If you are the person who abandoned a tent full of crap at EMF: We are going to find you.
You have enraged a group of people who enjoy puzzles and suddenly have a lot of free time.
Run.
@jonty ugh, so disrespectful of the folks who have to clean the place up.
If anyone has drone photos of Thursday afternoon, specifically covering the area behind stage B, I would really like to see them
@jonty Ugh, not cool... perhaps some of the villages nearby might be able to help identify owner?
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@jonty Well now you know where to shove the radioactive sources someone accidentally donated...
@jonty forgetting an entire tent and all my belongings after a highly social few days seems like exactly the sort of thing I’d do. Have you tried calling out to the nearby woods, or leaving out a pair of noise cancelling headphones and a copy of The Art of Electronics to coax them back to civilisation?
@jonty I took a panoramic, but it was down hill from the road corner.
Maybe other people took photos and catch then in the background.
@jonty Jetzt bin ich neugierig, hoffentlich werden wir auf dem laufenden gehalten.
@jonty subset of people who attended EMF and don't have a label printer for labelling their tent can't be that large.
@jonty As someone that has been part of the team for many indoor and outdoor events from the start to the very end, all I can suggest is "release the hounds..!".
@jonty Is this where you regret saying no drones?
Find them and destroy them.
@jonty I only have daytime footage of the entire camp from Saturday morning. Happy to share if that would help.
We have now reconstructed their entire travel itinerary from a receipt, a scrap of packaging, and a packet of tobacco.
Regrettably there is no red string on site.
@jonty The automated photos from my drone will have coverage of this area!
@jonty the current theory on discord is that that tent might have been with BSides Basingstoke i was the green tent to the right with leeds hackspace ( purple zone ) and it was not one of ours.
@pezmc I couldn't find the Thursday ones! Was waiting for you to appear online.
@jonty I'm sorry you're having to deal with this.
If they turn out to be up my way, please do come and stay when you visit.
@jonty Those who do salvaging from the utter mess left behind at Leeds Festival and similar have taken great interest in the amount of effort that's been put into this :D It simply shows the huge culture difference between EMFCamp attendees (and how amazingly tidy they can be) compared to the utter chaos I rifled through last year in the aftermath to recover items to donate to those that need it. Festival Republic have a lot to learn about fostering better Festival cultures.
@stanto Things you will enjoy:
* The reusable cup vendors are absolutely astonished that we returned 95% of cups. Apparently that is the highest amount they've ever seen returned from a festival by a huge margin.
* The bin vendor was shocked that all the bins were present and correct, and none of them had been damaged.
* Some locals walked their dog through the site during teardown and say they love us because all the other festivals leave so much rubbish on site. They want to come in 2026.
@stanto @sarajw As a decades-long Glastonbury attendee I have been very distressed to see how it's got worse year-on-year despite the "TAKE IT HOME" message being reinforced incessantly.
There was a visible shift the first post-pandemic year in 2022. Feels like attitudes changed somehow. I'm hoping it's temporary.
@jonty @stanto lived in Bristol for 12 years and never made it to Glastonbury, more's the shame!
The price was always just too high, I was too goody-goody to sneak in, and too lazy to volunteer 😅
Probably just takes a few rich non-hippies to leave their stuff (because they can afford to, and are lazy) and more follow suit.
@jonty This reminds me of a comment from the bar staff one year at the hotel where UK Games Expo is held: “We love it when you come because you drink like ruby players and behave like chess players”. Nerd culture seems to be well above average in its ability to have a good time without causing misery for others. Something to be proud of.
I saw some rubbish by a bin (probably blown out) and picked it up. I inadvertently started an ersatz litter-picking crew as a few other people joined in!
@CatherineFlick @jonty @stanto Also massive props to everyone involved in mud mitigation and accessibility in general - was great to see so many people able to use mobility aids successfully to get around the site 
@m @jonty @stanto even my not quite 2yo helped spread hay on the mud! He enjoyed it a lot. I recall seeing @herdingdata bringing a lot around on his ATV
@CatherineFlick @jonty @stanto @herdingdata The hay was a revelation - so obvious with hindsight, and bales can just be left near any mud-prone areas for people to fix up the site as they go by. Brilliant! 
@m @CatherineFlick @jonty @stanto can confirm that a great deal of team effort went into mud mitigation! We had teams spreading hay in strategic areas - both those which were muddy now and those which were likely to be later(i.e. the bar marquee). This started with *very strict* mandate not to drive on grass if at all possible so as to preserve it for the event. Which was a little in conflict with how many vehicles we had and how much heavy kit needed to be moved onto grass 😅
@herdingdata @m @CatherineFlick @jonty @stanto Yep, I spent an afternoon doing hay (after an industrial dose of antihistamines) - and actually quite enjoyed. Meant I could polish up on my trailer skills - despite fighting with the gearbox in the gator.
Even managed to teach the terminally Californian @r how to reverse a trailer, having never done it before! It was so nice to be able to share and teach skills, and realising that we all have our own areas of knowledge.
@CatherineFlick @blue annoyingly I can confirm that my hayfever was acting up before we even started operation mud mitigation! There was a time during setup when we were all squelching about in wellies and we couldn’t possibly DREAM that dust might become a problem in a few days
@herdingdata yeah I felt really bad because I was sneezing and coughing and I’m sure people thought I was horribly infectious with something 😭 I knew it was hayfever (feels very different from a cold!) but I couldn’t really hang a sign around me! 😭