Interesting Links for 09-04-2025
Apr. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Confusion surrounds ETA visa waiver process for some dual national Brits
- (tags:migration uk passport )
- 2. Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals
- (tags:Intelligence crows primates evolution )
- 3. No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
- (tags:ai Technology images )
- 4. Trump tariffs based on massive error (as well as being total nonsense)
- (tags:mathematics trade incompetence EpicStupidity politics usa )
- 5. Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy (current payback time for a solar panel in Pakistan is 2-3 years)
- (tags:pakistan solarpower GoodNews )
- 6. People conceived during colder months may end up with a lower body mass index and less fat around internal organs
- (tags:weather temperature fat )
- 7. What's going on with the announcements of "bringing dire wolves back from extinction"
- (tags:prehistory DNA animals wolves genetics viaPatrickHadfield )
- 8. Bracket City - a fun new daily puzzle!
- (tags:puzzle games )
- 9. Trade Will Move On Without the United States
- (tags:trade USA )
- 10. Great Moments in Peaceful Protest History
- (tags:protests funny satire comic )
- 11. Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws
- (tags:gender race research libraries USA censorship )
- 12. China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
- (tags:china materials USA trade doom )
- 13. How are Trump's supporters dealing with the tariff fallout?
- (tags:politics usa republicans )
Interesting Links for 08-08-2024
Aug. 8th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. In 1997, the minimum age for women gymnasts was raised to 16. Some thought it would usher in a less competitive era. Instead, athletes of incredible skill and longevity emerged.
- (tags:age sports women girls )
- 2. Republicans are pro-cancer
- (tags:cancer republicans USA politics )
- 3. An injection every 6 months completely prevents HIV
- (tags:aids hiv GoodNews )
- 4. On October 23rd 1911 400 guests sat down to the world's first 'Cold-Storage Banquet'
- (tags:food temperature history )
- 5. What would a move to a Canadian-style pensions model for the UK's local government schemes look like?
- (tags:pensions uk canada )
- 6. Worldcon arrives in Glasgow (I wish I could go. Hopefully next time around!)
- (tags:conventions scifi glasgow )
Interesting Links for 16-05-2024
May. 16th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What's it like being one of the vast hidden teams of OnlyFans chatters who pretend to be sexy women.
- (tags:sexwork fraud communication )
- 2. The future of motorway rehabilitation - a bridge that runs along the length of the motorway so that repairs can happen underneath
- (tags:design Technology video impressive )
- 3. 2023 temperatures were warmest we've seen for at least 2,000 years
- (tags:globalwarming doom )
- 4. Edinburgh planning: £80 million two tower blocks in Leith approved
- (tags:Edinburgh housing )
- 5. Body temperature and depression seem to interact with each other in interesting ways
- (tags:temperature depression )
- 6. Sex Education - Benefits and Statistics
- (tags:education sex children )
- 7. Raw Milk Sales Skyrocket in the USA as Idiots Believe Drinking Bird Flu Will Give Them Immunity
- (tags:virus disease birds milk EpicStupidity USA )
- 8. A fantastic review of Chuck Tingle's trans wizard novel.
- (tags:lgbt harrypotter transgender review fantasy satire )
- 9. 'It's destroyed us': Parents of children with long Covid accused of making it up - threatened with having their children taken away
- (tags:pandemic children OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 28-02-2024
Feb. 28th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Beautiful Edinburgh garden many locals don't know about named most peaceful spot in UK (I'd lived here twenty years before I knew it was there)
- (tags:Edinburgh gardens nature )
- 2. If you're wondering why there's a worldwide shortage of ADHD drugs, blame the USA
- (tags:USA adhd OhForFucksSake regulation manufacturing )
- 3. Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users' Data to Train AI Tools
- (tags:ai Tumblr wordpress OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Texas will add more grid batteries than any other state this year, more than doubling its capacity
- (tags:Texas batteries GoodNews )
- 5. The reason why Tory MPs won't use the word 'Islamophobia'
- (tags:islam UK politics )
- 6. Small steps forward in understanding the links between DNA damage and aging
- (tags:genetics aging )
- 7. How the gender pay gap in the UK compares to other nations
- (tags:gender wages pay UK )
- 8. Atmospheric rivers mapped by scientists in California
- (tags:rain weather )
- 9. Botanical gardens can cool city air by an average of 5 °C (and other green spaces are also effective, if less so)
- (tags:gardens cities temperature )
Interesting Links for 03-11-2023
Nov. 3rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Bigots lose Scottish court case over definition of 'woman'
- (tags:bigotry GoodNews scotland transgender )
- 2. The Information Commissioner found, two years ago, that the Scottish Government didn't use WhatsApp for discussions.
