Notices by マリオ (Mario Menti) (mario@neko.cat), page 2

Going into Central London for my Japanese class this evening, my aversion to football shirts is sorely being tested. 😅

@skinnylatte I think the closest I've come to death is on the motorway from KL airport into the city. I have to thank our very quick-witted Grab driver for noticing and avoiding an out-of-control car that spun past us and across multiple lanes and eventually came to a halt, miraculously without hitting anyone...

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #FediCats #BlackCats

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Glad he's focusing on the important things.

England to get bank holiday if team win World Cup, Starmer expected to announce
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jul/08/england-to-get-bank-holiday-if-team-win-world-cup-starmer-expected-to-announce?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Ok, "if he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won’t stop him" is pretty funny. 😁

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@slowe I guess wasn't thinking of bargaining 😅

@cubicgarden my thinking is basically that billionaires should not exist, and I think that's also an easier sell (but still unlikely to every happen, I admit).

@cubicgarden I am totally in favour of a cap, but would set it much higher than 10 million, given there are now countless billionaires. I think even a cap of 999 million would make a huge positive difference.

The likelihood of any of this happening is of course vanishingly small, but the idea of a 10 million cap seems way too low to me given the amount of wealth around, and even less likely to ever become a realistic proposition.

@karelbrits @newsguyusa yeah, and then there's this... Fifa has always been a nest of corruption, but this World Cup seems to make more obvious (or people are just not even trying to hide it anymore) https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/06/keir-starmer-intervened-oppose-fifa-plan-move-england-kick-off-time?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

This is a really nice article and interview covering some of the background to the album https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/07/03/music/tujiko-noriko-pon/

Tujiko Noriko's PON is wonderful. I'm pretty sure I would love it even if I didn't know it was all about Ponpon the cat, but that makes me love it even more.
Partly ambient, field recordings (including Ponpon's purrs), electronic, experimental, and pop, it's quite unique but very emotional.
#TujikoNoriko

https://tujikonoriko1.bandcamp.com/album/pon-3

Stepped out of the house, and managed to take this quite cool picture of a garden tiger feeding on the bush in front of our house, being hassled by a wasp.

Colourful 😊

Yay, M&S has brought back strawberry sandwiches for the summer! 🍓
Forget sushi, I still believe fruit sandwiches and 焼きそばパン (yakisoba bread rolls) are two of Japan's finest culinary achievements. 😄

This is a very cool new track and video from sassya- (noise rock/ post hardcore). Including a drum solo 😁

#sassya-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2e9nS6MN3A

Fun new Japanese term I learned today: 受け売り(ukeuri).

I assume it's a compound of 受ける (to receive) and 売る (to sell), and literally can mean "retailing", but colloqually - how I came across it - also means "parroting" or "copycat". 🦜 🐈
#日本語

Lovely math and rock from #Fayzz, from their Chengdu hometown show last year.

Fayzz - Semper Augustus | Chengdu 2025
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2H2N2SHegLQ&is=v0gs1vp2iXlNtqo1

My daughter came to visit this weekend, and tonight we watched the whole of Small Prophets in one go. What an utterly brilliant series - I laughed and cried more than I've done in a long time.

Honestly the best thing I've watched in quite a while.
#SmallProphets

Very good JT article and interview with #TrooperSalute about their first album - one of the best (IMO) albums of the year.

Trooper Salute marches to its own beat on dazzling debut album - The Japan Times
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/06/27/music/trooper-salute-debut-album/