Reposted by Sarah WishartTarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"Neutral in the culture war" 111155795320
Sarah Wishart @sarahwishart.bsky.social · 10/08/2026everyone bitching about house of dragons are tripping - this series has been absolutely brilliant. The shift of focus, the shift in how the audience has been steered. Seriously no notes. 000
Reposted by Sarah WishartEmma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Addendum: Tintwistle, Cairngorms and Harlech are the most reported. A few other large fires from July: Conwy: 200acres, evacuations. Kelfield, Yorks: 35acres Clare, Suffolk: 100acres Bridgnorth, Shrops: 98acres Roden, near Telford: 88 acres Brentmoor Heath, Surrey: size unknown, burned for 5 days. 2101
Reposted by Sarah WishartEmma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Fires are burning larger, hotter and fiercer. The Peak District blaze has set into the peat, meaning it can smoulder underground and flare up again easily. Severity indexes are off the charts. 25739
Reposted by Sarah WishartEmma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Large fires in the Peak District, Cairngorms and north Wales are now effectively competing for limited firefighting helicopter resources. On Saturday, Welsh farmers said they felt abandoned - while authorities had approved helicopter use, they were still waiting for one to be available. 38040
Reposted by Sarah WishartEmma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 20/07/2026For something to be technically a wildfire, it must reach 1 hectare in size. We counted grass/heath/crop/forest fires that might narrowly miss that distinction but still take huge resources to tackle. This is two weeks of Britain burning: 23314
Reposted by Sarah WishartEmma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Been on the apocalypse beat this week. Surveying English and Welsh fire services, we count 250+ significant wildfires in the first two weeks of July, destroying thousands of acres: www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...thetimes.comHow a ‘firewave’ gripped Britain with 250 blazes burningAn exceptionally hot, dry summer has turned the country into a ‘tinderbox’ as fire crews tackle dozens of incidents a day 36254
Reposted by Sarah WishartMaudi63 @maudi63.bsky.social · 18/07/2026No matter what kind of day you are having, this👇 will make it better. 🥹 🚲 ❤️ 411070319
Sarah Wishart @sarahwishart.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Went to the launch of this very fabulous book earlier this week - edited by my lovely friend Rastko Novaković - and got to meet @joeljoel.bsky.social - really fabulous book - also lots of additional STUFF on the website for-peace.maydayrooms.orgfor-peace.maydayrooms.org For Peace! 020
Reposted by Sarah WishartAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/07/2026Usually, if something is deeply damaging and defamatory to an organization you founded, you wouldn't say you want everyone to read it. Rowling is someone who is confident the system will back her regardless of how she undermines her own organizations legal position because of her wealth. 421794302
Sarah Wishart @sarahwishart.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Taking a book to the bubbled bath with an ice lolly. Ah sobriety your joys are myriad 010
Sarah Wishart @sarahwishart.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Goldman, reprimanded by a male relative as a true agitator shouldn't be seen dancing as frivolity would hurt the Cause, wrote: "I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release & freedom from convention & prejudice, should demand the denial of life & joy". 121
Sarah Wishart @sarahwishart.bsky.social · 22/06/2026@glassjarofmoles.bsky.social hello old friend x 000
Reposted by Sarah WishartExeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 08/05/2026What's going down in the loo? Tracking two friends across four scenes ahead of Flush @ Arcola, Maddy Costa looks at toilets onstage and off: sites for examinations of class and gender, the setting for discomfort and solidarity... Read it here or a sneak preview if you're not yet a paid subscriber:exeuntmagazine.substack.comA brief history of toilets on stageWritten in four (short) scenes 011
Reposted by Sarah WishartTrans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 03/04/2026On a more positive note, and this is not an exhaustive list, but please do follow, read, and support our friends at places like @wearequeeraf.com, @attitudemag.bsky.social, @divamag.bsky.social and other UK queer media that provide good public interest journalism for our community. 235880
Reposted by Sarah WishartTrans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 03/04/2026We hope others will join us to do the same. This is based on how @pinknews.bsky.social have decided to act, and we will be happy to revisit it if they change course and provide public interest journalism for the LGBTQ+ community. Until then, we will boycott the publication. 241851
