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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
- (tags:Scotland trains internet )
- 3. Continuous glucose monitors reveal variable glucose responses from the same people to the same meals
- (tags:insulin sugar eating food )
- 4. The charts showing the big flaw in Starmer's immigration plan
- (tags:migration economy uk doom )
- 5. Moderna's combo Covid and flu mRNA shot outperforms current vaccines in large trial
- (tags:vaccine pandemic flu )
- 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
- (tags:ai copyright USA politics )
- 8. Edinburgh traffic bans in city centre to be made permanent following trial
- (tags:traffic transport Edinburgh )
- 9. Top UK Special Forces general oversaw blocking of Afghan war-crime witnesses to Britain
- (tags:UK military crime war OhForFucksSake Afghanistan )
- 10. How the news feels right now
- (tags:news satire doom )
- 11. Mass vote losses to Lib Dems and Greens would cost Labour twice as many seats as mass Reform switch
- (tags:labour libdem green )
- 12. Getting to know 'Reform curious Labour voters'
- (tags:Labour politics UK )
- 13. Zodiac Killer Revealed by His Love of Comic Books, Author Says
- (tags:comics murder usa history )
- 14. London, Brighton, Birmingham and Manchester Prides suspend political parties from taking part (over trans rights)
- (tags:lgbt transgender protest uk politics )
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- history,
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- internet,
- labour,
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- military,
- murder,
- news,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pandemic,
- politics,
- protest,
- satire,
- scotland,
- sugar,
- tolkien,
- traffic,
- trains,
- transgender,
- transport,
- uk,
- usa,
- vaccine,
- viadanieldwilliam,
- war
Interesting Links for 07-04-2025
Apr. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand
- (tags:Tesla crash motorcycle OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Petition To Hold a Royal Commission on reform of the Westminster voting system
- (tags:UK voting reform )
- 3. Remind me, how well does telling investors not to panic work?
- (tags:investment doom )
- 4. 2025 Hugo final ballot: Goodreads / LibraryThing stats
- (tags:hugo awards scifi )
- 5. Dietary fructose enhances tumour growth
- (tags:sugar fructose cancer )
- 6. Neurotoxic worms growing up to 3ft long are in Ontario and you should kill them on sight
- (tags:worm Canada aieeee! )
- 7. Trust in the USA Is Dead. Trump Keeps Selling the Corpse.
- (tags:USA politics trade doom )
- 8. Russia's secret war in UK waters
- (tags:russia uk navy war viaDanielDWilliam )
Interesting Links for 05-11-2024
Nov. 5th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Silicon Valley and Wall Street invent collateralized GPU obligations. Surely this will work out fine?
- (tags:economics technology ai doom )
- 2. Is it not enough to simply have a hundred anuses? Must you also use them?
- (tags:animals food bodies weird viaSwampers )
- 3. Brain atrophy in later life linked to bad quality sleep. (Sleeping less isn't the issue, sleeping badly is)
- (tags:sleep brain health )
- 4. Blood Sugar Control is a Key Factor in Slowing Brain Aging
- (tags:sugar brain aging )
- 5. UK's Green energy plan needs 600 miles of power lines
- (tags:uk electricity infrastructure )
- 6. Center Parcs plans first Scottish holiday village near Hawick
- (tags:scotland holidays )
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- holidays,
- infrastructure,
- links,
- scotland,
- sleep,
- sugar,
- technology,
- uk,
- viaswampers,
- weird
Interesting Links for 01-11-2024
Nov. 1st, 2024 02:11 pm- 1. What should you call little people?
- (tags:Language size humans video )
- 2. Some detail on the cap on inheritance tax on farms
- (tags:death tax UK farming )
- 3. Russia fines Google more than entire world's GDP
- (tags:google russia money )
- 4. Sugar in first 1,000 days linked to poor health in later years (35% different in diabetes, 20% difference in high blood pressure)
- (tags:sugar health children )
- 5. "Women are going on baby strike - but don't worry, I'm here to negotiate terms"
- (tags:society children )
- 6. "BookWyrm is the Federated GoodReads Replacement I Didn't Know I Needed"
- (tags:books advice )
Interesting Links for 05-09-2024
Sep. 5th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The UK's last coal power station is closing at the end of this month
- (tags:coal power electricity uk GoodNews environment )
- 2. More than 20% of people who get Covid take more than 90 days to recover
- (tags:pandemic )
- 3. "I made a documentary about Zelensky - he is funny, fascinating and ruthless"
- (tags:Ukraine TV interview documentary )
- 4. "Debilitating a Generation": Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans
- (tags:pandemic doom )
- 5. Evidence for sugar addiction: Behavioral and neurochemical effects of intermittent, excessive sugar intake
- (tags:sugar addiction )
- 6. Ukrainian drones now spray 2,500° C thermite streams right into Russian trenches
- (tags:drone Russia Ukraine war )
- 7. Amazon tells delivery drivers they can't sing along to music (or move their lips too much)
- (tags:driving music amazon dystopia OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 10-07-2024
Jul. 10th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What's the state of housing in the UK (spoilers: terrible)
- (tags:uk housing )
- 2. More than half of anti-abortion MPs lose seats in election
- (tags:abortion uk politics )
- 3. Vatican to trans people - please resist the urge to become God
- (tags:catholicism transgender god )
- 4. Scotland's 2024 General Election in numbers
- (tags:Scotland election statistics )
- 5. This is the best write-up I've seen of the Neil Gaiman assault allegations. The whole thing sounds like a mess.
