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Interesting Links for 01-01-2026
Jan. 1st, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Denmark becomes first country in world to end letter delivery
- (tags:mail Denmark )
- 2. Ken MacLeod on the life and work of the late sc-fi legend Iain M. Banks
- (tags:IainBanks scifi video history KenMacleod )
- 3. There is yet another Russian exodus from Livejournal to Dreamwidth
- (tags:livejournal dreamwidth russia )
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Catchup links for 30-12-2025
Jan. 1st, 2026 10:48 am- 1. Santa prepares public statement following accusations that ‘he clearly prefers rich kids’
- (tags:inequality funny Christmas )
- 2. "I Am the Very Model of a Miniature Tyrannosaur" (clearly the best way to publicise new dinosaur knowledge)
- (tags:dinosaurs video music viaSwampers )
- 3. Tiny! Cute! Bat! (Second attempt)
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- 4. O Generous One! -(The Origin of "Carol of the Bells")
- (tags:christmas ukraine history music video translation )
- 5. The deep ocean has a missing link between deep and surface food webs - and scientists finally found it
- (tags:ocean food nature )
- 6. The complicated life of Francesca Albanese: A rising figure in Italy but barred from every bank by Trump’s sanctions
- (tags:usa italy palestine israel banking OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI
- (tags:ai libraries books OhForFucksSake )
- 8. Delay to post-Brexit deal costs UK £100m a week
- (tags:uk europe trade )
Just noticed these didn't post on the day!
Interesting Links for 31-12-2025
Dec. 31st, 2025 12:00 pmTags:
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Interesting Links for 29-12-2025
Dec. 29th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Why all the Criticism of Good Men Fighting for Healthier Masculinity?
- (tags:masculinity gender men patriarchy society )
- 2. German journalist on flotilla accuses Israeli guards of rape
- (tags:israel rape )
- 3. Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI
- (tags:AI business fail )
- 4. My Open Letter To That Open Letter About AI In Writing And Publishing - Chuck Wendig
- (tags:ai scifi publishing )
- 5. Tiny! Cute! Bat!
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Interesting Links for 25-12-2025
Dec. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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- 2. There's no such thing as a fake feather
- (tags:birds materials video )
- 3. Dutch Tesla Fleet Goes Bankrupt After Betting on Musk's Self-Driving Promises
- (tags:Tesla automation fraud ElonMusk )
- 4. Super Mario Bros. and Yoshi Games' Affordance of Childlike Wonder and Reduced Burnout Risk in Young Adults
- (tags:psychology mentalhealth games Mario )
- 5. Why Britain doesn't have enough dentists
- (tags:teeth UK bureaucracy OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 20-12-2025
Dec. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The British Medical Association comes out for trans rights
- (tags:LGBT doctors UK GoodNews transgender )
- 2. Transphobe Allison Bailey loses her case against Stonewall - again
- (tags:bigotry law UK GoodNews transgender LGBT )
- 3. Fairytale of New York but all the lyrics are 'it was christmas eve babe'
- (tags:music funny video christmas )
- 4. Merry Skealmas everybody!
- (tags:games funny music )
Interesting Links for 18-12-2025
Dec. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Why Do Commercial Spaces Sit Vacant?
- (tags:business property finance economics banking )
- 2. What Happens When Netflix Buys Warner Bros. (nothing good)
- (tags:netflix movies history WarnerBrothers video doom )
- 3. UK energy costs likely to halve by 2050, says system operator
- (tags:UK renewables electricity thefuture )
- 4. Teachers to be trained to spot early signs of misogyny in boys
- (tags:misogyny UK children boys )
- 5. One month to go: Edinburgh-Fife rail upgrades begin soon (closing the line for a week)
- (tags:Scotland transport trains )
- 6. Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Is Having a Renaissance
- (tags:hydroelectric electricity storage )
Interesting Links for 17-12-2025
Dec. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Trans scholars being pushed out of academia, researchers warn
- (tags:transgender bigotry LGBT UK academia OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Scottish Trans and LGBT Youth Scotland response to Scottish Government consultation on updating school buildings regulations
- (tags:school transgender consultation Scotland )
- 3. Magic mushroom compound psilocybin found to break depression spiral
- (tags:depression psilocybin psychedelics )
- 4. Creepy McDonalds AI Actor Responds To Backlash
- (tags:ai advertising actors copyright video )
- 5. The official Fallout season 1 recap is filled with AI and thinks the show is set in the 1950s
- (tags:Amazon AI misinformation )
- 6. Police Scotland warn mental health call-outs are unsustainable
- (tags:police Scotland mentalhealth )
- 7. Tesla Robotaxis crash 12x as often as humans
- (tags:automation driving Tesla )
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- 1. Who wants some Indian rap-metal about cooking?
