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Jim Hawkins
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Podcaster at Hello You the Shropshire Podcast (jimallthetime.substack.com). Charity worker. Ex BBC radio presenter/journo

Also a photographer, musician, MC at Shrewsbury Folk Festival. Good listener, empath, creative. He/him. Say hello?
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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · Nov 1
Thrilled and honoured by this appreciative comment on the most recent episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast - The Lost Art of Noticing - by the super-noticer herself, @mirandakeeling.com 🥰

Hope you enjoy it as much as Miranda did!

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The Next One Here's what's going to happen next. Somewhere, right now, a trans person is teaching a class, or coaching a team, or working at a library, or providing healthcare. They're doing their job. They're probably good at it. And at some point, someone is going to have a problem with them. Maybe a parent, maybe a student, maybe a coworker. The problem won't really be about job performance. The problem will be that they're trans. That person, or someone connected to them, will take their grievance to social media. If they're lucky, Libs of TikTok will pick it up. Or Turning Point. Or one of the other accounts that have built massive followings by turning trans people into content. The post will frame the trans person as a predator, or a groomer, or a bully, or a tyrant. It won't matter what actually happened. The framing is the point. Then the calls will start. To the school board, to the administration, to the HR department. Local news will cover the "controversy." A state legislator will demand an investigation. The institution, desperate to make the problem go away, will put the trans person on leave. Maybe they'll be fired outright. Maybe they'll resign because the harassment makes it impossible to do their job. Either way they're gone. And then the person who started it all will go on Fox News. They'll get a GoFundMe. Maybe a speaking gig at a conservative conference. If the story is big enough, if it goes viral enough, they might get something more. A podcast. A book deal. A center with their name on it. This is not a guess. This is a pattern. We've watched it happen over and over again, and we will keep watching it happen until the institutions that capitulate to these campaigns start recognizing them for what they are: coordinated attempts to purge trans people from public life, dressed up as individual controversies.
December 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
jimallthetime.bsky.social
‘“Local pressure” is a vague, journalistic term to describe what is actually the vivid passion of local people who care about where they live’

What it takes to save a community lifeline

More great work from @manchestermill.bsky.social!

manchestermill.co.uk/what-it-take...
What it takes to save a community lifeline
'I think they just thought we’d calm down and do a petition'
manchestermill.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
jimallthetime.bsky.social
Beyond beer and bratwurst, what do Christmas markets bring to Brum?

Birmingham and Frankfurt have a decades-old relationship. But is it mutual?

www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/beyond-beer-...
Beyond beer and bratwurst, what do Christmas markets bring to Brum?
Birmingham and Frankfurt have a decades-old relationship. But is it mutual?
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
jimallthetime.bsky.social
A roadmap for ending plastic pollution, the Antarctic’s shrinking ozone hole, and London’s falling crime rate, plus more good news

www.positive.news/society/good...
What went right this week: the good news that matters
A roadmap for ending plastic pollution, Antarctic’s shrinking ozone hole, and London’s falling crime rate, plus more good news
www.positive.news
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
jimallthetime.bsky.social
Will West Coast jazz finally get some respect?

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Will West Coast Jazz Finally Get Some Respect?
I intend to find out
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December 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Oh no … this is such sad news

I was honoured to host a Q&A with him at Ludlow Assembly Rooms some years back

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Photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73
Photographer Martin Parr, whose colourful images captured British life, has died at the age of 73.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Good. That tosser’s level of cultural (or ‘religious’) appropriation for his own ends renders him a massive fucking hypocrite.
December 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
jimallthetime.bsky.social
The Church of England is to launch a poster campaign aimed at challenging the anti-migrant message of Tommy Robinson, whose “Unite the Kingdom” movement has urged its supporters to join a carols event next weekend to “put the Christ back into Christmas”

👏👏👏👏👏

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
C of E to challenge Tommy Robinson’s ‘put Christ back into Christmas’ message
Church leaders respond to far-right appropriation of Christian symbols with ‘Outsiders welcome’ message
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December 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble.
Housman’s A Shropshire Lad 31: On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble; His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves; The gale, it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves. 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger When Uricon the city stood: 'Tis the old wind in the old anger, But then it threshed another wood. Then, 'twas before my time, the Roman At yonder heaving hill would stare: The blood that warms an English yeoman, The thoughts that hurt him, they were there. There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I. The gale, it plies the saplings double, It blows so hard, 'twill soon be gone: To-day the Roman and his trouble Are ashes under Uricon.
December 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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As Christmas draws near, why not dive into the rich folk traditions that make this time of year so special? In my article, I explore the customs and charm of celebrating a true Shropshire Christmas!

nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-ve...

