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Interesting Links for 05-04-2025
Apr. 5th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Musk Announces All 340 Million Americans Must Strip And Take Turn Pushing The Wheel Of Pain
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- 2. Nation Could Have Sworn Russell Brand Was Already Convicted Sex Offender
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- 3. The slow and painful death of horse racing in the UK
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- 4. Probably the best explanation you'll see of how little sense Trump's tarrifs make
- (tags:economics idiocy USA politics )
- 5. The Sad Puppies Revisited: How the Hugo awards were gamed a decade ago
- (tags:history Hugo awards )
- 6. Trapping Images in Feedback Loops & Creating Fractal Galaxies
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- 7. How US-funded anti-abortion activism in the UK now threatens US-UK trade deal
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Interesting Links for 06-03-2025
Mar. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Scottish Tories propose 14 years old for school leaving age
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- 2. Those who oppose the Chagos deal are wilfully ignoring the facts
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- 3. Jeep Owners Fed Up With In-Car Pop-Up Ads
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- 4. UK's highest railway the Cairngorm funicular returns to service after 17-month closure
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- 5. Neil Gaiman's defense against legal claims
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- 6. Doctors back total ban on hitting children in England
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- 7. Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need
- (tags:Finland homelessness GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 03-03-2025
Mar. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. You need governmental approval to run psychological tests on job applicants in Canada
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- 2. Edinburgh are having a consultation on dogs on beaches and in green spaces, as well as buskers and green-space management.
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- 3. New study says TikToks are bad for you! Thankfully it's complete nonsense!
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- 4. The Cuddled Little Vice - a fascinating, in-depth, dissection of Neil Gaiman's career.
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- 5. German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility
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- 6. The US Defense Department removes thousands of serving transgender people
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- 7. Church of England: just 25% now have a favourable view - 49% unfavourable.
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Interesting Links for 06-02-2025
Feb. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. In-patient services at Edinburgh's Astley Ainslie hospital to be transferred to East Lothian
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- 2. The Curta Mechanical Calculator (I'd love to have one if they didn't cost so much)
- (tags:calculator mechanics impressive video viaSwampers )
- 3. AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU
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- 4. Scotland! Will! Not! Ban! Cats!
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- 5. Time limit for child sex abuse claims to be removed in England and Wales
- (tags:rape children abuse law uk GoodNews england )
- 6. The greatest families behind the greatest showmen - what it's like living life on the road, and how that affects the children
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- 7. Probably the most sensible thing I've read about Neil Gaiman
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- 8. Nurse who objected to transgender woman in changing room admits harassment
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- 9. Assaulted woman's divorce case was turned down by 116 Scottish legal aid lawyers
- (tags:Scotland law austerity divorce assault )
- 10. Scientists explore how to make quantum bits with spinel gemstones
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- 11. CIA sent unclassified email with names of recent hires - at Whitehouse insistence.
- (tags:usa Intelligence OhForFucksSake doom )
- 12. "I looked for dating advice online - and got sucked into the toxic manosphere"
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Interesting Links for 04-02-2025
Feb. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Scottish flag in the style of other flags. Love the Canada one!
- (tags:Scotland flags viaDanielDWilliam )
- 2. Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer are being taken to court
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- 3. Marvel Has No Plans To Publish Neil Gaiman's Miracleman: The Dark Age
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- 4. 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' Reboot With Sarah Michelle Gellar At Hulu Moves To Pilot
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- 5. What does the polling show on Proportional Representation?
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- 6. Some suggestions for God
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Interesting Links for 30-01-2025
Jan. 30th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The one critic Elon Musk can't counter: his daughter
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- 2. A really simple guide to self-care
- (tags:advice health mentalhealth )
- 3. OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
- (tags:ai intellectual_property )
- 4. Edinburgh theatre run of Coraline scrapped over sexual misconduct allegations involving author Neil Gaiman
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- 5. Friends make tasks seem easier
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- 6. Good Omens Graphic Novel Kickstarter will not be giving Neil Gaiman any money.
- (tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett kickstarter )
- 7. Elon Musk can't even play computer games
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- 8. 55% of Britons support rejoining the EU. Only 30% think we were right to leave.
