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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

That’s a £30 billion black hole in our economy, according to the IFS. And a ‘car crash’ for our care industry & the NHS. Just for starters. On the plus side, Bromsgrove currently has hundreds of union flags flying from lampposts.

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Rachel Relves @rrelves.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Lovely sunny day in Brum yesterday

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Starmer at that press conference, giving every impression of a nervous chipmunk sitting next to an alligator that's just swallowed a hand grenade.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 14/09/2025

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

Letter from Ed Davey to Keir Starmer condemning Elon Musk for inciting violence and urging unity to defend democracy.

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Broadcasting legend John Stapleton who’s living with #parkinsons has signed the #parkypetition100K and wants you to join him petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Listen to @stephenfry.bsky.social - sign the #parkypetition100K to improve care for people with #parkinsons petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

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Rachel Relves @rrelves.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

10pm and it's still warm and not dark. The flowers look amazing in the twilight 🌸

Photo shows a garden at 10pm at night and still not dark

Yellow Evening Primrose flowers practically glowing in the twilight

Colourful pots of flowers looking pretty in the twilight

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Wildflower strips in orchards attract insects that eat pests, reducing crop damage and cutting pesticide use. The savings can be significant, especially in bad aphid years. 🌸

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The flower fix: how nature could slash farm costs

Planting wildflowers between apple trees could save UK farmers up to £3,000 per hectare per year

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

The BSL during Finland was sensational #Eurovision

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Iain Key @iainkey.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This weekends Indie Brunch with @brianbilston.bsky.social and The Catenary Wires is now available on Mixcloud for replay/catch up Brian is currently on a UK tour, dates and tickets details are here... brianbilston.com/events/ www.mixcloud.com/louderthanwa...

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Iain Key’S Indie Brunch (With Brian Bilston & Catenary Wires) - Saturday 3rd May 2025

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Some #NorthernSoul faves for the bank holiday #WeekendSingles. They’re all in this playlist ▶️🔊 open.spotify.com/playlist/4ZR...

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 03/05/2025

☀️Bank Holiday Offer☀️ Grab that print you’ve had your eye on, stock up on cards or treat your phone to a new case. gailmyerscough.co.uk

Bank holiday offer. Spend over £20 and get 10% off with code MAY10. Spend over £50 and get 20% off with code MAY20.
A collage of bold and colourful prints, phone cars, a mug, a cushion and a notebook.

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Rachel Relves @rrelves.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I can't believe that that this is a genuine post and the White House tweeted it. How crass and insensitive!

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 16/11/2024

PINNED POST (pls share to spread our pain) ✍️ Hey we're Alex & Sian and we've accidentally spent a decade drawing 20,000 footballers quite badly. If you want to see a certain player, just ask 🛒 SHOP: noscoredraws.com - where you can get prints & mugs & stuff. 100+ teams to choose from!

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Unthinkable just 10 years ago: Almost 3/4 of the EU’s electricity in 2024 was from renewable energy sources and nuclear. Gas and coal electricity generation is at record low levels.

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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 18/04/2025

🧵 Birmingham City have WON League One so what better way for us to ruin a Bank Holiday than by spending the day drawing them. Questionably. This is Christoph Klarer. It'll be downhill from this point. Shares appreciated! Tell a Blues fan if you know one. Test your friendships! x

An upsetting, misshapen faux-football sticker drawing of Birmingham City centre-back Christoph Klarer. It looks almost, but not quite, entirely unlike him.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 18/04/2025

Pete’s in full bank holiday mode

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 15/04/2025

European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has noted “a positive side effect” of the tariff uncertainty created by United States President Donald Trump: More world leaders want to do trade deals with the EU.

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World wants more trade with Europe, von der Leyen says

Commission president says “Europe is “wide awake” to possibilities of “new world order.”

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

It’s National Pet Day today apparently so here’s a poem about one of my cat’s poems. It’s called ‘On ‘;..p’[[[[[[[[[[[[[;’;////////////////////////3,’

On ‘;..p’[[[[[[[[[[[[[;’;////////////////////////3,’

Upon returning to my desk,
having left it temporarily in search of biscuits,
I discovered my cat had written a poem
on my laptop.

It was called ‘;..p’[[[[[[[[[[[[[;’;////////////////////////3,’
and constituted one of her more difficult pieces,
but it was the kind of poem
which rewarded repeat reading.

I was struck by its experimental structure,
the absence of line breaks;
indeed, not one single space between any
of the poem’s 10,000 or so characters.

One of the work’s central motifs –
‘jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk’ –
was, by turns, reassuring and unsettling,
while the symbolism of ‘###################’,

hinted at our 21st century preoccupation with social media.
And who could not be moved by that devastating final line,
its message of hope piercing our hearts like an arrow:
‘`````````5555=======================’.

