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2025-05-13 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 13-05-2025

1. How Gandalf Proved Mightiest: Spiritual Power in Tolkien
(tags:lotr Tolkien magic viaDanielDWilliam )
2. ScotRail trials wi-fi using Elon Musk's Starlink satellites
(tags:Scotland trains internet )
3. Continuous glucose monitors reveal variable glucose responses from the same people to the same meals
(tags:insulin sugar eating food )
4. The charts showing the big flaw in Starmer's immigration plan
(tags:migration economy uk doom )
5. Moderna's combo Covid and flu mRNA shot outperforms current vaccines in large trial
(tags:vaccine pandemic flu )
6. Despair at Starmer's divisive language as he channels Enoch Powell
(tags:bigotry immigration UK Labour OhForFucksSake )
7. US Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn't always fair use
(tags:ai copyright USA politics )
8. Edinburgh traffic bans in city centre to be made permanent following trial
(tags:traffic transport Edinburgh )
9. Top UK Special Forces general oversaw blocking of Afghan war-crime witnesses to Britain
(tags:UK military crime war OhForFucksSake Afghanistan )
10. How the news feels right now
(tags:news satire doom )
11. Mass vote losses to Lib Dems and Greens would cost Labour twice as many seats as mass Reform switch
(tags:labour libdem green )
12. Getting to know 'Reform curious Labour voters'
(tags:Labour politics UK )
13. Zodiac Killer Revealed by His Love of Comic Books, Author Says
(tags:comics murder usa history )
14. London, Brighton, Birmingham and Manchester Prides suspend political parties from taking part (over trans rights)
(tags:lgbt transgender protest uk politics )
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2025-04-10 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 10-04-2025

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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2025-04-07 12:00 pm
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2025-04-02 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 02-04-2025

1. From tape to disk to solid-state - how storage has become faster (with some lovely animations to explain)
(tags:storage visualisation )
2. I see Gilead are making a sequel to 'The Handmaid's Tale'
(tags:dystopia USA TV margaretatwood women )
3. FTC: 23andMe buyer must honor firm's privacy promises for genetic data
(tags:privacy genetics business )
4. AI models miss disease in Black and female patients (because it was trained less on them)
(tags:racism sexism ai healthcare cancer )
5. What even is Britain?
(tags:UK nationality history society viaDanielDWilliam )
6. What are your beliefs about the nature of reality? (I'm a scientific materialist. A mix of all of the subtypes.)
(tags:reality beliefs )
7. "On the Best (Worst) Best Man Speech Ever (at My Super Mario-Themed Wedding)"
(tags:wedding games movies relationships advice comedy )
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2025-02-04 12:00 pm
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2025-01-29 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 29-01-2025

1. Edinburgh cross-city cycle scheme CCWEL proving successful
(tags:edinburgh cycling GoodNews )
2. Congressional Republicans' coming war on poor people
(tags:politics usa republicans tax poverty viaDanielDWilliam )
3. Microplastics block blood flow in the brain (in mice)
(tags:plastic blood brain mice )
4. US civil servants are being asked who they voted for in 2024 election
(tags:usa CivilService fascism )
5. Both men and women are slightly attracted to younger partners
(tags:relationships gender age )
6. A proposal for reopening Edinburgh's South Suburban Railway line as a tram-train. Looks great - not sure how many stations will be viable to reopen.
(tags:edinburgh transport trams )
7. Petition · Reopen Edinburgh's South Sub using Tram-Trains
(tags:edinburgh trams petition )
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2024-12-09 12:00 pm
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2024-11-19 12:00 pm
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2024-10-14 12:00 pm
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2024-09-06 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 06-09-2024

1. Ulez has cut children's school car rides
(tags:transport pollution london children school GoodNews )
2. Edinburgh Council's plan for Princes Street (and Princes Street gardens)
(tags:edinburgh city planning )
3. 60% of Israelis believe you shouldn't be allowed to post sympathy for Gazan civilians. 50% believe you shouldn't be allowed to criticise the government
(tags:censorship Israel Gaza war Palestine OhForFucksSake )
4. Stonehenge Altar Stone was not sourced from Mainland Orkney
(tags:stonehenge viaDanielDWilliam )
5. GOP network props up liberal third-party candidates in key states, hoping to siphon off Harris votes
(tags:politics USA republicans )
6. Five things to know before forming an opinion on Paralympics transgender row
(tags:gender disability Olympics transgender LGBT )
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2024-09-04 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 04-09-2024

