Flags have been gone from my bit of Brum for a few weeks now. Pleased to see that the stickers remain. #Birmingham #Brum #HopeNotHate
Rachel Withey
@rachellwithey.bsky.social
Interested in nature, active travel, better streets, rewilding, reading, politics, history and much more. Happiest outside. Live in Brum. With work hat on interested in research strategy and delivery, particularly within the social sciences.
Via Greenpeace As schools shut and people struggle to do the everyday things - sleep, travel, move around - this is what we should all be focusing on.
📢 Polling stations are now open! 📢 Want to replace the failing Labour Party and defeat the hateful message of Reform? Get yourself down to your local polling station and vote Green today! Every vote counts. Make sure your voice is heard 💚 Don’t forget your Photo ID for voting in England!
Voted Off to spend the day encouraging likely Green Party voters to do the same If you’re in #Brum and you want to minimise the inevitable number of reform councillors announced on Friday please, please go and vote. It’s one of those elections where every vote is really going to make a difference
Made me laugh over on Instagram courtesy of Uk Transport Department
With three new rail stations on the Camp Hill line and two tram stops on the Eastside extension open in the last few days, we're taking the opportunity to ask for more stops please!
@knittingcultlady.bsky.social Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a protest against Nazi occupation of their country All proceeds from the sale of this pattern go to local immigrant aid organizations who support those impacted by the actions of ICE payhip.com/b/TqQL1
Melt the ICE Hat Pattern
In the 1940’s, Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a form of visual protest against Nazi occupation of their country. Within two years, the Nazis made these protest hats illegal...
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Their demands are reasonable, their treatment is disgraceful. The government's intransigence is killing the #PalestineAction hunger strikers. Just as its complicity has assisted the genocide in Gaza. It needs to wake up right now to the moral consequences. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Two Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers taken to hospital
MPs and next of kin of prisoners Amu Gib, 30, and Kamran Ahmed, 28, call for immediate government intervention
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Every year I stop myself from posting “now look here you lot, my books would make an excellent Christmas present” in October because it’s way too early, and then I forget until it’s way too late. Hope I’ve hit the sweet spot this time. levparikian.com/index.php/sh...
Do donate if you have a little bit of spare money and follow for great cycling tour updates Tim style. Slow pace, great scenery, great food and drink
@annacycles.bsky.social · 12mo agoWe have now raised over £3000 for our Ride for Tim 🩵 We’re riding LEJOG to remember the amazing @timcyclesthecoast.bsky.social and raise a few bob for charities he supported. Thanks so much to everyone who has donated and sent supportive messages. www.givewheel.com/fundraising/...
Only the led ride and counter aspects of the event will go ahead tomorrow. We've been watching the forecast and there's some pretty grim looking thunderstorms happening later in the afternoon that doesn't look like it would mix well with outdoor gazebos and bike checks.
This Saturday we’re celebrating our cycle lane’s 6th birthday. • Led ride from Hippodrome Square to UoB via the Cycleway, leaving at 1pm • Help get the Sir Harry’s Road counter to 6,000 in a day • Free bike checks and minor repairs at UoB Green Heart, 1.30-4pm 💙
"Katwala's paradox of racism" In a demonstrably less prejudiced society (attitudes shifted, esp across generations), I am in receipt of much more racism Minorities in 2020s have more equal opps than ever before - esp at very top - yet an increasingly unequal experience of more equal opportunities
Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition now to show them the public still backs this nature-friendly fix: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/swifts-p...
Sign the petition: Save Our Swifts
Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple £35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition ...
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In just one week 40,000 people have demanded that Scottish Government Ministers recall and reject the Flamingo Land mega-resort application! Send your message to the Planning Minister today 👇 greens.scot/LochLomond
Save Loch Lomond - TAKE ACTION NOW
Save Loch Lomond - TAKE ACTION NOW -
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WTF? If this Government can’t even agree to this smallest of initiatives, which has no cost to them & absolutely no down-sides, what hope that it will step up to the bigger nature challenges we face? This is a *popular* policy, for heavens sake. Obstinate tin-eared stupidity doesn’t come close …
Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes
MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds
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Birmingham folks - Critical Mass comes to Harborne on Sunday 1 June. Come and enjoy riding in a big group. All welcome. Please share #Birmingham #Brum #Harborne #Cycling #CriticalMass
We're pleased to announce our first monthly public meeting for Northfield constituency will take place on Tuesday 10th June at 7pm in the NAF Shop on Northfield High Street. They will take place every second Tuesday of the month. ‼️ Save your place: actionnetwork.org/events/bsfb-...
What would make your street better? Come and talk about it on Tuesday 10th June
Come to Better Streets for Birmingham's monthly public conversation: What would make your street better?
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Here's JSO's short cut of my protest rant on Politics Live. www.youtube.com/shorts/L_93v...
"They Cannot Tolerate Challenges to Wealth and Power" | George Monbiot | BBC Politics Live #shorts
YouTube video by Just Stop Oil
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Our self seeded hawthorn tree is flowering this year for the first time. From what I’ve read it should just get more and more flowery as it get older. What a joy.
I’m trying to find more places I can get to easily on public transport for long walks in remote countryside. Off to meet a friend in the Peak District today #Brum #LeaveTheCarAtHome
Labour's biggest issue is neither being too socially conserative or not socially conservative enough. It's cuts. People have had enough.
a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore@steamedhamms.bsky.social · last yr.make people’s lives worse, lose seats
