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Lisa

@lcwesthaven.bsky.social
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Healthcare NFP/membership, parent of a trans kiddo, adoptee. Living and working in Naarm. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

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Rosina O @techysaavy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Lisa @lcwesthaven.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The (in the UK at least) 1980s version of the Incredible Hulk. Nightmare fuel for me when I was a small human.
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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"This Labour Government is the worst thing to have ever happened to trans children." As a trans adult who can't legally re-enter the country of my birth because of policies enacted by this Labour government, I hope they all burn in hell.
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 03/10/2026
EVERY UK MP needs to read this You are all part of a government that is creating a situation so hostile and unsafe that people are leaving the country This is not an isolated case. You have the power to do something about this.
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uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trans families are *fleeing the UK*. If that doesn't fill you with horror, I don't know what will.
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Lisa @lcwesthaven.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I wrote to Wes Streeting a couple of years ago explaining that his policies were preventing us (British citizens) returning and contributing. *crickets*
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Brooklyn Rousseau (Spooky 365, not just October) 🎃 @glamgothcollective.mu.social · 01/10/2026
THERE IS NO TRANS DEBATE
THERE ARE TRANS PEOPLE AND THERE ARE FASCISTS WHO WISH TO DOMINATE
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ELIMINATE TRANS PEOPLE
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Lisa @lcwesthaven.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My favourite typo save, in a textbook for trainee obstetricians, was correcting maternal-fatal medicine to maternal-fetal medicine.
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Trump administration has made an extraordinary public intervention into Australia's debate about its proposed digital duty of care.
abc.net.au
US says Australian digital care bill would 'facilitate censorship'
The Trump administration has made an extraordinary public intervention into Australia's debate about its proposed digital duty of care.
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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: The Trump administration has made an extraordinary public intervention in Australia's digital of care debate It responded to a draft of the law saying it could lead to "extraterritorial censorship of protected speech” and demanded Australia exclude US tech companies www.abc.net.au/news/...
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Dr Chris Smith @spyhistorian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it." Eric Williams, still on point all these decades on. All is changed while everything has stayed the same.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The more we looked at the Jason Arday story, the more obvious it was that the British press operated on a “presumption of guilt”. A shocking tragic episode
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Lisa @lcwesthaven.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I have such tiny reach on this silly niche social app, but this song by my pal deserves a few plays youtu.be/rnO1qC5TdLw?...
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Whatever, whatever (feat. Vocals: Teddy Hopkins Jnr)
YouTube video by PETER LEVY - Topic
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Lisa @lcwesthaven.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I have such tiny reach on this silly niche social app, but this song by my pal deserves a few plays youtu.be/rnO1qC5TdLw?...
youtu.be
Whatever, whatever (feat. Vocals: Teddy Hopkins Jnr)
YouTube video by PETER LEVY - Topic
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Basic Income Action ↗️ @basicincomeaction.org · 02/09/2026
Don’t know how to help Universal Basic Income? Start simple. Search “Universal Basic Income” right now. Find a post that speaks to you. Comment on it. Like it. Repost it. That’s it. That’s the whole ask.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 20/09/2026
y’all don’t go looking for this but. one thing I really wish everyone would internalise is that we’re not gonna win against the puritans, or the fascists, or anyone else, by accepting any part of their premise as valid. they do not have legit concerns
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Lisa @lcwesthaven.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@faineg.com please tell our govt about the Harry Potter sex cult.
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Terrorism is happening.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A lot of people seem to take it as a fact that the private sector has secret efficiency magic the public sector doesn't have. It doesn't. It pays workers less and charges more for the same service. That's like 99% of private sector "efficiency." And everyone's worse off, except shareholders.
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Lisa @lcwesthaven.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Absolutely this. Kiddo has been in supervised medical care since she was 10 years old. Care has been evidence-based and focuses on autonomy, respect and ensuring the child survives long enough to make informed decisions about care.
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Sammi Narramore @narramoreart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Can you imagine being approved for a surgery, waiting years for the appointment, and when they day comes you finally meet the surgeon - it's cancelled by a subcommittee which has decided too many people in your country want the surgery.
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Lisa @lcwesthaven.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This pair of trees fascinate me so I wrote a short story about them.
Two gumtrees close together against a blue skyThe trunks of the same gumtrres, touching at the ground - one tree or two?A final shot of the two trunks, from above. The place where they meet has a touch of soil or rotted leaf fragments. It looks a bit crotch like, with legs rising up. Woman's shod feet in shot for scale - trees are big.
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Are we going to get the 200 articles on James Orr then? Maybe read and interrogate the footnotes of his doctoral thesis? Is Cambridge going to have to issue out statements about its hiring standards?
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The coverage of the Welsh gender surgery cancellations is some of the most appalling and degrading reporting on trans health this year. Every mainstream editor, clearly tickled at the decision, is going out of their way to add wholly irrelevant sections debasing patients’ bodies to a surreal degree.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
theverge.com
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 01/09/2026
Australia's largest contribution to the climate crisis - by some distance - is our production and export of coal and gas. While there are other things that are important as well if you forget to fight this, what are you fighting for? See here: naruresearch.com.au/australias-t...
