Pollin8or
@pollin8or.bsky.social
Co Founder Centre for Thriving Places, Association of Sustainability Practitioners and modoto. Mentor, Facilitator, Connector & Weaver. Keen on purposeful impact, collaboration and strategic Partnerships
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Do you work for a local or combined authority? Want to know what you can do within the existing system? We are here to help.
Sign up for RORE's FREE webinar on 2 Dec @ 4pm.
With more than 70% of LA spending going into social care - it is time for change:
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Sign up for RORE's FREE webinar on 2 Dec @ 4pm.
With more than 70% of LA spending going into social care - it is time for change:
✍️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ending-ext...
Ending Extraction in the UK Care System: What Local Authorities Can Do
This webinar is a practical session presenting key insights from the publication on care sector profit extraction and its impact.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Do you work for a local or combined authority? Want to know what you can do within the existing system? We are here to help.
Sign up for RORE's FREE webinar on 2 Dec @ 4pm.
With more than 70% of LA spending going into social care - it is time for change:
✍️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ending-ext...
Sign up for RORE's FREE webinar on 2 Dec @ 4pm.
With more than 70% of LA spending going into social care - it is time for change:
✍️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ending-ext...
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Today we ask: is the UK being care-less, with the £50bn it spends on social care💔?
Read our new report from RORE (Reclaiming Our Regional Economies) in today's @theguardian.com, as covered by @journo-jess.bsky.social .
£millions are ending up:
in private equity cos
in orgs based in tax havens 🏝️
Read our new report from RORE (Reclaiming Our Regional Economies) in today's @theguardian.com, as covered by @journo-jess.bsky.social .
£millions are ending up:
in private equity cos
in orgs based in tax havens 🏝️
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Today we ask: is the UK being care-less, with the £50bn it spends on social care💔?
Read our new report from RORE (Reclaiming Our Regional Economies) in today's @theguardian.com, as covered by @journo-jess.bsky.social .
£millions are ending up:
in private equity cos
in orgs based in tax havens 🏝️
Read our new report from RORE (Reclaiming Our Regional Economies) in today's @theguardian.com, as covered by @journo-jess.bsky.social .
£millions are ending up:
in private equity cos
in orgs based in tax havens 🏝️
How to find valuable knowledge buried in busy WhatsApp groups…
medium.com/weavinglab/f...
medium.com/weavinglab/f...
Finding knowledge in WhatsApp World
An experiment with online analysers and AI
medium.com
July 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
How to find valuable knowledge buried in busy WhatsApp groups…
medium.com/weavinglab/f...
medium.com/weavinglab/f...
If you're in local government in England, grab this discount offer on Thriving places data analytics now! With budgets so stretched, it's more important than ever to innovate with intelligence backed insight. 👇🏼👇🏼⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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February 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
If you're in local government in England, grab this discount offer on Thriving places data analytics now! With budgets so stretched, it's more important than ever to innovate with intelligence backed insight. 👇🏼👇🏼⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
From Swiss sociologist Jennifer Walter about Trump’s overwhelm strategy & what to do about it (originally on Threads):
Overwhelm is the goal.
Overwhelm is the goal.
January 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
From Swiss sociologist Jennifer Walter about Trump’s overwhelm strategy & what to do about it (originally on Threads):
Overwhelm is the goal.
Overwhelm is the goal.
@tribelaw.bsky.social Hi Larry - your ’curvature of constitutional space’ (1989) inspired me to link the electro-magnetic spectrum with our behaviours.
I’d love to know what you think of it. Also - can I persuade you to write a letter linking your thoughts of the 80’s to the world we’re in today?
I’d love to know what you think of it. Also - can I persuade you to write a letter linking your thoughts of the 80’s to the world we’re in today?
January 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
@tribelaw.bsky.social Hi Larry - your ’curvature of constitutional space’ (1989) inspired me to link the electro-magnetic spectrum with our behaviours.
I’d love to know what you think of it. Also - can I persuade you to write a letter linking your thoughts of the 80’s to the world we’re in today?
I’d love to know what you think of it. Also - can I persuade you to write a letter linking your thoughts of the 80’s to the world we’re in today?
Hold things lightly. Best advice I’ve ever been given. We’ll need each other in 2025, so let’s handle ourselves with care
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medium.com/illumination...
Hold Things Lightly: The most useful advice I’ve ever been given
Here’s why it’s so helpful and how you can use it yourself
medium.com
December 29, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Hold things lightly. Best advice I’ve ever been given. We’ll need each other in 2025, so let’s handle ourselves with care
medium.com/illumination...
medium.com/illumination...
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Now live! 🚨
Free course on 'Principles and practices of peace education' in collaboration with the Open University www.open.edu/openlearn/ed...
Free course on 'Principles and practices of peace education' in collaboration with the Open University www.open.edu/openlearn/ed...
Principles and practices of peace education
Principles and practices of peace education explores how peace might be built in everyday classroom practice. It can be used as individual study or as a basis for CPD with a larger group. It ...
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December 17, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Now live! 🚨
Free course on 'Principles and practices of peace education' in collaboration with the Open University www.open.edu/openlearn/ed...
Free course on 'Principles and practices of peace education' in collaboration with the Open University www.open.edu/openlearn/ed...
My daughter braving the cold.
#beachlife #coldwaterswim #photography #iphonepics
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#beachlife #coldwaterswim #photography #iphonepics
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December 17, 2024 at 7:31 PM
My daughter braving the cold.
#beachlife #coldwaterswim #photography #iphonepics
Upload to pixabay? Y or N?
#beachlife #coldwaterswim #photography #iphonepics
Upload to pixabay? Y or N?
