The *Birds of Budle Bay* is now with the digital printer! Purchase and collection details coming soon. Please repost 🐦 @ntbirdclub.bsky.social @durhambirdclub.bsky.social @teesmouthbirdclub.bsky.social @birdinglothian.bsky.social #BirdsofBudle #NEbirding

Bluebells in full effect. Pinfield Wood, Lickey Hills Country Park. Birmingham

‘The Ballad of Judas Priest’ Review: Delightful Metal Doc Is a Rock-Solid Directorial Debut for Rage Against the Machine Guitarist Tom Morello

Staunch Trump Supporters Are Now Asking if He’s the Antichrist IN A MATTER of days, MAGA media figures have gone from defending President Donald Trump as God’s chosen president to making the case that he is actually the antichrist. www.wired.com/story/staunc...

Asha Bosle has passed. RIP to a true legend 😢 www.bbc.com./news/article...

The woman who was my gateway drug to World music has died Asha Bosle www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeZh...

With apologies to Bauhaus: Bela Lugosi, presente!

The Camp Hill line is a great new service. Moseley Station is well designed with a large pedestrianised public space. I jumped on the train in Moseley this morning and was in Kings Norton 8 minutes later! Birmingham is choked by cars and >>>

Earth looking tiny as Artemis heads closer to the Moon. Taken by a crewmember. Tomorrow the Orion craft fly around the Moon. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography #Artemis

Consider the infrastructure v enforcement debate settled. Car culture is a problem of public space. There is no policing your way to results as impressive as this.

13 Avocet, Eurasian White-front and 60 Twite the best of a long day in the field #BudleBay #NEbirding

On Sat 28 March in London, Birmingham will be making its voice heard. Right wing politicians & commentators love to use our city as a symbol of everything that they hate about this country. Our message will be clear: BIRMINGHAM IS NOT BROKEN. BIRMINGHAM IS UNITED! @togetheralliance.bsky.social

I am alive, therefore I take sides.

I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.

"Fortunate Son" by CCR was written by John Fogerty in about 20 minutes, fueled by rage over the unfairness of the Vietnam War draft. The song critiques how wealthy, well-connected families used their influence to protect their sons from combat, while working-class young men were sent to fight

The #GreenSurge comes to Billesley! Amazing day yesterday with 55 @brumgreens.bsky.social campaigners out on the streets helping us to keep Reform out and #GetGreensElected 💚 Thanks for inspiring so many people @zackpolanski.bsky.social!

From Swirl How and Wetherlam.

Hope returns 💚

A bit like waiting for Godot #YourParty

Intermittent fasting: probably the same as any other diet. open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...

RIP Sly Dunbar - the ultimate drummer. Such sad news. Here are Sly & Robbie's Taxi Gang live in Germany in 1981. Watch the full Black Uhuru concert at 📺🇯🇲🥁▶️ youtu.be/NNq1XOCYBu8

Rest in peace, Sly Dunbar. Alongside bassist Robbie Shakespeare, Dunbar formed the most influential rhythm section in Jamaican music history, helping to define the sound of reggae, dub, and dancehall. Dunbar, a 13-time Grammy nominee, was 73.

RIP Black Ark Upsetter Sly Dunbar

Good Night From The Drummer, My Friends. Sly Dunbar RIP.

RIP Sly Dunbar, drums on everything www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc1I...

R.I.P. Sly Dunbar and thank you for the music.

Seems that, no matter how hard I try, I always end up writing about wanting to fight Robert Jenrick. So I guess I'm just going to have to fight Robert Jenrick. I don't make the rules. 🤷

Finally dumped Spotify Thanks @davidbridie.bsky.social

Climate activists gathered and protested in cities across the world on Saturday, including Birmingham, UK. We only have one planet. Defend it. #ActOnClimate #ClimateAction #COP30 #ClimateJusticeNow

The voices of division in our country are growing louder. Join us in London on 28 March for the #TOGETHER Against the Far Right national demonstration. It’s up to us to unite against them. Save the date and sign-up for updates here 👉 togetheralliance.org.uk

The rise of the far-right urgently threatens our lives and the planet. We're working to mobilise communities, groups and movements to resist their division and hatred – and win a fairer, fossil fuel-free world. Chip in to help us take action in 2026 👇 www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

Excellent from @tomashtengely.bsky.social socialistworker.co.uk/news/hands-o...

‘Trump’s new world order is now very much a reality. It consists of no obvious rules, does not respect allies, celebrates the jungle and is almost always about money. There is a lot of wealth under Venezuela’s soil. Trump is now committed to extracting it.’

IS Tendency statement on Venezuela internationalsocialists.org/announcement...

Counterpoint: it’s not

Good morning. Let's make a collective resolution: this will be the year in which we start to turn things round.

30/12/1890 - Birthday of Victor Serge, Bolshevik.

"The impact on the members, mostly NHS staff, is astronomical. At a time when health and wellbeing, and mental wellbeing, is vitally important, it's a real blow." It would be easy to conclude that UHB NHS Trust cares less about safety or the wellbeing of its staff then it does about saving money.

‘It feels like being suffocated’: Palestine Action activist in HMP Peterborough vows to continue hunger strike Teuta Hoxha says she remains determined despite growing fears for her health and five other prisoners staging protest www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Please don't call someone/something "anti-Israel" if what you actually mean is that they're anti-hate, anti-violence, anti-corruption, anti-colonialism, anti-Apartheid, anti-infanticide, anti-genocide, anti-warcrimes, anti-torture, anti-terrorism, pro-ceasefire, pro-peace, pro-justice, pro-healing.

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

Thank you majority: "According to the most recent edition of an annual Harris Poll, for the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy." You're right.

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