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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Sculpture of astronaut added to New Cathedral, Salamanca, Spain, during renovations." --- la Puerta de Ramos de la Catedral Nueva de Salamanca, España #church #sculpture #religion

Stone carving "Sculpture of astronaut added to New Cathedral, Salamanca, Spain, during renovations."

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sunset by Swedish painter and watercolourist, Anna Maria Gardell-Ericson (1853-1939) Watercolour 49 x 32 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

These are good pointers- thank you

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yeah looks it it doesn't it. Not that I'm at all the knowledgeable

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Aw thank you for this. (Trigeminal Neuralgia, dyslexia)

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

ta lovely. I have put the application forms in for the disabled stuff, and I need to get an assessment - so waiting for that. Yeah maybe I should raise the flag at the staff.

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Anyone have any tips on being a mature student (with a disability)? I got through last week by the skin of my teeth. I have a mild panic that I'm not going to get my work done, + that I'm kidding myself that I'm up to this. The migraine on Friday was...special.

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Fma Fma 2003

Alt: Fma Fma 2003 a person surrounded by piles of paperwork faceplants into the desk

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The last time I tried to get toner for my discontinued laser printer, I basically got scammed as it did not fit despite saying it was compatible. So now I have to chuck a functioning laser printer because no one supports it? I hate this so bloody much.

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yeah it's absolutely freak-out time the first one you get - I can see why you thought that. x

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh hello scintillating scotoma 🙄 (takes all the migraine meds) This is actually a really good gif showing what it's like. Only today mine is all bronzey and black kaledeiscope art deco things that wouldn't be out of place in a Poirot drama party. (also TN sufferers should be exempt but here we are)

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Migraine Aura Headache Visual Simulation

Alt: Migraine Aura Headache Visual Simulation

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Jan Radović @janrad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“You gain strength, courage + confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face...I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt (Not always sure I can live through it)

A photo of a middle aged white woman wearing glasses and a red top looks sideways on out of the picture. The photo has been overlaid with bursts of red, yellow and white over one of the woman's cheeks. This is to represent the burning and electrical pain of Trigeminal Neuralgia.

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oct 7th is Trigeminal Neuralgia Awareness Day 🩵 In a recent survey of TN sufferers: 70.3%, reported facial pain disrupted with their daily activities 67.2%, reported feeling isolated or lonely 30.5%, answered yes when asked whether they had ever felt suicidal www.tna.org.uk/news/pain-aw...

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Pain Awareness Month 2026

Aneeta Prem MBE examines what 567 people with trigeminal neuralgia and facial pain told TNA UK during Pain Awareness Month 2026.

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oct 7th is Trigeminal Neuralgia Awareness Day 🩵 Being told 'it's one of the worst pains known to medicine' can make things harder. People find that too scary to be near. It's isolating. That's the hardest thing of all. #TNAwarenessDay #TrigeminalNeuralgia

A pain awareness month advert showing a woman's face frowning, with a lightning bolt radiating across her cheek and around her eye.

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Keith @keithbmusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today is Trigeminal Neuralgia Awareness Day 🩵. I’m sharing this part of my story to bring light to a rare, invisible condition 🩵 of pain! Keep pushing Artists #TNAwareness #TNAwarenessDay #IndieArtists #ChronicPainWarrior #NeverGiveUp #MusicHeals #FacialPainAwarenessMonth #FaceTodayTogether

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MWCJR @mwcjr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I love Kurzgesagt because they have excellent explanations that are approachable from anyone. You should watch this if you don't think you already fully understand LLMs and the latest hack of Hugging Face. This excellently describes the situation and the danger. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujkD...

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AI Just Crossed the Terrifying Line - Now What?

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Also have joy of not being able to easily access online disability support workshop easily if I want to attend study skills. It's not a timetable clash, it is absolutely impossible to do on my energy within 40 mins of each other

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I started a Pathways to a Degree in Japanese w Cardiff Uni. I am loving my studies. What I am not loving is the deluge of learning intranet/learning environment/library systems/microsoftfuckingteams(newbie)/UCAS deadlines/studyskills/disability workshops/etc. ngl, absolutely drowning right now

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

oh wow! Can you point to some instructions somewhere if you have a mo?

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This was fun (if you are watching obvs)

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

She's doing much much better today. Caught it early. She's eating like a small horse again.

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gosh somewhere different runs a UBI test, positive results AGAIN.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 01/10/2026

Universal basic income ensures that everyone has the ability to express basic demand for basic goods and services. This is market improving. Markets can't differentiate between 0 and Ø. A store can fail because not enough customers. But is that because they didn't like it or they did but were broke?

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why are so many experiences of interacting with the NHS like this? 🧵

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(V little change from £2k. Omg 😱 no I am not insured) So relieved to have her home. She has, predictably, put me in purdah, but she's doing it from the comfort of under the dining room table, because we have to be visible to make our point.

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is the face of a small creature who drank 4 tablespoons of cooking fat and got pancreatitis, spent 24 hours in emergency vets, and is now home. I am kicking myself that I left it uncovered. I had no idea she would see it as fair game. I had no idea it was that dangerous. Poor Maggie.

A black cat with a green bandage, looks forlornly into the middle distance after being brought home from the vets.

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm fascinated that your kids understood that instinctively.

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That reminds me of the time I heard AI imitation of Chopin (who I adore) I was amazed by the parody of it, but then it never took you anywhere, no surprise, no taking you through despair or delight.That's reflected across all generative AI. Parody only, nothing sensational (senses being operative)

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In case people are not fully across the Fairford story: What appears to have happened is that five men from London went to a small country village in the middle of the night to siphon fuel for resale. In small country villages, people notice things, especially at 1am. A farmer called the police.

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you for this helpful summary

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hiroshi Yoshida (Japanese, 1876–1950) "Sailing Boats in the Morning, Inland Sea", 1926. Color Woodcut, 54.5 × 40 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Dan/iel Mudford @danmud.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

HERE IS A LOVELY STORY: a friend lost his wallet on his way home from work the other day. (that's not the lovely bit) 1/2

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ALL men benefit from male violence, because it allows you to think you’re a good person because you haven’t assaulted a woman. That does not make you a good person, but you have collectively put that bar in hell.

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Also relegate them to dust sheets, and throw away anything you were using as dust sheets before, in the general housekeeping hierarchy

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think they are dusters now, that’s a great innings

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ta lovely x, I found some crumpets and we are calling that dinner right now 😊 (not too crunchy)

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Evening meal time and Trigeminal Neuralgia is at times so incompatible, I've spent more time crying while staring into the fridge than I care to remember

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Never Mind Fridge

Alt: From a fridge's eye view, a man in a green t-shirt opens the fridge door in anticipation, then turns away fed up

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Owen Blacker @owen.blacker.me.uk · 22/09/2026

Joined NWJCC call late (because dayjob) and Juliet Brown, chief commissioner, says that the clinician advisers advised them to take the extraordinary step of suspending all Welsh Gender Services services

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Ingrid Birchell Hughes @1ngi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Prince Philip got wall-to-wall pasting in the media for his comments about Chinese people back in 1986. It's not like it wasn't in public discourse

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