- (tags:Scotland government communication )
- 3. Ancient roman road found in Stirling garden.
- (tags:Scotland Rome archeology )
- 4. Peter Jackson Talks About Making The Beatles' Last Music Video
- (tags:peterjackson Beatles video music )
- 5. Insulin less temperature-sensitive than previously thought (can cope at temperatures up to 25 degrees for 6 months)
- (tags:insulin diabetes temperature )
- 6. This Plane Wasn't Snooping On Protesters In Los Angeles, It Was Dropping Irradiated Bugs
- (tags:insects radiation fertility USA airplanes )
- 7. Cyclists are Better People than Drivers
- (tags:cycling psychology morality driving cars bicycles )
- 8. The TRUTH about stars!
- (tags:stars space comic funny )
Interesting Links for 04-07-2023
Jul. 4th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Thomas Cook ends sale of all attractions with captive cetaceans
- (tags:dolphins whales travel GoodNews )
- 2. A modest proposal for helping the Prime Minister "keep on top of government" and "to push priorities"
- (tags:organisation politics UK )
- 3. Britain Faces a Giant Water Bill, And Nobody Wants to Pay It
- (tags:UK water business Doom )
- 4. Degrees What?
- (tags:temperature visualisation )
- 5. The gay ultra-Orthodox Jewish TikTok star exposed for being a fake finally speaks out
- (tags:LGBT Judaism fraud )
Interesting Links for 13-12-2022
Dec. 13th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Researchers thought weight and education had shared genetic roots - turns out that educated people tended to marry thin people
- (tags:education weight genetics family )
- 2. How many times does Hidetaka Miyazaki have to tell an interviewer that Armored Core 6 isn't a Soulsborne game?
- (tags:games interview mecha )
- 3. Reminder that "Eskimo" is a slur.
- (tags:Inuit language abuse )
- 4. The 10 Most Promising Breakthrough Innovations of 2022
- (tags:science viaDanielDWilliam )
- 5. Renewables are set to triple over the next three years, and overtake coal to be the largest source worldwide
- (tags:renewables GoodNews viaBenWerdmuller )
- 6. Probably the geekiest drinking game of all time
- (tags:games alcohol geekery Windows )
- 7. When your nose gets cold it loses its ability to fight infections
- (tags:disease cold temperature noses )
- 8. Disney now hiding LGBT content from kids, irrespective of age rating
- (tags:LGBT children Disney )
- 9. Independent blockchain news site turns out to be funded by fradulent crypto company
- (tags:fraud journalism blockchain )
- 10. The amusement park rides in The Centrifuge Brain Project deeply unsettled me
- (tags:video gravity physics movie documentary )
- 11. It is very hard to keep a straight face while an elephant is fondling it
- (tags:elephants cute video funny )
- 12. I'm not sure if my advice would be to never interview the Muppets live, or always interview the Muppets live.
- (tags:muppets interview funny video )
Interesting Links for 08-08-2022
Aug. 8th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Teenage girls are being raped by several boys during their boyfriends' gang initiation
- (tags:UK gangs rape )
- 2. The Dangerous Ideas of "Longtermism" and "Existential Risk"
- (tags:morality transhumanism )
- 3. Genesis: an interpreted, Turing-complete Paleo-Hebrew programming language
- (tags:programming Jews funny )
- 4. Humanities scholarship labor crisis: How the infrastructure of research is falling apart.
- (tags:academia Doom research )
- 5. Why does the Bank of England appear to be ignoring its mandate?
- (tags:economics Doom UK viaDanielDWilliam )
- 6. The terrible, awful, no-good morality of Thomas the Tank Engine
- (tags:morality children stories )
- 7. How the Conservatives are going to crash the UK's most profitable export industry
- (tags:uk art Education academia entertainment )
- 8. Tax cuts for the rich lead to higher income inequality in both the short- and medium-term with no significant effect on economic growth or unemployment
- (tags:tax inequality economics )
- 9. Finland & Croatia Test Digital Passports
- (tags:passport finland croatia )
- 10. Spain orders public places set air conditioning no lower than 27 degrees Celsius
- (tags:spain electricity temperature weather )
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 )
Interesting Links for 14-06-2022
Jun. 14th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. What things tend to lead to happiness?
