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Interesting Links for 12-05-2025
May. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Statue of Motörhead singer Lemmy Kilmister unveiled in Burslem
- (tags:HeavyMetal statue UK )
- 2. Please dispose of your expired magic carefully
- (tags:magic video funny viaSwampers )
- 3. Would you like to see an Irish person be *very* excited by a potato dish?
- (tags:potato Ireland food video viaSwampers )
- 4. Reminder that Labour has made it impossible for refugees to become British citizens
- (tags:labour refugee OhForFucksSake citizenship )
- 5. Right to buy surge set to wipe out 18,500 UK council homes
- (tags:uk housing OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Dear Keir, there are other options than pandering to prejudice
- (tags:bigotry migration uk OhForFucksSake labour )
- 7. Why Kids Aren't Falling in Love With Reading
- (tags:Education reading books doom usa )
Interesting Links for 26-03-2024
Mar. 26th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. UN Security Council passes resolution demanding Gaza ceasefire (USA abstained)
- (tags:israel palestine UnitedNations )
- 2. Hate crime in Scotland - an explanation
- (tags:crime Scotland bigotry )
- 3. This is why I wouldn't let my daughter play sports in Ohio
- (tags:Ohio USA bigotry assault sports women girls children )
- 4. What's it like being The Mayor of London in a world of conspiracy and deepfakes?
- (tags:conspiracy fraud London politics UK )
- 5. Plans for first statue to named person of colour backed by City of Edinburgh council
- (tags:edinburgh statue women scotland teaching )
Interesting Links for 03-03-2023
Mar. 3rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh's Gorgie Farm to reopen as community venture
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- 2. Plans approved to remove slavery plaque from Edinburgh statue
- (tags:slavery edinburgh statue )
- 3. Absolutely gorgeously decorated house for sale
- (tags:beautiful homes )
- 4. Taking real photos that look like CGI.
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- 5. Hyperfocus Photography - some lovely shots here
- (tags:photos beautiful )
- 6. Regarding Efforts By You, In Inferior Person, To Cancel Me, A Genius
- (tags:satire society troll communication funny )
- 7. Is adspend funding an increase in LGBTQIA+ hate crime?
- (tags:lgbt transgender bigotry advertising )
Interesting Links for 30-11-2022
Nov. 30th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Lion statues Edinburgh: Pride of 24 lions arrive in The Meadows
- (tags:lions statue edinburgh )
- 2. Less than half of England and Wales population Christian, Census 2021 shows (46% to be precise, down 13% in a decade)
- (tags:religion Christianity UK )
- 3. Inside the Proton, the 'Most Complicated Thing' Imaginable
- (tags:physics viaNancyLebov )
- 4. You've almost certainly seen photos of Nazis burning books. But do you know which books they were?
- (tags:Nazis books LGBT transgender history censorship )
- 5. Labour refuses to follow recommendations for an independent disciplinary process
- (tags:labour OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Movetodon: Find your Twitter Friends on Mastodon
- (tags:mastodon twitter viaSwampers )
- 7. Every object in Conway's Game of Life that can be constructed at all, now has a fixed cost of 15 gliders. Here's how.
- (tags:life computers impressive )
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Interesting Links for 16-08-2022
Aug. 16th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Under Marxism, which will be the correct way to eat?
- (tags:food cooking communism funny restaurant )
- 2. New Omicron jab to be rolled out within weeks after UK becomes first country to approve it
- (tags:UK Pandemic vaccine )
- 3. On The Society Of Authors and transphobia
- (tags:LGBT authors UK transgender )
- 4. Estonian government will remove Soviet Union war monuments
- (tags:Russia war statue Estonia )
- 5. Home solar panels will now pay for themselves in just four years as energy bills soar
- (tags:solarpower electricity money )
- 6. The majority of babies born in the UK have unmarried parents
- (tags:marriage babies uk )
- 7. Saving Lake Windermere
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Interesting Links for 13-02-2022
Feb. 13th, 2022 12:00 pm- Douglas Adams has an interesting answer when asked what kind of computer Arthur Dent had
- (tags:computers fiction writing douglasadams HHG2G )
- Russia tensions reveal threat to UK food supplies
- (tags:UK food Russia Doom )
- In Moscow, Macron found a different, tougher Putin
- (tags:France Russia nato )
- Britishvolt gigafactory: Britain's best-kept industrial secret is an unexpected solution to saving the planet (I didn't know most of this, fascinating stuff)
- (tags:batteries oil carbon UK manufacturing )
- 'Futurama' Revived At Hulu; John DiMaggio Not Returning As Bender
- (tags:Futurama tv animation )
- 220 musicians perform "Europe - The Final Countdown"
- (tags:music video russia )
- Why 'Death on the Nile' is every publicist's worst nightmare
- (tags:movies Doom )
- Evolution is just amazing
- (tags:evolution animals snake video insects birds )
- Thread of metal statues where one part has been stroked so much that it's shiny
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Interesting Links for 12-11-2020
Nov. 12th, 2020 12:00 pm- "My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania"
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- Dwayne Johnson is rebooting The Scorpion King
- (tags:movies )
- So, how is the USA managing its Covid-19 response?
