Rachel Taylor-Beales

Working Alongside Trans, Gender Diverse and Questioning People Training for therapists and counsellors.

A specialist two-day course for working alongside trans, gender diverse and questioning people. Delivered in person in London.  Where: Bounds Green, London  Upcoming dates:   16-17 March 9-10 June

Are you a therapist or counsellor seeking more in-depth knowledge of trans experiences?

We have spaces left on our March specialist two-day course “Working Alongside Trans, Gender Diverse and Questioning People”.

Find out more: https://ow.ly/U6eb50YrHJ3

Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies.

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Write to your MP: Stay out of Trump’s war Stop Trump Coalition

stoptrump.org.uk/mp-trumps-war/

Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.

This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.

44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats and sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein’s chief enabler. Maxwell’s conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she says

Lucia Osborne-Crowley is one of the most remarkable campaigners and writers working today. This profile piece is quite the read.

Robin you’re awesome. Definitely funny - but also so much more. I always liked the becardiganed polymath description. But most of all just keep on doing, being you- cutting your own path, with all your glorious varied forms of creativity.

I am starting another bookshop and library tour in late April - tour dates here and more being added - including Devon and Cornwall at end of June

robinince.com #bookshops #libraries #poetry #books #comedy

We've just hit 215,000 members.

More than 2,000 people a day have joined us since our historic win in the Gorton and Denton by-election. Come and be a part of the movement which is making hope normal again. Join us 👇

All the way from NYC to #GetKeshed with me n @judecook.bsky.social.

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

#GetKeshed in Chicago 🤘 That's two (three?) in the Windy City now......

meet the untangled knot, by the untangled knot 4 track album

Follow, listen, stream, buy
It's #BandcampFriday

Support our new collaborative project, which opens 2nd April
@racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social @shirley-sings.bsky.social #BethPorterCello @theuntangledknot.bsky.social

theuntangledknot.bandcamp.com

It’s #worldbookday so a good day to say that I will be back on a bookshop and library tour from late April - dates still being added but quite a few up here

Robinince.com #books #poetry #libraries #bookshops

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 😎

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

Here’s Rachel
#TUK

#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

#TUK

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.
archive.ph/QGyF2

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..."

www.wsj.com/world/africa...

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.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...