- (tags:happiness psychology )
- 2. 1 in 5 US adults have Long Covid
- (tags:pandemic health usa )
- 3. Why can't we remember being born or our first words?
- (tags:language memory babies children )
- 4. Majority Of Northern Ireland Politicians Reject UK's Protocol Plan "In Strongest Possible Terms"
- (tags:UK NorthernIreland trade Europe politics )
- 5. Whole bunch of homophobia in the adoption system
- (tags:LGBT adoption children UK OhForFucksSake gay )
- 6. Europe's Plan to Quit Russian Fuel Plunges Pakistan Into Darkness
- (tags:Europe Russia fuel oil Doom Pakistan Ukraine war viaDanielDWilliam )
- 7. Healthy human brains are hotter than previously thought, exceeding 40C in the core
- (tags:brain temperature )
- 8. Europe is prepping for a trade war with the UK that no-one wants
- (tags:europe uk trade doom NorthernIreland )
- 9. Neil Patrick Harris Boards Doctor Who
- (tags:drwho )
- 10. BA.4, BA.5 rise in Europe; officials sound alarm of COVID-19 surge to come
- (tags:pandemic doom )
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 )
Interesting Links for 05-07-2021
Jul. 5th, 2021 12:00 pm- When "Ma'am" and "Sir" Just Don't Work (Gender Neutral and Nonbinary-Exclusive Language; A Small Guide)
- (tags:language gender )
- This thread is a delightful little spooky short story
- (tags:short_story horror Twitter )
- In Thailand, blood sacrifice is out. Strawberry Fanta is in.
- (tags:religion Thailand food colour )
- How can Christian fundamentalists be anti-Semitic and Pro-Israel at the same time?
- (tags:christianity Jews OhForFucksSake Israel )
- St James Quarter floods as heavy rainfall batters Edinburgh during storm
- (tags:Edinburgh weather rain shopping )
- World's largest ever four day week trial in Iceland 'overwhelming success'
- (tags:work working_hours Iceland )
- Brian Blessed's Tarzan story is delightful
- (tags:movies Disney voice )
- Ships! Cats! In! Tiny! Hammocks!
- (tags:cats navy history photos viaSwampers )
- City streets need trees
- (tags:trees cities temperature )
- Transmission of Covid between 2 people who used the same bathroom 40 minutes apart
- (tags:toilet pandemic Doom Epidemiology )
Interesting Links for 04-06-2021
Jun. 4th, 2021 12:00 pm- Cryobattery energy storage plant proposed for Highlands (claimed efficiency between 60% and 70%)
- (tags:temperature air storage energy scotland )
- Fifteen Years of Radar Reveal Venus's Most Basic Fact
- (tags:space radar )
- Disgraced Tory who Boris Johnson gave House of Lords seat against official advice donates £500k to party
- (tags:corruption bribes Conservatives )
- Is there now a final solution to the mystery of Dyatlov Pass?
- (tags:russia snow death history )
- How feasible would it be to inject you with microchips in your vaccines?
- (tags:vaccination processor conspiracy technology ViaDrCross )
- A Fart Joke Is Not a Pogrom
- (tags:jokes propaganda Israel Jews genocide )
- Thirteen on trial over online abuse and death threats to girl who attacked Islam
- (tags:Islam abuse law France )
Interesting Links for 01-06-2021
Jun. 1st, 2021 12:00 pm- Why is the earth's core so hot? And how do scientists measure its temperature? (I always thought it was radiation, turns out not so much!)
- (tags:earth heat temperature )
- Brexit lorry park ruins night sky for Kent residents
- (tags:UK Europe light )
- Rescuers question what3words' use in emergencies
- (tags:language location emergency fail )
- Parents with violent children 'at breaking point'
- (tags:violence children parents )
- Scottish police want body cams
- (tags:cameras police Scotland )
Interesting Links for 20-02-2021
Feb. 20th, 2021 12:00 pm- Monkeys having a diving competition
- (tags:monkeys video water viaSwampers )
- Why Uber lost their case, and why it's so important
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1362723609006006274.html
(tags:taxi apps work UK law ) - Petition · Embra Cooncil: Pit Googly Eyes Oan The Jobby
- (tags:petition funny Edinburgh hotel architecture viaSwampers )
- Scientists have discovered how to break into people's dreams and leave them messages
- (tags:dreams )
- Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows
- (tags:computers Mars space Linux Windows )
- How Antidepressants Work, at Last?
- (tags:antidepressants psychology brain )
- If you've ever wondered what it's like supporting ancient code in a big company...
