Notices by Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)

@rgulick @msbellows @the_etrain @SecularJeffrey in my old town around mid-late 1990s someone would wheatpaste posters of a random Alsatian dog, amongst the others for raves/gigs

No other text, just the doggo, usually A3 size.

I can only assume it was their own pet and it was an early way of sharing what a good girl/boy they were before the days of online social media..

@MediaActivist I live in East Anglia (which borders the Netherlands) and study military history from WW2 to present day.

Folk round here were divided during WW2, especially the middle/upper classes - many would have been perfectly happy with an Axis victory and saw the war with Germany more like sportsball (where the idea of course isn't to eliminate the opposing team but to treat them as worthy opponents)

@chuff @kibcol1049

the equipment which creates more of an actual safety risk dates back from 1950s to 1970s (long before the analogue cellular mobile network even existed), and would be rarely found nowadays as technology has improved, although even today not all radio transmitters are approved for use in explosive atmospheres and there is specialised (and premium priced) kit available for this purposes (such as safety critical comms at oil refineries)

@dalias @SheamusPatt @anon_opin

In UK risk is more the machine being attacked with cordless power tools to extract the cash (or uprooted altogether with heavy plant and processed elsewhere) than an armed blag on the person taking away the cash (this kind of crime is relatively rare nowadays due to less use of cash and better security procedures and CCTV/surveillance)

I'd be happy with a choice between card and cash (coin/banknote readers aren't that reliable, again due to greater security procedures which can create false positives on valid coins/notes) but whats happening in some areas is the machine is defective or altogether absent, and you are forced to use a parking app (which is only "cheaper" to the Council because its harvesting your data to pay for the service)

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116862528952241826

TBH this just seems like normality on the Fedi 😀

@skinnylatte @b in UK even if you are someone who is habitually awake late at night due to work patterns (such as truck driver, on call tech support and maintenance, or just someone who keeps odd hours) its near impossible to get decent food here (only USA style hamburger retaurants and kebabs, and none of that is healthy)

@b @skinnylatte

I've only been to Malaysia (where my family are from ) twice in my life, but one thing I remember is everything was open well into the middle of the night (especially food, and even random things like DIY supplies, they were all sold together in the corner shops)

@alice @lrhodes I remember GNUsocial - was even told about it in about 2010/2011

A lot of it seemed to be "absolute free speech" which mostly consisted of anarchists and rightwing edgelords bitterly arguing at each other in English, German and Swedish all at the same time and it was quite frankly a hostile environment (even though I can understand German quite well) and no better than anything else available at the time, compared to modern Fedi the LGBT+ folk and furries built over the years (and wrestled away large parts of control from centrist techbros)

I know which kind of network I prefer...

@skinnylatte what is F&B in this context? Seems to be Singlish, does it stand for "food and beverages?"

Goose was not valued 🪿

@patigallardo.bsky.social https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ybtyn5l4nljys46ijqtpldaw/post/3mpadke2khc2i

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116770333053823108

I wouldn't sign up to this because Ursula is there, any more than I'd willingly listen to the Christian Schlager pop record she made with her family in the 1960s 😁

RE: https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/116715865518012939

GM fixed these quite quickly (ISTR it was a few months ago) - I pretended to be a redneck and asked them what truck was best to take my snakes to church (in a mostly suburban part of USA where this isn't even /that/ common) and it gave some fairly sensible answers that this wasn't approved of and could be against state and federal wildlife protection laws, but still suggested some mid size pickups and tried to set me up with a sales contact to view a truck anyway 😁

@benroyce I was initially confused by the Indonesian subtitles and even wondered if the gig was in Indonesia - which would be a remarkable softening of the regime there as at least in some regions such things are considered haram, although there is still a significant underground punk scene there hence the subtitles..

@alice I think there's at least a solar panel for power and a decent lithium battery from the pictures of those I've seen, and if the camera/CCD can be separated from the motherboard that can be repurposed too (it would *not* be a good idea to apply power to the mobo away from site as it may well contain GNSS receiver and LTE modem and send alarm)

A Neo-Nazi teenage girl tried to behead a Kurdish barber in #Bristol as a vigilante act against #immigrants and a belief the barbershop was involved in money laundering.

She but failed as he was physically larger and managed to disarm her, and
#Police were nearby and quickly arrested her - she pleaded guilty in #Court and has been sent to #prison for 15 years

What is also worrying is Bristol is considered to be one of the safer, more multicultural cities of #England

https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2026-05-15/neo-nazi-teen-who-tried-to-behead-barber-jailed-for-more-than-15-years

@skinnylatte some folk were calling this out - also I find it less accurate (although I mostly buy kitbags/tactical bags rather than rucksacks) as if I've found if you avoid the big American brands and pick the middle price point Chinese ones the bags are decent enough.

Same with spectacles, there's affordable frames in UK/Europe provided you don't go for "bling" brands and even discounts on lenses (and I am highly nearsighted)

As for power tools, I use Makita and it turns out that many are assembled in the UK (so I'm even supporting local manufacturing industry!)

@ChrisWere stuff like that puts me off (as a brown person) getting involved in or even just visiting these things.

I know the modern car scene in towns/cities is a bit more multicultural, but I don't want to get lumped in either with those who drive badly, have obnoxious mods such as loud exhausts and are often climate change deniers..

@raymierussell @dalias @neil @UkeleleEric

it seems even more bizzare they would try this, given the amount of competition in the market for mobile devices (even by late 1990s)..

@raymierussell @dalias @neil @UkeleleEric

If the mobile device was SIM free (or the address would be needed to set up the SIM contract), I'm surprised the shop assistant was prepared to dig their heels in and lose the sale (and potentially any commission)

I do wonder if the shop had been leaned on by another authority to capture this info due to paranoia about mobiles being used by drug dealers (which may have been the case around late 90s to early 2000s).

Even Tandy had given up asking for your address by the mid-late 90s (at least you got a catalogue and free batteries that way)

@skinnylatte bizzarely every time I've been to a USA public service website to try and help friends there with adulting stuff (assuming that I'm not outright blocked for trying to access from a foreign country, which is very common nowadays), it looks like they've used the cheapest commercial service possible to deliver the actual service (maybe the budgets are swallowed by multiple layers of management and outsourcing contracts) and UI is different across every service/state or even local region (although maybe in UK we are used to having a *very* good govt web UI, although behind the scenes the services are run on string and gaffer tape and everything feeds into Azure databases and MS365)