#Shropshire #Christmas #Folklore
December 7, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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radiolento.bsky.social
Mountain paths, towpaths, bridleway paths, wooden paths - we love them all.
a path along a stream between hills - this is shropshire path along a river / canal in London path up a hill. a tree has grown over some of it making a holloyway. this is autumn a path across a field - decked to keep feet dry.
December 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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#SundayThoughts ~ Flashback to Friyay ~ Jinkxie enjoying her chicken 😻🐾🍗🎄 #inthecompanyofcats #seniorcats #villagecats #catrescue
December 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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PERFECT FUCKIT LISTS (art prints and wipe clean ones) LIVE HERE - if you’re looking for the perfect present for our, um, present!?

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#fuck #swear #profanity #gift #bsnm #smallbusiness
A4 wipe clean tick list with a big blue FUCK (cos blue language obvs) surrounded by tick lists of all the accessorising you can do with that word. From CatastroFUCK to FUCK the fucking lot of you etc etc etc Art version of same printed on lovely watercolour style posh paper for if you like to give a POSH FUCK about everything in this timeline
November 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok
weirdo @JackPosobiec reacts to netflix possibly buying warner bros: “They're going to make Looney Tunes gay They're going to make everything gay”
December 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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tusk81.bsky.social
… and he SERVED ✨
Bugs Bunny in drag
December 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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gingertotty.bsky.social
FWOG
conniemenefee.bsky.social Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 1d
Bullfrog of the day!
Saturday, 6 Dec 2025
Small, green bullfrog in duckweed world
December 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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mackenzievogt.net
Really enjoying the Piano Concerto 👍
leahbroad.bsky.social Leah Broad @leahbroad.bsky.social · 16d
IT’S HERE IT’S HERE IT’S HERE!!!! The very first album ever dedicated to Avril Coleridge-Taylor. This has been such a labour of love - please do listen to it, her music deserves to be heard @jkaconductor.bsky.social @tomedney.bsky.social open.spotify.com/album/6EroQD...
Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works
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November 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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"We recently announced that Netflix will acquire William Shakespeare, including his plays, sonnets, narrative poems and indeed also his biography and everything he ever said. This unites our leading entertainment service with William Shakespeare's iconic stories. 'All the world's a Netflix!'"
December 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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mirandakeeling.com
Woman on the tube: We see old people and we make all these assumptions but they are just us, and sooner than will feel possible.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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mirandakeeling.com
Woman in Camden: Unicorns exist.
Her friend: No they don't.
Woman: Yes they do.
Friend: No they don't.
Woman: Yes they do!
Friend: You're drunk Susan,
Woman: That's how I know.
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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slendersherbet.bsky.social
When I see myself in the bathroom mirror first thing in the morning.
December 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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🎄 Day 7 of our #Shropshire advent calendar is a wintry morning at Ironbridge, with the trees covered in a hoar frost. I spent about three hours walking up and down the gorge making the best of the conditions until the sun started to melt it all away. ☃️
December 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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The Sixth Window. The Feast of Saint Nicholas. Well-wrapped up in an enormous rose-coloured muffler, carrying a sturdy wicker basket in paw, Babcia had taken the early bus into Dorchester to do some Christmas shopping on her own.
Babcia the Pine Marten Genge & Co in Dorchester Dorchester
December 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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annelouiseavery.bsky.social
#OldFoxAdventCalendar
Post See new posts Conversation Anne Louise Avery @AnneLouiseAvery The Sixth Window: The night of the Feast of Saint Nicholas. The Newcomer's wagon had appeared on the village green. A thin plume of smoke wreathed from the chimney, and red and yellow and blue and green lamps were draped between the surrounding trees. But where was he? Inside, by the stove, fur as white as snow, eyes the colour of sea amber. He was spinning a silver apple in a wide silver saucer & looking upon the world in miniature. There were the tall creaking ships in the grey Atlantic swell, gulls following in the dimming skies, there were the little children playing in a harbour street in Rotterdam, there were the cravatted and moustachioed gentlemen sipping their Picon-bières in the cafes of Lille, there was the King of England coughing and wheezing by an embering fire in Craigweil House in Bognor, and there were the street lamps glimmering through the windows of Duke Humfrey's Library in the Bodleian as a scholarly fox carefully opened a 13th century manuscript at a well-remembered, well-beloved point and began to read – "SEyn Nycholas þe holi mon þat good confessour was Icome he was of heie men In þe cite of patras …"
December 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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annelouiseavery.bsky.social
#OldFoxAdventCalendar
The Seventh Window. St Ambrose's Day, the Honey-Tongued Doctor, Patron Saint of Bees and Beekeepers. At first light, making his way through the snow and pausing to admire the delicate rosen-gold of the dawn, Old Fox had gone to the orchards to check on the bees. They were wintering now, but a messenger bee emerged to talk to Old Fox, to hear his news and tell him theirs. With Old Fox's skill as beekeeper, they always survived the cold months, never losing even one fellow. Their winter stores were sumptuous and plentiful, and the hives were very comfortable and warm. How they loved their Old Fox! How happy they were to be bees in those quiet old orchards in that quiet old corner of Dorsetshire!
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM