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"Sophia, will you pose with your brother for a photo?"
"I will, but I'm very angry about it!"
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- 1. Jaws (1975) | Modern Trailer
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- 2. Everything I Thought I Knew About Nasal Congestion Is Wrong
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- 3. Edinburgh's GDP per Capita now outpaces London
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- 4. Microsoft claims their new AI framework diagnoses 4x better than doctors. Here's why this is both impressive AND misleading
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- 5. China is cracking down on young women who write gay erotica
- (tags:china censorship LGBT OhForFucksSake )
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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.
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- 1. Map Projection Transitions - see which one upsets you the least!
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- 2. How 'Sex Matters' is shaping UK policy on trans rights
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- 3. Israeli soldiers say they are ordered to shoot at unarmed Gazans seeking aid
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- 4. Plans to help benefits recipients into work 'a mess', say DWP officials
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When 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?
- 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
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- 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
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- 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)
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- 3. Ooh Dark City has a 4k release. I'm quite tempted
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- 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)
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- 6. Why I'm glad the NHS has rejected two Alzheimer's 'wonder drugs'
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- 7. Warwickshire County Council leader resigns, leaving 18-year-old in charge (Reform, unsurprisingly)
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- 8. Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11
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- 9. How disability benefits are paid across the world - and how UK compares
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- 10. Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban
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- 1. Elon Musk doesn't want you to know Tesla's response to the NHTSA's Robotaxi questions
- (tags:Tesla automation driving OhForFucksSake )
- 2. US safety regulators contact Tesla over erratic robotaxis
- (tags:USA automation safety Tesla driving doom )
- 3. Some fascinating discussion on Romeo and Juliet
- (tags:shakespeare women history )
- 4. New bat viruses discovered in China raise concerns about potential pandemic
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- 1. Mechanical Watch: Exploded View
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- 2. Language is complicated (Japanese star edition)
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- 3. Reminder that you can be lovely to your friends and family and still a disgustingly awful genocidal murderer
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- 4. What Britain looks like after Brexit (written in 2016, about 2025). Anyone want to assign it marks for accuracy?
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- 5. Voyager 2 Illuminates Boundary of Interstellar Space
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- 6. Upcycling plastic into painkillers: Microbes transform everyday waste into acetaminophen
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- 7. Some great photos from Edinburgh's Pride March
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- 8. Businesses still gatekeep jobs for graduates - it's harmful and cruel
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- 9. What does the new Industial Strategy mean for Scotland?
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- 10. The USA is definitely not at war. Probably. Maybe. Kinda.
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- 1. Publishers are facing existential threat from AI
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- 2. Video of Lava Fountains Likely Setting New Record For Kilauea Eruption (June 20, 2025)
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- 3. New EU rules for durable, energy-efficient and repairable smartphones and tablets
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- 4. The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos
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First climbing experience, and after an hour of trying different walls
Sophia made it to the top!
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- 1. How Christopher Priest wrote for Doctor Who, and what happened next
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- 2. Trans woman swims topless in protest at being forced to swim with men
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- 3. Scottish government to remove WhatsApp from phones
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- 4. Giving a wide range of researchers the same data and the same hypothesis to test gives a massive range of results
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- 5. Denmark Let Amateurs Dig for Treasure—And It Paid Off
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- 6. The FDA Just Approved a Long-Lasting Injection to Prevent HIV (2 injections a year have 99.9% effectiveness)
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- 1. Good things Labour have achieved this week
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- 2. YouTube Playlists Are Advertising "No AI" as Entire Site Gets Choked by AI Slop
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- 3. It's True: The JAWS Shark is Public Domain
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- 4. Finding Peter Putnam - The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind
- (tags:history philosophy computing viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. Edinburgh Council agrees on proposal to explore halt on new accommodation
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The reason British people talk about the weather all the damn time is that two weeks ago I got hailed on, yesterday was hot enough that I sweated through my clothes, and today there's haar stopping me seeing more than 100m.
- 1. Rachel Reeves Promised Oil Industry 'Quid Pro Quo' Over Windfall Tax in Private Meeting
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- 2. How to waste £37bn on HS2, from botched contracts to political meddling
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- 3. New emissions guidance published for North Sea oil and gas projects
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- 4. Scoring Computer Games (Ori's Ginso Tree Escape)
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- 5. Britons support rejoining the EU by 56% to 34% (but think it's not the top priority)
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- 6. If you get a body party amputated you can apply to keep it!
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Last Friday ever of dropping her off at school and him off at nursery!
Off to the Highland Show this afternoon. Going to be 28 degrees, so
we'll all probably burst into flames.
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- 1. Doctor uses robot to remotely perform surgery on patient thousands of miles away
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- 2. General-purpose robots are very nearly here
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- 3. How roundabouts transformed Carmel, Indiana
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- 4. Beware the gaze of raccoons!
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- 5. Banning smartphones in schools has little or no impact on the wellbeing of students or their education or on the prevalence of online bullying
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- 6. A Provocative Argument About What Creates Serial Killers (possibly Heavy Metals)
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- 7. Scottish Government advice on school uniforms now says that you shouldn't need branded items.
- (tags:school clothing GoodNews )