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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️

@isobelsgray.bsky.social
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She/her. 50. Writer. Aquatramp. Feral trans woman moving very slowly around the inland waterways.

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Mumsnet creates family tensions by encouraging mothers to be psycho bully, abusive parents. Scars lots of kids for life too I’ll bet, and I say that as a child from a family that Mumsnet would have wholly endorsed had they been around in the 70s and 80s.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s October. 🎃🧛🏻‍♀️👻💀🦇 This is a very important month for me. 🤞🏻 I need to be on top of my game. 💃🏻 Even though it’s not particularly cold yet, it’s lovely waking up to a log fire 🪵🔥 and doing breakfast 🍳☕️ on it.
Sunny early morning view across the canal and tree topped field from Isobel’s roof hatch.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s very cold this morning. I’ve got the fire on. Soon it will go on, and stay on until probably April. Ollie and Seren woke me up at 7. They didn’t want to go out. They were just cold and wanted to be under the blanket with their mum.
Early morning view across the canal from Isobel’s roof hatch showing dramatic clouds flaring diagonally from behind a green hill.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
LGBTQ+ people in Europe should protest against the possibility of closer relations with the UK lowering the bar of EU human rights framework to a place where Russia might as well be in charge. Tell Brussels NO. There’s no way to get closer to us, as we are, without jeopardising YOUR human rights.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nope. He's exactly what Labour are these days. Radicalised transphobic cunts.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They might well be. Tough customers are the Swan Family. 💪🏻
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Some old friends swanning past! 🤗💜🦢
The Swan Family swanning along the morning canal. Isobel’s boat is in the background with smoke coming out of the chimney.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have a permanent mooring, but I’m not on it. I’m just going to knock around here for the foreseeable. ⛵️
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You are not alone. 👍🏻
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The journey home is over. I did it all today. Had a fight with a proper piece of human garbage where I planned to stop today. Gave me the adrenaline to take on the tunnel. 💪🏻 I’m so relieved to be back here, and I can’t quite believe I managed the last leg of the journey today. Time for a rest! ☕️💤
View across the canal from Isobel’s kitchen window showing cows laying down in the field under a dramatic sky with grey clouds.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The sun rises on another day when I shall inch closer to home. ⛵️ Only a short voyage today. Probably. We’ll see. ☕️
Early morning view of the canal from Isobel’s roof hatch showing the sunrise behind tree silhouettes and a horizontal red cloud reflecting on the still water.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thank you, Leah! 🤗💜🙌🏼
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Absolutely! 🍷💜🙌🏼
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m happy because today I scaled a lock flight 💪🏻 and am another step closer to where I call home. The last two days have been very tough boating. It’s possible I could get home tomorrow. Saturday morning would seem more likely. Or maybe Sunday or Monday, if I decide to stop here and have a rest. 🍷
Isobel sitting on her boat roof.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I got the engine going, somehow. It's been fine ever since. No idea what went wrong. It can only be the evil spirits that live in the tunnel. 😨
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I haven’t planned that far. I’m just going in a direction.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What an utterly stupid twerp he made of himself. I liked it when he was basically told to get off because he’d gone over time like a typically entitled GC prick.
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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lib Dem conference motion Restoring Trans Rights debate about to begin. Starting a live thread to cover what happens. #ldconf
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There are a number of air shafts. You can hear boat engines in the fields above.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
💀🧛🏻‍♀️ The Tunnel. 🦇👻 1.7 miles of pitch darkness, which normally takes a terrifying 50 minutes in my boat, but my engine mysteriously broke down halfway through last time. 😨 Soon I will be going back through. 😰 Not sure when, but soon. 😭
The entrance to the canal tunnel.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s very cold this morning. 🥶 Thankfully I chopped some wood yesterday and have had my fire going all night. 🔥 I’m quite looking forward to when the fire is on permanently for the winter, and I’ll have permanent hot food and a hot kettle ready! 🔥🥘☕️
Early morning view across the canal from Isobel’s roof hatch showing the sun hitting the field below a blue sky with light wispy clouds.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This lunchtime’s view from my kitchen window. 🥪☕️ I’m cracking on with some writing today ✍🏻🤓 while my mental health allows it. My brain 🧠 has been very overloaded lately. If I feel really capable 💪🏻 I might even have a go at drawing my cover picture. 🎨🖌️
View from Isobel’s kitchen window, across the canal and over the sheep field, under a blue sky with some grey and white clouds.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Why has the UK's EHRC still got A-status? Are trans people not considered human by YOU now?
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yep. That should be a universal basic.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"I don't want to get political and take sides..." ALWAYS means: "I hate the people you're defending, so shut up about what's happening to them. I fully support their persecution and extermination, but I'd rather not be known for the horrible piece of shit I am. So shut up."
