Update: i finished the bags, I’m getting somewhere on the website, and I just finished a brilliant movie called Memoir of a Snail. On to the quotes 🏃🏼‍♀️‍➡️

I have too much on at the moment but there isn’t a stop button to get off this wild ride, so just trying to get through it. I have some stuff to do for a mates website, bags to fix for work, quotes to sort for toy library, and then a big personal project I want to get going in the new year. There just isn’t enough time in a day to get everything done

Thank you! This is great!

Those all sound great! We have a local garden club that does similar talks but only the garden club members know about them. It’s a pretty niche group but I think if we got them to do some talks at our hub they would be popular. We have a member with an old projector they are giving to us so hopefully we can start soon. We were going to book in a recycling and low-waste talk through an alternative recycling centre.

Wow heaps of good work happening in your corner! The adult education evenings are such a great idea. Could you share more around what topics have been covered and what ones are the most popular?

The hardest part has been navigating the egos of people on local community council but we now have enough of us that we will be pushing for governance changes so like consensus decision-making, co-chairs and collective leadership.

I think it’s really important to learn to delegate and to be open around ideas that might be different than yours but will still address the problem.

As far as having a community hub space, it’s just as great as you can imagine! We get to go for grants or fundraise if there is something in the community we think we need. Things that don’t really make sense for just one person to own. One of the things we would like to get in the next year or two is a good laser cutter. As people started coming for mend-it nights, they started to see all the neat things we have that they can borrow and hear us talking about community. I think giving people a 3rd space that offers both social support and financial support in the way of items they might not be able to afford to buy has really helped people feel that sense of stability. Stability really is the key to progress! Once people feel safe, they can give more energy to their passions and their community.

10/10 would recommend

I’m so sorry to hear about your friends living situation 😔 they are trying to bring back no-cause evictions here so I worry for a lot of my friends living with disabilities in rental situations…

So glad to hear your family have found a nice place to live and you are working on building community 🥰

Hey we are doing this exact thing! My mates and I have been expanding our community toy library into a community workshop and library of things. We’ve started with textile repairs but are working on grants for our new bike and electronic repairs section. We are also offer a space for small social enterprises to host courses. So far I really do agree that having the social aspect helps more people into the space and opens them up to the idea of sharing vs owning.

We live in a small rural village in Aotearoa so we’ve been lucky that we are able to make such a direct impact on our community. We’re hoping to become a model community and put together free resource packs so we can help everyone else start doing the same.

One thing I would really love to hear more about is time banking. It’s something we’d like to try here but we want to see a few examples in action so we can decide how we’ll set ourselves up.

My favourite part of the day is listening to movie, podcasts, or music while watering the garden. I would say podcasts make us more productive!

I’m so sorry to hear about Maeko 🫂 I hope the rest of your week is filled with giggles and smiles from your wee one! That is such a fun age 🥰

Which is your favourite?

My goat figured out how to climb the stairs so now he has to start transitioning to big boy outside goat life. I love him but I don’t want him climbing up to our bed and making my life smell like goat.

Yeaah it sounds like it’s ended up as the same kind of thing. I’ve heard the book ones are tricky as it’s hard to get a popular range that doesn’t fade into less popular, stagnant books.

Were people using the food? How was the range?

Please come fill Betterment with positive mutual aid/community related news to the point we need a whole new Good News sub 😂🙏

This looks so tidy. Great work!

Best of luck on your interview and I hope you get some rest

This is great! Thanks for sharing 😊 i love clotheshorse podcast. They have a very informative instagram as well.

I see a thread of people shitting on an asshole calling human rights an opinion? It looks like he has 2/3 upvotes but if there was a downvote button i guarantee their comments would be in the negatives. It doesn’t look like a debate to me but people telling someone that it’s not a debate and if they think it is one they can go elsewhere. I guess the whole conversation could be removed but i think having one so full of support for transrights being human rights is good for other readers to see. If they agree with the asshole, they’ll know their “opinions” aren’t welcomed or supported here.

“Through this research, kids told us that it was important for Furby to be their ultimate best friend – a furry companion to do all the things a BFF would do, like dance to music, share fortunes, meditate, mimic each other in silly voices, and even put on a light show, and that’s exactly what we created.”

I love picturing small children setting up elaborate light shows for their best friends

That’s a really rough spot to be in 😕 I hope you can find a sense of community and can pass your drivers course quickly.