Solidarity with trans people today. A cruel, needless law that won’t make women any safer but will diminish countless people and stop them from being able to live as their true selves. Fuck TERFs and fuck the wizard woman. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
Laura Marie Brown
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Arts PR & Producer in Liverpool. Theatre, music and football distract me from politics. Yes, I probably can get you on the guest list. Secret Ninja. Dammit
If he genuinely cared about the Tory party he would obviously remove himself from the running. But the Tories are really really keen to have the open conversation about how nazi is too nazi to take your bins out
Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 10h agoHe's still representing your party, Kemi!
It’s disappeared from the forecast so that means once again I need to water all my fecking plants
Laura Marie Brown@laurambrown.bsky.social · yesterdayThis bad boy is coming at seven and I might just stand in the street
This bad boy is coming at seven and I might just stand in the street
There’s a brilliant podcast series on Radio 4 about the people who shaped America in the 20th century. The fact it’s a podcast and not a primetime documentary series is just another illustration of how TV commissioners have no ambition for their audiences www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
BBC Sounds - The History Podcast - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of The History Podcast on BBC Sounds.
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Two of the best things about getting older - Knowing that who is giving the eulogy says more about the deceased as anything else - Outliving gobshites
Have to say I’m super excited for Mayors to finally be interested in things like Business Rates. Profoundly broken but for a decade there’s been zero interest from those in devolution because they haven’t cared about high streets
Laura Marie Brown@laurambrown.bsky.social · 5d agoBusiness Rates currently go to local councils, right? So what, a Metro Mayor in LCR is going to distribute that money back to six boroughs as we have here? And is it going to be equal or is it going to be what it is now? Who’s paying to empty the bins, is what I’m asking
Business Rates currently go to local councils, right? So what, a Metro Mayor in LCR is going to distribute that money back to six boroughs as we have here? And is it going to be equal or is it going to be what it is now? Who’s paying to empty the bins, is what I’m asking
The country is very much divided into adults who have had to deal with a social care system and adults who haven’t. And it really shows
Met this acquaintance about ten years ago, and she's reminded me of someone and never placed it. Low key driving me mad. Today, TikTok served me a video of Grease 2, and it's one of the extras in Grease 2. A woman I have worked with has reminded me of an extra from a film I last watched in 1994
I met Glen Hansard on the promo tour of Once and god he was just lovely. A bit astonished by all of it and just being very present in everything. The enthusiasm and the love of it all. Ah Christ I’m going to set myself off again
Anyone who says « it was better in my day » on any platform should legally have to immediately donate £100 to an arts and music programme in their local community
My absolute bugbear in the arts is when you read about an event that says it'll "speak to diverse voices and communities" and every single person involved is white and from a five mile radius and an average income of £45k a year. My guys, don't buy hummus from Waitrose and call yourself an Arab
Really putting the women front and centre of women’s boxing, guys
@evansthecrime.bsky.social the perils of court reporting in bilingual countries
Tony - Pod Guy - Groves@tonygroves.bsky.social · last wk.So Irish Examiner journalist Alison O’Reilly hears a solicitor, Gavin Booth say that the suspect in the car bomb case ‘spent time in Saoradh.’ She, being kind, misheard him and reports it as time in Syria. The misreporting (still up, btw) goes around the world and media shrugs. Bizarre
It is kind of wild that you have to go through a paywall to read about public ownership of local services, no?
Brownies and Guides showing their new uniforms on Breakfast is just so full of joy. A girl who is about seven just looked the camera straight in the eye and said « it has secret pockets »
If it’s true that he hasn’t got enough points to get a work permit then that is absolutely mental
This Is Anfield@thisisanfield.com · last wk.NEW: Why Liverpool centre-back Ifeanyi Ndukwe cannot play for Andoni Iraola this season #lfc
Happy Pride, Liverpool 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Wishing everyone a fantastic Pride today! Artwork by Sophie Green
I think politicians will probably stop doing stunts when the media stops falling for them
My other half is a civil servant who frequently works in Manchester on Fridays. He’s just left to catch the train saying he’s excited to see how busy the usually deserted office is this week
Is, is A Christmas Carol not an Ebenezer Scrooge origin story already?
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w agoFirst poster for ‘EBENEZER’, a new film based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring Johnny Depp. “Before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer”
So, I'm going to offer an age related early analysis on the business rates decision (it's not a massive amount of money tbh) but demographically it's an interesting one. Summary headline, young people don't go to pubs, clubs or music venues, so who are we talking to?
My mother used the glorious Irish phrase that Streeting should just bring a book to the next cabinet meeting
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2w agoStreeting refuses to commit to 3% defence spending ambition ft.trib.al/EcwRDfH
Don’t want to be all Les Mis about this obviously but own the means of production or you lose your power. It’s basic socialism
Michael Savage@michaelsavage.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: What happens when you have a model that relies on tech giants? It can go south very quickly... Reach, owner of Mirror/Express, saw a *40%* fall in its websites' audience. Google referrals fell *55%*. It managed to offset the impact, but extraordinary numbers.
You can legitimise your behaviour however you want, you can blame lots and lots of different factors. Truth is, you park on a pavement and you’re a dick. There might be reasons making you a dick, but you’re still a dick www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pavement parking allowed by half of councils in England
Disability charities say the practice makes streets harder to navigate for wheelchair users and people with limited sight.
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