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Interesting Links for 31-12-2025
Dec. 31st, 2025 12:00 pmTags:
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Interesting Links for 22-10-2025
Oct. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Cancer patients who got a mRNA vaccine lived nearly twice as long - even though the vaccine wasn't aimed at cancer.
- (tags:cancer immune_system viaKenny vaccine GoodNews )
- 2. Penguin and Club biscuit bars can no longer be described as chocolate
- The price of cocoa has soared by 4x, and the amount of chocolate in a biscuit has dropped significantly.
(tags:chocolate food biscuits ) - 3. If you're still using Windows 10 (like me!) make sure you've signed up for Extended Support Updates to protect you from security issues
- (tags:Windows security )
- 4. Pop quiz: who is the only scientist to have won both an Ig Nobel and a Nobel prize?
- (tags:science nobel graphene frog magnets levitation )
- 5. If Labour want more houses then they need to stop mucking about with consents and put up the cash
- (tags:money housing uk )
- 6. Brexit has been awesome - for making Europe less divided
- (tags:uk europe )
- 7. Kew woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down a street drain
- (tags:waste water location regulation UK London )
- 8. Humans can absorbe oxygen anally
- (tags:humans oxygen bodies )
- 9. Lawsuit alleges Prime Day is a fraud
- (tags:USA Amazon fraud shopping )
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Interesting Links for 02-10-2025
Oct. 2nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Do not charge your phone in the bath.
- (tags:phones electricity baths water )
- 2. Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54%
- (tags:europe renewables solarpower )
- 3. A plurality of Brits see Reform, their policies, and their voters as racist
- (tags:racism politics UK )
- 4. Progressive Era America put 200,000 poor kids on trains to send them West. Now we know what affected whether they thrived.
- (tags:sociology children family USA )
- 5. "I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone!"
- (tags:ai minecraft )
- 6. Sora 2 and the end of copyright as we know it
- (tags:copyright ai )
- 1. Trans Segregation in Practice (Experiences of trans segregation following the Supreme Court ruling)
- (tags:transgender bigotry LGBT UK OhForFucksSake )
- 2. How UK inheritance tax compares with other countries
- (tags:inheritance tax uk )
- 3. Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
- (tags:ai energy co2 water )
- 4. Nigel Farage lies about the real asylum story
- (tags:asylum uk migration OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain?
- (tags:racism politics UK OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Missing Texas woman found living among lost ‘African’ tribe in Scotland
- (tags:Scotland Africa history EpicWTF weird )
- 7. Ann Summers confirms trans women welcome at bra fittings
- (tags:clothing transgender LGBT shops )
- 8. New Fireworks Control Zones to be introduced in Edinburgh
- (tags:fireworks edinburgh scotland )
- 9. Moderate drinking is not good for you.
- (tags:cancer alcohol disease )
- 10. 4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC
- (tags:law uk usa censorship )
No idea why the autoposter didn't work yesterday/today. Will investigate tonight!
Interesting Links for 13-08-2025
Aug. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Denethor in Lord of the Rings is now a metaphor for doomscrolling
- (tags:lotr doom )
- 2. The UK government's final tip on how to save water is, frankly, out of contact with reality
- (tags:uk government water EpicWTF )
- 3. Call for free bus travel to help under-22s in England into work (Scotland already has this)
- (tags:buses children england )
- 4. Tracing a joke back through British TV
- (tags:tv history comedy jokes )
- 5. Carolyn Mercer Describes Her Experiences of Transgender Conversion Therapy
- (tags:transgender torture bigotry uk video history )
- 6. Trans conversion therapy survivor: 'I wanted to be cured so asked to be electrocuted'
- (tags:torture uk transgender bigotry history )
Interesting Links for 23-07-2025
Jul. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour has brought back Section 28, here's how it will harm children
- (tags:children education Labour OhForFucksSake bigotry transgender UK )
- 2. The Louder the Monkey, the Smaller Its Balls, Study Finds
- (tags:monkeys genitals science )
- 3. Labour ministers lying about Scottish water quality to make it look like privatisation isn't the problem
- (tags:Scotland UK England Labour lies water privatisation )
- 4. French Press Association journalists in Gaza are starving to death
- (tags:Israel gaza Palestine OhForFucksSake journalism food )
- 5. metabolite produced by gut bacteria is a driver of atherosclerosis, the disease behind most heart attacks and strokes.
