Hugh Pumphrey
@hughpumphrey.bsky.social
Reader in Atmospheric Sci, Sch. of GeoSciences, Uni. of Edinburgh, UK. Works on https://mls.jpl.nasa.gov/ . Walking, singing, Linux, bellringing, astronomy, geology, geophysics and meteorology. Dislikes extreme right or leftwing politics and nationalism.
I bigged this up yesterday, but I am bigging it up again.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I bigged this up yesterday, but I am bigging it up again.
This is a nice example of vertical wind shear: the lower level clouds are clearly going in a different direction to the upper level clouds. #Meteorology
Sunset Ireland (November 24th), [2hr Timelapse] West Field, Galway, Ireland #Sunset #Ireland #Scape #Landscape #Sky #Clouds #SkyScape #Photography #TimeLapse
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This is a nice example of vertical wind shear: the lower level clouds are clearly going in a different direction to the upper level clouds. #Meteorology
Get signing this one, people. Let's put as much pressure on the fagash führer as possible.
This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 26,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Get signing this one, people. Let's put as much pressure on the fagash führer as possible.
Do chip in and give this project a push. The site is fab, but access is currently difficult: blogs.ed.ac.uk/hughpumphrey...
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Do chip in and give this project a push. The site is fab, but access is currently difficult: blogs.ed.ac.uk/hughpumphrey...
Well, duh. Yet another example of the current government's failure to understand what is going on.
Aren't foreign student fees pretty much the only thing keeping universities solvent?
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Well, duh. Yet another example of the current government's failure to understand what is going on.
Christmas cake baked!
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Christmas cake baked!
I am going to keep promoting @thenerve.news until you are all reading it, and until enough people realise how utterly loathsome Nigel Farage is. This from Stewart Lee is bang on.
A pile of toxic filth has been dumped in the British countryside. This has put me in mind of Nigel Farage
This week’s column by Stewart Lee, on Reform poisoning our national discourse
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
This week’s column by Stewart Lee, on Reform poisoning our national discourse
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
November 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I am going to keep promoting @thenerve.news until you are all reading it, and until enough people realise how utterly loathsome Nigel Farage is. This from Stewart Lee is bang on.
Everyone needs to keep cheering for @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and @thenerve.news --- they are doing important stuff.
NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline
As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexi...
www.thenerve.news
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Everyone needs to keep cheering for @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and @thenerve.news --- they are doing important stuff.
I do like the hashtag #DisparageTheFarage . Get disparaging, people!
It really is a remarkable coincidence that when Reform's Nathan Gill was being paid to shill for Putin, Reform's Nigel Farage was also shilling for Putin. Occam's razor surely comes into play. #DisparageTheFarage
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I do like the hashtag #DisparageTheFarage . Get disparaging, people!
Quake in #Bangladesh earlier today detected in #Edinburgh on both the @raspishake.bsky.social and gravity meter. (The quake in the last hour near Japan shows on the gravity meter but not on the Raspberry Shake.)
November 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Quake in #Bangladesh earlier today detected in #Edinburgh on both the @raspishake.bsky.social and gravity meter. (The quake in the last hour near Japan shows on the gravity meter but not on the Raspberry Shake.)
I think that @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com has had a fair shot at expressing the disordered rage that many normal people are feeling in this distressing period of history: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I think that @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com has had a fair shot at expressing the disordered rage that many normal people are feeling in this distressing period of history: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
WHO DID THIS????!!!
Cheer yourself up and give it a watch, it is hilarious. (Especially for those of us old enough to have lived through the disco cheese era.)
Cheer yourself up and give it a watch, it is hilarious. (Especially for those of us old enough to have lived through the disco cheese era.)
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
WHO DID THIS????!!!
Cheer yourself up and give it a watch, it is hilarious. (Especially for those of us old enough to have lived through the disco cheese era.)
Cheer yourself up and give it a watch, it is hilarious. (Especially for those of us old enough to have lived through the disco cheese era.)
Thank you for this @ledbydonkeys.org . Time for the govt to sack Mr. Gibb as he is clearly not exactly unbiased. Tagging random lab MPs as mine is not on @bsky.app : @secret-labour-mp.bsky.social @pjferguson.bsky.social @darrenpjones.bsky.social @lukemurphy.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Thank you for this @ledbydonkeys.org . Time for the govt to sack Mr. Gibb as he is clearly not exactly unbiased. Tagging random lab MPs as mine is not on @bsky.app : @secret-labour-mp.bsky.social @pjferguson.bsky.social @darrenpjones.bsky.social @lukemurphy.bsky.social
I do hope that Peter Mathieson can hear this from his office and that he is finding it REALLY annoying. Well done, @hamishkallin.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I do hope that Peter Mathieson can hear this from his office and that he is finding it REALLY annoying. Well done, @hamishkallin.bsky.social
I sometimes feel that, when blocking an account, one should have the option to say why. Maybe one account per week blocks me (according to Listifications) and I always wonder how I offended them (unless they have a username like "indy_now_🏴🏴🏴"; those ones are obvious).
