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Interesting Links for 19-08-2025
Aug. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. This story about how a parent's love grows for their child rang true for me, even if it was written about adoption
- (tags:love children parenting adoption )
- 2. An alternative to LASIK—without the lasers (melt your eyes, mould them into a new shape, let them resolidify)
- (tags:eyes eyesight )
- 3. Trump helped Netanyahu's cyber chief evade child sex crime charges
- (tags:Israel USA Child_abuse OhForFucksSake law )
- 4. On the recognition of Palestine - and its legality
- (tags:law palestine )
- 5. Tennessee woman denied prenatal care for being unmarried
- (tags:women healthcare USA OhForFucksSake marriage society )
- 6. Covid and Our Arteries
- (tags:pandemic blood health doom )
- 7. 97% of Edinburgh Airbnb-style flat plans refused
- (tags:edinburgh housing )
- 8. The Church Is Moving!
- (tags:church transport sweden )
Interesting Links for 19-04-2024
Apr. 19th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. This is how crime reporting feels to me nowadays
- (tags:crime comics journalism )
- 2. The "Gender Game Test" and the distribution of money
- (tags:psychology gender equality money children )
- 3. Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text—with a twist
- (tags:copyright ai )
- 4. EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy
- (tags:privacy facebook europe regulation )
- 5. Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of bitcoin than the building of the pyramids of Giza
- (tags:Egypt history )
- 6. Netflix Accused of Using AI Photos in True Crime Documentary
- (tags:fraud documentary netflix crime AI )
- 7. U.S. blocks Palestinian request for full UN membership
- (tags:USA Palestine nationality UnitedNations )
- 8. Sleeping flushes junk out of the brain
- (tags:sleep brain )
- 9. The Scale of the Universe (zoom in from the largest objects to the smallest)
- (tags:universe size visualisation )
- 10. Sweden passes law lowering age to change legal gender from 18 to 16 and greatly simplifying the process
- (tags:LGBT transgender Sweden GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 21-03-2024
Mar. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Diane Abbott is a political pawn in Labour's farcical disciplinary process
- (tags:politics labour racism OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Paris Preserves Its Mixed Society by Pouring Billions Into Public Housing
- (tags:Paris housing )
- 3. Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden
- (tags:sweden rape prostitution sexwork )
- 4. Elon Musk's X Is Suspending Accounts That Reveal a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist's Identity
- (tags:nazis twitter ElonMusk OhForFucksSake )
- 5. The cutest baby thing I've seen in a long time
- (tags:cute babies video )
- 6. Vernor Vinge (1944-2024) - Author and creator of the concept of The Singularity
- (tags:scifi singularity obituary writers )
- 7. Neuralink video shows patient playing chess using brain implant
- (tags:brain video cyborg )
- 8. NIH Researchers Identify Brain Connections Associated With ADHD in Youth
- (tags:adhd brain )
- 9. An Anthropocene Worth Having
- (tags:ecology environment humans )
Interesting Links for 07-03-2024
Mar. 7th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Scotland is finally getting more district heating (not far from Edinburgh)
- (tags:scotland heating waste )
- 2. "My Robotic Doppelganger Is The Grim Face of Journalism's Future!"
- (tags:journalism ai fraud )
- 3. Sweden's adoption of the Gregorian calendar was a farce
- (tags:sweden calendars history )
- 4. Robot ships: Huge remote controlled vessels are setting sail
- (tags:robots ships )
- 5. Edinburgh bus tracker system will not have live bus times until the summer
- (tags:edinburgh buses )
- 6. Leadership Is A Hell Of A Drug
- (tags:leadership management business development )
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Interesting Links for 19-06-2023
Jun. 19th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The horrifying toll of Sweden's lax pandemic policy
- (tags:Sweden Pandemic Death OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Ursula Vernon has cancer
- (tags:Cancer )
- 3. Possibly the finest money-making scheme of all time
- (tags:business funny geology )
- 4. Read here about chickenpox parties, and consider that this is what the NHS still wants today in the UK
- (tags:UK NHS vaccination OhForFucksSake history )
- 5. California restaurant had fake priest hear workers' confessions
- (tags:catholicism fraud work USA wtf OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Rishi Sunak mocks trans women in leaked video footage
- (tags:conservatives bigotry LGBT transgender )
- 7. Schopenhauer's 38 ways to unfairly win an argument
- (tags:argument )
- 8. Apple wants to own pictures of apples. All of them
- (tags:apple apples intellectual_property OhForFucksSake )
- 9. Companies in Japan opting for selected offices to work in English
- (tags:Japan English business )
- 10. No matter how else you might feel about the internet, the opportunity it provides for people to educate themselves is *amazing*
- (tags:Education internet )
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Interesting Links for 28-04-2023
Apr. 28th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Sweden! Fires! Rocket! At! Norway!
