Ush @ush.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Damn it, Steph Cole has died. I genuinely ca’t think of a performance I love as much as her playing Carolyn in Cabin Pressure. 030
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A friend recently referred to boymoding as boyzoning and I keep wondering whether heavy use of choreography and close harmony to distract from your transition would succeed at awkward family gatherings. 120
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Made it out of the valley of ‘rona just in time to see Mark Rylance be a compellingly revolting Tartuffe tonight. He’s never less than mesmerising. 021
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Get vaccinated, lovelies. Religiously getting jabbed every autumn has kept me Covid-free for three years. that streak has ended, and it turns out Covid still sucks. 010
Reposted by UshMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"I wasn't allowed to stay up and watch the EU treaty negotiations in 1991" "Maastricht?" "She was a bit" 12633103
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This time 18 years ago I’d just treated myself to a little haemorrhage while Sheila held our very battered firstborn. He’s all grown up now and I’m ridiculously proud of him. Happy birthday, D. 020
Reposted by UshNeil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Every single journalist in Britain should read this searing essay by Will Selfwillself1.substack.comJason Arday: J'Accuse the British MediaAfter the death of Jason Arday, Will Self asks what happens when the media machine mistakes what interests the public for the public interest. 21312158
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Oldest child and the live-in boyfriend have smashed their level 3 diplomas and are off to university. In two weeks, I will have successfully got child A to adulthood. Fiercely proud of everyone and a little bit worried they’ll never come home to visit. 1180
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Just watched two people start Islands in the Stream at karaoke and completely lose their shit laughing at the “making love with each other” bit. The whole bar realises about thirty seconds in that they’re siblings and everyone was weeping with laughter by the end. Glorious. 130
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Accidentally getting a second dog has been the most joyous thing if you don’t mind a little property damage. The hounds have just done their big morning wrestle and all’s right with the world. 000
Reposted by UshBee @bee.tusky.pink.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026A little while back I learned something cool about my maternal grandmother, who I knew in life as a retired florist whose life revolved around her husband’s interests in a very traditional cishet way. Turns out she had a whole other life before marriage and working with my grandfather, and what […]tusky.pinkOriginal post on tusky.pink 113
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 19/07/2026What the fuck is a half-time show doing here? This act has at least dressed the dancers as half-time orange slices. 010
Reposted by UshLRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 15/07/2026our jimmy was telling us a story about when he used to work for waterstones Aberdeen 11412
Reposted by UshLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times 5973701606
Reposted by UshSpooky Ghost Enthusiast @sirsandgoblin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024I refuse to believe there's a word for the thickness of tights 1211739
Reposted by UshJosephine Grahl @woodscolt79.bsky.social · 05/07/2026After a long period of not remembering my dreams, in the last couple of weeks I've started having really vivid and even lucid dreams. My theory: Keir Starmer, who famously does not dream, has exerted a deadening force over the nation's psyche, and the arrival of Burnham has lifted this curse. 061
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 29/06/2026m.youtube.com/watch?is=mWe...m.youtube.comMargot Leadbetter The Last Time I Play the TartYouTube video by Kris O'Kane 000
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Just caught two ice cold mangoes (I had shoved them in the fridge to stop them liquefying In the heat) at that moment of perfect ripeness before it all goes to shit, and youngest child and I have feasted well. 010
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 26/06/2026PSA for fellow sober types seeking the hedonistic thrills of their youth: a R White’s lemonade ice lolly melted into a Lucky Saint is a surprisingly elevated shandy. 000
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I had a massage last night that was so good I went on a little trip through my own viscera, which turned into a sort of crochet-heavy coral reef. Wild times for this normally aphantasic human. 030
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Damn, they may be delightfully trans-inclusive, but the booking system for the ladies’ pond is so utterly neurodivergence-unfriendly I might cry. 010
Reposted by Ushspooky kororā @davejac.bsky.social · 22/06/2026My neighbor told me a cat keeps eating his british prime minister so I asked how many PMs he has and he said he just goes to the commons and gets a new PM afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding PMs to a cat and then his daughter started crying. 1340451236
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I linked to a piece on the EHRC fuckery, and then took my post down. Not because I agree with the gender critical person who toddled along in response to tell me what real women think, but because the author used an ableist slur in a subsequent piece. Do better, lefty think-piece guys. 020
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Waking up the day after the solstice, mid-heatwave, thinking “it’s all downhill to the cold”. 000
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Crumbs. It is not often I enjoy writing as much as I have been enjoying Francis Spufford’s. 010
