Calamity Jem

Amazing time at Salts Mill in Saltaire this weekend. Spent lots of time in mils this weekend, it's pretty cool round here

A photograph of the front of Wes Streeting's office in Ilford. there is pink paint on the window, reading CHILD KILLER, although a car is parked in front of it, and white paper on one side barely hiding a puncture in the glass. Wes' name is also covered in pink paint on the email at the bottom of the red banner-style sign

A different angle of Streeting's office, showing the CHILD KILLER text more visibly. Three punctures with spider-fractures are visible across the front of the office windows.

JUSTICE FOR TRANS YOUTH On July 31st, a group of activists representing BASH BACK took action against Wes Streeting's office in Ilford, in response to his continued abuse of trans people in the medical system, and attempts to cover up the suicides of trans young people under his watch as Health Secretary. In the months since the puberty blockers ban, we have seen huge backpedals in the healthcare rights afforded to trans people - and young people especially - in an NHS system that was never kind to us in the first place. Under Streeting's rule, GPs have been banned from conducting blood tests on trans patients accessing HRT, and trans people have been banned from accessing hospital wards that fit their gender, leading necessarily to poorer quality of care across the board. Streeting, along with NHS England, the EHRC, and Hillary Cass, have paved the way for state-mandated conversion therapy, which has since led to the Department of Education's proposed introduction of a "Section 28" style bill, preventing discussion of transness in the classroom. It is clear now that Wes Streeting and the Labour government intend to erase trans people from public life, and will go out of their way to do so, no matter how many bodies lay in their path.

A poster on a black paper textured background, with the logo (an inverted pink triangle with "trans symbol" spokes at each corner, sat between "Bash" and "back" WHEN TRANS LIVES ARE UNDER ATTACK, WHAT DO WE DO? STAND UP BASH BACK

Our statement on the actions at Wes Streeting's office last night.

We refuse to sit and watch as trans young people have their healthcare stripped from them. We refuse to allow Streeting to cover up their suicides. We refuse to endure the violence and humiliation. They will have to go through us.

So far so good on not vaping. Not even grumpy so far, yay for nicotine patches

Quit vaping today after picking up the habit again in February with job stress. Silly. Got a cough so timed it well! wish me luck. it's surprisingly easy so far although I am off for some crunchy snacks to give me something to do.

I'm done with rehashes and reboots!

Rowling: as you know, pedro pascal called me a heinous loser
Kathleen Stock: a monstrous slur, dark lord!
Stock: why, someone should turn him into a blueberry for that!
Rowling:
Stock: don't you think? i mean don't you think?
Rowling:

It was pulled so tight and looked like she was bald with a bad wig on. Super distracting from the Train to Busan plot

just made candele spezzate alla Genovese and I might never eat anything else ever again

I watch star trek for the plot

This month can get in the bin. Broken washing machine AND broken computer monitor when I really should be saving money 😭💸😵

Writers' Survival Guide: Keep Writing Over The Summer Holidays The kids are home, the heat is hot, time has contracted to an infinitely dense singularity. How do you keep writing over the summer holidays?

Hey writers! How do you keep going in the school holidays? Some advice from @writershq.bsky.social and a bunch of weirdos (I mean me) writershq.co.uk/writers-surv...

start of the school holidays means I already had to pay for holiday club. bastards!

success! new washing machine installed that won't just fill up with mucky water.

£300 I absolutely don't have right now though. 😬

Someone leak the Epstein client list to her STAT

thanks for the biscuit tetris ingenuity!

Running my first @writershq.bsky.social Writing Retreat at Sunny Bank Mills today. Really looking forward to planning out a new poetry project during the writing sprints.

thank you x

This is the bloody reason the inside of my ears itch. Stoopid hayfever. Stoopid WEIRD hayfever.

An incomplete list of treasures in my hoard for #poemsabout #keepsakes @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

thanks!

It was! I really enjoyed Home when it was open which was Chef Liz Cottam's previous venture so I knew I'd like it. It was all very rich though

Went to a posh gastropub last night in Leeds for my birthday. Nowt like being a bit fancy!

Has anyone told Carmen Berzatto that he can go to therapy?

Why won't men just go to therapy?!

Excellent season of The Bear

genuinely can't believe how fucking lovely the beach we went to this morning was. perfect! Northumberland rocks

I just made pasta and meatballs with the leftover verdita (coriander, mint, chilli, pineapple and lime juice) with tomato and now I feel like a culinary genius

sneak a little poem into a competition, why don't I?

Why do you get out of bed in the morning? What's your one reason?

Unset my alarm and hoping for a lie in tomorrow. I can't cope with the humidity!

[mysterious circle of robed figures]
JK Rowling: hello children
Allison Bailey: dark lord, dark lord, help me!
Bailey: the vet told me my dog is TOO FAT
Rowling: my god
Rowling: i can't believe they would attack your gender critical beliefs like that
Bailey: that's exactly what I said!

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw