Chig

Chig

@chigworld.bsky.social

One small part of the Birmingham Green Party team of wonderful people who have successfully ended incompetent Labour’s disastrous control of our city. Greens secured the biggest vote share across Birmingham. We did it! The real work starts now. 💚

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#KemiBadenoch is incredibly childish, as well as patronising. This ‘response’ to the budget isn’t much of a response (even though she had the budget details in advance). It’s just a boring speech that she’s mostly delivered before. 🥱 #Conservatives #Budget #JohnHealey #Labour #Chancellor

I’ve never heard the opposition benches so quiet. Healey is coming out with a whole bunch of positive changes and the #Tories can’t find anything to complain about. Yet… #Budget #JohnHealey #ChancellerOfTheExchequer

Chig@chigworld.bsky.social

Here we go. The first Labour Healey budget since 03/04/1979. #Budget #DenisHealey #JohnHealey #ChancellorOfTheExchequer

Here we go. The first Labour Healey budget since 03/04/1979. #Budget #DenisHealey #JohnHealey #ChancellorOfTheExchequer

The #Serbian election results are amazing. But it shows how people can ORGANISE & VOTE to get rid of rotten politicians. The answer is to do it & be disciplined, not just talk about it. #Putin has now lost the support of what was one of his most shamefully supportive countries in Europe. Hurrah!

How lucky for Beth that Dr. Tom works in the only GP surgery in the UK with f*ck all security, so she could just walk into his consulting room. 🙄 #Adultery #itv #itvX

The showbiz circle is now complete for #JamieMiller, who started appearing on our TVs nine years ago on #TheVoiceUK, hosted by #EmmaWillis, and now performs his current #1 single on #Strictly, presented by Emma Willis. Very satisfying. #Babydoll #OfficialCharts #StrictlyComeDancing

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This supercut is likely to make Trump VERY upset. The difference between Trump and Obama is on full display, and the contrast is absolutely devastating. Watch until the end...

Is it not breaking our anti-Russia sanctions to be sending PRS fees to the writers of All The Things She Said? (2 or 3 of the 5 writers are Russian.) #Strictly #StrictlyComeDancing #tATu

(It’s definitely 3 of the 5 writers who are Russian. I’ve checked the one who doesn’t have a direct link from the song’s Wikipedia page.) #Strictly #StrictlyComeDancing 💃🕺 #tATu

‘Something is far from rotten in the state of #Armenia’. 🇦🇲 Hamlet wins gold! Congratulations to the brilliantly-named #HamletManukyan on becoming pommel horse world champion, with fellow Armenian #MamikonKhachatryan winning bronze. #gymnastics #WorldGymnasticsChampionships #Rotterdam 🇳🇱 #Hamlet

FT: Villa 2-1 Man City Brilliant result! #Villa become the first team to take any points from #ManCity this season (in game 8). In two matches, we’ve leapt from 17th to 6th, and suddenly Villa’s PL season doesn’t seem so bad! #ASTMNC #AVLMNC #AVFC

What an incredible three to choose! Lovely Michael Sheen has just ruled himself out of any potential detective rôles. 😄 #TheCelebrityTraitors #TheTraitors

‘I want this war end.’ Say it in a Russian accent and it becomes even more obvious who wrote this disgusting #Putin propaganda for #Trump to copy and paste. It’s sickening. Why is America still allowing the traitor to run the country? 🤷 #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com

Kremlin couldn’t have written it better. I also like that this time the translation was pretty on point, too. ALLEGEDLY.

The new physical spec for becoming a traitor has been issued, and it’s pretty tough, tbh. #TheCelebrityTraitors #TheTraitors #KingKenny

You never know what’s coming up on #TheCelebrityTraitors, but an army of #MyChemicalRomance fans bundling people into a cage like ICE agents was definitely not on my bingo card. ☠️

Villa were replicating the 4-0 scoreline from that previous #AstonVilla v #Fenerbahçe match that I attended at #VillaPark in 1977. But it’s now 5-0! #AVLFEN #ASTFEN #AVFC @avfcstatto.bsky.social

Chig@chigworld.bsky.social

49 years and one month ago tonight, 11-year-old me was taken to #VillaPark for the first time, to see #AstonVilla 🦁v #Fenerbahçe. Tonight, we repeat that home fixture for the first time (but the 2nd time this year that we’ve played them!) I’m feeling nostalgic & wish I were there. #AVLFEN #ASTFEN

49 years and one month ago tonight, 11-year-old me was taken to #VillaPark for the first time, to see #AstonVilla 🦁v #Fenerbahçe. Tonight, we repeat that home fixture for the first time (but the 2nd time this year that we’ve played them!) I’m feeling nostalgic & wish I were there. #AVLFEN #ASTFEN

Format change! The worst two celeb dancers have ended up in the dance-off. This can’t be allowed, surely? How will people be outraged? What will the Daily Heil write about? 💃🕺 #Strictly #StrictlyComeDancing

I am gobsmacked! They were both bad, but never in a million years did I think any judges would save Static Shaun. He was okay in week 2, but his first and third dances were pretty awful. 🕺💃 #Strictly #StrictlyComeDancing

Wasn’t expecting to see Verka Serduchka on tonight’s #Strictly, but what a lovely surprise! #StrictlyComeDancing #BBCStrictly #VerkaSerduchka #Ukraina 🇺🇦

Badenoch’s in-depth knowledge of the defence project that she has decided to make up is very reminiscent of Dawn French’s breakfast TV ‘royal expert’. Only that was funny. This is painful. #KemiBadenoch #NotASeriousPolitician #DontCallItAnIronDomeEvenThoughWeDid #Conservatives #CPC2026

paulusthewoodgnome@paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social

"I'm not a defence expert." Even by Kemi Badenoch's lamentable standards, this is agonising. Just give thanks she will never, ever be Prime Minister. 🙏 #politicslive

I knew #JeffreyArcher was a scumbag, but I hadn’t realised quite how far his scumbaggery went back, until reading this. This is the person some current #Conservatives think is an inspiration, rather than a warning.

