Notices by Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 (jbond@mastodon.social)

The last few days have reminded me that Israel, USA and Russia have two default positions even if they're in the middle of peace negotiations.

1) Ceasefire means "You cease, we fire". And that doesn't mean the ceasefire is over.

2) Blow stuff up. Nothing reminds them you're serious as much as blowing stuff up. Especially if it's double-taps on medics, journos and children.

Get Your War On!

Couldn't resist posting this from the very wonderful @spellingmistakescostlives

Another story about UK 16-24 NEETs (Not in education, employment or training). A big factor is ill health.

And yet, no mention of Covid. 16-24 now were in secondary education 2020-2026. Only 50% got one vax and for the youngest that's only 10%. They got repeatedly infected in schools with no mitigation.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/apr/28/uk-has-wealthy-europes-third-highest-rate-of-18-to-24-year-olds-not-in-work-or-study

> Ceasefire means "You Cease - We fire".

And here we go again.

At the starting of the week
At summit talks you'll hear them speak
It's only Monday
Negotiations breaking down
See those leaders start to frown
It's sword and gun day
Tomorrow never comes until it's too late

Ceasefire means "You Cease - We fire".

Misleading posts from all sides mean the "Israel-US-Iran-Lebanon Eight Week War" is probably on again. Hormuz strait has a dual blockade again. S Lebanon continues to suffer.

Meanwhile, POTUS is on the golf course.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jbond/116271846465483947

So that about wraps it up for the Israel-US-Iran-Lebanon Seven Week War.

Iran opens the Hormuz Strait.

3. Immediately back down when the opponent backs down

@fesshole You're living in a series of The White Lotus?

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States

is now USA policy.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-international-organizations-conventions-and-treaties-that-are-contrary-to-the-interests-of-the-united-states/

Time for the rest of the world to turn their backs on the USA (and Russia). Don't sell to them. Don't buy anything from them. Don't visit them. Move all agencies with world offices in the USA to other countries.

If the USA wants to be isolated, then isolate them.

Vacancies down. Salaries down. Unemployment up. Long term economically inactive up. Long term sick up.

Austerity up. Basic goods Inflation up. Interest rates still too high.

That's a recession, right?

It really sucks to be working age in the UK. Unemployed or economically inactive because:-
- Too young and inexperienced
- Too old and over-experienced
- Long term sick
- Nobody's hiring
- The only jobs are zero hours, gig economy
- Your white collar job got "replaced" by AI or just dropped
- No more work from home and the job is now 150 miles away
- Day care for the kids is too expensive
- Brexit means the Euro job has gone

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/12/first-edition-youth-unemployment

It's increasingly obvious that Russia funded and supported the Pro-Brexit and now Reform movements. And it worked. But we're not yet doing much to actually counter it.

As well as this we should be shining a light on Israeli and US influence on UK politics. It's non-trivial and damaging.

One of my local Tory councillors was on C4 news last night. Cllr Paul Mason is Broxbourne B.C. Cabinet Member for Planning. I have a couple of outstanding planning issues with him.

And there he was talking about needing to leave ECHR so that we could send illegal Immigrants to Rwanda for processing!

Broxbourne. Home of the Cheshunt Hotel #FarageRiot. Highest Pro-Brexit vote in Herts. All Tory except for 3 Labour, 2 Reform (defected Tory) and 1 Tory thrown out of the local Tory group. Tory MP.

There's a fair bit of attention given to the Arctic Ice Minimum and Maximum extent. But I don't see the same attention given to the yearly min and max for global 2m air temperature.

We should be close to the max time. Maybe it was around 15-July and would have been 3rd highest in the records.

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=world
https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/
#climate

Nailed it.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/picture/2025/jul/28/from-ai-facts-to-fungal-toothpaste-edith-pritchetts-week-in-venn-diagrams-cartoon

These young people today. It's just fancy clothes, dice and cards, wine and tobacco. All day long. They don't even joust!

One Year of Starmer's Labour. I think that's a solid 4 out of 10.

Labour's first year, 40% and falling

(40%) ■■■■□□□□□□

A UK flagged ship, The Madleen, has been hijacked in international waters by pirates flying the flag of Israel.

What is the UK Gov and Navy doing about it?

Another great piece of work from @coldwarsteve

#Climate You know the Mauna Lao NOAA research centre that is the gold standard for Atmospheric CO2 Concentration, known as the Keeling Curve?

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/trump-cuts-target-world-leading-greenhouse-gas-observatory-in-hawaii

#climate
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/06/global-sea-ice-hit-all-time-minimum-in-february-scientists-say

Global sea ice extent looks to have set a new record low minimum. Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Area did look like they set a new record low maximum, but in the last couple of days they've been growing dramatically again. Still #1lowest but may break through to #2. Even though we're right at the average days for the max to occur.
https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php?topic=4329.150#msg421829