Chart showing Australia's growing fossil fuel exports over time, with exports now more than double Australia's territorial emissions.
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Andrew Miskelly @anero.id · 01/09/2026
Winter 2026 across Australia.
Daily maximum temperature decile across Australia during winter 2026.Daily minimum temperature decile across Australia during winter 2026.Daily mean temperature decile across Australia during winter 2026.Precipitation amount decile across Australia during winter 2026.
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is the most fucked up and immediately harmful policy decision I think I've ever seen in adult trans healthcare in the UK, and that's saying something. The Welsh Gender Service is one of the best in the country. It is widely praised by the patients it helps. That is why it is being targeted.
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 30/08/2026
Like I shouldn't have to try to make this more relatable to cis people by papering over the trans element, but apparently it's not obvious to you fucking people how disgusting this is otherwise.
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 30/08/2026
The stories of the trans people whose bodily autonomy has been ridden roughshod over by this bullshit are absent from national press.
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Big.time.blue @big-time-blue.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Among the beneficial programs cut by the Musk DOGE stupidity was a collab between USAID and NASA for flood prediction, early warning, disaster readiness, glacier inventories, and mapping dangerous glacial lakes… in Nepal.”
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Isle of Wight Archaeology @iowarchaeology.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Early Bronze Age handled Beaker bowl excavated from a barrow near Nunwell #IsleofWight by Capt. J. Thorp in 1882. Found with a crouched male inhumation. Now in the Isle of Wight Museum Collection. See shorturl.at/38cpZ, shorturl.at/nyVK9, shorturl.at/ssfLA #FindsFriday #BronzeAge #Beaker
Pottery bowl with lugs and combed decoration
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
How British solar farms are returning shedloads of money to consumers davidtoke.substack.com/p/how-britis...
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How British solar farms are returning shedloads of money to consumers
Solar farms given contracts by the British government to supply electricity to the grid are paying larger and larger sums to electricity consumers.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
GTA 6 releases right in the middle of pannage season, Rockstar please don't sleep on this major opportunity for historical cultural resonance
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Adapting to climate change without ending the fossil fuel industry.
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Lisa @lcwesthaven.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express
Promotional art for Tori Amos's album American Doll Posse. Five versions of Tori, her personae for the songs - with different wigs, clothes and poses - stand in front of an American flag.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026
Genuinely abundant, cheap, accessible energy has vastly more liberatory potential than AI, for vastly more people -- especially more poor people. Which, I guess, is your answer.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/08/2026
We did it! “The Nerd Reich” is a New York Times Instant Bestseller! My book debuts at #3 on the non-fiction list. Thanks to all who pre-ordered /bought the book—or requested it at the public library or promoted it on social. Without you, I’m just an unemployed guy with a laptop. But with you…
Image: Nerd Reich book cover, a New York Times Instant Bestseller
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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
RIP Yayoi Kusama.
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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"people" might adapt in some way, YOU may very well not be one of them. the "just adapt" folks always gloss over the millions if not billions dying bit.
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Lisa @lcwesthaven.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Truly the time of year that lifts the heart. The sheer *relief* of more light and warmer days.
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IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
If we decide that somebody's rights are disposable, there's literally nothing left protecting my rights or your rights. Trans rights are human rights and that means everybody. We all have human rights, or nobody does.
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Lisa @lcwesthaven.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This song is co-written in Auslan and is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard... music.youtube.com/watch?v=CoNK...
music.youtube.com
Bad Dream Break In
YouTube video by Alter Boy - Topic
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Lisa @lcwesthaven.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A while back there was an engagement farming post asking for non-English bangers... here are mine
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"After 13 years in the Royal Australian Navy, Emily Pyke realised if she encountered a fire her bra could catch alight beneath her protective uniform." "Women are wearing everyday commercial, synthetic, highly flammable products into these high-risk environments."
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The way that gender critical activists leapt on this was so stark and so striking! Their rapid evolution to a generalised anti-DEI position that means they feel they can attack people of colour with impunity because of the trans menace is… extraordinary, for many reasons.
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Callie @callidoptera.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
So the new national waiting list referral process for gender services in England has THREE opportunities for AI to fuck it up and discharge you. So cool, very good job NHS England that'll fix things so much better than just funding and commissioning GPs to do their job.
A section of a flowchart of the new referral process for gender services with the following text: 
2nd contact via AI referral still required and any changes in information?
Referral still required -> Yes
3rd contact via AI referral still required, any changes in information & admin consents
Referral still required? -> Yes
4th contact AI - referral still required, offer potential transfer for 1st appt or preferred GS?
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/08/2026
to them, there’s no right way to be neurodivergent, or trans, because their ultimate goal is to not have these people exist.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
As well as a horrible story about this author, this is also a story of the police refusing to prosecute him again and again and again…
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