- (tags:software funny OhForFucksSake )
- Pfizer vaccine can cope without ultra-cold storage for two weeks longer than we thought
- (tags:vaccine temperature pandemic GoodNews )
- There is nothing funny about the British army, at all
- (tags:military UK video funny true )
- Draw an iceberg and see how it will float.
- (tags:iceberg water )
- Being a female tech lead at Mailchimp
- (tags:Jobs technology OhForFucksSake )
- UK government cites US anti-LGBT hate group in free speech proposals
- (tags:LGBT abortion freespeech OhForFucksSake )
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 )
Interesting Links for 15-11-2020
Nov. 15th, 2020 12:00 pm- Dominic Cummings Is Gone. But What Does His Reign Tell Us About Boris Johnson?
- (tags:BorisJohnson UK politics Doom )
- Do not pet, touch, talk to, talk about, or otherwise interact with service animals
- (tags:pets dogs animals disability )
- There's a link between traffic-related air pollution and mental disorders
- (tags:mentalhealth pollution traffic )
- Chili pepper consumption associated with 25% reduction in death from any cause
- (tags:death food )
- Remembering strengthens memories. Here's how that works
- (tags:memory brain neuroscience )
- Amazon declares that Northern Ireland is no longer part of the UK
- (tags:Amazon NorthernIreland uk )
- There's a Link Between QAnon and Polling Errors (because they don't trust pollsters enough to answer questions)
- (tags:conspiracy polls USA )
- The Falkland Islands are landmine free for the first time in 38 years
- (tags:falklands military GoodNews )
- Near Donegal the trees are on the march
- (tags:trees video Ireland wtf )
- We could be detecting half of Covid carriers with cameras. Why aren't we?
- (tags:pandemic temperature cameras )
Interesting Links for 15-10-2020
Oct. 15th, 2020 12:00 pm- Is wind power's future in deep water?
- (tags:windpower Ocean )
- Amazon to escape UK digital services tax that will hit smaller traders
- (tags:Amazon tax wtf UK )
- Why women's gymnastics is legal child abuse
- (tags:abuse sports girls )
- Dissolving The Fermi Paradox
- (tags:aliens statistics )
- How game genres are born and how that can stifle innovation
- (tags:games genre design history video )
- High pressure superconductors reach room temperature
- (tags:physics temperature pressure )
- White House informally endorses letting pandemic spread unchecked
- (tags:pandemic USA Doom OhForFucksSake )
- Why are more Scots supporting independence?
- (tags:independence polls demographics Scotland )
- China insists Genghis Khan exhibit not use words 'Genghis Khan'
- (tags:china censorship history )
- Rosie Duffield: Second staffer quits over Labour MP's transphobic views
- (tags:LGBT labour transgender bigotry )
- Plan to let people get cashback from shops without buying anything
- (tags:cash UK )
- When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in.
- (tags:Bears government USA libertarianism )
- The world's first known babies were from Orkney
- (tags:fish archeology Scotland )
- What would be required for the UK (or Scotland) to rejoin the EU
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1316406750321442816.html
(tags:Europe Scotland uk )
Interesting Links for 25-09-2020
Sep. 25th, 2020 12:00 pm- J.K. Rowling plugs disgusting anti-trans online store to her 14 million Twitter followers
- (tags:jkrowling transgender LGBT OhForFucksSake bigotry )
- The borders of Kent are more complex than you'd think.
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1309108526522994698.html
(tags:trade borders ) - 18% of people with COVID symptoms adhere to self-isolation, and only 11% adhere to quarantine if contacted by test and trace
- (tags:pandemic doom )
- Why the Supreme Court Should Have 27 Justices, Not 9
- (tags:law USA viaNancyLebov )
- End the Poisonous Process of Picking Supreme Court Justices
- (tags:viaNancyLebov law USA )
- Tempestry Project - tapestries that show how temperature changes over time
- (tags:craft temperature globalwarming history visualisation )
- Here's what happens when all the pubs empty at the same time, because of the curfew
- (tags:alcohol pandemic London UK video )
- What The French Get So Right About Taking Care Of New Mother's
- (tags:vagina exercise France childbirth healthcare )
- Preventing spread of coronavirus in Scottish universities (frankly they should just mandate remote learning, this is unworkable and unpleasant)
- (tags:university Scotland pandemic )
- PEN15's Gay Teen Storyline Is Shockingly Authentic
- (tags:writing TV lgbt )
- Covid-hit university students: 'Why have they sent us here?'
- (tags:university OhForFucksSake pandemic )