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Interesting Links for 28-02-2026
Feb. 28th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Behold the wonder of The Naked Mole Rat!
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- 2. Earth's heat to produce electricity for homes in UK clean energy first
- (tags:heat electricity UK )
- 3. AI and Dreamwidth
- (tags:dreamwidth ai )
- 4. "Pretty Lethal" Trailer (captured ballet dancers kick arse. Blood and quips, looks like a lot of fun)
- (tags:movies trailer video ballet viaLilysea )
- 5. What is going on with Britain (and the US) on the Chagos Islands?
- (tags:UK USA diplomacy )
- 6. Liberal Jews denounce bill to ban non-Orthodox prayers at Western Wall
- (tags:Israel Judaism religion OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 14-11-2025
Nov. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
- (tags:usa racism )
- 2. Lupus may be caused by the common Epstein-Barr virus (as well as MS)
- (tags:disease virus immune_system )
- 3. Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix
- (tags:automation driving usa )
- 4. The last-ever US penny was minted today in Philadelphia
- (tags:usa money cash )
- 5. Inside China's Mini PC Production: How Tiny Computers Are Made (a 22 minute factory tour)
- (tags:computers video manufacturing )
- 6. Marble: generating 3D scenes from text and imagery prompts
- (tags:3d design ai )
- 7. GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE (apocalyptically strange looking film, I rather fancy it)
- (tags:movies trailer weird video )
- 8. 5 key points as legal experts grilled by MSPs on indyref2
- (tags:scotland independence law )
- 9. Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World (down 17% in a decade, to less than half)
- (tags:religion USA )
- 10. UK tax calculator showing tax rates and marginal rates under various suggestions by different groups/parties
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Interesting Links for 13-09-2025
Sep. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 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 )
Interesting Links for 01-07-2025
Jul. 1st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Jaws (1975) | Modern Trailer
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- 2. Everything I Thought I Knew About Nasal Congestion Is Wrong
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- 3. Edinburgh's GDP per Capita now outpaces London
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- 4. Microsoft claims their new AI framework diagnoses 4x better than doctors. Here's why this is both impressive AND misleading
- (tags:ai medicine Microsoft )
- 5. China is cracking down on young women who write gay erotica
- (tags:china censorship LGBT OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 05-06-2025
Jun. 5th, 2025 12:00 pmTags:
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Interesting Links for 15-05-2025
May. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour doesn't believe British people should be allowed to live here with their families
- (tags:family migration UK OhForFucksSake Labour )
- 2. Crossness Pumping Station: seduced by symmetry
- (tags:art design architecture history London UK )
- 3. Dammit. I'm going to have to get a babysitter so I can go see Superman
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- 4. Would you like to see someone have their dream come true live on stage?
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- 5. Scottish Water warning after driest period in 60 years
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- 6. What it's like being a nanny for the super-rich
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- 7. EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis
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- 8. How to Sniff Out 'Copaganda': When the Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
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- 9. Audible to use AI narrators and translators
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- 10. South Korea's robot chefs worry human workers, disappoint customers
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Interesting Links for 10-04-2025
Apr. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Chili sauce in mascara: Wes Streeting's complicity in conversion abuse
- (tags:Labour torture transgender LGBT UK NHS )
- 2. Fox News, Conservative Influencers Say Tariffs Will Restore Masculinity (Somehow not satire)
- (tags:patriarchy usa politics )
- 3. Prostitute Falls Asleep During 'Star Wars' - Area Sex Worker Not As Into It As Client Had Hoped
- (tags:StarWars sexwork funny )
- 4. The Murderbot trailer looks like fun
- (tags:scifi TV trailer video )
- 5. LIsa Nandy changes her mind about abolishing monarchy
- (tags:UK monarchy Labour OhForFucksSake )
- 6. UK Postboxes upgraded with solar panels in high-tech parcel trial
- (tags:royalmail Technology solarpower viaDanielDWilliam )
- 7. The study linking Flouride with children's intelligence is fradulent nonsense
- (tags:children Intelligence teeth fraud research )
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Interesting Links for 04-04-2025
Apr. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Russia escalates attacks on 'internal enemy' LGBT as it expands war in Ukraine
- (tags:lgbt bigotry russia )
- 2. Why has Russia escaped Trump's tariffs?
