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Interesting Links for 29-05-2026
May. 29th, 2026 12:00 pmTags:
- china,
- epicfail,
- europe,
- healthcare,
- links,
- regulation,
- safety,
- trade,
- usa
Interesting Links for 26-03-2026
Mar. 26th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. UK 'runs out' of warships - leaving Germany to take over key Nato mission
- (tags:uk germany nato navy )
- 2. UK confirms ban on cryptocurrency donations and limit on foreign donors in blow for Reform
- (tags:UK politics money reform regulation )
- 3. Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk
- (tags:regulation electricity spain )
- 4. UK university students are being paid to support Chinese propaganda
- (tags:china uk propaganda university )
- 5. Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever — in the back of CERN's truck
- (tags:physics antimatter viaSwampers )
- 6. Democrat wins Florida state seat containing Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate (over 20% change)
- (tags:hope elections USA politics )
- 7. UK car and steel firms fear being frozen out of 'Made in Europe' deals by EU
- (tags:Europe UK trade manufacturing doom )
- 8. The Revolutionary Guards are taking over Iran (control has fragmented and there is nobody to negotiate with)
- (tags:Iran military USA OhForFucksSake war )
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- antimatter,
- china,
- doom,
- elections,
- electricity,
- europe,
- germany,
- hope,
- iran,
- links,
- manufacturing,
- military,
- money,
- nato,
- navy,
- ohforfuckssake,
- physics,
- politics,
- propaganda,
- reform,
- regulation,
- spain,
- trade,
- uk,
- university,
- usa,
- viaswampers,
- war
Interesting Links for 30-01-2026
Jan. 30th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Hampstead ponds trans access challenge dismissed by High Court
- (tags:lgbt transgender GoodNews law uk )
- 2. AI on Australian travel company website sends tourists to nonexistent hot springs
- (tags:australia tourism ai fraud )
- 3. Edinburgh Teviot, the world's oldest purpose-built student union, has been refurbished
- (tags:Edinburgh university photos )
- 4. Why banning social media for under-16s would harm queer young people
- (tags:LGBT socialnetworking teenagers regulation )
- 5. Not sure what I think of the Kill Bill/Fortnite crossover
- (tags:movies animation QuentinTarantino video )
- 6. Have you ever wanted to run a bookshop? Now you can do that for a couple of weeks as a holiday experience!
- (tags:books shopping holidays viaMyBrotherHugh )
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Interesting Links for 29-01-2026
Jan. 29th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. The last 6 years has seen a very large drop in church-going in the UK (from 12% of the population to 9%)
- (tags:uk religion demographics )
- 2. Starmer faces fury as promise to clamp down on damp and mouldy homes pushed back to 2035
- (tags:politics housing labour )
- 3. Trump administration secretly loosens nuclear safety rules
- (tags:nuclearpower safety regulation republicans OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Vitamin D & Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
- (tags:depression antidepressants vitaminD vitaminC )
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Interesting Links for 12-12-2025
Dec. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
- (tags:punctuation language writing ai funny )
- 2. Where Are School Uniforms Common?
- (tags:school clothing regulation maps )
- 3. Disney making $1 billion investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI video generator
- (tags:ai Disney )
- 4. Revealed: UK's 'racist' system of stripping citizenship (more people than any other country other than Bahrain and Nicaragua)
- (tags:uk citizenship OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Are economic bubbles good, actually?
- (tags:economics business history )
Tags:
- ai,
- business,
- citizenship,
- clothing,
- disney,
- economics,
- funny,
- history,
- language,
- links,
- maps,
- ohforfuckssake,
- punctuation,
- regulation,
- school,
- uk,
- writing
Interesting Links for 18-11-2025
Nov. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. There has to be a better way to make titanium
- (tags:materials )
- 2. Reselling tickets above face value set to be banned by UK government
- (tags:concerts tickets regulation UK )
- 3. Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died
- (tags:history obituary games lgbt )
Interesting Links for 22-10-2025
Oct. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Cancer patients who got a mRNA vaccine lived nearly twice as long - even though the vaccine wasn't aimed at cancer.
