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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️
@isobelsgray.bsky.social
She/her. 49. Writer. Aquatramp. Feral trans woman moving very slowly around the inland waterways.
Morning. ☕

This is the first photo taken with my new laptop and also its first BlueSky post.

I was going to move the boat this morning, but the weather forecast has changed overnight. Looks like a long rainy spell is here, so I'll be staying put for the foreseeable.
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Aaarghh! 😖

Heading back to my mooring first thing tomorrow.

New neighbour is running the loudest generator I've heard in 10 years on the cut. He must have done something to the exhaust to make it sound so bad.

Only a sociopath would moor amongst other people and run a generator like this.
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I'm changing one of the two MCs in The Great Transgender Werewolf Massacre from a trans woman to a trans man. ✍🏻🤓

This would have been published by now if my last two laptops hadn't died inexplicably.

Maybe the gods killed those laptops to give me time to think and get this story bang on. 😄
a painting of a werewolf with yellow eyes
Alt: a gif of a werewolf with evil yellow eyes
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Happy Monday. ☕️

Ollie and I have leftover Sunday dinner for our breakfast. 😋 I cooked far too much yesterday. 😅

Today my new laptop arrives. 🤓💪🏻 I’m very good at killing laptops. Hopefully this one will live long enough for me to finish The Great Transgender Werewolf Massacre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
This will go very nicely with my Sunday dinner. 😛🍷
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Is Trevor Phillips really this thick, or is he just being a mendacious bastard?

A phrase meant to be inclusive of pregnant trans MEN has absolutely nothing to do with trans women.

Now every gammon is going to be shaking their fists in anger, claiming we're delusional and policing language etc.
Great to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social on @skynewsrss.bsky.social this morning standing up for trans people.

It’s clear that Trevor Phillips was trying to trap Zack by not giving him all the facts! Martine Croxall not only eye rolled, she changed a direct quote - unethical for a journalist!
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Happy Sunday. ☕️

It’s a misty morning here. Ollie had me up and out at 4:50. His body clock is gradually moving towards GMT.

Today is all about Sunday roast and resting. I might get a bottle of wine. 💃🏻🍷
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
2nd endorsement in the bag! 🥳🙌🏻

The doctor was really nice! 🤗

I'm just going to jump about and maybe happy scream a bit for a little while...
November 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Morning. ☕️

Today is rather huge. I might hear something I’ve wished for all my life.

By lunchtime I will either be elated like never before or utterly devastated.

No going back now. This fateful day has started. I am about to find out which one of two ways the gods have decided to send me.
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Happy Friday. 🥳☕️

Today I will mostly be mentally preparing 🧠 for my very important appointment tomorrow morning. 🤞🏻

I may order a curry later. 😛🌶️
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I think McSweeney has told Keith to model himself on Douglas Hurd’s Spitting Image puppet.
What can UK prime minister Keir Starmer and his Labour government learn from Zohran Mamdani’s New York mayoral election victory?
What can Labour learn from Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York?
www.bigissue.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Morning. ☕️

Today I have one boat job (fetching water) and one minute’s worth of adulting, which should end a very stressful episode. 🤞🏻

I’m messing about with where to put my camera for my online consultation. Possibly regretting painting that window red, but I do like the infernal demon look. 👹👍🏻
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Morning. ☕

Absolutely no adulting for me today. 💃🏻 I have won a major existential battle and deserve a peaceful time. 🍷

I'm really loving watching this place change through autumn 🌞🍂 and am quite looking forward to the winter now. ☃️
November 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
It’s an autumn wonderland here. 🍂
November 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A whole morning of sitting on hold ☎️ listening to stupid music 😤 and less than 2 minutes talking to actual humans who I only needed very simple things from. 😖

I have one more adulting task to get me out of shit, and I have until Thursday to do it.

I'm going to the shop now for a bottle of wine. 💃🏻🍷
November 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This is the putrefying brain rot that has infected the Labour government.

This is what’s hollowed out the skulls of Starmer, Phillipson, Streeting and others.

This is the type of delusional, hate filled nutter they meet and agree with, whilst keeping trans people out of the conversations about us.
Sarah Phillimore needs psychiatric help. This is a diseased mind.
November 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Morning. ☕️

It’s very much a ‘calm before the storm’ Monday morning for me. I have serious and terrifying stuff to do this pivotal week. 😬🤞🏻

Ollie got me up at 6. It was pissing down, but he needed to go out, so I had to too. 😫🌧️

Anyway. One more coffee ☕️ then it’s time to spring into action! 💥🥊🦸🏻‍♀️💪🏻
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It’s getting dark really early now, but the Swan Family are still making it round for their tea while there’s still a bit of light.
November 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
After over 30 hours of being unable to eat food, I have eaten a Sunday dinner! 🦸🏻‍♀️💪🏻

Walked to the shop earlier. Brought a bag of coal back on my wheelie truck and the exertion knocked me for six. 😵‍💫

Hopefully the food will give me my energy back. I have a big week ahead and need to be fighting fit. 🥊
November 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Yesterday morning I was struck down with food poisoning whilst eating insufficiently reheated takeaway.

I'm still very unwell 🤒 but I think I might survive now. The vomiting appears to be over. I just have no strength after a day of no food.

Let this be a lesson. 🧐 Don't ever be as stupid as me. 😭
November 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Yeah, well, I'm disappointed that anyone at all doesn't think that disgusting 'guidance' should have been immediately rejected for being evil and completely unacceptable in a modern, decent society.

We're not a modern, decent society. We could be, but it seems our foul politicians don't want that.
November 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Ollie got his own doner kebab yesterday. 💜
November 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Morning. ☕ Happy November.

Ollie and I are still eating the enormous takeaway I got yesterday afternoon. 😛🍕

A very lazy weekend is beginning. 😎🍷 Worries are banished until Monday.
November 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
I’ve just battled my way to a major adulting victory!! 💥🦸🏻‍♀️💪🏻

It’s possible I could be out of the shit I’m in by this time next week. 😬🤞🏻

Anyway. It’s basically the weekend now. Time to put everything down until Monday and order myself a well deserved reward on Just Eat… 😛🍷
October 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Happy Halloween! 👻🎃🦇

It's a dark, sinister day here. My pet monster and I were out at 3:30 stalking the towpath.

Soon we shall emerge once more and makeour way through the village, amongst the living, to the post office. This time though, I will look less horrifying, as I'll have put my face on. 🧛🏻‍♀️
October 31, 2025 at 7:29 AM