36 days until Season 2 of The Paper, and I for one am excited.

Councillors across the country will be shocked to find out they're spending millions on social care when their only job is parking and bins.

Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 10h ago

It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.

“I would worry about any mum feeling pressured that there is somehow a kind of an ideal birth experience to live up to when it’s different in every case, and you have to follow the evidence, you have to have informed choice,” - @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social 👏 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Women must not feel pressure to have ‘ideal birth’, says Yvette Cooper

Exclusive: New health secretary promises root-and-branch reform after damning maternity scandals

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just said to Lewis "you don't hear much from Priti Patel these days" and he told me that she's the Shadow Foreign Secretary. I didn't believe him, I had to google it. It feels like the Conservative Party is diminishing in status, influence, and profile. And nobody is saying a word.

We have a print of 'Son of Man' in our bathroom and when Arthur sees it when he's brushing his teeth, he points and says "daddy!". The similarity with @yewisloung.bsky.social is striking...

John Healey says he goes out of his way for McCoys Salt and Vinegar crisps. The more I hear from him, the more fangirl I become. McCoys S&V are ELITE.

Yes, palliative care should be improved. But using 'poor palliative care' as a reason to not introduce assisted dying, but then not actually do anything about palliative care, is a massive cop out.

The Road To El Dorado: Both Is Good

ALT: The Road To El Dorado: Both Is Good

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23:00: I turn my lamp off and try to get some sleep 23:01: the cats decide they haven't chased eachother around the house enough today and need to make huge amounts of noise doing so, causing the big cat tower to come crashing down.

boring post but most of the plums we buy are yellow fleshed and just ok, but these ones are red fleshed and *amazing*. Got them from a local market with no packaging. I need to know what variety they are so I can only buy these in the future 😩

winter pansy seeds have been sown 🌱 Hopefully they'll give me some colour in the darkness of the winter months during postpartum.

I've lived in the North East for 4 years now, and I'm still perplexed why 'London pizza' is a common menu item at takeaways. It's a pizza with chips on top. As far as I'm aware (and I ordered a lot of pizzas in my 11 years in London...), that isn't a thing.

Ellen is sitting on my legs, preventing me from getting up to go to the bathroom. Do I: a) move her b) shuffle her a little bit every so often so my legs get free but she doesn't run away

If you have any negative comments to make about Marie-France van Heel's appearance, I hope you step on a plug in the middle of the night and scream and wake up a toddler who then screams until you stay up with them all night and I hope they're sick on you and you smell like baby sick forever.

As I let out the exhausted sigh of a public affairs executive responding to a new Prime Minister and a new government for the 6th time in 10 years, I also took a moment to write down why @basw-uk.bsky.social bothers with public affairs in the first place. basw.co.uk/articles/not...

"Not another one!"....why BASW does public affairs

BASW's Public and Political Affairs Lead, Kerri Prince shares an insight into BASW's work at Westminster.

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If anything should ever happen to Larry, I volunteer Harold. He's never seen a mouse in his life, but he sure looks cute in a flowerbed.

Oooooooooooooooooooooo for the first time in weeks I feel pleasantly surprised.

Happy birthday to me 💆🏼‍♀️

restless legs syndrome sounds like the daftest condition someone could have but I'm experiencing RLS as a pregnancy side effect and OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS TORTURE

A Labour MP once called me and a friend "cunts" to our faces one night in Brighton after we got locked inside the flat we were staying in.

Kayla Cromer Official@kaylacromer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Tell me a random fact about yourself that sounds fake but is 100% true.

out of office

I HAVE GROWN STRAWBERRIES

last week it was the heat, and now it's the gymnast in my womb preventing me from sleeping

Pregnant Woman with Kicking Baby Sketch

ALT: Pregnant Woman with Kicking Baby Sketch

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Ok I actually got the wordle which is by fluke because I used my default first guess and then I was so confused about what it could be that I randomly picked a letter/order and it was right on the third guess, and this was after I accidentally guessed the same thing twice.

We got the dog a new bed.

it's so hard to teach toddlers boundaries because it's absolutely hilarious when they do something they know they're not supposed to and they look at you like 👀

Beautiful day here in Middlesbrough. I'll be spending my morning overseeing some Labour shortlisting meetings. It's not the life I wanted, but it's the life I chose 🫠

In Leeds overnight which is like 5 degrees hotter than Middlesbrough 👎🏼 In a hotel which has air con 👍🏼

Willing and Able by Noah Kahan. His voice, the lyricism, all of it. youtu.be/2f4gu97XWFg?...

Noah Kahan - Willing and Able (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by NoahKahanVEVO

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Tom Ewing@tomewing.bsky.social · last mo.

I do this every year at the halfway point and it usually makes a good playlist - What’s the BEST 2026 TRACK you’ve heard so far? (Just one track please!)