Reposted by Sarah WishartTrans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 03/04/2026We deserve better from our community’s news outlets, and others provide vital coverage while respecting queer journalists, operating ethically and speaking truth to power. We are removing @pinknews.bsky.social from our press lists and will no longer provide direct comment to them. 358693
Reposted by Sarah WishartTrans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Pink News have now: - Made journalists redundant in search of a ‘reporter-free newsroom’. This includes one of the UK’s only trans reporters covering our community, and many other talented queer reporters. - Uncritically platformed Wes Streeting spinning taking healthcare away from trans kids.thepinknews.comWes Streeting: 'Every trans person deserves safety and respect'Writing for PinkNews, Wes Streeting says he wants to reassure trans youngsters that they have not been forgotten. 12829259
Reposted by Sarah WishartTrans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 03/04/2026The time has come for us, as an organisation, to boycott @pinknews.bsky.social. Despite reservations about the company, we have sometimes worked with queer and trans reporters there to tell stories we thought were important for our community - the same as other outlets. That ends today. Why? 5931383
Reposted by Sarah WishartMarc Garrett @mgarrett.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Reminder - I will be presenting my book, Feral Class, at Broadside, Glasgow. Publication Launch. 28.03.26. 2 – 5 pm. All welcome 🙂 broadside.space/event/for-fr... Publisher - @minorcompositions.bsky.social #readingcommunity #books #stories #WritingCommunity #outsider #art 0153
Reposted by Sarah WishartGood Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 17/03/2026The Court of Appeal have given the transphobic group Sex Matters permission to challenge trans inclusion at Hampstead Heath ponds. But we’re preparing to intervene: goodlaw.social/9iqrgoodlaw.socialCourt greenlights transphobic challenge at Hampstead ponds | Good Law ProjectThe transphobic group Sex Matters will argue at the High Court for a ban on trans women – we’re pushing back 1728773
Reposted by Sarah WishartAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/03/2026The writing is on the wall. The UK is going to attempt to ban hormones for trans adults. This is just one of the steps they're taking to limit access slowly. www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/17/n...thepinknews.comNHS England to review private HRT prescriptions for trans adultsA new report from NHS England suggests that the public health service will review whether to continue shared care ageements for trans adults. 191107400
Reposted by Sarah WishartNat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 15/03/2026You hide in the toilets because your colleague eats an apple criminally slowly at exactly 10am every day. A non-exhaustive catalogue of sensory malfunctions. open.substack.com/pub/nothingb...open.substack.comBad Wiring: A Non-Exhaustive Catalogue of Sensory MalfunctionsIt’s giving AuDHD 138918
Reposted by Sarah WishartJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 05/03/2026Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comWealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax billsSome risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK 20140381256
Reposted by Sarah WishartScary Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 14/03/2026When did your obsession with hot toxic women begin? 322931
Reposted by Sarah WishartGendered Intelligence @genderedintelligence.co.uk · 08/03/2026✊International Women’s Day is a protest ✊ Today, we recognise all women who are organising for justice and against division and inequality. For all those fighting back against transphobia, ableism, racism, male violence against women, misogyny and attacks on bodily autonomy. #IWD IWD26 17333
Reposted by Sarah WishartMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 06/03/2026unfortunately I lost it at this extremely stupid New Yorker cartoon 636051
Reposted by Sarah WishartZoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Your 3-minute guide to today’s asylum policy changes 14280124
Reposted by Sarah WishartAnother Disappointing Day in The Obituaries @deadlyvices.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Have a seat, sir. And prepare to Get Served. 012123
Reposted by Sarah WishartKarlito P @litop12.blacksky.app · 01/03/2026Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation. 11385192889
