Notices by iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop), page 57

@Antanicus They voted in the people who did it, didn't complain, and we're leaving the EU over far less. Chuck them out, or at least suspend their EU membership for a year or so and see if the USA comes to the rescue... !

Kick them out of the EU http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44313905

What the shit is this on my jeans? They were clean on this morning. https://social.coop/media/lgBehknCGwzVxKOblXA

@bobstechsite "Team Player" meaning "listen to colleagues' worthless opinions on last night's East Enders from half way across the massive-but-cheap open plan office"

@Elizafox I only get one single solitary IPv6 address from my hosting ISP, which makes things simpler to set up but leads to a boring address :(

@Elizafox It pings for me - thank you :) Also you have 1337 in your address!

@Elizafox My own instance is radiosocial.org - IPv6 should be working, my host supports it, I've used one of those "does your site work on IPv6" checker sites and it comes out okay, but I am not able to check first-hand because my domestic ISP is in the dark ages.

@Elizafox How can I test this if my home internet connection doesn't do IPv6? (Britain is lagging way behind the rest of the world in this.)

@vfrmedia I believe Spain and Italy have relatively lax licensing regulations, or licensing that isn't enforced particularly well.

In Spain, broadcast licensing is devolved as far down the chain as the local town hall and many of them simply don't bother to enforce any licensing rules, or overlook the rules for a fee. Most of the English-language stations in the holiday areas aren't 'officially' licensed.

It leads to a slightly anarchic FM dial but one that is a bit more interesting.

@vfrmedia In the UK, we've got community radio stations licensed at such low power that many of them may as well not be broadcasting at all. There is some reasonable output coming from some of them, but they broadcast on FM to such small patches that it's barely worth bothering. On a decent car radio you lose the signal after a few miles.

I can pick up a few here, but the only one with a non-hissy signal is very religious and most of its output is from USA right-wing Christian groups.

@vfrmedia How can Valencia, which has an urban area about the size of Greater Manchester, support so many stations where Manchester has so few?

The markets are very similar in size, the advertising take is probably a bit lower in Spain because their economy isn't as strong. Each of these stations can only have a few thousand listeners tops. But somehow they make it work...

@vfrmedia German local commercial radio is bloody awful, I'd go as far as to say it's worse than ours and most cities have less choice than London or Manchester.

Dortmund as a randomly-picked German city has hardly any radio stations, just the same thing over and over up the band: http://radiomap.eu/de/dortmund

Compare with Valencia in Spain (again randomly picked) which has absolutely s*** loads of stations playing all sorts of different kinds of programming: http://radiomap.eu/es/valencia

@vfrmedia I often make that point about radio. Anything that's slightly more challenging than say, Heart FM, is branded 'not commercially viable' and either closes or doesn't start up in the first place. Small local stations just ape Heart cheaply.

Meanwhile other European cities have several times more radio stations available than London with a wide range of different music formats. A brief Sporadic E opening to Spain shows that. How are they able to run all these stations where we're not?

@cute_weeds
"Ow at duck?"
"Owrate."
"What can I do you?"
"Dozen oatcakes duck and a chayse n bacon"
"Owrate duck, that'll be two sixty"
"Cheers duck"

@cute_weeds Owrate duck

We literally use "duck" as a term of endearment where I come from :)

@cute_weeds Sorry duck

@tomharris I listen to Long Wave Radio Atlantic 252, now give me my money!

@cute_weeds There are certain radio DJs here that I can't listen to because their voice is too... splattery 🤢

@cute_weeds Grooooss. I listen to a lot of ASMR videos in the evenings if I feel the need to relax, but I turn off in disgust if "mouth sounds" come up 😫