@jonathanhogg far, far away from wherever I happen to be at the time please.
One of my favourite bits of the EMF lead up is the point at which the Unaffiliated Village, an anarchic collective of whoever felt like attaching themselves to meet some new people, achieves self-organisation.
It starts as nothing more than a registered village and a link to (this year) a Signal group, and by the time gates open it’s 20 odd people who’ve got a communal tent, things to sit on, and this year a Tim Curry Shouting SPAAACE flag.
The boy’s school have very generously assisted in EMF preparation by taking him and 60 or so other children to Cornwall for the weekend. The opportunity to lock myself away for a few days and get shit done really couldn’t have come at a better time! (Just got to get through a day of doing my real job first)
@BodgehamVillage I’d like to issue a correction to my previous statement about almost saying bad words.
Fuck you too, buddy. 😘
It took 82 minutes for an EMF discussion to get from “just put a sign on the door” to “lorawan button available which is quite expensive and will require custom software”. We’re losing our touch, that should have been under 20.
@SnoopJ @whitequark @0xabad1dea wow, mentioning the infantry guide suddenly threw me 15 years into the past with vivid memories of weekly ArmA sessions.
@jonty I just cackled so loudly I fear my neighbours will be wondering what’s going on.
I’m once again regretting not booking an extra week off work before EMF as I contend with an extra full time job on top of having a child and my usual full time job.
12 years ago we asked people to book workshops at EMF by emailing. Dealing with the immense volume of messages was so traumatic we swore we would never, ever do that again.
It is 2026. EMF is now >3x larger and attendees 10x more rabid. The blacksmiths *insist* they want to book workshops via email.
We tried to warn them. We really tried.
@tibimac @nikitonsky I’ve owned many laptops over the years and MacBooks are the only ones which smear whatever was on the keyboard all over the screen.
The level of chaotic energy in an EMF leads meeting in inversely proportional to the number of weeks remaining before the event. Tonight’s had the energy of a classroom the day before summer holidays start.
I feel like there’s a significant chance I know whoever did this, and if I don’t I’d like to.
https://mastodon.social/users/fesshole/statuses/116840438532598415
Definitely losing my mind a bit, I just typed the phrase “backpack mounted fax machine”.
@mttaggart there are so many businesses that make more sense as a coop (or even a network of coops) than as a Silicon Valley style startup. The one I want to try and get going someday is grocery delivery from locally owned stores, owned by a coop of the stores, the delivery drivers, and the team building the ordering infrastructure.
@farah counterpoint: pretty sure it’s the person who’s reading things into which plant you give them as a gift who’s the weird one rather than the person who just went “hey, this looks like a nice thing to get my friend”.
Spent the evening making lights flash in pretty colours in time to some music. There’s definitely an alternate timeline in which I ended up being a lighting engineer instead of a software developer and I’m a little jealous of alternate universe Jon.
You can tell EMF is approaching because the list of card payments on my account is getting ever more eclectic. Today it’s been an Xbox controller wireless adapter, a custom ink stamp (this year whoever controls the stamp controls EMF volunteering, Chinese style, run a heist if you want a bunch of people to do your village washing up), and some large shipping crates.
