Bluebells

Bluebells out at Clent yesterday
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Keir Starmer: "We are not involved."

Meanwhile US bombers are taking off from British soil loaded with bombs for genocide in Iran.

Stop gaslighting us. Kick US troops off British soil NOW.

Me in front of marine lake

View across marine lake with beach in distance and blue sky

Me in marine lake with hat

Maundy Thursday dip at Clevedon on our way back from Cardiff
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Pride cast list with stage behind

Waiting for Pride at the Sherman Theatre with Megan
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Blue sky with magnolia and cherry blossom Text reads trans visibility day 2026 You are seen You are loved

The death penalty is the latest violence of a state built on racial discrimination under law. Israel is an apartheid state.

Really glad West Mids UCU banner was there, showing Malcolm X’s visit to Smethwick & the Chainmakers in our regional history. To tackle the threats we face now, we need to understand racism and sexism are not new, middle class concerns, they’re fundamental, historical components of class division

West Mids ucu ano the @ucu.org.uk bloc at @togetheralliance.bsky.social

Dave and me on coach

On the coach from
Stourbridge to march today with
@ucu.org.uk
and
@neunion.bsky.social
in the union bloc at
@togetheralliance.bsky.social

#Together

We’re marching on 28 March in London to show that hope is always more powerful than fear.
🔗 togetheralliance.org.uk

📍 Main Route: Meet at Park Lane at 12pm.
📍 Short Route: Meet outside Waterstones in Trafalgar Square at 1pm.

See below for full route maps and nearest accessible stations.👇 #Together

placement of the Palestinians from their land. This is a family-friendly event that brings together Palestinians and supporters from all backgrounds and walks of life. This year we will march on Saturday 16 May to demand an end to Britain’s complicity in Israel’s crimes and reaffirm our commitment to Palestinian freedom. In response to our annual demonstration, far right thug ‘Tommy Robinson’ has called  a hate march on the same day. This is not the first time the far right has targeted the Palestine movement. In the past they have done so aggressively with verbal and physical violence directed at us and the police. Disgracefully, the police have now refused our proposed route, even though we informed them of our intention to march on 18 December 2025. Instead, they have allocated London’s political centre, the whole of Whitehall, Parliament Square and Trafalgar Square, to the far right protest. We call on the police to immediately reverse this shameful decision. We call on every person of good conscience to march with us for Palestine in London on Saturday 16 May. We will march.

In December 2025, the Palestine Coalition informed the Metropolitan Police of its planned route for the annual Nakba Day march on 16 May. This has only now been refused because of the announcement by Tommy "Ten Names" Robinson of plans to hold a far right march on the same day.

The Tiny Numbers Behind the Girlguiding Trans Panic Exposing the truth: The real children behind the headlines and the outrage

Approx 1,150 trans kids go to Girl Guides in the UK. Out of approx 300,000 Girl Guides in total. There's around 23,000 Girl Guide Units (groups) in the UK.

That means the vast majority of units have zero trans kids. With the ones that do having around 1.

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Mockingbird cinema with sign reading BY ORDER OF THE PEAKY F***ING BLINDERS over door

Long haired black cat in arms of woman with pink and blonde hair

Selection of cakes in display case

Theatre set showing street scene with green lights

Some Brum things from the last few days:
Peaky Blinders at the Mockingbird, Bearwood Goths, scoping out cakes at CherryReds, Jekyll & Hyde revision with the teen at the Alex
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A 20-day-old infant, his mother, sister, and his uncle’s family were killed when a US-Israeli airstrike struck their home last night

It’s the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Today, like every day, is a reminder that racism is not an isolated issue but is institutionalised in politics. From the ongoing genocides to anti-Black policing to xenophobic abuse, we need to disrupt all fascism taking place.

March together !

Join our bloc at the @UKTogetherAll march on 28 March! 🙌

Assemble 12pm, Block C. Find us on what3words: ///patrol.cone.pulse

March with us against the far right ✊
Full route info: togetheralliance.org.uk

Outcome meetings confirm: Our academic staff are being moved into subsidiaries on inferior terms, using TUPE to avoid redundancy while cutting jobs. Most academic staff will no longer be employed by the University. We are fighting back.
#UCU #CoventryUniversity #TUPE

As the UK says Iran must never acquire a nuclear weapon, it is proceeding with its new plan to equip British warplanes with US nuclear weapons.

#DCUKparliament

Working men’s and women’s Paris, Karl

Magnolia against a very blue sky

Magnolia is out along the cut 😎

Does anyone actually buy mushroom gummies, magic invisible lipstick and planners with billions of stickers? Do they they actually find they are transformed into a glamorous Parisian woman with no more perimenopause and no issues with managing ridiculous competing workload?

Under the existing rules, women can face life imprisonment if they have an abortion outside the exemptions of the 1967 Act - an act that saved 1000s of women's lives but which is now outdated.

What the far right & anti-abortion movement won't admit is that they are happy for women to go to prison.

Since January 2025 65 Palestinian children have been killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. That is roughly one child every week. UNICEF calls on the Israeli authorities to take immediate and decisive action to protect Palestinian children and uphold their right to life in line with international law. unicef for every child

Constance Markievicz monument in Dublin

Happy #SaintPatricksDay to Irish friends and comrades 💚

Potential College restructure at UoB will affect academic staff, professional services, students and our wider civic role. Birmingham UCU will be actively gathering members’ thoughts, questions and concerns over the coming weeks to inform our position in any formal consultation.

Pink cherry blossom in foreground, blurred cherry blossom trees in background

Quick detour to the Oozells square blossom on my way to city centre campus today

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#Birmingham
#Bloomscrolling

Solidarity with all at @birminghamucu.bsky.social from us at @bcu-ucu.bsky.social. Grim times.

Joshua Idehen - Mum Does The Washing OFFICIAL VIDEO YouTube video by Joshua Idehen

Mum does the washing
#MotheringSunday
#MothersDay
#Politics
#Sociology
#Ideology

youtu.be/PS9Bc_GQBEs