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- 9. Sicko game developers keep returning to reinvent Tetris
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- 10. Waymo to test its autonomous taxis in 10 new cities in 2025, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego
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Interesting Links for 16-01-2025
Jan. 16th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. In support of a national rape gang enquiry
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- 2. A Video on restoring Edinburgh's historic North Bridge
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- 3. Don't force your kids to finish their meals
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- 4. Scottish Conservative group leader on Glasgow City Council has defected to Reform UK.
- (tags:politics scotland reform Conservatives )
Interesting Links for 13-01-2025
Jan. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Truth & Lies (a very satisfying rant on Elon Musk and the child rape enquiry he's been pushing for)
- (tags:ElonMusk children rape video politics UK )
- 2. A Rare Alignment of 7 Planets Is About to Take Place in The Sky
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- 3. The history of "Cargo Cult" is quite different to how it's usually used
- (tags:history Polynesia religion misinformation language )
- 4. UK is starting to roll out open-book exams. On-screen exams are coming.
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Interesting Links for 10-01-2025
Jan. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. On the Depressing Doings of Trillion Dollar Companies, January 2025 Edition
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- 2. Edinburgh's Gorgie farm: New operators set to be approved (no animals on the site)
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- 3. How Elon Musk seized on baseless memo claim to create wave of misinformation
- (tags:fraud ElonMusk UK children rape OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Leaked Meta Training: Users Are Free to Post "Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!" or "Trans People Are Immoral"
- (tags:bigotry Facebook OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES
- (tags:funny anime relationships review dolls )
- 6. Posts shared across Facebook claim to show the average energy costs for different European countries. They don't.
- (tags:disinformation energy money europe )
- 7. Price of resale tickets to be capped under plans to tackle touts
- (tags:uk business economics music concerts tickets )
- 8. Can a Dutch case about RSS teach us anything about AI copyright?
- (tags:ai copyright rss law computers europe )
- 9. The metabolism myth - and why exercise won't make you thinner
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- 10. How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
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- 11. The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize
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Interesting Links for 08-01-2025
Jan. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. All 105 large developments going on in Edinburgh in 2025, on Google Earth.
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- 2. Edinburgh Development Summary 2025
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- 3. Five key ways to tackle child sex abuse that still haven't been implemented
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- 4. Cuts to England's bus network cost economy £2.6bn a year
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- 5. Is *your* TV too high?
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- 6. How a populist think tank is stoking Scotland's culture war
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- 7. JK Rowling Slammed After Claiming That 'There Are No Trans Kids' In Hateful Rant
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- 8. Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness'
- (tags:Facebook OhForFucksSake bigotry LGBT )
- 9. How do we know how Latin was pronounced, and how did the official church pronunciation come to be different to that?
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- 10. Landlords to be banned from demanding several months' rent in advance
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- 11. Stats for the Omni-Centre cycle lane in Edinburgh show that usage is up 40% in a year
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- 12. 'I realised I had autism when my children were diagnosed'
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- 13. Trump threatens Nato, Hamas, Greenland, Panama, and Canada in press conference
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- 14. Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams in Classical Latin
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- 15. Six things you must know about how the grooming gangs scandal was handled
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Interesting Links for 06-01-2025
Jan. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Dell barred employees from promotion unless they returned to the office. More than half of them stayed at home anyway.
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- 2. Elon Musk Is Posting Nonstop Falsehoods About 'Grooming Gangs'
- (tags:ElonMusk lies islam rape uk politics )
- 3. The UK's first official consumption room for illegal drugs including heroin and cocaine will open in Glasgow later this month
- (tags:glasgow scotland drugs heroin cocaine safety uk GoodNews )
- 4. Government unveils plan to reduce NHS England waiting list backlog
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Interesting Links for 31-10-2024
Oct. 31st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Scottish judges remove barrier for rape cases going to court
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- 2. Gamer role introduced in Scottish children's hospital
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- 3. A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a "Crime" to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital
- (tags:Texas death abortion OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 16-10-2024
Oct. 16th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Research released into the effects of the UK's trans puberty blocker ban
- (tags:UK bigotry LGBT transgender healthcare mentalhealth children OhForFucksSake )
- 2. The move to USB C for charging is a done deal. I'm not sure what the UK has to "consider" about it.
