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Interesting Links for 29-05-2026
May. 29th, 2026 12:00 pmTags:
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Interesting Links for 27-05-2026
May. 27th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. UK Medical Academies respond to the government consultation on Growing Up In An Online World
- (tags:children internet health safety )
- 2. The Great Depopulation - how drastic is our population decline going to be?
- (tags:population thefuture )
- 3. Starmer bans Labour councillors from doing deals with Green Party, happy to work with Tories
- (tags:Labour GreenParty politics UK OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Ukrainian intelligence tricked Russian troops who wanted to activate Starlink terminals, got cash and precise locations out of them.
- (tags:Ukraine Russia fraud intelligence war communications )
- 5. The Strange Melancholy of Slaying Monsters
- (tags:games morality art violence )
- 6. Green sector is 5% of Scotland's GDP
- (tags:scotland economics renewables )
- 7. Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn't really Google anymore (I use Kagi and it's great)
- (tags:search web recommendation )
- 8. Owner's relief as escaped tortoise found yards away
- (tags:tortoise pets headline )
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- internet,
- labour,
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- morality,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pets,
- politics,
- population,
- recommendation,
- renewables,
- russia,
- safety,
- scotland,
- search,
- thefuture,
- tortoise,
- uk,
- ukraine,
- violence,
- war,
- web
Interesting Links for 27-04-2026
Apr. 27th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. For billionaires the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark
- (tags:inequality morality wealth psychology society )
- 2. The "Connectivome Theory": A New Model to Understand Autism Spectrum Disorders
- (tags:autism bodies )
- 3. Paracetamol/acetaminophen is almost certainly safer to take than ibuprofen (nurofen)
- (tags:drugs safety )
- 4. Meet The Mushroom That Makes People Have The Exact Same Hallucination
- (tags:hallucinogenics )
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Interesting Links for 20-03-2026
Mar. 20th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Earth's first mass extinction may have been far worse than believed
- (tags:extinction prehistory paleontology )
- 2. People using AI to give law advice finally reaches Scotland.
- (tags:ai law scotland )
- 3. Denmark was preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations.
- (tags:war usa norway germany france denmark )
- 4. This perfectly encapsulates why I won't surf the web without an ad-blocker
- (tags:advertising web newspapers )
- 5. How *did* a multi-storey car park get built in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle?
- (tags:edinburgh cars history )
- 6. Waymo self driving cars are 13x safer than humans
- (tags:safety automation driving cars )
- 7. Police Scotland announce they don't want trans people to report any crimes
- (tags:transgender LGBT bigotry OhForFucksSake Scotland )
- 8. The change that made lighthouses work much better - and why it drove the keepers mad. (Lots and lots of mercury)
- (tags:mercury light history safety ships )
- 9. Gen Z is broke, stressed and exhausted - but boomers won't accept it
- (tags:stress society doom )
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- newspapers,
- norway,
- ohforfuckssake,
- paleontology,
- prehistory,
- safety,
- scotland,
- ships,
- society,
- stress,
- transgender,
- usa,
- war,
- web
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 26-11-2025
Nov. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How Ferrari's Formula One Pit Stop Team saved the lives of thousands of children
- (tags:safety process driving mechanics children healthcare )
- 2. EU's Top Court landmark judgment: Member States Must Recognise Same-Sex Marriages from Other EU Countries
- (tags:Europe LGBT marriage GoodNews law )
- 3. Suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%
- (tags:suicide children LGBT transgender hormones research )
- 4. Justice secretary wants most jury trials scrapped
- (tags:law UK labour )
- 5. Lammy Furiously Backed Campaign for 'Vital' Jury Trials 'To Prevent Bias and Ensure Justice' - before deciding to get rid of them
- (tags:law UK labour hypocrisy )
- 6. Concept Art for Characters That Ended Up as Blonde White Women
- (tags:design games racism )
- 7. BBC accused of censoring Trump line from historian's lecture
- (tags:bbc censorship corruption usa politics )
Interesting Links for 11-11-2025
Nov. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Multilingualism and Extending Healthspan
- (tags:language health lifespan viaKenny )
- 2. 'V for Vendetta' TV Series in the Works at HBO
- (tags:comics alanmoore tv )
- 3. Law used to ban Palestine Action being used too widely, report says
- (tags:law terrorism uk OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Why has one of Edinburgh's best views been off-limits for seven years?
