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2022-11-18 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 18-11-2022

1. "When We All Have Pocket Telephones": A 1920s Comic Accurately Predicts
(tags:mobile_phones comics predictions )
2. Stirling University Students' Union votes to go 100% vegan
(tags:vegan scotland university food )
3. Edinburgh's 20mph roads: Plans to expand speed limit to 90 per cent of Edinburgh roads
(tags:speed driving edinburgh )
4. Artificial meat has been greenlit in the United States for the first time
(tags:meat Technology usa regulation )
5. The world needs more derpy cat dragons
(tags:cats dragons art )
6. Cambrian Explosion Lego!
(tags:Lego paleontology life )
7. The history of Irish/Native American mutual aid
(tags:support Ireland USA history )
8. How to stay warm in extremely cold temperatures
(tags:cold weather clothing advice )
9. How to Post to Mastodon From Anything Using IFTTT
(tags:automation links )
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2021-04-17 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 17-04-2021

Covid in Scotland: Restrictions on travel and outdoor meetings eased (I'm on a train right now!)
(tags:transport Scotland pandemic )
Scientists uncover 'monkeydactyl' — the first-known flying dinosaur with opposable thumbs
(tags:dinosaurs flight )
It's Not Just Young White Liberals Who Are Leaving Religion (US figures)
(tags:USA religion )
It was the last twenty seconds of this Dr Who spoof that really had me giggling
(tags:drwho funny video satire )
How Much Money Do Contestants Spend to Go on 'RuPaul's Drag Race'?
(tags:gender performance TV money lgbt )
Support doesn't and shouldn't mean unquestioning agreement. Context, nuance, understanding all matter too
(tags:support abuse )
US Housing Market Faces Shortfall
(tags:USA housing )
New Jersey high school wrestling coach is CEO of $100 million firm that owns one (small) deli
(tags:corruption fraud business wtf )
Spectacular Neon Blue Lava Pours From Indonesia's Kawah Ijen Volcano At Night
(tags:viaNancyLebov Indonesia volcano )
Spanking affects children's brain development in a similar way to other kinds of abuse
(tags:spanking abuse psychology children )
How-to give a cat a pill
(tags:cats medication video )
Land Rover hearse designed by Prince Philip unveiled
(tags:death royalty cars )
When your parakeet loves ACDC.
(tags:music birds )
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2021-03-13 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 13-03-2021

Covid vaccine lowers cases in Scotland's healthcare worker families
(tags:vaccine Scotland GoodNews )
Government 'levelling-up' fund sends cash to Tory areas because it ignores deprivation
(tags:UK corruption conservatives )
Fish Exports To The EU Collapsed By 83% In January
(tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
What does the collapse in UK exports to the EU really tell us about Brexit? (detailed look at the figures and the various explanations)
(tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
Government Commits To Banning Gay Conversion Therapy After Three Equalities Advisors Quit
(tags:LGBT GoodNews uk )
Lord of the Rings as a transcribed Dungeons and Dragons game.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1090002825461944320.html
(tags:games roleplaying funny lotr )
Impressive 90 second indoor single shot drone video.
(tags:video impressive )
Westminster will make sure Scotland gets freeports, whether it wants them or not
(tags:Scotland UK trade Westminster )
'The Inheritance Trilogy': Searchlight TV Options N.K. Jemison's Fantasy Books
(tags:TV nkjemisin fantasy awesome )
Wholesome, supportive, skeletons
(tags:horror support )
What do Boris Johnson's newspaper articles about Europe tell us about his views?
(tags:BorisJohnson journalism Europe )
I can't decide between these four pieces of ridiculous furniture
(tags:furniture weird )
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2020-10-21 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 21-10-2020

