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Interesting Links for 01-05-2026
May. 1st, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. A 25-Year-Fight Over a 2-Second Sample
- (tags:samples music copyright law europe )
- 2. Why Law Is Law-Shaped
- (tags:law language history )
- 3. A forest-based yard improved the immune system of daycare children in only a month
- (tags:immune_system nature children play )
- 4. The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
- (tags:linux security epicfail doom )
- 5. How ChatGPT got obsessed with goblins
- (tags:fantasy language ai )
- 6. An interview with Scottish Travellers.
- (tags:roma travel history Scotland society )
- 7. Renters' Rights Act: What it means for the England's tenants and landlords
- (tags:rental housing law england )
- 8. Beltane Fire Festival 2026: 15 incredible pictures of Edinburgh's Calton Hill lit up to celebrate the changing seasons
- (tags:beltane photos )
Interesting Links for 30-04-2026
Apr. 30th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Cultural influences on camouflaging and autistic burnout
- (tags:society autism )
- 2. More UK deaths than births expected every year from now on
- (tags:UK population )
- 3. University of Sussex wins landmark free speech case against universities regulator
- (tags:LGBT bigotry GoodNews freespeech UK law )
- 4. Hereditary peers leave House of Lords
- (tags:houseoflords GoodNews reform )
- 5. Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell
- (tags:biology visualisation )
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- uk,
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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 25-03-2026
Mar. 25th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Plug-in solar power could be in UK shops within months
- (tags:solarpower uk GoodNews )
- 2. What is a polite way to say "I have to poop" as a woman? (the responses are hilarious)
- (tags:funny women society poo )
- 3. Even Scotland's richest back higher taxes on the wealthy, poll finds
- (tags:polls tax wealth Scotland )
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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- france,
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- history,
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- lgbt,
- light,
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- mercury,
- newspapers,
- norway,
- ohforfuckssake,
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- war,
- web
Interesting Links for 20-02-2026
Feb. 20th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Looksmaxxing: Myth Vs. Fact
- (tags:funny trends beauty society bodyimage )
- 2. An excellent break down of the EHRC trangender toilet case, and the High Court findings. It is, as you might expect, a mess.
- (tags:law transgender uk lgbt )
- 3. Sizing chaos - an incredibly visualised look at how and why women's clothes sizing is a mess that lets down half of all women
- (tags:women clothing visualisation OhForFucksSake history society )
- 4. Psychology of Gen X Parents (I feel called out. Or described. Or something)
- (tags:psychology demographics history video )
- 5. What is Going on with Colorectal Cancer in young people?
- (tags:cancer age statistics )
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- cancer,
- clothing,
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- ohforfuckssake,
- psychology,
- society,
- statistics,
- transgender,
- trends,
- uk,
- video,
- visualisation,
- women
Interesting Links for 16-02-2026
Feb. 16th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Good Omens Season 3 Release Date Confirmed By Prime Video To Close Out Hit Show
- (tags:TV neilgaiman terrypratchett )
- 2. On the immorality of bad jokes
- (tags:jokes funny comic philosophy )
- 3. I don't understand why people are using the internet less
- (tags:internet phones society awfulness comic )
- 4. In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud
- (tags:Technology sound music )
- 5. Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging
- (tags:vaccine age )
- 6. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy stage show - a review
- (tags:review HHG2G )
- 7. What Exact Products Do Games Sell, Two Case Studies
- (tags:games design )
- 8. A brief history of "Mysterioso Pizzicato" - one of the most famous pieces of music you may not have thought about.
- (tags:music movies video )
Interesting Links for 12-02-2026
Feb. 12th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Abigail Nussbaum is doing a reread of The Lord Of The Rings
- (tags:reading lotr )
- 2. Beavers Built a $1.2M Dam for Free — And Saved a Czech River
- (tags:Czechoslovakia beavers rivers )
- 3. Slow Tuesday Night - a short story about living life on ridiculous fast forward
- (tags:scifi short_story society )
- 4. The real Tavistock Clinic scandal: 1,000 court cases that never materialised
- (tags:LGBT transgender law UK misinformation healthcare )
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- rivers,
- scifi,
- short_story,
- society,
- transgender,
- uk
Interesting Links for 29-12-2025
Dec. 29th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Why all the Criticism of Good Men Fighting for Healthier Masculinity?
- (tags:masculinity gender men patriarchy society )
- 2. German journalist on flotilla accuses Israeli guards of rape
- (tags:israel rape )
- 3. Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI
- (tags:AI business fail )
- 4. My Open Letter To That Open Letter About AI In Writing And Publishing - Chuck Wendig
- (tags:ai scifi publishing )
- 5. Tiny! Cute! Bat!
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Interesting Links for 21-12-2025
Dec. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Transgender kids change their minds only 6% of the time
- (tags:LGBT transgender children psychology )
- 2. A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London
- (tags:electricity infrastructure tunnels London UK )
- 3. AI Chatbots Are Poisoning Research Archives With Fake Citations
- (tags:AI research doom OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Italian bears living near villages have evolved to be smaller and less aggressive
- (tags:bears evolution )
- 5. Santa Claus is still a woman
- (tags:presents christmas women patriarchy society )
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- ai,
- bears,
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- christmas,
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- patriarchy,
- presents,
- psychology,
- research,
- society,
- transgender,
- tunnels,
- uk,
- women
Interesting Links for 08-12-2025
Dec. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. mRNA Vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality over 4 years
- (tags:death health vaccine pandemic )
- 2. All the ways Russia is waging 'grey war' on the UK - from drones to local agents
- (tags:russia war uk )
- 3. Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters'
- (tags:Japan snow monsters )
- 4. Is anyone surprised that US tech billionaires want to fund fascist city states?