- (tags:neilgaiman assault )
- 6. New weight-loss and diabetes drugs linked to lower risk of 10 cancers (if you have diabetes)
- (tags:diabetes cancer medicine )
- 7. Iain (M) Banks: Two Authors, One Man (An exhibition at the University of Stirling)
- (tags:IainBanks writing )
- 8. UK's sugar tax led to a nearly 50 per cent reduction in children's added sugar intake from sodas and other soft drinks
- (tags:sugar children tax )
- 9. Evolution explained by Rage Against The Machine
- (tags:music evolution funny viaMyBrotherMike )
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- music,
- neilgaiman,
- politics,
- scotland,
- statistics,
- sugar,
- tax,
- transgender,
- uk,
- viamybrothermike,
- writing
Interesting Links for 03-06-2024
Jun. 3rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A message to England on their treatment of trans kids
- (tags:transgender children LGBT UK OhForFucksSake )
- 2. NHS 'pen-pushers' are doing a great job
- (tags:nhs bureaucracy UK healthcare efficiency )
- 3. Ursula K. Le Guin on How to Become a Writer
- (tags:UrsulaKLegGuin writing )
- 4. EU rebuffs Labour hopes for softer Brexit as too ambitious
- (tags:uk europe labour doom )
- 5. Ozempic and Wegovy Might Be Supercharging Your Taste Buds
- (tags:weight taste sweets sugar )
- 6. Britain going backwards on trans rights, warns first transgender judge
- (tags:uk bigotry lgbt transgender )
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- weight,
- writing
Interesting Links for 06-03-2024
Mar. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. French decision to protect right to abortion shows 'real fear far-right populists could gain power'
- (tags:abortion rights France )
- 2. How much effort it takes to clean a professional kitchen (and how much the cook will hate you if you walk in 10 minutes before closing)
- (tags:restaurant cleaning )
- 3. More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved
- (tags:research academia fail viaPatrickHadfield )
- 4. Why Edinburgh's potholes are winning
- (tags:edinburgh roads weight )
- 5. How Hugo ballots used to be counted
- (tags:software hugo awards )
- 6. Sugary drinks increase your risk of a heart condition by 10%. Drinks with sweeteners raise it by 20%
- (tags:sugar drink heart doom )
- 7. The man who spends £8,500 a year to live on a train
- (tags:trains germany viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. This is The Longest Train Route in the World (as of 2024)
- (tags:trains china Russia Spain Portugal )
- 9. What is your objective?
- (tags:advice life )
- 10. European Court of Human Rights Confirms: Weakening Encryption Violates Fundamental Rights
- (tags:encryption privacy Europe rights )
- 11. Racism is embedded in LLMs (in this case, based on dialect)
- (tags:racism ai )
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Interesting Links for 17-01-2024
Jan. 17th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. All the Types of Science Fiction
- (tags:scifi funny genre tropes )
- 2. Data collected just before the war in Gaza shows that millions of Palestinians were already unable to afford food and shelter
- (tags:palestine israel doom )
- 3. Abortion clinic protest laws to be watered down by James Cleverly
- (tags:abortion uk OhForFucksSake protest )
- 4. Fujitsu knew from 'very early stage' about flaws in Horizon system
- (tags:postoffices software OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Drinking 100% fruit juice may be linked to weight gain in children
- (tags:fruit sugar weight children )
Interesting Links for 28-12-2023
Dec. 28th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh pubs: The Auld Hoose announces sudden closure
- (tags:Scotland alcohol )
- 2. Who fancies a group of people to quietly read next to?
