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Interesting Links for 24-01-2022

How does it feel when someone uses your life as a basis for fiction?
(tags:writing relationships life viaSwampers )
The Price Cap is not responsible for the demise of UK energy companies - they were behaving riskily
(tags:electricity UK investment economics )
Endometriosis care in Scotland not meeting 'base level' - average diagnosis takes over 8 years
(tags:women healthcare Scotland OhForFucksSake )
No 10 officials admit holding back information from partygate inquiry after being frightened into silence
(tags:party conservatives bullying corruption UK Pandemic )
The funny thing all those demanding "free speech" have in common
(tags:freespeech bigotry libdem )
Shield badges for Scots to distance from Covid
(tags:Pandemic Scotland )
Is COVID's omicron variant the fastest spreading virus in history?
(tags:Pandemic speed )
Swordle
(tags:swords words comic funny games )
A fascinating bit of lore from behind the scenes of the Star Trek movies
(tags:StarTrek movies william_shatner )
What do Asian people *really* look like?
(tags:Asia humans art )
EU, US seek coordinated response to Russia over Ukraine crisis
(tags:Russia UK Ukraine USA war )
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Interesting Links for 09-01-2022

Covid in Scotland: Virus hospital patients increase by 50% in a week
(tags:Pandemic Scotland NHS Doom )
Remarkably, NASA has completed deployment of the Webb space telescope
(tags:space technology amazing )
"That's not a bug - the world is just like that!"
(tags:flight simulation bugs funny games )
When you ask the internet for mind horses it will provide!
(tags:horses art memory )
Government invites fossil fuel companies to help write rulebook on whether drilling for oil is green
(tags:OhForFucksSake corruption globalwarming oil UK conservatives )
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Interesting Links for 31-12-2021

Sausage wars and rotting food: 14 impacts of Brexit from this year
(tags:trade UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
An FAQ About Your New Birth Control: The Music of Rush (totally unfair and very funny)
(tags:music contraception viaJackie )
Heads of Scotland's drug death taskforce resign
(tags:drugs death Scotland )
Changes in Dutch streets through the years. Can you spot the pattern?
(tags:Netherlands cars history )
Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility
(tags:accessibility disability autism design web readability )
These biscuits look amazing! (No, really, I'm incredibly impressed!)
(tags:biscuits design food art )
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Interesting Links for 18-12-2021

Brexit climbdown as UK abandons bid to strip EU judges of Northern Ireland Protocol role
(tags:uk europe justice )
Nicola Sturgeon asks Boris Johnson for more money so she can cancel events in Scotland
(tags:scotland uk pandemic money )
Scientists discover first-ever 'true' millipede with over 1,000 legs
(tags:insects )
All EU nations must recognise children of same-sex parents, court rules
(tags:Europe LGBT children GoodNews )
Newly identified hormone may be a critical driver of type 1 and type 2 diabetes
(tags:diabetes hormones )
Sega Saturn Devouring His Son (clearly the pinnacle of art)
(tags:art consoles funny )
Ministers believe lockdown more likely as modelling points to 1,000 daily deaths
(tags:Pandemic Doom UK Christmas )
Quidditch to change name, citing J.K. Rowling's anti-trans positions
(tags:LGBT transgender harrypotter jkrowling bigotry sports )
Cats and dogs deal differently with optical illusory holes
(tags:cats dogs optical_illusion )
Professional Artists Recreate Children's Monster Drawings
(tags:viaClare monsters art )
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Interesting Links for 15-12-2021