- (tags:sweden norway rockets )
- 2. After Diane Abbott's letter, I saw how easily racism against Travellers like me is dismissed
- (tags:uk racism )
- 3. Most Tory voters support workers' rights such as banning 'fire and hire' and zero-hours contracts
- (tags:Conservatives work rights )
- 4. Keir Starmer Opposes Proportional Representation
- (tags:proportional_representation labour OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Representation matters: computer game edition
- (tags:games bodyimage bodies video viaSwampers )
- 6. Democrats (and Labour) are chasing the wrong voters
- (tags:politics USA )
- 7. Political Compass heatmap for UK voters
- (tags:UK politics visualisation )
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Interesting Links for 27-02-2023
Feb. 27th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. British remake of Cocaine Bear stars fox off its tits on blue WKD
- (tags:funny fox UK drugs satire )
- 2. New research shows trolls don't just enjoy hurting others, they also feel good about themselves
- (tags:troll abuse psychology )
- 3. Lockdowns are over. WFH isn't. Why?
- (tags:work homes society Pandemic )
- 4. The 90s: History or Ancient History?
- (tags:history funny society )
- 5. Inside the Folkbildningsrörelsen - Sweden's self-organised education system
- (tags:Education sweden history )
Interesting Links for 13-02-2023
Feb. 13th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Jews, bicycle riders and trans folk
- (tags:bigotry Jews lgbt transgender Russia )
- 2. Trove of spices from around the world found on sunken fifteenth-century Norse ship
- (tags:food history boats trade Sweden )
- 3. Protesters clash at Tate Britain during drag queen kids story-telling event held to mark LGBT+ History Month
- (tags:lgbt history UK art bigotry )
- 4. ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
- It's not clear that it's technically possible to retain the acceptable kind of blurriness while eliminating the unacceptable kind
(tags:ai knowledge text ) - 5. 84% of studies find that Adenovirus 36 causes people to put on weight
- (tags:Weight virus obesity )
- 6. What if Judaism advertised the way that Christianity does?
- (tags:religion judaism funny )
Interesting Links for 07-01-2022
Jan. 7th, 2022 12:00 pm- Electric cars and batteries: how will the world produce enough?
- (tags:batteries electricty cars )
- Johann Hari is talking nonsense about attention spans
- (tags:attention research fraud )
- It takes an average of three days for people to test positive on a nasal-based lateral flow test after their first positive PCR result for Omicron
- (tags:noses testing Pandemic Doom )
- Drone carrying a defibrillator saves its first heart attack patient in Sweden
- (tags:heart drone Sweden )
- The latest Moonfall trailer is even more ridiculous than the previous one! So looking forward to this!
- (tags:movies moon trailer )
- Wordle Is a Love Story
- (tags:words games english language )
- Dealing with Student Deceptions: What to do with 'Death in the Family' Excuses
- (tags:death university lies )
Interesting Links for 24-06-2021
Jun. 24th, 2021 12:00 pm- Roaming charges to return for travellers to EU in Brexit blow, leading operator announces
- (tags:UK Europe phones )
- Fact-checking the debate over low rape prosecution levels in England and Wales
- (tags:rape law UK )
- Scotland gets a surge of Covid cases because of football
- (tags:football pandemic )
- The Nordic Model of dealing with sex work is terrible.
- (tags:sexwork nordic Sweden OhForFucksSake )
- Brexit: The Biggest Claims From The Remain And Leave Campaigns That Never Happened
- (tags:uk europe )
- Large-scale CO2 removal facility set for Scotland
- (tags:scotland co2 )
- Almost 40% of Covid sufferers still experiencing persistent symptoms after 12 weeks
- (tags:pandemic doom )
- How the Covid vaccine really works (with cats!)
- (tags:cats vaccine animation ViaDrCross )
- Brexit: Collapse in British exports hands Irish Republic a trade surplus (cross-border trade between the Republic and Northern Ireland also massively up)
- (tags:uk europe ireland trade )
Interesting Links for 27-03-2021
Mar. 27th, 2021 12:00 pm- You say you want a 'written constitution' for the UK? Here are four online places where it is already written down.
- (tags:Constitution UK )
- Learning to code 'will seriously change your life'
- (tags:computers propaganda UK programming )
- Alex Salmond becomes leader of new pro-independence Alba Party ahead of Scottish elections
- (tags:politics Scotland independence viaDanielDWilliam )
- Easter and paganism. Part 1
- (tags:Easter religion history paganism )
- Easter and paganism. Part 2
- (tags:religion history paganism easter )
- Ooh, DC got someone competent to direct The Suicide Squad reboot, and it shows!
- (tags:movies DC trailer )
- Solar Is Cheapest Electricity In History, U.S. DOE Aims To Cut Costs 60% By 2030
- (tags:electricity solarpower GoodNews thefuture USA )
- In Stockholm there's an IT battle underway for people's schools
- (tags:it schools Sweden OhForFucksSake )
- The parental consent case against the Tavistock has succeeded (puberty blockers no longer blocked)
- (tags:LGBT law GoodNews transgender children puberty )
- How The Hobbit became the best selling text adventure of all time
- (tags:text adventure games TheHobbit history programming )
- How a coronavirus variant tore through an English island and onto the world stage
- (tags:UK Kent virus pandemic )
- Police lied about officers with broken bones during the Bristol protests
- (tags:protests police lies violence )
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Interesting Links for 10-03-2021
Mar. 10th, 2021 12:00 pm- Another Covid surge inevitable, Chris Whitty warns MPs
- (tags:pandemic doom uk )
- Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
- (tags:sweden shopping automation )
- Here's why "to be" is frequently missing in Scottish sentences.