1. Is My Blue Your Blue? (Hue 177 for me, bluer than 76% of the population)
(tags:colour perception names )
2. Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant for maths problem do worse on tests
(tags:maths ai teaching )
3. Rail nationalisation takes a step closer under Starmer's first major public reform
(tags:rail uk labour )
4. Labour won't ban dynamic pricing despite Oasis tickets anger, but will make it more transparent
(tags:labour economics music )
5. New coastal neighbourhood masterplan unveiled for Seafield in Edinburgh
(tags:edinburgh housing sea viaDanielDWilliam )
6. What British women really fantasise about
(tags:fantasy sex uk )
7. I'd love to see some science-based discussion on this piece about whether Covid is something worth stressing about.
(tags:pandemic )
8. Grenfell disaster - key points
(tags:UK fire fraud death OhForFucksSake )
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2024-08-12 12:00 pm
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2024-07-31 12:00 pm
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2024-07-16 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 18-06-2024

1. Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers
(tags:uk surveillance trains transport )
2. First-ever randomized trial of Ozempic for alcohol use disorder shows significant reductions in drinking
(tags:alcohol healthcare research psychology )
3. But *when* was being gay invented?
(tags:LGBT gay prehistory )
4. Rogue Austrian minister burns bridges to save EU nature law
(tags:europe nature law green viaPatrickHadfield )
5. How writers see their own work is very different to how others see it
(tags:writing sandman neilgaiman comics )
6. Anyone want to buy a bunch of Church of Scotland buildings? You can have your own church for £38k...
(tags:religion scotland housing viaDanielDWilliam )
7. How had I never seen "Patrick Stewart's Cowboy Classics"?
(tags:cowboy PatrickStewart video wtf )
8. New coastal town for Edinburgh reaches next major milestone
(tags:edinburgh housing )
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2024-06-17 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 17-06-2024

1. Welsh Labour councillor quits party after learning it hid evidence that cleared him of complaint
(tags:Labour corruption OhForFucksSake )
2. On Wikipedia and how it works
(tags:Wikipedia )
3. Why some cities (including Edinburgh) are banning fossil fuel advertisements
(tags:Edinburgh Scotland advertising oil )
4. Frankly, Labour are going to stomp this election, so vote for whoever you like. But if you want tactical voting advice for your constituency here it is
(tags:voting advice conservatives )
5. Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccines
(tags:USA military propaganda vaccine OhForFucksSake )
6. What is Box Breathing? (This helped me sleep when I was stressed)
(tags:sleep stress )
7. Australia and New Zealand explicitly reject Cass review (joining USA and Canada)
(tags:healthcare transgender Canada USA Australia newzealand LGBT )
8. Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths
(tags:greece migration murder )
9. Small modular nuclear reactors are over-budget, taking years longer to build, and are never getting built.
(tags:nuclearpower epicfail viaDanielDWilliam )
10. £130m Dundee Eden Project set for approval
(tags:scotland nature architecture tourism )
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2024-06-07 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 07-06-2024

1. New test promises to predict dementia nine years before diagnosis
(tags:dementia mri )
2. How to fix council tax so it is actually fair, according to experts
(tags:tax uk )
3. Labour Under Pressure for Reselecting Climate Denial Group Director as Election Candidate
(tags:Labour globalwarming OhForFucksSake )
4. How much Tactical Voting is there in the UK?
(tags:voting viaDanielDWilliam )
5. Why I'm against the existence of fee-paying schools
(tags:schools education money )
6. The Ames Window optical illusion is absolutely brain breaking
(tags:optical_illusion video )
7. The Tories taxed the rich in a big way but the next government must go even further
(tags:tax uk )
8. Neither the Tories or Labour are telling you the truth on tax
(tags:taxes politics UK Labour conservatives )
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