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Interesting Links for 20-07-2024
Jul. 20th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Sweary staff, burnt pizza and soggy chips: these are the worst-rated restaurants in Edinburgh
- (tags:Edinburgh epicfail reviews restaurant food )
- 2. I don't know why my children love this teeth-brushing song, but they really do
- (tags:teeth song video children )
- 3. Pointing out the government's latest nonsense on how denying trans children access to care leads to suicide
- (tags:suicide transgender lgbt uk nhs OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Loss of oxygen in lakes and oceans a major threat to ecosystems, society, and planet
- (tags:oxygen Doom ocean rivers )
- 5. The ICJ Advisory Opinion on the illegality of Israel's continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
- (tags:Palestine Israel law )
Interesting Links for 08-11-2023
Nov. 8th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Contraceptive pills might impair fear-regulating regions in women's brains
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- 2. Maine's constitution has unprintable sections
- (tags:Maine history )
- 3. Antidepressants or Tolkien? (I got 20 out of 24 right)
- (tags:names Tolkien lotr quiz )
- 4. Edinburgh house prices are down 7.4% over the last year. Fingers crossed that they get even more affordable.
- (tags:housing edinburgh )
- 5. The people who bought The Escapist a few months ago have driven their entire video team to quit, including Zero Punctuation (their main money maker)
- (tags:videogames journalism reviews epicfail business )
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Interesting Links for 11-09-2023
Sep. 11th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The Australian solar tech that may have found a low cost solution to storage
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- 2. Studios are bribing the critics used for Rotten Tomatoes scores
- (tags:movies reviews bribery corruption )
- 3. Covid: What does the new normal look like?
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- 4. The Carrington Event of 1859 Disrupted Telegraph Lines. A "Miyake Event" Would Be Far Worse
- (tags:sun doom electronics )
- 5. 'Sea Nomads' Are First Known Humans Genetically Adapted to Diving
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- 6. The UK is going about reclaiming city streets the wrong way
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- 7. California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms, other psychedelics
- (tags:decriminalization psychology psilocybin GoodNews )
- 8. Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter's profile after show criticising how Facebook works with Israel's intelligence agency
- (tags:israel palestine facebook OhForFucksSake )
- 9. Coincidentally-identical waypoint names foxed UK air traffic control system
- (tags:uk airplanes computers epicfail )
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Interesting Links for 22-07-2023
Jul. 22nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. What the Luddites can teach us about resisting an automated future.
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- 2. Almost All Research on the Mind Is in English. That's a Problem
- (tags:psychology language english )
- 3. I Didn't Have Eggs: Terrible recipe reviews by people who don't know how awful they are
- (tags:reviews cooking wtf )
- 4. Edinburgh construction projects: Here's an update of what's going on behind all that scaffolding
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Interesting Links for 26-04-2023
Apr. 26th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. New UK rules ban subscription traps and fake reviews
- (tags:reviews business internet uk law )
- 2. Social networks run on vibes. Do not fuck with them.
- (tags:socialnetworking epicfail )
- 3. One tiny illustrated sci-fi story every day
- More ideas than stories, of course, and some repetition. But worth a look
(tags:scifi short_story ) - 4. What it was like to run Twitter's Trust and Safety team when Musk took over
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- 5. 3% of people who lack UK voter ID have applied for it
- (tags:voting IDCards UK politics )
Interesting Links for 24-12-2022
Dec. 24th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Britain's winter of discontent is the inevitable result of austerity
- (tags:austerity UK NHS infrastructure Doom )
- 2. In the long term, if we want to keep the global temperature down, then our electricity generation has to be entirely generated from renewables
- (tags:renewables globalwarming )
- 3. Stardust is inspired by The Voyage of The Dawn Treader
- (tags:narnia neilgaiman )
- 4. Fans Can Now Sue Movie Studios For Deceptive Trailers
- (tags:trailers law fraud viaMyBrotherHugh )
- 5. Both versions of "Riddles in the Dark" (the Gollum chapter of The Hobbit, changed when Lord of The Rings came out)
- (tags:lotr TheHobbit Tolkien )
- 6. Finally, a believable explanation of why Elon Musk bought Twitter!
- (tags:ElonMusk Twitter comic funny )
- 7. Elon Musk orders removal of Twitter suicide prevention feature
- (tags:Twitter suicide OhForFucksSake ElonMusk )
- 8. Brexit means no British manufacturer able to build ministerial cars
- (tags:UK cars manufacturing Europe Doom )
- 9. The 10 best films of 2022
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Interesting Links for 20-04-2022
Apr. 20th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Boots to flush plastic fibre wet wipes from its shelves by the end of the year
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- 2. Brexit felt all the way down in Falkland Islands as fishing exports take a hit after squid orders in EU dry up
- (tags:squid trade falklands Europe uk Doom )
- 3. Me,a week ago "I'm not watching a five hour review of Dark Souls". Me, today "Well, I guess I'd better share that with my friends"
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- 4. Fake reviews to be illegal under new UK rules - subscriptions to be easier to leave
- (tags:uk law reviews fraud )
- 5. The stories behind 10 of the roads in the Edinburgh neighbourhood - from Baltic Street to Easter Road
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- 6. The UK population are not impressed with their government
- (tags:uk Conservatives fail polls )
- 7. Sanctions on Russia are effective, and will get moreso
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Interesting Links for 03-03-2022
Mar. 3rd, 2022 12:00 pm- Lecturers share their terrible reviews
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- Hidetaka Miyazaki Sees Death as a Feature, Not a Bug
- (tags:death failure games )
- What Russian "intellectuals" are saying right now
- (tags:russia ukraine nationalism )
- The British Guardian Vs the American one on the subject of trans rights
- (tags:LGBT rights guardian transgender )
- How badly will sanctions affect Russia?
