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Interesting Links for 23-12-2025
Dec. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pmTags:
- ai,
- buses,
- disinformation,
- doom,
- edinburgh,
- fraud,
- links,
- scotland,
- socialmedia,
- transport
Interesting Links for 18-12-2025
Dec. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Why Do Commercial Spaces Sit Vacant?
- (tags:business property finance economics banking )
- 2. What Happens When Netflix Buys Warner Bros. (nothing good)
- (tags:netflix movies history WarnerBrothers video doom )
- 3. UK energy costs likely to halve by 2050, says system operator
- (tags:UK renewables electricity thefuture )
- 4. Teachers to be trained to spot early signs of misogyny in boys
- (tags:misogyny UK children boys )
- 5. One month to go: Edinburgh-Fife rail upgrades begin soon (closing the line for a week)
- (tags:Scotland transport trains )
- 6. Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Is Having a Renaissance
- (tags:hydroelectric electricity storage )
Interesting Links for 17-12-2025
Dec. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Trans scholars being pushed out of academia, researchers warn
- (tags:transgender bigotry LGBT UK academia OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Scottish Trans and LGBT Youth Scotland response to Scottish Government consultation on updating school buildings regulations
- (tags:school transgender consultation Scotland )
- 3. Magic mushroom compound psilocybin found to break depression spiral
- (tags:depression psilocybin psychedelics )
- 4. Creepy McDonalds AI Actor Responds To Backlash
- (tags:ai advertising actors copyright video )
- 5. The official Fallout season 1 recap is filled with AI and thinks the show is set in the 1950s
- (tags:Amazon AI misinformation )
- 6. Police Scotland warn mental health call-outs are unsustainable
- (tags:police Scotland mentalhealth )
- 7. Tesla Robotaxis crash 12x as often as humans
- (tags:automation driving Tesla )
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Interesting Links for 03-12-2025
Dec. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Humble Comic Bundle: Image Comics in the '10s (175 trade paperbacks, many of them awesome, for cheap)
- (tags:comics charity )
- 2. Gaelic and Scots gain official status on St Andrew's Day
- (tags:Scotland language )
- 3. Shingles vaccination caused a 29.5% reduction in deaths due to dementia
- (tags:dementia vaccine )
- 4. The real reasons why courts have a massive backlog
- (tags:UK law austerity organisation OhForFucksSake )
- 5. HBO Max's 'Mad Men' Vomit Scene Proves 'Remastered' Doesn't Mean 'Better'
- (tags:TV resolution fail )
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- austerity,
- charity,
- comics,
- dementia,
- fail,
- language,
- law,
- links,
- ohforfuckssake,
- organisation,
- resolution,
- scotland,
- tv,
- uk,
- vaccine
Interesting Links for 02-12-2025
Dec. 2nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Cattle tuberculosis; badgers finally in the clear
- (tags:Badgers disease cows UK )
- 2. After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death
- (tags:games )
- 3. There are many more weight-loss drugs coming.
- (tags:weight medication )
- 4. Tales From The Multiverse (An animated short film by Tumblehead)
- (tags:video viaKenny funny dinosaurs religion creationism )
- 5. "We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers - here's what it reveals"
- (tags:war military history viaZornhau )
- 6. Large surge in Scottish flu cases as new strain takes hold
- (tags:scotland flu )
- 7. Sleeping Beauty Vs the Planet of the Insomniacs
- (tags:fairytale video sleep EpicWTF )
- 8. The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
- (tags:ai thinking doom )
Interesting Links for 28-11-2025
Nov. 28th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Two-thirds of Scots support independent pupil opt-out for religious observance
- (tags:religion Scotland children school )
- 2. Valve block Steam game with queer art in Russia after state censor attacks it for "promoting non-traditional sexualities"
- (tags:censorship bigotry lgbt russia games valve )
- 3. How the UK's property taxes compare to other countries
- (tags:property housing tax )
- 4. Tick bites can cause red meat allergy
- (tags:meat allergies insects )
- 5. Tech firms battle for undersea dominance with submarine drones
- (tags:drone ocean submarine military russia )
- 6. 250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland, for both heating and ancillary services
- (tags:sand electricity heat batteries )
- 7. Keir Starmer's shock at homophobia is absurd and ignorant
- (tags:gay LGBT bigotry UK labour )
Interesting Links for 19-11-2025
Nov. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Schizophrenia might make you like cats!
