#publiclivingroom — Public Fediverse posts

Realise there is a lot of sh1t happening in the world but wanted to share a bit of fun stuff that happened today. We usually do #PublicLivingRoom events twice a week at our local Quakers. Due to building work we moved into the theatre opposite for a change and it was lovely to meet some different people. The highlight was watching them trying to teach each other Mexican Train which is a domino game. I'm not convinced any of them know the rules but they enjoyed themselves anyway. 😆

If you are in a position to support local organisations doing good work then please #donate your time or money.. it makes a huge difference. Have look at what #Charity #CommunityBusiness or church or other smaller groups are actually doing where you live - it rarely is the large national charities who advertise on TV or online that do the real work. There are various online fundraising websites and most will add gift aid if you are a UK tax payer.. a blatant plug for our #CommunityFridge and #PublicLivingRoom but other good causes are available! https://www.goodhub.com/go/settle-community-and-business-hub

Just had a hilarious hour playing bingo at our #PublicLivingRoom. All our regular visitors love a game and get very competitive. Our oldest visitor won today on his 91st birthday and was very pleased with his prize - a packet of posh biscuits! #SimplePleasures

🚪✨ Welcome to the "public living room" experiment, where the internet's collective weirdness is on full display—because who doesn't want their virtual space redecorated by the chaos of strangers? 🛋️🥳 It's a bit like opening a community fridge, but instead of leftovers, you get an infinite supply of surreal and absurd junk. 🍕🦄
https://www.theroom.lol #publiclivingroom #internetexperiment #communityfridge #surrealchaos #absurdity #HackerNews #ngated

I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder stuff in it

https://www.theroom.lol

#HackerNews #publiclivingroom #internetart #weirdstuff #creativity

Running the #CommunityFridge means sometimes having lots of flowers to re-home .. had 12 bunches today so several of our regulars took one home from our #PublicLivingRoom. I gave some to random strangers in the car park and the last bunch went to one of the women in the launderette near our office. Saw her going home later grinning while clutching her flowers. #RandomActOfKindness 💐😃

Wondering if anyone has done a #Charity or #CommunityProject #BingoCard .. this week .. as well as doing my day job have fixed an older person's gas boiler, cleaned up a flat and done laundry for someone in hospital. Also had a conversation with local police about their struggles trying to find emergency housing for some people who are temporarily in a very unsuitable caravan. Had 2 staff unable to get in due to snow and ice so I've also been cooking at our #PublicLivingRoom. Pondering this is actually a relatively quiet week!

@Havant_Enviro likewise..similar uninformed and completely bonkers conversations occured on election day at our #PublicLivingRoom in #Settle - most of our lot voted Labour or Green and vibe in the room very anti Tory. One old chap said David Curry was a crap MP and never did anything - which was true but Julian Smith has been our MP since 2010. Lots of talk about voting Labour to get Tories out but some worried Starmer was going to tax their pensions and take away their winter fuel allowance ..no idea where that came from. Julian Smith still won here but Labour very close 2nd and majority slashed from 24000 to 1650.

My favourite thing about #elections is that we run a #PublicLivingRoom on Thursdays at the #Quakers which is dead opposite the polling station so will get to see lots of fabulous #DogsAtPollingStations .. let's make that hashtag busy tomorrow folks 🗳️😀🐕🐩🐾

Strangely.. being offered 72 lettuces 🥬 was not the largest or strangest #CommunityFridge donation we have received. The week before Christmas we collected 93 cauliflowers from #Booths - some were badly frost damaged and went to feed lots of chickens..the rest were swiftly delivered to various local charities and businesses and used to make large amounts of soup and cauliflower cheese for our #PublicLivingRoom and #CommunityFridge

The 93 #Cauliflowers also coincided with a visit to our #PublicLivingRoom from Santa, an elf and the #HighSheriff of #NorthYorkshire... So we just had to combine them all for a photo!

Then at the #PublicLivingRoom Tim cooked a huge cauliflower cheese and Pat did a big vat of roasted pepper and cauliflower soup. I took a box over to the #CommunityFridge and offloaded several #Cauliflowers in the car park on the way to the office.

Our local posh supermarket #Booths had a batch of #cauliflower that had been badly affected by frost damage. Some were ok or ok ish but they took the decision to give the lot to us at the #Community fridge.. so..what to do with 93 of them...first up.. free festive gift for everyone who wanted one at our #PublicLivingRoom Room

@Tony_Meredith @evan @Ruth_Mottram we have a #PublicLivingRoom which is based on the #Camerados model started by #MaffPotts - it absolutely changes lives and is amazing to see the difference a game of Connect 4 makes - a great podcast here with him and #SamConniff and others including a section on how funders insist on outcomes and measuring stuff that doesn't matter..but the stuff that really does change lives like friendships, purpose, happiness can't be measured so get overlooked. https://open.spotify.com/episode/47pyS3lODW7FBmKuswt9X3?si=aMorCTjmRhyBftZJYt3nyQ

We run a #PublicLivingRoom in #Settle and it's been an amazing experience to see how it helps improve confidence and create friendships. They are the idea of #MaffPotts and his charity #Camerados.. this is an interview with him about starting 17 mins in on this #RightUpMyPodcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/5N4iXBBvEex9JawLMy6oFF?si=RyDeimuCR22qpVxhe6YvKw

Now I'm properly off the bird site..want to try and find #UKCharity #ABCD #PublicLivingRoom folk on here...but feels many haven't moved over yet. I run Settle Community and Business Hub in #NorthYorkshire which is much smaller but based on #ImpactHub model and would love to connect with others doing similar stuff.

Now I've been here a while - doing another #introduction toot.. keep forgetting we can use lots of characters here! Currently running a community project in #YorkshireDales with a focus on #FoodWaste #CommunityFridge #Allotment #ReducingIsolation A big part of what we do is a twice weekly #PublicLivingRoom based on the idea from #Camerados. Worked for many years in analytical #chemistry #geochemistry research before retraining as a #homeopath and working a lot with #MentalHealth #Trauma .. sadly this has been really useful for doing community work. Other interests include #walking #gardening #permaculture #DeathCafe #cooking #crafting especially #patchwork #travel #festivals #reading and me and husband would love to have #goats but unlikely to happen! So will just have to manage with frequent searching of #GoatsOfMastodon hashtag. Since about 2015 been really influenced by the work of #OttoScharmer #ULab and the #ImpactHub model and especially the concept of #prototyping. Was recently described by a friend as 'a bit of a #lefty who gets shit done' and think that actually sums me up perfectly. Picture is of Ethel one of our lovely regular visitors at our #CommunityFridge