- (tags:Russia USA trade )
- 3. A revolutionary new understanding of autism in girls
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- 4. How tarrifs really work (a peek into a deranged mind)
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- 5. An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
- (tags:intellectual_property ai )
- 6. Tariffs Are Driving Up Game Prices Now
- (tags:games economics USA politics )
- 7. The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT due to over-reliance on AI
- (tags:ai security thinking doom intelligence )
- 8. Largest ever UK pumped hydro scheme granted consent
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- 9. Chickens are the true miracle animal!
- (tags:comedy funny video chicken viaSwampers )
- 10. The "Naked Gun" Teaser Trailer actually made me giggle
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Interesting Links for 08-10-2024
Oct. 8th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Why are absurd house-remodelling videos going viral?
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- 2. We should have given Ukraine more weapons earlier, says ex-NATO chief
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- 3. World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission
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- 4. How much controversy was there over the introduction of car numberplates in the UK?
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- 5. Here's the UK's head of Infection Prevention & Control giving frankly appalling answers to the UK's Covid inquiry
- (tags:uk pandemic OhForFucksSake incompetence healthcare )
- 6. So, you want a movie that's *original* do you?
- (tags:movies bodies trailer video )
- 7. Scotland's population rising at fastest rate since 1940s (mostly due to people moving here from the remainder of the UK and elsewhere)
- (tags:scotland immigration )
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Interesting Links for 19-09-2024
Sep. 19th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. How crypto bros wrested Flappy Bird from its creator
- (tags:games Blockchain OhForFucksSake )
- 2. John Peralta Explodes Historic Technology into Three-Dimensional Diagrams
- (tags:Technology visualisation 3d )
- 3. LBC: Soldier's seven-year-old son refused passport by Home Office because of 'copyright' issues over blockbuster name (they then thankfully changed their minds)
- (tags:copyright names passport UK OhForFucksSake children )
- 4. The trailer for "Mickey 17" looks like a lot of fun.
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Interesting Links for 21-08-2024
Aug. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A story about a created being who wants more time.
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- 2. My brother's working on a new game that's just been announced
- (tags:games video trailer viaMyBrotherMike )
- 3. Giant spiders the size of rats are coming to the UK - but not to your garden
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- 4. Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover Is Now the Worst Buyout for Banks Since the Financial Crisis
- (tags:twitter ElonMusk banking )
Interesting Links for 23-03-2024
Mar. 23rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. SS Warrimoo: The Ship That Occupied Two Centuries And Hemispheres At The Same Time
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- 2. Against my better judgment I just excited by the Beetlejuice sequel trailer
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- 3. Comparing the Chinese and Western versions of "3 Body Problem"
- (tags:china netflix TV scifi )
- 4. How China is automating its production lines
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Interesting Links for 13-10-2023
Oct. 13th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Misery for motorists as Rishi Sunak's HS2 cut set to put half a million more lorries on the road
- (tags:transport doom uk hs2 )
- 2. Bentham's Mugging (a short play, wherein moral purity is found wanting)
- (tags:morality philosophy funny )
- 3. WordPress makes its posts available via the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc)
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- 4. 'Brahmastra Part One: Shiva' - for those people who like a very pretty religious superhero musical
- (tags:religion movies trailer video india )
- 5. On Whataboutery in response to Hamas.
- (tags:israel palestine terrorism )
- 6. Breakthrough in reading unopened ancient scrolls by scanning them
- (tags:archaeology ai technology prehistory )
- 7. France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations
- (tags:France Palestine protests )
- 8. Covid can cause our brain cells to fuse together causing cognitive impairment.