- (tags:schizophrenia cats ToxoplasmaGondii )
- 2. What it's like being pregnant on a remote Scottish island
- (tags:babies scotland video )
- 3. The UK Boiler Upgrade Scheme has been expanded to include air-to-air heat pumps, and can do cooling as well as heating
- (tags:heating UK )
- 4. Top writers ruled out of NZ book awards due to AI covers
- (tags:AI awards writing art newzealand )
- 5. Strange Structures Found Lurking in The Blood of People With Long COVID
- (tags:viaKenny Pandemic blood )
- 6. On the front line of Europe's standoff with Russia's shadow fleet
- (tags:shipping Russia trade oil )
Interesting Links for 14-11-2025
Nov. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
- (tags:usa racism )
- 2. Lupus may be caused by the common Epstein-Barr virus (as well as MS)
- (tags:disease virus immune_system )
- 3. Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix
- (tags:automation driving usa )
- 4. The last-ever US penny was minted today in Philadelphia
- (tags:usa money cash )
- 5. Inside China's Mini PC Production: How Tiny Computers Are Made (a 22 minute factory tour)
- (tags:computers video manufacturing )
- 6. Marble: generating 3D scenes from text and imagery prompts
- (tags:3d design ai )
- 7. GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE (apocalyptically strange looking film, I rather fancy it)
- (tags:movies trailer weird video )
- 8. 5 key points as legal experts grilled by MSPs on indyref2
- (tags:scotland independence law )
- 9. Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World (down 17% in a decade, to less than half)
- (tags:religion USA )
- 10. UK tax calculator showing tax rates and marginal rates under various suggestions by different groups/parties
- (tags:tax UK visualisation )
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Interesting Links for 10-11-2025
Nov. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
- (tags:politics fascism ElonMusk twitter bias )
- 2. James Watson: From DNA pioneer to untouchable pariah
- (tags:biography DNA history viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani
- (tags:politics usa satire funny )
- 4. Reminder that the New York Times regularly prints hateful nonsense (an article about someone they tried to interview about Zohran Mamdani)
- (tags:politics newyork journalism OhForFucksSake USA viaKenny )
- 5. A bunch of engineers built a drifting wheelchair for an injured coworker. It looks awesome.
- (tags:disability engineering video )
- 6. The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system
- (tags:biology genetics earth )
- 7. Meet the teen behind the Louvre 'Fedora Man' mystery photo
- (tags:france police photos crime Paris style )
- 8. New flu virus mutation could see 'worst season in a decade' (get your vaccinations!)
- (tags:flu doom )
- 9. Long-term Melatonin use associated with much higher risk of heart problems and death
- (tags:medicine heart )
- 10. Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake
- (tags:usa politics )
- 11. Scotland's first commercial windfarm will be able to deliver five times more clean power than before after being upgraded
- (tags:scotland windpower GoodNews )
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- bias,
- biography,
- biology,
- crime,
- disability,
- dna,
- doom,
- earth,
- elonmusk,
- engineering,
- fascism,
- flu,
- france,
- funny,
- genetics,
- goodnews,
- heart,
- history,
- journalism,
- links,
- medicine,
- newyork,
- ohforfuckssake,
- paris,
- photos,
- police,
- politics,
- satire,
- scotland,
- style,
- twitter,
- usa,
- viakenny,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- video,
- windpower
Interesting Links for 06-11-2025
Nov. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. NY school smartphone ban has made lunch loud again
- (tags:school phones )
- 2. People are *terrible* at telling when they're being flirted with
- (tags:relationships psychology )
- 3. Pros And Cons Of A 3rd Trump Term
- (tags:politics usa satire funny )
- 4. MSPs defend working with groups opposed to abortion and marriage equality
- (tags:Scotland abortion LGBT OhForFucksSake marriage )
- 5. The Anti Defamation League has gone from fighting antisemitism to fuelling Islamophobia
- (tags:Jews islam palestine charity OhForFucksSake )
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 04-11-2025
Nov. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Dungeons & Dragons is great for brain health (particularly the elderly and people with disabilities)
- (tags:dungeonsanddragons mentalhealth entertainment )
- 2. NHS threatens GP practice over trans care
- (tags:transgender UK bigotry healthcare OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Cambridge University's oldest women-only college, Newnham, stands firm for trans inclusion
- (tags:transgender Cambridge university GoodNews )
- 4. Novel peanut allergy vaccine shows promise to transform allergy care
- (tags:allergies vaccine )
- 5. Petition to make schools in Scotland safe for pupils with allergies
- (tags:allergies scotland school petition )
- 6. 20% of US UTIs are caused by contimated meat
- (tags:usa meat food infection )
- 7. When Stick Figures Fought (A history of the stick figure combat flash animations of the early 200s)
