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Interesting Links for 19-09-2025
Sep. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour's plan to jumpstart city building after Rayner's 1.5m homes drive stalls
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- 2. Chimps consume a pint of lager's worth of alcohol every day in fruit
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- 3. Man with Covid for over two years became virus incubator, as it evolved into new variants of concern
- (tags:pandemic virus evolution )
- 4. Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads (and so I will never buy one)
- (tags:advertising Samsung technology OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms (in Canada)
- (tags:Canada girls sports school LGBT transgender bigotry )
- 6. Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
- (tags:politics Child_abuse satire usa uk royalty )
- 7. An "At The Mountains Of Madness" game, where you play as a penguin.
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Interesting Links for 17-07-2025
Jul. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The UK is stuck in a fiscal corner (The only way I see out of it is the trade bump we'd get from rejoining the EU)
- (tags:uk economics doom viaKenny )
- 2. Babies from three people's DNA prevents heriditary disease
- (tags:disease genetics babies )
- 3. Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements
- (tags:morality brain psychology )
- 4. Which of us has not been woken at night by a religious leader dressed as a yeti, so that we can swear a blood oath?
- (tags:catholicism wtf )
- 5. Police participation in pride ruled unlawful
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Interesting Links for 31-03-2025
Mar. 31st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
- (tags:USA computers FBI )
- 2. Youth Demand reacts to arrest for plans to 'shut down London'
- (tags:protests UK London )
- 3. Which of us has never thought "My vacuum cleaner is okay, but it would be awesome if it could make phone calls!"
- (tags:viaPatrickHadfield cleaning phone wtf )
Interesting Links for 21-03-2025
Mar. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. EU sends Apple first DMA interoperability instructions for apps and connected devices
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- 2. Big drop in overseas students at Scottish universities (driven by changes in immigration visas)
- (tags:scotland university uk migration visa doom )
- 3. "We'll deport you if we have evidence against you, and if we do not" - An extraordinary witness statement by the US government
- (tags:usa migration OhForFucksSake law )
- 4. New study reveals bacterial vaginosis is actually a sexually transmitted infection
- (tags:sex disease women viaDrJon )
- 5. Vivian Jenna Wilson on Being Elon Musk's Estranged Daughter, Protecting Trans Youth and Taking on the Right Online
- (tags:LGBT transgender ElonMusk USA politics bigotry )
- 6. PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
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- 7. Tesla cars disengage autopilot if you're about to crash
- (tags:Tesla automation OhForFucksSake driving crash )
- 8. Battery storage is dramatically reshaping the California grid, and finally moving it away from gas
- (tags:batteries electricity GoodNews California )
- 9. What evidence does the CIA have that Hitler was still alive in South America in the 1950s?
- (tags:history hitler USA cia colombia wtf )
- 10. Apple Is Losing Over $1 Billion per Year on Streaming Service, Has 45 Million Apple TV+ Subscribers
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- 11. I thankfully don't have to worry about dating apps. But I do find it fascinating what kind of person makes them work for them.
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- 12. Germany and Britain issue warnings about traveling to America
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Interesting Links for 27-02-2025
Feb. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Covid shots protect kids from long Covid —and don't cause sudden death
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- 2. Eight Psychiatric Disorders Share the Same Genetic Causes
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- 3. Washington Post opinion chief quits as Bezos makes new editorial demands
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- 4. TypeScript types can run DOOM (ridiculous and nerdy)
- (tags:doom type-systems wtf impressive video )
- 5. Musk tweets about a Mexican telecoms owner cost him billions
- (tags:telecoms ElonMusk business epicfail )
- 6. Consultation on Edinburgh's Seafield regeneration plan.
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- 7. Edinburgh's Seafield sewage works records 165 spills in a year
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Interesting Links for 22-02-2025
Feb. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. HP decided to make every phone customer wait 15 minutes before talking to them. And was then forced to backtrack.
- (tags:hp wtf customerservice OhForFucksSake phones )
- 2. A Delta pilot tried to raise safety issues. They accused her of being bipolar. It took years in the courts to prove her right.
