Rachel Taylor-Beales

Things about our gang of four.

Rachel and John started talking about the idea for The Untangled Knot in early 2024. The best things take a little time.

@racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social @johnreed.bandcamp.com @shirley-sings.bsky.social #bethportercello

Warning UK at risk of being pulled into illegal war

Why is Keir Starmer utterly incapable of saying no to Donald Trump?

Our national security requires us not to be dragged into illegal wars.

The Prime Minister is making us less safe. Did we learn nothing from Iraq?

... Kansas Orders Trans Drivers to Surrender Licenses With One Day's Notice by Samantha Riedel them

Another day where we can say - well done to all the anti trans activists who have helped create a world where a convicted sexual abuser is the most powerful man in the world while this is what is going on in Kansas

Fourbears Fest 26 - Robin Ince - Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth | Fourbears Books Robin Ince returns!! Join us as Robin talks about his new poetry book Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth.

2pm this SATURDAY - I am reading in READING - spread the word - this one has been a bit sluggish

www.fourbearsbooks.co.uk/event-detail...

Something progressively folky starting start soon...

@racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social @shirley-sings.bsky.social #bethportercello

A little more about The Untangled Knot. Here, #BethPorterCello reveals dolphin noise impressions and a Kylie connection 😎

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@racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social @shirley-sings.bsky.social

Here’s Rachel
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#GetKeshed with Rachel, a stellar musician, performer, writer, artist, who I met through a mad confluence of circumstances last year when she painted me at @robinince.bsky.social behest and first I heard about it was when this motherfucker appeared on my feed at 2 a.m.

Oh no worries at all! Looking forward to reading!

This week, we’re introducing ourselves

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Blue, green and pale brown reflections - mostly circles.

Green reflections and lots of squiggly bits

Green, blue, orange, grey reflections

Mostly golden reflections

This week’s reflections at #CanaryWharf taken on a wander at lunchtime on my #iPhone15Pro

I love reducing these office buildings to abstract art :)

Mine has arrived!

Brilliant outfits! Much love.

‘It was terrifying’: hundreds fall sick after swimming in bathing waters More than 1,200 people became ill last year, despite most waters being rated good or excellent. One mother said ‘no family should have to go through this’

1,200+ people became sick after swimming in designated bathing waters in England,

75% of those official swimming spots rated “good” or “excellent”.

Sewage dumping continues.

No penalties on water company execs.

The state can't guarantee clean water.
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Here are the original videos with captions since I threaded incorrectly:
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And so to who we are and what we've done and the kind of thing we might bring to the party.

theuntangledknot.bandcamp.com

@shirley-sings.bsky.social @racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social #bethportercello

U.S. Immigration Deportees Held in Secret African Detention Facility Sending migrants to Cameroon skirted judicial orders, lawyers said.

"As the journalists interacted with the migrants, uniformed police barged in and detained the lawyer and four journalists. Police confiscated their cameras, laptops and phones..."

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Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
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Morning 🙂 I will have a little treat for the weekend 👍🎵🙂
An acoustic cover of a beautiful song by Randy Newman 🙌❤️
See you then 🙃 🎵 🙌
#coversongs #acousticcover #favouritesong #singersongwriter #london

I’m so looking forward to seeing what we create with this new collaborative project.

We’ll be starting new social media profiles over the coming days. Meantime, please consider a follow at theuntangledknot.bandcamp.com

@johnreed.bandcamp.com
@racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social
#BethPorter

Our new collaboration begins. Work won't begin until 2 April, but we'd appreciate a follow on our page at theuntangledknot.bandcamp.com

I'm delighted to be working with @racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social @shirley-sings.bsky.social and #BethPorterCello on this exciting new project 😎 🎼🎤

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services.

Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you.

Please do keep sharing!

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A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful.

Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.

The High Court today confirms that the EHRC's draft code of practice got the law wrong and must be changed.

Women's and men's toilets can be provided on a trans- inclusive basis for customers and service users.

@klofmag.com - Will send some info on this new collab soon. Hope alls well with you?

Introducing The Untangled Knot, a brand new collaborative community and performance project with alt-folk artists @johnreed.bandcamp.com @shirley-sings.bsky.social and Beth Porter. Please head over to our new bandcamp page, and give us a follow there. theuntangledknot.bandcamp.com/album/meet-t...

It’s Bandcamp Day, when the platform I’ve been releasing music on since 2009 celebrates their artists by taking 0% of sales. They are good eggs!

I’m celebrating with a set of live recordings made on my December tour.

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The BBC Chose Transphobia over Science Transcript: Over the holidays, there was some news out of the UK that I wanted to highlight, lest it be lost in the news black hole that is Christmas and New Year: the British Broadcasting Corporat…

I will probably get told off for sharing this - but it does give some perspective on why I was under so much pressure to leave Monkey Cage - I accept my career is dead so….

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#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

Thrilled to be part of this collaboration!!