Entries tagged with trams

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Interesting Links for 25-05-2025

1. How Coventry is building a tram for a tiny fraction of what it cost Edinburgh: (tags:trams construction UK GoodNews )

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Interesting Links for 09-03-2025

1. Social housing to be demolished as post-Grenfell repairs are too expensive: (tags:UK housing OhForFucksSake )
2. Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions: (tags:cars driving ux )
3. Game-Changing Vaccine Offers Long-Lasting Protection Against COVID-19 & Flu: (tags:vaccine pandemic flu GoodNews )
4. The Person Centred Association comes out against transphobia: (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry GoodNews counselling )
5. Asimov's, Analog, and Fantasy and Science Fiction have all been purchased: (tags:scifi publishing )
6. Why the Edinburgh South Suburban tram/train is unlikely to happen: (tags:trains trams edinburgh economics )
7. The Relationship between Autism and Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes/Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders: (tags:autism genetics bodies )
8. Scandal of the sick: Ill and disabled PIP benefit claimants die while waiting for payments: (tags:UK welfare austerity OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 14-08-2024

1. The Strange Logic of Germany's Antisemitism Bureaucrats: (tags:Germany Jews bigotry Islam Palestine )
2. The remarkably unlikely story of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane: (tags:history war Spain UK navy politics )
3. Brits would vote to rejoin EU in new referendum, 59:41: (tags:UK Europe polls )
4. J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk Named in Imane Khelif's Cyberbullying Lawsuit: (tags:jkrowling ElonMusk bullying Olympics bigotry transgender LGBT )
5. 6% of people suffering during the ADHD medication shortage report losing their jobs: (tags:adhd jobs OhForFucksSake medication )
6. Edinburgh Trams staff back strike action over lack of toilet breaks: (tags:Edinburgh trams strike toilets )
7. Some companies aren't happy about their adverts appearing under far-right hate posts on X.: (tags:twitter bigotry advertising )
8. Dealing with Time in the Roman Calendar Is A Nightmare: (tags:Rome time date history wtf viaFanf )
9. Israeli Army Uses Palestinian Civilians to Inspect Potentially Booby-trapped Tunnels in Gaza: (tags:Israel Palestine WarCrimes OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 13-10-2023

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): (tags:WordPress socialmedia )
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: (tags:Edinburgh transport buses trams )
10. Edinburgh's Princes Street closed and buses and trams disrupted after man found dead in early hours: (tags:death edinburgh )

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Interesting Links for 19-09-2023

1. Keir Starmer warned he can't renegotiate Brexit deal without rejoining EU single market: (tags:UK Europe labour Doom )
2. Edinburgh tourist site uses AI chat. It is, of course, rubbish.: (tags:tourism ai OhForFucksSake )
3. What happened to prices when fishermen started using mobile phones?: (tags:fish economics communication history phones )
4. On the Presumption of Innocence As It Stands Between Private Citizens: (tags:law abuse guilt )
5. I took the monotropism questionnaire (and scored 174. More than 21% of autistic people and 89% of allistic people).: (tags:autism psychology quiz )
6. Trans woman who took own life after three years waiting for NHS appointment was failed by system, mother says (Current waiting list is around 5 years): (tags:transgender nhs OhForFucksSake suicide )
7. The Edinburgh Tram Inquiry is finally released!: (tags:edinburgh trams )

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Interesting Links for 09-09-2023

1. Lottery winners do not tend to lose all of their money quickly: (tags:money lottery myths )
2. What is going on with Tumblr?: (tags:business Tumblr socialnetworking Doom )
3. Who had "electrified E coli" on their 2023 Doom Chart?: (tags:Doom bacteria electricity )
4. UK's long-lasting snow patch melts away for 10th time in 300 years: (tags:snow Scotland globalwarming )
5. Russian enthusiasm for Ukraine war falls to lowest level since invasion (38% from 52%): (tags:Russia Ukraine war polls )
6. Edinburgh trams: North-south line, Granton to Dalkeith, could go via Western General Hospital and Orchard Brae: (tags:Edinburgh trams )
7. The Sandman Season 1 4K & Blu-ray Release Date Set: (tags:sandman TV BluRay )
8. How to use etiquette to disarm people in arguments: (tags:etiquette argument )
9. A technology startup has made startling claims for its innovative ceramic nanolayer-based storage: (tags:storage materials )

