Interesting Links for 26-03-2025
- 1. Cute Japanese mascots squeezing through tight spaces!
- (tags:cute japan photos viaSwampers )
- 2. UK on alert after H5N1 bird flu spills over to sheep in world-first
- (tags:uk disease birds sheep )
- 3. Labour should follow German plan for economic investment
- (tags:uk germany economy investment austerity )
- 4. Tesla deliveries down 43% in Europe while EVs are up 31%
- (tags:Tesla electricity cars business europe )
- 5. UK Schools to run anti-misogyny classes for boys in bid to tackle rising toxic masculinity
- (tags:school UK teenagers boys misogyny )
- 6. Universal Coronavirus Vaccine Breakthrough: A Single Shot That Could Protect You From COVID, MERS, and the Common Cold (in animal studies so far)
- (tags:disease vaccine research viaPatrickHadfield )
- 7. Discrimination and autism: an analysis from a queer, autistic woman
- (tags:autism society )
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- working_hours
Interesting Links for 03-02-2025
- 1. Why would people rate a ten hour film about paint drying so highly, and how does the creator feel about it?
- (tags:painting movies video weird community viaSwampers )
- 2. EU patience 'wearing thin' in Brussels over Starmer's Brexit reset
- (tags:UK Europe doom )
- 3. How the UK's biggest solar project could be shaped by sheep farmers
- (tags:sheep solarpower UK )
- 4. USDA orders removal of climate change mentions from public websites
- (tags:USA globalwarming viaElfy OhForFucksSake censorship )
- 5. Platypus venom is what led to Ozempic!
- (tags:viaDrJon diabetes )
- 6. The four questions from the Lucy Letby case as defence to unveil new evidence
- (tags:murder law evidence )
- 7. Reminder that working more than 40 hours per week produces *negative* marginal gains if you do if for more than a few weeks.
- (tags:work working_hours efficiency )
- 8. Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space
- (tags:books visualisation )
- 9. basically every video essay (in 14 seconds)
- (tags:funny video videos satire )
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- travel,
- uk,
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- vaccination,
- viakalimac
Interesting Links for 24-10-2021
- New Zealand trade deal is 'disgrace', says UK government climate adviser
- (tags:UK newzealand trade sheep environment )
- White House delays release of JFK assassination files "to protect against identifiable harm"
- (tags:assassination USA president history )
- The UK's independent press standards organisation produced a report on trans people. The lead author is a transphobic bigot
- (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry newspapers UK OhForFucksSake )
- A prop master on how prop guns can lead to deadly accidents.
- (tags:movies stunts guns safety viaKalimac )
- 20Y study finds little evidence religiosity leads to greater life satisfaction
- (tags:religion happiness psychology )
- Royalty is not a huge tourism draw to England
- (tags:UK tourism royalty )
- UK teens are only getting one vaccination dose, making them unvaccinated as far as travel regulations go
- (tags:vaccination travel UK Europe teenagers OhForFucksSake )
- Long-term brain damage caused by Covid
- (tags:brain Pandemic Doom )
- Who owns Scotland? Mapping the land in our towns and citiea
- (tags:Scotland property housing ownership )
- Paris To Become 100% Cyclable City Within Four Years
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(tags:Paris France transport bicycles )
Interesting Links for 17-05-2021
- Herdwicks: The sheep that shaped the Lake District
- (tags:sheep uk history )
- Britain destroyed records of colonial crimes
- (tags:UK empire crime secrecy )
- Pop music played on vegetables!
- (tags:music vegetables video ViaDrCross )
- UK plastic waste being dumped and burned in Turkey
- (tags:uk turkey plastic waste )
Interesting Links for 19-04-2021
- Nil-by-mouth foodie: The chef who will never eat again
- (tags:food cooking illness healthcare fail )
- When my friends have supported me in getting out of a terrible relationship and then...
- (tags:funny video sheep decisions fail )
- Is Scotland heading for Catalonia-style meltdown?
- (tags:Scotland independence uk )
- How Cashless Restaurants Reinforce Systemic Racism
- (tags:inequality cash technology )
- Elmo and Robin Williams (blooper reel) - made me giggle a lot
- (tags:SesameStreet TV funny fail )
- An MP with this YouTube viewing list is a bit disturbing
- (tags:belief aliens YouTube government )
- US police kill twice as many people as die in mass shootings
- (tags:USA police murder )
- Mice Fed Fast Food Get More Anxious, Worse Memory
- (tags:memory anxiety food )
- The looming software kill-switch lurking in aging PlayStation hardware
- (tags:sony games time )
- This is what Doom looks like on a holographic display.