- (tags:USA pandemic epicfail )
- Our Brains Have Two Distinct "Beauty Centres": One For Art And One For Faces
- (tags:beauty faces art psychology brain neuroscience )
- Being More Authentic On Social Media Could Improve Your Wellbeing (I suspect that being more authentic generally would do the trick, hiding who you are is exhausting and stressful)
- (tags:psychology happiness socialmedia )
- Boris Johnson picks pro-fracking Tory MP who has campaigned against wind farms as 'climate change champion'
- (tags:globalwarming conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- Capital gains tax: Rate should double, says government review
- (tags:UK tax )
- Behold! The most Irish of all films!
- (tags:Ireland movies satire trailer funny )
- A focus group on Trump voters finds out what they really think. (Interesting on defunding the police)
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1326210279387099136.html
(tags:voting usa ) - COVID-19 Daily Dashboard for Scotland (broken down by neighborhood)
- (tags:pandemic Scotland visualisation viaDanielDWilliam )
- The Polls Weren't Great. But That's Pretty Normal.
- (tags:polls USA politics )
- Good statues of women
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- Japanese town deploys Monster Wolf robots to deter bears
- (tags:robots wolves bears )
- How Brexit will make it much much harder for artists and musicians to tour in Europe
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1326554078256656389.html
(tags:music Europe UK Doom ) - New project at Oxford University explores the origins of money
- (tags:money prehistory research )
- Politics versus policy, and why the approach of Johnson and Cummings to exercising power is going so badly
- (tags:politics government UK )
- There is no evidence that suicides have increased 200% under lockdown
- (tags:suicide pandemic )
- Will government lockdown shopping loopholes destroy the high street?
- (tags:shopping UK doom )
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Interesting Links for 18-06-2020
Jun. 18th, 2020 12:00 pm- Australia is much more interested in a deal with the EU than one with the UK
- (tags:trade UK europe australia )
- Any of my friends got $75,000 and want a robot dog?
- (tags:dogs robots )
- Mars: Green glow detected on the Red Planet
- (tags:mars )
- Please write to your MP about trans rights. It seems to be working so far, and anything you can do to persuade your MP will help.
- (tags:LGBT transgender UK politics )
- Brexit trade deal with New Zealand will have 'close to zero' benefit to UK economy, government admits
- (tags:UK newzealand trade pointless )
- This Simon Cowell "Choose Your Own Adventure" is both fun and full of ridiculous musical parodies. Check every branch!
- (tags:music funny game twitter viaJennieRigg )
- Abuse and threats aimed at wheelchair user over faked photo
- (tags:abuse OhForFucksSake disability )
- Trump asked Chinese president to help him win reelection
- (tags:republicans USA politics China )
- The Physics of Taking Down Racist Statues (From "Popular Mechanics" of all places)
- (tags:statue physics racism )
- Diluting blood plasma rejuvenates tissue, reverses aging in mice
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- D&D Creators Are Rethinking Race In Dungeons And Dragons
- (tags:race games dungeonsanddragons )
- Deaths involving coronavirus (COVID-19) in Scotland - very detailed, if you like crunching numbers
- (tags:Scotland pandemic statistics viaPatrickHadfield )
- DNA study reveals Ireland's age of 'god-kings'
- (tags:Ireland genetics archeology )
- Coronavirus: 'Significant transmission' of Covid-19 takes place in households before people develop symptoms
- (tags:pandemic )
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Interesting Links for 10-06-2020
Jun. 10th, 2020 12:00 pm- The Army is considering renaming military bases named for Confederate leaders
- (tags:USA slavery military history names )
- Young children believe intervening in antisocial behaviour is a universal duty. Until we tell them it's not.
- (tags:society morality police psychology children )
- Bill & Ted Face the Music - Official Trailer 1 (looks like a lot of fun, and they haven't forgotten how to be Bill & Ted)
- (tags:movies trailer KeanuReeves )
- Women! Would you like some technology to validate your orgasms?
- (tags:orgasm women technology )
- Turns out the robots Microsoft replaced their journalists with are racist
- (tags:racism robots journalism Microsoft )
- A map of British statues connected to slavery
- (tags:slavery UK statue maps viaPatrickHadfield )
- 'Miss Hitler' beauty pageant contestant jailed for part in neo-Nazi terror group
- There's a what now? Do they have to grow the moustache? Or can they just draw one on?
(tags:nazis wtf headline ) - Let's talk about black on black violence.