- (tags:cancer immune_system viaKenny vaccine GoodNews )
- 2. Penguin and Club biscuit bars can no longer be described as chocolate
- The price of cocoa has soared by 4x, and the amount of chocolate in a biscuit has dropped significantly.
(tags:chocolate food biscuits ) - 3. If you're still using Windows 10 (like me!) make sure you've signed up for Extended Support Updates to protect you from security issues
- (tags:Windows security )
- 4. Pop quiz: who is the only scientist to have won both an Ig Nobel and a Nobel prize?
- (tags:science nobel graphene frog magnets levitation )
- 5. If Labour want more houses then they need to stop mucking about with consents and put up the cash
- (tags:money housing uk )
- 6. Brexit has been awesome - for making Europe less divided
- (tags:uk europe )
- 7. Kew woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down a street drain
- (tags:waste water location regulation UK London )
- 8. Humans can absorbe oxygen anally
- (tags:humans oxygen bodies )
- 9. Lawsuit alleges Prime Day is a fraud
- (tags:USA Amazon fraud shopping )
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Interesting Links for 14-10-2025
Oct. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Ofcom fines 4chan £20K for Online Safety Act failings
- (tags:regulation 4chan uk internet censorship )
- 2. California stops using coal
- (tags:coal california electricity usa GoodNews environment )
- 3. Malinche has long been blamed for the fall of Aztec empire. Now she's being viewed in a different light
- (tags:history mexico )
- 4. Firefox is the best mobile browser
- (tags:firefox phones browsers )
- 5. Google, Meta and Microsoft have all opted to stop showing political ads in the EU as new rules kick in
- (tags:advertising politics europe )
- 6. England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave
- (tags:Pandemic )
- 7. How ultrasound is ushering a new era of surgery-free cancer treatment
- (tags:cancer ultrasound )
- 8. Multiple news outlets say they won't sign new Pentagon rules on access
- (tags:usa journalism censorship military )
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- 4chan,
- advertising,
- browsers,
- california,
- cancer,
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- coal,
- electricity,
- environment,
- europe,
- firefox,
- goodnews,
- history,
- internet,
- journalism,
- links,
- mexico,
- military,
- pandemic,
- phones,
- politics,
- regulation,
- uk,
- ultrasound,
- usa
Interesting Links for 07-10-2025
Oct. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
- (tags:solarpower germany )
- 2. UK families to save hundreds of pounds in major homebuying overhaul
- (tags:housing uk regulation GoodNews )
- 3. Edinburgh's "Auld Hoose" pub is up for rent, if anyone fancies running one of my old favourite pubs
- (tags:pubs edinburgh )
- 4. Australian experts review The Cass Review and find it full of 'stigma and misinformation'
- (tags:LGBT transgender healthcare bigotry UK Australia )
- 5. Global solar power grows 31% as coal use drops
- (tags:renewables coal electricity GoodNews )
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- australia,
- bigotry,
- coal,
- edinburgh,
- electricity,
- germany,
- goodnews,
- healthcare,
- housing,
- lgbt,
- links,
- pubs,
- regulation,
- renewables,
- solarpower,
- transgender,
- uk
Interesting Links for 01-10-2025
Oct. 1st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Law firm that dropped trans man agrees to pay damages and costs
- (tags:transgender bigotry law uk )
- 2. Do Trigger Warnings Work?
- (tags:mentalhealth psychology triggerwarnings viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. What effects does rent control actually have?
- (tags:regulation rent doom housing )
- 4. The dawn of the post-literate society
- (tags:society literacy doom )
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Interesting Links for 21-09-2025
Sep. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. EU Data Act — What Businesses Need to Know (no more lock-in!)
