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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 )
Tags:
- advertising,
- ai,
- architecture,
- art,
- audio,
- books,
- childcare,
- children,
- comics,
- cooking,
- design,
- europe,
- family,
- food,
- history,
- impressive,
- journalism,
- labour,
- law,
- links,
- london,
- media,
- migration,
- movies,
- musicals,
- ohforfuckssake,
- police,
- privacy,
- propaganda,
- robots,
- scotland,
- singing,
- superman,
- trailer,
- translation,
- uk,
- video,
- water,
- wealth
Interesting Links for 13-05-2025
May. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How Gandalf Proved Mightiest: Spiritual Power in Tolkien
- (tags:lotr Tolkien magic viaDanielDWilliam )
- 2. ScotRail trials wi-fi using Elon Musk's Starlink satellites
- (tags:Scotland trains internet )
- 3. Continuous glucose monitors reveal variable glucose responses from the same people to the same meals
- (tags:insulin sugar eating food )
- 4. The charts showing the big flaw in Starmer's immigration plan
- (tags:migration economy uk doom )
- 5. Moderna's combo Covid and flu mRNA shot outperforms current vaccines in large trial
- (tags:vaccine pandemic flu )
- 6. Despair at Starmer's divisive language as he channels Enoch Powell
- (tags:bigotry immigration UK Labour OhForFucksSake )
- 7. US Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn't always fair use
- (tags:ai copyright USA politics )
- 8. Edinburgh traffic bans in city centre to be made permanent following trial
- (tags:traffic transport Edinburgh )
- 9. Top UK Special Forces general oversaw blocking of Afghan war-crime witnesses to Britain
- (tags:UK military crime war OhForFucksSake Afghanistan )
- 10. How the news feels right now
- (tags:news satire doom )
- 11. Mass vote losses to Lib Dems and Greens would cost Labour twice as many seats as mass Reform switch
- (tags:labour libdem green )
- 12. Getting to know 'Reform curious Labour voters'
- (tags:Labour politics UK )
- 13. Zodiac Killer Revealed by His Love of Comic Books, Author Says
- (tags:comics murder usa history )
- 14. London, Brighton, Birmingham and Manchester Prides suspend political parties from taking part (over trans rights)
- (tags:lgbt transgender protest uk politics )
Tags:
- afghanistan,
- ai,
- bigotry,
- comics,
- copyright,
- crime,
- doom,
- eating,
- economy,
- edinburgh,
- flu,
- food,
- green,
- history,
- immigration,
- insulin,
- internet,
- labour,
- lgbt,
- libdem,
- links,
- lotr,
- magic,
- migration,
- military,
- murder,
- news,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pandemic,
- politics,
- protest,
- satire,
- scotland,
- sugar,
- tolkien,
- traffic,
- trains,
- transgender,
- transport,
- uk,
- usa,
- vaccine,
- viadanieldwilliam,
- war
Interesting Links for 12-05-2025
May. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Statue of Motörhead singer Lemmy Kilmister unveiled in Burslem
- (tags:HeavyMetal statue UK )
- 2. Please dispose of your expired magic carefully
- (tags:magic video funny viaSwampers )
- 3. Would you like to see an Irish person be *very* excited by a potato dish?
- (tags:potato Ireland food video viaSwampers )
- 4. Reminder that Labour has made it impossible for refugees to become British citizens
- (tags:labour refugee OhForFucksSake citizenship )
- 5. Right to buy surge set to wipe out 18,500 UK council homes
- (tags:uk housing OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Dear Keir, there are other options than pandering to prejudice
- (tags:bigotry migration uk OhForFucksSake labour )
- 7. Why Kids Aren't Falling in Love With Reading
- (tags:Education reading books doom usa )
Interesting Links for 11-05-2025
May. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Building a "free energy" engine and showing how it really works
- (tags:fraud energy video )
- 2. Why running just two minutes a day will help you live longer
- (tags:exercise health )
- 3. Analysis of the Cass report finds it presents claims without evidence, misrepresents quotes, has significant methodological problems, and applies a double standard.
- (tags:bigotry lgbt transgender uk research )
- 4. In the wake of tariffs, cargo at the Port of LA is down 35% (will take 4-6 weeks to filter through to shops)
- (tags:usa china trade doom )
- 5. 'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe
- (tags:uk ai counselling doom )
- 6. London's Low Emission Zone reduces sick leave by 18%
- (tags:pollution cars London health )
- 7. Ireland given two months to begin implementing hate speech laws or face legal action from EU
- (tags:bigotry Ireland law Europe )
Photo cross-post
May. 11th, 2025 10:45 am
Lovely afternoon today, so the kids grabbed their water shoes and we
headed for the river.
They were too small two years ago and last year the weather was mediocre at best. But today it was 20 degrees and sunny, so off we went.
