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Interesting Links for 01-07-2025
Jul. 1st, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Jaws (1975) | Modern Trailer
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- 2. Everything I Thought I Knew About Nasal Congestion Is Wrong
- (tags:noses health )
- 3. Edinburgh's GDP per Capita now outpaces London
- (tags:edinburgh london gdp economy scotland uk )
- 4. Microsoft claims their new AI framework diagnoses 4x better than doctors. Here's why this is both impressive AND misleading
- (tags:ai medicine Microsoft )
- 5. China is cracking down on young women who write gay erotica
- (tags:china censorship LGBT OhForFucksSake )
Bundle of Holding: Broken Tales
Jun. 30th, 2025 03:44 pmjames_davis_nicoll
The English-language rulebook and supplements for Broken Tales, the tabletop fantasy roleplaying game of upside-down fairy tales from Italian game publisher The World Anvil Publishing.
Bundle of Holding: Broken Tales
Clarke Award Finalists 2003
Jun. 30th, 2025 10:28 amjames_davis_nicoll2003: PM Blair embraces hilariously transparent lies to justify the invasion of Iraq, two million Britons reveal the power of public outrage when they protest the Iraq War to no effect, and the Coalition of the Billing (UK included) faces an occupation of Iraq that will no doubt be entirely without unforeseen challenges or consequences.
Bold for have read, italic for intend to read,, underline for never heard of it.
Which 2003 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Separation by Christopher Priest
Kiln People by David Brin
Light by M. John Harrison
The Scar by China Miéville
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Poll #33305 Clarke Award Finalists 2003
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 60
Which 2003 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
View Answers
The Separation by Christopher Priest
10 (16.7%)
Kiln People by David Brin
18 (30.0%)
Light by M. John Harrison
16 (26.7%)
The Scar by China Miéville
26 (43.3%)
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
30 (50.0%)
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
32 (53.3%)
Bold for have read, italic for intend to read,, underline for never heard of it.
Which 2003 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Separation by Christopher Priest
Kiln People by David Brin
Light by M. John Harrison
The Scar by China Miéville
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
June 2025 in review
Jun. 30th, 2025 09:06 amjames_davis_nicoll
I survived another dance season. Go me.
21 works reviewed. 11 by women (52%), 9 by men (43%),1 by non-binary authors (5%), 0 by authors whose gender is unknown (0%), and 8 by POC (38%).
More details at the other end of the link.
Survived another dance season
Jun. 29th, 2025 10:43 pmjames_davis_nicollFinal show: a 5.5 hour bhangra show that was only 6.5 hours long.
Among my final achievements this season, discovering as I hoisted the last of many garbage bags into the dumpster that the bag was leaking coffee. My last achievement was ducking to the men's to wash my hands, discovering someone had plugged the sinks and turned on the taps, and stopping the flood in time.
Among my final achievements this season, discovering as I hoisted the last of many garbage bags into the dumpster that the bag was leaking coffee. My last achievement was ducking to the men's to wash my hands, discovering someone had plugged the sinks and turned on the taps, and stopping the flood in time.
Photo cross-post
Jun. 29th, 2025 04:31 pmandrewducker
We had a nice day on the beach in North Berwick. A few of Sophia's old
nursery friends, getting back together, with a few siblings thrown in.
They got on like it wasn't mostly a year since they last saw each
other, and they had a ball digging holes, wading through seaweed and
climbing on rocks. The weather was just as fabulous as it looks
here.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
To Walk The Night by William Sloane
Jun. 29th, 2025 09:03 amjames_davis_nicoll
Jerry's romance with the brilliant, beautiful, eccentric Selena is book-ended with death: first, Selena's husband's, then Jerry's.
To Walk The Night by William Sloane
Books Received, June 21 — June 27
Jun. 28th, 2025 10:14 amjames_davis_nicoll
Three books new to me, all fantasy (Although the Stross is an edge case), and only one is clearly part of a series.
Books Received, June 21 — June 27
Poll #33298 Books Received, June 21 — June 27
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 56
Which of these look interesting?
