Notices by iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop), page 78

TIL no one sells newspapers anymore. I wanted to buy one for once, so I went into three "convenience stores" locally - no papers.

Those dingy little shops seem to exist only to sell white cider to alcoholics and single fags to kids these days. Why are they still in business?

When I was in radio, it was more a case of "do a bit of reading about the guest beforehand, wing it, and if all else fails stick Rick Astley on". EIGHTEEN PAGES!

http://graduatefog.co.uk/2018/5560/monocle-internship-amalia-illgner-tyler-brule/

@dajbelshaw On a similar tack, I quite like this one. It's a game that sends you to a random point on street view and you've to guess where you are. https://geoguessr.com/

Sadly, street view blots out a lot of road and street signs thinking they're number plates, which makes it needlessly hard to guess from language etc.

@vfrmedia Every town here wants the Tour de Yorkshire to come through because they always resurface the route prior to the race.

@tomharris Saw this today and thought of this conversation. "China man"? Really, BBC? Who's writing the headlines, the ghost of Bernard Manning?

https://social.coop/media/xNGBkhVAvm9s1Bs8_5M

Stumbled across this while looking for something else - a 1998 DUP leaflet urging people to vote "no" to the Good Friday Agreement. It's worth remembering with the current Brexit deliberations around the Irish border that these people are now propping up the UK government.

https://irishelectionliterature.com/2010/05/22/its-right-to-say-no-dup-good-friday-agreement/

@ntnsndr @clayton What is it? A fork of Drupal?

@Damage There's one in the street I walk down every day to take my online sales to the post office. (I know I could find a more efficient way, but I like the exercise.)

It's gross. Literally everyone you see crosses the street so they don't have to walk within a metre of the thing. I wish someone would take it away, and the fridge that's also been there for six months.

@fsf I think you need a new calendar

@zigg Thank you for the reminder! I've been building a new website lately and I've tried to be careful to add descriptive alt text wherever I use an image. If I have text in an image, I put it in the alt text.

It's extra work, but if it makes the website a friendlier place to spend time for one person, it seems worth it to me.

@tomharris Cmdr Data is no longer operating within normal parameters

Quiet rainy day, so spent a bunch of time today cleaning up a super gross Eton E1 radio that had been a victim of several shitty damp UK houses over the years.

Turns out it's a thing: https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=opera&q=sticky+eton+e1&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

@gabe Wait, isn't this just Firefox reintroducing something it dumped a few versions ago, but making it harder to find?

BREAKING NEWS: Working week to be shortened to four days*! https://radiotoday.co.uk/2018/04/weekends-to-start-on-a-friday-at-bbc-radio-1/

* on Radio 1

Clearing out my drawers on a rainy day and I appear to be breeding radio station mascots

https://social.coop/media/ubgg1rnIcHLKEGHa2ws

Why am I listening to Steve Wright

@tomharris I think the headline writers still think they're working on Ceefax sometimes. A lot of the time BBC News headlines are a case of "words these rearrange sentence into meaningful a".

@davidbenque Thanks! It's a bit short-notice to make it to London from England's northern hinterlands - a London trip is quite cheap when you can book it in advance, but not when it's the same week. Are there places you can find out about this kind of thing before it happens?

@Antanicus Quite a large chunk of the IT industry locally is to do with gambling and betting. It's not exactly a socially beneficial use of the technology.

@davidbenque This looks absolutely fascinating! I wish I was going. I've wandered around the City of London thinking about this stuff myself in the past.

But often it feels like ordinary Brits don't hear about this stuff until it's too late to participate. How do you find out that this sort of super-interesting thing is happening in time to be able to actually get involved?