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Great time to leave Barclays for a more ethical bank!
Up there with HSBC as a bunch of professional wronguns, to put it mildly.
medium.com/@k.n.burke/making…
And at the moment, Nationwide will even give you £175 to switch! (Not a referral, just a good move)
nationwide.co.uk/current-acc…
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on a snow day, you can dream of sunshine and samba. lock it in!
🗓️ SAVE THE DATE!!! 🗓️
Africa Oyé Festival
22nd & 23rd June 2024
Sefton Park, Liverpool
FREE ENTRY // 12:30pm to 9:30pm both days
“A Liverpool institution” - The Anfield Wrap
“A party like no other” - The Guardian
"Perhaps Britain’s best free festival" – Clash
#ListenToAfrica
ALT Image reads: "The UK's biggest live festival of African music and culture. Africa Oyé. Est 1992. 22nd and 23rd June 2024. Sefton Park, Liverpool, UK. "It isn't just the largest celebration of African music and culture in Britain, it's the best - The Sunday Times. africaoye.com"
"Expansion of fossil fuel production is not in line with Net Zero. As well as pushing forward strongly with new low-carbon industries, Net Zero also makes it necessary to move away from high-carbon developments."
theccc.org.uk/publication/20…
Are you one of those 3 people? If so, check it out!
Otherwise: what were they so interested in...?
By popular demand (3 people asked)!
Heatpress!
Sketchbook!
Software!
Lasers!?
Upcycle plastic into your own unique earrings/keyrings and learn new skills with us
🗓️ Saturday 2nd September
🕒 3 - 5pm
📍 @DoESLiverpool
🧓18+ years
£25 🎟️ melt-and-make-session-one.ev…
#weeknotes
ALT The Plastic Tactics team at liverpool makefest earlier this year, holding colourful plastic shapes such as leaves, logos, maths and plant pots
ALT Shredded red sweet tub plastic sitting in a pile inside a heat press, waiting to be melted together into a sheet
ALT Earrings in the shape of tropical leaves and flowers - 2D shapes cut out of shiny and colourful plastic
Great to see Liam drawing attention to this basic need and fundamental issue. Time for more benches and public toilets!
It is estimated that the UK has lost around 50% of its public toilets in the past decade as local councils have seen their budgets obliterated
Quick thread on why this is such a problem and what it says about our broken country 🧵
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@KateRaworth I woke up thinking about a human-scale doughnut economics workshop at this iconic venue - Liverpool's Sefton Park Palm House.
It's got space for exploring inside the doughnut, and inspiring greenery inside & out (...without wanting to make overshoot seem lovely!)
ALT View of Sefton Park Palk House - photo taken directly above so you can see the green grounds and park surroundings.
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Makefest returns to Liverpool!
Prepare to be overwhelmed by people's creativity and mischievous inventions 👀
See you there?!
Remember this weekend #LivMF23 at @Liverpoollib #Makefest on free day of #STEAM #STEM for whole family. Just turn up or get tickets here on Eventbrite!
Date: Sat, Jul 1 • 09:00 BST
Location: William Brown St, Liverpool, L3 8EW
eventbrite.co.uk/e/liverpool…
Take a few minutes to share all the great reasons we like to visit Sefton Park 💚
We are working with a university student to gather data on why people visit Sefton Park towards their subject study. It can also help towards informing us as to how we can do things better 💚
Can you help by completing the questionnaire? Pls RT💚
lhubos.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/s…
I am grateful to anyone who is part of #StopRosebank and their work on Cambo.
It's almost unbelievable that this is still possible, let alone likely, to go ahead given not just reality but legal commitments made by UK Government.
Approving Rosebank would be a catastrophic decision for the UK & the climate.
We shouldn’t have to fight this government for cheap, clean energy & a liveable climate, but we will.
#StopRosebank
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No one wants to see walls around Oyé
Be part of the festival by making a little donation.
Or a big one! 💰
Amazon is the last place I shop. Why?
Amazon is a perfect #enshittification parable - platforms subsidize end users until they're locked in, then make life good for business customers at users' expense, until *they're* locked in, then claw back all the value they can, leaving just enough to keep the lock-in going.
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ALT A desert ruin. In the foreground is a huge Amazon box, with an EU flag in place of its shipping label. Atop the box are the feet and partial legs of an Oxymandias figure. Image: Rama (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gladiator_with_sword-Louis_Ernest_Meissonnier-MG_1216-IMG_1223-white.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/fr/deed.en
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Fully behind this 🦔
I much prefer the longer grass and wildflowers 🌼
That's subjective, but the environmental and financial benefits are not 🌞
Soil and plants reduce heat and help drainage compared to the 'built environment'.
No floods and no wet bulb please!
1/10 🗣️ Lots of you have been in touch about our new #GrassManagement Programme! And it’s worth a thread to explain what we’re doing and why. 🧵
ALT A person cycling through a park
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While he was working for us, @arthrowl wrote up our thinking on how businesses should migrate from Twitter to the #Fediverse (@joinmastodon, @PixelFed and the like)
(and you folk should all join us over there 😃)
mcqn.com/posts/what-business…
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Please read, White friends. I hope it makes sense to you.
" Instead of asking “What can I do to stop feeling so anxious?”, “What can I do to save the planet?” and “What hope is there?”, people with privilege can be asking “Who am I?” and “How am I connected to all of this?” "
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With sunny @africaoye weather we will be melting as well as melting...
Help us stay hydrated?
(more exciting roles available)
What?!
A ✨plastic adventure✨ at @africaoye in less than 4 weeks?! 🌞
Do you enjoy...
🧟 Chatting to new people?
♻️ Helping them make things?
🧞 Making it happen behind the scenes?
🔫 Keeping people hydrated?
👯♂️ ...Something else?
Let us know!
Please RT 👀
ALT A group of friendly volunteers at Africa Oyé 2019, in front of our "shred, melt, create" sign and a long cargo bike.
"It's probably fine" // "It's too late"
Tempting stories of denial and doom, which thrive on thresholds like 1.5C
Tricky to remember that neither story is actually true...
There will always be things we can do to support each other. Those are the stories I am interested in.
World's temperature likely to break key 1.5C warming threshold for first time between 2023 and 2027, scientists predict bbc.in/3o5PXyB
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Petition for all government ministers to spend a week at each of four "low-skilled" jobs before taking up their posts.
It could be like undercover boss, where their colleagues are unaware of why they are so bad at it, but get a bonus at the end for putting up with them
🚨 | NEW: Suella Braverman will tomorrow say that more Brits should train as lorry drivers, butchers, and fruit pickers - rather than easing visa rules and bringing in "low-skilled [migrant] labour"
"we mustn’t forget how to do things for ourselves"
[@guardian]
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Eurovision over. Afrovision imminent 🌞
SEE YOU IN THE PARK🎉
Africa Oyé is back!
17th & 18th June 2023
Sefton Park, #Liverpool
FREE ENTRY
12:30pm - 9:30pm both days
Already announced:
@RealSeunKuti
@Tanya_Stephens
@Official_ZieZie
@thebandFRA
Kimi Djabate
@veeby1
@blkborough
@ambaofficial_
& still more to come! 🌞
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Re: Electric Cars
The new "impact report" from Tesla is the first time the embedded emissions in the company's supply chain is publicly declared - it's pretty massive
For that year, it's even bigger than the emissions avoided by using sold Tesla vehicles and solar....
tesla.com/ns_videos/2022-tes…
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