- (tags:Holograms doom video )
- United Nations experts says race report "repackages racist tropes and stereotypes into fact"
- (tags:racism uk )
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Interesting Links for 29-03-2019
- Scottish rail network spending increase in bid to improve services
- (tags:scotland trains transport )
- A surge in online child sex abuse cases is overwhelming the police
- (tags:police Child_abuse uk fail )
- 3,400 applicants for 96 homes, when Edinburgh has nearly 10,000 AirBnBs
- (tags:housing Edinburgh epicfail )
- Court's ruling means police can preventatively detain people even if they have no specific intelligence linking the individual to crime.
- (tags:law uk OhForFucksSake )
- Why Asking The People Around You Is A Crappy Way Of Seeing If Your Culture's Okay. (aka Look Where The Bullet Marks Aren't)
- (tags:fandom diversity society games magic_mushrooms )
- MPs vote for LGBT inclusive sex and relationship education from primary school
- (tags:UK education lgbt )
- Why SNP MPs abstained on Boles & Clarke amendments
- (tags:UK europe snp )
- Single Use Plastic Plates, Cutlery, Cups to Be Banned in Europe as of 2021
- (tags:plastic environment europe )
- Brunei introduces death by stoning as punishment for gay sex
- (tags:lgbt homosexuality death OhForFucksSake )
- Democracy Is Two Wolves And A Sheep
- (tags:funny satire politics democracy wolves sheep )
- Why "What Three Words" is a terrible idea.
- (tags:location language viaSwampers )
- Fuck Positivity: It's Ruining Your Life.
- (tags:advice emotion happiness )
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- ai,
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Interesting Links for 11-03-2019
- Why does the BBC have an online game where you play at being a bigot?
- (tags:BBC bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- "I got told what to call this poem by my male colleague"
- (tags:feminism society poetry viaFJM )
- Vegan pie scoops top award, makes top chef cry
- (tags:vegan food )
- Theresa May now trying to involve the Queen in Brexit
- (tags:UK monarchy Europe OhForFucksSake )
- No majority support for Theresa May's deal in any constituency
- (tags:europe uk politics )
- Barking drones used on farms instead of sheep dogs
- (tags:dogs sheep farming Technology )
- SNOW DUCKS!!
- (tags:ducks snow video )
- Women Do Ask for More Money at Work. They Just Don't Get It.
- (tags:work pay women OhForFucksSake viaJennieRigg )
- David Lloyd Say Trans People Can't Use Preferred Changing Rooms Unless They Have Gender Certificate
- (tags:transgender OhForFucksSake lgbt )
- Stone Age Cave Symbols May Be Part of a Single Prehistoric Proto-Writing System
- (tags:language prehistory archeology )
- Why you shouldn't buckle your children into car seats with their jackets on
- (tags:babies safety viaClare )
- "Is it a Duck or a Rabbit?" AI edition
- (tags:ai ducks rabbits vision )
- The Six Wings Of The Democratic Party
- (tags:democrats usa politics )
- Engineered microbe may be key to producing plastic from plants
- (tags:bacteria plastic plants )
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- africa,
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Interesting Links for 28-03-2018
- "A Small Fiction" is a rabbit-hole of micro-stories
- (tags: short_story fiction twitter )
- When you lied on your CV about having previous sheepdog experience.…
- (tags: funny dogs sheep video )
- Wondering what news stories most people noticed this week? Prepare to be very disappointed.
- (tags: news people OhForFucksSake )
- Before The Handmaid's Tale: Revolt in 2100
- (tags: viaSupergee heinlein scifi review )
- Why is Edinburgh University teaching that creationism and evolution are on the same level?
- (tags: Edinburgh university evolution OhForFucksSake )
- The first American woman to command a ship1 was a pregnant teenager. She did it while fighting off a mutiny, nursing an incapacitated husband, and braving gale-force winds.
- (tags: women ship history usa )
- Claims students have created university free speech crisis have been exaggerated
- (tags: freespeech UK university )
- Nasty, 3ft-long parasitic worms are on the cusp of being wiped from the planet
- (tags: Parasites GoodNews africa )
- Brokenness is not an identity - ‘Rick and Morty’ and The Rise of The ‘I’m a Piece of Shit’ Defense
- (tags: TV men identity failure emotion )
- An example of a Russian fake account on Tumblr acting against Hillary Clinton
- (tags: tumblr fake russia fraud )
- Here's Facebook's CEO promising not to sell user information, back in 2009
- (tags: facebook privacy )
- Here's Facebook's CEO in 2010 saying that users don't really want any privacy
- (tags: privacy facebook )
- You Know Who's Really Addicted to Their Phones? The Olds.