- (tags:heart disease microbiome )
- 6. Why Facts Don't Change Minds in the Culture Wars—Structure Does
- (tags:belief discussion communication )
- 7. The US is erasing women from the top ranks of the military
- (tags:usa military misogyny OhForFucksSake )
- 8. Why you can't color calibrate (deep) space photos
- (tags:space colour photography )
- 9. Countries across the world see food price shocks from climate extremes
- (tags:food prices doom globalwarming )
- 10. If somebody is doing a good thing, and you try to force them to do a different, better thing, they usually end up doing neither
- (tags:communication management organisation )
- 11. Whites-only communities are spreading in the USA
- (tags:USA racism )
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Interesting Links for 06-07-2025
Jul. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Forced participation in religious activities to be classified as child abuse in Japan
- (tags:religion abuse children Japan )
- 2. 'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
- (tags:ai research )
- 3. Xi Has Spent Decades Preparing for a Cold War With the U.S.
- (tags:china USA trade )
- 4. Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after century-long ban
- (tags:France Paris water pollution sewage )
Interesting Links for 15-05-2025
May. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour doesn't believe British people should be allowed to live here with their families
- (tags:family migration UK OhForFucksSake Labour )
- 2. Crossness Pumping Station: seduced by symmetry
- (tags:art design architecture history London UK )
- 3. Dammit. I'm going to have to get a babysitter so I can go see Superman
- (tags:superman movies trailer comics video )
- 4. Would you like to see someone have their dream come true live on stage?
- (tags:musicals video singing impressive )
- 5. Scottish Water warning after driest period in 60 years
- (tags:Scotland water )
- 6. What it's like being a nanny for the super-rich
- (tags:wealth children childcare )
- 7. EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis
- (tags:europe advertising privacy law )
- 8. How to Sniff Out 'Copaganda': When the Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
- (tags:police propaganda media journalism )
- 9. Audible to use AI narrators and translators
- (tags:books audio ai translation )
- 10. South Korea's robot chefs worry human workers, disappoint customers
- (tags:food cooking robots )
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Interesting Links for 11-12-2024
Dec. 11th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The Scottish government is to back a move to bar MSPs from also sitting as MPs or members of the House of Lords
- (tags:scotland politics )
- 2. Next-generation datacenters consume zero water for cooling
- (tags:water cool heat Technology )
- 3. Israel targets Syria: 480 strikes in 48 hours after Assad's ouster as they destroy weapons caches
- (tags:Israel Syria weaponry )
- 4. "I'm a Syrian in the UK - here's what Britons don't understand about my country"
- (tags:syria war civilwar asylum )
- 5. Google's new AI predicts weather and the risks of extreme conditions better than the existing state-of-the-art
- (tags:ai weather )
- 6. Medical misogyny leaving women in pain for years without a diagnosis for common conditions including endometriosis, heavy periods and chronic UTI
- (tags:women misogyny uk nhs epicfail healthcare )
- 7. "My boyfriend sent me a heartfelt message - then I learned he'd used ChatGPT"
- (tags:relationships ai writing )
Interesting Links for 27-11-2024
Nov. 27th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. How Murderbot Saved Martha Wells' Life (and got her nominated for a bunch of awards)
- (tags:scifi murder robots )
- 2. Bluesky boom worries Chinese media
- (tags:socialnetworking china )
- 3. The Five Stages of Processing a New Star Wars Announcement
- (tags:StarWars Disney movies video )
- 4. Earth has tilted by 31.5 inches and humans are to blame - pumping 2 trillion tons of groundwater
- (tags:water earth doom )
Interesting Links for 12-11-2024
Nov. 12th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A portrait of the fascist as a young gamer
- (tags:gaming bigotry )
- 2. The UK has a £47bn bill in outstanding compensation claims
- (tags:uk money )
- 3. Want to shoot down a drone fleet? You need a machine gun, a camera, and some automation
- (tags:technology drone guns automation )
- 4. How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom
- (tags:ai computers neurons images )
- 5. Israel's Smotrich tells authorities to prepare for West Bank annexation
- (tags:Israel )
- 6. What Britain's £100m bat tunnel can tell us about why Britain can't build infrastructure
- (tags:UK infrastructure bureaucracy hs2 epicfail )
- 7. Water expands a ridiculous amount when it turns into steam, and you do not want to be nearby if it happens very quickly
- (tags:video water heat )
- 8. I have been reading Sophia these jokes and she has been explaining to me, one by one, why they make no sense.
