91% of football trainees never play a professional game. Many lose their way & end up struggling or worse, take their own lives. “My plan to overhaul academy system and help young players” Tony Pulis knows his stuff & its well worth having a read. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

If you’re wondering where all the tadpoles are, I’ve found them 🐸 in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Notting Hill, Saturday morning 7 Magnolia March 2026 #London #photography

Blackthorn blossom drips like snow #manchester #localnature A welcome sign spring is on its way.

My recommendation for a weekend read 👇 PS “tracing thaw patterns” is such a beautiful phrase - a new photography project perhaps 🤔? #AimlessWalking #PychoGeography #PublicSpaces

🎬 | In Liverpool, filming has started for the four-film cinematic event on The Beatles that is coming to your screens in 2028. #TheBeatles

If the government wants to regain public trust and demonstrate it prioritises the wider public over big business, it should take action to curb runaway executive pay. Mandating worker representation on boards would be a strong first step. www.ft.com/content/22a1...

I’m liking the look and ethics of @xigxaguk.bsky.social for audiobooks 📘👏📕👏. For any titles I cannot find on BorrowBox - XigXag it is. I’ve been waiting patiently for an alternative to the greedy big guns (they’re a B-Corp too)

Great to see this stance from one of my favourite Liverpool cultural venues. 👏👏👏 Hopefully they build up a decent following here (they had 31K over on the cesspit)

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There will be a another temporary closure/signed diversion in place on 12th/13th Feb on the TPT in Stockport between the M60 and the green footbridge for surface repairs where it is subsiding towards the river. @stockportcouncil.bsky.social @walkridestocky.bsky.social @walkridegm.org.uk

Superb 🫡 the power of a pause. Shakespeare’s words, 400yrs old, have never been more relevant, brought to life with such feeling by a master of his craft. #

Either you're happy for people to be killed and injured to save you a couple of minutes on your journey, or you're not. The evidence that LTNs and 20mph zones save lives is overwhelming.

Hi folks, I hope everyone is well, it’s time to continue our debut albums competition so let’s play #5debutalbums9094 Pick your top 5 debut albums in order of preference released between 1990-94 including the hashtag. This was tough, these years are right in my wheelhouse, but here’s my five picks..

There will be a temporary closure/signed diversion in place tomorrow on the TPT in Stockport between the M60 bridge and the green footbridge to allow a large unsafe tree to be felled - likely to be closed for 2 or 3 days. @stockportcouncil.bsky.social @walkridestocky.bsky.social @walkridegm.org.uk

Someone shared this on Reddit and it’s too good. Enter your location to see if the conditions are right for you to dry the washing outside www.dryoutside.com

We’ve had a little sprinkling & it was very chilly first thing -6°C Energising to get out, a flock of goldfinch, blue & great tits foraged on the few bits of bounty - the young hedge on Turn Moss, myself & other volunteers planted in 2019, is now providing rich habitat. #manchester #chorlton M21

Fox and Pine, 18 Greaves Street in Oldham Town Centre. 10 real cask ales, 10 real ciders. Also host community events, including quiz nights and open mic. Voted 'Greater Manchester Pub of the Year 2025' by Camra. (Quite a coincidence prev use of building was for Alcholics Anonymous)

Absolutely stunning images 😍!

UK Govt considering stripping Sport England of its right to be consulted before a playing field is built on. Part of a plan by ministers to speed up planning decisions as it looks to build 1.5 million new homes. Please respond to consultation & sign the petition fieldsintrust.org/about-us/new...

Brutal (but fair) Guardian headline today Only 3% of respondents to the UK government’s consultation on AI & copyright supported their unfair plan to hand AI companies people’s work for free. 95% said AI companies should license training data. 🧵 1/2

This is really sad news. RIP Martin Parr. One of the great photographers. What a legacy he leaves, I attended a talk he gave to MMU students,a few years back, he was still full of passion for photography & very open and encouraging to the next generation. He set up his Foundation in Bristol too. 📸🕊️

#CreativeBizCreativeBuzz🐝 #CreativeGifts🎁

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

Vanished 240 years ago, the UK’s largest bird of prey – the white-tailed eagle – just returned to English skies like it never left. share.google/GTps20C2Op8T...

