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The Goose had had enough. She was tired, her foot hurt, she couldn’t stop eating biscuits & something was wrong with her boiler. But she was made of stern stuff & went out to buy some bread & coffee & olives, and then limped around the Heath for an hour in the snow.

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Libraries are absolutely crucial to communities across the city. In slashing opening hours and casting uncertainty over several libraries the Labour city council didn't consider the effect this would have, This is a poor decision and needs a rethink. birmingham.greenparty.org.uk/2025/02/17/c...

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"Who's going to live in these homes? Is it the 1.5 million people on social housing waiting lists? Probably not." @drabioconnor.bsky.social on BBC North West talking about the government's focus on 'affordable' housing over social homes

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The Trump led US is trafficking adults and families with children from Afghanistan, China, Cameroon, India, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Uzbekistan Vietnam, and others into 3rd countries. The victims have no connections to these countries & are at risk of organized crime. #OpDeathEaters

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

This week’s planning committee (13th Feb) is a big one - a few major applications, some deferrals coming back and a new chair (not sure why) with some big shoes to fill as the last two have been very capable. So here are a few thoughts. 1/n

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Essential reading today. Last year we found that more than four in 10 council homes sold under right to buy are now owned by private landlords. We need to be honest about the devastating impact the right to buy scheme has had on our housing system. neweconomics.org/2024/05/refo...

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Disrobed hawthorn scratches the sky. Ploughed fields shiver. Farm Hobs walk the boundaries. Clouds offer omens of waking. The witch walks and feels the turn of the year. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Beware the Yfelcynn, for they walk unseen. By dusk, they stir in the darkened places, murmuring in lost tongues. A footstep behind, a breath too close—yet none are there. If they call your name, do not answer. For if they own your name, they own your soul magic. #Folklore #Folkhorror #haunting

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Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist." RT if Mick is right.

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

MANDATORY READING LIST!

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The what about the ambulances crowd are mysteriously silent, almost as is if they don't care.

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

This is a plea to @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social to fund core General Practice The average GP practice has lost the equivalent of 2 GPs, a nurse & admin in funding over the last 8 years (20% cuts) It’s good there are negotiations but patients want & need to see GPs Funding needed! #TeamGP

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For months I’ve been hearing behind the scenes that Labour won’t act on money in politics because donors oppose it (I wrote this in @londonreview.bsky.social) Now we can see the full scale of what’s happened. Big money Labour donors changing party policy. This is incredibly serious

submitted 19 days ago • 22 comments

The current death toll from Israel's genocide in Gaza has been revised to 62,000 and will continue to grow as those missing under the rubble are confirmed dead. This devastation of Palestinian life has been fully backed by the US and UK governments.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Labour don't care. Starmer + co's job was to keep the left away from power and maintain the status quo. They'll pick up their rewards for doing so in the form of peerages and "directorships" when they get kicked out of office at the next GE. History shows us Centrists prefer fascism to socialism.

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There is folklore in the county that hints at a god of knives. A figure called Hal the Cutter, sometimes also known as Hal of the Wounds. The god who made the first knife and who now wanders eternally in atonement of all the blood that has been shed by them since. - Dr. Katherine Wardhall

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

So Labour just sat down with 700 corporate lobbyists and has handed them full powers of autonomy and freedom, where the govt takes a back seat in the form of a secondary role. www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

"We have become familiar with the notion of once-in-a-generation events: they’re those things that happen every three months as our climate collapses. But oil under the North Sea was not just a once-in-a-generation opportunity, it was once-in-history." www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...

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If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it We cannot allow them to rewrite history. If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...

submitted 22 days ago • 126 comments

'Thaw' by Edward Thomas Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flowers of grass, What we below could not see, Winter pass. #BookWormSat #Imbolc #Spring 🌱 🎨 'The Rookery' by Edward Bawden, 1954

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there are people telling me in front of god and everyone that they are giving chatgpt all their medical and financial information on purpose so it can handle tasks for them and i do not even know how to respond

submitted 25 days ago • 45 comments

It is not mainstream opinion 🤬

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The average american once RFK jr. is Health Secretary.

submitted 25 days ago • 13 comments

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submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

An imp once stole a seamstress’s #needle as she stitched a christening gown. Furious, she cursed it so the imp would prick itself whenever it sewed. Each wound binding the creature to its own torment. To this day, an imp will not draw close to a seamster or seamstress. #Vss365 #Folklore

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Men call it mother glass, call it nipple glass and yes of course, they call it witch glass. I call it laughable that any man was ever deluded enough to think the products of his industry would act as witch-ward. Our magics are not deterred by silica distortions. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

Heathrow expansion isn't the way to achieve the economic growth Rachel Reeves is searching for and it could exacerbate inequality between regions. Our research in Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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The Homes for Us alliance is excited to be launching a new series to help housing activists develop their research and policy skills! Find out more and sign up for the first session here: homesforus.org.uk/campaigns/bu...

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Amid a catalogue of avoidable disasters at the council, this is right up there. ‘Birmingham faces £47k-a-day bill for 40 years for Perry Barr Games Village 'shocking' losses.’ Strongly advise download the BL app for best UX www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

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They operate exactly like the Conservative Party did. What is the point of this Labour government? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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