- I totally am.
(tags: age phones ) - Cybernetic memory enhancement is now a real thing
- (tags: Technology thefuture memory cyborg )
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Interesting Links for 12-03-2018
- Brazilian gang kidnap nurses to vaccinate poor locals
- (tags: vaccination Brazil crime )
- Watch Nature Reclaim These Abandoned Buildings
- (tags: photos nature urban )
- In Winston Churchill, Hollywood rewards a mass murderer
- (tags: history torture murder UK empire India afghanistan OhForFucksSake )
- JK Rowling passed on her ideals to a generation. Now they're upset she isn't living up to them.
- (tags: jkrowling harrypotter )
- 'Super Monster Wolf' robot protects crops in Japan
- (tags: headline robots farming japan )
- Watching a film with mum on Mother’s Day? Don’t see these
- (tags: movies mother )
- Local News Anchors Now Have to Read Pro-Trump Propaganda
- (tags: OhForFucksSake tv news usa )
- The three mistakes of centrism
- (tags: politics )
- Democrats are looking for a polite, reasonable, explanation of Republican values which does not exist
- (tags: politics usa republicans racism )
- Awful Animals
- (tags: animals aieeee! comic )
- Please don't forget to peel your sheep
- (tags: sheep funny )
- Noted for next time someone claims women can't be evil
- (tags: evil women )
- Saturated fat does not clog the arteries: coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition
- (tags: fat inflammation heart )
- “A torture for the eyes”: Chinese moviegoers think Black Panther is too black
- (tags: China movies marvel racism )
- A friend is researching generational differences towards leadership. If you have five minutes, fill in their questionnaire
- (tags: leadership research )
- Fantasy races as dogs
- (tags: dogs fantasy roleplaying )
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Interesting Links for 19-02-2018
- In Defence of Wallpaper Science Fiction
- (tags: scifi writing science )
- The school with no rules in the playground
- (tags: rules school safety responsibility video )
- Scotland ranks third in world for women in politics
- (tags: women politics scotland )
- Russian “troll” describes interview for meddling in elections
- (tags: election Russia fraud usa )
- The random walk of cars and their collision probabilities with planets
- (tags: cars Tesla space thefuture )
- Student Stops Church Shooting - Is Shot by Cops
- (tags: police guns usa )
- Speeches at the UKIP emergency meeting are basically satires of themselves
- (tags: UKIP politics )
- I really do weep for American children. They should not have to think like this
- (tags: children guns usa )
- In Defense Of Erik Killmonger And The Forgotten Children Of Wakanda
- (tags: marvel movies race )
- The Gluten Project: A Search Engine for 35K Certified Gluten-Free Products
- (tags: gluten food )
- Calculate the Taylor expansion… OR DIE
- (tags: mathematics death history )
- The 1700 ton telco building that was relocated while running, in 1950
- (tags: building history communication impressive )
- The duties of John von Neumann's assistant
- (tags: Technology computers history )
- 'I took my wife's name - and then the hassle began'
- (tags: names patriarchy )
- World's first human-sheep hybrids pave way for diabetes cure and mass organ transplants
- (tags: organs sheep diabetes )
- The Shannon Matthews kidnapping hoax - what _really_ happened?
- (tags: hoax fraud children )
- Average person is eating 50% more calories than they realise
- (tags: food estimating uk )
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Interesting Links for 29-01-2018
- 46 tons of Mardi Gras beads found in clogged New Orleans catch basins
- (tags: new_orleans water )
- Delta V Solar System Maps
- (tags: space visualisation )
- Gods, goddesses, and L Ron Hubbard in Australia's controversial lamb advert
- (tags: sheep food advertising australia )
- I didn't know how easy it was to kidnap tigers
- (tags: tiger video )
- Dinosaur ballet is clearly the best ballet
- (tags: ballet dancing dinosaurs )
- Cats doing capoeira
- (tags: cats cute )
- Did A Teenage Girl Make The Kinks Great?
- (tags: music )
- Connections between high blood sugar and dementia
- (tags: sugar dementia alzheimers )
- Sailing drones provide high quality ocean data
- (tags: drone ocean )
- Yes, There Is Gravity in Space (even though most tv and movies get it wrong)
- (tags: space gravity physics )
- Tory MP David Davies condemned for transphobic and abhorrent views by party's official LGBT group
- (tags: lgbt Conservatives transgender )
- Strava Heatmap turns out to be *amazing* for finding military bases and patrol routes
- (tags: military maps surveillance OhForFucksSake )
- How far do you get from London before you hit 50% of the population
- (tags: uk london population )
- The 3 Things I had to Realise Before I 'got' Dark Souls
- I am regularly amused by the videos I see that say "Once I realised I had to give in to Stockholm Syndrome I learned to love Dark Souls!" Which means that either, yes, you have to think a bit differently to like it, because it is a bit different. Or it means that the game just isn't very likeable for most people and maybe they should have made it more accessible if they wanted more people to like it. (I reckon they're perfectly happy appealing to the people it does appeal to, considering how successful the franchise is).
