Notices by iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop), page 61

@DC7IA I don't get why they send them in the middle of the night. Who is up at 3am thinking about terms of service?

@DC7IA Hopefully GDPR emails will die from tomorrow, because my phone has been driving me mad with pings all day!

3am, phone goes ping!: "changes to our privacy policy"

Parcelling up orders today has got me thinking about sustainable packaging.

Packaging up a little magnetic mount car antenna:
- the plastic bag it comes in from the supplier
- bubble wrap to protect it (plastic)
- a plastic mailing bag (single use)

Surely there is a better way? Does anyone know of any suppliers of sustainable, recyclable protective packaging?

@h The front page of one of the right-wing papers says so today. It's another attempt by our press to make people scared of Corbyn.

@cute_weeds I thought that site got shut down and redirected to TERF nonsense

Apologies for maligning @uyuutan as a spam bot! They appear to be real.

Had a couple of random follows from users on mastodon.social with no profile pic, no information, no posts - example: https://mastodon.social/@uyuutan

Are these spam/bot accounts?

A 'village' of portable pre-fabricated homes for homeless people in #Scotland - these buildings look great!

https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2018/0518/964376-homeless-village-edinburgh/

@ntnsndr welcome to Britain 🇬🇧

@tooticky When I worked in radio, "what winds you up on the roads?" was a good standby on a slow news day.

Posted this last night, but it was very late, so reposting it now.

I've set up a small Mastodon instance for people interested in #amateurradio and related subjects. It is located at https://radiosocial.org/

Feel free to sign up and take a look around - I'm @ak over there and will move some of my radio-related posts there.

Apparently, there are bots going around signing up to Mastodon instances to send spam and other assorted dross.

Surely a sign that Mastodon has made it.

@vfrmedia The Chinese are amazing with customer service online - I often get really quick responses, helpful emails and so on. Some UK companies could learn a thing or two from them.

"When the BBC local radio station we all pay for targets all of us living in the area, and doesn't hyper-focus on the 45+ white middle class audience." So, never.

"When the BBC local radio station we all pay for targets all of us living in the area, and doesn't hyper-focus on the 45+ middle class audience." So, never.

Today's local radio phone-in topic: "When should you kick your freeloading children out of your house?"

Half tempted to phone in and suggest "when housing is treated as a human right and not as a money-making asset for wealthy baby boomers", or "when capitalism is overthrown".

I haven't seen this linked anywhere and it might be interesting for #socialcoop people as it includes a detailed discussion of Labour's proposals for increasing co-op participation in the British economy should they come to power.

https://www.economist.com/britain/2018/05/17/corbynomics-would-change-britain-but-not-in-the-way-most-people-think

(via: https://www.metafilter.com/174252/Corbynomics-and-Keltonomics which contains more links on similar topics)

@elplatt LACK tables are amazing

I have set up a small Mastodon instance for radio amateurs, radio clubs/organisations, DXers, SWLs and anyone else interested in any aspect of radio communications, technology or even radio listening.

The address is https://radiosocial.org/ - feel free to join in or let me know if you have any questions!