Interesting Links for 10-10-2025
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andrewducker- 1. Trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable, coroner rules
- (tags:suicide transgender NHS UK OhForFucksSake LGBT )
- 2. British people don't want to leave the ECHR
- (tags:echr polls uk )
- 3. Where are Reform's Scottish votes coming from?
- (tags:Scotland voting polls )
- 4. How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel's 3D propaganda
- (tags:propaganda video war israel palestine )
Life with two parents: Just about
Oct. 10th, 2025 08:51 amandrewduckerMy mum had a heart attack yesterday afternoon, followed by an angioplasty.
She was sitting up in bed and drinking coffee by 9pm last night, and seems to be fine now. They're keeping her in until Monday to make sure, but panic over.
Turns out that an angioplasty is nowadays an outpatient operation under local anaesthetic, with over 97% success rate. Modern medicine is awesome. And thank fuck for the NHS!
She was sitting up in bed and drinking coffee by 9pm last night, and seems to be fine now. They're keeping her in until Monday to make sure, but panic over.
Turns out that an angioplasty is nowadays an outpatient operation under local anaesthetic, with over 97% success rate. Modern medicine is awesome. And thank fuck for the NHS!
Interesting Links for 08-10-2025
Oct. 8th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Iran's Bad Options
- (tags:iran nuclearweapons )
- 2. The work to move the UK's electricity from where it's generated to where it's needed won't be finished until 2030.
- (tags:electricity infrastructure uk thefuture planning )
- 3. England's Green Party comes out in favour of drug legalisation
- (tags:legalisation drugs UK GreenParty )
Interesting Links for 07-10-2025
Oct. 7th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
- (tags:solarpower germany )
- 2. UK families to save hundreds of pounds in major homebuying overhaul
- (tags:housing uk regulation GoodNews )
- 3. Edinburgh's "Auld Hoose" pub is up for rent, if anyone fancies running one of my old favourite pubs
- (tags:pubs edinburgh )
- 4. Australian experts review The Cass Review and find it full of 'stigma and misinformation'
- (tags:LGBT transgender healthcare bigotry UK Australia )
- 5. Global solar power grows 31% as coal use drops
- (tags:renewables coal electricity GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 06-10-2025
Oct. 6th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Scientists Reveal Biological Basis of Long Covid Brain Fog
- (tags:Pandemic brain disease )
- 2. Fire destroys Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
- (tags:Korea data epicfail backup )
- 3. Disastrous South Korean data centre fire is connected to North Korean hacking
- (tags:NorthKorea korea hacking sabotage )
Photo cross-post
Oct. 5th, 2025 05:10 amandrewducker
Just had to ask what was going on.
Sophia told me "There's a spider in the bathroom"
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
Interesting Links for 04-10-2025
Oct. 4th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Here Is Your Periodic Reminder that Stars Move
- (tags:space time )
- 2. Anti trans school guidance causes children to not use school toilets leading to worse physical and mental health.
- (tags:children bigotry lgbt school scotland uk transgender )
- 3. What Did People Do Before Smartphones? (I carried a book at all times)
- (tags:phones history boredom )
- 4. Common mistakes when drawing the moon
- (tags:moon drawing video )
Interesting Links for 03-10-2025
Oct. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3b in income, $13.5b in loss
- (tags:ai business doom )
- 2. Features of autism can affect age of diagnosis — and so can genes
- (tags:genetics autism age )
- 3. UK plummets down rankings for LGBTQ+ rights (from 1st place a decade ago to 22nd place today)
- (tags:uk bigotry rights lgbt OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 02-10-2025
Oct. 2nd, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Do not charge your phone in the bath.
- (tags:phones electricity baths water )
- 2. Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54%
- (tags:europe renewables solarpower )
- 3. A plurality of Brits see Reform, their policies, and their voters as racist
- (tags:racism politics UK )
- 4. Progressive Era America put 200,000 poor kids on trains to send them West. Now we know what affected whether they thrived.
- (tags:sociology children family USA )
- 5. "I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone!"
- (tags:ai minecraft )
- 6. Sora 2 and the end of copyright as we know it
- (tags:copyright ai )
Interesting Links for 01-10-2025
Oct. 1st, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Law firm that dropped trans man agrees to pay damages and costs
- (tags:transgender bigotry law uk )
- 2. Do Trigger Warnings Work?
- (tags:mentalhealth psychology triggerwarnings viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. What effects does rent control actually have?
- (tags:regulation rent doom housing )
- 4. The dawn of the post-literate society
- (tags:society literacy doom )
Interesting Links for 30-09-2025
Sep. 30th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Labour to make life harder for immigrants
- (tags:labour migration OhForFucksSake )
- 2. List of wars involving the United Kingdom (Guess how many!)
- (tags:war uk history )
- 3. Draft of Tony Blair's Gaza plan outlines a regime run by affluent foreigners with Palestinian executives at the bottom
- (tags:Gaza tonyblair OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 29-09-2025
Sep. 29th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Keir Starmer calls Reform migrant policy 'racist' and 'immoral'
- (tags:UK politics migration racism labour )
- 2. UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer
- (tags:rice farming UK )
- 3. 'Amazing feat': US man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
- (tags:organs pigs impressive )
- 4. We've found Mendel's genes!
- (tags:genetics history vegetables )
- 5. Microplastics Could Be Weakening Your Bones
- (tags:plastic bone doom )