Notices by iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop), page 39

@amphetamine I'm tired of not feeling safe.

If I am not out of this murderous shithole of a country by the end of the year, I am going to take my own life.

Sick of being stuck in Real Cunts of Suburbia country. I've just been physically attacked by a man in a Mercedes who was angry that I didn't let him out of a side road.

Everyone here is so angry. I'm tired of Britain. I'm tired of the racist fuckers, the angry red-faced men, the general shitty atmosphere. I want out, and I want out sooner rather than later.

In Staffordshire, listening to the local radio station where today's guest comes from local charity Beat the Cold.

BEAT THE COLD.

They're giving tips on keeping your house warm.

From Russia, the haunting melody of "Moscow Nights" on Radio Mayak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urSUWdtEI1Y

(with apologies for the slightly ropey audio quality - this was the best example I could find)

In Berlin, Fritz Radio with its comedy sketches and distinctive nine-note melody: https://www.fritz.de/sehen-und-hoeren/jingles/

Thinking about Radio Nova in France and their production the other day got me thinking about other radio stations around the world with imaging that's a bit different.

Most stations sound like this - shrieking a station ID or frequency at you: https://soundcloud.com/ignitejingles/the-bay-world

Some do it a little differently, either for historic or creative reasons, and cut through the mass of identical sounds on the dial.

@GreenandBlack Valve's "non hierarchical" structure is a great way of passing blame for poor performance or low productivity from management to the workers.

Didn't produce enough this year? Your fault for not being "out there" enough to put yourself forward for work. Your fault for not being popular enough for people to approach you. It's like constantly having to apply for work.

All the while, tech-bros laud it as some kind of great innovation, because it's their favourite game company.

This morning's radio topic: what do you remember from your school days?

Again? Really? What is it with local radio and school. It's becoming a bit creepy

@Antanicus Do you know when the EU copyright vote takes place? I was hoping for news on here, but evidently that isn't going to happen.

What's happened to #socialcoop? It seems to have defederated with everyone again.

> Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme, [security minister Ben] Wallace said: “This [the Skripal incident] was a brazen and reckless attack at the heart of a very peaceful part of the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/05/uk-points-russia-behind-second-wiltshire-novichok-poisoning

So what you're saying, Ben, is that if this had happened in Bradford or Glasgow or Tower Hamlets it would have been less important. Good to know where we stand.

@GreenandBlack People look at the overcrowded country and think "bloody hell, all these people, we need to curb immigration and population growth".

When what really needs to be curbed is the constant drive for economic growth and lower costs for corporations.

@GreenandBlack I think the main issue isn't down to population growth, but the current system's focus on economic growth at the expense of absolutely everything else. If your economy isn't *growing* at a certain rate each year, you're a failure.

The cheapest way to do that is to make sure the population grows so there are more low-wage worker-consumers, which is why we've got gridlocked streets and railways and a housing crisis.

@Graham_Mitchell The BBC are the worst offenders, they can't make a documentary without putting an irritating piano soundtrack over the whole thing. We stopped watching Blue Planet II half-way through the series because of it!

It can also make stuff difficult to follow for the hard-of-hearing. Yes, there are subtitles, but in the age of mega bandwidth for TV, would it be beyond the limits of ingenuity to have a "no music" option, similar to the options they have for football commentary?

@ND3JR Pittsburgh Soaring Association sounds like the kind of band you hear on college radio at 2am on a Thursday

@GreenandBlack I've heard of him, but don't know much else. Can you tell me more? :)

@mayel Sorry for the delayed response - everything descended into chaos the other day.

Thanks for posting this! Interestingly, there aren't many French ads on the Nova online feed anymore. They use some kind of ad-replacement tech to put British ads in the breaks. 🇬🇧

I love Fip as well, which often seems a bit less talky. Fip is so popular here that people on the South Coast of England transmit it as a pirate!

It's 2018 and Brexit still gets a red line in the browser spell checker

Come on people

Red lines are there to be crossed

@Antanicus If you are not from here you may not be familiar with the song itself

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