- (tags:fascism technology USA )
- 5. Vintage Photographs of People Reading Newspapers Before the Invention of That Grossly Antisocial Device: The Smartphone
- (tags:photos newspapers reading society history )
- 6. Impacts of working from home on mental health tracked in study of 16,000 Australians
- (tags:australia work homes mentalhealth )
Interesting Links for 24-11-2025
Nov. 24th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Russia Today and the Fremen Mirage
- (tags:politics society war history Russia Ukraine )
- 2. Thorium-uranium Conversion Makes Breakthrough
- (tags:thorium nuclearpower China )
- 3. Dance teacher Melissa Revell wins payout after yoga course triggers emotional breakdown
- (tags:mentalhealth yoga )
- 4. Valve Issues Black Ops 7 Refund Over Undisclosed AI Materials
- (tags:ai games fraud valve )
- 5. Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
- (tags:twitter usa politics fraud )
- 6. The voice of the New York subway is now transgender
- (tags:LGBT transgender voice newyork video )
- 7. How top level mathematicians are using AI
- (tags:AI mathematics )
- 8. Disney loses the rights to Roger Rabbit characters, as they revert to original author of novel
- (tags:Disney intellectual_property )
- 9. Leftist and Moderate Democrats Are Trying to Be More Alike
- (tags:democrats usa politics economics )
- 10. College Students Furious When Their Course Is Taught by AI Instead of a Professor
- (tags:university ai OhForFucksSake )
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- mathematics,
- mentalhealth,
- newyork,
- nuclearpower,
- ohforfuckssake,
- politics,
- russia,
- society,
- thorium,
- transgender,
- twitter,
- ukraine,
- university,
- usa,
- valve,
- video,
- voice,
- war,
- yoga
Interesting Links for 21-11-2025
Nov. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 2% of people are just bastards
- (tags:oxytocin psychology morality sharing business )
- 2. Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
- (tags:games history Microsoft opensource )
- 3. Women Keep Ruining the Workplace!!
- (tags:women work society satire funny USA )
- 4. "We Didn't Start The Fire" The Silmarillion Edition
- (tags:lotr viaNancyLebov video music )
Interesting Links for 15-11-2025
Nov. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. I am fascinated by how much language cats and dogs can have when you give them the opportunity
- (tags:communication cats dogs )
- 2. if I was designing a kid's toy then I wouldn't connect it to an AI without making sure it wouldn't teach them about matches, knives and sexual kinks
- (tags:ai toys children wtf )
- 3. Do not compare yourself to people you see online. They quite possibly don't look like that
- (tags:ai video bodies society )
- 4. France drops demand for UK to pay up front for Brexit reset talks on cheaper food
- (tags:uk europe food trade france )
- 5. Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots
- (tags:ai belief patterns delusion )
Interesting Links for 08-11-2025
Nov. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. What's wrong with the UK's housing market (and why are Labour's plans to tinker around the edges unlikely to help)
- (tags:uk housing doom viaFJM )
- 2. The Battle Iranian Women Are Winning
- (tags:iran women religion society GoodNews islam clothing )
- 3. Early-stage clinical trial demonstrates promise of intranasal influenza vaccine in generating broad immunity
- (tags:vaccines viaKenny flu GoodNews )
- 4. Getty Images v Stability AI: A landmark High Court ruling on AI, copyright, and trade marks
- (tags:uk ai law )
- 5. The old proxies for trustworthiness no longer work.
- (tags:trust design scam fraud )
Interesting Links for 25-10-2025
Oct. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The nerdiest music video of all time
- (tags:wargames video music history uk france )
- 2. The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage's Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks
- (tags:politics uk wales )
- 3. 'Mind-boggling' poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players
- (tags:poker fraud mafia )
- 4. Armed police surround teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun
- (tags:ai guns epicfail )
- 5. Bad therapy is causing 'emotional Thatcherism'
- (tags:therapy counselling society )
- 6. What the new Northern Cyprus election result means
- (tags:Cyprus turkey )
- 7. ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
- (tags:viaPatrickHadfield browser OhForFucksSake ai )
- 8. Bosses of Dungeons & Dragons club in £150k court fight sparked by alleged 'dungeonmaster cuddle'
- (tags:roleplaying business law UK )
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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- ohforfuckssake,
- politics,
- polls,
- scotland,
- society,
- transgender,
- uk,
- usa,
- video
Interesting Links for 01-10-2025
Oct. 1st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Law firm that dropped trans man agrees to pay damages and costs
- (tags:transgender bigotry law uk )
- 2. Do Trigger Warnings Work?
- (tags:mentalhealth psychology triggerwarnings viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. What effects does rent control actually have?
- (tags:regulation rent doom housing )
- 4. The dawn of the post-literate society
- (tags:society literacy doom )
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