The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol - Here's Why!
(tags:muppets christmas viaMarrog )
Peter Molyneux's next game is a Blockchain pyramid scheme
(tags:games blockchain OhForFucksSake PeterMolyneux )
Scottish bottle return scheme will not start until 2023
(tags:Scotland recycling )
Omicron has an R over 5 and a doubling time of 2 days
(tags:Pandemic Doom )
Van Gogh Alive Comes to Edinburgh
(tags:VincentVanGogh Edinburgh art Scotland )
Testing disruption leaves UK 'flying blind' over scale of omicron wave
(tags:UK Pandemic testing Doom )
About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated
(tags:religion usa )
Star Wars: Imperial March x Carol of The Bells
(tags:StarWars viaConuly music christmas video )
The Depression Treatment That Is Turning Lives Around in Five Days (I'd love to know how long it lasts)
(tags:depression neuroscience fmri )
Omicron symptoms differ from other Covid strains
(tags:pandemic virus )
HTTP/3 is Fast
(tags:web http )
Why battery costs have plunged 89 percent since 2010
(tags:batteries economics )
UK Hospitals likely to be overwhelmed by omicron
(tags:uk nhs doom )
What it's like making friends with men
(tags:men friendship comic funny )
Malta becomes first EU nation to legalise cannabis
(tags:malta marijuana legalisation )
'Harvey Weinstein would threaten to get Tarantino to direct': An oral history of The Lord of the Rings at 20
(tags:lotr history movies )
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Interesting Links for 05-12-2021

Reported plan for 2p pre-election cut in income tax 'indefensible', says expert
(tags:UK tax OhForFucksSake )
The economy has done better under Labour than the Conservatives
(tags:economy labour conservatives UK )
UK Government to overhaul drug policy to focus on getting users healthcare
(tags:UK drugs GoodNews )
If you have a cat that intermittently pees in unlikely places then I recommend this UV torch which makes it glow in the dark.
(tags:cats light urine )
Moose are wild animals. Do not get close to them. Really really don't let your kids pet them
(tags:animals Canada OhForFucksSake video )
People matching artworks
(tags:art photography colour )
Watch the progress made on Edinburgh's Tram Network as two year anniversary arrives
(tags:trams Edinburgh transport video )
Tories break ranks on immigration to demand safe routes to UK for asylum seekers
(tags:asylum politics UK )
The age profile for Omicron is pretty scary
(tags:Pandemic Doom age )
Did you know that starfish walk with hundreds of tiny feet?
(tags:fish feet video viaDanielDWilliam )
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Interesting Links for 27-11-2021

The Highest City in the World Celebrates Its Indigenous Culture with Neo-Andean Architecture
(tags:design Bolivia architecture colour )
Boris Johnson bridge to Northern Ireland would cost over £300bn and should not be built, government review finds
(tags:uk NorthernIreland trains )
Edinburgh's tram extension: Leith Walk faces longer closure after project hits problems (still within overall budget and timescales though)
(tags:construction Edinburgh trams )
Study: How Conservative Think Tanks are Destroying the Planet
(tags:globalwarming Doom apocalypse conspiracy conservatives republicans )
I'm starting to think that the UK government is *trying* to collect all the variants
(tags:Pandemic southafrica OhForFucksSake )
Disney TV channels are losing about 10% of their viewers per year. I wonder if that applies generally to broadcast TV
(tags:TV Disney broadcast )
"Count To Ten" - a short animated comic I rather enjoyed, about taking the wrong road
(tags:life comic animation video )
Visually-impaired artists share their world
(tags:art disability sight )
Novel mind-body program outperforms other treatments for chronic back pain
(tags:pain back )
The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire
(tags:internet design security )
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Interesting Links for 15-11-2021

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Why does the UK Government owe Iran £400million?
(tags:UK money Iran )
What makes it hard to leave academia?
(tags:academia meaning life work )
Artist Recreates What Roman Emperors Looked Like Using AI, Facial Reconstruction, And Photoshop
(tags:faces Rome history statues ai )
The state of modern Britain
(tags:UK society Europe war history )
The Royal Canadian Legion sold poppy NFTs. *sigh*
(tags:cryptography Canada war history )
All The Major Corruption Accusations Levelled At The Conservative Party
(tags:conservatives corruption )
Prehistoric cave paintings were animations
(tags:animation video prehistory art cave )
‘Please save us’: Refugees face death at Poland-Belarus border
(tags:Poland Europe Libya Syria asylum death refugee )
Covid Booster Vaccines For Over 40s Are Recommended By Vaccines Committee
(tags:uk vaccination pandemic )
Covid testing provider investigated over plans to sell on customer's DNA samples for medical research
(tags:Pandemic privacy OhForFucksSake )
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