- (tags:jokes children )
- 9. Chi-Fi Tuning - Why It Sounds So Damn Piercing To Western Ears?
- (tags:china music Technology sound )
- 10. Expert Explains Why, Essentially, You're Fucked
- (tags:video doom funny )
- 11. Why I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering (or anything else that's badly managed)
- (tags:life programming organisation systems anger )
- 12. Do Not Obey In Advance
- (tags:fascism bureaucracy heroism )
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Interesting Links for 23-10-2024
Oct. 23rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. How does WhatsApp make money?
- (tags:communication business )
- 2. You Don't Need Words to Think
- (tags:language thinking )
- 3. Who wants to hear interesting facts about the English language?
- (tags:language writing history video English )
- 4. Bohemian Rhapsody, told in memes
- (tags:meme queen music funny )
- 5. George R.R. Martin Announces He's Written Every 'And' That Will Appear In Next Book
- (tags:writing GeorgeRRMartin funny satire )
- 6. Keir Starmer scores first major Brexit reset success with landmark defence deal with Germany
- (tags:UK Germany military russia )
- 7. Edinburgh city centre to get first major new public gardens for 200 years
- (tags:edinburgh gardens school music )
- 8. Scientists Say Our Water Cycle Has Started Breaking Down
- (tags:water environment doom )
- 9. Meet the winners of Nikon's 2024 photomicrography contest
- (tags:photos awards microscope )
- 10. California Is Flooding School Cafeterias With Vegan Meals—and Kids Like It
- (tags:food california vegan )
- 11. What explains the timing and manner of the Chagos Islands sovereignty deal? (the USA)
- (tags:usa uk india politics )
- 12. UK Supreme Court rules that individuals can take regulators to court to make them do their job.
- (tags:uk regulation law )
- 13. "Autism" is at least four different things.
- (tags:autism genetics development children )
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Interesting Links for 09-10-2024
Oct. 9th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. MI5 have foiled 48 mass murder plots from Russia and Iran in the last 7 years
- (tags:russia Iran murder war UK intelligence )
- 2. Hurricane! Milton! From! Space!
- (tags:video space wind weather )
- 3. US finalizes rule to remove lead pipes within a decade. (Do many other countries still use lead water pipes?)
- (tags:lead water USA )
- 4. Trailer for Midgies horror movie released ahead of filming
- (tags:Scotland insects horror comedy )
- 5. Companies Are Forcing People to Work Through Disasters.
- (tags:usa weather safety OhForFucksSake business mcdonalds )
- 6. Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
- (tags:google ai images doom fraud )
Interesting Links for 24-09-2024
Sep. 24th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What It's Like Being a Billionaire's Personal Assistant
- (tags:wealth society )
- 2. How much energy does desalinisation use? Is it "absurdly cheap"?
