Mark Baxter
@sparkbadger.bsky.social
Writer & IIlustrator. Editor at Moseley B13 Magazine, Brum.
Free Palestine. Slava Ukraine. Animal rights. Art for social change #Resistance 🌊
Radio Show Communities #Forgotten80s #80sTM #sts70s #DLXP #ChooseDay #PtoP #MWXS #Deeper80s #TOTP
Free Palestine. Slava Ukraine. Animal rights. Art for social change #Resistance 🌊
Radio Show Communities #Forgotten80s #80sTM #sts70s #DLXP #ChooseDay #PtoP #MWXS #Deeper80s #TOTP
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The November edition of @moseleyb13mag.bsky.social is out now! 🍂 The issue takes a look at the development of our new train stations, as well as the Kings Heath Walk of Fame tribute night for Christine McVie (Moseley School of Art alumna), and the story of Moseley’s Major John Kinsman Brodie in WWII
I'll give SOTN to Erasure's Drama . Joint runner-uppers - A-ha and Howard Jones. Excellent show! See you all soon. #forgotten80s
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I'll give SOTN to Erasure's Drama . Joint runner-uppers - A-ha and Howard Jones. Excellent show! See you all soon. #forgotten80s
I like a lot of stuff Weller did but that story of him having a go at George Michael during the Band Aid recording... not a good look, Paul. #forgotten80s
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I like a lot of stuff Weller did but that story of him having a go at George Michael during the Band Aid recording... not a good look, Paul. #forgotten80s
I always forget how many great songs there are by Erasure... Drama is a banger; so catchy and energetic. #forgotten80s
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I always forget how many great songs there are by Erasure... Drama is a banger; so catchy and energetic. #forgotten80s
Stay on these Road is epic. Loved the album. #forgotten80s
November 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Stay on these Road is epic. Loved the album. #forgotten80s
Another Howard Jones banger. Glad he is getting a lot of press and respect nowadays. #forgotten80s
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Another Howard Jones banger. Glad he is getting a lot of press and respect nowadays. #forgotten80s
That's more like it. Human League can never fail. #forgotten80s
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
That's more like it. Human League can never fail. #forgotten80s
Hey, Forgotten 80s! How is everyone? Looking forward to some unsung songs. #forgotten80s
November 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Hey, Forgotten 80s! How is everyone? Looking forward to some unsung songs. #forgotten80s
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This Remembrance Sunday, we're remembering the men, women and animals of war.
They served together 💜
They served together 💜
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
This Remembrance Sunday, we're remembering the men, women and animals of war.
They served together 💜
They served together 💜
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Pssssst - she was the one who discovered the DMA structure with X-ray radiography. Watson (who died today) and Crick (who died years ago) stole it from her
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Pssssst - she was the one who discovered the DMA structure with X-ray radiography. Watson (who died today) and Crick (who died years ago) stole it from her
Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907–1954), Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907–1954), Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
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Born enslaved in North Carolina, Anna Julia Cooper earned a master’s degree in mathematics from Oberlin in 1887 & a PhD from the Sorbonne. She observed, “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.”
November 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Born enslaved in North Carolina, Anna Julia Cooper earned a master’s degree in mathematics from Oberlin in 1887 & a PhD from the Sorbonne. She observed, “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.”
Trump is threatening the basic needs of poor Americans. How low he has sunk
The president has put Snap benefits in jeopardy amid a fight over Medicaid. The nation has lost its moral authority www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The president has put Snap benefits in jeopardy amid a fight over Medicaid. The nation has lost its moral authority www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump is threatening the basic needs of poor Americans. How low he has sunk | Robert Reich
The president has put Snap benefits in jeopardy amid a fight over Medicaid. The nation has lost its moral authority
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Trump is threatening the basic needs of poor Americans. How low he has sunk
The president has put Snap benefits in jeopardy amid a fight over Medicaid. The nation has lost its moral authority www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The president has put Snap benefits in jeopardy amid a fight over Medicaid. The nation has lost its moral authority www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Born on this day in 1878, physicist Lise Meitner discovered nuclear fission, was excluded from the Nobel Prize for her own discovery, and persevered to pave the way for women in science anyway. Her remarkable story: www.themarginalian.org/2016/10/27/l...
How Pioneering Physicist Lise Meitner Discovered Nuclear Fission, Paved the Way for Women in Science, and Was Denied the Nobel Prize
“Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep joy and awe that the natural order o…
www.themarginalian.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Born on this day in 1878, physicist Lise Meitner discovered nuclear fission, was excluded from the Nobel Prize for her own discovery, and persevered to pave the way for women in science anyway. Her remarkable story: www.themarginalian.org/2016/10/27/l...
