Rick Crust
@rc.szs.net
Lurking in the real world intersection of digital & social inclusion, particularly with older or marginalised people in the UK, eg- https://50pd.uk
Earth resident since 1947. Connected since 1987.
#SocialMediaSceptic #RealWorldFirst
Earth resident since 1947. Connected since 1987.
#SocialMediaSceptic #RealWorldFirst
Pinned
Rick Crust
@rc.szs.net
· Dec 8
Was x.com/RickCrust until Oct 2022.
#DigitalInclusion #DigitalLiteracy #DigitalParticipation #SocialInclusion #AssetBased #London #FinsburyPark #Islington #Hackney #Haringey #Accessibility
Really no need to follow here - maybe use that time to talk to a #RealWorldFirst human as well, or instead?
#DigitalInclusion #DigitalLiteracy #DigitalParticipation #SocialInclusion #AssetBased #London #FinsburyPark #Islington #Hackney #Haringey #Accessibility
Really no need to follow here - maybe use that time to talk to a #RealWorldFirst human as well, or instead?
Timothy Snyder's epistle to USA residents - clear, concise and probably relevant for residents of everywhere else.
In this context - "Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books."
#Tyranny
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
In this context - "Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books."
#Tyranny
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Timothy Snyder's epistle to USA residents - clear, concise and probably relevant for residents of everywhere else.
In this context - "Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books."
#Tyranny
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
In this context - "Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books."
#Tyranny
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Reposted by Rick Crust
Hardeep has started a new birthday trend. In future, everyone will celebrate their birthday by sending themselves a birthday card listing their major successes of the year - and making sure everyone else can read it too.
#SocialInclusion #DigitalInclusion #DigitalLiteracy
#SocialInclusion #DigitalInclusion #DigitalLiteracy
Today is my birthday. I am 62. I made my own birthday card with my achievements. Happy Birthday Me! I have done so much for myself so I am proud.
March 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Hardeep has started a new birthday trend. In future, everyone will celebrate their birthday by sending themselves a birthday card listing their major successes of the year - and making sure everyone else can read it too.
#SocialInclusion #DigitalInclusion #DigitalLiteracy
#SocialInclusion #DigitalInclusion #DigitalLiteracy
I got my ticket 👍
Saturday evening for everyone within travel range of #NewingtonGreen - produced by staff & volunteers of #MildmayCommunityCentre -
BTW, DJ #LadyM is one of us - 50+, kept young in mind, soul and everything else, by music.
Sharing it here and now so you don't accidently miss it.
#DJGig #Islington
BTW, DJ #LadyM is one of us - 50+, kept young in mind, soul and everything else, by music.
Sharing it here and now so you don't accidently miss it.
#DJGig #Islington
March 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I got my ticket 👍
Reposted by Rick Crust
Our Big Give Is Go! From now, your donations are matched at unionchapel.org.uk/big-give at no extra cost to you, to help us break down barriers to arts & heritage.
Donate/share before 12pm 25 March to make a huge difference!
#GoodCause #ArtsForImpact #GiveBack @biggive.bsky.social
Donate/share before 12pm 25 March to make a huge difference!
#GoodCause #ArtsForImpact #GiveBack @biggive.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Our Big Give Is Go! From now, your donations are matched at unionchapel.org.uk/big-give at no extra cost to you, to help us break down barriers to arts & heritage.
Donate/share before 12pm 25 March to make a huge difference!
#GoodCause #ArtsForImpact #GiveBack @biggive.bsky.social
Donate/share before 12pm 25 March to make a huge difference!
#GoodCause #ArtsForImpact #GiveBack @biggive.bsky.social
“… perhaps the greatest of these sins is convincing ourselves that posting is a form of political activism, when it is at best a coping mechanism”
www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
March 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM
“… perhaps the greatest of these sins is convincing ourselves that posting is a form of political activism, when it is at best a coping mechanism”
www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
Reposted by Rick Crust
We're launching a life-saving fundraiser towards 5 armored medical evacuation vehicles worth $1,500,000 to #SaveTheHeroes❤️🩹
Ukrainian evacuation teams are constantly being hit and need armor that can protect them from russian attacks. Let's help them:
u24.gov.ua/armored-ambu...
👇
Ukrainian evacuation teams are constantly being hit and need armor that can protect them from russian attacks. Let's help them:
u24.gov.ua/armored-ambu...
👇
February 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
We're launching a life-saving fundraiser towards 5 armored medical evacuation vehicles worth $1,500,000 to #SaveTheHeroes❤️🩹
Ukrainian evacuation teams are constantly being hit and need armor that can protect them from russian attacks. Let's help them:
u24.gov.ua/armored-ambu...
👇
Ukrainian evacuation teams are constantly being hit and need armor that can protect them from russian attacks. Let's help them:
u24.gov.ua/armored-ambu...