- (tags:Pandemic brain Doom )
- 9. Edinburgh Princes Street closed due to 'incident' as buses and trams affected
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- 10. Edinburgh's Princes Street closed and buses and trams disrupted after man found dead in early hours
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Supplemental Links - 28-06-2023
Jun. 28th, 2023 02:16 pm- 1. New Futurama is coming!
- (tags:futurama TV trailer video scifi animation )
- 2. South Koreans are set to become at least a year younger, thanks to new law
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- 3. Happy 50th Birthday Ethernet!
- (tags:networking Technology history )
- 4. And now the transphobes are attacking... Edinburgh Zoo. Who thankfully are pointing out their bigotry
- (tags:LGBT zoo Edinburgh bigotry OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 27-06-2023
Jun. 27th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Wagner Group: New clues over why Prigozhin abandoned coup emerge, after reports of threats to his family
- (tags:russia civilwar )
- 2. The Nimona trailer looks amazing. (Been looking forward to this since I read the comic a loooong time ago)
- (tags:comics movies animation trailer video )
- 3. Starbucks workers at 150 stores plan strike over not being allowed Pride decor
- (tags:LGBT USA coffee business )
- 4. Reminder that Google's automated systems will tell you any old nonsense
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Interesting Links for 08-06-2023
Jun. 8th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Labour comes out against Tory 'war on woke' bigotry
- (tags:lgbt labour GoodNews )
- 2. Why ADHD people have so many unfinished projects, and how to reframe that
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- 3. Stack Overflow has made its moderators very very angry
- (tags:forum ai communication volunteers doom )
- 4. Delays to new bus tracker system costs Edinburgh council over £1.5million
- (tags:buses edinburgh location )
- 5. The trailer for John Finnemore's new TV show (Good Omens Season 2) is out!
- (tags:TV trailer neilgaiman video davidtennant )
- 6. The dangerous power of cross examination
- (tags:law viaDanielDWilliam psychology )
- 7. We have hit the great oil plateau
- (tags:oil viaDanielDWilliam economics )
- 8. No, breastfeeding doesn't make kids smarter
- (tags:intelligence breastfeeding )
- 9. The Dutch government wants to automatically gain permission to target victims of hackers
- (tags:netherlands hacking law )
- 10. A detailed explanation of the government's judicial review of the Covid Inquiry - and why this judicial review is so significant
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- 11. Australian government set to introduce national ban on Nazi symbols
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- 12. Why we shouldn't hold referendums
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Interesting Links for 17-02-2023
Feb. 17th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The Tetris trailer is the second-best video with falling blocks and Lenin in it that I've ever seen
- (tags:tetris video trailer viaSwampers )
- 2. A Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris
- (tags:Russia history video tetris song music )
- 3. 'Siberia will be free': Russian regions vote in unauthorised independence referendums. (I had a feeling this would happen if Ukraine sucked up enough of Russia's military that it couldn't maintain its grip elsewhere)
- (tags:Russia independence )
- 4. One of the biggest landlords in Los Angeles just defaulted on $755 million in loans for two sky scrapers as remote work keeps offices vacant
- (tags:work business rental fail )
- 5. Bodmin Moor photographer caught inside starling murmuration
- (tags:video birds viaSwampers )
- 6. Hidden hydrogen: Earth may hold vast stores - but can we get it out?
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- 7. Spain gives final approval to law making it easier to legally change gender (from 14 with parental approval, from 16 without)
- (tags:lgbt transgender Spain GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 06-12-2022
Dec. 6th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The big budget French version of The Three Musketeers looks amazing
- (tags:France trailer video viaSwampers )
- 2. Getting AI to set tests, mark them, complain about the marking, respond to the chubby, and grade the teacher
- (tags:academia ai )
- 3. Do Games Have to be Fun?
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- 4. Covid causes your immune system to work badly, leading to further infections from other sources
- (tags:Pandemic immune_system Doom )
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