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1. Five baby beavers born at Cairngorms National Park in Scottish Highlands spotted for first time

(tags:beavers Scotland video )

2. Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean, with key climate implications

(tags:globalwarming ocean doom )

3. Deafness reversed: Single injection brings hearing back within weeks | ScienceDaily

(tags:hearing deafness genetics )

4. High-Fidelity Simultaneous Speech-To-Speech Translation

(tags:translation ai )

5. Ita O'Brien: Up close and professional with the world's leading intimacy coordinator

(tags:sex acting safety tv movies )

6. Trump seems to have decided that America should be more like Rome

(tags:usa fighting republicans EpicWTF )

7. The perfect, but slow, way to boil an egg - according to science

(tags:eggs cooking )

Got halfway to the bus stop to go to the pool and realised I didn't have my shoulder bag. Sprinted home, got it, and made it to the bus.

Got off the bus at the other end, realised Sophia's bag didn't have her swimming costume in it. Got a bus home, grabbed it, now in a taxi.

Fingers crossed that nothing else comes between me and drop-off and work!
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1. Lemkin Institute Anti-genocide group issues 'red flag' to UK over transgender rights

(tags:lgbt transgender UK rights OhForFucksSake bigotry )

2. The UK has an extremely low rate of homes per person

(tags:UK housing doom )

3. Israel limits entry of baby formula in Gaza as infants die of hunger

(tags:Israel babies murder Hunger genocide gaza Palestine )

4. Poor internet and offices partly to blame for length of Edinburgh Tram Inquiry

(tags:edinburgh trams enquiry internet organisation )

5. TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3

(tags:ai racism videos socialmedia )

1. How Common is Multiple Invention?

(tags:invention research history viaFanf )

2. The death of business attire? Just 7% of workers wear a suit to work

(tags:clothing work UK )

3. FOI Exposes EHRC Anti-Trans Bias: Private Meetings, Legal Echoes, and Policy Capture

(tags:rights UK bigotry OhForFucksSake corruption )

"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

(tags:movies trailer sharks video )

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 )

1. The uncomfortable truth about Glastonbury

(tags:festival music business employment OhForFucksSake )

2. Authors hit by bad reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated

(tags:reviews OhForFucksSake books )

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. The RAF Squadron Targeted by Palestine Action is Owned by a Hedge Fund

(tags:UK airplanes military investment )

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 )

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 )

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 )

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

(tags:virus bats china )

1. Mechanical Watch: Exploded View

(tags:watches design )

2. Language is complicated (Japanese star edition)

(tags:japan English language )

3. Reminder that you can be lovely to your friends and family and still a disgustingly awful genocidal murderer

(tags:Nazis history people )

4. What Britain looks like after Brexit (written in 2016, about 2025). Anyone want to assign it marks for accuracy?

(tags:UK Europe OhForFucksSake )

5. Voyager 2 Illuminates Boundary of Interstellar Space

(tags:space )

6. Upcycling plastic into painkillers: Microbes transform everyday waste into acetaminophen

(tags:plastic medicine recycling )

7. Some great photos from Edinburgh's Pride March

(tags:lgbt edinburgh photos )

8. Businesses still gatekeep jobs for graduates - it's harmful and cruel

(tags:business academia university OhForFucksSake )

9. What does the new Industial Strategy mean for Scotland?

(tags:scotland government )

10. The USA is definitely not at war. Probably. Maybe. Kinda.

(tags:war USA Iran Israel video funny )

1. Publishers are facing existential threat from AI

(tags:publishing internet ai business )

2. Video of Lava Fountains Likely Setting New Record For Kilauea Eruption (June 20, 2025)

(tags:lava volcano Hawaii video )

3. New EU rules for durable, energy-efficient and repairable smartphones and tablets

(tags:Technology phones europe regulation )

4. The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos

(tags:space )

First climbing experience, and after an hour of trying different walls Sophia made it to the top!
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

1. How Christopher Priest wrote for Doctor Who, and what happened next

(tags:drwho history scifi bbc writing )

2. Trans woman swims topless in protest at being forced to swim with men

(tags:bigotry lgbt transgender swimming )

3. Scottish government to remove WhatsApp from phones

(tags:transparency phones communication government Scotland )

4. Giving a wide range of researchers the same data and the same hypothesis to test gives a massive range of results

(tags:research doom statistics )

5. Denmark Let Amateurs Dig for Treasure—And It Paid Off

(tags:denmark archeology )

6. The FDA Just Approved a Long-Lasting Injection to Prevent HIV (2 injections a year have 99.9% effectiveness)

(tags:hiv vaccine GoodNews )

Sophia is watching the boys in the street have a water fight.
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