Notices by Col (kibcol1049@mstdn.social), page 2

If you think your dog can't count.
Try putting 3 snacks in your pocket, then only giving 2.

John Harris in the Guardian, spoke with film-maker (and the grand-niece of Walt Disney), Abigail Disney, about her art, activism, building a progressive grassroots politics in the face of fascism. I most enjoyed her views on the billionaire class: “I am of the belief that every billionaire who can’t live on $999m is kind of a sociopath,” she says. 

A war crimes complaint against 10 Britons who served with the Israeli military in Gaza is to be submitted to the Met police by one of the UK’s leading human rights lawyers. Michael Mansfield KC is one of a group of lawyers behind a dossier alleging targeted killing of civilians and aid workers.

Scientists are increasingly sure that shingles vax lowers dementia risk. In the most convincing evidence yet of a causal relationship, people immunized against shingles in Wales were 20% less likely to get a dementia diagnosis in the seven years after their injections than non-pricked peers, according to a review of 280,000 older adults’ health records. Though initial evidence of this positive side effect started appearing in studies in the 2000s, scientists still don’t know the reason for it. 

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”.