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English Folk Dance and Song Society@efdss.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm in the latest ED&S waxing lyrical about the song 'Spencer The Rover'. The article is not unconnected with the fact that I'll be performing at @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social on Weds 2nd December. www.efdss.org/whats-on/26-...

Trad Night: Andy Turner

The highly-regarded singer and anglo-concertina player plays an intimate, acoustic gig.

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The Summer issue of EDS magazine is out now, exclusively for EFDSS Members. Articles by: Linett Kamala @linettkamala.bsky.social Andy Turner @audinarymusic.bsky.social Jo Freya @jofreya.bsky.social and much more! If you aren't already a Member, join us now: www.efdss.org/support-us/j...

Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · last mo.

Oh my!

So, er... happy 21st birthday, this headline

Young Boys Wankdorf erection relief
July 31, 2005
BERN, Switzerland, July 31 (Reuters) - The supporters of Young Boys Bern have not had too much to celebrate in the 19 years since their team last won the Swiss league title.
Long since eclipsed by the likes of FC Basel and Grasshoppers Zurich, the club from the Swiss capital has even got a reputation for enjoying its status as a perennial loser.
But this weekend Young Boys sought to shake off their old image by officially opening the 32,000 Stade de Suisse Wankdorf stadium -- which cost 350 million Swiss francs ($271.3 million) -- with an uncharacteristically flashy homecoming party.
'I'm extremely happy, because I'm convinced this is the stadium from which Young Boys can finally launch themselves back into sporting success, Swiss president, and Bern native, Samuel Schmid told spectators just before Saturday's show got underway.
Looking on as acrobats, musicians and dancers took to the pitch, the stadium's private investors gladly shared Schmid's enthusiasm while insisting the financial viability of the overall complex does not depend solely on the team's success.
'We have learned a lot from the multifunctional stadium at FC Basel,' stadium board president Benno Oertig told Reuters.
'When you look at the total investment, it's clear that we had to have other sources of income than just the football, which is why we have a supermarket, shops, offices and even a school included in the complex.'

Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · last mo.

Odd customs - for which Steve Roud can find no sensible explanation

“Thus doth the Lord daily send wonders into the world, thereby to put us in minde of our sinnes, and move us to repentance”. And SPEAKING OF SIN, it’s also Old St Kenelm’s Day, traditionally celebrated at Clent by ‘crabbing the parson’—that is, pelting the vicar with crab apples

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In 1675 the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, sent a letter to the Zaporozhian Cossacks demanding they surrender to him. He got a spectacularly insulting reply. Watch and gurgle with delight as Matt Berry and Peter Capaldi recreate this robust exchange, industrial swearing and all.

Matt Berry and Peter Capaldi read a FIERY letter exchange

YouTube video by Letters Live

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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Exactly this. My heart sank when I heard that Burnham had voted for Mahmood's hateful Immigration Bill last week, but I thought maybe there's some cunning plan, some arcane point of parliamentary procedure I'm unaware of... I never dreamed that he'd keep her at the Home Office. So nothing's changed?

I strongly believe in giving the man a chance. But keeping Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary suggests the vicious attacks on immigrants and refugees, and self-defeating attempts to outrun the far right, are likely to continue. Which is pretty damn depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The White House spokesman is relaxed about the banner held by the Argentina team. It's a freedom of speech issue, apparently. Wonder if the US administration would be as relaxed if Lamine Yamal borrowed Janet's on Sunday?

Magpie Lane@magpielane-oxford.bsky.social · 2mo ago

After playing with Magpie Lane on Sunday evening, on Monday morning Mat, Ian and myself will be doing a short spot in True's Yard Fisherfolk Museum. Among other things we'll be singing a few of the songs that Vaughan Williams collected from old fishermen in Kings Lynn in 1905. truesyard.co.uk

Home - True's Yard Fisherfolk Museum

Discover the forgotten world of the Northenders Step back in time and see how the lost Lynn fisherfolk community lived and worked in the North End. Explore the galleries, original fisherfolk cottages,...

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So now we know England won't be playing Spain on Sunday night, there's really no reason not to come and watch Magpie Lane in concert in King's Lynn...