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1268463768285188096.html
(tags:racism violence race USA ) - How did coronavirus spread across Scotland?
- (tags:virus pandemic Scotland )
- Why do recipe writers lie and lie about how long onions take to caramelize?
- And the sequel article.
https://gizmodo.com/googles-algorithm-is-lying-to-you-about-onions-and-blam-1793057789
(tags:food cooking lies ) - London's oldest theatre discovered in East End excavation
- (tags:theatre London UK History )
- Here's How a No-Deal Brexit Would Shock Virus-Hit U.K. Companies
- (tags:UK Europe Doom )
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Interesting Links for 05-02-2020
Feb. 5th, 2020 12:00 pm- New government plans could see you jailed for life over propaganda
- (tags:UK terrorism censorship propaganda crime )
- Heartbeats and bunnies, how simple repeating patterns lead to chaos (and back again)
- (tags:mathematics video patterns )
- 'The Good Place,' 'BoJack Horseman,' and the Audacity of Committing to Decency
- (tags:TV morality )
- The EU has released a Q & A on the draft negotiating directives
- (tags:Europe UK trade )
- Brexit fuelling surge in support for Scottish independence, but work still to be done on currency and economics
- (tags:UK Europe Scotland independence polls )
- Children as young as 9 locked up by Indian police for speech violation
- (tags:India police freespeech children )
- Graham Linehan is compiling a horrifying database of conversion therapists willing to abuse young trans people
- (tags:abuse LGBT transgender OhForFucksSake )
- Symptomless coronavirus spreader had symptoms after all
- (tags:disease )
- I'd give this prosthetic three thumbs up
- (tags:cyborg technology prostheses video )
- 'Happy Brexit Day' Norwich flat residents unite to show support
- (tags:society GoodNews racism UK )
- What is SAP? And how are they worth $163Bn?
- (tags:business organisation software )
- Cats! On! Statues!
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Interesting Links for 08-04-2019
Apr. 8th, 2019 12:01 pm- What are the equivalents of "once upon a time" in other cultures?
- (tags:language culture fairytale stories )
- Rehearsing for death: A pre-Kindergarten teacher on lockdown drills with 5 year olds
- (tags:children school guns usa OhForFucksSake )
- "I Lied When I Said We Did Everything We Could"
- (tags:healthcare death )
- Why Rent Control Doesn't Work (Build More Housing!)
- (tags:housing economics )
- Explaining why young men are having much less sex
- (tags:sex men society )
- Dundee in Scotland has the best statue anywhere.
- (tags:Scotland statue games lemmings )
- How poor public transport explains the UK's productivity puzzle
- (tags:transport uk productivity fail )
- Sleep, Diet & The Brain-Gut Connection
- (tags:sleep diet carbohydrates )
- People Who View Their Britishness or Englishness As "Causally Central" To Their Self-Concept Are More Likely to Have Voted For Brexit
- (tags:uk europe nationalism )
Interesting Links for 02-03-2018
Mar. 2nd, 2018 12:00 pm- UK running out of gas, National Grid warns
- (tags: gas UK infrastructure OhForFucksSake )
- Theresa May admitted there could be no open border in Ireland if Britain outside the EU
- (tags: UK Europe ireland )
- Living in 'Demon's Souls' as the Servers Shut Down
- (tags: games end_of_the_world )
- An outraged Theresa May rejects her own EU withdrawal plan
- (tags: Europe UK conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- A short list of problems that having a smart dog can bring into your life
- (tags: dogs Intelligence funny )
- How Google has celebrated Wales every St David's Day since 2004
- (tags: wales google )
- Denmark plans double punishment for ghetto crime
- (tags: denmark OhForFucksSake immigration crime )
- Revealed: The Edinburgh bus driver who averted snow disaster
- (tags: driving impressive snow Edinburgh video )
- Why Scotland doesn't cope as well with snow as Canada does
- (tags: Canada Scotland snow money )
- Someone Put a Statue of Jason Voorhees in a Minnesota Lake For Divers to Stumble Across
- (tags: water horror movies art statue )
- States court Delta after lawmaker's threat to punish it for not giving discounts to the NRA
- (tags: guns airplanes USA law OhForFucksSake )
- Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War moved up to April 27th
- Gives me a little more chance of seeing it before I'm distracted by a baby ;-)
(tags: marvel movies ) - St Andrews university is refusing to pay staff for doing their job
- (tags: StAndrews strike work OhForFucksSake academia university )
- Las Vegas Strippers Accept Bitcoin via QR Tattoos
- This was the future you were expecting, right?
(tags: bitcoin sexwork LasVegas thefuture ) - By 2055, no single racial or ethnic group will constitute a majority in the United States.
