Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 16

This seems good. Something that at least recognises that GDP shouldn’t be some holy indicator for policy decisions.

"Plan would recognise NHS as ‘economic anchor’ and link health measures to climate goals"

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/29/labour-to-propose-wellbeing-law

Listening to Kicks’ KICKS MIX on Duxtape, his dat-based remix of muxtape (make and share mp3 mixtapes).

The music’s good, the technology’s decentralized. Maxin and relaxin.

www.kickscondor.com/duxtape

dat://8587f38ad142911bbf29caffe6887080be3c3ff55569be03bacc197c5daa9caa/

The curse of Western ‘productivity’.

"The Anishinaabe could gather more, said Jenks, “if they did not spend so much time feasting and dancing”—rather missing the point that at least some of that dancing was both for joy and an element of food production. "

https://newsocialist.org.uk/theres-more-life-argument-joy-against-economism/

@Are0h Aw damn. Thanks for raising this. Thought I'd found a good alternative to hooktube. Time to start looking again...

@michel_slm What's Monocle magazine? Not come across that.

@bob @gemlog @vfrmedia Same, my Mum grew up in a council estate in Wales and said that Right to Buy was seen as a potential benefit to her grandfather at the time.

He also took pride in a small garden, which at some point was made smaller by the council to make space for more houses I think, to some chagrin.

A feeling of ownership and autonomy was the bait I suppose. A shame that community and affordable housing was lost in the process.

@gemlog @vfrmedia I saw an exhibition recently that summed it up:

"with the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 the housing sector underwent rapid privitisation. Local authority architects’ departments were disbanded, public land was sold off, and millions of council homes were bought"

https://doubleloop.net/2019/01/05/4913/

@gemlog @vfrmedia

And Thatcher also brought in Right to Buy, which transitioned council housing stock in to private ownership.

* 1980 – 42% of the population live in council housing – Right to buy scheme introduced
* 2017 – Less than 8% of the population live in council housing – 40% of ex-council flats sold via Right to Buy are now rented out more expensively by private landlords

https://www.dispossessionfilm.com

@neil i have a major problem with this article: It assumes that Housing Coops in general are neither capitalist not state-driven actors. Here in germany that is really wrong, the very much liberalised the conditions under which housing coops can act, so a few big ones do act as normal profit driven actors in bigger cities. It matters what is written in the Coop Laws and in the statutes of the coops...

sesame street directed by david lynch

still lol'ing at this video 7 years later

Green is not a creative colour

Boost if you disagree

https://invidio.us/watch?v=9C_HReR_McQ

Girl Band - Paul

https://invidio.us/watch?v=D4SmyqO5DUU

Have a nice day. #np #NowPlaying

@greg all-time classic

If you've got a slow or old laptop, you may be able to speed it up by installing the Lubuntu operating system:

https://lubuntu.me

You can follow their official account here:

@lubuntu

Lubuntu is a lighter version of Ubuntu Linux. It can run the same apps as Ubuntu, but has a simpler interface that makes it run extremely quickly even on older/slower computers.

The increased speed is especially noticeable if you use it to replace Windows 👍

#Lubuntu #Linux #Ubuntu #Windows #Alternatives

@switchingsocial @lubuntu True toot, and given Windows 7 is going end-of-life at the beginning of 2020, time to get the install parties rolling!

@vfrmedia They sound great

"We are a group of Ipswich residents who got together to buy a property in which to live communally, in an ecologically sustainable way so we can take action for positive social change. We are Ipswich’s first housing co-operative."

Huge respect to all the effort that went in to starting it up!

@vfrmedia I can imagine... It seems like there's not much support provided at an institutional level (either local or national) to grow housing coops.