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Interesting Links for 18-03-2026
Mar. 18th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Coming soon to Netflix... a movie that requires none of your attention!
- (tags:movies netflix attention video satire funny )
- 2. Everyone but Trump Understands What He's Done
- (tags:politics UK USA middle_east Ukraine Russia NATO )
- 3. Scotland's assisted dying bill rejected after emotional debate
- (tags:Scotland euthanasia )
- 4. More reports show that forcing people back to the office hurts productivity
- (tags:productivity office )
Interesting Links for 16-03-2026
Mar. 16th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Royal Mail The Lord of the Rings Stamps
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- 2. UK government to launch £1bn plan to tackle youth unemployment
- (tags:unemployment apprentices uk )
- 3. Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year (I've been using it for over 35 years and had no idea)
- (tags:excel date history computers )
- 4. Scientists create first-of-its-kind 'hexagonal diamond' harder than real thing
- (tags:diamonds materials )
Interesting Links for 14-03-2026
Mar. 14th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. This 18-year-old Afghan girl had offers from York and Reading - thanks to Shabana Mahmood, she will now never escape the Taliban
- (tags:Afghanistan women UK migration asylum education OhForFucksSake )
- 2. AI toys for children misread emotions and respond inappropriately
- (tags:toys children ai )
- 3. PEGI to give 16 age rating to games with loot boxes (amongst several other changes)
- (tags:gambling children games )
- 4. Have two people being *ridiculously* good at a Dance Pad game
Streamed live at: https://www.twitch.tv/tomatoniumWorld 1st PG on Sarabande CoopP1: ElijahTSP2: Tomatonium
(tags:games dancing video viamybrothermike )- 5. New NHS England Review Excluded 97% Of All Trans Studies To Say Care Doesn't Work
- (tags:LGBT bigotry healthcare OhForFucksSake transgender )
- 6. Tracing the lobbying behind age verification laws
- (tags:age surveillance USA law politics )
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Interesting Links for 12-03-2026
Mar. 12th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Hereditary peers to be removed from Lords as bill passes
- (tags:uk houseoflords goodnews )
- 2. Wildlife conservation charity urges change to weather apps as misleading forecasts deter thousands of visitors
- (tags:zoo weather Scotland )
- 3. Unite vote to cut Labour affiliation by 40%
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- 4. Louis Therous's "Inside the Manosphere" exposes red pill men for the hypocritical grifters they are
- (tags:men patriarchy hypocrisy documentary viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 11-03-2026
Mar. 11th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. The neurons playing Doom are actually testing a theory of intelligence
- (tags:doom games intelligence ai )
- 2. Stay Classy (a history of the awfulness of Prince Andrew)
- (tags:royalty UK OhForFucksSake corruption )
- 3. How good are you at spotting colour differences? (I scored 0.006 - see if you can get yours lower)
- What was particularly interesting was that on some of them I had to let my eyes "settle". They'd see a wall of colour, get overloaded, and then after about 10 seconds I'd easily see the line.
Oh, and I'm much better with shades of green than with shades of blue.
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Interesting Links for 10-03-2026
Mar. 10th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Grammarly Is Offering 'Expert' AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive (without their permission)
- (tags:ohforfuckssake ai writing )
- 2. Google proposes an AI training datacenter that would use up to 8 million gallons of water *per day*
- (tags:water google ai )
- 3. NHS England continues attacks on trans kids
- (tags:uk transgender lgbt ohforfuckssake )
- 4. It is likely that the UK is still under-diagnosing ADHD
- (tags:adhd uk )
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Interesting Links for 03-03-2026
Mar. 3rd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Reminder that unless there is something that you can actively do to make things better, there is no point inflicting the horrors on yourself
- (tags:news comic horror )
- 2. Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees.
- (tags:copyright art usa law OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Endometriosis in the UK - diagnosis takes a decade and dozens of visits
- (tags:endometriosis NHS healthcare UK OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Why Britain is Quietly Spending £725 Billion to Rebuild the Country
- (tags:UK investment labour )
- 5. Women's Institute vows to keep welcoming trans women
- (tags:women transgender LGBT UK GoodNews viaPatrickHadfield )
- 6. The Greens are nearly first with YouGov (and 5% ahead of Labour)
- (tags:polls GreenParty uk )
- 7. U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon," Return of Jesus
- (tags:religion military USA OhForFucksSake armageddon Iran christianity )
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Interesting Links for 02-03-2026
Mar. 2nd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. UN Human Rights Council Castigates The EHRC For Their Proposed Trans Exclusion
- (tags:UnitedNations rights transgender UK bigotry )
- 2. How to write (and, frankly, understand what it's like to be) women
- (tags:women writing )
- 3. New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue (in mice)
- (tags:nanotech mice materials cancer )
- 4. Keir Starmer's statement on Iran in full as US granted access to UK bases
- (tags:usa uk iran war )
- 5. A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator
- (tags:design business video funny awful norway )
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 27-02-2026
Feb. 27th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. The "forever chemicals" known as PFAS appear to be aging men faster in their 50s and early 60s
- (tags:materials age men doom )
- 2. On a technical level this video is very impressive. On a copyright level, someone's getting their bum sued off.