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Interesting Links for 29-06-2023

1. Can you beat...The Password Game: (tags:passwords funny game )
2. 10cm African huntsman spider found in Edinburgh suitcase: (tags:spiders aieeee! edinburgh )
3. Edinburgh tram report 'still with publishers' nine weeks on: (tags:Edinburgh trams publishing wtf )
4. The Connection Between Autism And The Gut Microbiome Is Clearer Than Ever: (tags:autism microbiome )
5. Catching Covid? Try not to have blood type A: (tags:blood Pandemic )
6. Canadian Smoke Reaches Europe (the pictures are terrifying): (tags:Canada fire Europe Portugal )
7. do gender differences (sometimes) seem bigger in more gender equal countries? (If people think real sex differences exist, segregation will result regardless of real skill differences): (tags:gender psychology society ViaDrCross )
8. Forcing council meetings to be in person causes those with jobs, children, and disabilities to quit: (tags:disability politics UK parenting work )
9. A Russian soldier on what it's like on their front lines in Ukraine: (tags:Ukraine Russia war epicfail incompetence )
10. US public wants climate change dealt with, but doesn't like the options: (tags:usa globalwarming doom )
11. Sharpie scanning goof reveals major PlayStation budgets and revenues - and that millions of gamers buy a PS just to play Call of Duty: (tags:games playstation sony )

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Interesting Links for 24-06-2023

1. Edinburgh tram passengers double following opening of new line: (tags:edinburgh trams GoodNews )
2. Russia seems to be sliding into civil war: (tags:Russia civilwar )

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Interesting Links for 15-06-2023

1. Edinburgh trams: Plans for extension to Newbridge set to be abandoned in favour of route along A71 corridor: (tags:edinburgh trams )
2. Do a quarter of British people really believe Covid was a hoax?: (tags:conspiracy polls )
3. Who wants to read a judge interrogate lawyers for presenting AI gibberish as if it was reality?: (tags:USA law AI epicfail )
4. Google risks forced breakup of ad business as EU alleges shocking misconduct: (tags:Google advertising corruption fraud business regulation )
5. Body mass index gets smack down: American Medical Association calls out harms and "racist exclusion" | Ars Technica: (tags:weight healthcare USA )
6. How many of these do you think are birds?: (tags:birds paleontology evolution )
7. How do people treat you differently when you're skinny?: (tags:weight bigotry society )
8. First time one of my posts on Mastodon has gone viral! (just hit 500 shares): (tags:socialmedia )
9. Europe votes to regulate AI and ban use of live facial recognition: (tags:regulation ai faces )
10. 'I got to know my gut microbiome - as a result, I sleep better, have more energy and I've lost 25lbs': (tags:microbiome )
11. Johnson Verdict: 'He lied, lied about lying, lied about lying about lying, and is generally a twat': (tags:BorisJohnson lying politics satire true )
12. Two children were born with 'insatiable hunger' that left them severely obese. Now scientists know why (leptin gene mutation): (tags:genetics hunger )
13. Boosting paternity leave has economic benefits and reduces inequality: (tags:parenting men uk inequality )
14. Wildcats bred in captivity released into Cairngorms: (tags:cats nature scotland )

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Interesting Links for 07-06-2023

1. Scotland's first electric HGV starts making trips: (tags:scotland transport electricity )
2. Photoshop's new "Generative Fill" feature is really impressive.: (tags:ai photoshop )
3. The science around babies and sleep is, frankly terrible. (And the article assumes you'll be doing sleep training at all): (tags:research babies sleep )
4. Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People: (tags:Intelligence ai society )
5. The cultural bias of "ultra-processed food": (tags:food society )
6. Edinburgh tram time-lapse shows route extension (opening today!): (tags:Edinburgh trams timelapse video )
7. UK government ignored that major drinks companies, retailers, and trade bodies, as well as the Environment Agency wanted glass to be included in the deposit return scheme.: (tags:uk recycling OhForFucksSake glass )
8. Your Reminder that "AI" Will Just Flat-Out Make Things Up: (tags:ai fraud )
9. Who wants to eat a giant isopod from the depths of the ocean?: (tags:animals food weird taiwan )