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“People have only interpreted Birmingham, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”

Editors @bounder.info & @jonhickman.bsky.social Formerly Birmingham: It’s Not Shit.

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This Christmas you don’t have to ask “when is BiNS?”. You can buy it

Birmingham: It’s Not Shit: 50 Things That Delight About Brum

Foreword by Adrian Chiles

amzn.to/3OANhlX

Makes a perfect gift for someone you’d like to take up The Ackers.
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This Christmas you don’t have to ask “when is BiNS?”. You can buy it

Birmingham: It’s Not Shit: 50 Things That Delight About Brum

Foreword by Adrian Chiles

amzn.to/3OANhlX

Makes a perfect gift for someone you’d like to take up The Ackers.
November 28, 2024 at 10:11 AM
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Was it Sutton?
October 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Only ID scheme I'll accept
September 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
#ITV70 (Series 1-3 only)
September 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
September 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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🚯Don't Bin Off Brum this Saturday

Join the march and demo 👇

🚐London transport: bit.ly/LDNBrumCoach20Sep
🚐E.Mids transport: bit.ly/EMidsBrumCoach20Sep
🚐Sheffield tranport: UFWE@unitetheunion.org
🚐Manchester transport: bit.ly/MCRBrumCoach20Sep

#StrikeMap
September 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Danny Smith of this parish heads to London in inappropriate footwear.
Hi friends I did some writing. Please check it out and if you like it please share it about? It's so hard to get things out there. edgetrinkets.co.uk/2025/09/01/a...
September 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Ahead of this year's Supersonic, we catch up with founder Lisa Meyer to discuss the intensifying challenges facing independent festivals, the picks from a brilliant lineup they've put together in spite of them, and more

#Supersonic’s Lisa Meyer on the Festival’s 2025 Edition

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August 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
From Rushall with Love
Steven Knight (‘Peaky Blinders’) is set to write the script for Denis Villeneuve’s ‘JAMES BOND’ movie.
August 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Night sweet prince of darkness. Left half a pint of Caffreys at the quiz machine, took Paddington’s hand and strolled off to the great 11 stop in the sky
July 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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You won't remember this – or maybe we hung around different Internets before this app – but this is a follow-on from a post I wrote on @paradisecircus.com 9 years ago. hellosteadman.substack.com/p/why-im-hid...
Why I'm hiding from LinkedIn
I'm starting again (again) and I need to own it.
hellosteadman.substack.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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When Dr Who was axed by the BBC in 1969, no one expected Verity Lambert and former Crossroads writers Letts and Dicks to bring it back for ITV.
Cliff Richard was grounded on earth with his faithful hovercraft, Bessie and UNIT headquarters were based under Birmingham's Spaghetti Junction. #DoctorWho
February 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Nearly 10 years since Pier Review was published. (You can still buy it amzn.to/40NmadU).

As we drove round all 55 of England and Wales’s bloody pleasure piers in 10’days @probablydrunk.bsky.social and i often talked of getting marching pier tattoos. Last week we did.
July 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Toksvig?? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
June 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
June 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
We used all of Wales’s water to make this satirical cartoon about the Bin Strike on Chat GPT, we hope it helps move things forward.
June 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Hot enough for you? Bins emptied?
June 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Just in time for their Xmas tip. :)
June 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows
June 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Wow! This bin man has has all the kept
promises from the council tattooed on his arm
May 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Wow! This bin man has has all the kept
promises from the council tattooed on his arm
May 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
May 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM