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Interesting Links for 27-05-2026
May. 27th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. UK Medical Academies respond to the government consultation on Growing Up In An Online World
- (tags:children internet health safety )
- 2. The Great Depopulation - how drastic is our population decline going to be?
- (tags:population thefuture )
- 3. Starmer bans Labour councillors from doing deals with Green Party, happy to work with Tories
- (tags:Labour GreenParty politics UK OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Ukrainian intelligence tricked Russian troops who wanted to activate Starlink terminals, got cash and precise locations out of them.
- (tags:Ukraine Russia fraud intelligence war communications )
- 5. The Strange Melancholy of Slaying Monsters
- (tags:games morality art violence )
- 6. Green sector is 5% of Scotland's GDP
- (tags:scotland economics renewables )
- 7. Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn't really Google anymore (I use Kagi and it's great)
- (tags:search web recommendation )
- 8. Owner's relief as escaped tortoise found yards away
- (tags:tortoise pets headline )
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- art,
- children,
- communications,
- economics,
- fraud,
- games,
- greenparty,
- headline,
- health,
- intelligence,
- internet,
- labour,
- links,
- morality,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pets,
- politics,
- population,
- recommendation,
- renewables,
- russia,
- safety,
- scotland,
- search,
- thefuture,
- tortoise,
- uk,
- ukraine,
- violence,
- war,
- web
Interesting Links for 02-05-2026
May. 2nd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. European Parliament adopts measure to ban conversion therapy
- (tags:lgbt GoodNews europe )
- 2. The latest LLMs can recognise a writer from 150 words of text
- (tags:privacy ai writing )
- 3. Trumps allies are done, but too scared to speak up
- (tags:politics fear fascism usa )
- 4. There's no US/Iran deal because both sides think they're winning
- (tags:usa iran war doom )
- 5. What can mathematicians do without infinity?
- (tags:mathematics infinity )
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 31-03-2026
Mar. 31st, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. New UK visa rules -> foreign students down 10% -> universities cutting staff & not enough graduates in vital fields
- (tags:university migration uk doom )
- 2. Spain closes airspace to aircraft involved in Iran war
- (tags:spain war iran usa airplanes )
- 3. Even Trump Unsure How Rambling Speech On Iran Veered Off Into Ranking The 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' Films
- (tags:pirates Caribbean movies politics USA satire )
- 4. 85% of S&P 500 Decline this year is from 8 tech stocks based around AI
- (tags:ai technology investment doom )
- 5. Huge surge in AI misconduct cases recorded at Edinburgh University
- (tags:university cheating AI Edinburgh Scotland )
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,
- links,
- manchester,
- middle_east,
- nature,
- ohforfuckssake,
- oil,
- religion,
- school,
- tolkien,
- uk,
- ursulaklegguin,
- usa,
- video,
- war
Interesting Links for 26-03-2026
Mar. 26th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. UK 'runs out' of warships - leaving Germany to take over key Nato mission
- (tags:uk germany nato navy )
- 2. UK confirms ban on cryptocurrency donations and limit on foreign donors in blow for Reform
- (tags:UK politics money reform regulation )
- 3. Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk
- (tags:regulation electricity spain )
- 4. UK university students are being paid to support Chinese propaganda
- (tags:china uk propaganda university )
- 5. Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever — in the back of CERN's truck
- (tags:physics antimatter viaSwampers )
- 6. Democrat wins Florida state seat containing Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate (over 20% change)
- (tags:hope elections USA politics )
- 7. UK car and steel firms fear being frozen out of 'Made in Europe' deals by EU
- (tags:Europe UK trade manufacturing doom )
- 8. The Revolutionary Guards are taking over Iran (control has fragmented and there is nobody to negotiate with)
- (tags:Iran military USA OhForFucksSake war )
Tags:
- antimatter,
- china,
- doom,
- elections,
- electricity,
- europe,
- germany,
- hope,
- iran,
- links,
- manufacturing,
- military,
- money,
- nato,
- navy,
- ohforfuckssake,
- physics,
- politics,
- propaganda,
- reform,
- regulation,
- spain,
- trade,
- uk,
- university,
- usa,
- viaswampers,
- war
Interesting Links for 23-03-2026
Mar. 23rd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Trump has delighted apocalyptic Christians. They say the End Times are coming
- (tags:apocalypse religion Christianity politics Israel middle_east Palestine )
- 2. VFX artists vs. The Golden Gate Bridge
- (tags:cgi bridge sanfrancisco )
- 3. The seven new towns set to be built across the UK, mapped
- (tags:UK housing )
- 4. Iran says coastal attack will lead to full Gulf closure and mine-laying
- (tags:iran middle_east usa war doom )
Tags:
- apocalypse,
- bridge,
- cgi,
- christianity,
- doom,
- housing,
- iran,
- israel,
- links,
- middle_east,
- palestine,
- politics,
- religion,
- sanfrancisco,
- uk,
- usa,
- war
Interesting Links for 20-03-2026
Mar. 20th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Earth's first mass extinction may have been far worse than believed
- (tags:extinction prehistory paleontology )
- 2. People using AI to give law advice finally reaches Scotland.