- (tags:mentalhealth safety airplanes OhForFucksSake usa )
- 3. Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours
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- 4. The Imperial March but it's coming from Vader's chest control panel
- (tags:StarWars music funny video )
- 5. What counselling training is like for an autistic person
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- 6. Five Oddly, Unexpectedly Upbeat Works of SFF
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Interesting Links for 06-02-2025
Feb. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. In-patient services at Edinburgh's Astley Ainslie hospital to be transferred to East Lothian
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- 2. The Curta Mechanical Calculator (I'd love to have one if they didn't cost so much)
- (tags:calculator mechanics impressive video viaSwampers )
- 3. AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU
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- 4. Scotland! Will! Not! Ban! Cats!
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- 5. Time limit for child sex abuse claims to be removed in England and Wales
- (tags:rape children abuse law uk GoodNews england )
- 6. The greatest families behind the greatest showmen - what it's like living life on the road, and how that affects the children
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- 7. Probably the most sensible thing I've read about Neil Gaiman
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- 8. Nurse who objected to transgender woman in changing room admits harassment
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- 9. Assaulted woman's divorce case was turned down by 116 Scottish legal aid lawyers
- (tags:Scotland law austerity divorce assault )
- 10. Scientists explore how to make quantum bits with spinel gemstones
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- 11. CIA sent unclassified email with names of recent hires - at Whitehouse insistence.
- (tags:usa Intelligence OhForFucksSake doom )
- 12. "I looked for dating advice online - and got sucked into the toxic manosphere"
- (tags:men relationships feminism patriarchy OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 30-12-2024
Dec. 30th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A brief explanation of why AI is being shoved into everything
- (tags:ai business money technology )
- 2. Live LED Maps of the weather
- (tags:weather maps led viaSwampers )
- 3. Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?
- (tags:Iceland Europe )
- 4. In 2024 we discovered a whole new unknown kind of life - inside of us!
- (tags:life biology wtf )
Interesting Links for 10-12-2024
Dec. 10th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Video of Edinburgh, Scotland 1930s in color
- (tags:Edinburgh Scotland video colour history )
- 2. Facebook/Meta's Role in Romania's 2024 Presidential Election
- (tags:disinformation Romania Facebook )
- 3. Edinburgh's latest new walking and cycling route officially opens between Roseburn and Union Canal
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- 4. Starmer's historic trip to Cyprus turns into a diplomatic storm as he lands on divided island
- (tags:Cyprus UK wtf Labour )
- 5. How to annoy a British person by making tea
- (tags:tea comic funny )
- 6. Americans Glad ISIS Defeated Or Something
- (tags:usa middle_east war funny satire )
- 7. Areas Of The UK With Most Devolution Have More Confidence In Their Mayors
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Interesting Links for 30-11-2024
Nov. 30th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. (6 million tons per year)
- (tags:plastic pollution cars transport )
- 2. What happens next to bill on assisted dying?
- (tags:law uk death suicide )
- 3. Ridiculous sports you probably didn't know existed
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- 4. Upgrading the London Underground for driverless trains would cost tens of billions to save hundreds of millions per year, taking centuries to pay off
- (tags:transport tube London automation )
Interesting Links for 15-11-2024
Nov. 15th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. New Counterstrike map inspired by Edinburgh
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- 2. The Onion acquires Infowars
- (tags:wtf TheOnion )
- 3. I tried the best £5 dinner in London: The Ikea restaurant
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- 4. The Onion's official announcement "Here's Why I Decided To Buy 'InfoWars'" is hilarious
- (tags:TheOnion funny )
- 5. Is it time to disestablish the Church of England?
- (tags:religion UK politics )
- 6. Kawasaki norovirus symptoms and how to avoid UK's 'highly contagious' winter bug (I'm pretty sure this has gone through my while family in the last week or so)
- (tags:disease )
- 7. pedestrians spend more money than people arriving by car, and pedestrianised town centres have higher sales.
