Hugh Smithson-Wright
@hughsmithsonwright.bsky.social
A flibbertigibbet, a Will O' The Wisp, a clown. OFFICIALLY The Gayest Man On Bluesky™️ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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In hope of finding like-minded people (and them finding me!), an introduction:
— Hugh, 48, London. Restaurant PR by profession, serial eater by passion (from fast-food to fine-dining.) Very gay – married to @dswest8.bsky.social I ❤️ fashion, books, art, theatre, travel, otters & rugby-players
— Hugh, 48, London. Restaurant PR by profession, serial eater by passion (from fast-food to fine-dining.) Very gay – married to @dswest8.bsky.social I ❤️ fashion, books, art, theatre, travel, otters & rugby-players
Ken Bruce is playing Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel and for years I believed the lyric "Show for me, I will show for you" to be "Chauffeur me, I will chauffeur you" thinking "Ah that's nice, they're going to take it in turns to drive each other around"
June 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Ken Bruce is playing Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel and for years I believed the lyric "Show for me, I will show for you" to be "Chauffeur me, I will chauffeur you" thinking "Ah that's nice, they're going to take it in turns to drive each other around"
Joked to a much-younger friend today about my husband having "more holidays than Judith Chalmers" and had to explain who Judith Chalmers was, what Wish You Were Here? was, and more broadly, how holidays used to be chosen and booked pre-internet 😂
youtu.be/LpJja7A-NtY?...
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1990s Tenerife | Playa de las Américas | Spain in the 1990s | Wish you were here? | 1992
YouTube video by ThamesTv
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May 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Joked to a much-younger friend today about my husband having "more holidays than Judith Chalmers" and had to explain who Judith Chalmers was, what Wish You Were Here? was, and more broadly, how holidays used to be chosen and booked pre-internet 😂
youtu.be/LpJja7A-NtY?...
youtu.be/LpJja7A-NtY?...
Just found myself standing in Liberty wailing at an assistant – with quiet, frenzied desperation – "You had some lovely mugs, HERE, where are the lovely mugs that were HERE?" and that's my Miranda Priestley "Where's that piece of paper I had in my hand last week?" moment for the day done with.
May 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Just found myself standing in Liberty wailing at an assistant – with quiet, frenzied desperation – "You had some lovely mugs, HERE, where are the lovely mugs that were HERE?" and that's my Miranda Priestley "Where's that piece of paper I had in my hand last week?" moment for the day done with.
"Ooh no that's a bit new for me" says a contestant on Popmaster, to Ken Bruce's audible disdain, unable to identify Reach by S Club 7, from...2000.
May 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM
"Ooh no that's a bit new for me" says a contestant on Popmaster, to Ken Bruce's audible disdain, unable to identify Reach by S Club 7, from...2000.
One of my clients, always immaculate in Savile Row tailoring, loves taking the piss out of how I dress. Zingers include:
– Did you run here?
– What time is your tennis match?
– This is restrained for you, usually you dress like Christmas
And then yesterday,
– Are you on your way to repair something?
– Did you run here?
– What time is your tennis match?
– This is restrained for you, usually you dress like Christmas
And then yesterday,
– Are you on your way to repair something?
May 1, 2025 at 10:14 AM
One of my clients, always immaculate in Savile Row tailoring, loves taking the piss out of how I dress. Zingers include:
– Did you run here?
– What time is your tennis match?
– This is restrained for you, usually you dress like Christmas
And then yesterday,
– Are you on your way to repair something?
– Did you run here?
– What time is your tennis match?
– This is restrained for you, usually you dress like Christmas
And then yesterday,
– Are you on your way to repair something?
Had lunch in a gorgeous restaurant in Leeds today, and as I left and stopped to take a photo the manager (possibly owner) stuck his head out the door and I thought, Oh, he's going to say he's recognised me, or thank me for coming, but no, I had walked out without paying. A big, humbling WHOOPS.
April 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Had lunch in a gorgeous restaurant in Leeds today, and as I left and stopped to take a photo the manager (possibly owner) stuck his head out the door and I thought, Oh, he's going to say he's recognised me, or thank me for coming, but no, I had walked out without paying. A big, humbling WHOOPS.
