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bencurthoys

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Founder, Monad Ticketing.
Trustee, The Maltings Berwick.
T1 Diabetes.
He/him. Berwick-upon-Tweed. Searchable.

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The line that infuriates me the most is "The crew, made up of 20 Indians and a Sri Lankan national, has been unable to disembark because of visa restrictions, a lack of required shore passes".

Give them fucking visas then! Give them shore passes! Bullshit paperwork requirements that you have imposed are not insoluble problems, the solution is that you just have to recognize when your bureaucratic system has failed, and just fucking ignore it or circumvent it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69011124

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Friends, is there any way you can recycle old and unwearable clothes?

I don't mean giving away to charity, because I wear my clothes until there's nothing left of them, and that's no use to charities.

I mean, well, the fibres they're made of still exist and might be useful? Or is this something where there's no commercial recycling because it's not cost-effective, like how 99% of plastic never actually gets recycled?

I hate throwing anything away! But I have an ever growing collection of useless fabrics.

(And please, nobody advise me to learn how to make them into new clothes myself. That is not going to happen. Not now, and not in the remotely foreseeable future.)

(And also, please no advice which involves driving anywhere or requires one to live in a major city.)

bencurthoys ,
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@RolloTreadway I think that when you donate clothes to a charity shop, they sort them, and resellable ones get resold, and ones past hope do get recycled.

https://www.hassockslife.co.uk/recycling/clothing-and-old-rags

They're set up for it anyway, because a proportion of the clothes that people donate will be fit for nothing but rags because a proportion of people are idiots.

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Anyone else struggling to see any prospects for turning things around? I will keep on trying to do what I can. Of course. But 2024 is challenging.

Last year did a post about how I wasn’t motivated by hope but by . I now realise i got that wrong. Hope isn’t just fluffy “things will be alright”. Hope is some flicker of belief that you and others can change things; I did, actually, have “hope”. Less now, but will keep going.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/13/banks-almost-7tn-fossil-fuel-firms-paris-deal-report

bencurthoys ,
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@pvonhellermannn I'm just reading https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/453652/not-the-end-of-the-world-by-ritchie-hannah/9781784745004 by https://hannahritchie.com/

If you're feeling hopeless about the environment it might do you some good.

It includes one of my favourite graphs, that I've been sharing since long before the book was published:

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