Ed Strain

Ed Strain

@jestrain.bsky.social

Business Support Officer for Staffordshire CC, Villa fan, socialist ex-lorry driver, UoB alumnus and Lichfield City Councillor representing Leomansley Ward.

90 Followers 123 Following 12 Posts Joined Nov 2024
6 days ago
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QuitGPT — ChatGPT takes Trump's killer robot deal Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.

I just joined the @quitgpt boycott.

OpenAI's president was the biggest donor in Trump's Super PAC's year-end report. It's time to quit - using ChatGPT directly funds this.

I've stopped my subscription and started using an ethical alternative (it's just as good)

Join us: quitgpt.org // #QuitGPT

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2 weeks ago

😂😂 when you just can’t get enough of pizza from pizza express

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1 month ago

Great kit :)

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6 months ago

Juries are randomly selected members of the public. Men and women from all walks of life and all political backgrounds.

Only a moron of irredeemable proportions would even think of suggesting that a jury verdict represents some deep state “two-tier justice”.

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7 months ago

Did your colours leak in the wash? 😳

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8 months ago

Isn't a Registry office wedding humanist? Even if you get married in a field, you still need a registrar, don't you? I'm just a bit confused. I had to have a registrar at my church wedding. Isn't that the same for everyone? I'm not dissing humanist weddings btw.

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8 months ago

At least one of those was for Unai, I think - does that count? 😅

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9 months ago

Is the big pipe going to be removed?

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9 months ago
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🚨Reform UK’s Councillor Barry Martin for Stretton in Staffordshire has posted this on Facebook asking if he should resign or not.

This is a slap in the face to his constituents.

We’ve highlighted him previously:

x.com/reformexpose...

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9 months ago
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University under investigation by the Health and Safety Executive Workload is a Health and Safety matter BUCU Health and Safety reps are taking action to make our workload manageable and create a safer and healthier place for us all to work in. Thanks to everyone…

birminghamucu.org/2024/10/16/u...

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9 months ago
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Jack Shenker · Renters v. Rentiers Housing injustice, unlike most of the social ills afflicting our atomised society, has the potential to unite and...

‘Supply does matter. But building homes without altering the way their pricing is arrived at – and the relationship between those who own and those who occupy them – will make little difference to private renters.’

Jack Shenker on the housing crisis: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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10 months ago

A great game - we were by far the better team, UTV lads👏

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10 months ago
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John Lanchester · Short Cuts: Labour’s Straitjacket The Tories, in office, prepared a trap for Labour. It had a large sign on it saying ‘It’s a Trap’ and then next to...

‘The Tories prepared a trap for Labour. It had a large sign on it saying “It’s a Trap” and then next to that another sign saying “When We Say, It’s a Trap, What We Specifically Mean Is, It’s a Trap for the Incoming Labour Government and Especially for Rachel Reeves.”’

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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11 months ago
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Please help striking Birmingham bin workers fight against attacks on their pay! More than 350 Birmingham bin workers are on strike, due to the council’s decision to abolish the safety critical Waste Recycling and Collection Officer (WRCO) role. This means pay cuts of up £8,000 ...

actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...

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1 year ago
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careful, there's some right wrong'uns out there

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1 year ago
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AONB Management Plan 2024 - Cannock Chase AONB Management Plan 2025 – 2030 Review of Cannock Chase National Landscape (AONB) Management Plan Cannock Chase National Landscape (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) is one of England’s finest land...

www.cannock-chase.co.uk/meet-the-tea...

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1 year ago
Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

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1 year ago
A copy of The Lichfield and Burntwood Independent newspaper

Another jam-packed copy of The Lichfield and Burntwood Independent is out now - details of where to pick a copy up here 👉🏻 lichfieldlive.co.uk/lbi-map/

Thanks again to all our volunteers and advertisers who continue to keep a truly local newspaper going 🗞️

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1 year ago

This is absolutely magnificent

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1 year ago
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It was great to see #LichfieldLabour out on the streets of Stowe today - braving the wind and the rain. Well done guys! 👏

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1 year ago
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Lichfield MP says residents are "rightly concerned" about impact of Streethay roadworks - Lichfield Live® Residents in are "rightly concerned" about the ongoing impact of road closures in Streethay, Lichfield's MP has said.

Lichfield MP says residents are “rightly concerned” about impact of Streethay roadworks

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1 year ago

Hi - has Rose got a Bsky handle yet? I'm moving everything over from X

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