- (tags:edinburgh safety rocks )
- 5. UK Government sets out plan to reduce animal experiments
- (tags:uk animals research safety )
Interesting Links for 05-11-2025
Nov. 5th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. EU moves to prevent 'Trojan horses' from joining bloc
- (tags:democracy europe russia )
- 2. Confused about JCVI and COVID shots
- (tags:pandemic vaccination )
- 3. Elon Musk does not understand The Lord Of The Rings
- (tags:ElonMusk lotr )
- 4. Tolkien, Lewis, and The Silver Chair Theory
- (tags:Tolkien CSLewis history writing lotr narnia relationships )
- 5. What happens when you try to meet transphobes halfway
- (tags:bigotry LGBT transgender )
- 6. Takeaways from Tuesday's US elections
- (tags:USA elections GoodNews )
- 7. 3/4 of CEOs believe they have to have an AI strategy or they'll be replaced (which explains why there's so much investment into it)
- (tags:ai business )
- 8. Why is land reform on the agenda in Scotland?
- (tags:land scotland law )
- 9. Covid jabs gave under-18s heart problems - but were less risky than catching virus
- (tags:pandemic safety vaccination )
Interesting Links for 21-10-2025
Oct. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Gamifying Hobbies Is Ruining Them
- (tags:fun gaming apps doom )
- 2. UK Public Wants More Balanced Coverage Of Political Parties
- (tags:UK politics journalism )
- 3. Anxiety Toolkit (a set of tools for helping with anxiety)
- (tags:anxiety advice )
- 4. Populism is bad for economic propsperity
- (tags:economics fascism )
- 5. Some 60,000 kids have avoided peanut allergies due to landmark 2015 advice, study finds
- (tags:allergies children GoodNews peanuts )
- 6. Goblin Tools - a collection of AI tools for neurodivergent people who struggle with things feeling too big and complicated.
- (tags:viaSwampers ai adhd autism )
- 7. Either public safety is an absolute priority at sporting events or it is not.
- (tags:israel football uk safety politics OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 13-09-2025
Sep. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. If you were wondering what Bryan Fuller and Mads Mikkelsen were up to, it's a movie about a guy who will (for the right money) kill the monster under your bed. Dust Bunny (also starring Sigourney Weaver).
- I wish my kids were a few years older...
(tags:monsters children movies trailer ) - 2. How were escalators invented, and how safe are they? (very, unless your maintenance people are corrupt)
- (tags:design technology safety video history )
- 3. Israeli conductor condemns his country in extraordinary Proms outburst
- (tags:Israel Palestine )
Interesting Links for 08-09-2025
Sep. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Greens now leading Labour amongst LGB voters
- (tags:LGBT polls politics UK )
- 2. Palestinian prisoners are being starved, Israel's top court says
- (tags:food palestine israel OhForFucksSake )
- 3. How Britain built some of the world's safest roads (The death rate per mile driven has declined 22-fold since 1950.)
- (tags:death safety uk driving GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 04-07-2025
Jul. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Five baby beavers born at Cairngorms National Park in Scottish Highlands spotted for first time
- (tags:beavers Scotland video )
- 2. Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean, with key climate implications
- (tags:globalwarming ocean doom )
- 3. Deafness reversed: Single injection brings hearing back within weeks | ScienceDaily
- (tags:hearing deafness genetics )
- 4. High-Fidelity Simultaneous Speech-To-Speech Translation
- (tags:translation ai )
- 5. Ita O'Brien: Up close and professional with the world's leading intimacy coordinator
- (tags:sex acting safety tv movies )
- 6. Trump seems to have decided that America should be more like Rome
- (tags:usa fighting republicans EpicWTF )
- 7. The perfect, but slow, way to boil an egg - according to science
- (tags:eggs cooking )
Interesting Links for 25-06-2025
Jun. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Elon Musk doesn't want you to know Tesla's response to the NHTSA's Robotaxi questions
- (tags:Tesla automation driving OhForFucksSake )
- 2. US safety regulators contact Tesla over erratic robotaxis
- (tags:USA automation safety Tesla driving doom )
- 3. Some fascinating discussion on Romeo and Juliet
- (tags:shakespeare women history )
- 4. New bat viruses discovered in China raise concerns about potential pandemic
- (tags:virus bats china )
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- bats,
- china,
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- tesla,
- usa,
- virus,
- women
Interesting Links for 22-05-2025
May. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. I am so sick and tired of "AI"
- (tags:ai )
- 2. How do we know mRNA vaccines are safe and effective? An explainer
- (tags:vaccines safety research viaKenny )
- 3. Reminder that you cannot trust anything that you see or hear.
