Notices by iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop), page 9

The idea that our high inflation is because the economy is doing amazingly well and needs reining in is the kind of viewpoint you can only come up with if you reside in a London bubble, where the economy *is* overheating.

Out in the real UK, we can see that the inflation is simply due to the rising cost of imported goods (including all fuel and energy) because of the low value of Sterling.

Only someone ensconced in London would conclude that an interest rate rise is the way forward.

I'm all for immigration, but I think major job positions that have an impact on our national economy should be held by Brits.

Mark Carney, the Canadian governor of the Bank of England, has no skin in the game, no real incentive to do a decent job. If he does a poor job and ruins our economy, he can just go back to Canada and leave us all in the shit.

He doesn't know what he's doing. The current inflation level isn't because our economy is overheating - it's because £ has been devalued.

@GreenandBlack I've never used Mastalab, Tusky is dead similar to the web interface but on your phone

Speaking of F-Droid, is it me or is #Tusky updating literally every day lately? It's a bit excessive.

Really, F-Droid. Booky McBookface.

@ghost_bird A good indie station as well, Janice Long was behind it, but it lasted about six months before corporate interests took it over.

@ghost_bird It was a really annoying address, the station name was three letters, like (but not) ABC FM, so it was like "abc hyphen fm dot co dot uk".

I heard someone the other day on a local station reading a load of random letters and numbers in a tinyurl.com URL out on air. "More information at tinyurl.com slash..."

I was a bit out on the URL, it was 107.6crashfm.com, Juice FM took them over later, but in my defence it was 1999

@ghost_bird I used to present on a radio station with a hyphen in its URL which was always painful

I think the cleverest radio domain hack I've seen was back in the early 2000s in Liverpool where a station registered 6juicefm.com - their full URL was 107.6juicefm.com.

Top tip for radio advertising copywriters and voiceovers:

Save valuable airtime* by saying World Wide Web instead of WWW

* please note radio airtime may not actually be valuable in 2018

Top tip for radio advertising copywriters and voiceovers:

Save time by saying World Wide Web instead of WWW

I shouldn't laugh at a serious political situation, but the radio keeps reading out a story about the Zimbabwe election where the government claims that there was "no skullduggery" involved.

Skullduggery! We need more of this kind of vocabulary in political statements. ☠

@ghost_bird BBC News has live footage of the queue of people lining up to move into your office

@ghost_bird It looks hot there. Is it hot down south again? It's not so bad up here yet.

@ghost_bird 😢

I want to go home, but I don't know where home is.

@simon_brooke I guess it's similar when I write a simple Django web app. I write a straightforward view in Django, which then turns that into more standard Python code, which turns into machine code, which generates an HTML page and serves it to a browser.

@thamesynne This is why I live in places everyone hates, rather than fashionable cosmopolitan cities.

Shit: You can't be trans or non-binary
Great: You can actually find a place to live

@thamesynne My sister lives in a major city. She doesn't rent any more, but when she did looking round prospective houses was awful.

Not only was she hustled around the house, she was hustled around with ten other prospective tenants, some of whom had come armed with literal wads of money to put down a deposit there and then.

On one occasion, she went to the agent to rent a house only to be told "sorry, someone else bid more". Bid more. As in agreed to pay more rent to secure it.

@simon_brooke But how long before the code that writes code can write code that writes code?

@simon_brooke Maybe it's because my code is really simple - mostly simple Python scripts or little Django web-apps - so I just let them run and see if they do what I expected them to do.