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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Our Backin' Birkenhead Community Sessions begin on Saturday with a Walking Conversation around town. The question of the day is, "What does Birkenhead feel like to you?" We'll start out from MAKE around 10:30 @thewilk.bsky.social

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It's taken some time building up the Backin' Birkenhead Town Team, but we're ready to start conversations now on the future of the town. Everyone with an interest in the town is invited to come along, join in, and help get things moving...

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Trying out a simple logo for the community Town Team Reflecting the Laird town grid, Dock Branch cutting and Grade 1 listed Hamilton Square, with a play on words @davidr-regen.bsky.social @cathypalmer.bsky.social Does it work for you?

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

@britwarmemorial.bsky.social We're currently looking at the Blitz Memorial in Anfield Cemetery - would appreciate any advice you could give

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Small dog with big dinner expectations

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Understanding evolutionary psychology is essential if we are to understand ourselves and where we are going www.facebook.com/share/p/14X2...

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This is tabloid reporting from the BBC @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social what do you think Developer contributions can not be spent on maintenance - BBC should know that Active travel intervention may be the best "road improvement" option here. Road shouldn't = car www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Funding for road improvements in Barnsley spent on active travel

Residents left 'frustrated' after road's condition deteriorates but developer's contribution spent.

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Morning all. Photograph by John Murray. Two women chatting while they sweep the pavement outside their Dundee homes, Scotland, June 1955.

A black and white photograph with two women talking outside houses in a street. Both women are leaning on brooms and wearing aprons. Having a good old gossip or moan!

Morning all.

Photograph by John Murray. Two women chatting while they sweep the pavement outside their Dundee homes, Scotland, June 1955.

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

I thought bonfire night was a celebration of the foiling of the gunpowder plot We've just had a re-enactment of a Somme barrage over Liverpool, and the 'dads' aren't event home for their tea yet Braced for riduculosness in an hour!

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

"So a system that was meant to help farmers, keep Europeans fed and the land well cared for, has turned into one that trashes the environment; enriches big landowners and leaves poor farmers struggling; delights retailers but costs money for consumers" amp.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Welfare for the rich’: how farm subsidies wrecked Europe’s landscapes | Farming | The Guardian

The steep and stark environmental decline was not supposed to happen under the common agricultural policy

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

If a Labour government with a massive majority and commitments to zero carbon can't put fuel duty up after *14 year freeze* - is this now a politically toxic tax that no chancellor will ever touch?

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Sunset over Liverpool Friday evening... was too slow to catch the illumination of the chimneys and gable ends

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Just checking on our home security of Streetview Foxhound on high alert - Rottweiler giving broody shade!

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Helen H@Bluesomeh @helenh.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

chng.it/p6PfLC9x9r Please sign this petition. Eels are seriously endangered, which is why the EU, banned their export, but DEFRA is contemplating allowing the e port of millions of elvers from the Severn

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Sign the Petition

Stop export of baby eels from UK to Russia

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

"Twice as many new homes have been built in London in the past decade as the number of households added to the city’s population, yet average property values in some areas have almost doubled." amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theg...

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Yimbys hear this – simply building more homes won’t solve our housing crisis | Housing | The Guardian

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

This is an appalling secret - glad it is out & perhaps another pit of corruption can be closed forever. We're a quarter of the way into the 21stC already I wonder why the Conservatives/LibDems didn't throw this on the bonfire of the Quangos too? amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theg...

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More floods are coming to Britain, but you ought to know this: the system that should protect us is a scandal | Flooding | The Guardian

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/02/2024

Norway recently implemented a weight tax on all vehicles (including electric!!) NOK 12.5 per kilogram over 500 kilograms. EV lobby groups and big car companies that have been aggressively bloating EV models for years are *very* pissed off about it.

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Nå kommer det store bil-sjokket: Avgiftseksplosjon

Ekstra avgift innføres for elbiler. Og når elbilene skal bli dyrere, blir alt dyrere.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

The government has set out to crush one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, and an entire field of science supports this vandalism. This week’s column is about the *exploitation mindset* and how it corrupts almost everyone. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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A wondrous fish has made a miraculous return to UK seas. Why are ministers so keen to see them all killed? | George Monbiot

We should be celebrating the revival of the bluefin tuna – but a ravenous fishing industry is already licking its lips, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Prof Kevin Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip. youtu.be/FPCztlID3Q0

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Professor Kevin Fong testifying at the Covid Inquiry Module 3, Sept 2024

YouTube video by Christina Pagel

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

Good grief - even the Peak District isn't immune from our destructive behaviours I thinkl that its probably time to remove all redundant weirs from all rivers, and perhaps have a buffer zone from bank edges back to agriculture where wildlife can thrive www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Wildlife trust's urgent appeal to 'save' river River Derwent - BBC News

It says the river's health is in rapid decline and creatures living in it are at risk.

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

"Keir Starmer failed to declare £16,200 in clothing gifts from Labour peer, Lord Alli" Very poor judgement from a PM More than a little something to remember him by & not a gift in any normal sense My professor wife feels bad about receiving cards from students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Keir Starmer's clothes row frustrates Labour insiders, Laura Kuenssberg writes

Sir Keir Starmer's top team have learnt the hard way that in politics, perception matters.