Did you read this first time around? If so, Adam is looking for contributors to the 2nd edition. You'll preview drafts, test tools and zoom call with the author/others who share your interest. Dive in! #radicalcollaboration #conflictresolution #thoughtleadership #selfawareness #TheMediumOfLetters
Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust
Your chance to contribute to a second edition
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December 17, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Did you read this first time around? If so, Adam is looking for contributors to the 2nd edition. You'll preview drafts, test tools and zoom call with the author/others who share your interest. Dive in! #radicalcollaboration #conflictresolution #thoughtleadership #selfawareness #TheMediumOfLetters
My word of the day is ‘magnificating’ - to make things magnificent.
December 12, 2024 at 9:17 AM
My word of the day is ‘magnificating’ - to make things magnificent.
Just published a letter from The Uncertain Solicitor about Autogaslighting. The writer's asking how we can resist the gaslighting of 'business as usual' in the face of catastrophic climate heating and biodiversity loss. Send a letter back if you have helpful ideas! medium.com/the-letters-...
Autogaslighting: what is it and how might we resist it?
Our culture makes us doubt the sanity of challenging ‘business as usual’ when deep down we know it’s harming us
medium.com
December 10, 2024 at 8:27 AM
Just published a letter from The Uncertain Solicitor about Autogaslighting. The writer's asking how we can resist the gaslighting of 'business as usual' in the face of catastrophic climate heating and biodiversity loss. Send a letter back if you have helpful ideas! medium.com/the-letters-...
Went to the #nationalportraitgallery a few weeks ago and spotted Annie Lennox sticking it to the patriarchy. Sisters are doing it brilliant for themselves at The Circle www.thecircle.ngo/about-us/
Important work for all of us
Important work for all of us
December 9, 2024 at 7:07 AM
Went to the #nationalportraitgallery a few weeks ago and spotted Annie Lennox sticking it to the patriarchy. Sisters are doing it brilliant for themselves at The Circle www.thecircle.ngo/about-us/
Important work for all of us
Important work for all of us
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Number crunching: Parliamentary petitions
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
December 5, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Number crunching: Parliamentary petitions
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
Loving the bbc Inspiring Women list from all 4 corners of the globe - I used to do something like this at a local level in Bristol. Noticing and naming unsung heroes has more impact than you might expect…
BBC 100 Women 2024: Who is on the list this year? - BBC News
BBC reveals the 2024 100 Women list. Here are the most inspiring and influential women for 2024 from around the world selected by the BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2024 at 6:02 AM
Loving the bbc Inspiring Women list from all 4 corners of the globe - I used to do something like this at a local level in Bristol. Noticing and naming unsung heroes has more impact than you might expect…
I think this is a fantastically powerful clip. Does it change your perspective? If it changes your world view, what do you think might change in your life?
youtu.be/p7LDk4D3Q3U?...
youtu.be/p7LDk4D3Q3U?...
The Turning Point
YouTube video by Steve Cutts
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November 30, 2024 at 11:15 PM
I think this is a fantastically powerful clip. Does it change your perspective? If it changes your world view, what do you think might change in your life?
youtu.be/p7LDk4D3Q3U?...
youtu.be/p7LDk4D3Q3U?...
Looking forward to hearing Jean talk at Schumacher Institute online tomorrow - she’s great! Maybe see some of you there…
Jean Boulton on LinkedIn: November 28th at 4pm UK time, I am doing a talk at the Schumacher…
November 28th at 4pm UK time, I am doing a talk at the Schumacher Institute in Bristol which can also be joined online.
In this talk I want to talk about how…
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November 27, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Looking forward to hearing Jean talk at Schumacher Institute online tomorrow - she’s great! Maybe see some of you there…
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I hadn't twigged that there was an open consultation about the ending of core funding to pan-regional partnerships.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
November 26, 2024 at 10:12 PM
I hadn't twigged that there was an open consultation about the ending of core funding to pan-regional partnerships.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Curious about ´born XXX ppm’ on profiles? It’s (kinda) human carbon dating. #CleverCarbon says Life Systems work well at <350ppm. Nice little quiz and interesting stuff on carbon labelling/footprinting. Check it out 👌🏻
Historical CO2 Concentration (ppm) - clever carbon
Monthly CO2 Tracker CO2 concentration should be and can be common knowledge! We know what 65 Fahrenheit or 25 Celsius feels like; what 3.4 or 6.5 on the Richter scale might feel like, but do we know w...
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November 23, 2024 at 8:02 AM
Curious about ´born XXX ppm’ on profiles? It’s (kinda) human carbon dating. #CleverCarbon says Life Systems work well at <350ppm. Nice little quiz and interesting stuff on carbon labelling/footprinting. Check it out 👌🏻
@andrewkelly.bsky.social just had fun scrolling through your followers - reckon nearly half are professors 😂
November 22, 2024 at 11:18 PM
@andrewkelly.bsky.social just had fun scrolling through your followers - reckon nearly half are professors 😂
Just nipped back to X to invite ‘my people’ over here…there were 1,062 of them still stranded there so I laid on a special train…
November 22, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Just nipped back to X to invite ‘my people’ over here…there were 1,062 of them still stranded there so I laid on a special train…
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Hello BlueSky! We are Centre for Thriving Places – the national charity helping reshape local areas to deliver for people and the planet. We work with people who want to see a better world and are ready to make that transformation happen. Find out more at www.centreforthrivingplaces.org
November 21, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Hello BlueSky! We are Centre for Thriving Places – the national charity helping reshape local areas to deliver for people and the planet. We work with people who want to see a better world and are ready to make that transformation happen. Find out more at www.centreforthrivingplaces.org