- (tags:language scotland usa )
- This article on Harry and Meghan is just perfect (and hilarious)
- (tags:viaJennieRigg royalty celebrity UK racism media )
- Banks in Germany Tell Customers to Take Deposits Elsewhere
- (tags:Germany Europe banking )
- Russia turns away from NASA, says it will work with China on a Moon base
- (tags:USA Russia China space moon )
- Kate Winslet hasn't weighed herself in twelve years. Neither should you.
- (tags:weight health )
- Zoom Assault Hearing Goes Off the Rails After Court Discovers Alleged Abuser in the Same Apartment as Alleged Victim
- (tags:law USA video )
- Stop Calling Women Nags — How Emotional Labor is Dragging Down Gender Equality
- (tags:women men work homes family )
- Vegans get worse scars
- (tags:bodies vegan health )
- Humans throw away TOO MUCH CRAP IT HAS TO STOP
- (tags:Europe technology rights obsolescence )
- When we ask our simulation creator how the universe works we are going to be disappointed
- (tags:simulation comic funny )
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Interesting Links for 11-02-2021
Feb. 11th, 2021 12:00 pm- Locus really need better editors working on their reviews
- (tags:reviews fiction )
- How To Build a Snölykta - Traditional Swedish Snow Lanterns
- (tags:snow Sweden video viaNeilRodger )
- 'Fuck Your Feelings' Doesn't Apply to White Men
- (tags:politics USA gender society racism sexism )
- Charisma Carpenter on Joss Whedon's abusive behaviour
- (tags:acting TV buffy abuse JossWhedon )
- Stage meat - food you can eat on stage and still act around
- (tags:food acting viaSwampers )
- I see the EU is asking the UK to honour its promises. I can't see that going down well
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1359590841619275776.html
(tags:UK Europe trade Doom NorthernIreland ) - Amsterdam becomes Europe's top trading hub, ousting London
- (tags:Netherlands shares finance UK Europe )
- Temperature of -22.9C in Braemar 'UK's lowest in 26 years'
- (tags:winter Scotland temperature cold UK )
- Netflix acquires the rights to all 22 Redwall books, plans film and series
- (tags:TV fantasy animals children books Netflix )
- Weird Pride Day is March 4th
- (tags:weird pride )
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Interesting Links for 10-10-2020
Oct. 10th, 2020 12:00 pm- The robot/insect wars lasted nearly thirty seconds
- (tags:robots insects video )
- Hurt Friends - a mashup of "Hurt" to the Friends theme
- (tags:music friends funny video )
- Apple Tells Secure Messaging App Telegram to Take Down Protestor Channels in Belarus
- (tags:Apple protests censorship )
- A company that didn't exist in April just got a contract for £110,000,000 to supply the government with PPE.
- (tags:corruption UK pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- Sweden's deaths per million people matches the USA, 10x that of Norway. Here's how that happened.
- (tags:Sweden death pandemic OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 24-01-2020
Jan. 24th, 2020 12:00 pm- Is Your Child an Elder God, Fae Changeling, Keanu Reeves, or Just a Kid?
- (tags:children KeanuReeves funny viaSwampers )
- The Church of England can, as usual, fuck right off
- (tags:LGBT ChurchOfEngland sex marriage OhForFucksSake )
- I love that Doctor Who is still making stories with some of the very original cast in them.
- (tags:drwho )
- Gaelic becomes default language for pupils starting school in Western Isles
- (tags:Scotland language )
- Some people are just ridiculously talented
- (tags:sports skills amazing video )
- How Facebook allows political ads to lie to you
- (tags:advertising lies Facebook politics )
- A serious umbrella malfunction.
- (tags:funny viaSwampers video )
- Did you know that Russia was cancelled?
- (tags:Russia funny )
- Puberty blockers can be life-saving drugs for trans teens
- (tags:puberty hormones transgender mentalhealth )
- The Good Place Is the Last Great Sitcom on Network TV
- (tags:tv philosophy )
- Interpolating Pixel Art and Sprites with AI
- In other words, adding extra frames between the manually drawn ones to smooth out the motion.
There certainly used to be a lot of people whose jobs were to draw these by hand for cartoons and the like...
(tags:animation ai viaMyBrotherMike ) - Legalising same sex marriage caused dramatic fall in suicides across Sweden and Denmark
- (tags:suicide LGBT marriage Sweden Denmark )
- The ugliest colour in the world
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- I Can't Show You How Pink This Pink Is
- (tags:colour video viaSwampers )
- On what date was Britain at its absolute best?
- (tags:UK history funny TV computers )
- The top 2019 Wikipedia pages
- (tags:wikipedia )
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