Magpie Lane @magpielane-oxford.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So now we know England won't be playing Spain on Sunday night, there's really no reason not to come and watch Magpie Lane in concert in King's Lynn...

Magpie Lane@magpielane-oxford.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Two weeks today. Perfect for discerning music fans in Norfolk or Lincolnshire who have no interest in watching the World Cup final! Magpie Lane in concert at the King's Lynn Festival www.kingslynnfestival.org.uk/whats-on/thr...

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 2mo ago

For God's sake. FIFA haven't got a clue.

The half-time break at the World Cup final is expected to be around 30 minutes long in order to accommodate Fifa’s star-studded show — breaching the maximum time of 15 minutes permitted under the Laws of the Game

Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺@andygjburge.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It is obvious now that the Parliamentary Commissioner was about to throw the book at Farage so he’s decided to circumvent that formal punishment by resigning. However Farage could be stopped in his tracks - read this:

Magpie Lane @magpielane-oxford.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Three chords and the truth | King's Lynn Festival

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Summary of the Home Office Impact Assessment for Asylum Bill is hilarious (if it weren't so depressing). HO analysts say "basically no evidence to suggest *any* of these policies will work *even on their own terms*" (but will probably cost money). assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a43e1...

Lauren Dobson-Hughes@ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here's several thousand additional reasons to hate Tr*mp and, especially, Elon M*sk.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Lou Morgan@lmorgan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Yes Yes Yes! The misuse of - the frankly rather ugly - neologism 'Staycation' is a real bugbear for me. If only foreign holidays count as holidays, I've hardly ever been on holiday.

Once again: it’s only a staycation if you spend your holiday time at home and don’t go away. You STAY at home for your vaCATION. Anything else is a HOLIDAY. Even if you’re (as the subhead says) holidaying an hour away from home), that’s a HOLIDAY www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...

Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · 3mo ago

May I commend this post to you, @wildmin.bsky.social ?

Started watching Michael Palin’s Hammershoi documentary, and came across this marvellous 17th century Dutch shitfaced baby

A baby smiling and waving a spoon in a 17th century painting. Clearly absolutely hammered, the little fucker

Sian Berry MP@sianberry.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you feel the same way, email your MP. An email template and some useful resources can be found at writetheletter.bimini.workers.dev

Write the Letter, Babes

EDM 240 / prayer motion is live. Your MP needs to sign it. Two taps via the coalition tool.

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I have written to the Prime Minister and Bridget Phillipson, calling for the cruel and confusing EHRC Code of Practice to be rejected. Legislative action must be taken to create an equalities framework that protects trans people’s safety, dignity and humanity.

Image is a letter. It reads: Dear Keir and Bridget,
Reject the EHRC’s Code of Practice
I am writing as Interim Women and Equalities lead of the Parliamentary Green Party to raise
serious concerns over proposed guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission,
which is not fit for purpose and will harm trans people living in the UK.
The Code of Practice for services, public functions, and associations is the culmination of
years of well-funded campaigns to drive a minority group out of British public life. It sets out
a system of segregation where trans people are excluded from services and spaces that reflect
their gender, and in some cases also excluded from services and spaces that reflect their sex
assigned at birth. Where unisex facilities exist, trans people will be forced into them. Where
they do not exist, trans people will be left with nowhere to go.
Your own Equalities Impact Assessment1 on the code admits there will be a significant
impact on those with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment - from forcing trans
people to out themselves by using disabled toilets to putting trans women at greater risk of
sexual violence by making them use men’s services.
The Code of Practice is both cruel and confusing. Inconsistencies between the Code of
Practice and its Equalities Impact Assessment, the Gender Recognition Act and the European
Convention on Human Rights will leave organisations and service providers at risk of
litigation from all sides. Frontline staff in spaces like cafes, gyms, and offices will be forced
to police gender, whilst the costs of creating self-contained gender neutral facilities are
estimated by your advisors as reaching £600m, which the government is providing no
funding to cover.2 I am pleased to see associations, like the Women’s Institute and
Girlguiding, given a potential route to serving trans and cisgender women, but this does not
counteract the pain caused by the majority of the guidance.