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2025-10-15 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 15-10-2025

1. The Commissioner for human rights for the Council of Europe warns that Britain's treatment of trans people could breach the ECHR
(tags:rights europe uk transgender lgbt )
2. Have you made the Ur-Ur error?
(tags:language history )
3. A human-faced stone from 12 thousand years ago was found in Karahan Tepe (Turkey)
(tags:turkey archeology prehistory )
4. Afghanistan commando who served with British Army is deported to Taliban (because the Home Office failed to get paperwork done)
(tags:Afghanistan UK military migration OhForFucksSake )
5. How UK recognising Palestine helped win Arab support for Trump's Gaza deal
(tags:UK Gaza Israel diplomacy )
6. Enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.
(tags:organdonor technology GoodNews )
7. Waymo's Robotaxis Are Coming to London in 2026
(tags:taxis automation Technology london uk )
8. So far, in 2025, Britain has wasted more than £1Billion switching off wind turbines and paying gas plants to switch on.
(tags:waste electricity uk OhForFucksSake )
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2025-09-21 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 21-09-2025

1. EU Data Act — What Businesses Need to Know (no more lock-in!)
(tags:Europe data regulation )
2. Troubles legacy: Mixed reaction to UK-Ireland deal on addressing cases
(tags:UK Ireland )
3. Visa holders on vacation have 15 hours to return to US or pay $100k fee
(tags:USA migration OhForFucksSake )
4. Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (a headline from 1939)
(tags:nazis censorship society history )
5. We have invented the vibroblade! (The World's First Ultrasonic Chef's Knife for Home Cooks)
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2025-09-19 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 19-09-2025

1. Labour's plan to jumpstart city building after Rayner's 1.5m homes drive stalls
(tags:housing uk )
2. Chimps consume a pint of lager's worth of alcohol every day in fruit
(tags:alcohol chimpanzees )
3. Man with Covid for over two years became virus incubator, as it evolved into new variants of concern
(tags:pandemic virus evolution )
4. Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads (and so I will never buy one)
(tags:advertising Samsung technology OhForFucksSake )
5. Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms (in Canada)
(tags:Canada girls sports school LGBT transgender bigotry )
6. Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
(tags:politics Child_abuse satire usa uk royalty )
7. An "At The Mountains Of Madness" game, where you play as a penguin.
(tags:penguins hplovecraft games wtf )
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2025-09-13 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 13-09-2025

1. If you were wondering what Bryan Fuller and Mads Mikkelsen were up to, it's a movie about a guy who will (for the right money) kill the monster under your bed. Dust Bunny (also starring Sigourney Weaver).
I wish my kids were a few years older...
(tags:monsters children movies trailer )
2. How were escalators invented, and how safe are they? (very, unless your maintenance people are corrupt)
(tags:design technology safety video history )
3. Israeli conductor condemns his country in extraordinary Proms outburst
(tags:Israel Palestine )
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2025-09-01 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 01-09-2025

1. Big Tech Companies in the US Have Been Told Not to Apply the EU's Digital Services Act
(tags:Europe USA socialnetworking regulation )
2. How far away is quantum computing from affecting current cryptography?
(tags:cryptography quantum )
3. Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
(tags:quantum mathematics )
4. What do AI fashion models mean for the future of beauty standards
(tags:ai fashion beauty )
5. Why Labour Looking Into Changing The ECHR Matters
(tags:Labour rights OhForFucksSake )
6. Who will win the Eternal Struggle?
(tags:war funny )
7. The Qweremin (a qwerty theremin)
(tags:music technology )
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2025-08-11 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 11-08-2025

1. Torn Apart: Robot Crab Meets Terrible Fate When Its True Nature Is Discovered by Real Crabs
(tags:robot crabs )
2. One of the things I'm enjoying about parenthood is being introduced to new music by the kids. In this case "Golden" from the "KPop Demon Hunters" soundtrack
(tags:music korea video )
3. Shirley Temple Shares Her Experience with Naked Producers At MGM (when she was twelve)
(tags:video history movies Child_abuse interview )
4. Against Sundials
(tags:time society technology poetry )
5. New open letter demands change to latest RSHE guidance to prevent another Section 28
(tags:UK school bigotry LGBT transgender )
6. Always ignore the fun police
(tags:fun society advice )
7. Denying unanimous consent (one way the Democrats are slowing down Trump)
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2025-08-09 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 09-08-2025