JD Vance killing the Pope is the new Liz Truss killing Queen Elizabeth II
April 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
JD Vance killing the Pope is the new Liz Truss killing Queen Elizabeth II
This is so, so good, and expresses in much greater depth and detail what I've been saying a lot recently which is that the best thing those of us who give a damn can do to improve the world right now is to be abundantly, excessively, constantly kind to others
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump is creating a selfish, miserable world. Here’s what we can do | Michael Plant
The president is both a symptom and a cause of unhappiness and mistrust. But we can respond by rebuilding our social fabric
www.theguardian.com
April 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
This is so, so good, and expresses in much greater depth and detail what I've been saying a lot recently which is that the best thing those of us who give a damn can do to improve the world right now is to be abundantly, excessively, constantly kind to others
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It's so, so, SO much simpler to stay and pay your taxes. If you choose a life of constantly moving around the world in pursuit of paying the least tax possible, then excuse me if I don't shed a tear over you having to give up your membership of Annabel's
on.ft.com/3GgnZcc via @financialtimes.com
on.ft.com/3GgnZcc via @financialtimes.com
Non-doms quit London private members’ clubs to avoid UK tax links
Lawyers advise wealthy clients that HMRC could use membership as evidence of strong ties to Britain
on.ft.com
April 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
It's so, so, SO much simpler to stay and pay your taxes. If you choose a life of constantly moving around the world in pursuit of paying the least tax possible, then excuse me if I don't shed a tear over you having to give up your membership of Annabel's
on.ft.com/3GgnZcc via @financialtimes.com
on.ft.com/3GgnZcc via @financialtimes.com
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Chef Guillermo Bitanga is bringing his refined French-Filipino cuisine to Pied à Terre's Kitchen Table for just eight services, from 29th April to 3rd May. With only eight seats at each service, just 64 diners will get to experience Guillermo's menu, so book now! 🇵🇭🇫🇷
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April 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Chef Guillermo Bitanga is bringing his refined French-Filipino cuisine to Pied à Terre's Kitchen Table for just eight services, from 29th April to 3rd May. With only eight seats at each service, just 64 diners will get to experience Guillermo's menu, so book now! 🇵🇭🇫🇷
eepurl.com/jcsFn6
eepurl.com/jcsFn6
#Sebastian is a terrific film, raw & clever & powerful & challenging & uncomfortable & REAL and just brilliantly written and acted – Ruaridh Mollica is extraordinary in the lead, and I squealed at Stella Gonet's all-too-brief appearance. Baffled it's not on wider release; had to hunt it down!
April 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
#Sebastian is a terrific film, raw & clever & powerful & challenging & uncomfortable & REAL and just brilliantly written and acted – Ruaridh Mollica is extraordinary in the lead, and I squealed at Stella Gonet's all-too-brief appearance. Baffled it's not on wider release; had to hunt it down!
Just walked through Leicester Square for the first time since the busking ban came into force and my God, it's like a totally different place! Still teeming with people but it's a) peaceful and b) you can actually move freely around rather than having to navigate round static crowds. Amazing!
April 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Just walked through Leicester Square for the first time since the busking ban came into force and my God, it's like a totally different place! Still teeming with people but it's a) peaceful and b) you can actually move freely around rather than having to navigate round static crowds. Amazing!
It's dawned on me why Trump is blaming Zelensky: he thought he could negotiate with Putin, and realising that he can't, is willing to sacrifice Ukraine to 'end' the war so he can take credit for that. Failing on all fronts, Trump needs any 'win' he can get, at any cost.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump blames Zelensky for starting war day after massive Russian attack
The US president said that you "don't start a war against someone 20 times your size" and hope people give you missiles.
www.bbc.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
It's dawned on me why Trump is blaming Zelensky: he thought he could negotiate with Putin, and realising that he can't, is willing to sacrifice Ukraine to 'end' the war so he can take credit for that. Failing on all fronts, Trump needs any 'win' he can get, at any cost.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Meanwhile, back in earth, MacKenzie Scott quietly goes about giving away $19 billion.
April 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Meanwhile, back in earth, MacKenzie Scott quietly goes about giving away $19 billion.
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Sky News being unintentionally honest.
April 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Sky News being unintentionally honest.
The environmental impact is the single biggest reason why, as far as I possibly can, I'm avoiding using AI. I'm not scared of it, I'm not worried about it taking my job (yet...) I just don't want to fuel - literally - the destruction of the planet for the sake of a search or generating a silly image
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents
Amazon, Microsoft and Google are operating datacentres that use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and are building many more, an investigation by SourceMaterial and the Guardian has found.
With Donald Trump pledging to support them, the three technology giants are planning hundreds of datacentres in the US and across the globe, with a potentially huge impact on populations already living with water scarcity. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The environmental impact is the single biggest reason why, as far as I possibly can, I'm avoiding using AI. I'm not scared of it, I'm not worried about it taking my job (yet...) I just don't want to fuel - literally - the destruction of the planet for the sake of a search or generating a silly image
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Israel military razed Gaza perimeter land to create ‘kill zone’, soldiers say
Israel military razed Gaza perimeter land to create ‘kill zone’, soldiers say
Combatants’ testimonies describe how areas were destroyed to create ‘a death zone of enormous proportions’
Israel’s military razed huge swathes of land inside the perimeter of Gaza and ordered troops to turn the area into a “kill zone” where anybody who entered was a target, according to testimony by soldiers who carried out the plan.
