It's Groundhog Day on the 47 bus going into Birmingham City centre 🙁

On 27 Nov, ten of the UK’s leading experts briefed 1,250 politicians and other leaders with the latest implications of the climate crisis for health, food, national security and the economy. It barely registered in the mainstream newsmedia but here is a brilliant summary from ‘Just Have a Think’. 🧵

Wish I could be there tomorrow in solidarity. We supported our bin workers at the last mega picket in July and will be there in spirit tomorrow ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿

🚸 We are calling on all those preparing to stand for election in Birmingham next year to back practical steps for safer streets. Ask 9: Working with Transport for West Midlands to upgrade bus lanes, railway stations and new tramways. 👉Read the ten asks and co-sign: betterstreetsforbirmingham....

Morning all. Photograph by John Bulmer, Manchester 1976.

Political polarization today seems mainly a matter of courage v. cowardice.

Miss Kaninna Support act for Kneecap tonight in Birmingham. The spirit of Missy Elliot for 2025 ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

Budget 2025. The wealthy hardly hit. Minor tweaks on dividend and mansion tax. No wealth tax. No alignment of taxes on dividends & capital gains tax with taxation of wages. Partnerships won't pay NIC on partners' share of profits No financial transactions tax. Lobbying and political donations pay

Well that’s the end for Checkatrade

Apparently all our responses have been lost so we may as well take a couple of seconds and sign and send again! Please sign and share if you can weownit.org.uk/act-now/rail...

Morning all. Photograph John Bulmer. North of England 1963.

Jeez. Our justice system is glacial, especially where it really matters. 17 months to get a conviction in a very clear cut case. No justice no peace. There should be a maximum period for all cases of manslaughter/murder between arrest & trial. www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

OK. The cost was £2 million. The bill should go straight to UEFA. & Starmer is still silent after implying that West Midland Police were anti-Semitic ... www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

Walking back from an early morning shopping journey on Friday I came across this parking gem 😵‍💫

Perfect second track from Irvine Welsh guesting on Radio 6 ❤️ 'Tired of being alone' Al Green #music youtu.be/ICKToz7BLLA

Two newly published books capture the moral and intellectual decay of Starmer's Labour- Complicit by Peter Oborne and The Fraud by Paul Holden. Neither has received a single review in mainstream media. #complicit #fraud #bluelabour

Seals singing in a sea cave #Orkney 🦭🎧

As an inveterate explorer of my urban environment, especially as a kid, @geowizard.bsky.social has taken this to a whole new level youtu.be/4476uSeTsg8

Boris Johnson has broken his silence with an attack on the Covid bereaved for "wrangling" on about the deaths of our loved ones. He has no place in public life and must be stripped of all his ex-PM privileges. If you agree, sign our petition: c.org/yKDJfh65B2

7 days to @kneecapceol.bsky.social live...

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Beautiful news to see in the latest 'We Are Parable' newsletter that one of the two co-founders Anthony Andrews was elected deputy chair of the BAFTA film committee in September 👏👏🏼👏🏿 www.weareparable.com/about

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

🧵The difference in how cooperative societies and 'free market' companies operate couldn't be more marked than the way that Central and Midcounties are conducting their potential merger to firm a new larger cooperative. The whole process is being carried out with a level of transparency

Great to have @unitetheunion.bsky.social campaigning so strongly on toilet availability. It is a matter of public health and human dignity and also an issue of safety - if people are distracted by needing a toilet when driving a bus, that’s a risk that can be designed out by providing toilets.

Utterly shameful "threat of a public sale loomed" WE shouldn't have to BUY our heritage back, it should be accessible Finders & landowners must change mindsets, STOP "mine & money and think ours & gift" Oxfordshire museum purchases iron age hoard after fundraiser share.google/e6sEN497Y3fj...

Pimping my content from X following extensive flooding in Birmingham over the last 24 hours. Always got to admire the skill of this milkman & customer during severe flooding near Cartland Road in Birmingham 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Planet of the Apes set, California, 1967 by Dennis Stock. When eating in the canteen the extras subconsciously segregated themselves, with the orangutans, chimpanzees and gorillas all sitting in groups and not mixing. Like a mirror of society.

"He's always denied any wrongdoing" You just know who I'm talking about.

God, if anyone phones me now & the number isn't in my address book, I automatically treat the caller as a fraudster. It's a bit s**t isn't it.

We cannot understand the emboldening of racists/fascists on the ground without centring the role of the discourse of mainstream elite This Labour government, anything right of it and any media that does not cover them as enablers are responsible for this www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Wow, another new term courtesy of AI: 'Backpropagation algorithm' - an algorithm used in artificial intelligence & machine learning to train artificial neural networks through error correction. Just listening to the 'godfather of AI' Geoffrey Holinton on 'Inside Science' 🤯

#20s30s Note the absence of kitsch, maudlin plastic tat, and fascists trying to co-opt the memory of war (for now).

Be careful what you wish for Reform voters, this is what will happen if Farage gets into Downing Street.

I was included in the @cyclinguk.bsky.social 2017 list of 100 women in cycling and am dismayed to see their transphobia. The Supreme Court ruling may have enabled organisations to be transphobic but it does not mandate that. Cycling UK can and should be as inclusive as they say they wish to be.

We can’t afford to do what every other country did years ago for our railways, but people need to drive their kids to school in a tank

Simply the best film/director on the planet right now. No ifs no buts. A lot of synergy with the situation in Gaza right now. If a Zionist Israel exists, Hamas must exist.

🧵Just left Birmingham city centre by train. Policed to the hilt - a huge operation costing many 100s of thousands. All because the team of a genocidal state are playing Aston Villa. While day centres for people with learning disabilities are closed & sold off. While homeless people start to

🟥 RED CARD 4 ISRAEL 🟥 Birmingham TUC calls all Workers and Trade Unionists across the UK to stand against Apartheid, with a sports boycott of Israel THURS 6 NOV 6PM Aston Pavillion Trinity Rd B6 6JD

There's a lot of good news today 🎉🎉🎉 Hopefully, this is the last time we willl have to vote as a result of this anti-union legislation that the tories put in place in 1992.

Please share far & wide youtu.be/5QhGpTK5rlg

Ever since he released 'Earthquake' in 2012 I've rated Labrinth. This is beautiful news that he's crafted the soundtrack for the 2025 John Lewis Christmas advert. Where love lives Labrinth youtu.be/NnKNuk9tPUE #Music

Great news to wake up to 👏👏🏼👏🏿🎉🎉🎉 MAHA Make America Human Again www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Jason Manford delivered food for Iceland during the pandemic and now he's speaking up for children with disabilities. The best of us 👏🏿👏🏼👏 www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

The more details that emerge about the train attack, the more likely it seems to have been a random horror; the result of catastrophic m/h breakdown. And the more disgusting it becomes that bad faith agitators, desperate for validation of their racism have tried (and succeeded) in politicising it.

The media is completely refusing to run this story. I wonder why... Starmer should be utterly humiliated: the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans has been upheld.

Another tragic week on our streets. Five pedestrians hit by drivers in just seven days. No one should risk their life just going about their usual business. We need safer streets, slower speeds, and a shift in priorities: people first, not traffic flow. www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

Just watching 'Rust' on Prime. 'No animals were harmed in the making of this film but humans were.'

Calton Hill, Edinburgh.