Notices by Trillian ✅✝️ 🇬🇧👍 (oldrawgabbit@mastodon.world), page 2

U.S. sanctions against Russia have forced an immediate suspension of trading in dollars and euros on its leading financial marketplace, the Moscow Exchange.

The exchange and the central bank rushed out statements on Wednesday after Washington announced a new round of sanctions.

"Due to the introduction of measures by the US, exchange trading and settlements of deliverable instruments in U.S. dollars and euros are suspended," the Moscow central bank said.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/moscow-exchange-stop-trading-dollars-after-latest-us-sanctions-2024-06-12/

My recent example of today's policy of "pay more, get less".
My carton of washing powder ran out so I bought what I thought was the same one. It's still the XXL Pack but now as you see from the photo it is significantly smaller.

I knew it, I knew it!!! Yes - and I sleep too much, snack continuously during the day, I'm picky about who I associate with and I don't much like dogs. It's conclusive!

Key dates for #Trump in the future.

https://news.sky.com/story/donald-trump-immunity-ruling-biden-clash-and-hush-money-sentence-upcoming-key-dates-for-ex-president-13145975

My personal thoughts about Trump getting re-elected: this guilty verdict and the other trials only make him more of a martyr figure for those who adore him. No other Rep candidate seems forthcoming, and some kind of anti-Biden information will be dropped near to voting day.. thus ensuring Trump gets back in, whereupon he will immediately pardon himself.

I used to see the DWP as a beneficial system, but they are hounding thousands of vulnerable and disabled people for repayments of benefits, often when the person involved did not know they needed to inform the DWP of a change.

I know this from experience when I was hounded for a large repayment because they insisted I had not informed them of a "change of circumstances" when in fact I HAD done so.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/dwp-urged-improve-causing-mental-113401433.html

Iran helicopter incident latest: Rescuers search for President Ebrahim Raisi after crash
https://news.sky.com/story/iran-helicopter-incident-latest-rescuers-search-for-irans-president-after-crash-13139430

For #caturday I offer this sweet photo of Mommy and her baby.

#catsofmastodon #catstodon #catlife #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Kitten #Cats #CatsOfFediverse #mastocats #petsofmastodon

@MaJ1 @weirdfolks

Yes, it's real. It started as satire but now has been adopted by MAGA as another way to praise the Orange Clown.

Yes!!

Any Internet exchange:
Me: The sky is blue

Responses:
* Oh that's okay for YOU, but ours is GREY
* How insensitive can you be, when multiple nations have fog or rain today!
* Well, maybe blue from YOUR angle but what makes you the expert?
* Blue is jus a consep!! Your biassed.
* There IS no sky dumbo, it's a dome!! Do the research!
* Don't you realise some unfortunates cannot see any sky?
* Selfish comment from the usual ignoramus
* Message me to receive a special gift TODAY, not a scam.

Amazing tree, seen just in time for the Easter Bunny.

Meta's Facebook, Instagram and Messenger are down worldwide.

The outage appeared around 10:45am ET, hitting the US, the UK, parts of Europe and Asia - other nations have also been impacted.

What has sparked the problem is not yet know, but comes 15 days since the social media platforms were knocked offline due to an internal issue.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13219417/Meta-Facebook-Instagram-Messenger-outage.html

Is it a Bank Holiday in other countries, or just here in the UK? I think they added another day off after too many people couldn't face work after all their celebrations for New Year. But I'm not complaining. I just have to remember which day to put the bins out.

"The term "bank holiday" refers to the fact that banking institutions typically close for business on such holidays, as they once used to do on certain saint's days."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_holiday#See_also

Fears are rising of a widened Middle East war and US troops are in the firing line.
Years ago I had a dream depicting this, on a map. At the end a voice said something I will always remember: "if you value your freedom, then use your freedom to fight for it." Is 2024 going to be the year we all have to fight to maintain the freedoms we cherish?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/27/politics/fears-middle-east-war-biden

One man attacks children with a knife, another man steps in to defend them.
This is the difference: "When asked about the riots, Mr Benicio said: "I'm here for about 20 years now, I don't know politics here deeply to have an opinion about it. What I can say is I know the protest is against immigrants and for me it doesn't make sense because I'm an immigrant myself and I was the one who helped out."

It's not your nationality, it's your personality that counts!

https://news.sky.com/story/thousands-raised-for-deliveroo-driver-who-helped-halt-dublin-knife-attack-13015465

Funny! Hoist by their own petard. For many years our telephone number (landline) has been crossed with a local business, a boiler company, so we constantly get people phoning us for boiler service. We even have an answerphone message redirecting them.
Today we got a call, which I let go to the message, then looked it up online - and to my amazement it was the very Company itself. And apparently they have been cold-calling lot of people.
Ha, they had to listen to their own redirection message!!

@GreenSkyOverMe I often wish it would go beyond the robotic first call so I can pretend to be a dotty old lady, who then keeps them on the line while she calls for her son to come and help, because he's a police officer. LOL.

Look, avid followers - if you have a blank profile, no introduction, zero posts and a couple of followers, what makes you think I would follow you back?
I don't vet every single follow profile, but there are some that scream NO to me out loud. It's your own fault.