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@steperrin.bsky.social

Forged in the Black Country. Heavy metal. West Bromwich Albion. Below average bass player. Cycling UK member interested in active transport and road harm prevention. [Moseley, Birmingham]

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Council demolishes play area after noise complaints Parents in a Derbyshire town say their children are 'devastated' they have lost the facility.

Sometimes you think 'oh it can't really be that bad can it' and then you click on the link and it turns out it is exactly that bad www.bbc.com/news/article...

07.10.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 20

It's always a parish council. Always. Unqualified, reactionary and extremely petty.

07.10.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The best thing for you to do is be quiet and let the adults talk.

07.10.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Top tier bait. No notes. Hooked an absolute whopper.

07.10.2025 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Christ. Hope the outlook is good.

05.10.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Accept - Balls To The Wall

05.10.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Odd. I'd have thought there'd be more than that keen to see the back of me.

05.10.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Albion team and staff in a group huddle at the end of the game.

Albion team and staff in a group huddle at the end of the game.

Big 3-0 win that. All nice goals too and a worldie of a save by Clarkey in the first half to keep Derby from going in front.

Clayheads at home in the WNL Cup next week. #WBA #FAWNL

05.10.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The referee leads the teams out before the FA Women's National League Northern Premier Division game between Derby County and West Bromwich Albion at Mickleover Sports, Derbyshire.

The referee leads the teams out before the FA Women's National League Northern Premier Division game between Derby County and West Bromwich Albion at Mickleover Sports, Derbyshire.

Afternoon. Daaaaarby. #WBA #FAWNL

05.10.2025 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.

Thought you'd enjoy this.

18.09.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4582    πŸ” 1465    πŸ’¬ 107    πŸ“Œ 391

Show us the last four albums you listened to.

04.10.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's easier to manage (patronise) a handful of objectors by hiding behind an excuse of preventing a breach of the peace than to prevent actual offending, or tie up resources by arresting offenders who *want* a confrontation. Wrong headed police leadership undermining overall trust in the service.

04.10.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yet another regressive cause Jenny Jones has attached herself to. The leadership needs to decide if she's bigger than the party and I can't take the Green Party seriously while she remains a member.

04.10.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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a cartoon of a man with the word hohoho on the bottom right Alt: A cartoon of a man chuckling. Caption: "Hohoho".
04.10.2025 10:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That didn't take long. It was 'only' Discord this time but remember Antonia Dunce and Peter Kyle are "comfortable" with your IDs and sensitive logins being leaked.

04.10.2025 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Jamie Redknapp and Alan Sugar is the kind of fight I'd happily pay to watch both lose.

04.10.2025 10:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Destroy this nonsense.

02.10.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I got a notification at the exact moment 66,000 volts earthed themselves through little Jimmy. Electrocution sounds like a bicycle bell.

02.10.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Birmingham owner: Premier League elite clubs should be 'protected at all costs' Birmingham City owner Tom Wagner says lower-league clubs should not take too much in pyramid payments and allow the biggest teams in England to drive global interest.

'Tom Wagner says lower-league clubs "should not take too much" from top Premier League sides.'

Without the foundations of the pyramid and grassroots to support it there's no elite; no gameβ€”only a husk. Bluenoses will come to regret vultures like Brady and Wagner sucking the soul out of that club.

01.10.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Of course. No clue about the events around it but I remember that.

01.10.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Could be. I'm just assuming safe routes were tied to the Dublin arrangements which ended with Br**it.

01.10.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They get half the story. They aren't told that the Tories closed all the legal/regular points of entry, stopped processing asylum applications meaning hotels had to accommodate the overspill, and Labour have only done some middling compromise thing involving France.

01.10.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A neighbour stopped me outside to talk. Sounds like he's having a hard time. He did the 'immigrants in small boats living in 5* hotels' thing. Gently explained to him why desperate people are being trafficked on boats and why they're being put up in hotels.

Seems I'm "a billion per cent" right. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

01.10.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They got bored and started shouting at hotels instead.

30.09.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Knighthead Town jammy there, stealing a draw. Bought League One for Β£200K per point; still can't beat Wednesday's rump team that hasn't even been paid this month.

30.09.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Things swelling and causing, uhm, painful entrapment is a comedy as old as time itself. So why would you make and sell, or choose to wear what is potentially a lethal incendiary device with no means of emergency release?

30.09.2025 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I seem to recall Brighton Labour banding together with the local Tories to undermine the minority Green-led council at every opportunity.

Making residents' lives worse as an act of petulance.

29.09.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ooh, highlights! I offered to do it if the club gave me the footage but if they're going to make a habit of doing it themselves that's just fine. #WBA

29.09.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A Cathay Pacific plane.

A Cathay Pacific plane.

"Heathrow, it's me, I'm Cathay"

29.09.2025 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 407    πŸ” 112    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 14

If we're going to do that (we shouldn't) we should give them some decent money to live on and recourse to public funds ahead of time. Otherwise it's that other thing.

28.09.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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