- (tags:Russia war Ukraine economy economics trade viaDanielDWilliam )
- The projected light show from Paisley Abbey is rather beautiful
- (tags:light animation Scotland video )
- Ukraine's Chinese characteristics
- (tags:ukraine china taiwan )
- Carmakers shut factories and freeze sales as Ukraine invasion fallout spreads
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- Bee-killing pesticide banned by EU to be used in UK
- (tags:bees pesticide uk doom )
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Interesting Links for 18-05-2021
May. 18th, 2021 12:00 pm- Want To Know Whether A Movie Or Book Will Be A Hit? Look At How Emotional The Reviews Are
- (tags:emotion reviews psychology movies books advertising )
- Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate
- (tags:russia language hacking )
- Fungi are more interesting than you'd think (and better at finding their way out of IKEA)
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- The U.S. Military Has an Extremism Problem
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- FactCheck: Video which purports to show Israeli policeman strangling Palestinian boy is false
- (tags:videos misinformation Israel Palestine )
- Don't time the stock market
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Interesting Links for 20-04-2021
Apr. 20th, 2021 12:00 pm- How a fake doctor saved thousands of infants and changed medical history by turning them into a sideshow
- (tags:history children healthcare viaMyBrotherHugh )
- For £130k you can buy the northernmost castle in Scotland - and be a baron!
- (tags:castle scotland viaMyBrotherHugh )
- How often do people actually copy and paste code from Stack Overflow?
- (tags:software programming )
- FOOTBALL!
- (tags:football video funny )
- The writer who thought that 4.5 stars for her book was an insult
- (tags:writing Twitter reviews OhForFucksSake )
- Fire crews tackle blaze at former Debenhams store in Edinburgh
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- American Humanist Association Board Statement Withdrawing Honor from Richard Dawkins
- (tags:RichardDawkins LGBT transgender identity racism )
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Interesting Links for 11-02-2021
Feb. 11th, 2021 12:00 pm- Locus really need better editors working on their reviews
- (tags:reviews fiction )
- How To Build a Snölykta - Traditional Swedish Snow Lanterns
- (tags:snow Sweden video viaNeilRodger )
- 'Fuck Your Feelings' Doesn't Apply to White Men
- (tags:politics USA gender society racism sexism )
- Charisma Carpenter on Joss Whedon's abusive behaviour
- (tags:acting TV buffy abuse JossWhedon )
- Stage meat - food you can eat on stage and still act around
- (tags:food acting viaSwampers )
- I see the EU is asking the UK to honour its promises. I can't see that going down well
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1359590841619275776.html
(tags:UK Europe trade Doom NorthernIreland ) - Amsterdam becomes Europe's top trading hub, ousting London
- (tags:Netherlands shares finance UK Europe )
- Temperature of -22.9C in Braemar 'UK's lowest in 26 years'
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- Netflix acquires the rights to all 22 Redwall books, plans film and series
- (tags:TV fantasy animals children books Netflix )
- Weird Pride Day is March 4th
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Interesting Links for 31-12-2020
Dec. 31st, 2020 12:00 pm- Amazon still hasn't fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews
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- New virus variant found in Colorado while UK struggles to limit it
- (tags:UK USA pandemic Doom )
- 10 Major Edinburgh developments set to be completed in 2021
- (tags:Edinburgh construction cycling hotel shopping )
- 30 Years Since the Human Genome Project Began, What's Next?
- (tags:genetics history thefuture )
- Ohio State study: 30% of student athletes who had Covid have heart damage
- (tags:pandemic heart doom )
- The strengths and weaknesses of Benjamin the Donkey from Animal Farm as a political commentator
- (tags:politics GeorgeOrwell animals )
Interesting Links for 30-11-2020
Nov. 30th, 2020 12:00 pm- What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?
- (tags:encryption communication Android )
- Secretive licensing system allows UK weapons to reach repressive regimes
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- What it's like playing a complex board game for the first time
- (tags:games funny video )
- How Joe Biden Stole the Election
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- Boris Johnson Dumps Tory Manifesto Pledge Of Superfast Broadband For All By 2025
- (tags:internet UK broadband conservatives lies )
- "Accentism" is real, but impossible to end
- (tags:speech bias UK France )
- Sculpting a Selfie Girl, with Maths
- (tags:art mathematics sculpture video )
- An open letter to people who complain about the cost of restaurants
- (tags:restaurant money food business reviews )
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Interesting Links for 28-11-2020
Nov. 28th, 2020 12:00 pm- Glad to see the Conservative Party are as well run as ever
- (tags:corruption conservatives )
- How accurate is The Crown?
