We're at @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social's Venues Day in Shoreditch seeing how co-operative models secure grassroots music. Music Venue Properties has saved 7 venues by purchasing freeholds as a Community Benefit Society. Community ownership is the key to long-term stability for live music.

i’m not really one for patient music - much to the irritation of everyone who drives with me. this however is a really lovely tense kind of patience. the drum part is soooo tight too. youtu.be/nAbJoJxq6PE?...

we must invest every penny of available capital into building Pokopia 2

Every country in Europe watched electricity prices spike last week. Belgium hit 400 €/MWh. Germany €450. Netherlands nearly €500. Spain barely moved above €100.

let's get this place HUMID!

As is only right and proper, Welsh Cakes are #RecipeOfTheDay, with thanks to Heulwen Williams who let me play with her granny’s recipe. Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.nigella.com/recipes/wels...

"I have given this a lot of thought, and: I really, really need Matt Goodwin to lose tomorrow’s Denton & Gorton by-election. For the good of us all, that man needs to be repudiated, and his ideas stomped into the dust." On one of the worst people in British politics.

happy Pokémon Day. the most co-operative Pokémon is Combee, and it’s not even close

Both Samsung and Apple agentic offerings going forward thru 2026 powered by Gemini backend. Google clearly winning the consumer backend war, again

absolutely obsessed with this album, an early contender for 2026. deconstructed bridge is crazy youtu.be/QP9hiOWhFd0

Tory plan to shelve “low value” degrees gets the equation wrong. If workers in creative industries - one of UK’s most successful and lucrative industries - can’t pay back their loans, that’s because *they aren’t being valued properly*. Profits are too high and too much of the…

I think I have the solution to the youth social media issue - kids are banned from WiFi. Not the internet - WiFi. If you want to access social media you do it by plugging into Ethernet and going from there - the internet as a destination again, not as a permeable infinite space

listening to faith no more & doing lateral pull downs

it’s all ratios. it’s all ratios.

The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance is included in the Waterstones pre-order sale! 25% off with the code FEB26 Cosy fantasy inspired by my love (and fear…) of Scotland’s mountains, misadventures in academia, and time spent adventuring in Dungeons and Dragons www.waterstones.com/book/the-inn...

i'm on main talking about the radical history of flour.

Taylor Swift’s decision to film part of her new video at the Mildmay Social Club in East London has large implications for the Government’s objective of doubling the size of the co-operative and mutual sector

til that AP (yes, that AP) is a co-op. much to consider

corporate energy structures framemogged by local power plan co-opmaxxing modern green energy production

My interview task when going for my job with the Co-operative Party was making a social media post celebrating the Labour Party’s commitment to the largest investment in community energy in history. Today we’re posting socials celebrating the delivery of that very same policy. Proud.

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has announced today a record £1bn invest in community-owned energy. This is the start of an energy ownership revolution which will see communities and community assets benefit from renewables in their areas. 📺 Watch him explain.

IMO this is indeed revealing about - JP Morgan (& maybe others) threatened to crash the gilts market in retaliation for the bank bonus tax. What happened? As @faisalislam.bsky.social says not much. So much for "bond vigilantes" (1/2) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

playing a gig tonight for independent venue week and the first band on have been fucking great. i love Live Music

I profiled the exact kind of voter they want for Liberal England, and guess what? Basically none of them are interested in voting Tory. Your middle class/aspirationally middle class 30 yr old male graduate probably voted Labour in 2024, and is now a Lab/Lib maybe Grn floating voter.

woken up feeling like king of the world (remembered to take the bins out last night)

Poor Melanie. She is SO close to getting it. No, it's no coincidence. Because violence flows directly from ICE and Democrat-run cities are where ICE has been sent to cause it. It's like observing that surfing is not popular in landlocked states or that intellectual rigour is rare at the Telegraph.

Utterly bonkers to define a major party by antagonism. Sure, be sharply ideologically defined in your policy offer - that’s fine! But on values etc you have to cast a wide, wide net. That’s how to survive and thrive.

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If the BBC want to have a better presence on YouTube they’d do worse than to move, for example, Question Time into a modern YouTube format. Also, they should become a public mutual

What I love about Kemi, is that she never handles something badly in the way you'd expect them to handle it badly.

Having a bit of a renaissance listening to Faith No More again. Fiancée is not best pleased

Actively creating these kinds of conspiracy theories is just evil. This is how paths start to someone getting killed.

Few know this but Tekken is just a game about kicking Armour King in the head repeatedly

taking a small cat who followed me home for a half mile in the pouring rain to the vets to try and get him home and safe. please lord tell me your owners microchipped you

Some Europeans will be reassured by this, and wind down the (cautious) assertiveness of recent days. But it shows that displays of European resolve move Trump in ways that the misguided sycophancy of previous 12 months never did. It's a reason to press forward, not pull back.

Has your community lost essential assets over the last decade? You're probably not alone - with the Community Right to Buy going through the House of Lords this week, here's what the public had to say when asked about these transformative new powers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlFW...

Trump says China doesn’t use wind farms - in the first 6 months of 2025 Beijing added 46GW of wind power www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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A significant portion of this article is exactly what we’ve been doing at the Co-operative Party with our Community Britain work. While life has undoubtedly become more challenging for Britons since 2010, communities have never stopped delivering. They’re working harder than ever.

Instagram’s content acceleration algorithm is wild. You have one bit of mildly successful engagement and all the content they’ve been hiding from feeds starts pinging off with likes and views. Just serve it the first time!

All the 2016 nostalgia has got us thinking about how far we’ve come in ten years. From doing the essential campaigning work of opposition, to putting co-operation firmly on the agenda in government.

what I am learning from this Jenrick speech is that his social media content producer must spend a lot of time In The Suite

an excoriating record of the Government that Jenrick was a part of here

Truly Bluesky is a different world. For example, you all seem to use this word “Keminaissance” which I, with a healthy mind, have never once parsed

“The British public are tired of political psychodrama,” says Kemi Badenoch, as she unleashes as HUGE amount of political psychodrama.

Another excellent example from the other day where she's so fixated on owning Keir that she endorses EU membership.

as The Traitors is just live action Mafia i truly believe it owes its success to the anorak forum user community in the UK

🚨 There's over 400 Labour and Co-operative candidates ready to contest this year's Local Elections - but we're not stopping here. If you're a Co-operative Party member thinking of standing as a Labour candidate, why not stand as a joint candidate? 🌹🐝

my band is playing a gig for @ivwuk.bsky.social! come and see us at the Cav on the 31st ✨