- (tags:food music video HeavyMetal )
- 2. A short summary of the Sandie Peggie V. Fife Health Board and Dr Beth Upton employment tribunal judgment
- (tags:transgender law UK GoodNews )
- 3. Did Nano Banana Pro Kill Photography or Just Photo Editing?
- (tags:ai photography video )
- 4. Clinic Closures Force More Rural Americans To Rely On Horse Who Stomps Twice When Patient Has Cancer
- (tags:USA healthcare horses cancer satire )
- 5. Study: Leaving Religion May Make You More Liberal
- (tags:politics liberal religion psychology )
- 6. UK issues sanctions against Russia amid accusations of information warfare
- (tags:uk russia disinformation )
- 7. Prenatal phenol exposure linked to child behaviour
- (tags:pollution behaviour children )
- 8. US to ask tourists for five-year social media history before entry
- (tags:socialmedia usa OhForFucksSake )
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- russia,
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- uk,
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Interesting Links for 06-12-2025
Dec. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Netflix announces deal to buy Warner Bros. and HBO
- (tags:WarnerBrothers HBO netflix )
- 2. Did Rachel Reeves mislead the public ahead of the Budget?
- (tags:budget UK FactCheck politics )
- 3. Visualising Klotski (fantastic 3d visualisations of possibilities)
- (tags:video game viaSwampers visualisation )
- 4. 'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery
- (tags:muppets mysteries video satire )
- 5. Wall Street races to protect itself from AI bubble
- (tags:AI investment insurance )
- 6. Original version of Star Wars Returns to Theaters for 50th Anniversary
- (tags:StarWars movies )
- 7. Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.
- (tags:LGBT bigotry transgender gaming women )
- 8. Adenosine as the metabolic common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox
- (tags:depression )
- 9. The USA is officially removing itself from positive engagement in world affairs.
- (tags:USA politics diplomacy NATO )
- 10. Edinburgh confirms Visitor Levy affordable housing spend
- (tags:Edinburgh housing GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 02-12-2025
Dec. 2nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Cattle tuberculosis; badgers finally in the clear
- (tags:Badgers disease cows UK )
- 2. After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death
- (tags:games )
- 3. There are many more weight-loss drugs coming.
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- 4. Tales From The Multiverse (An animated short film by Tumblehead)
- (tags:video viaKenny funny dinosaurs religion creationism )
- 5. "We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers - here's what it reveals"
- (tags:war military history viaZornhau )
- 6. Large surge in Scottish flu cases as new strain takes hold
- (tags:scotland flu )
- 7. Sleeping Beauty Vs the Planet of the Insomniacs
- (tags:fairytale video sleep EpicWTF )
- 8. The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
- (tags:ai thinking doom )
Interesting Links for 25-11-2025
Nov. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Britain is one of the world's richest countries. So why do a third of its children live in poverty?
