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Interesting Links for 22-03-2025
Mar. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Gut health study of world's oldest person finds anit-inflammatory microbiome
- (tags:health longevity microbiome )
- 2. Unparliamentary language - as used in the NZ parliament
- (tags:viaSwampers language politics newzealand )
- 3. Scottish Greens MSP Maggie Chapman to be new Dundee University rector
- (tags:GreenParty Scotland university )
- 4. DOJ Designates Posting Photos Of Balding Elon Musk As Domestic Terrorism
- (tags:satire ElonMusk politics USA )
- 5. What it's really like to be a boy in 2025, in their own words
- (tags:UK boys childhood society )
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Interesting Links for 21-03-2025
Mar. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. EU sends Apple first DMA interoperability instructions for apps and connected devices
- (tags:Europe apple regulation )
- 2. Big drop in overseas students at Scottish universities (driven by changes in immigration visas)
- (tags:scotland university uk migration visa doom )
- 3. "We'll deport you if we have evidence against you, and if we do not" - An extraordinary witness statement by the US government
- (tags:usa migration OhForFucksSake law )
- 4. New study reveals bacterial vaginosis is actually a sexually transmitted infection
- (tags:sex disease women viaDrJon )
- 5. Vivian Jenna Wilson on Being Elon Musk's Estranged Daughter, Protecting Trans Youth and Taking on the Right Online
- (tags:LGBT transgender ElonMusk USA politics bigotry )
- 6. PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
- (tags:games computers )
- 7. Tesla cars disengage autopilot if you're about to crash
- (tags:Tesla automation OhForFucksSake driving crash )
- 8. Battery storage is dramatically reshaping the California grid, and finally moving it away from gas
- (tags:batteries electricity GoodNews California )
- 9. What evidence does the CIA have that Hitler was still alive in South America in the 1950s?
- (tags:history hitler USA cia colombia wtf )
- 10. Apple Is Losing Over $1 Billion per Year on Streaming Service, Has 45 Million Apple TV+ Subscribers
- (tags:Apple TV business )
- 11. I thankfully don't have to worry about dating apps. But I do find it fascinating what kind of person makes them work for them.
- (tags:dating advice )
- 12. Germany and Britain issue warnings about traveling to America
- (tags:usa travel germany uk )
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- tesla,
- transgender,
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- viadrjon,
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Interesting Links for 26-02-2025
Feb. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How To Force Women Back Into the Kitchen In 5 Obvious Steps
- (tags:politics usa patriarchy society )
- 2. States that passed no-fault divorce laws saw total female suicide decline by around 20 percent
- (tags:divorce suicide law )
- 3. Edinburgh University to seek £140m in savings
- (tags:Edinburgh university migration )
- 4. "They Live" meets the Trump Era
- (tags:movies Technology )
- 5. FDA Approves Novel Non-Opioid Treatment for Moderate to Severe Acute Pain
- (tags:pain medicine )
- 6. 'Consider Phlebas' Series Set At Amazon From Charles Yu & Chloé Zhao
- (tags:IainBanks scifi TV Amazon )
- 7. Why EM Forster's writing tailed off
- (tags:writing sex lgbt gay )
- 8. Seizafe - Epilepsy Alert for YouTube (Chrome extension)
- (tags:YouTube safety chrome )
Interesting Links for 23-01-2025
Jan. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh Bus Driver Day to Day Life
- (tags:edinburgh buses )
- 2. "We were wrong that day." - Convicted US Capitol rioter turns down Trump pardon
- (tags:USA riots )
- 3. Nutritionists Recommend Following Occasional Trail Of Sweets Into Dark Forest To Help Manage Cravings
- (tags:satire diet fairytale funny )
- 4. How the civil justice system forced Hugh Grant to settle
- (tags:UK law money )
- 5. 2024 general essay questions for Oxford 'All Souls' scholarship
- (tags:Oxford questions university )
Interesting Links for 13-11-2024
Nov. 13th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. New Electricity links between GB and island of Ireland approved
- (tags:electricity uk ireland infrastructure )
- 2. Assisted dying bill: What is in the proposed law?
