Ingrid Birchell Hughes
@1ngi.bsky.social
Serialising my ggGrandparents 300+ Victorian love letters in 'My Love Letter Time Machine' podcast. Shortlisted: @IndPodAwards 2023 + @IWPodcastAwards 2022, 2023 + 2024. Artist, Writer, Podcaster. Queer. Zelda. Trigeminal Neuralgia. Exmo. Cardiff. she/they
Limbered up (mentally) this morning to break the back of the Christmas shopping. 2 hours later of online scrolling I have ordered precisely nothing, now full of self doubt + self recrimination that my ideas are bollocks + dreaming of that 1 site that stocks everything but isn't an arsehole company.
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Limbered up (mentally) this morning to break the back of the Christmas shopping. 2 hours later of online scrolling I have ordered precisely nothing, now full of self doubt + self recrimination that my ideas are bollocks + dreaming of that 1 site that stocks everything but isn't an arsehole company.
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A small reminder, especially if you struggle with low mood in the winter, that this is just 8 or 9 weeks away, fewer in some cases 👇🏼🌱🌱
December 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
A small reminder, especially if you struggle with low mood in the winter, that this is just 8 or 9 weeks away, fewer in some cases 👇🏼🌱🌱
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Look what we lost!
Cadbury Milk Tray Bar (1947-1981): A massive milk chocolate bar, made in a special mold that featured 14 individual pieces of chocolate, all connected, and each with a different filling. It was essentially an entire box of chocolates in bar form, available only in the U.K.
December 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Look what we lost!
I'm 5ft 8, a fair few of my friends are 5ft 2 or shorter.
This is exaclty what we look like going out for coffee. What. Of. It?!!!!
This is exaclty what we look like going out for coffee. What. Of. It?!!!!
Whenever Maya's involved, I get a kind of satirical paralysis, where the urge to mock is met with a wall of dissociation followed by the paranoid suspicion that I'm the one being expertly trolled.
Imagine being the dumbest member of an organisation whose only other member is Helen Joyce.
Imagine being the dumbest member of an organisation whose only other member is Helen Joyce.
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I'm 5ft 8, a fair few of my friends are 5ft 2 or shorter.
This is exaclty what we look like going out for coffee. What. Of. It?!!!!
This is exaclty what we look like going out for coffee. What. Of. It?!!!!
This is my mum on her FB page. She's 81, and the WI is the highlight of her month. She goes to the town one and a local village one. I know this is huge sacrifice for her. I love her so much and I am so proud of her.
December 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is my mum on her FB page. She's 81, and the WI is the highlight of her month. She goes to the town one and a local village one. I know this is huge sacrifice for her. I love her so much and I am so proud of her.
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
omg this thread
Before I accepted I was transmasc I dated as a bi woman & hoooo boy, literally a lot of bi women will click the "only interested in women" buttons on dating sites or change their sexuality profiles to straight or gay, just to avoid the hailstorm of aggressive sexualisation from single straight guys.
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
omg this thread
After washing my hair this morning, I painstakingly scrunched serum into it only to discover that I'd used my face cream by mistake. 🙄
December 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
After washing my hair this morning, I painstakingly scrunched serum into it only to discover that I'd used my face cream by mistake. 🙄
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December 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool, that's noted for fresh air and fun,
And Mr & Mrs Ramsbottom went there with young Albert their son...
And Mr & Mrs Ramsbottom went there with young Albert their son...
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool, that's noted for fresh air and fun,
And Mr & Mrs Ramsbottom went there with young Albert their son...
And Mr & Mrs Ramsbottom went there with young Albert their son...
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Not visual art, but, Django Reinhardt had two working fingers on his left hand; the drummer from Def Leppard had ONE FUCKIN’ ARM. There are no excuses. “Gen” A.I. is anti-art.
If one more able bodied person attempts to tell me, a disabled artist, that genAI is an accessibility tool, I'm gonna start smashing their hands with hammers. You wanna speak about disability issues, fine, you get to become one of us.
December 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Not visual art, but, Django Reinhardt had two working fingers on his left hand; the drummer from Def Leppard had ONE FUCKIN’ ARM. There are no excuses. “Gen” A.I. is anti-art.
I bet it won't be anything as practical or useful as keeping people's feet dry on their way to market for (looks at watch) 500 years and counting. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_He...
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I bet it won't be anything as practical or useful as keeping people's feet dry on their way to market for (looks at watch) 500 years and counting. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_He...
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There's not much left of the rule of law if organisations can be financially bullied into not asserting their legal rights. goodlaw.social/sb50
Excluding trans people won’t stop you getting sued | Good Law Project
Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive.
goodlaw.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
There's not much left of the rule of law if organisations can be financially bullied into not asserting their legal rights. goodlaw.social/sb50
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important to understand that this is virtue-signalling for liberal cishet people who think they are broadly pro-LGBT rights but don't pay any attention to the detail. if the government was interested in actual LGBTQ+ voices, they would be doing very different things.
