Notices by Col (kibcol1049@mstdn.social)

Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice dismissed efforts to tackle climate breakdown, urging British people to “enjoy” the summer heatwaves.

The Ebola outbreak in DR Congo is now the deadliest in the country’s history, with at least 2,325 dead from the virus, according to official data.

A test vehicle at China's East Lake High-Speed Railway Lab accelerated from zero to 800 kilometers per hour in just 5.3 seconds — as fast as the cruising speed of a commercial airplane and theoretically fast enough to travel from New York to LA in roughly five hours. It's the third world record broken at the same facility since 2025. The lab's ultimate target is 1,000 km/h, and at this rate of progress, it appears well on track to get there.

Why be difficult?
With a little more effort, you can be impossible.

Democrats called on Tuesday for a congressional briefing over a stunning charade in which Donald Trump was secretly spirited to a different plane than the one the public and press believed he was travelling on.

Several schools across Florida, Georgia, and Colorado are piloting "Campus Guardian Angels", remotely operated drones that can reach a shooter within 15 seconds, traveling at 60 mph, smashing through windows, and blasting pepper spray, sirens, and flashing lights. The drones are teleoperated from Austin, Texas, but serious questions remain about misidentification risks.

As l watch kids today trying to rewrite history, one thing I'm sure of...it will be mis-spelled and have no punctuation.

The more you know, the crazier you sound.

“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room.”
Dr. Strangelove

How many Trump supporters does it take to change a lightbulb?
None. Trump said he did it and they all clap in the dark.

Astronomers have made the first measurement of the full size of the largest known galaxy, obtained with the Isaac Newton Telescope in the Canary Islands. IC 1101 is roughly 1.7 million light-years across, with mass equal to roughly 3.4 trillion suns.
For comparison, our galaxy is around 110,000 light-years across, so this galaxy is 15 Milky Ways wide. By volume, almost 4,000 Milky Ways would fit in IC1101. This massive galaxy hasn't finished growing yet.

Since 1978, China has planted 66 billion trees — with another 34 billion planned by 2050 — as part of its “Great Green Wall” aimed at slowing the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts from spreading.
Now, a new study found that planted forests, like the Great Green Wall, increased their leaf area 66% faster than natural ones. While young trees grow faster than old ones, even when comparing similar-aged forests, planted ones still grew 4.6% faster.

Disney’s new CEO wants Disney+ to stop acting like a digital cable box and start thinking like Netflix. Josh D’Amaro is reportedly plotting a tech-heavy overhaul built around sharper recommendations, smarter personalization, and a much bigger platform play.
The Mouse already owns the characters, the parks, and the screens — now it needs to master the recommendation algorithm.

That printer low ink warning is a suggestion, not an emergency. Cartridges routinely flag low with plenty left, keep printing until the pages fade. When they do, take the cartridge, rock it gently side to side a few times, and pop it back in. That redistributes the ink and often buys you weeks. While you're at it, set your printer to Draft or EconoMode (Print > More settings > Quality) for everyday stuff. Remember, ink costs more per ounce than fine champagne. Make the printer sip, not guzzle!

A US airman accused of a “spree” of rapes and sexual assaults in England, drugging some women and breaking into the homes of others, was able to avoid British justice after local police handed over part of the case to the American military.

E mails exist because of a hose on the seabed. Not "the cloud." Not satellites. The internet is more than 600 cables lying on the sea bed stretching over 900,000 miles, carrying nearly every email and business trade on Earth. Near shore, cables are armored and buried. In the deep, each cable is about the width of a garden hose. Inside, the fibres are as thin as a human hair. When a cable breaks, a ship drags up the ends, crews splice them by hand and lower the cable back down in the ocean.

Lifestyle creep
It’s that moment when you finally get a pay rise, only to realise a few months later that your spending seems to have quietly grown alongside it.

Just heard someone say chips and fish... I've never felt so irritated, why don't you go fetch the pepper and salt from
Dec and Ant while you're at it!!

Nearly 100 US service members have been injured over the last two weeks of escalating strikes on Iran, the Pentagon has said, as Tehran launched a wave of reprisals to the tenth consecutive night of attacks.

The Ryanair airline has reassured travellers that its planes are safe after a passenger was almost sucked out of a window mid-flight this month, and have reported strong summer bookings after a profits slump.