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

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

No matter how many scientists you fire, and science agencies and science data collection systems you closedown, the Earth keeps getting warmer.

Looks like we'll end February 2025 above 2024 and 2023 for Global daily average 2m air temperature.

https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/

#climatechange

Mastodon, Bluski don't have algorithmic feeds. You have to follow people and view either your main follower list or curated lists and the posts & reposts from the accounts in those lists.

If you're still on x-fka-twitter, facebook, instgram, meta You can and should do the same thing. Curate lists of interesting accounts. Only ever use the list and following feeds. Never look at the main algorithmic feed.

@mos_8502 Did it scale, though?

@dansup AI is a monster we've birthed that will eat us all. It won't stop till the entire Solar System is turned into a Dyson Matrioshka shell of computronium.

It said in a favourite SciFi book I once read.

Exponential growth with short doubling periods in datacentre water and electricity consumption will hit the brick wall of resource constraints sooner rather than later. Countries and regions that use preferential treatment to attract it, will see that limit early.

@glynmoody What about AR?

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/why-garbage-time-lying-flat-are-trending-in-dragon-land-china-where-the-youth-are-just-giving-up-on-their-future/articleshow/113653839.cms?from=mdr

In "The Garbage Time of History", one reaction from the young is "Lying Flat". Just opt out.

Beware the fnords in this one. Criticising China for running out of success can look awfully like projection.

How did it end up like this?
UK: Red Left Wing, Blue Right Wing
USA: Blue Left Wing, Red Right Wing

Obvs. All 4 examples are actually right wing. ;)

Now we're well into 3rd Qtr, what are Labour, NHS, UKHSA and JVCI plans for the autumn covid vaccination programme?

It's all very well telling people to keep up to date with boosters. But the kids never got the first vax and most of the UK hasn't had a booster for years.