Well worth a read 👏⚽️

Has to be!

Some beautiful autumnal tree “leaf shadows” on show at RHS Bridgewater before Storm Claudia. 🍁🍂 #salford #publicgarden

This is a small snow plow for sidewalks If your city plows the roads but leaves sidewalks up to property owners, your city hates pedestrians.

The Walk Ride GM Awards return! Grab your seat now for the most anticipated night of the year 🎊

Lights Up this evening was a JOY. Such a delight to cycle with friends and 200 other people, mainly women, around the city as a disco on wheels. Loved it. Could do it every week. #bikesky #lightsupride #ridesforwomenmcr

A wonderful “Lights Up 2025” #glowride Disco On Wheels cycle in Manchester this evening. Many parks & quiet routes feel unsafe to women & girls in the dark nights. About 200 cyclists with music+lights. Empowering ✊🚦💡🚲 Thanks organisers & ride leaders. @walkridegm.org.uk @stationsouth.bsky.social

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it. Peter Gabriel - PG1 Released - 1977

Y’know I always draw on my envelopes? Well. I started by just drawing the little bee during lockdown. And the local post office lady just loves my doodles. They always make her smile. Well I went in yesterday and she gave me this for my birthday, and it was so kind and frickin’ sweet I almost sobbed

“I’ve done so many A to B walks that a circular walk from a car seems pointless to me now" David Bocking @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social went on a #SlowWays hike with the brilliant @maryoz.bsky.social and Susan. Read all about it on his Substack!

We are very excited this week to be selling signed copies of Len Grant's new Chorlton Sketchbook, and even more excited to be featured in the book itself! Come by and pick one up while stocks last! #shoplocal #chorlton #sketchbook

BBC stop using the word “gotten” in your articles. Please and Thank you 🙏 #journalism #news #AI #standards <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr7m2pd3810o>

The Real Energy Scandal The Media Won't Tell You About – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/10/22/t...

“‘A monument to kindness’: the rise of Britain’s community cinemas” An uplifting story in a sea of gloom news! 🎬🍿 <https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/20/britain-community-cinemas-film-screens>

The kindness of strangers: a gang of scary-looking youths stepped in to save me from being mugged

“Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.” Bob Kerrey For those who share kindness freely… you make the world lighter, brighter, and more hopeful for all of us. 🧡 #kindness #positivity #compassion Picture by Little Sisters Studio

#StreetArt Barcelona on this morning’s short 3 mile leg stretch. #GetUpGetOut #JustKeepMoving #AlwaysLookUp #NoNegativeVibes

In 2008 the House of Commons Transport Committe recommended far wider use of 20mph limits with PACTS recommending a 20mph national default. Had UK Gov done that in 2008, then Welsh evidence (-25%) shows it would have saved over 300,000 casualties on UK roads since then.

‼️ New ‼️Great British Railways’ signature station clock launched at London Bridge station. Chosen after an international competition, the winning design is by London-based Design Bridge & Partners. Nice work! I really like it ⏰👏👏👏 all stations will have one soon www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Really sad to read Diane Keaton has died, she was one of the good ones. RIP 🕊️🫶

Happy Full Supermoon 🌚🌝 to all who enjoy staring up at the night sky in wonder. It’s bright right now and even brighter at 5am (Tues) - a Neil Young Harvest Moon #autumn

Tips hat to @katharinehayhoe.com !

Excellent knowledgeable analysis, worth a read! #lfc

Outstanding BlueSky “post of the day”. A wonderful story of love, care and natures’ ability to repair. And boy, I needed a happy ending today! 💚🦉