👇
Reposted by Rick Crust
Continuing the story of older people campaigning to restore the fellowship of the former #SharpEnd - our parent charity @mrsindependliving.bsky.social has found the necessary funding and set up a new program -
blog.50pd.uk/2025/keeping...
#SocialInclusion #OlderPeople #Wellbeing #London
blog.50pd.uk/2025/keeping...
#SocialInclusion #OlderPeople #Wellbeing #London
Keeping Sharp
Keeping Sharp, our new exercise programme for older people, has officially launched — and it’s off to an incredible start!
Since our launch party on 27th January, we’ve had fantastic feedback from par...
blog.50pd.uk
February 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Continuing the story of older people campaigning to restore the fellowship of the former #SharpEnd - our parent charity @mrsindependliving.bsky.social has found the necessary funding and set up a new program -
blog.50pd.uk/2025/keeping...
#SocialInclusion #OlderPeople #Wellbeing #London
blog.50pd.uk/2025/keeping...
#SocialInclusion #OlderPeople #Wellbeing #London
Reposted by Rick Crust
How can Brexit Britain navigate Trump's World? New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. With the rapid deepening of a dangerous global divide, the UK faces hard choices. Could the latest proposals for UK-EU 'mutual recognition' be part of the answer?
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-...
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-...
February 21, 2025 at 7:37 AM
How can Brexit Britain navigate Trump's World? New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. With the rapid deepening of a dangerous global divide, the UK faces hard choices. Could the latest proposals for UK-EU 'mutual recognition' be part of the answer?
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-...
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-...
Community support for St. Marys Secret Garden in #Hackney - the charity was forced to close by insolvency, but perhaps the freeholders Hackney Council bsky.app/profile/hack... can help to restore the considerable benefits to disadvantaged and marginalised residents. #SecretGarden
January 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Community support for St. Marys Secret Garden in #Hackney - the charity was forced to close by insolvency, but perhaps the freeholders Hackney Council bsky.app/profile/hack... can help to restore the considerable benefits to disadvantaged and marginalised residents. #SecretGarden
@blueskyfeedcreator.com - "Create your own Bluesky Feeds using our third party app" - life is too short to waste on social media, unless reading feeds I curate myself. So I started one, experimentally searching #DigitalInclusion #DigitalLiteracy #DigitalParticipation #DigitalExclusion not public yet
January 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
@blueskyfeedcreator.com - "Create your own Bluesky Feeds using our third party app" - life is too short to waste on social media, unless reading feeds I curate myself. So I started one, experimentally searching #DigitalInclusion #DigitalLiteracy #DigitalParticipation #DigitalExclusion not public yet
Best in the list - 'We Need To Rewild The Internet - The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.'
And if you're new to us, great! To get a better feel for our content, check out our favorite pieces from 2024.
This list explores ideas from why we should rewild the internet to the many possibilities of lucid dreaming to why AI might help rebuild the middle class: www.noemamag.com/noemas-top-1...
This list explores ideas from why we should rewild the internet to the many possibilities of lucid dreaming to why AI might help rebuild the middle class: www.noemamag.com/noemas-top-1...
Noema’s Top 10 Reads Of 2024 | NOEMA
Our best longform journalism and essays from 2024.
www.noemamag.com
December 12, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Best in the list - 'We Need To Rewild The Internet - The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.'
Was x.com/RickCrust until Oct 2022.
#DigitalInclusion #DigitalLiteracy #DigitalParticipation #SocialInclusion #AssetBased #London #FinsburyPark #Islington #Hackney #Haringey #Accessibility
Really no need to follow here - maybe use that time to talk to a #RealWorldFirst human as well, or instead?
#DigitalInclusion #DigitalLiteracy #DigitalParticipation #SocialInclusion #AssetBased #London #FinsburyPark #Islington #Hackney #Haringey #Accessibility
Really no need to follow here - maybe use that time to talk to a #RealWorldFirst human as well, or instead?
December 8, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Was x.com/RickCrust until Oct 2022.
#DigitalInclusion #DigitalLiteracy #DigitalParticipation #SocialInclusion #AssetBased #London #FinsburyPark #Islington #Hackney #Haringey #Accessibility
Really no need to follow here - maybe use that time to talk to a #RealWorldFirst human as well, or instead?
#DigitalInclusion #DigitalLiteracy #DigitalParticipation #SocialInclusion #AssetBased #London #FinsburyPark #Islington #Hackney #Haringey #Accessibility
Really no need to follow here - maybe use that time to talk to a #RealWorldFirst human as well, or instead?
Reposted by Rick Crust
The tranquil St Mary's Secret Garden was our preferred location for recording personal stories, far better than a sterile indoor studio. Two examples from 2020 -
radiotogether.uk/2020/at-last...
radiotogether.uk/2020/i-saw-m...
Can it be saved? Update from #HackneyCitizen - tinyurl.com/44p3esnx
radiotogether.uk/2020/at-last...
radiotogether.uk/2020/i-saw-m...