(tags: games video ) - Trump doesn't really understand he's not the CEO of America
- (tags: usa politics republicans OhForFucksSake )
- Annihilation: Paramount dropping UK cinema release (Would totally have paid money to see it as well!)
- (tags: movies netflix )
- Cats! In! Boxes!
- (tags: Cats cute )
- If your horse riders aren't on fire your sport is inferior
- (tags: sport fire awesome )
- An island that switches countries every six months
- (tags: countries history )
- Vegans are now 1% of the UK population, and they're getting militant
- (tags: food vegan uk )
- Star Wars fans defy church protests to attend first cinema showing on a Sunday in Isle of Lewis
- Note that most of the population want to be able to do things on a Sunday, with a few religious leaders holding them back.
(tags: religion StarWars GoodNews viaSwampers ) - Watch tiny children learn how the patriarchy works
- (tags: children consent society patriarchy )
- What I learned from three months of Content Moderation for Facebook in Berlin
- (tags: Facebook )
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Interesting Links for 23-04-2017
- 200 Word RPG Challenge
- Some of the 2016 entries are fascinating
(tags: games competition ) - UK launches programme to explore removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere
- (tags: globalwarming Technology research )
- "What I Learned About Life by Becoming a Landlord"
- (tags: housing business usa )
- Books That Literally All White Men Own: The Definitive List (11 for me)
- Jane has, in fact read more of them than me. She's clearly whiter and manlier.
(tags: books society men ) - Want to Stop Facebook Violence? You Won’t Like the Choices
- (tags: facebook freespeech )
- Liberal Democrat coalition rules
- (tags: libdem coalition )
- Sheep are not stupid, and they are not helpless either
- (tags: sheep )
- Share of people that thinks that humans have evolved from other animals vs GDP per capita
- (tags: evolution belief usa OhForFucksSake )
- Burning bright: Beltane festival celebrates 30 years of fire
- (tags: edinburgh art performance beltane history )
- I'd been wondering where last night's Dr Who was filmed. (Valencia)
- (tags: drwho architecture spain )
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Interesting Links for 13-01-2016
- Sell everything ahead of stock market crash, say RBS economists
- Actual Facts Related To The Bowie Social Media Shitstorm Today
- A radical new approach to generating human organs is to grow them inside pigs or sheep.
- DNA-testing kit 23andme: patient-powered healthcare or just confusing? (Now available in the UK!)
- David Bowie: The internet pioneer
- Carl Sagan, David Bowie, and the coincidental expectation of death.
- Bobby Jindal left office today. 100,000 residents of Louisiana will gain health care tomorrow.
- On “Progressive Alliances” and Lib-Labbery
- Why You Should Fix Your Inconsistent Sleep Schedule
- "...even in daytime workers, there is a link between a disruption in circadian rhythm and known metabolic risk factors for obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases."
- 'English votes' rules used for first time in House of Commons
- Star Wars: A New Hope vs. The Force Awakens
- Some sample pages from a Miracleman comic Marvel commissioned several years ago
- Voxel Quest is looking really, really impressive as a game engine
- A horrific collision of misogyny and caste after a Dalit woman wins an election. (CW:rape)
- Why US Radio Stations Probably Couldn't Just Play David Bowie Music As A Tribute: Copyright Law Is Messed Up
- The Great Pyramid was built for the son of the man with the worst pyramids of all time.
- This new theory explains why Stormtroopers are such terrible shots
- MPs to vote on national anthem for England (I vote for Abba's "Waterloo")
- What song would you choose to represent England?
- Towards an understanding of technical debt
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Interesting Links for 06-08-2012
- Swiss sheep to warn shepherds of wolf attacks by SMS
- Memorial event for Mark Duggan takes an unfortunate turn. Idiot local council leader.
- The Criminalization of Mental Illness in Black America
- Richard E Grant to appear in the new series of Dr Who
- Kindle ebook sales have overtaken print for Amazon UK (not for the UK as a whole though)
- An unexpected meeting with the inventor of the first programmable computer (uplifting and challenging. Well worth reading)
- Pretending that God told me to kick people in the face sounds like an awesome way to find gullible idiots (fun too!)
- So, bumbling Boris Johnson is lovable and funny? Well, have I got news for you