Gideon fell on his bum about 8 times. The first 2 times he cried, but by the fourth time he was saying "Brrrrrr", giggling, and then carrying on to investigate the next bit of the river.
And by the end they were demanding more time to fish big rocks out,
crossing the river to wave to me from the far side, and working out
between them how to avoid the clouds of midges over the calmer bits of
the river.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
Interesting Links for 10-05-2025
May. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. British Property Management Firms Are Helping Russians Avoid Sanctions
- (tags:uk russia OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Amazon's warehose robots can now stow items faster than most humans
- (tags:robots amazon )
- 3. Trans Labour councillor quits and accuses Starmer of 'throwing transgender people under a bus'
- (tags:transgender lgbt labour )
- 4. Why the rich paid less tax in the 1970s - despite 98% tax rates
- (tags:tax uk history )
- 5. "Letting AI make up cases" hits the UK legal system
- (tags:law ai fraud OhForFucksSake uk )
- 6. The House of Lords wants opinions from autistic people (diagnosed or undiagnosed), or people who care for them.
- (tags:autism houseoflords )
- 7. Scientists turn lead into gold at the LHC!
- (tags:materials gold lead )
- 8. Always, always check the answers the AI gives you.
- (tags:comic genocide funny ai )
- 9. Video Essay Condescendingly Reads Wikipedia at You
- (tags:funny satire videos )
- 10. American men who refer to themselves as 'moderate' or 'centrist' score basically the same on values and opinions as people who identify themselves as 'conservative'
- (tags:USA politics )
Photo cross-post
May. 10th, 2025 03:34 am
The weather is nice enough that the children are having lunch outdoors.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
Interesting Links for 09-05-2025
May. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Elon Musk is responsible for killing the world's poorest children, says Bill Gates
- (tags:ElonMusk children murder billgates )
- 2. Human transcribers significantly more accurate than AI
- (tags:ai language )
- 3. Woman accused of illegal abortion cleared by jury
- (tags:abortion law UK )
- 4. Wizardry and the medieval church
- (tags:religion magic history )
- 5. A brief explanation of the new pope
- (tags:pope Catholic USA politics )
- 6. UK announces fresh Russia sanctions aimed at Putin's shadow fleet
- (tags:uk russia ukraine shipping )
- 7. AI use damages professional reputation
- (tags:ai work )
- 8. Who wants an edible robot cake?
- (tags:robots cake cooking )
- 9. "My abuser would be charged under new Scottish law"
- (tags:law abuse scotland GoodNews )
- 10. Michael Ellam: The EU Sherpa Resetting The UK-EU Relationship
- (tags:europe uk diplomacy politics )
- 11. Gaza will be concentration camp, declares Netanyahu
- (tags:gaza OhForFucksSake israel )
Interesting Links for 08-05-2025
May. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Mike Pence's takedown of Trump shows how lost traditional Republicans are
- (tags:politics republicans doom usa )
- 2. 'I did stunts for my own pleasure': The terrifying feats of French film legend Jean-Paul Belmondo
- (tags:history france stunts movies viaKenny )
- 3. Europeans Have Realized Their Error About Russia
- (tags:russia europe war ukraine )
- 4. Trump blows a hole in Ed Miliband's wind farm plan
- (tags:usa uk politics windpower OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Vagus Nerve Stimulation Erases PTSD
- (tags:ptsd GoodNews )
- 6. Digitising NHS and adult social care 'will cost £21bn over the next five years'
- (tags:computers nhs healthcare uk )
- 7. How do we deal with Reform?
- (tags:politics uk )
- 8. A map of electromagnetic warfare happening in real time over Ukraine and parts of Russia
- (tags:war electronics russia ukraine radio )
Life with several kids: Hiding
May. 7th, 2025 07:33 pmThe weather is now nice enough that the kids are playing outside.
With the neighbour kids.
And then playing in the house with them.
So I'm hiding in my office from a bunch of a bunch of kids.
This makes me very happy.
(In related news I have ordered a bunch of water pistols and a water sprinkler.)
With the neighbour kids.
And then playing in the house with them.
So I'm hiding in my office from a bunch of a bunch of kids.
This makes me very happy.
(In related news I have ordered a bunch of water pistols and a water sprinkler.)