- (tags:ai law scotland )
- 3. Denmark was preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations.
- (tags:war usa norway germany france denmark )
- 4. This perfectly encapsulates why I won't surf the web without an ad-blocker
- (tags:advertising web newspapers )
- 5. How *did* a multi-storey car park get built in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle?
- (tags:edinburgh cars history )
- 6. Waymo self driving cars are 13x safer than humans
- (tags:safety automation driving cars )
- 7. Police Scotland announce they don't want trans people to report any crimes
- (tags:transgender LGBT bigotry OhForFucksSake Scotland )
- 8. The change that made lighthouses work much better - and why it drove the keepers mad. (Lots and lots of mercury)
- (tags:mercury light history safety ships )
- 9. Gen Z is broke, stressed and exhausted - but boomers won't accept it
- (tags:stress society doom )
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- advertising,
- ai,
- automation,
- bigotry,
- cars,
- denmark,
- doom,
- driving,
- edinburgh,
- extinction,
- france,
- germany,
- history,
- law,
- lgbt,
- light,
- links,
- mercury,
- newspapers,
- norway,
- ohforfuckssake,
- paleontology,
- prehistory,
- safety,
- scotland,
- ships,
- society,
- stress,
- transgender,
- usa,
- war,
- web
Interesting Links for 13-03-2026
Mar. 13th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Landmark EU court ruling forces Member States to guarantee legal gender recognition for mobile citizens
- (tags:LGBT transgender Europe GoodNews )
- 2. U.S. Navy Turns Down Hormuz Escort Requests Because of High Risk
- (tags:usa iran war )
- 3. US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike in Iraqi waters
- (tags:Iran drone war Greece USA Iraq shipping oil trade doom )
- 4. Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection
- (tags:drwho history )
Interesting Links for 04-03-2026
Mar. 4th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. China's 450km/h bullet train is the fastest ever built
- (tags:trains speed china )
- 2. Two Major Studies, 125,000 Kids: The Social Media Panic Doesn't Hold Up
- (tags:children socialmedia )
- 3. AI-generated art can't be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule
- (tags:art ai copyright law usa )
- 4. Beyond Oil: The Strait Of Hormuz And The Global Food Risk
- (tags:food trade middle_east doom USA Iran war )
- 5. This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won't (check the date)
- (tags:politics USA middle_east history )
- 6. The Siege of Cuba
- (tags:cuba usa oil )
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 09-01-2026
Jan. 9th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Danish troops told to 'shoot first, ask questions later' if US invades Greenland
- (tags:usa greenland denmark war doom )
- 2. What is the product placement in Lord of the Rings? (read the comments)
- (tags:lotr advertising viaSwampers )
- 3. How do UK voters feel about coalitions, and what kind would they like to see?
