Notices by Col (kibcol1049@mstdn.social)

It's weird how in Star Trek they always go where no one has ever gone before.
Yet they always encounter someone when they get there!

The future of the far-right leader Marine Le Pen will be decided on Monday when a court hands down its verdict on charges she and party officials embezzled money from the European parliament. If convicted, she could be barred from running for the presidency.

Perhaps it was a mistake to name my rock band 'Sold Out'.

Japan has for the first time released plans to evacuate more than 100,000 civilians from some of its remote islands near Taiwan in the event of conflict amid escalating tensions between Beijing and Taipei.

“The lessons are clear: understand the science and check the small print. You were never customers; you were always the product,” Adam Rutherford writes in the Guardian on the demise of the commercial genetic testing company 23andMe.

https://metro.co.uk/video/ukraine-blows-putins-12-million-musk-busting-electronic-jamming-system-3400647/?ito=vjs-link

https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/26/new-big-brother-cameras-announced-london-despite-dystopian-warning-22790959/?ito=article.mweb.share.top.link

"The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want."
Patrick Swayze

With the potential to change how we respond to wildfires, the first satellite in a constellation of satellites that is specifically designed to locate wildfires early and precisely anywhere in the world is now in orbit around the Earth. Launched by the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance, the FireSat constellation will be made up of 50 satellites and is the first of its kind to be built specifically to detect and track fires.

I'm giving up everything that makes me fat: photographs, mirrors, scales skinny friends etc.

Donald Trump has said he plans to discuss ending the war in Ukraine with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday and that negotiators have already discussed “dividing up certain assets”. “We will be talking about land. We will be talking about power plants,” Trump said, when asked about concessions.

I'm at the stage where I need at least 3 days advanced notice before doing anything spontaneous.

If you can be anything you want you should be kind.
Unless you can be a Dragon, then you should be a kind Dragon!

Young Child drinking water: "What's that?"
Me (drinking a chocolate milkshake): "It's spicy, you wouldn't like it."

The pollution of the planet by microplastics is significantly cutting food supplies by damaging the ability of plants to photosynthesise, according to a new assessment. The analysis estimates that between 4% and 14% of the world’s staple crops of wheat, rice and maize is being lost.

Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of England, will be the next prime minister of Canada. The 59-year-old won 86% of the vote in the race to succeed Justin Trudeau as leader of the ruling Liberal party, vowing in his victory speech to maintain retaliatory tariffs on the US “until the Americans show us respect”.

Citigroup, mistakenly credited a customer’s account with $81trn. Two employees missed the error before a third finally spotted something was amiss, 90 minutes after the internal transfer had been posted. The customer is probably entitled to some interest for the time the money sat in his account, says Charles Arthur in The Overspill. At a 2% rate, that would amount to around £9bn.

James Harrison, an Australian blood donor known as “The Man with the Golden Arm”, died this week aged 88. Harrison’s plasma contained a rare and precious antibody called anti-D, which is used to prevent a potentially fatal condition in newborns called rhesus disease. He began giving blood as soon as he turned 18 and didn’t miss a single fortnightly session until he hit the maximum donation age of 81. Doctors say he likely saved the lives of 2.4 million babies.

I won't let people drive me crazy. I know it's within walking distance.

People in London have been breathing significantly cleaner air since the expansion of the ultra low emission zone (Ulez), a study has found.