French pension changes)
- (tags:France UK publishing wtf protests )
- 5. Former Wagner fighters claim they were ordered to kill children and civilians in Ukraine
- (tags:murder WarCrimes Russia Ukraine children )
- 6. Brecon Beacons name change explained: How to pronounce the National Park's new Welsh name Bannau Brycheiniog
- (tags:names wales nature mountains )
- 7. Prepayment meter ban could see energy firms go after struggling customers' cars and TVs
- (tags:energy money business debt poverty )
- 8. Hundreds of years after the first try, we can finally read a Ptolemy text
- (tags:history mathematics writing )
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- 1. The Monarchy and The Union: A Symbiotic Relationship?
- (tags:scotland uk monarchy polls viaDanielDWilliam )
- 2. Why the broadcast of the Accession Council was informative and significant
- (tags:constitution law uk monarchy government history scotland )
- 3. Scots law on breaches of the peace
- (tags:law Scotland protests )
- 4. Center Parcs has won the stupid grief Olympics!
- (tags:Queen death EpicStupidity OhForFucksSake holidays )
- 5. What's going on with the European gas market, and where will it go next?
- (tags:gas Europe Russia economics )
- 6. What Is Existential Therapy?
- (tags:Therapy psychology Life ViaDrCross )
- 7. I had never heard of Scotland's Pillar Box War (over Elizabeth's regnal number)
- (tags:monarchy Scotland UK violence viaSwampers )
- 8. How many trans kids should there be in the UK?
- (tags:transgender LGBT UK )
- 9. Compare How Mark Buckingham Completely Redrew Miracleman Silver Age
- (tags:Miracleman art comics )
- 10. When Depeche Mode took intimate photos for a fan
- (tags:music photos DepecheMode history )
- 11. Harper's coverage of the Queen's death is just perfect
- (tags:viaSwampers queen death uk )
- 12. 2022 Russian businessmen mystery death list
- (tags:russia death murder viaDanielDWilliam )
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Catch-up Interesting Links for 2022-9-13
Sep. 15th, 2022 09:02 am- 1. Deaths Months After Covid Point to Pandemic?s Grim Aftermath
- (tags:pandemic death doom )
- 2. The AI revolution is now open source
- (tags:ai opensource )
- 3. Why Republicans Keep Failing To Pass Abortion Bans
- (tags:abortion usa politics republicans )
- 4. UK homes among very worst in Europe for energy efficiency
- (tags:uk efficiency heating homes epicfail )
- 5. The mathematical inspiration behind the opening sequence of Rings Of Power
- (tags:lotr music TV mathematics )
- 6. Labour refusing to comply with legally-required disclosure relating to data affected by criminal breach
- (tags:labour dataprotection law OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Russia is facing defeat in Putin?s gas war against the European Union
- (tags:Europe oil gas Russia GoodNews )
- 8. An interesting quirk of English language history
- (tags:English language history )
- 9. Prince Harry explaining very clearly the effect that the UK tabloids had on his wife
- (tags:UK newspapers OhForFucksSake monarchy racism mentalhealth )
- 10. Rich to get twice as much cost-of-living support
- (tags:uk heating inequality OhForFucksSake Conservatives )
- 11. 12 pictures as thousands queue overnight in Edinburgh to pay respects to Queen
- (tags:queen edinburgh death photos )
- 12. Why King Charles will pay zero inheritance tax on the Queen?s private fortune
- (tags:uk monarchy tax )
- 13. Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as the 'Not My King' tag grows
- (tags:monarchy uk protests law OhForFucksSake )
- 14. Prenatal cannabis exposure associated with mental disorders in children that persist into early adolescence
- (tags:marijuana children gestation mentalhealth )
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Catch-up links for 12/9/2022
Sep. 15th, 2022 09:01 am- 1. Even in death the Queen's taste in music is impeccable
- (tags:music Queen video funny )
- 2. Depluralising films
- (tags:language mathematics movies funny )
- 3. Persistent cardiac symptoms in individuals with mild initial COVID-19
- (tags:Pandemic heart Doom )
- 4. A collection of black girls seeing The Little Mermaid trailer
- (tags:Disney race children trailer video )
- 5. Arrested after asking "who elected him?" at the proclamation of King Charles
- (tags:democracy protests monarchy uk OhForFucksSake police )
- 6. This is now my favourite story about The Queen
- (tags:queen tourism video )
Interesting Links for 28-06-2022
Jun. 28th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. To see what ridiculous things believe, check out what Full Fact has been debunking recently
- (tags:FactCheck )
- 2. I bet you can't predict where this advert is going before the end
- (tags:advertising sex disability video )
- 3. Flu vaccination linked to 40% reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease
- (tags:alzheimers flu vaccination )
- 4. Nicola Sturgeon commits to establishing abortion buffer zones around clinics in Scotland
- (tags:abortion Scotland protests )
- 5. Here's a home robot that actually looks useful: a self-driving shelf
- (tags:automation disability )
- 6. Tesla home batteries let utilities pay you to temporarily go off-grid
- (tags:Tesla batteries electricity )
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Interesting Links for 11-05-2022
May. 11th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. In the dating market, people compete ferociously for mates with qualities that do not increase one's chances of romantic happiness.
- (tags:relationships happiness psychology dating )
- 2. What issues do competitors to Dark Matter need to overcome?
- (tags:physics space )
- 3. How Neal Adams demanded a black Green Lantern
- (tags:comics race history dc )
- 4. Covid study shows death risk doubles for diabetes patients with uncontrolled blood sugar levels
- (tags:diabetes Pandemic death )
- 5. Cow House!
- (tags:cows housing UK )
- 6. Inside the battle on the Eastern Front
- (tags:Ukraine Russia war )
- 7. Psychopaths are more likely to have larger striatum region in the brain
- (tags:psychology brains psychopath )
- 8. How to fix social media
- (tags:socialmedia socialnetworking regulation )
- 9. What is the point of a protest?
- (tags:protests violence )
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Interesting Links for 26-11-2021
Nov. 26th, 2021 12:00 pm- Will glow-in-the-dark materials someday light our cities?
- (tags:light )
- Why a Mass Effect TV show is a terrible idea
- (tags:TV games writing plot )
- Priti Patel has quietly been stuffing even more punitive anti-protest powers into the policing bill
- (tags:law UK protests OhForFucksSake )
- Reinfections of Covid-19 are 90 per cent less likely to result in hospitalisation or death than primary infections
- (tags:Pandemic )
- Why carbon taxes really work
- (tags:co2 globalwarming tax )
- The Beatles - Get Back review: Peter Jackson documentary is a seven-hour masterpiece
- (tags:Beatles history documentary peterjackson )
- It's not 'polarization.' The USA suffers from Republican radicalization.
- (tags:USA politics Doom republicans viaDanielDWilliam )
- More thoughts on the way that Polarisation has been made The Problem of American politics
- (tags:USA politics viaDanielDWilliam )
- Tony Blair tells Keir Starmer to 'reject wokeism' and wage war on socialism
- (tags:labour tonyblair OhForFucksSake )
- The unforced error by Boris Johnson of publishing the letter to the French President
- (tags:uk europe diplomacy fail migration france )
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