- (tags:tv facts funny history royalty uk )
- "Why I Think Elvis Was Autistic"
- (tags:autism history music )
- Short films recorded in the far north of Scotland at the start of the 20th century
- (tags:history scotland video viacmcmck )
- Why the rivets on a tape measure are so important
- (tags:measurement video interesting )
- R number for UK (just) below 1 for first time since August
- (tags:UK pandemic GoodNews )
- The Home Office must be destroyed
- (tags:UK immigration OhForFucksSake )
- Analysing the prevalence of Covid through reviews of scented candles
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1332398737604431874.html
(tags:reviews smell pandemic statistics ) - Bionic gloves help injured concert pianist to play again.
- (tags:piano cyborg bionic music )
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Interesting Links for 27-08-2020
Aug. 27th, 2020 12:00 pm- The Scots Wikipedia admins are looking for help from people who speak the language
- (tags:language Scotland Wikipedia )
- The daydream that never stops - When does living in a fantasy world become a problem?
- (tags:thinking storytelling stories psychology mentalhealth )
- New Mutants - reviewers are not going to risk their lives for this
- (tags:movies reviews pandemic )
- Coronavirus: NHS Scotland to get 12-minute Covid test kit (300 machines, 500,000 tests. Still nasal, sadly. 2% false positive, 3% false negative.)
- Here's the info on the test:
https://www.medtechdive.com/news/lumiradx-lands-third-covid-antigen-eua-as-demand-for-rapid-tests-rises/583845/
(tags:scotland pandemic testing ) - Wealth, shown to scale
- (tags:wealth inequality usa ViaDrCross )
- The Conan Doyle estate can fuck off
- (tags:copyright SherlockHolmes emotion OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 16-07-2020
Jul. 16th, 2020 12:00 pm- A Silk Road Renaissance: Excavations in Tajikistan have unveiled a city of merchant princes that flourished from the fifth to the eighth century A.D.
- (tags:trade history silk roads )
- Raising taxes would endanger economic recovery, Labour tells government
- (tags:UK labour tax wtf )
- 49% of people in England back ending Union (including a majority of Labour and Conservative voters)
- (tags:England independence polls )
- Have you ever wished you could review the moon?
- (tags:moon reviews funny )
- Tory MP Julian Lewis loses Conservative whip after beating Chris Grayling to chair intelligence committee
- (tags:politics military intelligence conservatives uk )
- Scientists achieve first complete assembly of human X chromosome
- (tags:genetics )
- Pretty good review of the audio version of Sandman
- (tags:audio Sandman neilgaiman )
- Creating user interfaces automatically using artificial intelligence
- (tags:ai UI impressive )
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Interesting Links for 04-01-2020
Jan. 4th, 2020 12:00 pm- GirlsDoPorn: Young women win legal battle over video con
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- I am no expert on Middle-Eastern foreign policy by any means, but this is basically my view
- (tags:middle_east politics war death )
- What kind of people give Paddington Bear 2 a 1 star review?
- (tags:children movies bears reviews )
- First evidence found of tool use by seabirds
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Interesting Links for 26-12-2019
Dec. 28th, 2019 04:59 pm- JK Rowling and the League of Disappointing Authors
- (tags:authors bigotry hplovecraft jkrowling comic )
- A thread of purest horror and car crash
- (tags:relationships LGBT awful twitter )
- The Painful Quest to Find the Worst Christmas Movie Ever Made
- (tags:christmas movies awful reviews )
- Chinese Restaurants Are Closing Across The USA. That's a Good Thing, the Owners Say.
- (tags:immigration cooking China usa )
Interesting Links for 10-04-2019
Apr. 10th, 2019 11:59 am- Amazon shoppers misled by 'bundled' star-ratings and reviews
- (tags:reviews amazon OhForFucksSake )
- Leith Street to close for three weeks in May
- (tags:viaCharlesStross edinburgh transport construction OhForFucksSake )
- Declassified U-2 spy plane photos are a boon for aerial archaeology
- (tags:surveillance archeology photos )
- Invisible Abuse: ABA and the things only autistic people can see
- (tags:autism abuse children )
- Autism symptoms reduced nearly 50 percent two years after fecal transplant (I'm sceptical, but intrigued)
- (tags:autism microbiome viaMyBrotherHugh viaElfy )
- Bodyguard star Richard Madden criticises 'unrealistic' weight demands
- (tags:weight bodies acting )
- 'Monstrous' ancient fossil named after Cthulu
- (tags:cthulhu fossils )
- Four bees found living inside woman's eye, drinking her tears
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- First major 20mph crackdown in Edinburgh sees 105 drivers booked
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