Rob McIntosh

@thirstforwine
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Community - doing stuff together (with wine if you like). Transport convenor for Forest Hill Society in London (SE23). Mainly here for personal interests (#sustainability #bonsai #cleanenergy), and also found at [email protected] for more professional stuff
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@ryanopaz as the Chair or a local civic society, these platforms are a very important part of delivering our services (connection, news, events, ...) so they are still important and we can't go back to "word of mouth in the local pub" to organise a diverse and busy local audience, unfortunately.

I don't NEED it myself, but I benefit from the easy social connections

@ryanopaz or is the lesson that we need the platforms, and they will always tend towards becoming criminal and corrupt ... so we either need to keep moving, or find a new way to organise ... but we will now probably always need *somewhere*
Mastedon, Pixelfed, Bluesky - Feels like 2008 when we were all trying to find the micro blog that would take over from all the others...we fought and fought to gain traction and when we finally got it the corporations became corrupt and criminal...what platforms might win? Or is the lesson that maybe we don't need these platforms?
Here’s a new poem called ā€˜To Be Pacific’.

While its likely too early to draw conclusions about how the far right rioters will be dealt with (with only a small minority sentenced so far), the Equality Trust *do* sum up an emerging concern expressed here (and elsewhere).

#riots #farright #ruleoflaw

Am expected in Barcelona for an event in November. Excited to be there and see the team.

But, ... getting there from London?

Around £100 for a round-trip flight

Around £400 for a round trip train ticket

Ouch!

Any suggestions? I've not explore the world of railcards yet

You're taking away my FREEDOM!

By Bruce Davinson

If you plan to do the same, let me know ... and feel free to share the idea more widely to help others in the fight to reclaim our inboxes from virtual overload ;)

It is almost that time of year where I have to declare "email bankruptcy"

My personal email has 2400+ unread emails (in Primary) and countless others in secondary mailboxes.

The only sensible way to deal with it is to declare #emailbankruptcy and mark them all as read and remove them from the inbox, and start again in January.

Does anyone else do this to preserve their sanity?

#lifehack #email #organisation #personal

Very good - but not wholly safe for work ...

... so PLAY IT LOUD!!!!! šŸ˜

#climate #climatecrisis

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