Sali Hughes
@salihughes.bsky.social
Journalist & Author. Bang in to clothes, films, cults.
Beauty Banks is holding a silent auction (donations from David Nicholls, Ian Rankin, Charlie Brooker, Jenny Colgan, Harry Hill, Manics, Elbow, etc) to raise funds to tackle hygiene poverty. Some tasty stuff here uk.givergy.com/beautybanksh...
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The mighty @salihughes.bsky.social is fundraising for Beauty Banks by auctioning loads of great shit from loads of brilliant people. Have a look: uk.givergy.com/beautybanksh...
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Bid on exclusive money can't buy items & experiences with Beauty Banks. Enter into one of our charity auctions, prize draws or buy exclusive items now
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val kilmer’s turn in TOP SECRET is one of the single best comedy performances ever committed to film, both in terms of comic precision and mechanical virtuosity. just watch this whole clip in its entirety; it’s stunning
Not the obituary I wanted to read today. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/m...
Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65 (Gift Article)
A wide-ranging leading man who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable. At one point he dropped out of Hollywood for a decade.
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Gut-punch power! Staggering performances! A vital call to action for parents and their teens! I wrote about why #Adolescence is the TV drama of 2025 so far - and such powerful TV that it could save lives www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘Unnervingly on-the-nose’: why Adolescence is such powerful TV that it could save lives
The Netflix four-parter has touched many a nerve with its gut-punch power and staggering performances – but it’s also a vital call to action for parents and their teens
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A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.
West Ada teacher stands firm after she’s told to remove ‘Everyone is welcome here’ signs
Sarah Inama said she was told by administrators that her signs “don’t allow people to express differing opinions.”
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Kind of awful, but I expect no less from this administration. It’s almost as if our mere existence irks them. They need to erase us so they can feel better about themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US department of defense website
Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters “DEI” added to website address
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Things Liz Truss is responsible for destroying: the British economy. Things Liz Truss is not responsible for destroying: the marriage of a grown man with free will and cognisance of what will surely happen if he pumps someone else.
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights was slashed in half on Tuesday as part of President Trump’s aggressive push to dismantle the agency.
Trump Firings Gut Education Department’s Civil Rights Division
Many of the office’s cases over the decades have served as a catalyst for broader policy change and social reforms.
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NEW EPISODE. Ian is very much up for revenge on supermarket shelf-stacking producers. Join @ianmartin.bsky.social @quantick.bsky.social and @salihughes.bsky.social for this week's OLD FOOLS PODCAST
Seeing Marjorie Taylor Greene’s snivelling shit of a boyfriend have a pop at Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit a few days after Musk was druggily guffawing in the same building while wearing a T-shirt and baseball cap has caused me to run amok with a hammer and cause untold damage to my own property
A thing about loss. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When my sister died, it wasn’t just her own childhood memories that disappeared. Mine did too | Jason Hazeley
Millie had fantastic recall, unlike mine. Now there are parts of my past – and myself – that I’ll never be able to remember, says comedy writer Jason Hazeley
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BREAKING: US voted against Ukraine's UN resolution which branded Russia the "aggressor" & demanded withdrawal of its troops. US on list of 18 nations also incl Russia, Iran and North Korea to vote against. UK & most European nations among 93 states to back Ukrainian resolution. China abstained.
It's always who you most suspect. www.joemygod.com/2025/02/wa-p...
WA Pastor Gets 30 Years For Producing Child Porn - Joe.My.God.
The Yakima Herald-Republic reports: A Yakima businessman and former pastor was sentenced Feb. 18 to 30 years in prison for making, possessing and sharing child sexual abuse images. David Roger Frankli...
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this interview - Lynn Barber on Marianne Faithfull - is the sort of brilliant, bonkers thing nobody writes anymore. It reads like a meeting of fabulous monsters www.theguardian.com/film/2001/ju...
Marianne Faithfull: 'You know, I'm not everybody's cup of tea!'
Late, rude and unapologetic... and then the interview goes from bad to worse. But after some prompting and wine, Marianne Faithfull talks to Lynn Barber about finding a new lover at last, what she rea...
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Just in from mammoth interview session to two bits of news. One that a DV perp got locked up because of something I did and that a vulnerable constituent had a a massive wrongful debt written off after our intervention. This is why I came to politics, this is why I'll just keep cracking on.
Word of the day is most definitely ‘hurkle-durkling’ (19th-century Scots): to linger in bed long after it’s time to get up.
It’s likely that you’ll have some bits of card or paper knocking about after Christmas, and here’s a great way to use up some of it: simply trim a piece to the right size and stick it on your screen to block out Google’s “AI Overview” results
My husband and I have taken to pausing our Christmas films while we finish eating our crisps. #elderly
A few years ago I established that the words for the Manics "A Design For Life" work better in "God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen" than they do in "A Design For Life", and the same was true of "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" and "Hark The Herald Angels Sing", and thankfully there is video proof
Some quality #duvetknowitschristmas posts. It’s taken to Bluesky like a duck to water.
A full house tonight has relegated me to… the utility room. But handy if I need an ice cream in the night. #duvetknowitschristmas
It’s time! After 23 years of marriage, the in-laws are still putting us in the Peach Room of Doom, with the Formica Stool of Chastity, and new for this year, an ironing board for a splash of colour. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas #XmasAtTheInlaws and donate to Centrepoint via @rhodri.biz
6/ Incredibly, over the last few years around £200,000 has been raised for homeless charities as a result of this thing. So, this year, if you're enjoying the pix, you could fling a few quid to Centrepoint via this link: gofund.me/637d21d0
Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2024, organized by Rhodri Marsden
Unbelievably, it's the 14th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2024
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