‘For the women who gave birth in the dark’: a portrait of motherhood in Gaza
Diana Shams wrote a book because ‘no one explains how to carry your baby through fire, hunger and fear – and still sing to her at bedtime’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Diana Shams wrote a book because ‘no one explains how to carry your baby through fire, hunger and fear – and still sing to her at bedtime’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘For the women who gave birth in the dark’: a portrait of motherhood in Gaza
Diana Shams wrote a book because ‘no one explains how to carry your baby through fire, hunger and fear – and still sing to her at bedtime’
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
‘For the women who gave birth in the dark’: a portrait of motherhood in Gaza
Diana Shams wrote a book because ‘no one explains how to carry your baby through fire, hunger and fear – and still sing to her at bedtime’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Diana Shams wrote a book because ‘no one explains how to carry your baby through fire, hunger and fear – and still sing to her at bedtime’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The white poppy has been in circulation since 1933—produced by the Co-operative Women's Guild just 12 years after the creation of the red version—and, like so many things, its existence was never a problem until recent times. www.ppu.org.uk/remembrance-...
November 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The white poppy has been in circulation since 1933—produced by the Co-operative Women's Guild just 12 years after the creation of the red version—and, like so many things, its existence was never a problem until recent times. www.ppu.org.uk/remembrance-...
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890), The Sower (The Sower at Sunset), 1888
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
November 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890), The Sower (The Sower at Sunset), 1888
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
"Frankenstein is simultaneously the first science-fiction novel, a Gothic horror, a tragic romance and a parable all sewn into one towering body."
Frankenstein: Why Mary Shelley's 200-year-old horror story is so misunderstood www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
Frankenstein: Why Mary Shelley's 200-year-old horror story is so misunderstood www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"Frankenstein is simultaneously the first science-fiction novel, a Gothic horror, a tragic romance and a parable all sewn into one towering body."
Frankenstein: Why Mary Shelley's 200-year-old horror story is so misunderstood www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
Frankenstein: Why Mary Shelley's 200-year-old horror story is so misunderstood www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
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“The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.”
✒️ #MarthaGellhorn, American novelist and journalist, one of the first female war correspondents, was #BOTD 8 November 1908.
✒️ #MarthaGellhorn, American novelist and journalist, one of the first female war correspondents, was #BOTD 8 November 1908.
November 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
“The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.”
✒️ #MarthaGellhorn, American novelist and journalist, one of the first female war correspondents, was #BOTD 8 November 1908.
✒️ #MarthaGellhorn, American novelist and journalist, one of the first female war correspondents, was #BOTD 8 November 1908.
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the other women in the country?”
The president is groped in broad daylight, and Mexican women cry: MeToo, MeToo, MeToo www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The president is groped in broad daylight, and Mexican women cry: MeToo, MeToo, MeToo www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The president is groped in broad daylight, and Mexican women cry: MeToo, MeToo, MeToo | Mona Eltahawy
After Claudia Sheinbaum was assaulted this week, her opponents claimed she staged it. From their own experiences, the women I met know she didn’t have to, says author Mona Eltahawy
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the other women in the country?”
The president is groped in broad daylight, and Mexican women cry: MeToo, MeToo, MeToo www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The president is groped in broad daylight, and Mexican women cry: MeToo, MeToo, MeToo www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Really sad to see the news that Pauline Collins has died. I know she's remembered for being amazing in Shirley Valentine but, for me, she is forever Sarah in Upstairs Downstairs. Absolutely brilliant.
My thoughts are with those who love her ❤️
My thoughts are with those who love her ❤️
November 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Really sad to see the news that Pauline Collins has died. I know she's remembered for being amazing in Shirley Valentine but, for me, she is forever Sarah in Upstairs Downstairs. Absolutely brilliant.
My thoughts are with those who love her ❤️
My thoughts are with those who love her ❤️
Dame Elizabeth Cadbury, the Victorian philanthropist who led an "extraordinary life" campaigning for women's and children's rights to health and education is to be honoured with a blue plaque www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Blue plaque to honour 'extraordinary' Cadbury philanthropist
The plaque will be unveiled to women's and children's campaigner Elizabeth Cadbury on Thursday.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Dame Elizabeth Cadbury, the Victorian philanthropist who led an "extraordinary life" campaigning for women's and children's rights to health and education is to be honoured with a blue plaque www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
