Notices by マリオ (Mario Menti) (mario@neko.cat)

「酷暑日」へようこそ。

Japan records its first ‘cruelly hot day’ as cities swelter in 40-degree heat | Japan | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/22/japan-heat-kokushobi-cruelly-hot-40c-weather

Walked past this car parked on our road 😅 #Tesla

Our teenage cat Jiji seems to mates with all the cats in the neighbourhood. Twice in the last week I heard him come in at like 3 in the morning, and there was another black cat in the house. And just now, a black and white cat that I've never seen before walked into the living room 😂

Not a great game, but at least socialist country beats right-wing nutcase country 😅

And they're playing The Final Countdown during the the break... Why is everything so stupid.

It's because neither team wants to meet that Trump creep.

Why is there a half time show? And why is it so shit? 🤔

Of course, this kind of idiocy is just what Japan needs. 🤡

'Holding back is evil': Gen-Zers revive Japan's corporate machismo - Japan Today
https://japantoday.com/category/national/'holding-back-is-evil'-gen-zers-revive-japan's-corporate-machismo

No doubt fellow rapist Trump will make sure they go free..

Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate arrested in US after more UK charges laid - BBC News https://share.google/dOL5KJtKA9qp7Yejr

Japanese Professor: Men Who Pick Up World Cup Trash Should "Do It at Home," Too - Unseen Japan
https://unseen-japan.com/world-cup-cleaning-japan-housework/

@finitebaffle yeah, we got a new kitchen about ten years ago from Howdens, and that was a freebie they gave us. I actually know someone else who has the same too 😊

@finitebaffle Howden's kitchens 😁

Black Caturday

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #FediCats #BlackCats

#WaniKani レベル三十三 / Level 33 ✅ 🎌
#LearningJapanese #日本語を勉強する

US taxpayers must be thrilled to see $12m of their money go to a bunch of posh, overprivileged morons in the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/trump-administration-to-grant-12m-to-groups-founded-by-uk-conservatives-jacob-rees-mogg-and-toby-young

"Humans would shift from producing work to managing thousands of AI agents, giving jobs to the bots and reviewing their output.
But how fulfilling is it to manage a swarm of AI agents?"

"The most likely outcome is neither a job apocalypse nor productivity utopia, but something harder to measure: a quiet degradation of the quality of the jobs that remain."

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/07/17/world/ai-jobs-crisis/

Great live version of ファイブステップ丸の内線 (Five Step Marunouchi Line). Love this 😍
#sassya-

sassya- / ファイブステップ丸の内線（Live）
https://youtu.be/tFrIf6h9ZlA?is=n0Bl9fSAcOK9Q9YO

@fj Kägi Fret! Together with Rivella and Aromat, quintessentially Swiss 😊

"But anyone eating the mushroom needs to be careful because it also gives hallucinations of lots of tiny people about 2cm tall wearing brightly coloured clothes, all jumping, running, climbing and being generally playful, but in a normal, real-world setting."
This actually sounds amazing. 😁

Plantwatch: Beware a tasty mushroom with a powerful hallucinogen | Fungi | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/15/plantwatch-mushroom-hallucinogen-lanmaoa-asiatica

The US State Department is now actively funding $3mn grants for MAGA aligned organizations in Europe.

https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/eeca28e9-8f97-4321-b927-007b1dd05cd3

https://www.state.gov/drl-nofo-developing-civilizational-bonds-democratic-resilience-and-rule-of-law-in-europe