- (tags:euthanasia law uk )
- 3. HS2's £100m 'bat shed' protects colony of 300 that doesn't live in same woodland
- (tags:bats environment hs2 OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Edinburgh University students tell of discrimination on campus
- (tags:scotland university OhForFucksSake bigotry )
- 5. Beluga whale was Russian military asset - but no spy
- (tags:whales russia )
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Interesting Links for 07-09-2024
Sep. 7th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Neil Gaiman Film The Graveyard Book Paused After Sexual Assault Claims
- (tags:neilgaiman books Disney assault )
- 2. Russia Aimed Propaganda at Gamers, Minorities to Swing 2024 Election
- (tags:russia elections usa fraud )
- 3. Disabled children's charity hands 43% of grants to rightwing think-tanks
- (tags:uk charity OhForFucksSake )
- 4. University of Edinburgh submits plans for 'New Darwin' bioscience hub at King's Buildings
- (tags:Edinburgh university )
- 5. Sir Tony Blair branded 'despicable' by Fire Brigades Union for comments on Grenfell fire
- (tags:fire UK tonyblair disaster )
- 6. Puberty blockers a 'safe, effective and reversible' form of gender-affirming care, finds Australian review
- (tags:Australia puberty healthcare transgender )
- 7. Study: Playing Dungeons & Dragons helps autistic players in social interactions (it certainly did with me!)
- (tags:dungeonsanddragons autism )
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Interesting Links for 24-04-2024
Apr. 24th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Labour's shadow justice secretary is homophobic
- (tags:LGBT Labour bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Labour's Shadow justice secretary is transphobic
- (tags:LGBT transgender labour bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Elon Musk - Dead at 52 - Says There Is No Need for Misinformation Laws
- (tags:satire ElonMusk misinformation funny )
- 4. "I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Don't Believe What You're Being Told About 'Campus Antisemitism'"
- (tags:Jews Palestine Israel university protests )
- 5. Long-lost first model of the USS Enterprise from 'Star Trek' boldly goes home after twisting voyage
- (tags:StarTrek )
- 6. Microplastics make their way from the gut to the the kidney, liver, and brain. (In mice)
- (tags:plastic organs )
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Interesting Links for 17-02-2024
Feb. 17th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Air Force OKs Autonomous Cargo Flights Across California After Successful Test
- (tags:automation airplanes military california usa )
- 2. The UK will keep falling into recession until we renegotiate Brexit
- (tags:uk economics europe doom )
- 3. 'I was told not to have therapy because it could let my rapist walk free'
- (tags:therapy rape OhForFucksSake uk law )
- 4. How Junk Science Set The UK's Health And Welfare Policy
- (tags:uk pandemic ChronicFatigueSyndrome OhForFucksSake )
- 5. A brief history of the iconic Thierry Mugler cyborg suit worn by Zendaya
- (tags:fashion scifi history movies )
- 6. Elon Musk's X allows China and Russia-based propaganda banned on other platforms
- (tags:china russia propaganda twitter ElonMusk OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations
- (tags:bears cryptozoology )
- 8. The adult consequences of being bullied in childhood
- (tags:bullying )
- 9. University of Bristol contributed to the death of one of its students (by failing in its duty of care over her mental health)
- (tags:university suicide mentalhealth law )
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Interesting Links for 20-12-2023
Dec. 20th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. A tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to “hacks-for-hire” controversy.
- (tags:Technology hacking india censorship )
- 2. Animation vs. Physics
- (tags:physics animation video )
- 3. Baby It’s Cold Outside discourse is the same as Macbeth discourse.
- (tags:shakespeare funny )
- 4. NHS dentistry as we know it 'gone for good'
- (tags:UK NHS teeth OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Why MAs at Oxford had to swear an oath against a man who'd been dead for over 500 years.
- (tags:history university uk oxford murder viaPatrickHadfield )
- 6. New income tax band for people in Scotland earning over £75,000
- (tags:scotland income tax )
- 7. Teams are more creative when they're sitting next to each other
- (tags:creativity teams work psychology )
- 8. Iceland volcano erupts leaving 2.5-mile crack (with live video)
- (tags:iceland volcano )
- 9. Tom Bombadil and The Ring, a Christmas story
- (tags:Christmas lotr fanfic )
- 10. Lord of the Rings fan fiction writer tries to sue Amazon/Tolkien, gets countersued into a smoking crater
- (tags:copyright fanfic EpicStupidity lotr Tolkien )
- 11. A series of charts showing how awful the Conservatives are for the economy
- (tags:UK economy conservatives Labour )
- 12. Tory attempts to ban social transitioning in schools held up by lack of evidence showing it causes any problems
- (tags:LGBT law schools UK )
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Interesting Links for 31-10-2023
Oct. 31st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Which UK university towns have the highest cost of living?
- (tags:university edinburgh money uk )
- 2. The future of warfare: A $400 drone destroying a $2M tank
- (tags:war drone )
- 3. People with autism less likely to succumb to bystander effect
- (tags:psychology autism )
- 4. Getting angry may help you achieve your goals, so long as they are hard ones.
- (tags:anger achievement psychology )
- 5. What Happens to a Werewolf on the Moon? - a call for research!
- (tags:viaSimonTatham wolves supernatural funny research moon space )
- 6. Use your own controller to work with an Xbox? Not if Microsoft has anything to do with it!