Starmer has shared his "fury" at a 2022 homophobic attack towards his niece and her wife, an incident that happened years before his party introduced multiple anti-LGBTQIA+ policies that have seen the UK fall steeply in international human rights rankings:
www.wearequeeraf.com/keir-starmer...
www.wearequeeraf.com/keir-starmer...
Starmer "furious" at homophobic attack on his family, as if his party has nothing to do with it
Since a homophobic attack on his niece, his party has introduced multiple anti-LGBTQIA+ policies and the UK has fallen steeply in human rights rankings
www.wearequeeraf.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
important to understand that this is virtue-signalling for liberal cishet people who think they are broadly pro-LGBT rights but don't pay any attention to the detail. if the government was interested in actual LGBTQ+ voices, they would be doing very different things.
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I don’t usually ask for followers but @womensart2.bsky.social is eight followers away from 3,900.
Sinéad and I want to amplify the artists and makers of Bluesky. We are inclusive and LGBTQ2S+ first but we share an awful lot of art made by everyone here.
You might want to follow us.
Sinéad and I want to amplify the artists and makers of Bluesky. We are inclusive and LGBTQ2S+ first but we share an awful lot of art made by everyone here.
You might want to follow us.
December 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I don’t usually ask for followers but @womensart2.bsky.social is eight followers away from 3,900.
Sinéad and I want to amplify the artists and makers of Bluesky. We are inclusive and LGBTQ2S+ first but we share an awful lot of art made by everyone here.
You might want to follow us.
Sinéad and I want to amplify the artists and makers of Bluesky. We are inclusive and LGBTQ2S+ first but we share an awful lot of art made by everyone here.
You might want to follow us.
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The best description of the Telegraph you'll read this week.
I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
November 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The best description of the Telegraph you'll read this week.
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People on a barely liveable wage will look on in total apathy as their managers and directors rock up in cars worth 4X their yearly salary, yet descend into apoplectic rage at the mere idea of a disabled/unemployed person possibly having just one nice thing in their life.
Truly incredible scenes.
Truly incredible scenes.
November 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
People on a barely liveable wage will look on in total apathy as their managers and directors rock up in cars worth 4X their yearly salary, yet descend into apoplectic rage at the mere idea of a disabled/unemployed person possibly having just one nice thing in their life.
Truly incredible scenes.
Truly incredible scenes.
Fair do. Chef's kiss to North Yorkshire Council!
Ahahahahaha, local business that recorded themselves sticking a load of Union Jacks to lampposts all about town are currently pissing and moaning about finally Finding Out.
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Fair do. Chef's kiss to North Yorkshire Council!
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Just catching up with the budget coverage in the papers.
November 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Just catching up with the budget coverage in the papers.
Some households in Llanelli* would like to play you a sad song on some very small violins
(Or other struggling area)
(Or other struggling area)
But his retirement plans are now in “disarray” and “ruined” cos he’s going to have to find an additional £208.33 per month?
He has £2-4 million in savings/investments but claims he is not “cash-rich” and his house was his only “pension”
Seriously @Telegraph, where do you find these people?🤣🤣🙄
9/9
He has £2-4 million in savings/investments but claims he is not “cash-rich” and his house was his only “pension”
Seriously @Telegraph, where do you find these people?🤣🤣🙄
9/9
November 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Some households in Llanelli* would like to play you a sad song on some very small violins
(Or other struggling area)
(Or other struggling area)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
(Seen from my back door)
Pole cat
Bats (duabentons/pipestrelles)
Weasel
Sparrow hawk
Hedgehog
(Seen from my back door)
Pole cat
Bats (duabentons/pipestrelles)
Weasel
Sparrow hawk
Hedgehog
Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild, that have wandered about our house(s)
Mouse
Rat
Dove
Hedgehog
Squirrel
I think I was away for the squirrel, but my brother lured him out with a well placed ladder and some nuts
Mouse
Rat
Dove
Hedgehog
Squirrel
I think I was away for the squirrel, but my brother lured him out with a well placed ladder and some nuts
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild (seen in very domestic circumstances but still made me go Wow!):
Hedgehog
Squirrel
Rabbits
Shrew
Dragonfly
Hedgehog
Squirrel
Rabbits
Shrew
Dragonfly
November 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
(Seen from my back door)
Pole cat
Bats (duabentons/pipestrelles)
Weasel
Sparrow hawk
Hedgehog
(Seen from my back door)
Pole cat
Bats (duabentons/pipestrelles)
Weasel
Sparrow hawk
Hedgehog
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My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor