Saw a graph on here the other day of NEA funding in the states over time.

Arts funding more or less halved under 2 terms of Clinton and has stayed there ever since.

We can't keep up...

Yesterday we reached 90,000 members. Today we're at 95,000.

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Be our new Literary Associate! - Vital Xposure Join our team! Are you a Deaf, disabled, or neurodivergent playwright with leadership ambitions? This is your chance to shape the future of new writing while learning how a national touring company op...

An exciting new role @vitalxposure for disabled, Deaf, or neurodivergent playwrights with leadership ambitions! Be VX’s Literary Associate and help shape the future of new writing. Apply by 5pm, Thu 6 Nov: www.vitalxposure.co.uk/literary-associate ‎

9th Sept - 70,000 members
28th Sept - 80,000 members
5th Oct - 85,000 members
8th Oct - 90,000 members 👏

join.greenparty.org.uk today to help us translate this at the ballot box too 👌

🎉 80,000 Green Party members!

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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody.

42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

the thing about optimo is it emerged out of, reflected, was part of the wider cultural scene in millenial glasgow. it and the visual arts scene, especially, orbited each other. that’s part of what made it like cbs or the hac. the other part was people *wanting* it to be.

Gutted we've lost one of the best folk.

Glasgow owes you so much Keith. We'll remember you.

Be more Twitch.

Greens for Trans Liberation Trans rights are human rights.  The Green Party has long affirmed that:  • Trans women are women, trans men are men, and non-binary identities exist.  • Everyone deserves dignity, safet...

The Green Party has taken great strides in being a liberatory space for trans people.

It must not allow organisations to bully us into having stalls at conference that are against our aims and makes people feel unsafe.

So a group of us have created a petition ✍️
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The Green Party Has Finally Picked a Side | Novara Media With three leftists winning the landslide victories in the Green leadership election, the party has stopped trying to bridge its centrist and socialist factions and committed to a radical path, writes...

The Green Party has decided - overwhelmingly - to stand up and fight against the powerful:

Me on @zackpolanski.bsky.social, @mothinali.bsky.social and @rachelmillward.bsky.social’s victory:

novaramedia.com/2025/09/02/t...

Wow! I came across this letter in your archive when writing an article on McLaren way back in the 2000s!

Never forgotten it - recognised it instantly 🤗

On #WorldLetterWritingDay a favourite from our #NormanMcLaren Archive
collections.stir.ac.uk/collections/...
#CultureOnStirCampus @artatstirling.bsky.social

Susannah Clapp · On Hallie Flanagan From 1935 to 1939, Flanagan ran the most extraordinary of stage ventures. The Federal Theatre Project, set up under FDR...

‘The Federal Theatre Project, set up under FDR’s New Deal to give work to unemployed theatre practitioners, produced more than a thousand plays, estimated to have been seen by roughly one in four Americans.’

Susannah Clapp on the US national theatre project: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.

Liverpool Green Party Stands Against Racism

On Saturday 23 August 2025, join together to show UKIP that their ‘Mass Deportations Now Tour’ is not welcome here. In Liverpool, we are proud of our diversity and racism has no place in our city.

📅 Sat 23 Aug 2025
🕛 12pm
📍 St George’s Hall

As Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put it: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"

Congratulations to Katie Jarman, the new Green Party councillor for Sefton Park in Liverpool. Katie run a really positive campaign and she will make a great community focused councillor 🟢🌱💚

Sefton Park by-election in Liverpool. Green hold.

Lab 211
Tory 14
Ref 54
Grn 468
LDs 193

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The thing that’s going to come back to bite them though is that the bar has also been massively lowered with regards to ejecting unpopular Prime Ministers.

The pace at which decades' worth of progress is being shredded genuinely scares me.

When I attended my first Pride events, we all knew that most police officers there had been recruited and trained at a time when we were criminalised. They had been taught that we were their targets. 1/4

Keith Saha, 20 Stories High artistic director, to step down 20 Stories High artistic director and co-chief executive Keith Saha has announced he is to depart the company after 19 years at the helm

20 Stories High (‪@20storieshigh.bsky.social‬) artistic director and co-chief executive Keith Saha has announced he is to depart the company after 19 years at the helm 👇

Measles: Child dies at Alder Hey Children's hospital as cases surge Seventeen children have been treated at the Liverpool hospital for the virus since June.

Only 73% of children in Liverpool are vaccinated, vs 85% in north-west England.

The World Health Organisation has a target of 95%, because that's where herd immunity kicks in.

The measles vaccine is safe.

Encourage everyone you know to get their kids vaccinated.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dinah Murray Dinah in her final months, with Frankie in Fife. Photo by Fergus Murray. Dr Dinah Murray was a political activist, autistic autism researcher, support worker, writer and mother. She liked to call h…

Dinah Murray died on this day four years ago, in Dalgety Bay.

She had lived to see her work on Monotropism as a theory of autism becoming more and more widely recognised, and died surrounded by people who loved her.

Read about her life and legacy, and read her work, here:
monotropism.org/dinah/

Interesting note in the evaluation doc.

"When comparing the data per year, this has resulted in a 12% reduction in all injury collisions that equates to a cost saving of
around £1.2 million..."

Total cost was £223,000. What a return 😮

democracy.wirral.gov.uk/documents/s5...

Quote reading: The evaluation highlighted a number of key findings: • An overall reduction of 2.9mph in average speed across all schemes after year one. • A 12% reduction in road traffic collisions. • A 23% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured (KSI). • An 8% reduction in those slightly injured (SI) in collisions. • 28% fewer vehicles travelling above 25mph (based on traffic daily flow). • 51% fewer vehicles travelling above 30mph (based on traffic daily flow). • 64% more vehicles travelling below 20mph (based on traffic daily flow). • A reduction in average speeds on 20mph roads in all of the scheme areas • More than 300 fixed penalty notices issued by Merseyside Police officers enforcing the speed limits in these areas.

20mph road sign set against a blue sky. Headline reads "ALLLOCAL DEMOCRACY Fewer casualties on Wirral roads where 20mph speed limits are in place"

The initial results are in for Phase 1 of Wirral's 20mph rollout. An amazing success. Imagine arguing against this stuff

"A 23% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured (KSI)"

Article here featuring a quote by me www.birkenhead.news/fewer-casual...

I’m sure that will be news to both of them! 😂

Funnily enough that’s also the exact logic underpinning both ‘The Divine Right of Kings’ and the entire philosophy of Realpolitik