Interesting Links for 04-12-2025
Dec. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?
- (tags:law UK )
- 2. Drunk raccoon found passed out on liquor store floor after breaking in
- (tags:alcohol animals )
- 3. Arguments about simulated universes
- (tags:simulation philosophy argument funny comic )
- 4. Americans being ignorant about other countries
- (tags:countries USA ignorance funny )
- 5. Sasha the Christmas tiger
- (tags:tiger Christmas )
Life with two kids: Christmas monitoring
Dec. 4th, 2025 07:31 amOpening up my YouTube Recap so I can find out what nonsense Gideon has been watching this year.
(Sophia is on her own account, but for technical reasons Gideon can't be yet.)
(Sophia is on her own account, but for technical reasons Gideon can't be yet.)
Interesting Links for 03-12-2025
Dec. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Humble Comic Bundle: Image Comics in the '10s (175 trade paperbacks, many of them awesome, for cheap)
- (tags:comics charity )
- 2. Gaelic and Scots gain official status on St Andrew's Day
- (tags:Scotland language )
- 3. Shingles vaccination caused a 29.5% reduction in deaths due to dementia
- (tags:dementia vaccine )
- 4. The real reasons why courts have a massive backlog
- (tags:UK law austerity organisation OhForFucksSake )
- 5. HBO Max's 'Mad Men' Vomit Scene Proves 'Remastered' Doesn't Mean 'Better'
- (tags:TV resolution fail )
Interesting Links for 02-12-2025
Dec. 2nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Cattle tuberculosis; badgers finally in the clear
- (tags:Badgers disease cows UK )
- 2. After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death
- (tags:games )
- 3. There are many more weight-loss drugs coming.
- (tags:weight medication )
- 4. Tales From The Multiverse (An animated short film by Tumblehead)
- (tags:video viaKenny funny dinosaurs religion creationism )
- 5. "We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers - here's what it reveals"
- (tags:war military history viaZornhau )
- 6. Large surge in Scottish flu cases as new strain takes hold
- (tags:scotland flu )
- 7. Sleeping Beauty Vs the Planet of the Insomniacs
- (tags:fairytale video sleep EpicWTF )
- 8. The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
- (tags:ai thinking doom )
Interesting Links for 30-11-2025
Nov. 30th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast (is certainly a sentence describing events in the world)
- (tags:wtf headline psilocybin )
- 2. UN panel says Israel operating 'de facto policy of torture'
- (tags:torture UnitedNations israel palestine )
- 3. Bronze Age mega-settlement in Kazakhstan reveals advanced urban planning and metallurgy
- (tags:cities prehistory kazakhstan )
- 4. Exploring the link between religion and acceptance of homosexuality across different countries
- (tags:religion polls lgbt )
- 5. Scientists are finally studying women's bodies. This is what we're learning.
- (tags:women research patriarchy GoodNews )
Look! I remembered to post before December started this year!
Nov. 30th, 2025 02:42 amHello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means
karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.
The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.
( The fine print and much more behind this cut! )
Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.
On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.
The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.
( The fine print and much more behind this cut! )
Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.
On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.
Interesting Links for 29-11-2025
Nov. 29th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Switzerland: Data Protection Officers Impose Broad Cloud Ban for Authorities
- (tags:Switzerland dataprotection cloud )
- 2. Credit Report Shows Meta Keeping $27 Billion Off Its Books Through Advanced Geometry
- (tags:satire law accounting Facebook true )
- 3. I think there's a teeny tiny error in the data here on the Bridget Jones movies
- (tags:movies mistake funny )
- 4. 'They don't have symptoms': CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission
- (tags:immune_system disease GoodNews viaKenny )
- 5. How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America (The level at which the US measures poverty is wrong)
- (tags:usa poverty economics doom )
Interesting Links for 28-11-2025
Nov. 28th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Two-thirds of Scots support independent pupil opt-out for religious observance
- (tags:religion Scotland children school )
- 2. Valve block Steam game with queer art in Russia after state censor attacks it for "promoting non-traditional sexualities"
- (tags:censorship bigotry lgbt russia games valve )
- 3. How the UK's property taxes compare to other countries
- (tags:property housing tax )
- 4. Tick bites can cause red meat allergy
- (tags:meat allergies insects )
- 5. Tech firms battle for undersea dominance with submarine drones
- (tags:drone ocean submarine military russia )
- 6. 250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland, for both heating and ancillary services
- (tags:sand electricity heat batteries )
- 7. Keir Starmer's shock at homophobia is absurd and ignorant
- (tags:gay LGBT bigotry UK labour )
Interesting Links for 27-11-2025
