We have a relatively dry weekend coming up if anyone has some time to give? Get in touch!

Esse House UK@essehouse.bsky.social · last wk.

We have another skip arriving on Wednesday, and we are still open to hosting volunteers until the end of the September. A warm bed and good food in return for a few hours labour on a fantastic community asset. Go on... 📧 contact@essehouse.co.uk

1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · 3d ago

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

They will review each case and "if the surgery is deemed to be appropriate", they will work to get those surgeries rescheduled asap. They will also work with Cardiff & Vale health board to support patients irrespective of the result

Lib Dem conference votes overwhelmingly in favour of the motion "Restoring Trans Rights" 🎉🏳️‍⚧️

LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@pluslibdems.bsky.social · 4d ago

We now move to the vote. The conference floor votes overwhelmingly in favour of the motion 🎉

Lib Dem conference motion Restoring Trans Rights debate about to begin. Starting a live thread to cover what happens. #ldconf

Remember: …and by a very wide margin.

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Few people will see this. Dems will be worse than Labour. Too many Dems in leadership positions IMO will push for comity, co-operation and not see the destruction of institutions as something to be fixed, the Epstein Files as worthy of release, nor the defence of minority rights as necessary /1

sarah phillimore has published a letter arguing that the trans woman she stands accused of harassing is too mentally fragile to be cross-examined. She published it as a victory lap. She feels safe doing that because her own regulator told her that harassing trans women is protected expression. 🧵

Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · 6d ago

Dear Austin McCormick, I'm happy to be Jo's Witness in court. I ask the following defamatory blog post be removed. As this contributes to SV PhIllmore's harrassment against myself and my gender identity. sarahphillimore.substack.com/p/an-open-of...

shout-any to any pre-1600 historians ... I am trying to find an earlier detailed complaint about London's public transport than Giordano's Bruno's account of useless Thames watermen in The Ash-Wednesday Supper (1584) ... are they any?

We’re asking our supporters across the UK to write to the Chief Commissioner of NHS Wales ahead of Tuesday, to demand that surgery is reinstated immediately while the investigation goes ahead, and to issue a formal apology for making such an irresponsible decision.

It takes a toll.

Bluesky brain! Does anyone have a copy of the letter sent to patients of the WGS who had their surgeries cancelled? Trying to gather as much info as possible on what has been done/said so as to challenge this as effectively as possible. Thank you for any leads, and please repost 🙏🙏🙏 ❤️❤️❤️

One of the best threads on this stuff I've seen - speaking as a British trans woman who used to walk streets for Labour. In fact, it's so good I might start quoting it into the mentions of all the "Enjoy the camps" centrists.

Claudia: lesbian space merc@lesbianspacemerc.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm still struggling with the volume of cis people who're confidently telling trans people they have to vote for a transphobe because Republicans are worse. The absolute hubris. Do you think we're idiot children, who don't know what the consequences are? Of course we do. 1/x

Re-upping my THREAD from yesterday about all the things wrong with Burnham’s *propaganda gimmick* about climate change that @theguardian.com has handed him for free. 43p each to fight climate change…? While he is giving the go-ahead for more North Sea oil and gas production.

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · last wk.

There are so many things wrong with Burnham’s window dressing policy on “community” renewable energy. A) his £30 million funding is peanuts when you consider that the cost of a 1 Mw wind turbine is £1.3 - £2.2 million. (1 Mw will power between 650 and 1,000 homes) 1/n

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How the Supreme Court tipped Anna over the edge | Good Law Project

Billionaires like JK Rowling have funded a blizzard of legal attacks on the trans community – and her allies in the rightwing and far-right press have pursued a campaign of trans hate, says Jo Maugham

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Online letter writing tool from @transactualuk.bsky.social to restore surgery access in Wales. transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/09...

Take Action to Restore Access to Gender‑Affirming Surgeries in Wales – TransActual

The Welsh Gender Service has been instructed to stop referring people for surgery, and people who already had surgery dates booked have had their surgeries cancelled without any warning. This includes people who were already in hospital ready for their operations.

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We’re asking our supporters across the UK to write to the Chief Commissioner of NHS Wales ahead of Tuesday, to demand that surgery is reinstated immediately while the investigation goes ahead, and to issue a formal apology for making such an irresponsible decision.

Okay this is once again a VERY SPECIFIC request and I once again ask that if you cannot provide a VERY SPECIFIC answer, that you boost or scroll on. I’m looking for a British tax adviser who can advise on British company ownership and taxes for an American citizen #iykyk

Trans people in Wales have been left in limbo following a decision by NHS Wales to pause access to gender affirming surgeries without warning. Write to the Chief Commissioner at NHS Wales today, and demand that access to surgery is reinstated immediately. actionnetwork.org/letters/4256...

Restore Access to Gender‑Affirming Surgeries in Wales

Trans people in Wales have been left in limbo following a decision by NHS Wales to pause access to gender affirming surgeries without warning. The decision was made by the NHS Wales Joint…

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TERF Island

Feature documentary TERF Island provides a much-needed loving anthology of trans lives in the UK.

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I have an announcement.

Petition: Immediately unfreeze gender-affirming surgeries and protect NHS Welsh Gender Service patients. petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24... Please sign and share

Petition: Immediately unfreeze gender-affirming surgeries and protect NHS Welsh Gender Service patients.

We call on the Senedd and Welsh Government to direct the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC) to: Immediately unfreeze scheduled and approved gender-affirming surgeries for patients who ha...

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NEW: Llais, the health watchdog for Wales, is investigating the decision by NHS Wales’ Joint Commissioning Committee to indefinitely pause access to gender-affirming surgeries. If you have been affected - they have asked you to share this with them: www.llaiswales.org/news-and-rep...

The foot in the door