Richard Harris
@beeblebrox.com
Climate, complexity, data & cats
Climate & Ecosystem Data Intelligence. Born at 315ppm, now 426.6. Social tech innovator/entrepreneur, writer, photographer, ecologist, motorcyclist, cyclist, skier. Ex-CTO of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Owned by cats
Climate & Ecosystem Data Intelligence. Born at 315ppm, now 426.6. Social tech innovator/entrepreneur, writer, photographer, ecologist, motorcyclist, cyclist, skier. Ex-CTO of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Owned by cats
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Richard Harris
@beeblebrox.com
· Oct 21
With lots of new folks coming on board, a brief summary of me: I'm co-founder of BlueGlobe, a geospatial data intelligence platform, focussed on data-driven understanding, planning, forecasting and monitoring for environmental resilience & Climate Change response. More at: blueglo.be/news/everyth...
December 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Jabba the Gut is clearly spiralling ever further into delusion and self-aggrandisement. I’m not a clinician so don’t have the knowledge to suggest a cause but this, from someone who does, seems well argued and entirely plausible.
open.substack.com/pub/frankgeo...
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DAMMIT It's Not Alzheimer's! Here's Why It's A Far Worse Nightmare Scenario
You deserve the facts, not conjecture. Alzheimer's diminishes a person. Trump's not diminishing, he's escalating, and you need to know the frightening reason why.
open.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Jabba the Gut is clearly spiralling ever further into delusion and self-aggrandisement. I’m not a clinician so don’t have the knowledge to suggest a cause but this, from someone who does, seems well argued and entirely plausible.
open.substack.com/pub/frankgeo...
open.substack.com/pub/frankgeo...
December 20, 2025 at 6:24 AM
We had a dance refresher at the Village Hall last night, ahead of our Hogmanay Ceilidh. Which makes me wonder if Kepler got his ideas after participating in an Eightsome reel? Orbital mechanis were never my strong point, as I comprehensively demonstrated in the dance. Apologies for crushed feet…
December 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
We had a dance refresher at the Village Hall last night, ahead of our Hogmanay Ceilidh. Which makes me wonder if Kepler got his ideas after participating in an Eightsome reel? Orbital mechanis were never my strong point, as I comprehensively demonstrated in the dance. Apologies for crushed feet…
Briefing note for Muskovites & Fox & GB News etc, who continue to portray #London as lawless & unsafe. Today’s homicide figures give an annualised rate of 1.04/100k population.
Miami: 25;
Houston: 11.5;
Dallas: 12.5;
NYC: 5.8;
LA: 7.0.
I’d call that QED.
#London #misinformation
Miami: 25;
Houston: 11.5;
Dallas: 12.5;
NYC: 5.8;
LA: 7.0.
I’d call that QED.
#London #misinformation
December 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Briefing note for Muskovites & Fox & GB News etc, who continue to portray #London as lawless & unsafe. Today’s homicide figures give an annualised rate of 1.04/100k population.
Miami: 25;
Houston: 11.5;
Dallas: 12.5;
NYC: 5.8;
LA: 7.0.
I’d call that QED.
#London #misinformation
Miami: 25;
Houston: 11.5;
Dallas: 12.5;
NYC: 5.8;
LA: 7.0.
I’d call that QED.
#London #misinformation
Today’s Scottish image: Cambusmore House, Buchany, north of Doune
December 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Today’s Scottish image: Cambusmore House, Buchany, north of Doune
Robin is an example to us all, and an illustration of the cowardice, compliance and perfidy of the BBC and so many politicians, including those thought may have been better than that. Shame on the lot of you. So, @briancoxtalks.bsky.social - where now?
Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Robin is an example to us all, and an illustration of the cowardice, compliance and perfidy of the BBC and so many politicians, including those thought may have been better than that. Shame on the lot of you. So, @briancoxtalks.bsky.social - where now?
The iOS 26.2 update (from 26.1) for my iPhone 17 is 11GB. Just what is Apple smoking? With a dozen MacOS/TvOS/iPadOS/iOS devices in the house, I’m
Just very glad that we’re not on our bloody awful satellite connection any more.
Just very glad that we’re not on our bloody awful satellite connection any more.
December 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The iOS 26.2 update (from 26.1) for my iPhone 17 is 11GB. Just what is Apple smoking? With a dozen MacOS/TvOS/iPadOS/iOS devices in the house, I’m
Just very glad that we’re not on our bloody awful satellite connection any more.
Just very glad that we’re not on our bloody awful satellite connection any more.
“You bought a WHAT?!”, says Moriarty, cheerful evil genius and undisputed head of our household.
(This was six years ago, before the Nazi stuff, when Musk was just a Ponzi scheme operator who hadn’t then completely overridden the real engineers).
#caturday
(This was six years ago, before the Nazi stuff, when Musk was just a Ponzi scheme operator who hadn’t then completely overridden the real engineers).
#caturday
December 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
“You bought a WHAT?!”, says Moriarty, cheerful evil genius and undisputed head of our household.
(This was six years ago, before the Nazi stuff, when Musk was just a Ponzi scheme operator who hadn’t then completely overridden the real engineers).
#caturday
(This was six years ago, before the Nazi stuff, when Musk was just a Ponzi scheme operator who hadn’t then completely overridden the real engineers).