- (tags:Europe data regulation )
- 2. Troubles legacy: Mixed reaction to UK-Ireland deal on addressing cases
- (tags:UK Ireland )
- 3. Visa holders on vacation have 15 hours to return to US or pay $100k fee
- (tags:USA migration OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (a headline from 1939)
- (tags:nazis censorship society history )
- 5. We have invented the vibroblade! (The World's First Ultrasonic Chef's Knife for Home Cooks)
- (tags:Technology knife video )
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- censorship,
- data,
- europe,
- history,
- ireland,
- knife,
- links,
- migration,
- nazis,
- ohforfuckssake,
- regulation,
- society,
- technology,
- uk,
- usa,
- video
Interesting Links for 03-09-2025
Sep. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Blocky Planet — Making Minecraft Spherical
- (tags:Minecraft sphere )
- 2. Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America!
- (tags:satire doom USA )
- 3. Edinburgh primary school mobile phone ban set to go ahead later this year
- (tags:school Edinburgh Scotland phones children )
- 4. Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks in England
- (tags:caffeine children England regulation )
- 5. Starmer appoints ex-director of anti trans campaign group as as comms director
- (tags:LGBT Labour bigotry transgender OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Dubstep artist Skrillex could protect against mosquito bites
- (tags:music mosquito funny headline )
Interesting Links for 01-09-2025
Sep. 1st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Big Tech Companies in the US Have Been Told Not to Apply the EU's Digital Services Act
- (tags:Europe USA socialnetworking regulation )
- 2. How far away is quantum computing from affecting current cryptography?
- (tags:cryptography quantum )
- 3. Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
- (tags:quantum mathematics )
- 4. What do AI fashion models mean for the future of beauty standards
- (tags:ai fashion beauty )
- 5. Why Labour Looking Into Changing The ECHR Matters
- (tags:Labour rights OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Who will win the Eternal Struggle?
- (tags:war funny )
- 7. The Qweremin (a qwerty theremin)
- (tags:music technology )
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- ai,
- beauty,
- cryptography,
- europe,
- fashion,
- funny,
- labour,
- links,
- mathematics,
- music,
- ohforfuckssake,
- quantum,
- regulation,
- rights,
- socialnetworking,
- technology,
- usa,
- war
Interesting Links for 22-07-2025
Jul. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. HS2 was doomed to be a mess before it began, say insiders
- (tags:hs2 uk regulation trains planning epicfail )
- 2. Is it cake? M&S vs HMRC tax edition
- (tags:uk tax food cake viaSwampers )
- 3. In a Major Reversal, the World Bank Is Backing Mega Dams
- (tags:hydroelectric investment renewables )
- 4. UK's Biobank, the biggest human imaging study scans its 100,000th volunteer
- (tags:uk mri health research )
- 5. ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries
- (tags:ai inequality women pay OhForFucksSake )
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- ai,
- cake,
- epicfail,
- food,
- health,
- hs2,
- hydroelectric,
- inequality,
- investment,
- links,
- mri,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pay,
- planning,
- regulation,
- renewables,
- research,
- tax,
- trains,
- uk,
- viaswampers,
- women
Interesting Links for 15-07-2025
Jul. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem
- (tags:people comics ai doom communication )
- 2. How old are you in your head? (Mid 30s for me)
- (tags:age psychology )
- 3. Reddit will start verifying the age (but not the identity) of UK redditors
- (tags:uk age reddit regulation internet )
- 4. "Autism" is at least 4 different syndromes, each with distinct biological and genetic pathways.
- (tags:autism genetics )
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- age,
- ai,
- autism,
- comics,
- communication,
- doom,
- genetics,
- internet,
- links,
- people,
- psychology,
- reddit,
- regulation,
- uk
Interesting Links for 11-07-2025
Jul. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Everything tech giants will hate about the EU's new AI rules
- (tags:ai technology regulation Europe )
- 2. Photos: The Scale of China's Solar Power Projects
- (tags:solarpower photos china )
- 3. What kind of video games do different fantasy races make?
