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Chris Bridges @chrisbridgeswriter.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

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Two weeks today! (Out in the US at the end of April) Meet Emma. Emma is sick. Just not in the way you think. Available to pre-order here and on Amazon/Waterstones etc. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/sick...

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Sick to Death a book by Chris Bridges.

'A twist to rival Gone Girl left me gasping' KATY BRENT ––––––––––––––- Meet Emma. Emma is sick. She can’t work because of a neurological conditio...

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I don’t want AI suggestions to ‘help’ me draft this poem thanks word document.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

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It’s high time we start being honest about what’s behind a lot of the push towards “wellness”. It’s ableism and eugenics. Its scared people who can’t face the fact that they could lose their health at any moment. It’s people who desperately need to cling to control. 🧵

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I am so, so tired. And I know you are, too. Here's “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution, it became a hospital.

Plasterwork of a skeleton blowing bubbles set against a pale blue wall.

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

For someone who rarely cooks, I spend way too much time thinking about what I would make if I were challenged to create a round-the-world tasting menu while working as a luxury yacht chef on the reality TV classic Below Deck.

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Susie Day @susieday.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

We all know GB News is fash nonsense but that doesn't mean they should get away with it. You don't need to watch the video (it's vile) - what he says is as stated in the description below. Please sign and share to pressure Ofcom into action.

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Kirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Fantastic piece of writing from @lettymchugh.bsky.social.

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Amy Millios @amymillios.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I feel like my brain is broken right now, though not for reasons related to my illness. Nevertheless, I think I shall head over to read this to try and fill a small moment of my day with something about creativity vs destruction.

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Thank you for reading! I am also unsure which is the right word, but we are all about embracing the mess today so I think it's gone either way!

Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I'm officially on substack. My first post is about radiator paint, but also MS, ADHD, and making art when you feel like your brain is broken substack.com/@lettymchugh...

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Sky Blue Radiator Paint

My artistic process, or why I never really felt like I have one.

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

She told me she could anonymous the details of my case and lodge a complaint about my treatment. At the time I trusted her, but I guess I have no way of knowing if she did it. More often I don't complain because I know I'll have to work with this same doctor for years to come whatever happens.

Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A nurse once talked me out of lodging an official complaint about a doctor early in my sick era. She said the best-case scenario would be the Doctor to meet me to apologize, that's all I could hope for, and I didn't ever want to see him again so…

Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I would really like someone to write a book called ‘A history of the apocalypse’ and it would be about how and why as humans we have so often been convinced the world is about to end. (I realise I’m a writer and could write that book, but I want to read it tonight)

Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Psyching yourself up to chase an appointment for a thing you don’t really want to have to do is THE WORST! Well done! All the gold stars, and a party hat.

Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Conversations can be so weird when you are chronically ill, because you so often end up feeling like you have nothing to say in response to standard polite questions. I’m experimenting with just telling the truth like ‘I’m pretty sick, but also enjoying my hyper focus on the towers of Bologna.’

I think it was some manner of data processing it had darker and lighter green rows, and long lines of numbers of the back. Mine had perforated edges to, and when you pulled it out the brief case it kept coming and coming like a magicians trick scarf.

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To be honest I’m nostalgic for 90’s business culture in general in that way you can be for something you just missed out on. I was fascinated by my Dads 90’s office job. He used to come home with a briefcase full of that weird green paper for us to draw on. What was it for? We’ll never know.

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I never got to use one, but often think fondly of fax machines, noisy enigma of my childhood. The mystery, the glamour, the unnecessary size. Just one time I would have liked to say ‘sure I’ll have someone fax that right over’ and then have someone fax that right over.

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Feeling the static on a TV screen

I was desperate to see it switched on just one time but alas she wasn’t allowed to plug it in without adult supervision. Honestly quite tempted to get one off eBay

Yes! The absolute joy of a thing that looks like a different thing.

I haven’t been so jealous of anything until I saw your dog comb

Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

When I was a kid my friend had one of those duck hair dryers and I was SO JEALOUS

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Every time I see millennial grey discourse I remember my Grandma E getting a new carpet a few years a go, which she described as ‘a lovely grey colour, right modern, just like something off Homes Under the Hammer’

Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I had a friend who also got a degree/ hug from her in 2013. He said she whispered ’you are magic never forget that’ while she hugged him. What an experience what a woman

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Every timeline is improved by ethically sourced cat content.

Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

20 year old Letty: I never want to move back to West Yorkshire. I will endanger my physical and mental health to avoid it. 30 year old Letty: West Yorkshire is the greatest place on earth. I will never leave. When I die burry me here so my bones can feed the scientifically significant moss.

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

You can stock pile all the tinned food and bottled water you want, if they don’t have new episodes of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in the bunker I’ll just stay on the surface and embrace death thanks.

Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

My WiFi has been down for 2 days and I’m nearly out of data on my phone. I don’t know what will happen to me if I can’t stream trashy reality TV and/ or Christmas movies for another day. This is why I wouldn’t want to survive the apocalypse.

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

“You better stay away from fungal infections and viral illnesses guy, because you have an increased vulnerability to those now” Bad guy is overcome with the urge to get under a blanket with paracetamol and a hot drink, good guys win.

Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

“What did you just stick me with?” “That’s an immunosuppressant buddy, and let me tell you, in two to four hours you are going to start feeling moderately unwell and that’s going to last for two or three days. But in the longer term, you immune system function will be reduced”

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I take some meds every month by injection that make me feel pretty rough for a few days. As I was getting the dose out of the fridge I imagined the thing in horror films where they mange to get the bad guy with a syringe and how ineffective it would be and I can’t explain how funny that is to me.

Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

My first started pack, what an honour! I’ve messaged you about the review copy.

Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I would like you to rewrite all the storm warning categories, Anna. ‘So windy I brought this Christmas wreath in’ makes perfect sense to me, and mph wind speed means nothing.

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

You made me sound so official. I love it

Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I keep looking at starter packs, thinking, ‘I won't follow everyone, I want to make deliberate choices in this new place’ then getting distracted, putting my phone down and losing the list. 70% of the people I follow have names in the first five letters of the alphabet.

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

POV: Mary Oliver wrote Wild Geese about how much she loves cheese as a musical genre.

A screenshot of text reading: you don't have to listen to ‘good music’
you don't have to spend 10,000 hours listening to a niche band from New York
that will look impressive in your Spotify-wrapped
you just have to make a fun playlist to put on while you empty the dishwasher
and let the soft animal of your body listen to Mambo No. 5

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

(someone asked me if I like Jane Austen the other day, and I said, ‘Well yeah the normal amount.’ which I think means I listen to the audiobooks on a constant loop but I don't own a bonnet.)

Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

When Lucy Steele sends her brake-up letter to Edward in Sense and Sensibility and asks him to ‘destroy my scribbles’ - that's the Jane Austen equivalent of asking him to delete her nudes, isn't it?

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Sometimes, when I meet very posh, very self-confident people, it makes me feel glad I have imposter syndrome. I think a bit of self-doubt makes you a better writer.

Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

MS fatigue is unexpectedly high today*. Can I add be kind and patient please my brain has been replaced with soup to my email signature? *unexpected in the sense this happens every winter like clockwork but in still shocked every year.