View Answers
Until the Clock Strikes Midnight by Alechia Dow (February 2026)
18 (32.1%)
The Regicide Report by Charles Stross (January 2026)
34 (60.7%)
The Beasts We Raise by D. L. Taylor (March 2026)
5 (8.9%)
Some other option (see comments)
3 (5.4%)
Cats!
36 (64.3%)
Interesting Links for 28-06-2025
Jun. 28th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Map Projection Transitions - see which one upsets you the least!
- (tags:maps visualisation viaMyBrotherMike )
- 2. How 'Sex Matters' is shaping UK policy on trans rights
- (tags:UK bigotry government LGBT transgender )
- 3. Israeli soldiers say they are ordered to shoot at unarmed Gazans seeking aid
- (tags:Israel genocide gaza Palestine )
- 4. Plans to help benefits recipients into work 'a mess', say DWP officials
- (tags:jobs UK government )
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A complaint about modern life.
Jun. 28th, 2025 10:49 amandrewduckerWhen I am Emperor anyone selling bowls, plates, etc will have to certify whether you can microwave food in them without them getting hotter than the food.
Is microwave transparency really too much to ask?
Is microwave transparency really too much to ask?
Vanya and the Wild Hunt (Vanya, volume 1) by Sangu Mandanna
Jun. 27th, 2025 10:11 amjames_davis_nicoll
A schoolgirl abandons the UK's post-Brexit educational system for the comparative safety and comfort of a magical school designed to turn out magical soldiers in the war on eldritch horrors.
Vanya and the Wild Hunt (Vanya, volume 1) by Sangu Mandanna
Interesting Links for 27-06-2025
Jun. 27th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. The first non-opioid painkiller (for acute pain) has taken 27 years to produce.
- (tags:pain research medicine )
- 2. UK asylum plans shows post-Brexit Britain is 'in very dark place', Albanian PM warns
- (tags:uk migration OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Reading one book on a subject will put you ahead of the vast majority of people
- (tags:experts learning )
- 4. One in four LGBTQ+ pupils may drop out before finishing secondary school
- (tags:lgbt school bullying )
- 5. India High Court rules trans women are women
- (tags:India transgender LGBT GoodNews )
- 6. A newspaper reported that Arthur Conan Doyle went to a local pub. Turns out to be completely made up (but the history is fascinating)
- (tags:journalism fraud Edinburgh history )
- 7. The transfers between parties in yesterday's Edinburgh council election are fascinating!
- (tags:edinburgh elections voting politics scotland )
- 8. You can now buy The Hobbit in 5 different Celtic languages. (I'm sure people will have great fun comparing them)
- (tags:languages uk ireland TheHobbit )
- 9. Make AI Mediocre Again
- (tags:satire ai video advertising )
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Five SFF Stories About Making Amends
Jun. 26th, 2025 10:20 amjames_davis_nicoll
People adopt very different strategies when it comes to making up for mistakes.
Five SFF Stories About Making Amends
Golem100 by Alfred Bester
Jun. 26th, 2025 08:50 amjames_davis_nicoll
What could possibly go wrong with a little harmless Satanism between friends?
Golem100 by Alfred Bester
Interesting Links for 26-06-2025
Jun. 26th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Holyrood Committee seek views and experiences as part of new inquiry into ADHD and autism
- (tags:scotland autism adhd )
- 2. How would Britain vote, a year since the 2024 election (broken down in a wide variety of ways)
- (tags:uk voting polls )
- 3. Ooh Dark City has a 4k release. I'm quite tempted
- (tags:movies scifi )
- 4. Poll: 82% of Israelis want to expel Palestinians from Gaza; 47% want to kill every man, woman, child
- (tags:polls genocide Israel )
- 5. Poll: Americans' support for Israel at record low, backing for Palestinians at all-time high (46:33)
- (tags:USA polls Israel Palestine )
- 6. Why I'm glad the NHS has rejected two Alzheimer's 'wonder drugs'
- (tags:alzheimers medicine NHS )
- 7. Warwickshire County Council leader resigns, leaving 18-year-old in charge (Reform, unsurprisingly)
- (tags:politics UK )
- 8. Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11
- (tags:games linux windows )
- 9. How disability benefits are paid across the world - and how UK compares
- (tags:welfare disability international )
- 10. Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban
- (tags:UK bigotry children transgender LGBT )