Adam Macqueen@adammacqueen.bsky.social

Just as a counterpoint to some of the obituaries this morning, here's the start of the Archer chapter in my history of political lying, The Lies of the Land:

“We go now to Craig Bellamy, for a summary of that match.” #WALDEN #CYMDEN #WALDAN #CYMDAN #NationsLeague #Wales #Cymru #Denmark #Danmark #CraigBellamy #FAW #BBCSport

Much as I enjoyed #ZackPolanski’s excellent conference speech, the best bit - for me - of the BBC coverage was when a friend (& elected councillor) wandered into shot behind Co-Deputy Rachel’s interview afterwards, eating a sandwich. 🥪 (I’m easily entertained.) 😄 #GreenParty #PoliticsLive 💚

I’m not sure that ‘Oh yes, we already knew about these dangerous terrorists & their evil plot… but now we’re letting them go’ is really going to stand up to much examination. Over to you, #Trump and #Streeting… 🤷 #RAFFairford #Gloucestershire #TerroristsNotTerrorists www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...

bbc.co.ukRAF Fairford suspects to be released on bail, head of counter-terror police saysLaurence Taylor says the five men arrested on Sunday are still under investigation as police consider multiple lines of inquiry, including the possible involvement of a foreign state.

Doesn’t it make you proud that the same principles and standards that underpin UK customer services are also at the heart of our national security? It’s so wonderfully British, not to bother answering the phone. 🇬🇧 #NationalSecurity #MOD #RAFFairford #Whelford #CustomerServices #TheGuardian

Alright, babs! It’s International Day Of Birmingham! (For two days, just to confuse people.) We are Lycett-lite this time, as Joe’s pretend pub is in that there London, but there’s loads on in the council house, today & tomorrow. Join us! #IDOB #MrEgg #InternationalDayOfBirmingham #Birmingham #Brum

It was an absolute joy to meet @robinince.bsky.social at my local #TheHeath bookshop earlier. We more or less confirmed that we’d met around 30 years ago, as I’d always suspected, at #TheBear in #Bearwood, when Robin did our Thursday comedy club & I pretended I knew how to run the sound desk.

Robin Ince@robinince.bsky.social

#poetrychallenge is coming to Kings Heath today between 2 and 4 at Heath Bookshop - pop in and request a #poem - after I’ve written it I will record and subtitle it to make sure it is properly accessible www.theheathbookshop.co.uk #creativity #birmingham

The fact that two international icons were born on exactly the same day in 1949 has been embedded in my brain for a few years now. So, this morning, when #BBCRadio2 mentioned that #BruceSpringsteen is 77 today, I immediately thought ‘Happy birthday, Floella’! 😀 Happy 77th birthday to both of them! 🥳

Baroness Floella Benjamin@floellabenjamin.bsky.social

Feeling blessed today on my 77th birthday ❤️🥳❤️

It’s the last day of summer, and the sky has turned into The Simpsons. (The autumnal equinox - and start of autumn in the Northern hemisphere - is at 01:04 tomorrow morning, Wed 23/09/26.) #AutumnEquinox #AutumnalEquinox #LastDayOfSummer #TheSimpsons #SimpsonsClouds

⚽️ 🐓2-3🦁 Phew! A league win, at the 5th attempt. But Villa’s players tried their best to give it away, after leading 0-3 at 86 minutes. We’re up to the giddy heights of 15th. Onwards and upwards! ⚽️ #TOTAST #TOTAVL #AstonVilla #AVFC #Talksport @avfc-official.bsky.social

It’s always nice when the train company tells you why your train has arrived 14 minutes late, even though it was on time for most of the journey. Train tannoy, on arrival at #Euston just now; “There was a bit of conjunction (sic) on the network.” So, glad that’s clear. Thanks, #LondonNorthwestern.

I really like DJ Spoony, but at this point in human evolution, we should be long past the days when a radio presenter would read out something from ‘Ben Doon & Phil McCavity’ & not realise what they’ve done. 😳 (Still childishly funny though. Congrats to whoever it was.) #DJSpoony #Radio2 #BBCRadio2

⚽️ Half of Villa’s players have left. The remaining players are being forced to promote a despicable, corrupt regime on their shirts. Two games played, two games lost. No goals scored, five conceded. But, rejoice! We’re not bottom of the #PremierLeague! I love alphabetical order! #AstonVilla #AVFC

I know who one of these 25 people is, and I’ve vaguely heard of the person at #1. And that’s it. I am 245 years old. (And I don’t use #TikTok.) #RollingStone #ContentCreators #FingerOnThePulse

dame@dame.is

it’s that time of year again, Rolling Stone released their list of the top 25 content creators, which is actually a test of how old and out of touch you are… the lower your score, the more out of touch i’ve heard of 11 out of 25

‘The Conservative Party - doing everything wrong since the 1970s.’ This is absolutely perfect imagery. #Conservatives #ConservativeParty #Tories #KemiBadenoch #MargaretThatcher

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social

This has made my day.

Wordle 1,899 X/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle, I hate you. So many options for the first letter on this one. My 53-day streak ends on the last day of the month. Grrr.

Grrr! Infuriatingly close on guess #3. Wordle 1,898 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟨🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle

Talent show winners fail to pick up their prize.

Dan Hon@danhon.com

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A chief technology officer is worried about keeping his spreadsheets private.