- (tags:Microsoft OhForFucksSake consoles )
- 7. Woman uses man's name on delivery app, notices marked change in service
- (tags:patriarchy food OhForFucksSake )
- 8. To find out how wildlife is doing, scientists used AI to listen to the forest
- (tags:sound nature ai birds )
- 9. Facebook and Instagram launch ad-free subscription tier in EU (not UK though)
- (tags:facebook socialnetworking advertising GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 24-10-2023
Oct. 24th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. A checklist for managers
- (tags:management advice lists )
- 2. Excel now lets you disable its "helpful" turning of letter/number combinations into dates.
- (tags:date excel GoodNews )
- 3. Four of the five developers for the original Mario game worked on the most recent one
- (tags:Mario games development history )
- 4. The pandemic's true death toll (around 27m people. So far.)
- (tags:Pandemic death )
- 5. The UK criminal justice system has now failed
- (tags:UK law epicfail austerity )
- 6. Edinburgh University failing over sexual misconduct complaints
- (tags:Edinburgh university abuse sex )
- 7. UK Government using AI to decide on benefits and driving licences
- (tags:ai OhForFucksSake law government uk )
- 8. 'Failure to act' on suicide website linked to 50 UK deaths
- (tags:suicide uk web )
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Interesting Links for 19-07-2023
Jul. 19th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. 'Foreplay just vanished': 25 years on, how Viagra changed sex for older women forever
- (tags:sex women viagra )
- 2. How did Victorians respond to trans people? Better than we do today
- (tags:transgender history uk lgbt )
- 3. 100 incontrovertible opinions (I disagree with about 5)
- (tags:opinions )
- 4. US Facebook users can now claim settlement money. Here's how.
- (tags:Facebook money )
- 5. What is Barbenheimer, and how did it come to be?
- (tags:toys nuclearweapons movies history video )
- 6. UK taxpayers will not get better value for their billions unless ministers improve how contracts are won
- (tags:uk contracts government )
- 7. Life-sized Lego Suffragette goes on display at Edinburgh university
- (tags:Edinburgh women voting history Lego university )
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Interesting Links for 03-05-2023
May. 3rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Duke of Edinburgh: Edinburgh council urged not to recognise Royal pair's 'illegitimate' titles
- (tags:edinburgh monarchy )
- 2. Keir Starmer breaks another pledge - this time on scrapping university tuition fees
- (tags:labour university fees tuition )
- 3. How do people feel about bill-splitting in restaurants?
- (tags:money friendship )
- 4. Brain Activity Decoder Can Reveal Stories in People's Minds
- (tags:neuroscience brain stories )
- 5. Why can you use the 60+ Oyster card as voter ID, but not the 18+ Student Oyster card?
- (tags:IDCards uk )
- 6. AI chatbots pass next intelligence milestone after researchers fail to find a single AI that would vote for Brexit
- (tags:ai uk europe funny viaMyBrotherHugh )
- 7. Lothian Buses Service change from Sunday 28 May (some pretty major changes, including my bus no longer going home->work)
- (tags:buses edinburgh transport )
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Interesting Links for 29-04-2023
Apr. 29th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Unrecord - First Perdon Shooter games have now reached the point where they're uncomfortably realistic.
- (tags:games graphics fps reality )
- 2. On women's rage
- (tags:anger women patriarchy )
- 3. Vertical farming is dying
- (tags:farming Technology )
- 4. Anyone know anything about non-European musical notation?
- (tags:culture music language )
- 5. Puppy! Meets! Kittens!
- (tags:puppy dogs cats kittens cute video )
- 6. How Edinburgh University got its awe inspiring graduation hall
- (tags:university Edinburgh architecture history Scotland viaDanielDWilliam )
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Interesting Links for 14-01-2023
Jan. 14th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Jewish university students had swastikas drawn on them and told 'Hitler was right', damning NUS report reveals
- (tags:students jews bigotry university unions )
- 2. What Games Are Like For Someone Who Doesn't Play Games
- (tags:games ux video )
- 3. A long thread of people whose fathers or partners just walked out one day
- (tags:parenting OhForFucksSake men abandoned )
- 4. Quote Tweeting: Over 30 Studies Dispel Some Myths
- (tags:Twitter communication research )
- 5. The age of energy abundance may be closer than we think
- (tags:electricity renewables thefuture )
- 6. The Economic Secret Hidden in a Tiny, Discontinued Pasta (That once you lose the ability to manufacture something, no matter how simple, regaining it is a *lot* of work)
- (tags:pasta manufacturing Doom )
- 7. The idea that in earlier societies men were the hunters while women were the gatherers is a myth
- (tags:gender society history prehistory )
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Interesting Links for 15-12-2022
Dec. 15th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. After spending 20 years simulating reality, the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used to a new one: being millionaires
- (tags:games usa business money )
- 2. A guide to Christmas, for Jews who haven't encountered it before
- (tags:satire Jews Christmas religion funny )
- 3. The Whispering Earring, a warning about letting AI do all of your thinking for you
- (tags:short_story FreeWill fantasy ai )
- 4. Women in the UK Are Being Denied Medical Treatment Because They're Virgins
- (tags:virginity healthcare UK OhForFucksSake )
- 5. The NHS has more funding and staff now than in 2019. But is treating less people. Because Covid.