Nov. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Budget - what it says
- (tags:tax budget economics uk )
- 2. The Pope is not in favour of AI
- (tags:ai pope )
- 3. British children shorter than other five-year-olds in Europe (since austerity)
- (tags:uk europe austerity children hunger food height )
- 4. How a flawed idea is teaching millions of American kids to be poor readers
- (tags:reading children epicfail USA OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Man offended by NatWest Pride flags told to use online banking
- (tags:LGBT bigotry )
- 6. Voters back restricting trial by jury (but not for themselves)
- (tags:law polls uk )
Interesting Links for 26-11-2025
Nov. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How Ferrari's Formula One Pit Stop Team saved the lives of thousands of children
- (tags:safety process driving mechanics children healthcare )
- 2. EU's Top Court landmark judgment: Member States Must Recognise Same-Sex Marriages from Other EU Countries
- (tags:Europe LGBT marriage GoodNews law )
- 3. Suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%
- (tags:suicide children LGBT transgender hormones research )
- 4. Justice secretary wants most jury trials scrapped
- (tags:law UK labour )
- 5. Lammy Furiously Backed Campaign for 'Vital' Jury Trials 'To Prevent Bias and Ensure Justice' - before deciding to get rid of them
- (tags:law UK labour hypocrisy )
- 6. Concept Art for Characters That Ended Up as Blonde White Women
- (tags:design games racism )
- 7. BBC accused of censoring Trump line from historian's lecture
- (tags:bbc censorship corruption usa politics )
Interesting Links for 25-11-2025
Nov. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Britain is one of the world's richest countries. So why do a third of its children live in poverty?
- (tags:uk poverty children )
- 2. Brexit costing the UK up to £90bn in lost tax a year, new analysis shows (People are around £3k per year worse off)
- (tags:uk europe OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Footage of Japan's new train zooming down the track at 310mph leaves spectators speechless
- (tags:trains magnets Japan video )
- 4. Five pivotal ages in your brain's development revealed in new scientific study (0-9, 9-32, 32-66, 66-83, 83+)
- (tags:development brain age )
Interesting Links for 24-11-2025
Nov. 24th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Russia Today and the Fremen Mirage
- (tags:politics society war history Russia Ukraine )
- 2. Thorium-uranium Conversion Makes Breakthrough
- (tags:thorium nuclearpower China )
- 3. Dance teacher Melissa Revell wins payout after yoga course triggers emotional breakdown
- (tags:mentalhealth yoga )
- 4. Valve Issues Black Ops 7 Refund Over Undisclosed AI Materials
- (tags:ai games fraud valve )
- 5. Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
- (tags:twitter usa politics fraud )
- 6. The voice of the New York subway is now transgender
- (tags:LGBT transgender voice newyork video )
- 7. How top level mathematicians are using AI
- (tags:AI mathematics )
- 8. Disney loses the rights to Roger Rabbit characters, as they revert to original author of novel
- (tags:Disney intellectual_property )
- 9. Leftist and Moderate Democrats Are Trying to Be More Alike
- (tags:democrats usa politics economics )
- 10. College Students Furious When Their Course Is Taught by AI Instead of a Professor
- (tags:university ai OhForFucksSake )
Photo cross-post
Nov. 23rd, 2025 11:12 am![]()
Gideon (5) just walked past me looking determined. I asked him if he
was okay and he said "Yes, I'm going outside with the hammock."
"It's cold and wet out there," I replied.
So he found his boots and his jacket and the hammock, took them outside by himself, put the hammock together (also by himself), and is now happily playing Angry Birds in it.
No, I don't understand either.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
Interesting Links for 22-11-2025
Nov. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Where nobody knows your name... - Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.
- (tags:TV history faces photos pubs )
- 2. The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed 600,000 people, most of them children
- (tags:USA aid death children )
- 3. Pope Leo XIV Gives His Apostolic Blessing to the Bedlam of Noise and Nightclub Worship Styles
- (tags:religion music catholicism video )
- 4. The Batman effect (putting someone in a Batman costume on a train makes people twice as likely to give up their seat for a pregnant woman)
- (tags:batman psychology )
- 5. Andy Burnham: "Here's how I would fix Britain"
- (tags:politics labour uk housing )
Life with two kids: Limited Musical Choices
Nov. 21st, 2025 09:58 pmWe have a Spotify family account, so I thought I'd add Sophia to it.
Turns out that because she's under 13 she's incredibly limited in the music she can have access to, and has to be in the special kids app.
So, YouTube for music it is!
(Seriously, they didn't even have the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack. Utterly useless.)
Turns out that because she's under 13 she's incredibly limited in the music she can have access to, and has to be in the special kids app.
So, YouTube for music it is!
(Seriously, they didn't even have the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack. Utterly useless.)