Just seen the excellent @thebugclubband.bsky.social The Bug Club at what has become my favourite venue for gigs in Brum, The Castle and Falcon.

Oh for the good old days when every editorial board in America LOUDLY demanded the Clintons shut down their charitable organization for fear it would be used to curry favor w/Hillary if she became President 🙃

2 tickets to see Squid at Birmingham XOYO next Tuesday 4th March www.seetickets.com/rd/tour/squi...

I'd encourage anyone to watch Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy on Netflix.

🌟EYES ON THE SKIES🔭 Tomorrow six of the seven planets will align in a remarkable display, weather permitting!🪐 Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn will be clearly visible! To see the elusive Neptune & Uranus, bring your binoculars Ideal #planetparade views 21 Jan, sunset - 2100 🔭

'Wake Me Up Before You Go Go' by Wham was released nearer to the end of the Second World War than to today. Happy New Year everyone!

It would be a grave underestimation of the threat level if Musk is seen as a one man show as this guardian headline suggests: “Elon Musk is becoming a one-man rogue state – it’s time we reined him in” The first oligarchic regime in the U.S. should he properly called Trump-Musk administration.

A town ringed by blossom open.substack.com/pub/birmingh...

Any folk who turned up, like me, for the Wolfgang Flür / Peter Duggal gig at the Zumhof, Digbeth, Birmingham; I have been informed that the gig was called off by the promoter due to technical difficulties. Ticket holders should have apparently been informed yesterday. #Wolfgang #Flür #Zumhof

Stunning photograph of Brum skyline looking towards Digbeth. Credit to photographer Stacey Barnfield

When Ranjit Sahota found out that a convicted terrorist was set to become a trustee at his local gurdwara, he was less than thrilled. In India, Punjab Singh was convicted of terror offences. In Wolverhampton, he's a gurdwara trustee www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/p/the-would-...

Yesterday marked 50 years after one of the UK's largest unsolved mass murders. In 1974, two bombs went off which killed 21 people and injured 182 others. No justice, no peace? Why hasn’t there been a public inquiry into the 1974 Birmingham bombings? www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/p/no-justice...

Birmingham, with more green space than any other city in Europe. This is from the excellent online publication The Dispatch, whch can be viewed here: www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk?utm_source=s... Please support them with a subscription if you can.

A brilliant monologue on media that “explains things well” In a time when lies are incentivised & monetised Discovered this via @munecatmusic.bsky.social’s latest live stream and her additional commentary was really spot on Related: Disinformation petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

As well as seeing the ISS, you can see all of the naked eye planets in the sky tonight apart from Mercury Venus sets early in the evening Saturn is a bright ocre colour in the south Jupiter is incredibly bright high in the east. Mars rises around 8.30 pm with the moon rising an hour later.

📢The Guardian is now officially on Bluesky @theguardian.com

Public service warning. Block the fash.

For all the sound and fury over the fare cap, this is prob a much more important bit of news for the future of buses (though the funding needs to become consistent and reliable). Hopefully this is a down payment on the promise of an end to bid-based funding across all areas of local gvmnt activity.

Excruciating barber experience please I sold out of this print a while back, wish I'd made more. I think barbers must have been buying it lol

@tufac.bsky.social Good to see you.

We spend a lot of time looking up. Our speciality is radio astronomy but we also love the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum, particles and gravitational waves. Still got a lot to learn.

You’ve heard of the famous Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope? You can now follow them here @jodrellbank.bsky.social

This is incredible.

Just enjoyed The Orb supported by Ozric Tentacles with my good mate @stephendarkale.bsky.social Ozric Tentacles were some support act!

Latest to come through the post. The vinyl packaging is a wonderful piece of Origami. Really looking forward to seeing The Orb on Thursday.