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Laptop Help! Bought HP Spectre x360 - intermitently (left)shift zxcv keys don't work Gave it to a guy a couple of years ago to repair. Came back with new HD installed - £200 - didn't work He took HD out, gave thorough clean - didn't work - he then disapeared Can it be anything but the keyboard?

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Seth @sethpiper.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

“We don’t have a specific goal [to reduce driving]. Of course, we would like to get more people on public transportation and bikes. But that is more something that cities work on.” (and something governments have constantly undermined) www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts

Electric cars are crucial, but not enough to solve climate change. We can’t let them crowd out car-free transit options.

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

A shout out for Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin today, and all the other women in the world with suppressed voices en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia...

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - Wikipedia

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,008,470!

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

I don't know how logistically feasible this would be, but can the US (or another rich country that wastes a lot of food) send food instead of having them slaughter elephants?

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

This is a very worthwhile read on the birth of the Gaia concept How much more could there have been without the affair between Lovelock and Hitchcock, or if it had blossomed instead It's an important story of curiosity & the courage to challenge orthodoxy www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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A cool flame: how Gaia theory was born out of a secret love affair

The long read: Scientist James Lovelock gave humanity new ways to think about our home planet – but some of his biggest ideas were the fruit of a passionate collaboration

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

In Belfast today, gearing up to mentor the Living High Streets programme for the Shankill district I will be getting to know the lie of the land today, and first community discussions tomorrow on how to engage everyone in this co-design process www.communities-ni.gov.uk/articles/mag...

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MAG - Living High Streets initiative | Department for Communities

MAG has co-produced a fresh community-led approach to placemaking aiming to support successful neighbourhoods, villages, towns and cities. This

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Our daughter Mattie, after a difficult school life, graduated with a first class degree last year and got a distinction in her MSc this year She's joining the police in December with the goal of becoming a detective! Sociopaths watch out, she's relentless!

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

As Playing Out moves into its next stage to enable more children to play out on their doorsteps (playingout.net/play-streets...), I'm going to be looking after our online Play Streets Forum, for those who are working to grow and support #playstreets in their areas playingout.net/play-streets...

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Play streets online forum - Playing Out

Information about two online forums run by Playing Out so that professionals who work to support play streets can share best practice

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

This paper on national resilience and health is a worthy read, and worth signing up for the Developer newsletter They quote Einstein: “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted”... the problem with complex systems www.thedeveloper.live/opinion/if-r...

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“If resilience is a goal – and it must be – human and planetary health must become a priority at the heart of Government”

Health – of both our population and our planet – is critical for resilience and preparedness, write Daniel Black and Katie Barnes

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

Oops, I've just been on Twitter by mistake on a group account Lilly Allen popped up in the notification about returning a puppy, & in her long Tweet, she mentioned the "racially driven xenophobic riots" Responses are like a zombie march from the Walking Dead - then I realised I wasn't on Bluesky!

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Ian Goldsworthy @iangoldsworthy.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

My son is 19, Autistic, Non Verbal & has profound learning disabilities. He cannot read or write, dress himself or use a toilet. Today I am taking him to the Job Centre because applying for Universal Credit requires him to attend. It’s hard to imagine anything less appropriate for his needs

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

This Facebook group seems to have collected up all the lunatics in the country Now that they are identified, it would be a kindness to take them all away for treatment The admin posts whopping anti-Labour lies, and then a host of followers 'remember those days well', good and bad It's a cult!

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

What on earth is this unsustainable nonsense - why are windows being 'scrapped' after 5 years? Perhaps there should be government requirements onthese products to last at least 100 years Will be painting ours next week for their 180th birthday!

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

The senator look very earnest in his cross examination though and isn't about to be caught out easilily Yikes... he's moving on to simple questions youtu.be/5W-ufw5Z7ac

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'I’m Singaporean': TikTok CEO grilled by US Senator repeatedly about ties with China

YouTube video by Guardian News

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

Although we have stopped using Twitter, I still host an account (hardly used) for an international think tank Think I'll keep an eye on that though to harvest interesting research and think pieces to post on Bluesky.social www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

Mentoring the Birkenhead Neighbourhood Panel Asked in my 1st Panel meeting yesterday how many times children/young people were mentioned in the adopted Neighbourhood masterplan - zero! Behaviour & life chances are shaped in early life & by our responses to place We'll correct this - see extracts:

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

Started a new and challenging role today as mentor-chair of the Birkenhead Dock Branch Neighbourhood Panel Over the next year, we'll develop a community-led vision to carry forward the recently adopted area master plans Building a sense of belonging, mattering & trust will underpin our approach

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 13/08/2024

Welcome to all of our new users, and a special welcome to the UK, which had the most Bluesky signups of any country for 5 out of the last 7 days! What makes Bluesky different? Some key features: 🧵

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Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Closed down our Twitter account today after a dozen years or so. We met some good people, along with an increasing number of odd folk who were experts on everything and experienced in very little What a relief to be out of the moras it's become!

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