Notices by iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop), page 14

@ghost_bird 👍

@fitheach @simon_brooke What's the housing situation like in the Highlands these days? I get the impression it's getting a bit like a giant retirement park - people making their money in the cities and in England, and then buying a Highland retreat to retire to, pushing the prices up for locals who work four part time jobs and do odd gigs to make ends meet.

It's not really a sustainable way to run a community - am I right in my image of how things are going?

@ghost_bird @hollyamory If you find that recipe can I give you my email address for you to send it to me? :)

@bobstechsite @switchingsocial I just use a Tiny Tiny RSS installation on a web server. I've had it running for ages now and it works well.

The dev is a bit of a nob but the software is great.

@ghost_bird @hollyamory Broad beans are my favourite, I love the nutty flavour :)

Yorkshire weather

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Why is there a red rose emoji 🌹

But no white rose 😔

Are Unicode based in Preston?

@cute_weeds Hug a tree for me 🌳

@porsupah Nobody

@Shufei I am no techie! I had a job that needed a few sysadmin skills a few years ago, but that's as far as it goes.

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http://radiotoday.co.uk/2018/07/new-breakfast-and-afternoon-shows-at-radio-humberside/

@thamesynne I'm no trainspotter either, I don't have any real interest in the trains themselves, but I find the *networks* fascinating - the stations and how it all fits together and runs and gets thousands of people around every day.

Blackpool's tram is just one line from Fleetwood down to somewhere on the South Shore, it mostly just runs along the seafront. I think Manchester is the biggest/most complicated network outside London. :)

@thamesynne There are a few other places that don't have trams but do have a reasonable metro railway system:
Glasgow
Liverpool/Merseyside
London of course
Newcastle/Gateshead

West Yorkshire is by far the biggest urban area with no form of non-road transit (ie. stuck with buses), but Bristol and the Southampton/Portsmouth urban area are also notable.

@thamesynne I don't think many places have trams anymore, sadly. My area suffers from massive road congestion because all we have are buses and the tired and very patchy Northern Rail system.

From memory, these places have trams:
Birmingham/Wolverhampton
Blackpool
Croydon
Edinburgh
Manchester
Nottingham
Sheffield

I may have missed a few, though.

🎵 I'm your privet dancer, your dancer for money 🎵

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-44964690

@fitheach @simon_brooke My issue with Electron is that it basically bundles an entire web browser with each app. So a simple text editor or calculator app weighs in at 100MB+. It seems inefficient to me.

@aral Thank you 👍

Also, on this news article Cliff looks like his own waxwork from Madame Tussauds. And not even the good Madame Tussauds, the shit one in Blackpool.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44963548

The BBC shouldn't be paying hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money to Cliff Richard.

Cliff has enough money, £1 in symbolic damages would have been ample. That's our money for an important public service, I object to it going to multi millionaire Cliff.

@aral Apologies if you've already covered this and I've missed it, but what are you using to create your blog? I love the idea of just writing posts in plain Markdown and publishing them.