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Overview

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  • Fluent in English; learning Swedish
  • 43, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Worker co-op digital worker & evangelist
  • Neuroscience, Physics
  • From Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Profile 70% complete

About Me

- I'm a feminist libertarian communist
- I do digital stuff (coding) and organise community events for Outlandish worker co-op in London (http://outlandish.com)
- I'm helping to build the digital co-op movement in the UK (https://dev.coops.tech/)

Check out my Twitter (http://twitter.com/lowlandjuju) and my website (http://fixedabode.cc)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to extend myself to being involved in a more global community of sharing, social and culturally diverse people.

In the future I'd like to host, when I have a place that's suitable for doing so. For now, I'd like to meet and share my time, expertise and friendship with existing hosts.

Interests

Workplace democracy, money / politics / power, social change, sloganeering, renewable energy, urbanism, foraging, cycling, photography, music, art & tennis

  • arts
  • design
  • photography
  • cooking
  • politics
  • music
  • cycling
  • tennis
  • sociocracy
  • end capitalism
  • co-operativism

Music, Movies, and Books

Am currently reading:

On Populist Reason - Ernesto Laclau
Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely
The Geography of Nowhere - James Howard Kunstler

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Driven from London to Mongolia (not amazing, actually - but unusual)

Teach, Learn, Share

I would be comfortable teaching / giving classes in the following:

Worker co-operation
Developing a renewable energy project
Various types of cooking (coping with large groups, pasta making, presentation, cake making)
Mushroom foraging
Portrait / macro photography
Web design
Computer programming

What I Can Share with Hosts

Political, philosophical discussion, scientific knowledge, diverse music and film experiences - I like to chat about a lot of stuff!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Martinique, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United States

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