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owenjell.bsky.social
Manchester-based lefty dad, folk singer, youth work volunteer, board gamer, bicyclist. He/him
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No, #autocarrot, “Upsetting the AppleCare” is not a thing…

If this is Meta AI’s attempt to feed me “relevant content” I think there’s still some way to go…

christ, what a day to be an immigrant cursed with the ability to read

Made in Manchester: Margaret Ashton (1856-1937) was a suffragist, pacifist, philanthropist and Manchester Corporation’s first female councillor. 1/10

Trans and being told by your employer you can no longer use the toilets at work (especially if not out to all your colleagues)? A cis woman who has been challenged when using the toilet? Otherwise affected by the SC judgment? Please share & fill out this form: goodlawproject.org/about/trans-...

STATEMENT FROM ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

Concertina players improve neighbourhoods - support your local concertinist!

Is is me, or did @tommckinney.bsky.social quite deliberately segue from Scheidt to Krapp just now?

Morris appreciation highest among 25-35 year olds!

I *may* have suggested in a meeting this week that a key stakeholder had a sub-optimal mouth/trouser ratio…

Despite the reassurances that ‘trans people are still protected under the equality act’ this ruling will enable people who just love calling trans women ‘men’ or trans people ‘delusional’. The level and scale of abuse is going to be amplified horrifically and with no consequences.

Who you gonna call? BOAT DUSTERS!

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an idle thought I've had at the back of my head for a while is that a lot of white collar/middle class jobs used to be legitimately fun and/or intellectually stimulating and/or ludicrously well paid and now they're few or none of those things, and we don't talk about that at all

GCU Liveware Issue

Call me Mrs Dalloway. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore…

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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Marsden moor doesn't catch fire by accident. The person who started this has put lives at risk. There are farms and families down there - and the local fire crews trying to save them. #BeMoorAware

five years ago some friends got together to sing some shanties on zoom because the world was bleak and we were nerds and we kinda just...never stopped Saturday 22 March will mark five years to the day (!!) come sing with us! 7pm UK time

My #FolkSky pals might enjoy this (and in case, like me, the only hymn tune you know by name is ‘Cranbrook’…)

Lovely fire skills session with the Pioneers this evening - I thought there was a very @aransome.bsky.social vibe about this pic - though I’m not sure Susan ever made a ‘campfire doughnut’, or for that matter cooked over a repurposed washing machine drum, but both work very successfully!

“I’ve got a heavy car” is why they have speed limits in the first place, padre.

Another entry in my sporadic #PeopleYouNeverKnewPlayedTheSqueezebox hashtag series ... #6 Mr. Spock on the Hohner one-row-four-stop melodeon ... I keep on telling you that the system is the most logical!

1/ 🧵 To mark #InternationalWomensDay, a short tribute to some female architects of 1960s public housing. First up, Kate Macintosh and the incomparable Dawson's Heights Estate she designed for Southwark Borough Council aged just 28 in 1966.

PC very slow to start up this morning, but on the bright side, the four minutes to install yet more updates was long enough to make a cup of coffee and listen to all of ‘Midnight Train to Georgia’:

This year for Lent, I am giving up