Brian Bilston

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

“British politics is shackled to a corpse. Undoing those chains would leave everyone better off. A closer relationship with Europe is the quickest and easiest way… to generate growth” V good on our “zombie politics” and its deadening impact. @duncanrobinson.bsky.social economist.com/britain/2025...

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Each party is in hock to a Britain that has been dead for years. Death had whittled away the Leave majority by 2019, according to one analysis. Among the ranks of the living, Brexit is seen as a clownish endeavour, even among those who supported it. Demography combined with the pointless, damaging reality of leaving the EU to kill Brexit Britain. Yet it lives on in the minds of the country's politicians, where it is forever 2016.

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Mike Scott @mickpuck.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

If you want a copy of the album on vinyl or CD, or all the choices of where to stream it, you can find all the info here on our LIFE, DEATH AND DENNIS HOPPER linktree linktr.ee/DennisHopper

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 09/04/2025

If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty down about my small business. I’m working so hard but it’s been very quiet. It’s bloody difficult at the moment. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

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Gail Myerscough | Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator | Manchester

Surface Pattern Design & Illustration by Manchester based designer Gail Myerscough. Contemporary design meets mid century style. Contact for art licensing, commissions & collaboration enquiries.

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Mike Scott @mickpuck.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Down with the crips! #HopperListeningParty

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Mike Scott @mickpuck.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

FREAKOUT AT THE MUD PALACE Dennis retreated to his house in Taos, 'the mud palace' where he got lost editing The Last Movie. The distributors pulled out. The film flopped. He blamed the movie business. All quotes paraphrased from stuff Dennis really said. #HopperListeningParty

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Mike Scott @mickpuck.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

RIDING DOWN TO MARDI GRAS they've just got funding to shoot Easy Rider and have headed down to New Orleans #HopperListeningParty

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Rachel Relves @rrelves.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Hard to keep up with all the tracks but there are some real belters so far! #HopperListeningParty

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Rachel Relves @rrelves.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Whoops I'm rusty... tuning into the #HopperListeningParty five minutes late 😳

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Mike Scott @mickpuck.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Here we go friends, freak-flag flyers, groovers, shakers, movers and Hopper-heads #HopperListeningParty First track KANSAS is sung by the great Steve Earle (and the intro is a recreation of the 1930s movie parade Dennis saw as a child)

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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Listen back to my latest Soho Radio show with music from Billy Nomates, Dekker, Pit Pony, Pearl Charles, Jetstream Pony, Augustus Pablo, Ultra Vivid Scene, Toots Hibbert & Blondie – plus special guest ex-Kaiser Chief Nick Hodgson, now frontman with Everyone Says Hi. www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/pe...

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Pete Paphides Feat. Nick Hodgson (07/04/2025)

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Tim Burgess @tim-burgess.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Our first Bluesky Listening Party: This Wednesday (April 9th) at 8pm (UK time) Mike Scott will be joining us for a LlSTENlNG PARTY featuring The Waterboys’ brilliant new album Life, Death And Dennis Hopper @waterboysmusic.bsky.social Join us!

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Trevor Philips, "Is the 10% tariff on the UK a benefit of Brexit?" Caroline Lucas, "Leaving the EU costs us 5% of GDP" "Trump's 10% tariff has an impact of 0.3%" "And this special relationship with the US is no better than an island with a whole load of penguins on it"

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Rachel Relves @rrelves.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Highly recommend having a look at @gailmyerscough.bsky.social's wonderful designs 😍

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

no idea who made this but it’s genius

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Incredible. The Trump administration calculated "tariff rates" by taking the US trade deficit with the respective country and dividing it by the country's exports to the US. And then the tariff rate of the US is often just set by cutting that made-up "tariff rate" in half.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 02/04/2025

I’m so excited to be a part of @tim-burgess.bsky.social Merch Market. It’s going to be a fantastic event with bands selling their merch, live sets, DJs and much more. I’ll be selling my wares and a print I’m creating exclusively for the event. tinyurl.com/mr6fyxr8

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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

To insult two highly respected and free thinking politicians like this is disgraceful. It just shows how far standards in society have fallen. Anyone reposting this insulting photograph should feel utterly ashamed. 😡

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Tim Burgess @tim-burgess.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

We want to hear from female artists / girl bands - lots of fellas applying (which is not necessarily a bad thing) It’s going to be amazing - girls, shout up. Nudge / tag any female artists helpushelpbands.com

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Rachel Relves @rrelves.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Goodness me, that was a mad few minutes in extra time but so good to see Wales equalise 😍

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

magnolia coming into bloom on the City of London

Pink magnolia blossom with grandiose City offices behind

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