Notices by iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop), page 28

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@mayel @dajbelshaw 76,221

I am loyal to my country 🇬🇧 but it is becoming increasingly apparent that having no escape plan as a last resort should things get worse re. the political and economic situation is irresponsible of me.

What can I do today to make sure I have somewhere to go outside of this country if the shit hits the fan in terms of our country in the next year or so? I don't want to be trapped here.

I don't have the Irish passport dodge to fall back on (one generation too far removed from the Irish).

@woozle I used to write the lyrics for radio adverts

"The animals came in two by two at [name] Zoo, the animals came in two by two at [name] Zoo..."

@woozle I thought that was Blackburn, Lancashire

Luca Maestri is going to kill you https://www.apple.com/leadership/luca-maestri/

@entreprecariat Jesus Fucking Christ on a fucking bike, get us all off whatever cocked up time line this is

@thamesynne Can we get rid of the ineffectual Tracy "I was on Emmerdale you know" Brabin while we're at it

She is not a patch on our last MP, the estimable Jo Cox

@hollyamory Whenever there's a murder, North West Tonight or whoever send a reporter down to voxpop people in the town.

Invariably they say "this is a quiet town, nothing like that ever happens here", "you wouldn't expect something like that to happen here" and so on. No one ever says "yeah we're all nutters, it's murder central round here".

We're all in a place where "this kind of thing never happens" until it does. Political chaos can quite easily turn to conflict.

A report on the political situation on the World at One this lunchtime was followed by an unrelated report about guerilla fighting in the streets in some Central American country.

The positioning of the two reports next to each other among the current political chaos made me wonder just how far off we are from that kind of conflict here. We've always been "not the kind of place where that sort of thing happens", but that's only true until it isn't.

I have always been a bit blasé about the news and politics - it's a storm in a teacup, it'll all blow over eventually, etc.

But I am worried and starting to wonder if this time it is different, whether our political and economic situation is so parlous that we are in actual danger of material damage to our future and our way of life.

@porsupah @thamesynne This government is incredibly good at sticking its head in the sand and saying 'lol no' when public opinion starts to shift on a topic.

We have seen it on trans rights, we have seen it on medical cannabis prescriptions. They just say "no" and shut down debate and discussion.

@thamesynne Has anything remotely positive ever come out of those petitions? I remember signing one about the Gender Recognition Act and you could condense the government response to "lol no".

@thamesynne But by law, they have to give it back to me when I request it, which I regularly do. So they aren't really making any extra out of me.

@thamesynne I am constantly fighting with my energy provider when they

a) consistently estimate that I've used enough power to run a small country
b) repeatedly try and increase my monthly payment to cover the estimated usage

I always send them my meter readings and I'm always massively in credit with them. They must assume I'm running a weed farm out of the place, with the amount of power they estimate.

@Mall_Web Actually, what am I saying? Currywurst pizza sounds amazing

I miss the currywurst stands in Berlin, do they still have those?

@Mall_Web German frozen pizzas are even more awful than your average frozen pizza

Muted someone, because someone I follow was endlessly boosting their posts bemoaning the lack of social skills among Mastodon posters.

There is only one skill you need to learn on here - if someone is interacting with you in a way you don't like, give them the button. It's what I do... !

So, to what extent do we think Brexit was premeditated by powerful interests?

It's been pointed out to me by a few people that when most countries do referendums, they require 66% or even 75% for change rather than 50%+1.

Vote Leave engaged in dodgy dealings around electoral law. And now, when the problems caused by Brexit are plain, the Government are doubling down on "no no no, never never never" rhetoric around a rethink of it all.

One begins to think this was the plan all along.

@noemi

> For your own "vanity" domain

In 2011 was it really considered 'vanity' rather than just good practice to have your own domain independent of mailserver providers that could disappear or go rogue?