Can it be saved? Update from #HackneyCitizen - tinyurl.com/44p3esnx
At last I could be proud
Ruth looks back on her journey from apartheid South Africa. With transcript. [6 minutes]
radiotogether.uk
December 5, 2024 at 9:37 AM
The tranquil St Mary's Secret Garden was our preferred location for recording personal stories, far better than a sterile indoor studio. Two examples from 2020 -
radiotogether.uk/2020/at-last...
radiotogether.uk/2020/i-saw-m...
Can it be saved? Update from #HackneyCitizen - tinyurl.com/44p3esnx
radiotogether.uk/2020/at-last...
radiotogether.uk/2020/i-saw-m...
Can it be saved? Update from #HackneyCitizen - tinyurl.com/44p3esnx
Reposted by Rick Crust
Losing the #SecretGarden is like a sinkhole in the community landscape.
We found some photos from the 2020 COVID period (and audio that we can't post here). The garden was one of the few places that older people could meet regularly and safely - to talk and make #music.
#SocialInclusion #Hackney
We found some photos from the 2020 COVID period (and audio that we can't post here). The garden was one of the few places that older people could meet regularly and safely - to talk and make #music.
#SocialInclusion #Hackney
December 4, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Losing the #SecretGarden is like a sinkhole in the community landscape.
We found some photos from the 2020 COVID period (and audio that we can't post here). The garden was one of the few places that older people could meet regularly and safely - to talk and make #music.
#SocialInclusion #Hackney
We found some photos from the 2020 COVID period (and audio that we can't post here). The garden was one of the few places that older people could meet regularly and safely - to talk and make #music.
#SocialInclusion #Hackney
Reposted by Rick Crust
St Mary's Secret Garden - "community garden, social and therapeutic project in #Hackney, #London " - has closed.
It's a place we know well, and have used for social activities. Hard to accept that such an essential service can't be funded. Feels like a local sinkhole
www.stmaryssecretgarden.org.uk
It's a place we know well, and have used for social activities. Hard to accept that such an essential service can't be funded. Feels like a local sinkhole
www.stmaryssecretgarden.org.uk
December 4, 2024 at 6:16 PM
St Mary's Secret Garden - "community garden, social and therapeutic project in #Hackney, #London " - has closed.
It's a place we know well, and have used for social activities. Hard to accept that such an essential service can't be funded. Feels like a local sinkhole
www.stmaryssecretgarden.org.uk
It's a place we know well, and have used for social activities. Hard to accept that such an essential service can't be funded. Feels like a local sinkhole
www.stmaryssecretgarden.org.uk
Two minutes if you are really busy (the template is good enough) or ten minutes if you can make it personal. #NHS
Did you know? The government is consulting on its 10 YEAR PLAN for the NHS right now 🏥
They've made it very difficult to submit a response through consultation website
So we've made it easy for you here - takes 2 min weownit.org.uk/act-now/make...
Deadline is 5pm Monday 2nd December
They've made it very difficult to submit a response through consultation website
So we've made it easy for you here - takes 2 min weownit.org.uk/act-now/make...
Deadline is 5pm Monday 2nd December
Make your voice heard: 10-year NHS plan consultation
weownit.org.uk
December 2, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Two minutes if you are really busy (the template is good enough) or ten minutes if you can make it personal. #NHS
"Spain has to opt between being an open, prosperous country or being a closed and poor one, and we have chosen the former" (Elma Saiz, Ministra de Inclusión, Seguridad Social y Migraciones -).
#Migration #UnDocumented @saizelma.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Spain to legalise about 300,000 undocumented immigrants per year
Spain will legalise about 300,000 undocumented immigrants per year over the next three years as it seeks to expand its labour force in the face of an ageing population, Migration Minister Elma Saiz told reporters on Tuesday.
www.reuters.com
November 20, 2024 at 4:48 AM
"Spain has to opt between being an open, prosperous country or being a closed and poor one, and we have chosen the former" (Elma Saiz, Ministra de Inclusión, Seguridad Social y Migraciones -).
#Migration #UnDocumented @saizelma.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
My #Mastodon server, not just the account, is scheduled for shutdown in a few days - the end of the 2-year experiment. Self-hosted Mastodon is far more interesting than Bluesky, but a LOT more work.
Excellent support from my.masto.host and Mythic Beasts www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi server deals.
Excellent support from my.masto.host and Mythic Beasts www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi server deals.
November 16, 2024 at 2:42 AM
My #Mastodon server, not just the account, is scheduled for shutdown in a few days - the end of the 2-year experiment. Self-hosted Mastodon is far more interesting than Bluesky, but a LOT more work.
Excellent support from my.masto.host and Mythic Beasts www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi server deals.
Excellent support from my.masto.host and Mythic Beasts www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi server deals.