- (tags:reading books silence sociability )
- 3. Cathedral, Mountain, Moon (an incredible photo)
- (tags:photo religion moon mountain NASA )
- 4. All I want for Christmas is one terawatt of solar deployed annually
- (tags:solarpower thefuture )
- 5. What the Solow Model can teach us about China's slowing growth
- (tags:china economics viaDanielDWilliam )
- 6. Injection of "smart insulin" regulates blood glucose levels for one week (in mice and pigs)
- (tags:diabetes sugar insulin )
- 7. Exposing the secret money behind Starmer's rise to power
- (tags:labour corruption politics UK )
Interesting Links for 21-02-2023
Feb. 21st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Roald Dahl's publisher on updates to his books, October 1973
- (tags:books writing society publishing history )
- 2. Bigoted SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes said she would have voted against gay marriage
- (tags:LGBT marriage snp bigotry politics Scotland )
- 3. Sci-fi magazine Clarkesworld just closed to submissions because of AI-generated spam. Here's a post written last week about the scale of the situation
- (tags:ai scifi OhForFucksSake publishing spam )
- 4. Long-term bed rest study reveals profound dangers of inactivity on blood sugar levels
- (tags:exercise sugar blood biology )
Interesting Links for 17-12-2022
Dec. 17th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Twitter blocks users from sharing Mastodon links
- (tags:Twitter Mastodon censorship OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Would you like the perfect Christmas present for your cat?
- (tags:cats christmas video viaKirsty )
- 3. Chaosium announce that they will not use AI Art in their products (first company I've seen make such a pledge)
- (tags:ai art games roleplaying viaJamesNicoll )
- 4. The Indian doctor who saved 50,000,000 lives with a simple invention
- (tags:healthcare sugar salt water india )
- 5. The German office for data protection and freedom of information suggests that German ministries move to Mastodon
- (tags:germany mastodon twitter )
- 6. China's War Against Taiwan Has Already Started
- (tags:China Taiwan disinformation war )
- 7. Queen's death events cost Edinburgh council £500,000
- (tags:Edinburgh Queen death money )
- 8. EU adopts global minimum 15% tax on big business
- (tags:Europe tax globalization )
- 9. Games kind of suck at designing female heroes
- (tags:design games bodies women )
- 10. How the campaign to stop the United Kingdom government from making it more difficult to prosecute war crimes was won
- (tags:torture law WarCrimes UK politics )
- 11. Schizophrenia: Parasite x Genotype x Stress
- (tags:stress genes Parasites schizophrenia )
- 12. Congress passes legislation to end US participation in global shark fin trade
- (tags:sharks USA )
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- torture,
- twitter,
- uk,
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- viajamesnicoll,
- viakirsty,
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- warcrimes,
- water,
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Interesting Links for 27-08-2022
Aug. 27th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. When the Pope is clearly an end of level boss
- (tags:games Pope funny )
- 2. Synthetic embryo with brain and beating heart grown from mouse cells for first time ever
- (tags:mice biology organs )
- 3. Satellites have identified 21 Russian facilities that are forcibly detaining thousands of Ukrainians, as well as possible mass grave sites
- (tags:russia ukraine murder war WarCrimes )
- 4. Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy dropped heavy drinking days amongst people with Alcohol Use Disorder from 23% to 9% (compared with placebo-assisted psychotherapy)
- (tags:psilocybin hallucinogenics alcohol )
- 5. Music based on Scotrail announcements goes viral
- (tags:music trains scotland )
- 6. Sweeteners can significantly impair glycemic responses
- (tags:blood sugar insulin food taste )
- 7. A Florida Judge Who Denied A Teen Girl An Abortion Because Of Her Grades Was Voted Out Of Office
- Do many countries appoint judges through voting?
(tags:USA law abortion ) - 8. Socialite, Widow, Jeweller, Spy: How a Russian Agent Charmed Her Way Into NATO Circles in Italy
- (tags:Russia Italy spying NATO )
- 9. Sunak is trying to rewrite history on the Pandemic
- (tags:Pandemic conservatives lies )
Interesting Links for 18-07-2022
Jul. 18th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. I have the kind of mind that just never ever thinks of thing. I'm rubbish at puzzles too.