Bletchley Park's contribution to WW2 'over-rated'. (but apparently it was key to the Falkland's War)
(tags:history cryptography wwii falklands )
"I walked the perimeter of Britain" - in pictures
(tags:UK photos )
Covid: Are hospitals in Scotland close to capacity?
(tags:Scotland healthcare pandemic NHS )
Vietnam has only had 35 deaths from Covid. Here's how they did that
(tags:pandemic Vietnam epicwin )
A circuit-break will save thousands of lives
(tags:pandemic UK )
After Cheating On A Test, People Claim To Have Known The Answers Anyway
(tags:cheating psychology )
1.5 million children work in the chocolate industry, despite its claims to be against child labour
(tags:chocolate work children OhForFucksSake )
I wouldn't buy any hardware from Google that isn't a phone.
(tags:Google hardware support Doom )
Coronavirus: WHO urges UK to move to local contact tracing system
(tags:Pandemic testing UK )
New organ in throat accidentally discovered by scientists researching prostate cancer
(tags:Cancer organs viaPatrickHadfield )
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2020-04-28 12:00 pm
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2020-04-09 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 09-04-2020

The COBOL Problem
(tags:programming history advice computers )
Amazing Math Bridge Extended Beyond Fermat's Last Theorem
My maths stops a very very long way before this, but I still find this kind of story fascinating
(tags:mathematics )
You can't rely on fingerprint authentication if a nation state is after you
(tags:security fingerprints )
Scientists ponder how jugglers seem to defy limits to human reaction times
(tags:juggling physics research )
British Vets Association statement on cats and Covid-19
(tags:cats virus pandemic )
51 recovered coronavirus patients test positive again in South Korea
(tags:Korea virus Doom )
What A Friend Is Upset, Validating Their Feelings Is The Best Way To Comfort Them
(tags:psychology support friendship )
Flour mills working 'round the clock' to meet demand
(tags:UK food pandemic )
Scientists create mutant enzyme that recycles plastic bottles in hours
(tags:plastic GoodNews recycling )
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2020-02-26 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 26-02-2020

Beloved, You Are Not "Torn," You Are In Denial About Your Choices
Found this one fascinating because I've drifted like this in the past and am very glad not to be this person any more.
(tags:relationships Choice decisions )
Austerity blamed for life expectancy stalling for first time in century (and declining for the poorest)
(tags:inequality poverty austerity uk Conservatives )
Ancient 'lost' civilisation uncovered by archaeologists in Turkey (who defeated King Midas)
(tags:turkey prehistory archeology )
I am absolutely fascinated by how "Sovereign Citizens" think the world works
(tags:weird law society conspiracy )
FactCheck: the Conservatives' youth unemployment claim
(tags:unemployment employment UK conservatives )
The original sins of grammarians still plague the rulebooks
(tags:grammar language history rules OhForFucksSake )
How to share bad news of sexual abuse by someone you trusted?
(tags:abuse support )
Freakangels Adapted For Animation At Crunchyroll
(tags:comics TV WarrenEllis )
Third of Poland now declared 'LGBT-free zone', making intolerance official
(tags:bigotry LGBT Poland OhForFucksSake )
Covid 19 looks likely to become the fifth freely circulating coronavirus
(tags:virus )
Scotland to make period products such as tampons and pads free
(tags:Scotland menstruation viaSwampers )
Getting Sweet Patron Money On the Modern Internet
(tags:business money CrowdFunding )
UK income inequality greater than previously thought
(tags:inequality uk )
More humans than thought survived volcanic super-eruption 74,000 years ago
(tags:prehistory volcano )
Secret doorway in Parliament leads to historical treasure trove
(tags:parliament uk history )
A Gamer Has Beaten Superman 64 Over 300 Times
(tags:viaSwampers games superman )
Getting 6 hours sleep for 2 weeks is as bad as no sleep for 2 days - but you don't feel as tired.
(tags:sleep )
Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain
(tags:copyright music technology )
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2019-09-29 03:25 pm
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Interesting Links for 29-09-2019