- (tags:history fighting animation web Flash )
- 8. The password for the Louvre's Video Surveillance System was "Louvre"
- (tags:art museums security epicfail france )
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- allergies,
- animation,
- art,
- bigotry,
- cambridge,
- dungeonsanddragons,
- entertainment,
- epicfail,
- fighting,
- flash,
- food,
- france,
- goodnews,
- healthcare,
- history,
- infection,
- links,
- meat,
- mentalhealth,
- museums,
- ohforfuckssake,
- petition,
- school,
- scotland,
- security,
- transgender,
- uk,
- university,
- usa,
- vaccine,
- web
Interesting Links for 19-10-2025
Oct. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. I just went to see Alfred Buckham: Daredevil Photographer At The Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Recommended
- (tags:art photography history Edinburgh Scotland )
- 2. No, There Is Not A New Survey Showing Trans Identity Is Decreasing
- (tags:transgender society USA statistics )
- 3. Minimal office socialising advice for introverts/autistic people
- (tags:advice socialisation work )
- 4. Da Vinci and Michelangelo drawings go on display in Scotland for first time (Kings Gallery in Edinburgh)
- (tags:Scotland art history )
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Interesting Links for 17-10-2025
Oct. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 60 minute video of uninterrupted AI driving in London. (See comments for times of interesting points in the video)
- (tags:video automation driving London uk )
- 2. Trans people are hiding their identities at alarming rates
- (tags:LGBT transgender USA bigotry society )
- 3. Greens neck and neck with Labour, new poll shows
- (tags:politics GreenParty labour polls uk )
- 4. FindOutNow are terrible at polling, and their results should be taken with a very large pinch of salt
- (tags:polls Scotland UK politics )
- 5. Now British lawyers are using AI (and not checking that the cases they cite actually exist)
- (tags:law ai UK OhForFucksSake )
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- ai,
- automation,
- bigotry,
- driving,
- greenparty,
- labour,
- law,
- lgbt,
- links,
- london,
- ohforfuckssake,
- politics,
- polls,
- scotland,
- society,
- transgender,
- uk,
- usa,
- video
Interesting Links for 10-10-2025
Oct. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable, coroner rules
- (tags:suicide transgender NHS UK OhForFucksSake LGBT )
- 2. British people don't want to leave the ECHR
- (tags:echr polls uk )
- 3. Where are Reform's Scottish votes coming from?
- (tags:Scotland voting polls )
- 4. How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel's 3D propaganda
- (tags:propaganda video war israel palestine )
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Interesting Links for 04-10-2025
Oct. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Here Is Your Periodic Reminder that Stars Move
- (tags:space time )
- 2. Anti trans school guidance causes children to not use school toilets leading to worse physical and mental health.
- (tags:children bigotry lgbt school scotland uk transgender )
- 3. What Did People Do Before Smartphones? (I carried a book at all times)
- (tags:phones history boredom )
- 4. Common mistakes when drawing the moon
- (tags:moon drawing video )
Interesting Links for 27-09-2025
Sep. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly
- (tags:history business Scotland )
- 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
- (tags:fascism satire politics USA )
- 4. The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. "Liberals" Are Helping
- (tags:transgender bigotry politics )
Interesting Links for 18-09-2025
Sep. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Ukraine is hitting Russia where it hurts - and it's working
- (tags:ukraine russia war economy )
- 2. 'Erosion emergency' at Edinburgh's Calton Hill after grass cut too short
- (tags:edinburgh nature )
- 3. 'Forgotten' royal castle uncovered on Herbidean Scottish island
- (tags:scotland castle )
- 4. What's changing for trials in Scotland?
- (tags:scotland law )
- 5. Renewables do unambiguously reduce wholesale power prices
- (tags:renewables electricity economics )
- 6. There Are Too Many Video Games (and songs and books and TV shows)
- (tags:media economics society )
Interesting Links for 12-09-2025
Sep. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. What holes are there in the Big Bang theory?
- (tags:BigBangTheory physics science history )
- 2. "Gender Ideology" Is a Conspiracy Theory
- (tags:transgender bigotry conspiracy LGBT )
- 3. Would you like some reasons to have hope about the environment?
- (tags:hope nature history environment )
- 4. Pharmaceutical companies are pulling out of the UK because the UK government isn't investing in life sciences
- (tags:UK healthcare investment doom pharmaceuticals )
- 5. Factsheet: The immune system and ME/CFS
- (tags:ChronicFatigueSyndrome health immune_system )
- 6. Hyundai is now delaying its EV battery plant that was raided by ICE
- (tags:manufacturing usa racism doom korea )
- 7. You have a chance to collect meteorite fragments from Scottish highland hills for first time in 100 years
- (tags:scotland space rocks )
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