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Sounds Local @soundslocalcic.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

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Cartoon sign adapted from a Futurama scene, saying "0 days since last scallop"

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 08/07/2026

Hydration break.

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 03/07/2026

England had already been preparing for Mexico city - by doing some training at The Hawthorns.

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 03/07/2026

Football shirt discourse has just been completed, mate. Best ever.

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 29/06/2026

We would like to point out that the only way to define the boundaries of Greater Birmingham is this… www.paradisecircus.com/2015/10/06/t...

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 25/05/2026

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone

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Jon Bounds - we need action for Palestine 🇵🇸 @bounder.info · 20/05/2026

Bill Oddie checking on the Freiburg set piece routines.

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11 Bus @11bus.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Apparently it’s our 100th birthday today. Here’s why the people of Birmingham love the number 11 so much: paradisecircus.com/2020/10/06/b...

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Birmingham: It’s Not Shit — Reason No. 1: The Brummie’s Love of the Number 11 Bus – Paradise Circus

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 07/04/2026

Moseley gets a train station, the day of a nuclear apocalypse. Page Alanis Morrisette

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 19/01/2026

It's Blue Monday Like a stopped clock PR companies are sometimes right. Also like a stopped clock, they need two AA batteries shoved up them and the knob twisted until their hands point in the right direction. Birmingham: It’s Not Shit, Reason No 12: Mr Blue Sky paradisecircus.com/2024/11/19/b...

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Birmingham: It’s Not Shit — Reason No. 12: Mr Blue Sky – Paradise Circus

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 19/01/2026

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Birmingham: It’s Not Shit — Reason No. 12: Mr Blue Sky – Paradise Circus

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 08/01/2026

Jeff Lynne meme format just dropped.

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 28/11/2024

This Christmas you don’t have to ask “when is BiNS?”. You can buy it Birmingham: It’s Not Shit: 50 Things That Delight About Brum Foreword by Adrian Chiles amzn.to/3OANhlX Makes a perfect gift for someone you’d like to take up The Ackers.

The entire Paradise Circus publishing list in an Xmas stocking:

Birmingham It’s Not Shit at the front, 101 things Birmingham Gave the World and Staring Death in the Face in the sock

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 26/11/2025

We found some copies of 101 Things Birmingham Gave The World at the back of a cupboard full of Ozzy the Bull baubles and Roy Wood Christmas wigs. We are posting paperbacks for £7, or treat yourself and add an ebook for an extra £3. paradisecircus.com/2025/11/25/s...

Christmas was better in the 80s. An 80s Noddy Holder pointing at you Kitchener-style, while wrapped in gold tinsel.

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 26/11/2025

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Jon Bounds - we need action for Palestine 🇵🇸 @bounder.info · 25/09/2025

Only ID scheme I'll accept

Birmingham Evening Mail Chipper Club Membership card. (And badge)

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Strike Map @strikemap.org · 16/09/2025

🚯Don't Bin Off Brum this Saturday Join the march and demo 👇 🚐London transport: bit.ly/LDNBrumCoach20Sep 🚐E.Mids transport: bit.ly/EMidsBrumCoach20Sep 🚐Sheffield tranport: UFWE@unitetheunion.org 🚐Manchester transport: bit.ly/MCRBrumCoach20Sep #StrikeMap

A gray wheeled bin with text "DON'T BIN OFF BRUM" and stickers promoting "All Out for Brum Rally, 20th Sept" and a "Strike Map" icon.

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 01/09/2025

Danny Smith of this parish heads to London in inappropriate footwear.

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 14/08/2025

Ahead of this year's Supersonic, we catch up with founder Lisa Meyer to discuss the intensifying challenges facing independent festivals, the picks from a brilliant lineup they've put together in spite of them, and more #Supersonic’s Lisa Meyer on the Festival’s 2025 Edition buff.ly/8kYebiv

Supersonic’s Lisa Meyer holding a large mug with the words 'Live Laugh Loathe' printed on the side.

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 22/07/2025

Night sweet prince of darkness. Left half a pint of Caffreys at the quiz machine, took Paddington’s hand and strolled off to the great 11 stop in the sky

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Mark Steadman @hellosteadman.com · 21/07/2025

You won't remember this – or maybe we hung around different Internets before this app – but this is a follow-on from a post I wrote on @paradisecircus.com 9 years ago. hellosteadman.substack.com/p/why-im-hid...

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Why I'm hiding from LinkedIn

I'm starting again (again) and I need to own it.

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

When Dr Who was axed by the BBC in 1969, no one expected Verity Lambert and former Crossroads writers Letts and Dicks to bring it back for ITV. Cliff Richard was grounded on earth with his faithful hovercraft, Bessie and UNIT headquarters were based under Birmingham's Spaghetti Junction. #DoctorWho

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Jon Bounds - we need action for Palestine 🇵🇸 @bounder.info · 11/07/2025

Nearly 10 years since Pier Review was published. (You can still buy it amzn.to/40NmadU). As we drove round all 55 of England and Wales’s bloody pleasure piers in 10’days @probablydrunk.bsky.social and i often talked of getting marching pier tattoos. Last week we did.

Two men who are ten years older with tattoos of the brown sign symbol for a pier. One has it on his arm and is bending uncomfortably close to the backside of the other who has it on the back of his leg.

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 20/06/2025

We used all of Wales’s water to make this satirical cartoon about the Bin Strike on Chat GPT, we hope it helps move things forward.

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 20/06/2025

Hot enough for you? Bins emptied?

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 06/06/2025

Just in time for their Xmas tip. :)

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 06/06/2025

Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 15/05/2025

Wow! This bin man has has all the kept promises from the council tattooed on his arm

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 15/05/2025

Wow! This bin man has has all the kept promises from the council tattooed on his arm

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 14/05/2025

This is fun wbholland.github.io/trainspose/

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 09/05/2025

Your pope name is Albert Bore and Jude Bellingham’s retired squad number at Blues.

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 23/04/2025

Google's AI is super.

A google search for "a brummie never leaves without a scallop meaning"

AI Overview

The saying "A Brummie never leaves without a scallop" is a Brummie idiom, meaning "a Brummie (a person from Birmingham) never leaves without saying goodbye properly". "Scallop" in this case refers to the specific Brummie goodbye phrase "Ta-rah-a-bit," which can be shortened to just "Ta-rah"

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Paradise Circus @paradisecircus.com · 19/04/2025

She thought it was the dress code.

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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

You can show your support for striking workers with proceeds of sales going to Brum bin strike fund. Workers facing pay cut, some up to £8g a year, support the strike. Get ‘em here tufac.bigcartel.com

Cartoon of Oscar the Grouch from Sesame St children’s TV show, the green loveable grump, emerges from a rubbish bin with a bin lid on his head and a clenched fist. The slogan reads ‘I support the brum bin strike’

Model wearing a whiter shirt with a circular image in middle of shirt. Cartoon of Oscar the Grouch from Sesame St children’s TV show, the green loveable grump, emerges from a rubbish bin with a bin lid on his head and a clenched fist. The slogan reads ‘I support the brum bin strike’

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