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Seren might be 12, but she’d still ace an agility contest. Just look at this sublime weave through the apples.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’ve put the fire on this morning. 🔥 It’s bloody cold. 🥶
Ollie and Seren on the towpath outside their boat. It’s all looking slightly autumnal.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“You ain’t in Wales now, sunshine!”
Ollie being confronted by a bunch of mean looking sheep.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We set off from the smelly mooring first thing, hoping this spot would be available. It was 🥳 and Ollie and Seren’s friends were waiting. 🐑 All the neighbouring boats are my friends. It will be a lovely weekend here if the weather holds up! ☀️😎🍷👍🏻
A sheep looking straight at Isobel’s camera from behind the fence.Ollie and Seren on the towpath next to the sheep field. Ollie is laying down watching the sheep. Seren is licking her lips like a hungry wolf.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I didn’t smell it in the boat, thankfully. We’ve moved now. Set off at first light! ⛵️
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
They didn’t seem bothered. We’ve moved now to a spot with completely new problems! 😄
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Not content with spreading a fishy substance over the field, the farmer has now decided to set fire to a mound of cow poo. 🔥💩🔥 This is turning out to be an unusually pongy stop. 😓
View from Isobel’s boat roof showing a tractor and a fire in the field next to the canal.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We knocked a bit off tomorrow’s journey this afternoon ⛵️ before I got beaten by the wind and moored up. Ollie and Seren are excited as always to explore a new stretch of towpath. The farmer is spreading a fishy fertiliser on the nearby fields, and it’s really, really smelly. 🤢
Ollie and Seren scampering on a rural canal towpath under a moody grey sky.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Their bloody treats are amongst the vital supplies! 😄 We will have mutiny if they run out.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The crew being informed that our voyage will resume on Thursday. ⛵️ Vital supplies will arrive tomorrow and Wednesday afternoon, then we shall set off for as far north as it’s possible to go at this time. ⛵️🌍🧭
Ollie and Seren and Isobel’s knees.Seren trotting along the sunny tree lined canal towpath.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If a bunch of trans rights protesters turned up in Snobbells Green and peacefully blocked access to Poshtwat Close, you can safely bet anything you like we’d all be in the back of meat wagons within an hour and on our way to prison.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Seren proving that you only need one leg.
Seren looking like she is hopping on one leg.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Ha! Mine don’t fart any more, since I’ve been giving them probiotics. Seren had particularly rotten guts and would stink the boat out. This is the brand that they have…
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I have to live to nearly 88 to get 50%. I’ll do it too, because I don’t want any of my family at my funeral, and they won’t make it that far.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thank you, Stephanie! 💜🙌🏼 It’s actually 13.6363636% to be really precise! 🧐
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It’s a bright but very wet start here in the middle of nowhere following heavy rain overnight. 🌧️☕️ Today I have lived as a person called Isobel Gray for 13.6% of my actual life, which didn’t really start until I lived as Isobel Gray, and which the Labour government clearly wishes to bring to an end.
Early morning view of the canal from Isobel’s roof hatch showing trees reflecting in the water below a deep blue sky.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
They are the far right.
Andy Burnham. Prime Minister of Apartheid. Trans rights are human rights.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The UK is absolutely enacting a trans genocide, destroying our lives piece by piece, and it's speeding up considerably under Burnham. We are being stamped out everywhere and in every way. It's relentless. I believe it's been settled across the political spectrum. I see no real opposition from MPs.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It’s a dark, wet morning here in the middle of nowhere. 🌧️ My journey back to the north ⛵️ has stalled due to lack of fuel and money, but I’m happy to stop here a while, close to a nice village where I’m always welcomed. The canal is full of yellow leaves and there’s a definite autumnal atmosphere. 🎃
Dark and rainy morning view of the canal from Isobel’s roof hatch.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hi. I'm Amaranth Rumbelows.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
You’re a far right, fucking arse hole.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
No cheating. Share the last picture of the sky from your camera roll.
Ollie standing next to Isobel’s boat as a flock of geese fly by the moon just above the horizon in a blue evening sky.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I mean, she stands for punishing and segregating people based on her anti-science beliefs against natural human variation. That’s what we need people to understand. She’s a Nazi, put in charge of a UK human rights watchdog to attack innocent vulnerable people who she and this dirty government hate.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It's the opposite end of the spectrum from normal. They're extremely dangerous, hate filled cranks, and everything they believe is based on one anti-science, pig ignorant untruth. No normal society gives these shitheads time of day.
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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The 'Gender critical' movement is a science denying, genocidal cult, against the lives of people who don't fit within their bioessentialist parameters. They're Nazis. They should be proscribed, not protected, and certainly not running a human rights watchdog with awful, predictable consequences.
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