- (tags: USA diversity thefuture )
- Polar bear makes the most of the snow at Scottish wildlife park (lovely video)
- (tags: bears snow video scotland )
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Interesting Links for 25-10-2017
Oct. 25th, 2017 12:00 pm- Brexit can be stopped by UK, European Council president Donald Tusk says
- (tags: uk europe )
- Why do so few black students go to Oxbridge?
- (tags: university race uk )
- Portugal Bans Use of DRM to Limit Access to Public Domain Works
- (tags: GoodNews drm portugal )
- This is what happens if we fail to negotiate an agreement with Europe
- (tags: europe uk doom )
- Survey evidence: Europeans support the EU’s hard line in the Brexit negotiations
- (tags: Europe UK polls )
- Facebook mistranslates 'good morning', Palestinian man arrested
- (tags: Facebook palestine Israel translation OhForFucksSake )
- Let’s Enhance! Recovering a private key from a blurry QR code
- (tags: encryption bitcoin programming maths )
- Teaching Demonology, Possession, and Exorcism in Texas
- (tags: religion academia University viaMartinPage )
- 70s Dinner Party on Twitter is full of delightfully awful food
- (tags: food history )
- A book, crystallized in the ocean
- (tags: books ocean )
- I found the best font
- (tags: font fantasy swords awesome )
- The Uncanny Resurrection of Dungeons and Dragons
- (tags: dungeonsanddragons )
- Lib Dems offer to vote for EU Withdrawal Bill
- (tags: europe libdem uk )
- Anti-aging stem cell treatment proves successful in early human trials
- (tags: age research GoodNews )
- Saudi crown prince promises 'a more moderate Islam' and to destroy extremist ideologies
- That is a remarkable statement from Saudi Arabia. This kind of move, if they follow through with it, could lead to huge changes in the region.
(tags: religion saudiarabia islam GoodNews ) - The Invisible Black Man on a Prospect Park Statue
- (tags: statue racism history usa )
- Lonley people are more self-centred. And vice versa
- (tags: loneliness psychology behaviour )
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Interesting Links for 30-01-2016
Jan. 30th, 2016 12:00 pm- The evidence suggests I was completely wrong about tuition fees
- Is technological progress dependent on extreme inequality?
- What happens when we have the technology for for fine control over emotions? (a short story)
- And absolutely fascinating look at how the funeral business is changing.
- The Nature Of Evil in the new Lucifer TV series
- What's the difference between Cecil Rhodes and Jimmy Saville (read the comments too)
- Be. More. Wolf.
- When your DM wants to kill your donkey
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Interesting Links for 12-08-2014
Aug. 12th, 2014 12:00 pm- George RR Martin not writing season five episode - finishing novel instead
- A Perseid Below - meteor entering earth's atmosphere as seen from the ISS
- Britain On Instagram Vs. Britain In Real Life
- You’re 16. You’re a Pedophile. You Don’t Want to Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do?
- Okay, I _have_ to get to Tokyo to see this giant Godzilla statue in person!
- People were making over 100,000 Euros per year on the Diablo 3 auction house. Using bots, of course.
- What happens if you Like everything you see on FB for two days?
- Studio regretfully announces Ninja Turtles sequel
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Interesting Links for 30-07-2014
Jul. 30th, 2014 12:00 pm- An 80's arcade themed turn-based tactical shoot 'em up? Backed!
- Scotland's BIG question: What effect will Independence have on my broadband?
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles poster in 9/11 facepalm extravaganza
- 'Women should not laugh in public,' says Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister
I mean, say what you want about Nick Clegg....
- How easy is it to run a free and open source smartphone?
- Guitarists play solos on giant slugs. (I have no further explanation.)
- Markov Chains - a neat visual explanation
- Guinness advertising posters from Nazi Germany
- UK to allow driverless cars on public roads
- US Suburbs are unsustainable (tax brings in less than the infrastructure maintenance costs)
- Great fun with photos of statues
- Diet affects males' and females' gut microbes differently
- The Comic-Con 2014 Cosplay Gallery (750+ Photos)
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Interesting Links for 07-02-2014
Feb. 7th, 2014 11:00 am- Bedroom Tax no more in Scotland – with Scottish Liberal Democrat support
- Why gender-based toys damage the future of our economy
- EA certainly isn't making it easy to give Dungeon Keeper a low rating on Android
- The perils of the lady gamer: Victorian Edition
- Dark Trails: An Anthology of Weird Western Stories.
- This time the Taliban Have Gone Too Far!
- New insights into the mystery of autism: Could it be caused at birth by salt in the nerves?
- Philip Seymour Hoffman is another victim of extremely stupid drug laws
- An official petition to investigate the Misuse of Drugs Act (needs 60,000 signiatures in the next week...)
- Study shows autistic brains create more information at rest
- The worst thing about Valentine's Day
- Why was Charles Dickens' dying wish ignored?
- New York Police Department is beta-testing Google Glass
- Trams to be tested in Edinburgh during daytime (can't be long now!)
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