Interesting Links for 07-05-2025
May. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How to reduce the spread of crypto
- (tags:cryptography virus funny newzealand )
- 2. Dozens of clubs fight back against FA ban on trans women
- (tags:football transgender women uk )
- 3. Fear and intimidation at Newark airport, as a Palestinian-American re-enters the USA
- (tags:usa palestine OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Peak rail fares to be scrapped by Scottish government
- (tags:trains GoodNews )
- 5. Hugo Administrators Resign in Wake of ChatGPT Controversy
- (tags:Hugo awards conventions ai OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Scientists issue new warning linking microplastics with strokes
- (tags:plastic stroke )
- 7. The county that shows how benefits cuts and bills drove voters from Labour to Reform
- (tags:politics economics uk poverty )
- 8. Orsted pulls plug on Hornsea 4 windfarm (one of the world's largest)
- (tags:windpower doom )
- 9. Scottish 'Hollow Mountain' hydro power plant expansion put on hold
- (tags:hydroelectric scotland doom )
Tags:
- ai,
- awards,
- conventions,
- cryptography,
- doom,
- economics,
- football,
- funny,
- goodnews,
- hugo,
- hydroelectric,
- links,
- newzealand,
- ohforfuckssake,
- palestine,
- plastic,
- politics,
- poverty,
- scotland,
- stroke,
- trains,
- transgender,
- uk,
- usa,
- virus,
- windpower,
- women
Unimpressed by Bristol airport security
May. 6th, 2025 01:09 pmBristol airport security has a queue 40 minutes long and 2 of its 8 security scanners running.
I can only assume that this is to force people to pay to skip the queue.
In any case I'm unimpressed.
I can only assume that this is to force people to pay to skip the queue.
In any case I'm unimpressed.
Interesting Links for 06-05-2025
May. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Co-op's chief executive has reaffirmed her commitment to "protect trans people to the end"
- (tags:shopping UK transgender LGBT )
- 2. UK 'green' hydrogen buses to run on fuel shipped 3,000 miles from controversial Saudi megacity
- (tags:saudiarabia hydrogen UK buses OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Autism: Myth Vs. Fact (The Onion)
- (tags:funny autism myths )
- 4. Israel to scale-up offensive in plans to seize all of Gaza
- (tags:gaza Israel )
- 5. Guess what the lowest winning vote share was in the council elections
- (tags:elections voting OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 05-05-2025
May. 5th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. What kind of person is the founder of Blue Labour?
- (tags:Labour OhForFucksSake politics UK )
- 2. Labour decides to destroy the universities funding model in order to satisfy bigots
- (tags:university labour asylum UK politics OhForFucksSake )
- 3. The NHS will be paid to cut waiting lists - at great cost to patient safety
- (tags:UK NHS OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Trump, brushing aside separation of church and state, establishes religious liberty commission
- (tags:USA law religion politics )
- 5. Ex-CIA official says U.S. deliberately gave Ukraine just enough weapons to bleed, not enough to defeat Russia
- (tags:Ukraine USA Russia war OhForFucksSake )
- 6. British pop star Olly Murs' gym transformation kicks off a fight about what women actually find attractive
- (tags:women attraction )
- 7. Autism tips for teachers
- (tags:autism teaching advice )
Transparent scam
May. 5th, 2025 10:17 amI got a 3 second phone call from unknown number, and robotic female voice said "I want to talk to you, add me on WhatsApp."
I worry about the kind of people who fall for something so transparently scammy.
I worry about the kind of people who fall for something so transparently scammy.
Interesting Links for 04-05-2025
May. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes
- (tags:automation driving delivery )
- 2. "I like being autistic": Assessing the benefit of autistic-led psychoeducation for autistic children
- (tags:autism education children )
- 3. Snake enthusiast survived hundreds of bites. Now his blood is aiding the search for a universal antivenom
- (tags:snakes immune_system genetics viaKenny )
- 4. They Sent the Message. But Did They Write It? (How AI is disrupting actual communication)
- (tags:communication ai doom )
- 5. Love in the time of cancer
- (tags:cancer love death )
- 6. Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director
- (tags:TV Australia art animation )
Photo cross-post
May. 3rd, 2025 01:44 pm
Sophia seems to have gotten over her fear of the dog beasts.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
Interesting Links for 03-05-2025
May. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 1.5m Britons a month pay for weight-loss jabs
- (tags:UK weight medication )
- 2. Why our waistlines expand in middle age—aging stem cells shift into overdrive (in rats)
- (tags:weight age rats )
- 3. Germany's Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech Just Got Even More Ridiculous
- (tags:Germany genocide Palestine Israel freespeech law viaKenny )
- 4. RFK Jr. Encourages Americans To Do Their Own Research About Dragons
- (tags:politics USA dragons satire funny )
- 5. UN says 9,000 Gaza children acutely malnourished as aid blockade passes two months
- (tags:children food gaza Israel Palestine OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Genomic evidence for behavioral adaptation of herding dogs
- (tags:dogs genetics behaviour )
- 7. I missed that the horror version of Steamboat Willie had already been released
- (tags:horror Disney mice )
Photo cross-post
May. 3rd, 2025 05:34 am
Popped in to Smyths so my parents could buy Sophia her birthday present.
Bumped into some fascist oppressors who forced the kids to pose with
them for Imperial propaganda!
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
