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This morning a driver crashed onto the sidewalk exactly where my kids walk past on the way to school. This happened shortly before they came along. I have asked my local @brumgreens.bsky.social councillor to demand that this road be closed to cars until the current road works are complete.

A car crashed onto the pavement where pedestrians, including my children, pass every day.

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 19h

The Green motion is an abject failure for so many reason but it is also exactly how online debate styles transfer to real political spaces. We're increasingly in times where everything is black or white and everything in between is a screaming match that takes the entire progressive movement down.

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 21h

Being against bus lanes is absolute loser behaviour.

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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Gorgeous video that sums up so much truth about how we live today...and how we could live differently.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Good pedagogical practice leads to generative class discussion leads to wider insights leads to asking the right questions....

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Grant Ennis @grantennis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“From a peak of 23,440 miles, the UK now has 9,785 miles of rail. Over 170 cities had tram systems, with nine today. British children used to walk six miles on their own, now they are lucky if they can safely walk 300 yards.” @felly500.bsky.social

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"The Mulai were able to create another world, one radically different from our own whose roots nonetheless exist in our world today" (18).

A photo of The Mulai, taken in Birmingham, UK

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bicycle riders passing a statue of Mao Chengdu, China ca. 1980s 📷Bruno Barbey

Photo of many people riding bikes filling a road. They're all dressed in similar dark outfits. A tall statue rises above them in the background. A wide sign with Chinese characters is below the statue. There's a traffic policeman on a pedestal in the road.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Former spokesperson for the state of Israel Eylon Levy. They have murdered so many journalists that this counts as humour

Eylon Levy: “I'm quite happy to let Piers in. Out is another question.”

Quote tweeting Piers Morgan: “Forgive me I don't trust you guys to be entirely truthtul given your ongoing ban on international journalists reporting freely in Gaza. Let them in, and then we can discover the real facts about what you have done there.”

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Buying a democracy for a few hundred million is undoubtedly, and rightly, seen as a good deal from the perspective of the super rich.

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bournville Lantern Lectures… Disrupted Sat 17 Oct Bournville Quaker Meeting House Step back in time for an immersive performance & lively retelling of an original Bournville Lantern Lecture, brought to life by Birmingham Rep’s Creative Learning Department. sellymanormuseum.org.uk/events/2026-...

A magic lantern slide showing an aerial view of houses and gardens in Bournville, Birmingham in 1906.

A magic lantern slide showing houses on Linden Road, Bournville in 1906.

A magic lantern slide showing children playing in a park in Bournville, Birmingham in 1906.

A magic lantern slide showing children gathered either side of a small river in Bournville Park, Birmingham in 1906.

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is an excellent listen: @thedigradio.bsky.social with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com about their recent book. I went in cautiously b/c I can't spare another brain cell for Musk, but the emphasis is squarely on the 'ism'. Super interesting analysis. thedigradio.com/podcast/musk...

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Muskism w/ Ben Tarnoff & Quinn Slobodian

Featuring Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian on their book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. What the world’s bizarre richest man reveals about our financially fabulist, hard tech, far-right political-...

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Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high

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Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The new edition of A Practical Guide to Studying History is out, just in time for anyone starting a history degree. Want to see my material on trans history? Check out 'Identities' in the Activities and Annotated Bibliography sections. www.bloomsburyonlineresources.com/a-practical-... 🌈🎓

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A Practical Guide to Studying History - Home

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At least where I live, for people with power, this isn't hard to say at all. The latter is clearly much, much scarier, and the priority is to prevent such a catastrophe at all costs.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A local Brummie film about #UKCarCulture is illuminating a global problem: #CarsRuinCities. Wherever you live, watch @sarahchaundler.bsky.social's "City of Cars."

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'd love to live in a country where it was the students - those most impacted - who protested against staff cuts rather than it being the staff who stood in the rain while the students just posted "I'm being ripped off!!!" on social media.

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Balu Puppy @balupuppy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I dont want to bike in Birmingham.

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So much of this could be my city of Medford, MA. Also torn up to make a highway. Air is filthy. Two seniors were killed in recent years. This summer a child riding their bicycle during summer break was hospitalized after a driver ran over them. Cars, carnage everywhere

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I like how @sarahchaundler.bsky.social talks about communities that "have been blighted by dangerous driving." That's exactly the way to think about car dominance: As a form of urban blight like any other we do not find acceptable.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is devastating. And this represents a tiny proportion of the death and destruction allowed to continue in just one city. And it is allowed to continue. This is absolutely preventable. We know how. It's effective. It's cost efficient. Allowing this to happen - refusing to stop it - is a choice.

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Florian Busch @florianabusch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This matches my experience living here. Birmingham deserves better streets.

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BCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In my old home in Saanich, less than five minutes from my door a child was killed by a driver. In a crosswalk. Right outside their front door. The mayor at the time blamed the child's clothing choices (which lost him the next election). That road was never improved. Blind spot is an understatement.

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Sara F.L. Kirk @sflkirk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Swap Halifax (Nova Scotia) for Birmingham & it's the same story. Video is under 15 mins long and well worth a watch #CarsRuinCities. h/t @sarahchaundler.bsky.social & @johnmunro.bsky.social

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Your city might not be as far gone as Birmingham, but no matter where you live, you're likely to find familiar many of the aspects of @sarahchaundler.bsky.social's brilliant and now publicly available short film "City of Cars." Stop what you're doing and watch this.

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City of Cars: shorter version

Please be aware that this film contains scenes which show the impact of road traffic collisions, which some people may find upsetting.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Important new video telling the #UrbanTruth about city streets we should never have accepted as “normal,” by our UTC collaborator @reenamahajan.bsky.social in Paris. Please watch and share. We don’t have to keep these streets.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Like so many of us, I share this incredible woman Margaret Owen's anger. And the Labour Party would have to reject Starmerism much more than it seems to be doing for that anger to begin to fade.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This Sunday, we ride, against genocide. Join us!

Big Ride for Palestine poster. Ride departs at 11:15 from Birmingham's Centenary Square on Sunday, 4 October.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Join us on Friday for @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org's Circle the City ride, as we demand infrastructure that will protect cyclists from drivers, connect our car-dominated streets to global politics, and have fun by reclaiming road space and looking out for each other while riding as a group!

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1972. We've known for so long.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Much appreciate this recap on some of the events in Dublin last week. Was an absolutely incredible time with so many amazing people.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Clearly, the people with the power to protect this pedestrian street from drivers plowing through think it's just fine as it is, and are happy with the results.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Planners and politicians of Birmingham: listen to Paul!

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ed Miliband might be a decent person trying to steer his colleagues toward a conscience. But the Starmer period exposed how many senior Labour figures, many still in positions of power, can stomach children being killed at scale if they think it favors their fortunes. And us millions won't forget.

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