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Interesting Links for 09-04-2026
Apr. 9th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Parent concerned at time children spend playing computer games, also quietly grateful for it
- (tags:parenting children funny technology )
- 2. AI-Generated Interview With One Piece Actor Published By Esquire
- (tags:ai interview wtf )
- 3. Tankers passing through Strait of Hormuz will have to pay cryptocurrency toll
- (tags:Iran blockchain trade shipping )
- 4. Record-Breaking Drone Light Show (22,000 of them)
- (tags:drone video impressive )
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- ai,
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- technology,
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- video,
- wtf
Interesting Links for 03-04-2026
Apr. 3rd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical (now my favourite April Fool of 2026)
- (tags:AprilFool warhammer musical video )
- 2. Renewables were 86% of 2025's newly installed generating capacity
- (tags:electricity renewables GoodNews )
- 3. US-Israeli bombing destroys oldest medical research center in Iran
- (tags:Iran healthcare war USA Israel )
Interesting Links for 30-03-2026
Mar. 30th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. If you support trans exclusion then you support the torture of children
- (tags:children LGBT transgender torture OhForFucksSake UK )
- 2. Stop Publishing Garbage Data, It's Embarrassing
- (tags:data )
- 3. Comparison of $4,000 boutique audio cable to $7 Amazon Basics cable shows audiophiles waste a lot of money
- (tags:music audio cable )
- 4. Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics
- (tags:plastic research GoodNews )
- 5. "I helped legalise medicinal cannabis in the UK - I regret what came next"
- (tags:marijuana legalisation UK healthcare OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Neuroanatomy of the clitoris has been mapped
- (tags:clitoris bodies women )
- 7. An excellent analysis of where things stand with Iran, and what happened in the last year that led us here
- (tags:Iran USA war doom )
- 8. "Every Movement Was Controlled": The Quiet Rise In Children Under Deprivation Of Liberty Orders
- (tags:children mentalhealth uk OhForFucksSake )
- 9. A robot with wheels that can also walk and climb stairs
- (tags:transport robots video )
Interesting Links for 29-03-2026
Mar. 29th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. What did Tolkien actually say about fantasy and escapism?
- (tags:Tolkien fantasy UrsulaKLegGuin )
- 2. Greater Manchester school library censorship: who is accountable?
- (tags:religion Christianity school Manchester UK censorship OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Mutually Assured Energy Destruction (and why it hasn't happened just yet)
- (tags:middle_east Iran oil doom USA war )
- 4. 350 cameras in the US wilderness produce some amazing footage
- (tags:nature animals video awesome )
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- animals,
- awesome,
- censorship,
- christianity,
- doom,
- fantasy,
- iran,
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- manchester,
- middle_east,
- nature,
- ohforfuckssake,
- oil,
- religion,
- school,
- tolkien,
- uk,
- ursulaklegguin,
- usa,
- video,
- war
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 17-03-2026
Mar. 17th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. "Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don't rewrite an Iran missile story"
- (tags:iran israel journalism gambling ohforfuckssake )
- 2. Subnautica 2 Publisher Followed ChatGPT's Advice On How To Break The Law
- (tags:law ai games OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Nvidia's Next-Gen Photo-Realistic Lighting looks, frankly, amazing
- (tags:games lighting nvidia video )
- 4. Regression, Not Progress: A Response to World Athletics' Return to Sex Testing
- (tags:gender testing OhForFucksSake women LGBT transgender biology )
- 5. Have some simple but inspiring images about growth through making mistakes
- (tags:inspiration visualisation )
- 6. Almost 25 years ago, a war game exercise had an Iran-stand in use asymmetric warfare to obliterate a US military force. So they re-ran it to force a US victory.
- (tags:usa military ohforfuckssake iran games )
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- links,
- military,
- nvidia,
- ohforfuckssake,
- testing,
- transgender,
- usa,
- video,
- visualisation,
- women
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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I was chatting to a couple of friends last week, and realised that I really fancied having one of those "bar chart race" videos for my links, showing what had been the most popular links over the last 21 years that I've been saving links (to Delicious, and then Pinboard).
So I downloaded the JSON blob of my whole link history, used some PowerShell to slice and dice it into a CSV, and uploaded it to a site that converts a bunch of data with dates into a bar chart race. And voila:
Unsurprising to see "Europe" break the top 20 in 2017. Followed a year later by "OhForFucksSake".
Both files available here, for the very curious.
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!
- (tags:rats nature comic )
- 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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- dreamwidth,
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- nature,
- ohforfuckssake,
- rats,
- religion,
- trailer,
- uk,
- usa,
- vialilysea,
- video
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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- ai,
- copyright,
- death,
- doom,
- euthanasia,
- houseoflords,
- law,
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- men,
- netflix,
- obituary,
- ohforfuckssake,
- reddwarf,
- restaurant,
- surveillance,
- uk,
- video,
- warnerbrothers
Interesting Links for 20-02-2026
Feb. 20th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Looksmaxxing: Myth Vs. Fact
- (tags:funny trends beauty society bodyimage )
- 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?
- (tags:cancer age statistics )
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- age,
- beauty,
- bodyimage,
- cancer,
- clothing,
- demographics,
- funny,
- history,
- law,
- lgbt,
- links,
- ohforfuckssake,
- psychology,
- society,
- statistics,
- transgender,
- trends,
- uk,
- video,
- visualisation,
- women
Interesting Links for 19-02-2026
Feb. 19th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Messages telling people to gamble responsibly have no effect.
- (tags:gambling )
- 2. One Way to Immunize Yourself Against Pseudoscience and Other Nonsense
- (tags:belief science )
- 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 16-02-2026
Feb. 16th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Good Omens Season 3 Release Date Confirmed By Prime Video To Close Out Hit Show
- (tags:TV neilgaiman terrypratchett )
- 2. On the immorality of bad jokes
- (tags:jokes funny comic philosophy )
- 3. I don't understand why people are using the internet less
- (tags:internet phones society awfulness comic )
- 4. In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud
- (tags:Technology sound music )
- 5. Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging
- (tags:vaccine age )
- 6. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy stage show - a review
- (tags:review HHG2G )
- 7. What Exact Products Do Games Sell, Two Case Studies
- (tags:games design )
- 8. A brief history of "Mysterioso Pizzicato" - one of the most famous pieces of music you may not have thought about.
- (tags:music movies video )
Interesting Links for 09-02-2026
Feb. 9th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Jurassic Tank Top: The Uncanny Valley of Agency
- (tags:scarlettjohansson patriarchy movies JurassicPark )
- 2. Etymology of "Foo"
- (tags:language history swearing )
- 3. World's first mass-production sodium-ion battery keeps 90% capacity even at -40c
- (tags:batteries temperature )
- 4. Blood omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia (incidence drops from 0.19% to 0.11%)
- (tags:omega3 )
- 5. I was totally blown away by this beatboxing. Just totally unbelievable. (Wing: Dopamine)
- (tags:music video voice impressive )
- 6. Substack's "Nazi problem" won't go away
- (tags:Nazis blogs )
- 7. The time of day when you eat could be key to success for intermittent fasting
- (tags:food time diet health )
- 8. Last week the Prime Minister lost control of how documents should be reviewed for security reasons.
- (tags:security politics uk constitution )
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