- (tags:walking business )
- 8. Scottish councils reject SNP proposals to partner with religious charity that says sex workers are "possessed by demons"
- (tags:sexwork Scotland OhForFucksSake )
- 9. Loved ones of those choosing assisted dying are being unfairly maligned
- (tags:euthenasia death love )
Interesting Links for 02-11-2024
Nov. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Norovirus cases rise by 41 per cent to twice average level
- (tags:disease UK doom )
- 2. Trump Suggests That America's Top General Deserves Execution
- (tags:USA politics republicans military OhForFucksSake )
- 3. The Untold Story of Trump's Failed Attempt to Overthrow Venezuela's President
- (tags:politics coup Venezuela USA CIA )
- 4. Large crowd duped into attending non-existent Halloween parade in Dublin
- (tags:Halloween Ireland lies wtf viaSwampers )
Interesting Links for 16-10-2024
Oct. 16th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Research released into the effects of the UK's trans puberty blocker ban
- (tags:UK bigotry LGBT transgender healthcare mentalhealth children OhForFucksSake )
- 2. The move to USB C for charging is a done deal. I'm not sure what the UK has to "consider" about it.
- (tags:UK usb Europe electricity )
- 3. Doctor Who and the Sign Language Question
- (tags:drwho sign language video funny viaSwampers )
- 4. Turns out that once Uber had to make money they started charging more and paying less to their drivers
- (tags:driving jobs taxi pay glasgow scotland )
- 5. "Homeostatic Complacency" is something I've encountered plenty of times. Is there a more traditional name for it?
- (tags:psychology behaviour )
- 6. Seriously ill patients on mental health wards will be helped with their CV
- (tags:mentalhealth jobs uk wtf )
- 7. Too many "local" news sites aren't. I'm so glad that we have at least one in Edinburgh that really is.
- (tags:news edinburgh )
- 8. Confronting the truth about Alex Salmond
- (tags:AlexSalmond rape abuse death scotland politics )
- 9. What's Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures?
- (tags:globalwarming doom )
- 10. Labour Together: From new MPs to cabinet ministers, how the influential think tank's donations are bankrolling the party, and who they are linked to.
- (tags:labour money corruption )
- 11. Seven New Frogs Named After Iconic Star Trek Captains
- (tags:frog StarTrek names sound viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 25-09-2024
Sep. 25th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Murdoch family fights in secret over future of media empire
- (tags:media journalism death RupertMurdoch )
- 2. How the molecule was first measured (using some oil and water)
- (tags:history science oil )
- 3. The five lies we tell mothers, and how to cope with the reality
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- 4. How Humans Wrestle Against Rivers
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- 5. Converting dates between 33 different calendar systems
- (tags:date history )
- 6. Brand new luxury British and European cars are entering Russia despite being banned - here's how
- (tags:UK Russia trade law OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Britain Demands to Know WTF
- (tags:wtf video news satire funny UK )
- 8. Reporters Are Asking the Wrong Questions About Labour's Freebie Fiasco
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Interesting Links for 10-09-2024
Sep. 10th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh Royal Mile transformed by Hollywood crews for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein film
- (tags:edinburgh frankenstein GuillermoDelToro movies )
- 2. Consensus when creating Internet Standards (probably also useful to anyone interested in consensus-forming)
- (tags:organisation standards internet )
- 3. Labour refuses to publish impact assessment of winter fuel payment cuts
- (tags:UK Labour poverty heating )
- 4. What is Club 33? A Look Inside Disney's Most Exclusive Club
- (tags:Disney wtf )
Interesting Links for 29-08-2024
Aug. 29th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Boy accidentally smashes 3,500-year-old jar on museum visit
- (tags:children archeology Israel )
- 2. Trump faces new indictment over his efforts to interfere with 2020 election
- (tags:usa politics crime coup )
- 3. Labour knew they were going to have to make massive cuts after the election, they just refused to talk about it
- (tags:Labour austerity UK video )
- 4. We have discovered the best armour for fighting dragons in!