- (tags:NHS Pandemic Doom UK healthcare viaDanielDWilliam )
- 6. "All I Want For Christmas Is Creep" - a glorious cover version/mashup
- (tags:music Christmas video )
- 7. The Snowman at 40: 'It's a story about loss'
- (tags:Christmas snow TV children )
- 8. England joins Scotland and Wales in banning plastic cutlery, plates, etc.
- (tags:plastic waste uk )
- 9. A guide to potential liability pitfalls for people running a Mastodon instance
- (tags:law regulation socialnetworking mastodon )
- 10. Major Scottish subsea power cable projects approved
- (tags:power electricity infrastructure scotland )
- 11. Edinburgh University students block lecture hall to stop screening of transphobic film
- (tags:edinburgh university bigotry lgbt transgender )
- 12. Recreating the Argonath from the Lord of the Ring in VR
- (tags:lotr video virtualreality )
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Interesting Links for 18-11-2022
Nov. 18th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. "When We All Have Pocket Telephones": A 1920s Comic Accurately Predicts
- (tags:mobile_phones comics predictions )
- 2. Stirling University Students' Union votes to go 100% vegan
- (tags:vegan scotland university food )
- 3. Edinburgh's 20mph roads: Plans to expand speed limit to 90 per cent of Edinburgh roads
- (tags:speed driving edinburgh )
- 4. Artificial meat has been greenlit in the United States for the first time
- (tags:meat Technology usa regulation )
- 5. The world needs more derpy cat dragons
- (tags:cats dragons art )
- 6. Cambrian Explosion Lego!
- (tags:Lego paleontology life )
- 7. The history of Irish/Native American mutual aid
- (tags:support Ireland USA history )
- 8. How to stay warm in extremely cold temperatures
- (tags:cold weather clothing advice )
- 9. How to Post to Mastodon From Anything Using IFTTT
- (tags:automation links )
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Interesting Links for 23-09-2022
Sep. 23rd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Amazon will no longer let people instantly return ebooks they've read
- (tags:ebooks Amazon publishing )
- 2. More Democrats Than Ever Support The Palestinian Cause, And That's Dividing The Party
- (tags:Israel Palestine USA democrats )
- 3. Scotland's no-fracking policy to continue
- (tags:Scotland fracking GoodNews )
- 4. Far too much advice about photography
- (tags:photography advice )
- 5. 32 examples of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie being the peak of comedy
- (tags:comedy UK TV history )
- 6. What does Covid prevention look like for an industry where people care about it?
- (tags:business Pandemic testing )
- 7. Using AI to upgrade the graphics quality of old games
- (tags:games graphics ai video amazing viaSwampers )
- 8. Rape posts every half-hour found on online incel forum
- (tags:rape communication internet OhForFucksSake men )
- 9. The UK now charges more tax to a graduate than a high earner
- (tags:tax UK university OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 22-09-2022
Sep. 22nd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Russia has lost the capacity to mobilise
- (tags:Russia war Ukraine epicfail )
- 2. An Open Letter to Bluey's Parents: Please Stop
- We have totally had to play Heavy on many occasions.
(tags:parenting dogs viaSwampers animation funny ) - 3. Mountain Goats Are Being Airlifted Out of a National Park Because They Crave Human Pee
- (tags:urine Goats headline )
- 4. Artist finds private medical record photos in popular AI training data set
- (tags:healthcare dataprotection ai photos )
- 5. Just how long have men and women been switching gender roles for?
- (tags:history gender newspapers )
- 6. Far too much fun in the snow in Northern China
- (tags:China snow video fun )
- 7. Glasgow students without flats told to consider quitting university
- (tags:housing university Glasgow )
- 8. Tucker Carlson accuses schools and hospitals of "sex crimes" and tells viewers they have a moral duty to dole out "instant justice" "no matter what the law says"
- (tags:USA murder LGBT TV school hospital OhForFucksSake )
- 9. The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality
- (tags:death poverty capitalism )
- 10. US installs record solar capacity as prices keep falling
- (tags:solarpower usa GoodNews )
- 11. $500,000,000 in funding, 10 years in development, and Star Citizen still doesn't have a release date
- (tags:games epicfail )
- 12. For the first time the British Social Attitudes Survey shows a majority for proportional representation
- (tags:reform elections voting proportional_representation UK )
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