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Things have been so dark for so long that waking up early to find the US having a scaffolding watch party is a balm for the soul. 020
Reposted by UshDave Conrad @dconrad.bsky.social · 13/06/2026The year is 2028. The scaffolding is so dense, it's opaque. No one knows if the Kennedy Center is still inside there or not. 11659103
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 29/05/2026This made me so happy this morning. If you‘ve ever had a loved one in long-term ICU care, you’ll know this is world-changing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukUK's first rooftop intensive care ward opens at King's College HospitalThe outdoor ward, at King's College Hospital in London, will monitor how much it boosts the recovery of seriously ill patients. 010
Reposted by UshEthel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Not only does this crap rely on egregiously violating individual privacy, it’s also completely incoherent: it will bias the pay gap statistics (trans women get paid *way less* than cis women) and might also potentially even fuck up equal pay claims 23410
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Just had a cathartic roar at a couple of GBeebies reporters after they shoved my 15 year old at a protest, so may turn up on telly later as the face of the angry left. 110
Reposted by UshMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026What the government is doing to trans people is a society-wide version of Section 28. It is a level of bureaucratic cruelty that utterly decimates a whole group of people’s rights and puts anyone who doesn’t ‘look’ right in the eyes of others under constant surveillance. It’s a horrific thing. 11652264
Reposted by UshHelen Bowes-Catton (she/her) @hbowescatton.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Women, if you don't want to be harassed in the loos, please stand with your trans sisters, and with non-binary and intersex folk, and with over 100,000 other women, and sign the Not In Our Name - NION Women petition. notinourname.org.uknotinourname.org.ukHome - Not in our nameNot In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community 08254
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Currently on the Victoria Line and for once not feeling in any way intimidated by the football crowd. Big, uncomplicated male joy. Strangers hugging. Someone should tell them the women’s game feels like this all the time. 000
Reposted by UshDavid Wynne @davidwynne.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check. 146013558
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Grief is not linear. Tonight I saw Emmylou Harris for the first time since Sheila died and almost certainly for the last time ever, and I am hollow with it. 240
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Wise Children The Left Hand of Darkness Woman on the Edge of Time 110
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Youngest and I have just engaged in pleasing speculation about whether naming more than two Mitford sisters in Mambo No. 5 would have fundamentally changed the character of the song. 000
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I’ve got a set of tansu stairs up to my bed, which my short king of a dog climbs laboriously. We have a new dog, who seems to have decided that her challenge is to use as few of the steps as possible. It is not restful to wake up to 13kg of bully lurcher parkouring herself into your bed. 000
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 17/03/2026In six months, my firstborn will have left home. Smallest child and I shared a horrifying realisation last night that he’s the only thing that stops us going fully eccentric. For somewhat related reasons, the menagerie may also be expanding. It may be time to finally watch Grey Gardens. 010
Reposted by UshHamburglar Humblebrag @plantpotonassis.bsky.social · 13/03/2026I have enjoyed the discourse about how large a beast we could all wrangle in a bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk and wish to offer my own pedigree. I went to a school that had its own farm. We had many beasts upon it, ranging in size from quail to horse, & a certain percentage escaped every year. 12110
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Someone last night in the Trans Voices choir at Transmission had a pair of voluminous, intricate olive green trousers that made them look like a lightly militarised Mr Tumnus and I have never wanted a garment more. If anyone knows where they came from, let me know. 010
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Horrifying realisation that in London you’re never more than 9m from Maya Forstater. 050
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Trying to work out whether the School Wars are sufficiently alarming that the youngest needs to skip her evening lesson for fear of being shivved on the bus. Not helped by the bit of my brain (Shatner’s Bassoon?) that thinks this whole scare is basically the Brass Eye drugs episode. 010
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 21/02/2026In “unwillingly saved from myself” news, the new vegan Babybel are fucking disgusting. The old ones walked the uncanny valley between Babybel and La Vache Qui Rit and I was obsessed. These are inedible. 010
Ush @ush.bsky.social · 16/02/2026I’m enormously angry and sad that media concern trolling about trans kids is predicated on the idea that being trans is a worse outcome than being cis. That there’s a hierarchy of good and bad types of human and a moral and legal duty to preserve It. It’s such an old, cruel, untrue playbook. 064
Reposted by UshTristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 15/02/2026A less transphobic press might start asking "How does driving a doctor out of Scotland help cut NHS wait times? Why is Scotland better with fewer doctors? Which other minority staff would you get rid of?" 1410120
