Notices by Col (kibcol1049@mstdn.social)

Scotland has become the first UK country to put “swift bricks” into law. From now on, new buildings must include special nesting spaces for swifts and other birds, helping wildlife thrive alongside growing cities. Such a fab way to help our feathered friends!

He thinks he's going to get very rich this year. He's invented the solar powered submarine.

When I was 10 years old, bedtime was 9pm, I couldn't wait to be an adult so I would be able to go to bed whatever time I wanted.
Turns out that's 9pm.

Activists created a 12.5 million block digital library in “Minecraft” to bypass censorship laws. In many authoritarian countries where news sources and books are censored, the video game is not, leading a group of designers to make a library full of information that people in those countries, and anyone else in the world, can access.

Israeli crews have started bulldozing the Jerusalem headquarters of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees and fired teargas at a UN vocational school in Qalandia in the West Bank.

The country’s largest health board has admitted that contaminated water caused serious infections in child cancer patients linked to four deaths in Glasgow.

Almost all of the Epstein files are still unreleased a month after the Congress deadline, to the anger of survivors.

If you spell the words "absolutely nothing" backwards, you get gnihton yletulosba..
which ironically means... absolutely nothing.

I've told all of my coworkers that I have an identical twin, so if I see any of them somewhere in public, I can completely ignore them.

Donald Trump says that Iranian leaders have proposed negotiations with the US after he announced he was considering “very strong” military action against the regime over its deadly crackdown on protesters. So far, an estimated 500 people have been killed. “A meeting is being set up,” he said, “but we may have to act because of what’s happening before the meeting.”

99.9% of people who are told to "hold their horses" don't even have horses.

The US is receiving full cooperation from Venezuela’s regime and will control the country and its vast oil reserves for years, Donald Trump has claimed.

I always set 2 alarms. One for the person I want to be and one for the person I am.

The infuriating and stupid public transport slogan “See it, Say it, Sorted” is far better in Latin. Translated with the correct grammar, imperatives and participle, it comes out as the wonderfully appropriate: Vide, Dic, Rectum. (The Oldie)

The US wants Ukraine to withdraw its troops from the Donbas region, and Washington would then create a “free economic zone” in the parts where Kyiv has held off the Russian invasion – but “they don’t know” under whose control it would be, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.

Venezuela’s Nobel-winning opposition leader María Corina Machado has made a dramatic appearance in front of cheering supporters on a hotel balcony in Oslo, Norway after slipping out by boat from hiding in her home country. It came as US forces seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast, sending tensions soaring.

Santa: What do you want for Christmas?
Me: a Dragon.
Santa: Be realistic.
Me: OK politicians arrested and jailed for their crimes.
Santa: Do you want your dragon to breathe fire?

"Lily padding” is the latest career trend, it's when you strategically climb the career ladder, focusing on building experience over a higher salary.
People who “lily pad” look for temporary roles and use each one to springboard into the next, almost like becoming an expert at that specific job.
As Forbes puts it: “Rather than climbing rung by rung, they move laterally, diagonally, and sometimes across industries altogether, collecting skills and experiences with every leap.”

Donald Trump may walk away from the Ukrainian war, the US president’s oldest son has said in comments to a Middle East conference.

@Fragarach @roknrol They have people fitting blinds there?