1. How to make a carpet (hypnotizing video)
(tags:video craft impressive )
2. How Britain became the libel capital of the world
(tags:law libel uk history OhForFucksSake viaKenny )
3. A business card that runs a fluid simulation
(tags:business advertising impressive technology )
4. Research: When Juggling Work and Family, Women Offer More Emotional Support Than Men
(tags:women men work family support research )
5. Germany halts military exports to Israel for use in Gaza
(tags:Germany Israel gaza trade )
6. Students who listened to material scored worse than those who read it
(tags:reading hearing learning psychology )
7. The new ChatGPT is less personal sounding than the old one. The women with AI boyfriends are not happy.
(tags:AI relationships )
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2025-08-06 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 06-08-2025

1. Scientific fraud has become an industry, alarming analysis finds
(tags:science research publishing fraud OhForFucksSake )
2. An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine (Finds that less than 2% of the money raised goes to the candidates)
(tags:democrats fundraising corruption )
3. Didn't Take Long To Reveal The UK's Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
(tags:UK privacy censorship politics OhForFucksSake )
4. World Athletics' mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know - I discovered the relevant gene in 1990
(tags:genetics sports gender )
5. Tech billionaires are arguing amongst themselves about how exactly humanity should go extinct
(tags:extinction humans ai thefuture )
6. When Disney Went Digital (earlier than you'd think)
(tags:Disney history computers technology art animation movies )
7. Labour got a bunch of former-Conservative voters in Scotland, and are now in danger of shedding them to Reform (might explain a few things)
(tags:scotland politics Conservatives labour )
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2025-07-11 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 11-07-2025

1. Everything tech giants will hate about the EU's new AI rules
(tags:ai technology regulation Europe )
2. Photos: The Scale of China's Solar Power Projects
(tags:solarpower photos china )
3. What kind of video games do different fantasy races make?
(tags:games funny fantasy )
4. Fake signs and graffiti, frequently science-fiction related, from Glasgow
(tags:Glasgow scifi graffiti sign art funny viaSwampers )
5. The Marks & Spencer hack was down to TCS having *terrible* security processed on their helpdesk.
(tags:security epicfail OhForFucksSake incompetence )
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2025-07-08 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 08-07-2025

1. 7 Engineers Suspended After $2.3 Million Bridge Includes Bizarre 90-Degree Turn
(tags:architecture design epicfail India )
2. Edinburgh Airport liquid limit increased from 100ml to two litres
(tags:airport security Technology )
3. The Time Someone Plagiarized Calvin & Hobbes and Nobody Noticed or Cared
(tags:comics plagiarism history art ai )
4. Turns out a great way to get children to want to learn their times tables is to set them to pop songs
(tags:numbers video music )
5. Employers to be banned from silencing harassed or abused staff
(tags:regulation abuse work UK law )
6. Some English children are living in 'Dickensian' poverty, says commissioner
(tags:england poverty children OhForFucksSake )
7. Electricity from large solar arrays with batteries now cheaper than from fossil plants in Germany
(tags:electricity solarpower batteries germany GoodNews )
8. O Fortuna Misheard Lyrics
(tags:music hearing words illusion funny video )
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2025-07-05 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 05-07-2025

1. Kent council bans transgender books in children's library section
(tags:bigotry lgbt transgender uk library )
2. The story behind George Lucas rewriting/reshooting Anakin's turn to the dark side after principal photography had concluded on Revenge of the Sith
(tags:StarWars )
3. Capybara! On! Ice!
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4. Scotland pupils show rising reading comprehension
(tags:Scotland reading GoodNews children )
5. Hundreds of robots move Shanghai city block
(tags:robots china cities architecture video )
6. You will own nothing and be happy (Stop Killing Games)
(tags:games technology history )
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2025-06-23 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 23-06-2025

1. Publishers are facing existential threat from AI
(tags:publishing internet ai business )
2. Video of Lava Fountains Likely Setting New Record For Kilauea Eruption (June 20, 2025)
(tags:lava volcano Hawaii video )
3. New EU rules for durable, energy-efficient and repairable smartphones and tablets
(tags:Technology phones europe regulation )
4. The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos
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2025-06-16 12:01 pm
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Interesting Links for 16-06-2025

1. Damaged paintings can now be restored in hours rather than months but printing the fix and applying it on top.
(tags:painting technology art )
2. The Meta AI App Lets You 'Discover' People's Bizarrely Personal Chats
(tags:privacy ai facebook )
3. A New Obesity Pill May Burn Fat Without Suppressing Appetite
(tags:weight medicine obesity )
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2025-06-10 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 10-06-2025

