Steve Pottinger
@bigstevepoet.bsky.social
Old enough to know better. Still doesn't. Likes it that way. Poet/stage manager/defiant square peg. www.stevepottinger.co.uk
If you've been listening to climate change deniers claiming "but the dinosaurs lived on a hot planet!" then this may well be for you... stevepottinger.substack.com/p/dinosaurs-...
Dinosaurs and climate change
It’s become clear, over the past several weeks, that the calm-down-it’s-just-a-hot-summer brigade have all begun parroting the line that as the planet was hot at the time of the dinosaurs, there’s no ...
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If this was happening in Russia, it would be headlines.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7d agoRepeated dawn raids by the police on peaceful, decent people who have made social media posts supportive of Palestine Action. They are being treated as if they were building bombs. Tell me this isn't authoritarianism. www.middleeasteye.net/news/this-is...
It was Count Binface’s best-ever result at a parliamentary election.
Essex police confirm Farage lied about them advising him not to attend the election count. Presumably he didn’t attend because of the embarrassment of beating a bin - nothing but a farce and a hollow victory. Today scrutiny will resume.
Two-and-a-half times more popular than a bin. Let's be generous about it, and call him 'Three-Bin Nige' from here on. 🙂 #ThreeBinNige #Clacton
📉 Labour Party membership fell by a fifth last year. 📈 Meanwhile, Green Party membership has quadrupled since @zackpolanski.bsky.social became leader last year! 🤝 Let's keep our movement growing: Join.greenparty.org.uk
That number is absolutely crazy and alarming
Stephen Frost@sfrost.bsky.social · 2w ago😔“In 2005, about 7.5% of the UK’s front gardens were paved; by 2025 that had risen to 55%” “… changing paved gardens back to grass could reduce night-time temperatures by as much as 0.5C, and adding trees would double the benefit”
HISTORY WILL NOT FORGET COMPLICITY KEIR STARMER witnessed 73,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces, including 21,000 children, and kept supplying arms to Israel
Israel murdered another journalist. Nobody will even mention it.
Welcome to Schrödinger's justice system, where we need to release people early because there's no prison space for them, yet still have room in our prison system to lock up as 'terrorists' people who interrupted the manufacture of drones used to kill innocent men, women and children. Go figure.
Make no mistake, this woman is a shit-stirring idiot.
NEW: Sir Jonathon Porritt, arrested under Terrorism law outside Westminster Magistrates Court. As police escorted him away he said "I am a supporter of Palestine Action, trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism." www.wedonotcomply.org
Half the country's in drought, there are wildfires everywhere, farmers are warning of crop shortages, but according to our Reform-led council in Walsall, this is just "a warm summer" and they've rescinded a 2019 pledge to tackle global warming. Dumb. As. Rocks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...
Suffolk wildfire updates: Blaze grows to size of 140 football pitches
A major incident has been declared - one holidaymaker tells us he was woken up by "hammering" on his door and told to evacuate immediately.
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A barrister represents his clients in court. Clients who are political dissidents. He now faces criminal prosecution for doing so. Not Turkey. Not Egypt. Not Russia. England. Astonishing, deeply disturbing, and part of a long slide towards authoritarianism. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Palestine Action barrister’s prosecution criticised as ‘chilling’
CBA chair says contempt charge over closing speech by Rajiv Menon KC has left lawyers fearful of doing their job
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And earlier in the evening, we enjoyed #MidlandsFringe show no.16. Chrys Salt's brilliant, immersive piece The Punkawallah's Rope. Get to see it if you can – it's glorious.
Midlands Fringe@midlandsfringe.bsky.social · 4w agoThe Punkawallah's Rope with Chrys Salt and Richard Ingham was a beautiful, richly written voyage through India with haunting musical accompaniment and artistic renderings. 🎭 @pandemonialists.bsky.social @chryssalt.bsky.social
Setting up for this evening’s #MidlandsFringe show “The Punkawallah’s Rope” by Chrys Salt in the Tistone Studio. 6pm start. A PAYF event. Come along! 😊
Today's #MidlandsFringe show is The Punkawallah's Rope by Chrys Salt and Richard Ingham. Highly recommended. 6pm start. Followed by a headline show from comedian Phil Ellis, which is even highlier recommended. 😊
poets and prattlers@pandemonialists.bsky.social · last mo.We've two midweek Fringe shows coming up in the Tilstone Studio at the Arena Theatre. One on Wednesday, the other on Thursday. Each starts at 6pm and is a PAYF event. Both of them are really worth catching. 😊 #MidlandsFringe
We've two midweek Fringe shows coming up in the Tilstone Studio at the Arena Theatre. One on Wednesday, the other on Thursday. Each starts at 6pm and is a PAYF event. Both of them are really worth catching. 😊 #MidlandsFringe
Thoughts about #MidlandsFringe, life in the fringes, and doing what you can. stevepottinger.substack.com/p/out-on-the...
The Summer edition of The Blackcountryman magazine is now available to buy from Framers Gallery in Worcester Street, Wolverhampton. 96 pages full of Black Country goodness. Includes a feature on Wolverhampton based photographer and podcaster Graham Stubbs.
Nice work, Wolverhampton. 🙏
poets and prattlers@pandemonialists.bsky.social · last mo.You might think we've spent Monday morning catching up on rest after a busy few days. No. We've been crunching the data from the first weekend of #MidlandsFringe (never let it be said we don't know how to live!). The news is... Well over 300 bums on seats. 150 feedback forms filled in. And...
I am hugely looking forward to this. Hugely. H.U.G.E.L.Y.
Midlands Fringe@midlandsfringe.bsky.social · last mo.Today is the day! 🎉 Our first headline show, I Get Knocked Down, will be on screen tonight at the Arena Theatre - and only for £15 (£12 for concessions)! Get yourselves a ticket by using our Linktree, and enjoy the show from Dunstan Bruce 🎭 @pandemonialists.bsky.social
Look! It's (most of) the #MidlandsFringe team! 😊
Midlands Fringe@midlandsfringe.bsky.social · last mo.As the first weekend of the fringe comes to an end, here are some lovely group photos of the team 💪 Big up the @pandemonialists.bsky.social for making this incredible festival happen for the second year running, bigger and better than ever before!
After a full-on weekend of #MidlandsFringe shows – and there were some absolute belters – today's a day for quietly getting on with Fringe admin before heading to the Arena Theatre for the first of our headline shows: I Get Knocked Down. www.midlandsfringe.co.uk/headline-shows
Midlands Fringe - Headline Shows
I Get Knocked Down
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We're starting Day Three of #MidlandsFringe in @waterstoneswton.bsky.social. Come and join us! 😊
Waterstones Wolverhampton@waterstoneswton.bsky.social · last mo.Two shows in store today from 12-1pm and 1-2pm, both courtesy of the brilliant Offa's Press! Come along and hear some great West Midlands poetry!
There's a lot of things about #MidlandsFringe which I'm proud of, and the fact all our shows get a review from our volunteer reviewers is up there at the top of the list. Reviews are vital for artists promoting their show, and giving folk the chance to review – and review really well – matters too.
poets and prattlers@pandemonialists.bsky.social · last mo.Over the next week or so, we'll have reviews of all #MidlandsFringe shows up on the festival website. For now, here's the latest: Cole Arkinstall's review of A Pint Of Football Presents A Football Carol. www.midlandsfringe.co.uk/reviews2026/...
Continuing to light up Lych Gate Tavern this afternoon with the second show of today, with stand-up comedy from Jawad Raza, exploring the differences and similarities between UK and Pakistan in a one-man show. 🎭 @pandemonialists.bsky.social