Israeli combatants said they were ordered to destroy homes, factories and farmland roughly 1km (0.6 miles) inside the perimeter of Gaza to make a “buffer zone”, with one describing the area as looking like Hiroshima. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Israel military razed Gaza perimeter land to create ‘kill zone’, soldiers say
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‘Big AI consumes so much energy that every time you generate a six-fingered portrait of Anne Frank or a scene from the Vietnam war in the style of Studio Ghibli, you might as well just kill a polar bear with a crossbow.’
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: I discovered my own memoir had been used to train Meta AI
I hate that writers and artists must suffer the indignity of being pickpocketed by the richest men who’ve ever lived.
www.irishexaminer.com
April 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
‘Big AI consumes so much energy that every time you generate a six-fingered portrait of Anne Frank or a scene from the Vietnam war in the style of Studio Ghibli, you might as well just kill a polar bear with a crossbow.’
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
The IDF murdered 15 paramedics in cold blood and buried them in shallow graves, then lied and lied about it until video evidence emerged proving their crimes. How, @teamlabouruk.bsky.social, can Keir Starmer continue to allow UK arms sales to Israel in light of this?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel changes account of Gaza medic killings after video showed deadly attack
Israeli forces killed 15 emergency workers in a convoy of ambulances near Rafah on 23 March.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The IDF murdered 15 paramedics in cold blood and buried them in shallow graves, then lied and lied about it until video evidence emerged proving their crimes. How, @teamlabouruk.bsky.social, can Keir Starmer continue to allow UK arms sales to Israel in light of this?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Is there any nicer feeling than waking up early for a Sunday, making yourself tea and breakfast, taking it back to bed, eating your breakfast, then falling back to sleep for an hour and waking up STILL early for a Sunday, and you've already had your breakfast? ✨BLISS✨
April 6, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Is there any nicer feeling than waking up early for a Sunday, making yourself tea and breakfast, taking it back to bed, eating your breakfast, then falling back to sleep for an hour and waking up STILL early for a Sunday, and you've already had your breakfast? ✨BLISS✨
I love being gay; last night I posted on my Instagram stories about seeing a bad musical (Clueless – seriously, don't bother) and this morning my DMs are like someone's died, filled with condolences, words of reassurance, recommendations for better musicals...The Gays have got my back.
a man with makeup on his face and the words mama kudos for saying that below him
ALT: a man with makeup on his face and the words mama kudos for saying that below him
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April 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I love being gay; last night I posted on my Instagram stories about seeing a bad musical (Clueless – seriously, don't bother) and this morning my DMs are like someone's died, filled with condolences, words of reassurance, recommendations for better musicals...The Gays have got my back.
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‘What was their crime?’ Families tell of shock over IDF killing of Gaza paramedics
‘What was their crime?’ Families tell of shock over IDF killing of Gaza paramedics
Relatives who waited agonising week before bodies were found speak of passion that drove Red Crescent workers
• Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen again
Gaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a civilian now that Israeli forces have resumed their military campaign with even more ferocity, but for the first responders who rush towards the wreckage of bombed buildings, the risks are multiplied many times over.
The 15 paramedics and rescue workers whose bodies were found last weekend in a bulldozed pit outside Rafah knew they were putting their lives in peril to try to save others, but they could not have been prepared for what awaited them in the early hours of 23 March. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 6:14 AM
‘What was their crime?’ Families tell of shock over IDF killing of Gaza paramedics
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Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes
April 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes
Reposted by Hugh Smithson-Wright
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
Yaaaass 🥳
Tesla suffers worst quarter since 2022 as deliveries tumble - on.ft.com/3FORHVn via @financialtimes.com
Tesla suffers worst quarter since 2022 as deliveries tumble - on.ft.com/3FORHVn via @financialtimes.com
Tesla suffers worst quarter since 2022 as deliveries tumble
Company loses crown of world’s best-selling electric-vehicle maker to China’s BYD
on.ft.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Yaaaass 🥳
Tesla suffers worst quarter since 2022 as deliveries tumble - on.ft.com/3FORHVn via @financialtimes.com
Tesla suffers worst quarter since 2022 as deliveries tumble - on.ft.com/3FORHVn via @financialtimes.com