Björn Heile

@bjornheile.bsky.social

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Berlin-born and Glasgow-based academic, primarily interested in weird music. Oh, and I'm associate editor of Contemporary Music Review.
Professional profile: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/bjornheile

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · Nov 14

This is kind of my introductory post. It's great to meet so many people over here again. I'm not a direct refugee from Twitter/X: I have left that years ago but went to Mastodon. That's still great but rather quiet.
As you may know, I'm primarily interested in #music, particularly #modernist.

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 2h

❤️‍🔥Tory sources confirm that Nadhim Zahawi made approaches to senior members of Kemi Badenoch's team about getting a peerage just weeks before defecting to Reform UK - but was turned down.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Andrew Scott , and 2 more Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Andrew Scott, Ben Barr, Björn Heile

Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 5h

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 6h

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

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Justin @ediparolev.bsky.social · 2d

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World

Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.

www.forbes.com

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 3d

It's been cloudy and grey most of today. Just before dusk, this happened: #ArrocharAlps

Golden light from the setting sun on the outlines of the Arrochar Alps and mirrored in Loch Long, seen from Arrochar.

Reposted by Timothy Snyder, Robert West, Rebecca Solnit , and 34 more Timothy Snyder, Robert West, Rebecca Solnit, Dorothy Bishop, Will Jennings, Samuel L. Perry, Tom Shakespeare, Valerie P. Hans, Henning Melber, Philip Nel, Peter Holmes, Joni Lovenduski, Trevon D. Logan, Robert C. Richards, R. M. Wilson, Gerald Friedman, Nazita Lajevardi, Scott A. Imberman, Michael H. Whitworth, Anne Norton, Eric D. Knowles, Michael Müller, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Daryl Adair, Mark Priestley, Kate Starbird, Pauline Stafford, Björn Heile, Umut Özkırımlı, Greg Linden, Tim Stephens, Christina Pagel, Colin Talbot, Markus Haverland, Jeannette Sutton, Virginia Sapiro, Jim McManus

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4d

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 4d

The plot twists and cliffhangers are a bit too much for me, to be honest.

Julie Lavender Menace @2tickytacky.bsky.social · 5d

I've been binge watching this show called Fireplace for weeks now.

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Julie Lavender Menace @2tickytacky.bsky.social · 5d

I've been binge watching this show called Fireplace for weeks now.

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 8d

Followed up by very wordy vacuousness - sounding rather like someone who wouldn't be able to find Venezuela on the map.

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 10d

The phenomenon described is personified by Michael Gove (among others).

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 11d

Three of the top five British grid electricity records smashed in 2025!

This is a huge success story, despite what Russian bots and U.S fossil fuel shills scream on X.

Every unit of clean domestic energy we produce means a safer future for our children…🥳

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 11d

Happy New Year from the Atomium in Brussels!

Firework display with multiple elements and on several levels. The Atomium is visible in the lower left corner.

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 14d

Ice

Ice on the river Havel crushed by the ferry in Tegelort, Berlin.

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 17d

I also bake Styrian Lebkuchen every year, for good measure. (Not sure about Japanese seasonal baked products.)

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 18d

Watching King Charles listening to the national anthem and thinking “you’re so vain, I bet you think this song is about you.”

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Axel Bruns, David N. Thomas , and 10 more Diane Coyle, Axel Bruns, David N. Thomas, Tim Bale, Huw Price, Niels Werber, Kelly Smith, Mark Robinson, Paul Nightingale, Björn Heile, Claire Jowitt, Maksym Polyakov, Virginia Sapiro

Pete @petetheref.bsky.social · 18d

The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground.
Wonderful!

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 19d

Merry Christmas, one and all!

The glass dome of the Kibble Palace, in the Glasgow Botanic Gardens, in morning sunlight.

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 20d

It's almost as if the climate is changing...

'This year is on course to be the UK's hottest since records began. By the end of 2025, the UK's 10 warmest years on record will all have taken place in the last two decades, in measurements going back to the late 1800s.'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 21d

I’d run this piece on the death camps but it’s kind of a tired story now and anyway we still haven’t got a sit down with Himmler.

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3lite @3lite.bsky.social · 21d

Das kleinste Säugetier der Welt, die Estruskerspitzmaus, wiegt ausgewachsen 1,8 Gramm.

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 22d

What can you do? It's those fucking ley lines! They always get in the way.

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 22d

Happy winter solstice!

Loch Long under dark grey clouds, before dusk.

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 23d

On the other hand, it means no PMQs, which is the equivalent of Jaegerbombs for toddlers.

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 24d

The need for approval from people who will never accept her as one of their own is almost tragic.

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 24d

All of this. And: she is of Nigerian extraction, and it is just a legal technicality that she is not 'an immigrant'. Talking in that way about other cultures is hypocritical, in addition to hateful and ignorant.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Efrén O. Pérez, Fabián Muniesa , and 4 more Rosemary A. Joyce, Efrén O. Pérez, Fabián Muniesa, Björn Heile, Pádua Fernandes, Manisha Sinha, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 24d

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 25d

They're not mutually exclusive.

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 27d

Which makes him the most popular. That, in itself, is an indictment of the system.

Reposted by Steve Peers, Mark Priestley, Pauline Stafford , and 1 more Steve Peers, Mark Priestley, Pauline Stafford, Björn Heile

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27d

Again these people aren't patriots.

They hate our country and are allied to others who hate it too.

Nothing will ever be achieved by seeking to appease them

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 28d

Could it be - hear me out! - that Tesla has been overhyped, and that, maybe, the cars aren't actually that good?

e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 28d

please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts

www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...

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