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Danny Dorling: a full-throated optimist for dark times Podcast interview with Professor Danny Dorling on the world’s true crises and how attitudes are finally synchronising around positive change

"...the world’s true crises and how attitudes are finally synchronising around positive change..."
westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/world/d...

I hate how the big wide-smiled friend :) is so often turned into the very passive aggressive please leave me alone 🙂

For those working around language and literacy in the Southside of Glasgow! Brilliant team working on this.

YouTube video by よしながき PAPERS

The algorithm sending me cool stuff from 34 years ago
youtu.be/56EG957YinM

Very exciting if you're a huge nerd

Since learning about Curtis Yarvin, been getting a wee bit freaked out seeing how much his influence has submerged deep into the consciousness of America's new leaders.

I'm losing it. Who's responsible for this???

Pretty sure this plugin works just the same here www.instagram.com/your_account...

Funding - Corra Foundation These funds are currently open for applications. Please get in touch via the contact details on each page.

📣Boost re-opens Tues 25th Feb!

Up to £3k for local community orgs in Scotland supporting children&families affected by poverty.

First of three rounds in 2025. Groups can only hold one Boost grant in 12months.

Funded in partnership - STV Children's Appeal & Comic Relief.
www.corra.scot/funding/

Didn't even realize I was following you! V exciting to see friends here.

Always wanted a toady to attend me

Would quite like to cut about with some goons though

Sky Follower Bridge Instantly find and follow the same users from your 𝕏 followers on Bluesky

Dead chuffed with how many people have migrated over. I used this in case anyone needs to find their people - www.sky-follower-bridge.dev

Thanks for the invite! I'll check my calendar on Monday and share with the rest of the team.

Just asked the computer to follow all the people I was following on Twitter so hello if you're here from an errant notification, I hope it found you in good health and with balanced humours.

There's now a second ad covering a PJ & Duncan song. What's gone wrong?

Entrepreneur and innovator says if we'd gone nuclear in 70s we wouldn't have a carbon problem but we might be missing parts of some countries.

Common LinkedIn post

why'd they give them such a cute name

Twitter has become such a toilet. There's now a tweets feed next to me tweets. That's too many tweets.

A new post on Cohost about science, intelligence and what we think it means to be clever:

How To Be Smart | cohost.org/mtrc/post/33...

I keep getting an ad on YouTube that has a cover of a PJ & Duncan song and I want to see the person who commissioned a new PJ & Duncan cover to advertise holiday cottages

Did you see our 25th December door yesterday? It's by Kate Compton ( twitter.com/GalaxyKate/ ) and is quite mesmerising!

Explore the forest here: generativeadvent.itch.io/generative-a...

The wonderfully inventive Struan Fraser (@struanf.bsky.social) made us a fun narrative game yesterday - help Santa make a few last decisions before the big day, won't you?

Find it here: generativeadvent.itch.io/generative-a...

Generative Advent 2023 by Generative Advent, ILL OMENS, vividfax 25 days of generative art. Play in your browser

i'm behind today's door! open the advent calendar to find... generativeadvent.itch.io/generative-a...

Jolene by Dolly Parton, parsed as a csv file by Numbers.app

any file can be a csv file if it has a comma in it

for example:

I'm going to be joining this! I'm going to be among some other v talented artists. Recommend having a look when it starts ☃️

Scientists used special microphones to let us listen in on a tickled rat’s titters. Eavesdrop on Ultrasonic Rat Giggles

Those clever science bastards have finally done it youtu.be/78PfGQbL-g0?...

WhatsApp message: “Can’t we just ask one of the precinct psychics?” “Usually, yeah, but they’re on strike.” “Is that something they’d do if they weren’t absolutely certain they’d get their demands?” “Of course not.” “So what’s management doing?” “…Management thinks they’re bluffing.”

Friend asked me if there have been any police procedurals set in fantasy worlds (answer: kinda?) and I immediately started riffing.

Just tried to reclaim the millions of people i was following while never posting on twitter so if you just got a follow out of the blue, sorry, but also hello.

Anything good happening here? or just bad?