Google to stop showing news snippets for French users
(tags:Google news france )
Brussels loses faith in 'volatile' UK
(tags:UK Europe Doom )
Pronoun button badges for sale
(tags:gender )
There is no point in appealing to the decency of the alt-right.
(tags:fascism )
Communication with locked-in patients in question after misconduct finding
(tags:research disability communication fraud )
President Trump told two senior Russian officials in a 2017 Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election because the United States did the same in other countries,
(tags:USA UK elections fraud OhForFucksSake )
Nervous Kremlin Warns U.S. Against Releasing Transcripts Of Trump's Calls With Putin
(tags:politics USA Russia )
Analysis of the Vote Leave messaging strategy.
(tags:UK Europe propaganda marketing )
What organisational structures allow DevOps to flourish (or doom it)
(tags:development software organisation support viaFanf )
Adventures With Anxiety! (a simple game where you play a person's anxiety, trying to keep them safe)
(tags:anxiety game ViaDrCross )
I'm afraid I won't be backing anything on Kickstarter again
(tags:Kickstarter unions OhForFucksSake )
China unveils 500MP camera that can identify every face in a crowd of tens of thousands. Britain is doing similar things
(tags:surveillance China uk )
High in the Cascades, a lone fire lookout still keeps watch
(tags:fire nature usa )
The Kickstarter union organisers do not want a boycott
(tags:unions Kickstarter )
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2019-09-06 01:13 pm
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Interesting Links for 06-09-2019

Sinn Fein open to Westminster electoral pact with other pro-Remain parties to challenge the DUP
(tags:Ireland politics NorthernIreland UK Europe wtf )
A rambling post on the meaning of words, including "homophobia". With footnotes and everything.
(tags:LGBT homophobia libdem language )
Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second
(tags:language information viaSwampers )
Why "You Got This!" Feels Like A Threat
(tags:failure life support )
Conversion therapy leader for 2 decades, McKrae Game disavows movement he helped fuel (and comes out as gay)
(tags:lgbt )
Brexit: 200,000 people register to vote in 72 hours - most of them under 35
(tags:uk europe voting elections )
Houses are assets not goods: What the difference between bulbs and flowers tells us about the housing market
(tags:housing rental economics )
Public underestimates threat of climate crisis and plastic pollution
(tags:misunderstanding science globalwarming pollution plastic )
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2019-08-20 09:45 pm
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Interesting Links for 20-08-2019

Why doesn't mathematics collapse down, even though humans quite often make mistakes in their proofs?
(tags:mathematics errors )
Dutch take cycling to a new level, with world's biggest bike park
(tags:bicycles netherlands )
On the Economics of Renumeration in Womens' Soccer in the USA
(tags:football sports women money economics )
The no-deal threat: What happens when the problems interact?
(tags:uk europe doom )
If software is annoyingly slow people don't use it. That could kill someone
(tags:healthcare emergency software design time ux )
Children make people happier - but only once they've left home
(tags:happiness children )
Ion Fury Studio Apologizes For Developers' 'Sexist And Transphobic' Comments, Will Patch Out Offensive Jokes And Make Charity Donation
(tags:games LGBT women )
How to support a friend with an anxiety disorder
(tags:anxiety mentalhealth advice support )
National Grid blames lightning strike for blackout (and running with insufficient backup capacity)
(tags:electricity uk lightning )
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2018-11-29 11:00 am
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Interesting Links for 08-07-2018

Brexit: Why services matter in any deal
(tags: UK europe services OhForFucksSake )
Fantastic analysis of what was agreed by the UK cabinet on Brexit
(tags: UK europe )
Anti-trans group allowed to lead Pride in London march
(tags: London pride transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake uk lgbt )
Research shows the difference between emotional and informational support
(tags: relationships support emotion )
Monster energy project wants to use Loch Ness as a giant battery
(tags: electricity scotland hydroelectric )
Against the Nordic Model and in favour of decriminalization of sex work
(tags: sexwork libdem )
Seriously, Fruit Juice Is Not Healthy
(tags: fruit sugar health )
The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work
(tags: AI technology business )
Impact of spending time in nature on long-term well-being
(tags: health nature )
Labour will not back Theresa May's EU exit plan agreed by Tory cabinet
(tags: UK Europe )
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