- (tags:uk coalition politics polls )
Interesting Links for 13-12-2025
Dec. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How Screen Time Affects Childhood Brain Development
- (tags:brain children funny screens )
- 2. Four reasons why the UK is already at war with Russia
- (tags:Russia UK war )
- 3. Looking Back at the Work of John Varley, 1947-2025
- (tags:scifi obituary )
- 4. Dating a man who's most likely autistic
- (tags:autism relationships )
Interesting Links for 08-12-2025
Dec. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. mRNA Vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality over 4 years
- (tags:death health vaccine pandemic )
- 2. All the ways Russia is waging 'grey war' on the UK - from drones to local agents
- (tags:russia war uk )
- 3. Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters'
- (tags:Japan snow monsters )
- 4. Is anyone surprised that US tech billionaires want to fund fascist city states?
- (tags:fascism technology USA )
- 5. Vintage Photographs of People Reading Newspapers Before the Invention of That Grossly Antisocial Device: The Smartphone
- (tags:photos newspapers reading society history )
- 6. Impacts of working from home on mental health tracked in study of 16,000 Australians
- (tags:australia work homes mentalhealth )
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.
- (tags:weight medication )
- 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 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 )
Tags:
- ai,
- china,
- democrats,
- disney,
- economics,
- fraud,
- games,
- history,
- intellectual_property,
- lgbt,
- links,
- mathematics,
- mentalhealth,
- newyork,
- nuclearpower,
- ohforfuckssake,
- politics,
- russia,
- society,
- thorium,
- transgender,
- twitter,
- ukraine,
- university,
- usa,
- valve,
- video,
- voice,
- war,
- yoga
Interesting Links for 18-10-2025
Oct. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Endometriosis diagnosis from menstrual blood could make diagnosis dramatically faster (still a few years away though)
- (tags:endometriosis health )
- 2. Church of England bishops stop plans to trial blessing services for gay couples
- (tags:LGBT bigotry religion ChurchOfEngland marriage relationships )
- 3. Russia's funding for Ukraine war set to 'contract' as new sanctions loom
- (tags:Russia Ukraine war economics trade )
- 4. The Anglican Church just split in half (40-50 million in each side)
- (tags:ChurchOfEngland )
- 5. Judge rules that trans man can't be denied gender recognition certificate because he is trying to conceive.
- (tags:transgender law UK children GoodNews )
- 6. Happy Tenth Anniversary to the "Leopards Eating People's Faces Party"
- (tags:politics meme satire )
- 7. Liberal Democrats win all six seats in Surrey council by-elections (clearly things afoot in the South-East)
- (tags:libdem elections uk )
- 8. Why FindOutNow polls differ from other polling companies
- (tags:polls politics uk )
- 9. Some reasons to be hopeful about the future (if we can get through 2026)
- (tags:thefuture charlesstross )
- 10. Treating male partners halves the recurrence rate of Bacterial Vaginosis
- (tags:Bacteria microbiome )
- 11. Lothian Buses celebrates a century of keeping Edinburgh moving through the night with the Night Bus
- (tags:Edinburgh buses night history )
- 12. Turkey proposes radical new "reforms" to attack LGBTQ+ marriage, media, & trans people
- (tags:LGBT transgender turkey bigotry )
Tags:
- bacteria,
- bigotry,
- buses,
- charlesstross,
- children,
- churchofengland,
- economics,
- edinburgh,
- elections,
- endometriosis,
- goodnews,
- health,
- history,
- law,
- lgbt,
- libdem,
- links,
- marriage,
- meme,
- microbiome,
- night,
- politics,
- polls,
- relationships,
- religion,
- russia,
- satire,
- thefuture,
- trade,
- transgender,
- turkey,
- uk,
- ukraine,
- war
Interesting Links for 10-10-2025
Oct. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable, coroner rules
- (tags:suicide transgender NHS UK OhForFucksSake LGBT )
- 2. British people don't want to leave the ECHR
- (tags:echr polls uk )
- 3. Where are Reform's Scottish votes coming from?
- (tags:Scotland voting polls )
- 4. How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel's 3D propaganda
- (tags:propaganda video war israel palestine )
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