- (tags:ai video )
- 4. Why elephants have low cancer rates and what it means for humans
- (tags:elephants cancer )
Interesting Links for 02-05-2025
May. 2nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Summerisle Arcana - Wicker Man Inspired Tarot
- (tags:tarot horror movies )
- 2. Seattle Worldcon science fiction convention vets panelists with ChatGPT
- (tags:ai conventions scifi OhForFucksSake )
- 3. No One Knows What's Inside the Smallpox Vaccine
- (tags:disease history vaccines cows horses )
- 4. The White House's Plan For Reversing The Declining Birth Rate
- (tags:satire children usa politics )
- 5. For Women Scotland: a legal critique of the recent judgment on transgender rights
- (tags:LGBT transgender rights law UK )
- 6. US abandons $350bn debt claim in Ukraine minerals deal - but Trump hasn't noticed
- (tags:usa ukraine war trade )
- 7. AI extends the career of a porn actress. Also Jack Nicklaus, Snoop Dog, and KISS
- (tags:ai celebrity business )
- 8. 100 Men vs. 1 Gorilla: Primatologists Explain Who Would Win
- (tags:gorillas violence funny internet ViaDrCross )
- 9. How the UK Establishment Crushed Trans Rights
- (tags:LGBT transgender guardian DailyMail journalism UK politics bigotry )
- 10. How would zonal energy pricing work? (And why it would lower *everyone'ss* prices)
- (tags:electricity uk economics )
- 11. Rector wins appeal over St Andrews University Gaza row
- (tags:Scotland Israel gaza Palestine genocide university StAndrews freespeech )
- 12. Waymo automated taxies make the roads safer for bikes and pedestrians
- (tags:driving automation safety )
- 13. I finally understand why all those Soulslike bosses hated me so much, thanks to The Dark Queen of Mortholme, which pits you up against some plucky upstart who just keeps coming back
- (tags:games review )
- 14. Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits
- (tags:headline dragons law EpicWTF )
- 15. Do any of you like puzzles?
- (tags:puzzles )
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- uk,
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- university,
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- vaccines,
- viadrcross,
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Interesting Links for 01-04-2025
Apr. 1st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Alarms, overdoses and saving lives: 48 hours in UK's first drug injection room
- (tags:uk drugs safety scotland )
- 2. "What Trans Day of Visibility means to me"
- (tags:LGBT transgender )
- 3. Labour congratulated on class April Fool's ruse after announcing plan to implement genuinely left-wing policy
- (tags:Labour AprilFool satire politics UK )
- 4. Buses in Wales to be brought under public control
- (tags:buses wales )
- 5. The 1 bedroom Edinburgh flat with over a thousand businesses registered at it.
- (tags:business fraud scotland edinburgh )
- 6. The Style Returns: Some legal notes on ChatGPT and Studio Ghibli
- (tags:law copyright ghibli art ai )
- 7. "At 52, I learned the truth about my confident Oxbridge colleagues - they're bluffing"
- (tags:Education confidence advice )
Interesting Links for 26-02-2025
Feb. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How To Force Women Back Into the Kitchen In 5 Obvious Steps
- (tags:politics usa patriarchy society )
- 2. States that passed no-fault divorce laws saw total female suicide decline by around 20 percent
- (tags:divorce suicide law )
- 3. Edinburgh University to seek £140m in savings
- (tags:Edinburgh university migration )
- 4. "They Live" meets the Trump Era
- (tags:movies Technology )
- 5. FDA Approves Novel Non-Opioid Treatment for Moderate to Severe Acute Pain
- (tags:pain medicine )
- 6. 'Consider Phlebas' Series Set At Amazon From Charles Yu & Chloé Zhao
- (tags:IainBanks scifi TV Amazon )
- 7. Why EM Forster's writing tailed off
- (tags:writing sex lgbt gay )
- 8. Seizafe - Epilepsy Alert for YouTube (Chrome extension)
- (tags:YouTube safety chrome )
Interesting Links for 23-02-2025
Feb. 23rd, 2025 12:01 pm- 1. Ancient switch to soft food gave us an overbite—and the ability to pronounce 'f's and 'v's
- (tags:speech food bone bodies prehistory )
- 2. Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
- (tags:abortion texas childbirth safety death OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename 'Krasnov' Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief
- (tags:spying Russia USA politics )
- 4. Trove.scot just opened up access to huge amounts of Historic Scotland's archive
- (tags:history Scotland )
- 5. Today I discovered the Fish Delousing Laser
- (tags:lasers fish video )
- 6. It's amazing what you can do with a bit of makeup
- (tags:makeup video impressive )
Interesting Links for 22-02-2025
Feb. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. HP decided to make every phone customer wait 15 minutes before talking to them. And was then forced to backtrack.
- (tags:hp wtf customerservice OhForFucksSake phones )
- 2. A Delta pilot tried to raise safety issues. They accused her of being bipolar. It took years in the courts to prove her right.
- (tags:mentalhealth safety airplanes OhForFucksSake usa )
- 3. Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours
- (tags:games funny )
- 4. The Imperial March but it's coming from Vader's chest control panel
- (tags:StarWars music funny video )
- 5. What counselling training is like for an autistic person
- (tags:LGBT transgender autism counselling )
- 6. Five Oddly, Unexpectedly Upbeat Works of SFF
- (tags:scifi doom hope )
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