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December 8th, 2021, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 08-12-2021

How does energy use look when you account for offshoring?: (tags:energy co2 globalwarming trade viaDanielDWilliam )
WTA Suspends All Tennis In China Out Of Concern For Peng Shuai: (tags:women China tennis corruption )
Government ministers refuse to go on radio and TV to defend Downing Street party: (tags:uk Conservatives corruption pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Brexit delays to cross-Channel trade still worsening as 79% of firms report hold-ups: (tags:uk europe trade doom )
Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs: (tags:belief psychedelics philosophy psychology )
Bearing Witness to Svalbard's Fragile Splendor: (tags:norway globalwarming arctic )
Some Cancer Studies Fail to Replicate. That Might Be OK: (tags:cancer research fail )
Conservatives Are More Likely To Share Fake News — But Only If They Are Low In Conscientiousness: (tags:Conservatives fraud fake news sharing psychology )
That Downing Street Christmas Party - the Law, the Policy, and the Politics: (tags:christmas pandemic law Conservatives BorisJohnson )
Ukraine: An Exciting New Crisis: (tags:ukraine russia viaDewline )

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arctic, belief, borisjohnson, cancer, china, christmas, co2, conservatives, corruption, doom, energy, europe, fail, fake, fraud, globalwarming, law, links, news, norway, ohforfuckssake, pandemic, philosophy, psychedelics, psychology, research, russia, sharing, tennis, trade, uk, ukraine, viadanieldwilliam, viadewline, women

November 26th, 2021, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 26-11-2021

Will glow-in-the-dark materials someday light our cities?: (tags:light )
Why a Mass Effect TV show is a terrible idea: (tags:TV games writing plot )
Priti Patel has quietly been stuffing even more punitive anti-protest powers into the policing bill: (tags:law UK protests OhForFucksSake )
Reinfections of Covid-19 are 90 per cent less likely to result in hospitalisation or death than primary infections: (tags:Pandemic )
Why carbon taxes really work: (tags:co2 globalwarming tax )
The Beatles - Get Back review: Peter Jackson documentary is a seven-hour masterpiece: (tags:Beatles history documentary peterjackson )
It's not 'polarization.' The USA suffers from Republican radicalization.: (tags:USA politics Doom republicans viaDanielDWilliam )
More thoughts on the way that Polarisation has been made The Problem of American politics: (tags:USA politics viaDanielDWilliam )
Tony Blair tells Keir Starmer to 'reject wokeism' and wage war on socialism: (tags:labour tonyblair OhForFucksSake )
The unforced error by Boris Johnson of publishing the letter to the French President: (tags:uk europe diplomacy fail migration france )

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beatles, co2, diplomacy, documentary, doom, europe, fail, france, games, globalwarming, history, labour, law, light, links, migration, ohforfuckssake, pandemic, peterjackson, plot, politics, protests, republicans, tax, tonyblair, tv, uk, usa, viadanieldwilliam, writing

November 23rd, 2021, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 23-11-2021

Energy firm Bulb set to go into administration - no other providers willing to take its customers: (tags:UK electricity epicfail )
Russian Anti-Vaccine Disinformation Campaign Backfires: (tags:Russia disinformation lies vaccination irony )
Turns out no prize winning scientists want to come to the UK. None. Zero. Zilch. Nada.: (tags:science migration UK fail )
Hired to erase a man's life, instead he carried out with him: (tags:life photos )
I see that Pixar are remaking "Ginger Snaps": (tags:movies puberty girls pixar Disney trailer )
'Dancing molecules' successfully repair severe spinal cord injuries (in animals, so far): (tags:nerves back amazing )

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amazing, back, disinformation, disney, electricity, epicfail, fail, girls, irony, lies, life, links, migration, movies, nerves, photos, pixar, puberty, russia, science, trailer, uk, vaccination

November 13th, 2021, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 13-11-2021

Gut bacteria don't cause autism. Autistic kids' microbiome differences are more likely to be due to eating preferences: (tags:food autism microbiome )
I continue to recommend that you do not eat pig faeces: (tags:faeces pigs food worm brain )
The best 50 PC games of all time (Let the disagreement commence!): (tags:games lists )
I donât wear poppies, and this image perfectly encapsulates why: (tags:war history memory )
Donât buy the $60 Grand Theft Auto Definitive Trilogy: (tags:gta games review fail )
Police will not investigate cash-for-peerages allegations against Tories: (tags:corruption UK police conservatives )
Austria to declare nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people: (tags:Austria Pandemic vaccination )

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austria, autism, brain, conservatives, corruption, faeces, fail, food, games, gta, history, links, lists, memory, microbiome, pandemic, pigs, police, review, uk, vaccination, war, worm

October 28th, 2021, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 28-10-2021

