Notices by Wen (wen@mastodon.scot)

Opportunities

We have a couple of her earlier works, but people might want to have a look.

https://academiciansgallery.org/artworks/16782-elizabeth-blackadder-rsa-coco-sleeping-2003/

#Art #Handmade #Blackadder #RSA #CatsOfMastodon

Driving - perception and self confidence vs the reality

The study found that 86 per cent of men feel safe behind the wheel compared with 78 per cent of women. Yet Department for Transport figures for 2024 show that men accounted for 76 per cent of all road fatalities and 61 per cent of casualties of all severity.

Ban male drivers?

http://archive.today/2025.11.05-200857/https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/driving/article/men-confident-drivers-women-department-transport-figures-fvtcds2bh

#Driving #RoadSafety #Death #Injury #UK #OverConfidence

I did enjoy this cartoon by Morland. There is a grain of truth in the satire.

#Cartoon #Morland #Labour #UKPol

Credibility gaps and trust

The problem Keir is that people don’t believe you. And they look at the loonier side of politics and realise that even if you are not in power for long enough to extend the scope of digital IDs, the next party to rule from the depts of Westminster probably will. And one way or the other, living monsters such as #Blair and #Ellison will be very happy to aid and abet them.

http://archive.today/2025.10.23-192058/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/digital-ids-nhs-keir-starmer-7wdxs8kqw

#DigitalId #MissionCreep #Starmer #UKPol

An inflatable replica of the Statue of Liberty is submerged in a pool in front of the House of World Culture in Berlin as part of an exhibition called The Possibility of Unvernunft (stupidity) by the German TV host and satirist Jan Boehmermann and Gruppe Royale

Photo Odd Andersen

#Germany #Art #Satire

Afternoon run

12k, road, very damp as Storm Amy embraced us.

No, no photos of the road in the horizontal rain, just the aftermath as the dug dries out. Looking a little sad - we came back too soon. On the positive side I left him here and not hanging up in the boot room with my clothes.

#running #ScottishBorders #DogsOfMastodon #BorderCollie #WetWetWet

Collie owners are well aware of this

These dogs can extend words to new objects based on function the way children do in early language learning

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dogs-with-large-vocabularies-can-understand-category-words-not-just-names/

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01079-6

#BorderCollie #DosOfMastodon

Ever heard of the business archives surveying officer?

http://archive.today/2025.09.23-050806/https://www.thenational.scot/culture/25486937.overlooked-role-crucial-preserving-scotlands-heritage/

Me neither. But I did learn a little here. Our daughter did have a jobs for 6 months in England ‘sorting out’ the archives for Clarks (the shoe company) so I was aware of the importance of manufacturers archives which I am sure are under pressure as companies cut budgets.

#archives #scotland #heritage #TheNational

Lest no one forget (despite the English media lauding him - The Times even has an article explaining what you need to know abotu his memorial service)

Kirk’s entire career was founded on provoking and spreading hate, toxicity, and division. He argued against gun control, racial equality, abortion, women’s rights, immigration, and LGBTQ+ rights. He promoted Covid-19 disinformation and electoral fraud disinformation.

http://archive.today/2025.09.20-094448/https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25481953.charlie-kirks-death-shows-us-taking-cues-nazi-goebbels/

#Kirk #Maga #Trump #Division #FalseGods #USPol

I see that Trump is being welcomed with heartwarming pictures, projected onto Windsor Castle.

Apparently 4 people were arrested for something or other.

#Trump #Epstein #RandyAndy #Abuse #LedByDonkeys

Prepare for revolution now, Elon Musk tells London rally as police come under attack

Last night the Met said that 26 officers had been injured, four seriously, in the disorder and they had arrested 25 people. Unlike the Palestinian Action protests where many hundreds were arrested - some in their wheelchairs. Funny that.

Last night No 10 refused to comment.

https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/prepare-for-revolution-now-elon-musk-tells-london-rally-as-police-come-under-attack

#Protest #Violence #London #FreedomOfSpeech #ProscribeX #ReformUK #Policing

Doctor uses Reform conference speech to link king’s cancer to Covid vaccine

Aseem Malhotra claimed ‘eminent oncologist’ said jab was ‘significant factor in the cancer of members of royal family’

Reform going full MASA (make America sick again).

Be under no doubt this group of sick, deluded fanatics (I’m being polite) want nothing more than to drag the UK into the dark ages.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/06/doctor-aseem-malhotra-reform-conference-speech-royal-family-cancer-covid-vaccine

#Health #UkPol #Sickness #Vaccine #Lunacy #Delusions #Reform

I guess it is time for a walk. Pissing down but it’s just mind over matter. He doesn’t mind, I don’t matter.

#BorderCollie #DogsOfMastodon

US forces allegedly killed North Korean fishermen.

They to be diving for shellfish when they came across the detachment of Seals as they splashed ashore at night, the Times reported. American forces opened fire, killing all those aboard the small fishing vessel without specifying the number of casualties.

A classified Pentagon review later concluded the killings were justified (!) under the rules of engagement, the report said.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/05/commando-team-north-korea-civilians-2019-mission

#Murder #US #RulesOfEngagement

Lush closes all UK stores in Gaza tax protest

Lush, which operates more than 100 stores across the UK, has also closed down its factories and website for the day. Visitors are instead greeted with a page in the colours of the Palestinian flag which reads: “Stop starving Gaza. We are closed in solidarity.”

https://www.lush.com/uk/

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25437033.retail-giant-lush-closes-uk-stores-gaza-tax-protest/

#Gaza #Lush #Solidarity #EthnicCleansing

Scottish Tatty Innovation

Varieties from the James Hutton Institute and St Andrews University have been introduced in Kenya where the potato is the second most important food stuff (calorific) after maize. And of course, Greenvale are largely based in Scotland wheretheir seed crops are developed.

http://archive.today/2025.08.25-200735/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/scientists-potatoes-kenyan-farmers-crop-pests-kmzv9rt53

#Tatty #Potato #Scotland #Kenya

BBC host 'sorry' as SNP MP calls out far-right rhetoric live on air

And this is how it continues. Language sponsored by official state media is encouraged to drive ‘the narrative’.

Have we learnt no fecking things from fascism’s rise this century? OK - not a real question, fascists have and are building on it. The English state is enabling them. I won’t talk about other countries….

http://archive.today/2025.08.27-100617/https://www.thenational.scot/news/25419493.bbc-host-sorry-snp-mp-calls-far-right-rhetoric-live-air/

He apologised ands was probably bolloked by the management afterwards.

I don’t think that a criticism of ‘Godwin’s law’ needs to be raised when parallels with 1930 Germany are raised. But they might want to consider their allegiance is to the constitution on the orange nazi. When they were no longer useful, Röhm was murdered and many of his Brownshirts similarly despatched by the Nazis. Take a lesson

http://archive.today/2025.08.25-210849/https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/why-trump-is-deploying-national-guard-cities-xmvfb3grs

#Facism #USA #NaziRevival

@bodhipaksa ICE will be round!

Octopus Energy steps in as SNP members call to pause Scottish renewable projects

Not luddite - merely a call for proper treatment. 'AN SNP branch’s call for a pause to new renewables projects until zonal pricing is implemented should act as a “wake-up call” to the UK Government, an Octopus Energy boss has said. ;

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25405526.octopus-energy-gives-verdict-call-pause-renewable-projects/

#Renewables #Electricity #Octopus #ZonalPricing #ScottishIndependence