Can't believe none of you sent me this list and I had to find it myself!!!

just remembered when @bzzjosie.bsky.social was helping me and @morl.bsky.social move, and she accidentally drew herself with the GPS tracker while we were trying to find a petrol station

How it started/how it's going in a Labour "safe seat".

The first woman in Parliament to appear in the Guardian's 'best-dressed at Glastonbury' feature. You'll never sing that, etc...

the sun is out and has illuminated a thousand fresh possibilities and new beginnings

Only just found out that Butlerian Jihad has nothing to do with Judith Butler.

So nice of The Times to make sure we finally get the other side of the story.

@littlehux.bsky.social I was driving so I couldn't get a photo, but I've just passed a huge billboard on the A6 advertising a holiday company, which is a close-up on two people reading paperbacks (presumably on their holiday) - and one of them is Hits Different 😊

Netflix videos could be about to turn the other way up

The Greenhouse, Manchester's one-man vegetarian/vegan restaurant run out of someone's front room. 50-odd dishes on the menu all made from scratch, plus specials. A meal took three hours and he could only manage about 5-6 covers per night but my word it was delicious.

a bunch of MEPs: trump's threats on Greenland are unacceptable. we must consider using the anti-coercion instrument me: that sounds reassuringly bureaucratic and not too anxiety-inducing. i should look that up wikipedia: "also known as the Trade Bazooka"

Just listened to a podcast advert which said "on your favourite podcast platform" instead of "wherever you get your podcasts" and I know what the words mean but it feels deeply wrong to change the slogan of podcasts like that

Seeing in 2026 singing Me And My Shadow on the karaoke with my best friend. Not a soul can bust this team in two, we stick together like glue. Can't get happier than this. Happy new year pals x

Yesterday I saw a sign in a loading bay which said "Caution: high-speed door" and I've been thinking about it near-continuously since.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

Tomorrow is a working day for me, and #stripelet will be with his other parents, so today is Christmas for us! I've had croissants and Bucks Fizz for breakfast, and the wrapping paper everywhere is making the cats think Christmas has come earl-- well, you know.

New drink invented: Crabsinthe

🎁 Day 17 🎁 🍽️ Continuing the Christmas dinner menu... or "the classic meat-and-vegetable-based meal" 🍽️ 🥕 The see-in-the-dark veg 🥔 The fluffy-yet-crispy festive favourites 🐖 The Christmassy double-pig hit

Listen to our team member Natalie on BBC Radio 4, discussing disabled people's experiences of active travel, and her first ever inclusive cycling experience with Cycling UK last month. Listen in: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002n7p1

bookshop dot org bookshop dot org it's a great website is bookshop dot org gives money to indies doesn't sell AI books has ebooks now too it's bookshop.org

It's winter 🤍 the heating is on and my candles are lit, I'm wearing my winter perfume, I'm reading The Christmas Mystery and the Lady Maisery winter album is on. Come shoulder to shoulder, for the world grows older / Help lies in none but you and I. ladymaisery.bandcamp.com/track/hope-i...

I subscribe to the Mill, Manchester's independent local news website. They do high-quality, boots-on-the-ground reporting the way journalism should be, a perfect antidote to the MEN and Reach plc. Subscribe now and pay what you want for the first two months! manchestermill.co.uk/lp-3/?referr...

"What's your costume?" "Oh nothing, I just wear this sort of nonsense routinely."

no mr blobby isn't a cryptid because the horror of mr blobby is that we KNOW he exists. he is a constant threat

I love it when you're having a haircut and they use the spray bottle to moisten your fringe and it's like being a little plant.

WORMHOLE WEEKEND SHOWCASE & ALTERNATIVE COMEDY CABARET! Fri 7 Nov - 19:30 - Fisher Gate Point

if anyone is a regular user of Newcastle station pls can you install a VPN and DM me? (love too use microblogging platforms in 2025)

#dtubkjosir is very

Look what we have here then.

I frequently skirt right up to the edge of burnout. I work 13-hour shifts with a big social life the rest of the week, and almost never have any actual free time. But right now I'm in a too-hot bath with a tea called Duvet Day, a delicious flapjack, and a "caramel latte" scented candle on the go 😌

Amazing story: one of the organisers of the group putting Union Flags up around Manchester previously did time for being part of a people smuggling gang. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

Ten years ago since my friend Danny Sutcliffe wrote the best ever Facebook post to our friend Sam who was on holiday at the time

"the United Kingdom of Stoke and The North"

ok so

likes are now florps

@littlehux.bsky.social tonight was the night I FINALLY introduced Stripelet to Vivi at bedtime. I intended to read the first two chapters. They insisted on more, and we only stopped after five because we were both about to fall asleep. Diolch yn fawr 💕

One of my favourite things to read is Ella's Substack. It's about everything and it's about nothing, sometimes it's about food and sometimes her life, and those things cross over and weave and delight. It's beautiful and it's in my inbox and it should be in yours. open.substack.com/pub/ella/p/t...

Minidisc has defeated Toe.

WHY is everybody talking about leftist men's sex lives (PLEASE do not tell me, I only come on here to share the nonsense I put in my group chats and marvel at the fact my friends still listen to me)

@secondmentions.bsky.social From the 3min BBC News headline summary for smart speakers: a story about honey referred to "the sticky residue."

if you're disabled and want a remote job doing meaningful work for an org that genuinely puts accessibility at the heart of everything it does, come and be my colleague.

I've just answered a Be My Eyes call from a person with a visual impairment, guided them across their flat and helped them find their phone charger. Free, crowdsourced visual support is a great use of smartphones as accessibility tools. bemyeyes.com?utm_source=a...

Three stunning and shaming paragraphs, by Rachel Wolf of Public First, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Today I said "enjoy your new blood!" to a patient as I started their transfusion, and honestly it's a wonder I'm allowed to talk to patients sometimes.

I've accent #drubkjosie without intend

Heading for a chain coffee shop to get some caffeine, I noticed a 🇵🇸 flag in a window I was passing. Then a flyer which said "support queer businesses". And it was an unexpected queer bookshop with a coffee bar and a kids section with @littlehux.bsky.social's books in it. Much better than Costa 💕

I introduced two of my very favourite people to each other last week, and one of them was @stillicides.bsky.social, so of course they've not wasted any time in setting out their stall.