Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 36

HWC London tomorrow - first one of 2019!

Join us and spend a bit of time creating, updating or experimenting on your personal website - or maybe get started on one for the New Year!

https://hwclondon.co.uk/meetups/20190109

#london #indieweb

@gcupc Hey thanks for writing Brutaldon, I really like it.

Also with Brutaldon I like the fact you can't see how many favourites or boosts a toot has gotten.

I feel like, I don't really want to know how popular something is, I just want to read it.

#brutaldon

I've been using it a couple of weeks and I'm liking the Brutaldon interface for Mastodon a lot.

The slower pace works much better for me.  I recommend trying it if you're like me and your attention and time is easily stolen by automatic updates and infinite scrolls.  I feel like my toot perusing is a lot more chilled out and intentional now.

https://brutaldon.online/about

#brutaldon

I'm very happy to have discovered org-super-agenda, lets you group things in logical ways in your agenda.

Definitely recommend checking it out if you use org-mode.

https://github.com/alphapapa/org-super-agenda

#orgMode #emacs

* 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/

#housing #uk

Bret 'the Hitman' Hart knows why your program doesn't work

https://invidio.us/watch?v=QgwTm1P37l4

#wrestling #coding

Pretty rough day for St George.

- St George is put in Prison
- St George is Tortured on a Table
- St George is Tortured in a Cauldron
- St George is Tortured Tied to a Cross
- St George Survives Poison
- St George is Tortured Between Two Wheels
- St George is Tied between Two Posts and Sawn in Half
- St George is Dragged by Horses
- St George is Beheaded

Damn. Gotta work hard to be a megalo-martyr.

There's a nice mini-exhibition on some social housing projects in the UK at the V&A Museum at the moment.

This fact is pretty amazing: "In the mid-1970s nearly half the population of England and Wales lived in council houses"

But as we know... "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[...]"

This also looks nice.

“Walden, a game is an exploratory narrative and open world simulation of the life of American philosopher Henry David Thoreau during his experiment in self-reliant living at Walden Pond. […] players are surrounded by the beauty of the woods and the Pond, which hold a promise of a sublime life beyond these basic needs.”

https://www.waldengame.com/

When I was a kid my Mum got me and my brother a game for the Amstrad called "Osprey!"

"The object of the game is to allocate wardens to help the ospreys successfully nest, rear young and survive the hazards that threaten them."

Very sad to say that to my like 5 year old self it just wasn't as fun as Harrier Attack, based on the Falklands War, but I love her for trying.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/osprey

Hey this looks nice.

"Block’hood is a city building simulator video game that focuses on ideas of ecology, interdependence and decay."

https://www.plethora-project.com/blockhood