- (tags:water electricity desalination )
- 3. Persepolis Now - looking at the future of Iran
- (tags:iran politics islam )
- 4. How Upside-Down Models Revolutionized Architecture
- (tags:architecture design video )
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Interesting Links for 17-07-2024
Jul. 17th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. No, this isn't the wettest British summer ever
- (tags:UK weather )
- 2. Married Men Are Revealing The Hardest Parts Of Marriage
- (tags:men relationships marriage )
- 3. Elon Musk to move SpaceX and X HQ over gender-identity law
- (tags:ElonMusk bigotry transgender children California USA )
- 4. Why Return-to-Office Mandates Aren't Worth the Risks
- (tags:office work jobs )
- 5. Five big problems the government has to fix
- (tags:uk politics problems )
- 6. Fats from thin air: Making butter using CO2 and water
- (tags:food co2 water butter )
Interesting Links for 26-05-2024
May. 26th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Lake District sewage spill runs non-stop for 42 days after decades of inaction
- (tags:water sewage pollution nature regulation UK OhForFucksSake )
- 2. How the US military made San Francisco gay
- (tags:LGBT USA history gay sanfrancisco military )
- 3. The BBC covers Google's destruction of its search tool (and useful web sites)
- (tags:Google web search OhForFucksSake )
- 4. An Age of Gods and Demons: The Greatness of Princess Mononoke
- (tags:ghibli review criticism nature Japan history fantasy )
- 5. When we're banning people from shops based on facial identification, how many errors are acceptable?
- Can happen without technology too, of course. I was nearly thrown out of a pub before I opened my mouth and the staff realised I wasn't the person who caused trouble there the week before.
(tags:faces identity society crime UK ) - 6. The most interesting thing about the Tory National Service announcement is that they're quietly cancelling the "levelling up" funds to pay for it...
- (tags:UK conservatives OhForFucksSake money )
Interesting Links for 04-04-2024
Apr. 4th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Looks like nearly 60% of Scots no longer identify with any religion
- (tags:religion scotland demographics )
- 2. Did you know that Edinburgh has a Board Game Library?
- (tags:libraries boardgames edinburgh )
- 3. Traditional Chinese printing process
- (tags:video china printing history )
- 4. Behind the lurid headlines: What the Scottish hate crime legislation actually says
- (tags:scotland bigotry law )
- 5. 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spree in Gaza (with a 10% error rate)
- (tags:ai palestine israel war )
- 6. One third of Thames Water sewage sensors are faulty
- (tags:water uk pollution OhForFucksSake )
- 7. 60% of time spent playing computer games in 2023 went to games at least 6 years old. Only 8% went on new, non-annual titles (like Baldurs Gate III)
- (tags:games business )
Interesting Links for 15-03-2024
Mar. 15th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The financial burden of tackling climate change will fall disproportionately on Scotland
- (tags:scotland globalwarming )
- 2. The Violence Of Relentless Positivity In The Workplace (or: "Negativity is an expensive signal of honesty")
- (tags:work honesty complaints )
- 3. Why women are at greater risk of autoimmune disease
- (tags:immune_system women disease )
- 4. The Small Company at the Center of 'Gamergate 2.0'
- (tags:harassment games writing Diversity bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Review of "Who's Afraid of Gender?" by Judith Butler - An urgent counter to trans panic
- (tags:gender society )
- 6. Urban humans have lost much of their ability to digest plants
- (tags:humans microbiome plants food )
- 7. How Michael Sheen met Neil Gaiman, and the mystery they ate when they did
- (tags:neilgaiman food )
- 8. Next-gen battery tech: Reimagining every aspect of batteries
- (tags:batteries Technology thefuture research )
- 9. There is no EU cookie banner law
- (tags:europe regulation privacy )
- 10. A Diversity of Novels with Transgender Protagonists
- (tags:transgender lgbt fiction )
- 11. The Designer Who's Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge
- (tags:water cities china design drought )
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Interesting Links for 24-02-2024
Feb. 24th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The first round of U.S. secondary sanctions on Russia is working
- (tags:USA Russia money war Ukraine )
- 2. "Our Company Is Doing So Well That You're All Fired"
- (tags:business satire unemployment funny )
- 3. Water firms allowed to dump sewage into rivers using permits from the 1950s
- (tags:UK water pollution regulation OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Monsterfucking is out. Monsterparenting is in.
- (tags:monsters parenting funny stories )
- 5. Germany's Bundestag votes for cannabis legalization
- (tags:Germany marijuana legalisation GoodNews )
- 6. What's going on with the collapsed culvert at Cameron Toll?
- (tags:roads river Edinburgh )
- 7. Study finds that returning to the office doesn't improve company value, but does make employees miserable
- (tags:business work office happiness )