- (tags:language SherlockHolmes house )
- 2. Why rails buckle in Britain
- (tags:trains temperature UK )
- 3. Ministers to break promise to give MPs a final say before approving trade deal with Australia
- (tags:UK Australia trade lies conservatives )
- 4. More than 4 servings of fruit per day will mess up your blood sugar
- (tags:fruit sugar insulin diabetes )
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- australia,
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- trade,
- trains,
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Interesting Links for 09-03-2022
Mar. 9th, 2022 12:00 pm- Replace saturated fats with unsaturated ones, not with carbs and sugars
- (tags:fat heart health diet carbohydrates sugar )
- The most complete family tree of all of humanity has been created
- (tags:humans family genetics )
- Gender pay gap bot lets you know how hypocritical employers are on International Women's Day
- (tags:women pay inequality viaSwampers bots )
- Some polling on whether Russians support the Ukraine invasion
- (tags:Ukraine Russia polls war )
- Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic
- (tags:antarctic history ship )
- 'Genius' Twitter 'bot' reveals gender pay gaps of brands celebrating International Women's Day
- (tags:gender pay inequality funny )
- To understand Russia, you need to understand that it's a Mafia-run economy
- (tags:russia crime mafia economy viaDanielDWilliam )
- EU Buried Its Own $400,000 Study Showing Unauthorized Downloads Have Almost No Effect On Sales (2017)
- (tags:europe piracy copyright business )
- Scientists reverse ageing in elderly mice by rejuvenating their tissues
- (tags:age mice )
- Mouse born from unfertilised egg - without sperm - survives to adulthood, gives birth to healthy pups
- (tags:childbirth biology mice )
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- viaswampers,
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Interesting Links for 08-01-2022
Jan. 8th, 2022 12:00 pm- Dangerous humid heat extremes occurring decades before expected
- (tags:doom globalwarming )
- Tech Startup Wants To Let You Invest In Suing People Using Crypto Tokens
- (tags:blockchain law usa CrowdFunding investment )
- Gut microbes elevated by dietary sugar disrupt memory function
- (tags:sugar brain memory microbiome )
- What things do parents love about having children?
- (tags:children parenting )
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Interesting Links for 02-09-2021
Sep. 2nd, 2021 12:00 pm- The rise of period pants: are they the answer to menstrual landfill - and women's prayers?
- (tags:menstruation clothing )
- Scots to need vaccine passports for large events
- (tags:scotland vaccination pandemic )
- Scotland had fourth hottest summer on record
- (tags:Scotland temperature )
- Round animals!
- Anyone complaining that some of them are unhealthy will be roundly booed.
(tags:animals ) - Beware of all of these dogs. Their cuteness levels are too high
- (tags:dogs cute )
- Google's new AI photo technology guesses what details might have been there in a very believable way!
- (tags:ai photos )
- Pair complete UK's longest straight-line challenge
- (tags:uk walking )
- White 'old boys' network holding ethnic minority surgeons back from job promotions
- (tags:uk racism nhs doctors sexism )
- Dogs can distinguish between deliberate acts and accidents
- (tags:dogs psychology )
- Five Myths About the Taliban's New Arsenal
- (tags:taliban afghanistan military viaDanielDWilliam )
- What happens to your brain when you give up sugar?
- (tags:brain sugar dopamine addiction )
- Neil Gaiman's 11 Geekiest Cameo Appearances
- (tags:neilgaiman TV radio )
- Mayday trailer - Metaphorical sirens as female revenge fantasy. Looks interesting, and rather gorgeously shot.
- (tags:women society movies trailer )
- I'd wondered why John Varley's "Irontown Blues" hadn't had great reviews. And now I know!
- (tags:scifi writing OhForFucksSake publishing )
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Interesting Links for 29-08-2021
Aug. 29th, 2021 12:00 pm- Statins are apparently not a lot of use
- (tags:heart medication )
- Neil Gaiman has some Instructions to keep you safe
- (tags:fairytale neilgaiman advice )
- Carrot Vs Mr Curly the garden hose : Clarinet fight!
- (tags:music video )
- I did not know this was what you were supposed to do with bottles of cooking oil
- (tags:food video )
- Sweet-taste perception changes as children develop
- (tags:sweets sugar taste food adult children age )
Interesting Links for 02-10-2020
Oct. 2nd, 2020 12:00 pm- Sandwiches in Subway too sugary to meet legal definition of being bread (in Ireland)
- (tags:bread sugar Ireland tax viaSwampers )
- New British standard for biodegradable plastic introduced
- (tags:plastic biodegradable standards uk )
- Here Are All The Outlandish Ideas The Government Is Reported To Be Considering To Tackle Migrant Channel Crossings
- (tags:asylum OhForFucksSake uk )
- How British broadband services have changed over the last decade
- (tags:broadband uk )
- British Virgin Islands commits to public register of beneficial owners
- (tags:business money tax GoodNews )
- Edinburgh! Cancels! Christmas!
- (tags:Christmas edinburgh pandemic )
- Coronavirus: Restrictions for England to be standardised into three tiers
- (tags:pandemic England UK )
- 1,521 Members of the UK and Irish Publishing Community Sign a Letter Supporting Trans Rights
- (tags:LGBT transgender publishing UK Ireland )
- Feeding C-section newborns mother's faeces may help to strengthen immune system
- (tags:microbiome babies caesarians faeces )
- Thousands of UK firms may need to set up an EU office - And vice versa
- (tags:trade UK Europe Doom )
- Drinking coffee before breakfast impairs metabolism
- (tags:sugar coffee metabolism )
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