Interesting Links for 30-07-2025

Jul. 30th, 2025 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 20-04-2025

Apr. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm
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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
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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
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Interesting Links for 05-08-2024

Aug. 5th, 2024 12:00 pm
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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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Interesting Links for 24-04-2024

Apr. 24th, 2024 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 04-03-2024

Mar. 4th, 2024 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 27-10-2023

Oct. 27th, 2023 12:00 pm
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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
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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 16-06-2023

Jun. 16th, 2023 12:00 pm
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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
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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 )
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Interesting Links for 04-05-2023

May. 4th, 2023 12:00 pm
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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
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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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Links (Interesting (Catch-up)) for the 14th September 2022

Sep. 15th, 2022 09:03 am
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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
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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
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Interesting Links for 28-06-2022

Jun. 28th, 2022 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 11-05-2022

May. 11th, 2022 12:00 pm
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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
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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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Interesting Links for 06-07-2021

Jul. 6th, 2021 12:00 pm
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Students flee field as computer "fad" fades
(tags:computers history headline )
"'Mendel's Quest,' aka 'Angry Jew,' Helped Me Embrace My Heritage"
(tags:Jews apps history )
Green light in Edinburgh for Scotland's largest net zero housing project
(tags:Edinburgh housing globalwarming Scotland )
Epstein-Barr virus reactivation may be the cause of long COVID symptoms
(tags:pandemic immune_system virus )
Scotland to keep face masks for public transport and shops
(tags:Pandemic Scotland transport shopping )
Lambda variant: What is the new strain of Covid detected in the UK?
(tags:UK pandemic )
How many robots does it take to run a grocery store? (Incredible video)
(tags:robots shopping video )
Warhammer 40k Timeline In 20 Mins! From the 21st Century to the 41st Millenium
(tags:Warhammer history video )
Mind-controlling parasite makes hyena cubs more reckless around lions
(tags:Parasites lions brain )
Most attempts to improve the world fail. That doesn't mean they aren't important
(tags:Revolution history protests )
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