Cameron Smith

Cameron Smith

@cameronordsmith.bsky.social

Founder: https://repa.eco | British/Mozambican A fair deal for waste pickers in the global south | plastic waste circularity in Africa

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Repa enables fair transactions between buyers and collectors of plastic waste in Africa. It uses community agents + drivers + simple digital tools. A crowdfund incentivises collection of harder-to-recycle plastics by paying an above market rate. Find out more: repa.eco #plasticsky

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None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

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I’m increasingly convinced we’re all trapped in a long-running Black Mirror episode. Maybe Brad Pitt’s new movie, Heart of the Beast, was stealth marketing for this startup. 😬

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Replying to @mikedrucker.bsky.social

Every venture capital thing ever. Onboard everyone by underselling compared to established services (taxis, hotels, restaurants, amazon etc), force other places to close, then when everyone is using your thing make it way more expensive and worse than the thing you pushed out of the market

Finally finished this rather sad but intensely immersive novel by @rosamontero.es about the 12th century, Catarism and the Albigensian crusade. First published 20 years ago, but it's themes of freedom and egalitarianism versus centrally driven moral crusades are very apt at the moment. #booksky

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The Sovereign Grant to the King doesn’t count as taxable income. Payments by the state to Britons, such as the state pension, carer’s allowance, contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance, and contribution-based employment and support allowance are taxable. That's the law.

leftfootforward.orgRoyal financial privileges show that we are not in it togetherThis week, after perfunctory scrutiny, the UK parliament approved a core Sovereign Grant of £99.9m (from 2027/28) for the King, a 93% increase from the £51.8m for 2024/25 and 65% higher in real terms ...

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I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

Finally finished this rather sad but intensely immersive novel by @rosamontero.es about the 12th century, Catarism and the Albigensian crusade. First published 20 years ago, but it's themes of freedom and egalitarianism versus centrally driven moral crusades are very apt at the moment. #booksky

I picked this up at a second hand book stall in Madrid, after an hour of looking at so many wonderful stalls. I could easily have spend another 2h except that it was freezing (for me) plus I had already bought too many books. Not sure if an English translation is readily available.

Finally finished this rather sad but intensely immersive novel by @rosamontero.es about the 12th century, Catarism and the Albigensian crusade. First published 20 years ago, but it's themes of freedom and egalitarianism versus centrally driven moral crusades are very apt at the moment. #booksky

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Private equity turns to financial engineering to lure insurance billions. Using collateralised fund obligations (CFOs), slicing and dicing debts, loans, to create dodgy instruments. Back to the practices that brought the 2008 crash. Who will bail them out this time? archive.ph/vrBQn

ft.comPrivate equity turns to financial engineering to lure insurance billionsStructured financing helps fuel growth of secondaries funds by making investments more attractive to risk-averse investors

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Apparently more than one outlet has been doing the bizarre "interview AI generated actor Tilly Norwood" thing and on Piers Morgan it glitches out and starts speaking Chinese. I promise its much, much funnier than it sounds.

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Why do the AI scam emails summarize my book for me? Imagine they were targeting restaurants instead. "Your pizza contains sauce and cheese, and sometimes, but not always pepperoni. I specialize in connecting eaters with unique and interesting food, like pizza with cheese."

Alsira M works as a waste picker w/ repa.eco in Mozambique. In 21 months she collected 1,211 kg of plastic: 809 kg PET, 323 kg HDPE/PP, 41 kg LDPE, 38 kg bulk bags & bottle caps. Her avg monthly income grew 90% fr 1,069 MZN at start to 2,034 MZN. Repa's top-up fund paid her 747 MZN ($11) #plasticsky

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Finally they came for the Daily Mail and my irony meter just packed up and left and I never heard from it again.

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Daniel Thomas / Danny Tommo has today marched his private army of blackshorts to Daily Mail HQ to demand a new house for his mum within 48 hrs, after they doorstepped her for a feature on him. Apparently he plans to blockade them + cry at them until they do Bet those lads are glad of the balaclavas

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Replying to @premeemohamed.com

I currently have a smart-but-not-very-smart ultra-cheap 'floor model' TV I bought in 2008 when I moved back to Edmonton and it sometimes has trouble communicating with *checks notes* the power outlet

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Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports

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ok so i can rent a movie on amazon for twenty bucks or i can snap up a dozen movies from a thrift shop for the same price, deny a greedy corporation its profit and own the movies forever hmm this is tough

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Oh, honey . . . You place your children in the custody of priests, pastors, and youth pastors, a demographic proven most likely to molest children. You are *not* protecting and nurturing your children—you're endangering them. And shamelessly lying about Islam and feminism isn't going to change that.

Repa enables fair transactions between buyers and collectors of plastic waste in Africa. It uses community agents + drivers + simple digital tools. A crowdfund incentivises collection of harder-to-recycle plastics by paying an above market rate. Find out more: repa.eco #plasticsky

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TIRED: Being pissed at yourself for not saving your work before an application crashes WIRED: Being pissed at the developers for cramming in more and more shit you don’t need into their enterprise software so it’s no longer stable and apparently even the autosave feature can’t be trusted

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Over on the dark side, someone has suggested that I use Artificial Intelligence to create my illustrations. This is completely untrue, I use Natural Stupidity and here's me doing it.

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The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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There was a time when a person could employ a service or engage in a transaction and would not be asked once—much less hounded—for a rating and feedback thereafter. This I would like The Children to know.

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I’m reading Cannery Row. Jesus Christ is it amazing. So great to live in a world where I can be almost 50, have been an avid reader my whole life & have barely scratched the surface of the surface of spectacular books out there.