#caturday
I recently assessed a grant award for ‘Sovereign AI’. Fine, but somewhat pointless while the UK is still determinedly handing over infrastructure and core data to potential (or proven) bad actors such as AWS, Microsoft and Palantir, all of whom have shown compliance with the whims of the US regime
December 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I recently assessed a grant award for ‘Sovereign AI’. Fine, but somewhat pointless while the UK is still determinedly handing over infrastructure and core data to potential (or proven) bad actors such as AWS, Microsoft and Palantir, all of whom have shown compliance with the whims of the US regime
In the great directory of, "Things which I'd rather be woken up by than" (stroppy beast category), having a 13kg Maine Coon do a full Arctic Fox-style dive into my armpit comes pretty high…
December 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
In the great directory of, "Things which I'd rather be woken up by than" (stroppy beast category), having a 13kg Maine Coon do a full Arctic Fox-style dive into my armpit comes pretty high…
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If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
I now only use Facebook for hobby groups and for family & friends who aren’t on anything non-Meta. But this is far beyond the pale - time to bite the bullet & ditch Meta, as continued presence tacitly supports the bastard US regime and its tech lackeys
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I now only use Facebook for hobby groups and for family & friends who aren’t on anything non-Meta. But this is far beyond the pale - time to bite the bullet & ditch Meta, as continued presence tacitly supports the bastard US regime and its tech lackeys
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Trying to set up local IPv6 addressing on the LAN. So trying to improve my noddy-level inderstanding. I now have two LLMs in full ‘handbags at dawn’ mode - arguing furiously with each other. I swear that they’re getting personal. More popcorn, please…
December 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Trying to set up local IPv6 addressing on the LAN. So trying to improve my noddy-level inderstanding. I now have two LLMs in full ‘handbags at dawn’ mode - arguing furiously with each other. I swear that they’re getting personal. More popcorn, please…
Starmer would be out of his depth in my cats’ water dish. With his cowardice and sycophancy to fascists and criminal dictator-wannabes, he has betrayed the UK, our neighbours and both UK and global democracy. He is an incompetent and utter disgrace both to the UK and the Labour movement
December 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Starmer would be out of his depth in my cats’ water dish. With his cowardice and sycophancy to fascists and criminal dictator-wannabes, he has betrayed the UK, our neighbours and both UK and global democracy. He is an incompetent and utter disgrace both to the UK and the Labour movement
While neofascist loons spend their time and Putin & Musk’s money on trying to convince the more credulous of the EU’s citizens that it’s a unelected authoritarian monstrosity, here’s my pre-Brexit reminder of just how its democratic checks & balances operate & interact: stronvar.org/2019/01/21/d...
Democratic Clarity
For nearly three years now, I’ve been trying to engage some of my fellow Britons in meaningful debate, initially about why they’d plan to vote to leave the EU and then about why they vo…
stronvar.org
December 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
While neofascist loons spend their time and Putin & Musk’s money on trying to convince the more credulous of the EU’s citizens that it’s a unelected authoritarian monstrosity, here’s my pre-Brexit reminder of just how its democratic checks & balances operate & interact: stronvar.org/2019/01/21/d...
Oakley, the larger beast. He is, according to several BSky numpties, personally responsible for climate change, the degradation of the global environment and the murder of Thomas à Becket. There goes the neighbourhood…
#caturday
#caturday
December 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Oakley, the larger beast. He is, according to several BSky numpties, personally responsible for climate change, the degradation of the global environment and the murder of Thomas à Becket. There goes the neighbourhood…
#caturday
#caturday
He leaves a legacy of amazing and inspirational buildings, plus an entire generation of structural engineers with PTSD.
#frankgehry
#frankgehry
December 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
He leaves a legacy of amazing and inspirational buildings, plus an entire generation of structural engineers with PTSD.
#frankgehry
#frankgehry
That was a first: I think I’ll call my second line an ‘Eric Morecombe’ - all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order…
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December 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
That was a first: I think I’ll call my second line an ‘Eric Morecombe’ - all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order…
Wordle 1,630 3/6
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FAD, if people come to me for an engaged and evidence-based discussion from differing points of view, they’ll get a polite, respectful and reasoned debate. If however their starting point is assumptive, prejudicial and ad hominem, it’s an instant block. I’ve had to do a deal of the last of late.
December 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
FAD, if people come to me for an engaged and evidence-based discussion from differing points of view, they’ll get a polite, respectful and reasoned debate. If however their starting point is assumptive, prejudicial and ad hominem, it’s an instant block. I’ve had to do a deal of the last of late.
Re-reading Karl Popper makes me realise that #Brexit is a £200Bn (so far) falsification of the hypothesis that the EU is a good thing. So, just end the fucking experiment already, and let us return to normality, sadder but with everybody wiser.
December 3, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Re-reading Karl Popper makes me realise that #Brexit is a £200Bn (so far) falsification of the hypothesis that the EU is a good thing. So, just end the fucking experiment already, and let us return to normality, sadder but with everybody wiser.
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
The gratuitous hyping & misapplication of LLMs (including by some of their originators) pisses me off. But here’s an egregious & dangerous example: bots giving walkers routes that would take them over a crag. In this case, the admins of WalkHighlands caught it, hugely to their credit.
#LLM
#LLM
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The gratuitous hyping & misapplication of LLMs (including by some of their originators) pisses me off. But here’s an egregious & dangerous example: bots giving walkers routes that would take them over a crag. In this case, the admins of WalkHighlands caught it, hugely to their credit.
#LLM
#LLM
And, in other news, the sun rose in the east this morning…
November 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
And, in other news, the sun rose in the east this morning…