Notices by iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop), page 31

@thamesynne No such luck here, it's still hot and sticky and muggy, I've got a headache.

It's going to be another long sleepless night if it doesn't break. I miss lying in bed listening to the rain crashing down.

Why does no-one read these days? I've sold a 1970s radio on eBay, I won't post it because it's fragile. I put BUYER TO COLLECT FROM LEEDS in big, red lettering on the listing and didn't offer a postage option.

Someone has bought it - 250 miles away, and wants to know how much postage will be. No one seems to read anything anymore. Just tap-tap-tap and moan when it's not what you thought it was.

@thamesynne I used to live in an 18th century stone cottage where the back garden would flood whenever it rained.

Weirdly it's not raining at all here and I don't think we live far away from each other - it's dark here, blackened skies, but no rain.

Faded British celebs taking the Russian rouble to whitewash the human rights issues in Russia:

"Superstar" DJ Paul Oakenfold: https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201807161066396103-paul-oakenfold-world-cup-russia/

Football "legend" Ian Wright: https://sputniknews.com/worldcup-2018/201807161066410087-massive-propaganda-team-england-world-cup/

Behold! The mighty Spen, flowing majestically through the, er...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Spen

I challenge anyone to find a Wikipedia article making a place sound less appealing than this.

@StuC I hope not, it's right next to a reservoir supplying drinking water

Nice of the local drug dealers to give us some warning

@thamesynne Mog on the Tyne is an amazing name though

Nothing better than random awful poetry in the countryside. Thanks Auntie Hazel

@bobstechsite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eijc2tGe-zM

@bobstechsite Vietnam?

"In Primark he was n-n-nineteen"

@hollyamory Thank you! That's what got me muddled-up. Normally <title> is what comes up in the hover-over text when I write an HTML page and display it (in Opera at least).

If I do

<img src="cat.jpg" alt="foo" title="bar" />

then "bar" is what shows as a tooltip, but "foo" is what screenreaders will read out, right?

@bobstechsite IANAL, but if Musk had called him an idiot, that would have been personal opinion. It would have been a dick move, but not legally problematic.

Calling him something that accuses him of a serious crime and casts aspersions on his character was the stupid thing. That turns it from an insult to something legally actionable.

@hollyamory What's the difference? :o

@t54r4n1 I like kohlrabi :)

You can't usually get it in the shops here but it's super easy to grow and makes a change from the endless diet of white potatoes we seem to eat these days.

Different veg is cool!

@bobstechsite He may be about to find out first-hand all about our libel laws. They are generally weighted heavily toward the plaintiff

I notice lately that #socialcoop is up and down like a Tory MP's boxers.

Is there anything I can do to help? I can't afford money right now, but happy to help with sysadmin experience and time.