Reposted by Sarah WishartKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 28/02/2026I know it is easy to doomscroll, especially today. Please plan for yourself at least one or many more offline activities. Buy a pastry, read a book, go to a museum, see a friend, cook a meal, play with a pet, or even a trip to Costco. Try to limit time on your phone and avoid stewing in anxiety. 22667179
Reposted by Sarah WishartMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/02/2026you know I would say her matching pink phone case really makes this, gives Goodwin a huge "sad loser man at the end of Legally Blonde" vibe 603426543
Reposted by Sarah WishartHannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I love the sound of Tories losing their deposit in the morning 1304
Reposted by Sarah WishartNicholas Middleton @parallel-movement.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Save the date: 'Shadows and Projections', an exhibition of paintings, photographs and drawings. 03/04/26-18/04/26 The Art Space, Cass Art 63 – 67 Queen Street Glasgow G1 3EN Open Monday-Saturday 9am-6pm Sundays 11am-6pm Private view Friday 3rd April 6-8pm 042
Reposted by Sarah WishartEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 21/02/2026And that’s the clip that’s been circulating. A calm, rational exchange in the face of a group of Americans declaring over a loud speaker that all Muslims are sinful, criminals full of anger and hatred as families (some with children) walked home from prayers 10/ 249266
Reposted by Sarah WishartBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut 141100252912
Reposted by Sarah WishartThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 16/02/2026In the New Statesman this morning, I tackle an odd subgenre of Epstein coverage that's become more and more prevalent: breathless warnings that we're on a slippery slope to mob rule when we ask awkward questions of the world's most powerful people. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2026...newstatesman.comDon't email a paedophileIt's a slippery slope! 728191
Reposted by Sarah WishartMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 17/02/2026joyce is going after elon again 10777361261
Reposted by Sarah WishartStrathclyde Institute of Education @strath-ioe.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Curious to learn more about independent filmmaking? - Improve your screen skills at our filmmaking masterclass on Wednesday 18th Feb @ 1.30pm. More info and register here: sway.cloud.microsoft/nCp7rZZHTV3D...sway.cloud.microsoftFilm Education CPD for Secondary School/College TeachersInvitation to our free CPD filmmaking education workshop @ University of Strathclyde. Our event maps on to key film and screen learning areas in the Scottish (draft) film and screen curriculum: camera 122
Reposted by Sarah WishartPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Far be it from me to say we ought to be careful who we listen to on these issues, but it’s worth pointing out that these reason this guy is doing this interview is to plug his subscription service. 12116
Reposted by Sarah WishartMams4TransNI @mams4transni.bsky.social · 13/02/2026We are going to make a specific mams patch for the Trans Unity Quilt and we want to include the names of our loved ones for posterity. Just first name and first initial of surname for safety. If anyone would like to be included or a loved one, please let me know ❤️🏳️⚧️❤️ 04317
Reposted by Sarah WishartNetpol @netpol.org · 13/02/2026Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban 10842337
Reposted by Sarah WishartNatalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 22/01/2026The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...amnesty.org.ukGuidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultationWe are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights. 2215227
Sarah Wishart @sarahwishart.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I love that he hated his life’s work. Relatable. 000
Reposted by Sarah Wishartamy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 10/02/2026always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay 47144952915
Reposted by Sarah WishartPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Great to hear a Democracy for Sale story on heads of news on Today on Radio 4 Also very good to see a proper credit for us - as an ‘investigative website’ not ‘a Substack’ - high up in the story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukCabinet office minister used PR firm to investigate journalists' sourcesCabinet office minister Josh Simons commissioned APCO Worldwide for the investigation in 2023. 517938
Reposted by Sarah WishartKeezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 06/02/2026welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up 1040291056
Reposted by Sarah WishartOmg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue 5783268914043