Steve Hawkes

✊ BE PART OF IT. We are proud to be part of this powerful short film that celebrates shared ownership in the West Midlands. 💪 ‘Be Part of It’ is a poem created by @jasminegardosi, former Birmingham Poet Laureate, captured on film with moves from @DanceCo_opBrum. 😍 It includes footage of West Midlands co-operatives and mutuals @gluecollective, the The @devsociety_ and Hockley Mint – all captured by the brilliant by @mediaco_op. 📺 WATCH IN FULL a film that showcases the diversity of creative co-operative industries, and people, in the region 👉 buff.ly/3BbERyI 👏 The film was commissioned by the West Midlands Ownership Hub – a partnership between @westmids_ca, Co‑operatives UK and @EmployeeOwned – and funded by @powertochange_.

@WayneTheMurray Epic win! I would love to know how much of the solution was culture and how much was setting up a system.

12 month project coming to an end this week. Helped turn a food bank run by one person, one day a week, into a community hub run and owned by the local community. Community cohesion is where it’s at.

@inthecompanyof Clothing down sale

I’m thinking of starting a “vintage” clothing shop that only sells corporate merch from failed startups and businesses. Need a name. Free tee shirt emoji to the best.

@willmcgugan A blend of iA Writer and Terminal Velocity would be interesting.

What would you want from a terminal based distraction-free word processor?

🆕 Demand for EVs is growing as we race to curb the climate crisis. But mining for nickel required for #EV batteries in Indonesia is driving deforestation & abuse, pushing island communities into extreme precarity. We took a close look at nickel supply chains in 🇮🇩... 🧵1/

🧵Fantastic to see @coopuk's new campaign - focusing on member ownership & control and also #coops values and principles. We're not extractive businesses, owned by distant shareholders with shareholder dividend a top priority. Member ownership and control is a major point of difference - and that's true for all 7,000+ independent co-operative businesses across the UK (1 of 5).

SQLite is cracked

@swardley What do you see as the hurdles people get stuck on? 🤔

dX : What do you mean by capable? Me : Not everyone can be a grandmaster at chess. Doesn't mean people can't enjoy it. Not everyone can be Jimi Hendrix. Doesn't mean we can't enjoy playing. We kid ourselves if we believe everyone can be equally good at everything.

dX : How easy is it to learn mapping? Me : Very easy and people often find they can get some early wins. However it takes a lot of time to get really good at it and many just aren't capable. Fortunately that doesn't matter for most situations.

🆕 Good conversations, serendipity - and coffee @Jackie_Brennan1 shares insights from our #CoffeeConnections user research: the benefits, the needs - & the surprising magic of serendipitous matches! ✨ Read the blog - & join the next round of matches! 👇buff.ly/4cf2Avk

@WayneTheMurray instantly thought I'm gonna need to rest on that piece over on the right... then the symmetry of the hole size and goal size... that last section though! :screams:

My son made a game. What a beautiful thing!

@edsaperia Any good? looks like Pirate Outlaws

@hawkz Have you played Slay The Spire?

I’m recovering from surgery, please suggest fun things for me to do, I keep working by accident. Videogame recs maybe?

@CuriousScutter Almost a user story...

A LEGO paper airplane making machine [📹 kenken_lego]

@benhollebon The struggle is real...

It's Friday afternoon and there are 50 emails in my inbox ✉️ This is not where we want to be people...

🚀New global #PeoplePower2023 report launched today shows where civil society conditions are improving & getting worse. 🔴🟡🟢 Nearly a third of humanity lives in countries rated as ‘closed’. New ratings & data on top violations: web.civicus.org/PeoplePower2023

@dannypostma They should partner with @inaturalist to add community and solve gaps in the their AI model.

When I was a kid, I really wanted a legit Pokedex. 😍 Seems like AI finally made it possible. Someone made an AI-Pocket Field Guide, called ASH. Demo video in the next tweet 👇

I can totally see @htmx_org selling the equivalent of these to get to support development.

Paying open-source maintainers for time boxed access for your team is a really smart concept from @simonw for creating sustainability simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/10/un…

The NHS’s half-billion-pound deal with Palantir. It’s the largest data deal in NHS history. Today, the ‘Federated Data Platform’ (FDP) – was awarded to US company Palantir. It’s bad news. 🔥 Here’s what you need to know about it, by data lawyers: yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affa…