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Only one week to go until the next People Planet Pint in Weston-super-Mare! Come along and find out what's going on locally with sustainability and how you can get involved.

Tue 10 March from 7pm at Duke of Oxford (BS23 1TF)

Grab a free ticket now – the first 10 drinks on the night are free thanks to event sponsors, Krystal web hosting!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/weston-super-mare-small99s-people-planet-pinttm-sustainability-meetup-tickets-1982667603173

#PeoplePlanetPint #WestonSuperMare

Weston-super-Mare - Small99's People, Planet, Pint™: Sustainability Meetup

Pop down to your local People Planet Pint meetup to find more about what's going on locally with sustainability and how you can get involved

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Jon Gibbins Feb 23

Feel a little like I’m sat in a car stopped on a motorway at the moment, just waiting for the next vehicle to crash into me.
#ThisTooShallPass

Jon Gibbins Feb 17

Dani Devesa Derksen-Staats Feb 16

It is here! I can trace my first lines of code to at least 2018 😅, when I wanted to build a cool game for the Apple Watch. It seems I needed a little push to put it out there. Hope you like it!

Available on the App Store! Free to play for 6 games a day. And you can get unlimited plays for just 0.99 with the code ARCTICCONF.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/retrorapid/id6758641625

Jon Gibbins Feb 2

I’m so close to just burning all my social media accounts. This version of the digital world is too full of crap.

Jon Gibbins Jan 27

Jon Hicks Jan 16

“In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.

The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.

Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.”

https://musically.com/2026/01/15/5-1tn-annual-music-streams-but-120-5m-tracks-had-10-or-fewer/

5.1tn annual music streams… but 120.5m tracks had 10 or fewer

Music-biz number-cruncher Luminate has published its year-end report for 2025, with plenty of stats for the industry to chew over.

Music Ally

Jon Gibbins Jan 13

Just a reminder that, even if life looks a bit like this to you at the moment despite the positivity of a new year starting, Spring and Summer are on their way.

Jon Gibbins Jan 5

The number of times I nearly mistype something like “Poor heading structure” in an accessibility audit and wish I’d set up more corrective text replacements…

Jon Gibbins Jan 5

James (@wearejames) songs are my near permanent soundtrack at the moment. I’ve grown to really love Tim Booth’s sometimes weird but wonderful lyrics, their musical diversity, their songs’ messages. Just listen to Sound as an example – that crescendo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbt33StQClg

James - Sound (1992)

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Jon Gibbins Jan 4

I’m trying to decide if socials are a lifeline or a drain for me. As someone who has lived online with distant friends since I was a teen, I find great connection through online channels. And I think I have a healthy mentality towards more open social channels. But 2025 was very hard, and I wonder if a break from here will help or hinder recovery.

Jon Gibbins Dec 17

Digital as it should be Dec 17

We've been reflecting on our last People Planet Pint of 2025 that we hosted in Weston-super-Mare a couple of weeks ago

It was another great evening hosting faces familiar and new. Conversations meandered naturally around various topics both local and afar. In particular, we discussed two interesting topics:

Firstly, there's the new Bath Digital Divide Coalition being convened by Bath Bridge and Tech4Good South West:
https://tech4goodsouthwest.org/digital-divide-collective

#PeoplePlanetPint #NorthSomerset #WestonSuperMare

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