- (tags:uk poverty children )
- 2. Brexit costing the UK up to £90bn in lost tax a year, new analysis shows (People are around £3k per year worse off)
- (tags:uk europe OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Footage of Japan's new train zooming down the track at 310mph leaves spectators speechless
- (tags:trains magnets Japan video )
- 4. Five pivotal ages in your brain's development revealed in new scientific study (0-9, 9-32, 32-66, 66-83, 83+)
- (tags:development brain age )
Interesting Links for 24-11-2025
Nov. 24th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Russia Today and the Fremen Mirage
- (tags:politics society war history Russia Ukraine )
- 2. Thorium-uranium Conversion Makes Breakthrough
- (tags:thorium nuclearpower China )
- 3. Dance teacher Melissa Revell wins payout after yoga course triggers emotional breakdown
- (tags:mentalhealth yoga )
- 4. Valve Issues Black Ops 7 Refund Over Undisclosed AI Materials
- (tags:ai games fraud valve )
- 5. Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
- (tags:twitter usa politics fraud )
- 6. The voice of the New York subway is now transgender
- (tags:LGBT transgender voice newyork video )
- 7. How top level mathematicians are using AI
- (tags:AI mathematics )
- 8. Disney loses the rights to Roger Rabbit characters, as they revert to original author of novel
- (tags:Disney intellectual_property )
- 9. Leftist and Moderate Democrats Are Trying to Be More Alike
- (tags:democrats usa politics economics )
- 10. College Students Furious When Their Course Is Taught by AI Instead of a Professor
- (tags:university ai OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 22-11-2025
Nov. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Where nobody knows your name... - Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.
- (tags:TV history faces photos pubs )
- 2. The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed 600,000 people, most of them children
- (tags:USA aid death children )
- 3. Pope Leo XIV Gives His Apostolic Blessing to the Bedlam of Noise and Nightclub Worship Styles
- (tags:religion music catholicism video )
- 4. The Batman effect (putting someone in a Batman costume on a train makes people twice as likely to give up their seat for a pregnant woman)
- (tags:batman psychology )
- 5. Andy Burnham: "Here's how I would fix Britain"
- (tags:politics labour uk housing )
Interesting Links for 21-11-2025
Nov. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 2% of people are just bastards
- (tags:oxytocin psychology morality sharing business )
- 2. Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
- (tags:games history Microsoft opensource )
- 3. Women Keep Ruining the Workplace!!
- (tags:women work society satire funny USA )
- 4. "We Didn't Start The Fire" The Silmarillion Edition
- (tags:lotr viaNancyLebov video music )
Interesting Links for 19-11-2025
Nov. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Schizophrenia might make you like cats!
- (tags:schizophrenia cats ToxoplasmaGondii )
- 2. What it's like being pregnant on a remote Scottish island
- (tags:babies scotland video )
- 3. The UK Boiler Upgrade Scheme has been expanded to include air-to-air heat pumps, and can do cooling as well as heating
- (tags:heating UK )
- 4. Top writers ruled out of NZ book awards due to AI covers
- (tags:AI awards writing art newzealand )
- 5. Strange Structures Found Lurking in The Blood of People With Long COVID
- (tags:viaKenny Pandemic blood )
- 6. On the front line of Europe's standoff with Russia's shadow fleet
- (tags:shipping Russia trade oil )
Interesting Links for 15-11-2025
Nov. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. I am fascinated by how much language cats and dogs can have when you give them the opportunity
- (tags:communication cats dogs )
- 2. if I was designing a kid's toy then I wouldn't connect it to an AI without making sure it wouldn't teach them about matches, knives and sexual kinks
- (tags:ai toys children wtf )
- 3. Do not compare yourself to people you see online. They quite possibly don't look like that
- (tags:ai video bodies society )
- 4. France drops demand for UK to pay up front for Brexit reset talks on cheaper food
- (tags:uk europe food trade france )
- 5. Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots
- (tags:ai belief patterns delusion )
Interesting Links for 14-11-2025
Nov. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
- (tags:usa racism )
- 2. Lupus may be caused by the common Epstein-Barr virus (as well as MS)
- (tags:disease virus immune_system )
- 3. Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix
- (tags:automation driving usa )
- 4. The last-ever US penny was minted today in Philadelphia
- (tags:usa money cash )
- 5. Inside China's Mini PC Production: How Tiny Computers Are Made (a 22 minute factory tour)
- (tags:computers video manufacturing )
- 6. Marble: generating 3D scenes from text and imagery prompts
- (tags:3d design ai )
- 7. GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE (apocalyptically strange looking film, I rather fancy it)
- (tags:movies trailer weird video )
- 8. 5 key points as legal experts grilled by MSPs on indyref2
- (tags:scotland independence law )
- 9. Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World (down 17% in a decade, to less than half)
- (tags:religion USA )
- 10. UK tax calculator showing tax rates and marginal rates under various suggestions by different groups/parties
- (tags:tax UK visualisation )
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