The Purpose issue # 19🔥

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In this issue

🏖️ Hail Mary! Statue’s trip down the Wye raises the chicken pollution issue.

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😎 Tweet of the day

🌐 Web 3.0 dictionary series to make you smarter

🌶️ Hot quick takes

🤩 Accounts you should follow

💰 Jobs R Us

Threads: Statue’s trip down the Wye raises the chicken pollution issue.

Artist Philip Chatfield hopes the river journey will alert people to the damage being done by poultry excrement 💩💩

The idea of the project, conceived by the artist Philip Chatfield and Father Richard Williams, the parish priest of St Mary’s church in the Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye, is to raise awareness about the plight of the Wye, one of the most beautiful rivers in the west of Britain but suffering ”heartbreaking” amounts of pollution from industrial chicken factories along its banks

Social Media: Why we're talking about it

PMQs: Boris Johnson’s best zingers and worst gaffes. Why? it matters what you say and how you say it. Watch and (un)learn people, watch and....

Best zingers

4 September 2019: Johnson’s first PMQs “was immediately embroiled in controversy”, said The Guardian, when he was captured on camera “gesticulating” towards then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, and appeared to say: “Call an election, you great big girl’s blouse.”

13 July 2022: During what was thought to be Johnson’s last PMQs, he referred to Starmer as “Captain Crasheroonie Snoozefest” – a joke “he had to repeat three times to be heard over other rowdy MPs in the Commons”, said Indy 100. Johnson said the then eight “brilliant” candidates for the Tory party leadership would “wipe the floor” with Starmer.

Worst gaffes

22 January 2020: The PM appeared out of touch during the first People’s PMQs of 2020 when he failed to correctly answer a question about the shampoo he used. “Honestly I don’t know,” he responded. “It’s the same stuff that I use for all sorts of cleaning purposes and it’s blue… that’s all I know, it’s blue and it comes in a sort of tube.”

12 January 2022: The Partygate crisis reached a crescendo at a PMQs in January when Johnson told the Commons that he had believed an illegal Downing Street party was a “work event”. The MPs present “fell silent” at the start of the session, reported the BBC, as the PM admitted he had been at the 20 May 2020 gathering but then added that he “believed implicitly that this was a work event”.

https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/politics/957416/pmqs-boris-johnsons-best-zingers-and-worst-gaffes

Tweet of the day

We're wondering how a drought-stricken state can be at risk for too much rain? Climate, obvs. The Hollywood blockbuster will be next, no doubt, probably called Climbageddon: starring a jacked-up Bruce Willis avatar using the power of the Metaverse to avert disaster, whilst making questionable sidecracks. I'm in.

Allow me to explain

Web 3.0 dictionary 101 for non-techies(i.e me and you)

Look sharp when you get asked about the metaverse/crypto/NFTs in your next board meeting.

Ape - Generally referring to someone 'aping in' i.e. jumping full steam into a crypto project, NFT or token with gusto, often without regard to reality - and often fed by FOMO. Note that it's not necessarily a derogatory term, people tend to self-reference this as a badge of honour. Where'd it originate from?.

Likely it comes from the 'Apes together strong meme' from the Tim Roth reboot of Planet of the Apes (not the Mark Walberg one ta, the less said about that the better)

Usage "Jemima aped into that Bored Banana mint at 5ETH. NGMI

Quick takes, interesting stuff

⏩ 'Zombie Government's Response To Multiple Crises Is...Number Plates For Cyclists 

⏩Summer party for critically ill children in London Coram Fields

⏩ ICYMI Movember launched a testicle-themed NFT. Play ball here

Every week we showcase small, purpose-driven organisations - give them a follow

Show some love to these small orgs, all doing great work across diverse areas of good - from human rights to mental health. Hit them up below to follow;

🚀 @MenWho_Talk Champions of chat, MWT is a new peer support organisation for Men (18+) to come and talk about a range of topics

🚀 @goodworkuk A non-profit making early careers fair, inclusive and meaningful for all. Coming soon.

🚀 @TheWPPUK The Wolfpack project - Nottingham's Leading Youth Mental Health Charity

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