1. This seems like a reasonable overview of how Labour are doing on the economy
(tags:economics labour uk )
2. The Trump Administration's Nasty Campaign Against Trans People
(tags:lgbt bigotry usa transgender OhForFucksSake )
3. The Allegory Of The Cave - Further Details
(tags:comic philosophy funny )
4. Fiber Optic Bird's Nest Heralds A Fiber Drone Summer In Ukraine
(tags:Ukraine fibreoptics drone war nature birds technology )
5. World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says
(tags:fertility population )
6. Civil servants told to consider quitting if they disagree with policy over Gaza
(tags:uk gaza government )
7. Give new dads six weeks off work at nearly full pay, MPs say
(tags:uk parenting fatherhood )
8. Uber brings forward trialling driverless taxis in UK
(tags:automation taxi uk driving transport )
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2025-06-06 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 06-06-2025

1. First case on AI and copyright referred to the CJEU
(tags:europe law copyright ai )
2. Therapy Chatbot Tells Recovering Addict to Have a Little Meth as a Treat
(tags:ai drugs )
3. What it's like being made responsible for the behaviour of Conservative MPs
(tags:Conservatives chaos politics UK )
4. Reform leads in voting intentions - but where does their vote come from?
(tags:voting polls uk politics )
5. The Universal Tech Tree
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2025-05-28 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 28-05-2025

1. Why did they have to say the Liverpool driver was white, asks man who was all set to start looting Greggs
(tags:satire racism UK )
2. Ukraine's New Way of War
(tags:Ukraine war technology military )
3. Facebook refuses to crack down on rampant scams from bogus ads to avoid losing revenue
(tags:Facebook advertising fraud OhForFucksSake )
4. Plentiful Data, No Regret: What the Utah Review on Youth Trans Care Found
(tags:USA research transgender children healthcare )
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2025-05-23 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 23-05-2025

1. Why are Scotland's councils so short of cash when tax is going up?
(tags:scotland tax )
2. Greenland Signs Lucrative Minerals Deal with Europe in Blow to Trump
(tags:Europe USA materials Greenland trade )
3. How I Beat NES Mario in 0.000005 Seconds (the nerdiest video I have ever watched. If you've seen something nerdier then do let me know)
(tags:video games programming technology mario )
4. Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa
(tags:USA politics Africa southafrica )
5. Programmers spend 5% of their time editing code, the rest is mostly understanding it/the issue they're trying to solve..
(tags:programming research )
6. Which word made you old? (Mine was GOAT)
(tags:language age change comic )
7. Explaining "what a species is" turns out to be very very tricky
(tags:video ontology life )
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2025-04-28 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 28-04-2025

1. 177-meter-long machine renews entire railway tracks — removing old rails, cleaning ballast, and laying new track all in one go!
(tags:trains Technology impressive video )
2. A 10-foot microscope reveals big lessons about the tiniest threats to the human body
(tags:virus microscope impressive viaKenny )
3. The Settlers is Louis Theroux at his shocking best
(tags:israel palestine gaza tv review )
4. Edinburgh to get 160 new affordable homes
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2025-04-19 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 19-04-2025

1. Glad to see the LibDems taking the Supreme Court ruling on trans rights seriously
(tags:lgbt transgender bigotry libdem uk law )
2. Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
(tags:genocide USA politics satire )
3. No obligation to exclude trans women under 'misunderstood' Supreme Court ruling, former top judge says
(tags:transgender UK law )
4. Scientists create the world's largest lab-grown chicken nugget, complete with artificial veins
(tags:food technology )
5. Turns out you can have cheap green hydrogen buses - if you live next to a chemical works that has hydrogen waste
(tags:hydrogen transport buses doom )
6. But good sir, what is electricity?
(tags:electricity )
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2025-04-13 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 13-04-2025

1. Key principles on in-game virtual currencies in the EU
(tags:regulation money games Europe )
2. Is Airplane Mode on Flights Necessary or Outdated?
(tags:airplanes phones technology )
3. After Paris curbed cars, air pollution maps reveal a dramatic improvement
(tags:air pollution cars Paris GoodNews )
4. The Solid-State Shift: Reinventing the Transformer for Modern Grids
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5. The largest flood in Earth's history burst through Gibraltar and Sicily and refilled the entire Mediterranean in just a few years
(tags:geology sea Europe flooding )
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