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Interesting Links for 18-10-2025
Oct. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Endometriosis diagnosis from menstrual blood could make diagnosis dramatically faster (still a few years away though)
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- 2. Church of England bishops stop plans to trial blessing services for gay couples
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- 3. Russia's funding for Ukraine war set to 'contract' as new sanctions loom
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- 4. The Anglican Church just split in half (40-50 million in each side)
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- 5. Judge rules that trans man can't be denied gender recognition certificate because he is trying to conceive.
- (tags:transgender law UK children GoodNews )
- 6. Happy Tenth Anniversary to the "Leopards Eating People's Faces Party"
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- 7. Liberal Democrats win all six seats in Surrey council by-elections (clearly things afoot in the South-East)
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- 8. Why FindOutNow polls differ from other polling companies
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- 9. Some reasons to be hopeful about the future (if we can get through 2026)
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- 10. Treating male partners halves the recurrence rate of Bacterial Vaginosis
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- 11. Lothian Buses celebrates a century of keeping Edinburgh moving through the night with the Night Bus
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- 12. Turkey proposes radical new "reforms" to attack LGBTQ+ marriage, media, & trans people
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Interesting Links for 27-09-2025
Sep. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly
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- 2. Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification
- (tags:transgender bigotry USA politics murder guns )
- 3. Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance
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- 4. The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. "Liberals" Are Helping
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Interesting Links for 19-09-2025
Sep. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour's plan to jumpstart city building after Rayner's 1.5m homes drive stalls
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- 2. Chimps consume a pint of lager's worth of alcohol every day in fruit
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- 3. Man with Covid for over two years became virus incubator, as it evolved into new variants of concern
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- 4. Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads (and so I will never buy one)
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- 5. Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms (in Canada)
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- 6. Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
- (tags:politics Child_abuse satire usa uk royalty )
- 7. An "At The Mountains Of Madness" game, where you play as a penguin.
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Interesting Links for 03-09-2025
Sep. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Blocky Planet — Making Minecraft Spherical
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- 2. Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America!
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- 3. Edinburgh primary school mobile phone ban set to go ahead later this year
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- 4. Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks in England
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- 5. Starmer appoints ex-director of anti trans campaign group as as comms director
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- 6. Dubstep artist Skrillex could protect against mosquito bites
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Interesting Links for 29-08-2025
Aug. 29th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. My Top Five Favorite Techno Songs and Why They're All the Mortal Kombat Theme Song
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- 2. A historian reviews King & Conqueror (neither good nor accurate)
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- 3. Spineless fence-sitter thinks killing children is bad no matter who does it
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Interesting Links for 18-08-2025
Aug. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Harry Potter board game creators to donate profits to trans charities
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- 2. Europe Divided Into Areas With An Economy Equal In Size To London (this would make everyone happy, of course)
- (tags:maps funny Europe viaSwampers )
- 3. What does a proper British diet look like?
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- 4. Happy 20th anniversary to "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!"
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- 5. Britain's first transgender judge takes UK to European court over Supreme Court ruling on biological sex
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- 6. Ranking AIs by how well they score in Only Connect
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Interesting Links for 16-08-2025
Aug. 16th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. This is how the Swiss would have done HS2
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- 2. The ease of collective action induces more egalitarian behavior by individuals in a position of power and makes those without power less willing to accept unfairness.
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- 3. Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ figure Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
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- 4. Photos: Wildfires Rage Across Southern Europe (CW: burned animal about 20 pictures down)
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- 5. Are you ready for polyaninmosity in your life?
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- 6. There's something I love about stories that take a very simple concept and push it a far as they can
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- 7. Sauron the Economist
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- 8. Chinese economists recruit Ray Dalio and MMT in their battle over deficit spending
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- 9. The Electric Fence Stopped Working Years Ago - A metaphor for friendship
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- 10. Once Again, Oil States Thwart Agreement on Plastics
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Interesting Links for 07-08-2025
Aug. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The U.S. Constitution website has removed important sections limiting states rights and removing Writ Habeas Corpus or the right to due process.
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- 2. JK Rowling calls for M&S boycott because a tall woman spoke to a girl
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- 3. I just sent a supportive email to Marks and Spencer over the ridiculous bigotry being sent their way. If you want, you can do that here.
- (tags:shopping communication bigotry LGBT transgender MarksAndSpencer )
- 4. Dispelling harmful misinformation about M&S 'trans' bra fitting row
- 5. ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome linked to your genetics
- (tags:genetics ChronicFatigueSyndrome viaKenny )
- 6. Brown 'functionally inaccessible' for trans students after Trump deal
- (tags:university bigotry transgender LGBT USA )
- 7. Older people react less strongly to colours.
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- 8. Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have
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- 9. Politicians have been lying to the British public about the economy for decades. At some point we'll have to stop.
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Interesting Links for 30-07-2025
Jul. 30th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles
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- 2. The case for memes as a new form of comics
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- 3. 29 years ago today, 4 Liverpool women were acquitted after damaging fighter jet to stop genocide
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Interesting Links for 24-07-2025
Jul. 24th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 45% of microplastics come from tyres
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- 2. UK wealth tax: high risk and anti-growth
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- 3. Cuba becomes 22nd country to move to self-id for gender change
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- 4. Starmer's response to far-right protests exposes Britain's moral decline
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- 5. Shocking Video Captures Calm Police Officers Handling Situation Nonviolently
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- 6. How does Britain's pension predicament compare with other countries
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Interesting Links for 27-06-2025
Jun. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The first non-opioid painkiller (for acute pain) has taken 27 years to produce.
