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Interesting Links for 18-09-2026
Sep. 18th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Speedrun Nvidia's climate talking points
- (tags:Nvidia globalwarming ai doom video )
- 2. Scottish Government issues new data centre planning rules
- (tags:Scotland ai regulation planning )
- 3. Work to reduce stench from Edinburgh's Seafield wastewater site begins
- (tags:Edinburgh waste sewage GoodNews smell )
- 4. Scotland's bike lane networks break new records
- (tags:cycling Edinburgh bicycles GoodNews )
- 5. The end of the age of (mathematical) heroes
- (tags:mathematics research ai )
Interesting Links for 06-09-2026
Sep. 6th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Wile E Coyote is doing an AMA.
- (tags:movies coyote animals cartoon animation Reddit )
- 2. One of the reasons why autism rates are rising is that women are finally being diagnosed
- (tags:autism diagnosis women )
- 3. Tactical reloading of things that don't need tactical reloads
- (tags:video funny guns )
- 4. Would banning L-plate delivery riders actually make the roads safer?
- (tags:delivery regulation viaDanielDWilliam insurance )
Interesting Links for 2026-08-07
Aug. 27th, 2026 01:02 pm- 1. Picking apart the effect of AI on jobs.
- (tags:jobs ai )
- 2. How Thailand resisted colonization
- (tags:history society Thailand )
- 3. PIP whistleblowers in tears over pressure to cut benefits
- (tags:welfare disability uk OhForFucksSake )
- 4. How many hobbits do you need to solve your problems?
- (tags:lotr funny )
- 5. Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dies aged 80
- (tags:obituary viaSwampers )
- 6. Andrew Tate is just a bloke who lies on the Internet for money, insists Andrew Tate
- (tags:fraud lies bigotry misogyny satire )
- 7. Spain wants data centres on 80% renewables every hour, or no grid connection
- (tags:technology renewables Spain regulation )
- 8. Toilet paper prices rise in the US amid trade tensions with Canada
- (tags:USA toilets trade Canada doom )
- 9. VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents
- (tags:ai technology security )
- 10. Why the UK's financial watchdog is warning Britons not to take AI investment advice
- (tags:ai finance advice )
- 11. Young people with anxiety and ADHD to be offered taxpayer-funded jobs
- (tags:jobs mentalhealth uk )
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- advice,
- ai,
- bigotry,
- canada,
- disability,
- doom,
- finance,
- fraud,
- funny,
- history,
- jobs,
- lies,
- links,
- lotr,
- mentalhealth,
- misogyny,
- obituary,
- ohforfuckssake,
- regulation,
- renewables,
- satire,
- security,
- society,
- spain,
- technology,
- thailand,
- toilets,
- trade,
- uk,
- usa,
- viaswampers,
- welfare
Interesting Links for 08-08-2026
Aug. 8th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Why is there a row about 'vertical drinking' in Westminster?
- (tags:pubs London regulation )
- 2. Inside generative AI's effect on modding, and how host sites struggle to maintain transparency
- (tags:ai gaming mod )
- 3. Two years into the world's most complicated board game, masochist gamers "still don't understand what the camels do"
- (tags:games viaSwampers )
- 4. Restore Britain shocked to discover genealogy considerably more complicated than racism made it sound
- (tags:racism satire funny )
- 5. Ducker - Surname meaning, origin and distribution in the UK
- (tags:names AndrewDucker history UK )
Interesting Links for 22-07-2026
Jul. 22nd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. AliExpress gets record €550m fine from EU for allowing sale of illegal products
- (tags:china business regulation europe )
- 2. Trump Insists Frequent Naps Necessary To Protect U.S. Interests In Dreamland
- (tags:sleep politics usa )
- 3. Todd Kelin looks at the Watchmen Logo/Cover Design
- (tags:design logo comics art )
- 4. Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over books used to train Claude
- (tags:piracy intellectual_property ai law )
- 5. AI under test hacks its way out of its containment and into a remote system to find answers to the questions it's been set.
- (tags:ai hacking security doom )
- 6. Software to help you train your aiming in games - the science is fascinating
- (tags:games training science bodies )
- 7. Seven Things Mistaken for an Incoming Nuclear Attack (including...a bear)
- (tags:nuclearweapons epicfail armageddon doom )
- 8. UK's largest wind farm to be rebuilt with fewer, larger turbines - doubling its capacity
- (tags:glasgow uk windpower )
- 9. Nigel the Lonely Gannet - a metaphor for AI
- (tags:birds loneliness ai art )
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Interesting Links for 19-07-2026
Jul. 19th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without user consent (and then show ads)
- (tags:Technology advertising OhForFucksSake )
- 2. How period trackers share your private details
- (tags:menstruation surveillance apps )
- 3. Scottish pro-Palestine activist arrested 'for reading poem about Gaza'
- (tags:poetry Palestine Gaza Scotland police OhForFucksSake )
- 4. EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
- (tags:Europe regulation clothes waste )
- 5. What neurodivergent people really think about the words used to describe them
- (tags:language autism ADHD neurodiversity )
- 6. Woman Drinks Diet Coke to Dissolve Huge Mass in Her Stomach
- (tags:coke health weird food )
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- adhd,
- advertising,
- apps,
- autism,
- clothes,
- coke,
- europe,
- food,
- gaza,
- health,
- language,
- links,
- menstruation,
- neurodiversity,
- ohforfuckssake,
- palestine,
- poetry,
- police,
- regulation,
- scotland,
- surveillance,
- technology,
- waste,
- weird
Interesting Links for 18-06-2026
Jun. 18th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. The EHRC trans code explained (an excellent dissection of the mess the government has left us in)
- (tags:LGBT transgender UK law rights )
- 2. Edinburgh City Council considers £350k plan to tackle rogue landlords
- (tags:Edinburgh rental regulation )
- 3. Scotland starts rolling out its healthcare app. (currently very limited, but has prescriptions and appointments)
- (tags:Scotland NHS apps )
Interesting Links for 17-06-2026
Jun. 17th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Dogs! With! Bubbles!
- (tags:dogs bubble )
- 2. Social media: Don't ban children, fix the platforms
- (tags:UK socialmedia regulation )
- 3. Tavistock safeguarding: what actually happened
- (tags:NHS bigotry UK transgender LGBT )
- 4. Glucosamine supplements are associated with accelerated Alzheimer's progression
- (tags:alzheimers )
- 5. You can now make expresso with ultrasound, cutting energy use by 50%
- (tags:coffee sound ultrasound )
- 6. AI plagiarises by default (in this case, from Zelda)
- (tags:games ai plagiarism )
- 7. Trump and Musk have won their war on facts
- (tags:facts ElonMusk politics usa OhForFucksSake )
- 8. Write for one person
- (tags:writing advice )
- 9. Autism is multiple syndromes (in this case hypoconnectivity and hyperconnectivity of the brain as two distinct subtypes)
- (tags:autism brain neuroscience )
- 10. If you cross a corgi with any other dog you end up with what looks like a corgi in fancy dress
- (tags:dogs cute viaSwampers )
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- advice,
- ai,
- alzheimers,
- autism,
- bigotry,
- brain,
- bubble,
- coffee,
- cute,
- dogs,
- elonmusk,
- facts,
- games,
- lgbt,
- links,
- neuroscience,
- nhs,
- ohforfuckssake,
- plagiarism,
- politics,
- regulation,
- socialmedia,
- sound,
- transgender,
- uk,
- ultrasound,
- usa,
- viaswampers,
- writing
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 )
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- 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,
- censorship,
- 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
