Is the Royal Mail on strike? Letter franked 6 Jan arrived on 22 Jan.

I WONDER WHO'S BEING MURDERED THIS WEEK HERE'S A FEATURE ON JESSIE FOR NO REASON #traitors

They switched from using ticket prices and what they could afford as the starting point and started using appearance fees and working backwards.

Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.

Pretty much all I do with this account is just stare at these Birmingham Live headlines.

Same :/

Because it's Saturday?

Sigh. Pretty sure that headline should be the other way around BirminghamLive

Guess they're heading back to Birmingham still completely mashed from a weekend in London

Traffic update: M40 northbound is chock full of dangerous dickheads.

(Photo courtesy @holmeschan.bsky.social) Instagram post by @pinkdothk announcing the cancellation of the 2025 Pink Dot event in Hong Kong

Pink Dot, Hong Kong's largest LGBTQ event, has been cancelled this year after failing to secure the venue at the West Kowloon Cultural District, a government-funded statutory body. Pink Dot has been an annual event since 2014

Three stunning and shaming paragraphs, by Rachel Wolf of Public First, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Headline saying bomb squad hunt for man with five hand grenades in Midlands suburb

Me gardening

Scientists at Loughborough University create 'world's smallest violin' The violin is smaller than a human hair and has "laid the groundwork" for future research.

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Britain’s parties cater to a voter who is, often literally, dead To understand British politics, one must understand Dead Man

New voter just dropped: Dead Man www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Most of the time, the biggest barriers to using a 🚲 for everyday tasks are the literal barriers. #Shrewsbury #BigShop #WhyDontTheyUseTheCycleLanes

not to keep re-stating the obvious, but this is precisely what max weber meant by politicians are leaders who shape the future; this is also a perfect example of the despotic demagoguery that weber feared would arise in a world where (liberal) politicians failed to shape a positive future vision.

This right next to the constantly congested "out-of-town" retail parks they have built "very much in the town".

Had this happen with legal docs from Northern Ireland. Just 🤷🏻‍♂️

Unscientific but... I listen to Today most weekday mornings and as we enter another Trump-hot air news cycle I'm trying to remember the last time I heard /any/ news from China.

Epic idea

Go fash, lose cash

I don't know how parameters work but if you have vehicles jump red lights 10% of the time and kill a pedestrian every fortnight or so then you're on the money.

While it refuses to build bike lanes I suggest you call it procedural Birmingham.

"Even the design of the seat back or the trade table is all part of how we consider making that survival space," Graham Braithwaite a safety and accident investigation professor tells the BBC. "And the seatbelt that people have is so important – that is the ultimate thing that stops people being thrown around the cabin like this."

I read this quote and now I can't stop imagining him waving his arms around Kermit style.

Snow days where everything shuts down, but for sunshine in Britain in Feb.

😮 this is amazing

Two Birmingham Live headlines 'actively misleading' says IPSO Press regulator IPSO has criticised Reach regional website Birmingham Live over two "actively misleading" headlines.

Interesting ruling on clickbait slurry

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My favourite bit of Birmingham bike infrastructure is where they just paint a picture of a bike on the tarmac of an otherwise normal road. I assume it marks the place where a cyclist was killed.