- (tags:UK usb Europe electricity )
- 3. Doctor Who and the Sign Language Question
- (tags:drwho sign language video funny viaSwampers )
- 4. Turns out that once Uber had to make money they started charging more and paying less to their drivers
- (tags:driving jobs taxi pay glasgow scotland )
- 5. "Homeostatic Complacency" is something I've encountered plenty of times. Is there a more traditional name for it?
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- 6. Seriously ill patients on mental health wards will be helped with their CV
- (tags:mentalhealth jobs uk wtf )
- 7. Too many "local" news sites aren't. I'm so glad that we have at least one in Edinburgh that really is.
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- 8. Confronting the truth about Alex Salmond
- (tags:AlexSalmond rape abuse death scotland politics )
- 9. What's Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures?
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- 10. Labour Together: From new MPs to cabinet ministers, how the influential think tank's donations are bankrolling the party, and who they are linked to.
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- 11. Seven New Frogs Named After Iconic Star Trek Captains
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Interesting Links for 25-07-2024
Jul. 25th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Judge in E. Jean Carroll Case: Yes, Donald Trump Is a Rapist
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- 2. World of Warcraft's Entire Development Team Has Officially Unionized
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- 3. Number of long-term empty homes brought back into use in Scotland approaches 11,000
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- 4. Roblox Predator Problem Potentially Exposes Kids to Pedophiles
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- 5. There's been a fire at Gorgie Farm
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- 6. A 3-D London Tube Visualisation With Moving Trains
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Interesting Links for 27-06-2024
Jun. 27th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Frequent misconceptions about Assange
- (tags:rape espionage JulianAssange )
- 2. Denmark to charge $100 per cow in world's first carbon tax on farming
- (tags:co2 globalwarming tax farming cows )
- 3. One Year Since Germany's Nuclear Exit: Renewable Capacity Expands, Electricity from Fossil Fuels Significantly Reduced
- (tags:nuclearpower germany electricity renewables )
- 4. Supreme Court wipes out anti-corruption law that bars officials from taking gifts for past favors
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- 5. Joe Biden pardons 1000s of veterans convicted under gay sex ban
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Interesting Links for 06-06-2024
Jun. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Scottish judges asked to overturn rape case rule barrier
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- 2. Tokyo government to launch dating app to boost birthrate (requiring you to confirm you want to get married and provide proof of income)
- (tags:Japan marriage relationships children viaSwampers )
- 3. Help challenge the ban on puberty blockers
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- 4. Major cause of inflammatory bowel disease found
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- 5. First human infection caused by avian Influenza A(H5N2) confirmed in Mexico
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- 6. Israel Secretly Targeted American Lawmakers With Gaza War Influence Campaign
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- 7. "Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep" - trans edition
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- 8. I cannot stand the parodies of Modern Major General
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- 9. Flawed, scandalous trials tank FDA expert support for MDMA therapy
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- 10. Australia wants to become a renewable energy superpower. Can it?
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- 11. Russia's is acting provocatively on the Estonian border
- (tags:russia Estonia OhForFucksSake doom )
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Interesting Links for 30-03-2024
Mar. 30th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Maersk is transitioning its fleet to methanol
- (tags:globalwarming pollution shipping GoodNews )
- 2. Zimbabweans abandon plans to plug UK care gaps after changes to visa rules
- (tags:UK Zimbabwe care immigration OhForFucksSake )
- 3. MSPs split over plans for rape trials without juries
- (tags:Scotland rape law )
- 4. The Next Heat Pump Frontier? NYC Apartment Windows
- (tags:heating technology newyork )
- 5. 16 million miles of England's bus routes axed since 2010
- (tags:UK conservatives austerity buses transport OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Dundee seen through the lens of a 20,000 photo collage
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Interesting Links for 21-03-2024
Mar. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Diane Abbott is a political pawn in Labour's farcical disciplinary process
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- 2. Paris Preserves Its Mixed Society by Pouring Billions Into Public Housing
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- 3. Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden
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- 4. Elon Musk's X Is Suspending Accounts That Reveal a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist's Identity
- (tags:nazis twitter ElonMusk OhForFucksSake )
- 5. The cutest baby thing I've seen in a long time
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- 6. Vernor Vinge (1944-2024) - Author and creator of the concept of The Singularity
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- 7. Neuralink video shows patient playing chess using brain implant
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- 8. NIH Researchers Identify Brain Connections Associated With ADHD in Youth
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- 9. An Anthropocene Worth Having
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