The teaser for "Lightyear" (a new Pixar movie) looks like a lot of fun: (tags:pixar space trailer )
Oregon's arboreal smiley: (tags:trees emoji viaDanielDWilliam photos )
"Dune" (the movie), annotated: (tags:sci-fi movies )
Exams in Scotland to be reformed, but not scrapped: (tags:education school Scotland exams )
The UK Media Has Seriously Bungled the Kathleen Stock Story: (tags:transgender media academia LGBT uk journalism )
People Who Technically Did Their Job, But In A Really Bad Way: (tags:work funny fail viaCharlesStross )
I just donated to the Legal Defence Fund for Transgender Lives: (tags:law transgender lgbt uk money nhs )
Facebook prioritized 'angry' emoji reaction posts in news feeds - pushing more provovactive content into users' news feeds: (tags:facebook emotion viaSwampers OhForFucksSake )

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academia, education, emoji, emotion, exams, facebook, fail, funny, journalism, law, lgbt, links, media, money, movies, nhs, ohforfuckssake, photos, pixar, school, sci-fi, scotland, space, trailer, transgender, trees, uk, viacharlesstross, viadanieldwilliam, viaswampers, work

October 5th, 2021, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 05-10-2021

UK's largest long-term saving/pensions provider plans to cut their investments in carbon.: (tags:co2 globalwarming investment uk finance pensions )
All because you 'trigger' Article 16 that does not make it a gun: (tags:law trade uk europe )
Farmer Born in 1842 Talks About Life and Change (Filmed in 1929): (tags:history life video )
Drones raining from the sky in China: (tags:China drones fail )
Kids who grew up with search engines don't understand folders: (tags:Technology metaphor ux Education computers viaSupergee )
France threatens to use energy supply to 'put pressure' on UK to comply with Brexit deal: (tags:france uk europe trade )

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September 16th, 2021, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 16-09-2021

On doing your own vaccine research: (tags:vaccine research comic )
Who talks more in your meetings - men or women?: (tags:talking gender communication )
UK power prices soar after key cable to France hit by blaze: (tags:UK France electricity fail )
2021 Photomicrography Competition | Capturing the very very small: (tags:photos size impressive )
When they say they wish you dead, they mean it: (tags:words death genocide )
Is America's scarcity mindset turning into a zero-sum competition for survival?: (tags:usa society psychology viaDanielDWilliam )
Marks & Spencer blames Brexit as it closes 11 French stores: (tags:france uk europe trade doom MarksAndSpencer )
Co-op to start selling groceries on Amazon Prime: (tags:amazon shopping uk )

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September 1st, 2021, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 01-09-2021

Tardigrades can walk! (and they look like insects when they do!): (tags:viaNancyLebov walking video )
Apple and Google must allow developers to use other payment systems, new Korean law declares: (tags:korea apps money google android apple )
In the US, wind power is getting bigger and better: (tags:usa windpower )
71% of British people would be supportive of a family member coming out as trans. How does that compare with other countries?: (tags:LGBT UK )
Jabs for teens in the UK being held back out of fear of disrupting boosters for elderly: (tags:UK pandemic teenagers )
A collection of excellent press retractions: (tags:journalism funny fail )

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July 15th, 2021, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 15-07-2021

Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?: (tags:language uk history maps video )
Magic! Darkest magic!: (tags:video ViaDrCross magic )
The Ugly Carpets of Vegas are Hideously Clever Social Engineering at Work - Or Are They?: (tags:LasVegas design )
'Edinburgh Butterfly and Insect World to close doors for good after nearly 40 years (I was really looking forward to taking Sophia!): (tags:Edinburgh insects sad )
Why the government did not 'override' an Act of Parliament over overseas aid - the concerning thing is that the government acted in accordance with the law: (tags:law UK aid )
Labels keep 86% of streaming revenues, leaving a pittance for the artists: (tags:music money )
How To Fix Your Joycon Drift Permanently!: (tags:Nintendo video fail )
Racism fuelling far-right threat in UK - MI5's Ken McCallum warns: (tags:racism uk terrorism )
EU unveils sweeping climate change plan: (tags:europe globalwarming )
Is this Britain's oldest intact home? (9th century, carved out of rock): (tags:homes uk history )

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June 14th, 2021, 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 14-06-2021

So your grandmother is a starship now: a quick guide for the bewildered: (tags:grandparents space short_story scifi )
'Jupiter's Legacy': Battles Over Budgets, Executive Purge Factor in Cancellation: (tags:superheroes TV netflix fail )
Yellowstone Wolf 21 had an amazing life: (tags:wolves books )
Reasons to hate Adam Curtis: (tags:documentary funny visualisation )
'Ultimate Slip 'N Slide' Production Shut Down Over Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak: (tags:headline faeces aieeee! )

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