- (tags:dragons armour fruit wtf )
- 5. Musk, xAI accused of worsening Memphis smog with unauthorized turbines
- (tags:ai environment twitter OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 14-08-2024
Aug. 14th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The Strange Logic of Germany's Antisemitism Bureaucrats
- (tags:Germany Jews bigotry Islam Palestine )
- 2. The remarkably unlikely story of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane
- (tags:history war Spain UK navy politics )
- 3. Brits would vote to rejoin EU in new referendum, 59:41
- (tags:UK Europe polls )
- 4. J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk Named in Imane Khelif's Cyberbullying Lawsuit
- (tags:jkrowling ElonMusk bullying Olympics bigotry transgender LGBT )
- 5. 6% of people suffering during the ADHD medication shortage report losing their jobs
- (tags:adhd jobs OhForFucksSake medication )
- 6. Edinburgh Trams staff back strike action over lack of toilet breaks
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- 7. Some companies aren't happy about their adverts appearing under far-right hate posts on X.
- (tags:twitter bigotry advertising )
- 8. Dealing with Time in the Roman Calendar Is A Nightmare
- (tags:Rome time date history wtf viaFanf )
- 9. Israeli Army Uses Palestinian Civilians to Inspect Potentially Booby-trapped Tunnels in Gaza
- (tags:Israel Palestine WarCrimes OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 07-08-2024
Aug. 7th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Bionic Bay looks like a gorgeous platformer with fascinating puzzles and high-speed physics-based gameplay.
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- 2. The anti-islam riots in this country are a product of the media, Tories, and Labour. All should be held responsible.
- (tags:Labour conservatives media UK bigotry Islam riots )
- 3. Russia and Ukraine both have drones controlled by really really long fibre-optic cables
- (tags:drone fibreoptics russia ukraine )
- 4. Tim Walz Took Historic Action To Protect Trans People, Now He's The Dem VP Choice
- (tags:democrats GoodNews transgender USA politics LGBT )
- 5. If your workplace doesn't have a Muppet ethics AI then you are *totally* behind the times
- (tags:ai muppets ethics wtf )
- 6. JD Vance's Wife: My Husband Only Meant to Insult People Who Actively Choose Not to Have Kids, Not People Who Are Trying but Are Unsuccessful
- She did not touch on his claim that people who don't have kids are more sociopathic.
(tags:relationships politics USA EpicWTF ) - 7. How to Survive Mercury in Retrograde
- (tags:astronomy astrology mercury )
- 8. In hospital emergency rooms, female patients are less likely to receive pain medication than male patients who reported the same level of distress
- (tags:misogyny pain healthcare OhForFucksSake )
- 9. The wife of a Conservative councillor has been arrested after she called for hotels with asylum seekers to be set on fire.
- (tags:UK racism conservatives )
- 10. Wind and solar overtake EU fossil fuels in the first half of 2024
- (tags:renewables solarpower windpower electricity Europe coal gas hydroelectric )
- 11. COVID-19 making worrying comeback WHO warns, amid summertime surge
- (tags:pandemic doom )
- 12. I did not know it was possible to make friends with a moray eel!
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- 13. Scottish wildcat kitten caught on thermal imaging camera
- (tags:scotland cats nature video )
- 14. Ukrainian forces take Russian border city that they don't want
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- 15. Elon Musk believes advertisers should be forced to spend money on him
- (tags:ElonMusk advertising twitter wtf )
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Interesting Links for 08-07-2024
Jul. 8th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Election 2024: This could be the birth of a powerful new electoral reform movement
- (tags:voting reform uk viaPatrickHadfield )
- 2. Minister rejects Blair's call for ID cards to control migration
- (tags:IDCards tonyblair Labour )
- 3. The children have been singing "Elephants Have Wrinkles" for the last twenty minutes. No one knows why.
- (tags:elephants singing video children )
- 4. Were some Reform candidates virtual?
- (tags:UK politics wtf )
- 5. The Insidious World of Fake Mobile Game Ads
- (tags:advertising games gambling fraud )
- 6. Best toddler drummer
- (tags:drums children video )
- 7. Germany set to overhaul subsidy regime for renewable energy
- (tags:germany renewables subsidies economics )
- 8. Gamification needs to be specific to its subject and absolutely minimal, in order to be effective
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