- (tags:games funny fantasy )
- 4. Fake signs and graffiti, frequently science-fiction related, from Glasgow
- (tags:Glasgow scifi graffiti sign art funny viaSwampers )
- 5. The Marks & Spencer hack was down to TCS having *terrible* security processed on their helpdesk.
- (tags:security epicfail OhForFucksSake incompetence )
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- ai,
- art,
- china,
- epicfail,
- europe,
- fantasy,
- funny,
- games,
- glasgow,
- graffiti,
- incompetence,
- links,
- ohforfuckssake,
- photos,
- regulation,
- scifi,
- security,
- sign,
- solarpower,
- technology,
- viaswampers
Interesting Links for 08-07-2025
Jul. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 7 Engineers Suspended After $2.3 Million Bridge Includes Bizarre 90-Degree Turn
- (tags:architecture design epicfail India )
- 2. Edinburgh Airport liquid limit increased from 100ml to two litres
- (tags:airport security Technology )
- 3. The Time Someone Plagiarized Calvin & Hobbes and Nobody Noticed or Cared
- (tags:comics plagiarism history art ai )
- 4. Turns out a great way to get children to want to learn their times tables is to set them to pop songs
- (tags:numbers video music )
- 5. Employers to be banned from silencing harassed or abused staff
- (tags:regulation abuse work UK law )
- 6. Some English children are living in 'Dickensian' poverty, says commissioner
- (tags:england poverty children OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Electricity from large solar arrays with batteries now cheaper than from fossil plants in Germany
- (tags:electricity solarpower batteries germany GoodNews )
- 8. O Fortuna Misheard Lyrics
- (tags:music hearing words illusion funny video )
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- abuse,
- ai,
- airport,
- architecture,
- art,
- batteries,
- children,
- comics,
- design,
- electricity,
- england,
- epicfail,
- funny,
- germany,
- goodnews,
- hearing,
- history,
- illusion,
- india,
- law,
- links,
- music,
- numbers,
- ohforfuckssake,
- plagiarism,
- poverty,
- regulation,
- security,
- solarpower,
- technology,
- uk,
- video,
- words,
- work
Interesting Links for 23-06-2025
Jun. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Publishers are facing existential threat from AI
- (tags:publishing internet ai business )
- 2. Video of Lava Fountains Likely Setting New Record For Kilauea Eruption (June 20, 2025)
- (tags:lava volcano Hawaii video )
- 3. New EU rules for durable, energy-efficient and repairable smartphones and tablets
- (tags:Technology phones europe regulation )
- 4. The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos
- (tags:space )
Interesting Links for 04-06-2025
Jun. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Microsoft will make Windows use your selected browser for searches. But only in the EU. Because they're dicks.
- (tags:Microsoft OhForFucksSake regulation Europe )
- 2. Voters In Labour-Reform Battleground Seats More Likely To Rely On Disability Benefits
- (tags:welfare inequality disability politics uk )
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Interesting Links for 24-04-2025
Apr. 24th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Ask Google for a definition of a phrase and it'll make shit up for you.
- (tags:Google ai OhForFucksSake )
- 2. EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M for breaking Europe's digital rules
- (tags:Europe regulation apple Facebook )
- 3. A totally normal list of dating non-negotiables
- (tags:relationships video funny viaSwampers )
- 4. Edinburgh Anti-Trans Activist Nicola Murray Found Guilty of Child Abuse
- (tags:transgender abuse OhForFucksSake Edinburgh Scotland )
- 5. What should Europe be doing about Ukraine
- (tags:ukraine russia europe war )
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- ai,
- apple,
- edinburgh,
- europe,
- facebook,
- funny,
- google,
- links,
- ohforfuckssake,
- regulation,
- relationships,
- russia,
- scotland,
- transgender,
- ukraine,
- viaswampers,
- video,
- war