- (tags:video ai copyright netflix WarnerBrothers )
- 3. Red Dwarf's 'visionary' co-creator Rob Grant dies aged 70
- (tags:obituary death RedDwarf )
- 4. Esther Rantzen accuses peers of 'sabotage' as assisted dying bill looks set to fail (House of Lords proposes over a thousand amendments)
- (tags:UK law euthanasia OhForFucksSake houseoflords )
- 5. Burger King rolls out AI headsets that track employee 'friendliness'
- (tags:restaurant ai surveillance OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 24-02-2026
Feb. 24th, 2026 12:02 pm- 1. AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data
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- 2. We should make it easier for people to vaccinate their children
- (tags:austerity poverty vaccination UK )
- 3. Green light for World Cup opening hours in Edinburgh (until 7am in some cases)
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- 4. RFK Jr's Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum
- (tags:food ai OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 23-02-2026
Feb. 23rd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. How far back in time can you understand English?
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- 2. I hadn't realised that 7 of the biggest 8 offshore wind farms in the world were British
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- 3. Judge forced to slash SF jury pool over hate for Elon Musk
- (tags:ElonMusk law usa )
- 4. Building a Beauty and the Beast rose petal timer using shape metal and an Arduino. Incredibly impressive stuff.
- (tags:cosplay impressive viaSwampers technology )
- 5. What If We've Been Wrong About How ADHD Drugs Work?
- (tags:adhd drugs sleep )
- 6. Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (replacing styrofoam with mushroom-based packaging)
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Interesting Links for 20-02-2026
Feb. 20th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Looksmaxxing: Myth Vs. Fact
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- 2. An excellent break down of the EHRC trangender toilet case, and the High Court findings. It is, as you might expect, a mess.
- (tags:law transgender uk lgbt )
- 3. Sizing chaos - an incredibly visualised look at how and why women's clothes sizing is a mess that lets down half of all women
- (tags:women clothing visualisation OhForFucksSake history society )
- 4. Psychology of Gen X Parents (I feel called out. Or described. Or something)
- (tags:psychology demographics history video )
- 5. What is Going on with Colorectal Cancer in young people?
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Interesting Links for 19-02-2026
Feb. 19th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Messages telling people to gamble responsibly have no effect.
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- 2. One Way to Immunize Yourself Against Pseudoscience and Other Nonsense
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- 3. A lost story from The Dark Is Rising.(Made for TV in the 70s)
- (tags:fiction children UK video viaDrJon )
- 4. Tactical voting - a ton of information about who voters would pick in various situations
- (tags:voting polls uk )
- 5. Designing for the average designs for no one - Lessons from the U.S. Air Force Cockpit Design (
- (tags:design average usa military )
Interesting Links for 18-02-2026
Feb. 18th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. U.K. government covered up dramatic spike in trans youth suicides
- (tags:transgender suicide UK OhForFucksSake LGBT )
- 2. WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
- (tags:manufacturing harddrive Technology doom )
- 3. Ancient bacteria found frozen in cave resistant to 10 types of antibiotics
- (tags:antibiotics bacteria doom )
- 4. Fake law: Barrister suing Dan Neidle relied on cases from ChatGPT
- (tags:ai law fail UK )
- 5. The association between academic pressure and adolescent depressive symptoms and self-harm
- (tags:mentalhealth academia UK psychology )
- 6. Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy
- (tags:origami materials design architecture )
- 7. Amazon are cracking down on erotica
- (tags:erotica publishing Amazon OhForFucksSake )
- 8. How "Remote Assistance" works with Waymo's autonomous taxis.
- (tags:taxi driving automation )
- 9. Inside Horden, the County Durham town failed by politics (if you were wondering why people are turning to Reform)
- (tags:politics poverty uk )
- 10. New Silent Hill game inspired by tiny fishing village in Fife
- (tags:horror games scotland )
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Interesting Links for 15-02-2026
Feb. 15th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Trans women can use women's toilets, except at work, court rules
- (tags:LGBT transgender UK law wtf bigotry viacmcmck )
- 2. Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics
- (tags:politics UK reform )
- 3. FAQ: Trans inclusion after the High Court decision on the EHRC's interim guidance
- (tags:LGBT faq transgender toilets UK law )
- 4. Moving TV to online-only could kill radio
- (tags:UK TV radio )
Interesting Links for 14-02-2026
Feb. 14th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. English schools told they have to out trans children
- (tags:bigotry lgbt children transgender uk england )
- 2. Every £1 invested in buses generates £5.
- (tags:transport investment buses )
- 3. Trans people facing 'workers' rights crisis' as court rules employers can ban trans women from using female toilets
- (tags:lgbt bigotry law toilets transgender uk )
- 4. Russian bot dreams of life beyond repeatedly typing "Vote Reform"
- (tags:politics ai satire funny )
- 5. Somehow "The Bone Witcher of Knob Mountain" is not "romance"
- (tags:publishing sex wtf )
- 6. European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women"
- (tags:LGBT transgender Europe GoodNews )