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- 2. UK asylum plans shows post-Brexit Britain is 'in very dark place', Albanian PM warns
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- 3. Reading one book on a subject will put you ahead of the vast majority of people
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- 4. One in four LGBTQ+ pupils may drop out before finishing secondary school
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- 5. India High Court rules trans women are women
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- 6. A newspaper reported that Arthur Conan Doyle went to a local pub. Turns out to be completely made up (but the history is fascinating)
- (tags:journalism fraud Edinburgh history )
- 7. The transfers between parties in yesterday's Edinburgh council election are fascinating!
- (tags:edinburgh elections voting politics scotland )
- 8. You can now buy The Hobbit in 5 different Celtic languages. (I'm sure people will have great fun comparing them)
- (tags:languages uk ireland TheHobbit )
- 9. Make AI Mediocre Again
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Interesting Links for 03-06-2025
Jun. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Musk Weighs Return To Politics After 60th Death On 'Elden Ring Nightreign' Tutorial
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- 2. Download festival clarifies stance after being slammed by Manchester band in trans bathroom row
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- 3. Vodafone and Three UK Officially Complete £16bn Merger
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- 4. Brits think that we should spend more on defence, but we shouldn't raise taxes or cut other spending to pay for it.
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Interesting Links for 28-05-2025
May. 28th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Why did they have to say the Liverpool driver was white, asks man who was all set to start looting Greggs
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- 2. Ukraine's New Way of War
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- 3. Facebook refuses to crack down on rampant scams from bogus ads to avoid losing revenue
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- 4. Plentiful Data, No Regret: What the Utah Review on Youth Trans Care Found
- (tags:USA research transgender children healthcare )
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Interesting Links for 13-05-2025
May. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How Gandalf Proved Mightiest: Spiritual Power in Tolkien
- (tags:lotr Tolkien magic viaDanielDWilliam )
- 2. ScotRail trials wi-fi using Elon Musk's Starlink satellites
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- 3. Continuous glucose monitors reveal variable glucose responses from the same people to the same meals
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- 4. The charts showing the big flaw in Starmer's immigration plan
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- 5. Moderna's combo Covid and flu mRNA shot outperforms current vaccines in large trial
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- 6. Despair at Starmer's divisive language as he channels Enoch Powell
- (tags:bigotry immigration UK Labour OhForFucksSake )
- 7. US Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn't always fair use
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- 8. Edinburgh traffic bans in city centre to be made permanent following trial
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- 9. Top UK Special Forces general oversaw blocking of Afghan war-crime witnesses to Britain
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- 10. How the news feels right now
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- 11. Mass vote losses to Lib Dems and Greens would cost Labour twice as many seats as mass Reform switch
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- 12. Getting to know 'Reform curious Labour voters'
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- 13. Zodiac Killer Revealed by His Love of Comic Books, Author Says
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- 14. London, Brighton, Birmingham and Manchester Prides suspend political parties from taking part (over trans rights)
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Interesting Links for 10-05-2025
May. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. British Property Management Firms Are Helping Russians Avoid Sanctions
- (tags:uk russia OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Amazon's warehose robots can now stow items faster than most humans
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- 3. Trans Labour councillor quits and accuses Starmer of 'throwing transgender people under a bus'
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- 4. Why the rich paid less tax in the 1970s - despite 98% tax rates
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- 5. "Letting AI make up cases" hits the UK legal system
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- 6. The House of Lords wants opinions from autistic people (diagnosed or undiagnosed), or people who care for them.
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- 7. Scientists turn lead into gold at the LHC!
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- 8. Always, always check the answers the AI gives you.
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- 9. Video Essay Condescendingly Reads Wikipedia at You
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- 10. American men who refer to themselves as 'moderate' or 'centrist' score basically the same on values and opinions as people who identify themselves as 'conservative'
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Interesting Links for 03-05-2025
May. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 1.5m Britons a month pay for weight-loss jabs
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- 2. Why our waistlines expand in middle age—aging stem cells shift into overdrive (in rats)
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- 3. Germany's Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech Just Got Even More Ridiculous
- (tags:Germany genocide Palestine Israel freespeech law viaKenny )
- 4. RFK Jr. Encourages Americans To Do Their Own Research About Dragons
- (tags:politics USA dragons satire funny )
- 5. UN says 9,000 Gaza children acutely malnourished as aid blockade passes two months
- (tags:children food gaza Israel Palestine OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Genomic evidence for behavioral adaptation of herding dogs
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- 7. I missed that the horror version of Steamboat Willie had already been released
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Interesting Links for 02-05-2025
May. 2nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Summerisle Arcana - Wicker Man Inspired Tarot
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- 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
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- 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
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- 6. US abandons $350bn debt claim in Ukraine minerals deal - but Trump hasn't noticed
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- 7. AI extends the career of a porn actress. Also Jack Nicklaus, Snoop Dog, and KISS
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- 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
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- 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
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- 14. Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits
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- 15. Do any of you like puzzles?
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