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I sometimes feel that, when blocking an account, one should have the option to say why. Maybe one account per week blocks me (according to Listifications) and I always wonder how I offended them (unless they have a username like "indy_now_🏴🏴🏴"; those ones are obvious).
Probably cannot make it myself, but definitely with you in spirit, @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social . (Tagging @ucu.org.uk )
Join us tomorrow at the Parliament for a staff and student rally against the cuts!
November 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Probably cannot make it myself, but definitely with you in spirit, @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social . (Tagging @ucu.org.uk )
Strike day 2 of the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social strike at the University of #Edinburgh . I am very glad that I cut the grass on strike day 1, because today is horrid and wet. Will probably do a LOT of very overdue vacuum cleanering.
Strike day tasks so far:
(*) Grumpy email to principal sent
(*) Grumpy email to MP/MSP sent
(*) Bed stripped and remade
(*) Load of woollens washed
(*) Grumpy email to principal sent
(*) Grumpy email to MP/MSP sent
(*) Bed stripped and remade
(*) Load of woollens washed
Hello, fellow @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social members, and welcome to the first of three strike days. I am striking from home for personal reasons, but am with you on the picket line in spirit. Three trillion boos to the principal and his cronies!
(tagging @ucu.org.uk )
(tagging @ucu.org.uk )
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Strike day 2 of the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social strike at the University of #Edinburgh . I am very glad that I cut the grass on strike day 1, because today is horrid and wet. Will probably do a LOT of very overdue vacuum cleanering.
The UK needs to allow the US legal system to squeeze all the information they can get out of
(a) Lord (Peter) Mandelson
(b) Andrew (formerly known as Prince) Mountbatten-Windsor
(a) Lord (Peter) Mandelson
(b) Andrew (formerly known as Prince) Mountbatten-Windsor
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 18, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The UK needs to allow the US legal system to squeeze all the information they can get out of
(a) Lord (Peter) Mandelson
(b) Andrew (formerly known as Prince) Mountbatten-Windsor
(a) Lord (Peter) Mandelson
(b) Andrew (formerly known as Prince) Mountbatten-Windsor
Strike day tasks so far:
(*) Grumpy email to principal sent
(*) Grumpy email to MP/MSP sent
(*) Bed stripped and remade
(*) Load of woollens washed
(*) Grumpy email to principal sent
(*) Grumpy email to MP/MSP sent
(*) Bed stripped and remade
(*) Load of woollens washed
Hello, fellow @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social members, and welcome to the first of three strike days. I am striking from home for personal reasons, but am with you on the picket line in spirit. Three trillion boos to the principal and his cronies!
(tagging @ucu.org.uk )
(tagging @ucu.org.uk )
November 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Strike day tasks so far:
(*) Grumpy email to principal sent
(*) Grumpy email to MP/MSP sent
(*) Bed stripped and remade
(*) Load of woollens washed
(*) Grumpy email to principal sent
(*) Grumpy email to MP/MSP sent
(*) Bed stripped and remade
(*) Load of woollens washed
Hello, fellow @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social members, and welcome to the first of three strike days. I am striking from home for personal reasons, but am with you on the picket line in spirit. Three trillion boos to the principal and his cronies!
(tagging @ucu.org.uk )
(tagging @ucu.org.uk )
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Hello, fellow @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social members, and welcome to the first of three strike days. I am striking from home for personal reasons, but am with you on the picket line in spirit. Three trillion boos to the principal and his cronies!
(tagging @ucu.org.uk )
(tagging @ucu.org.uk )
Apparently it is Christmas already in our house.
November 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Apparently it is Christmas already in our house.
Thank you to @eddavey.libdems.org.uk for keeping on making this point.
🎯 Davey is spot on. "We can have criticism of the BBC, but within that, we need to recognise how valuable an institution it is [and how] precious to our country. And that's one of the reasons why people like President Trump and Nigel Farage, want to undermine the BBC." 👏🏽~AA
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Thank you to @eddavey.libdems.org.uk for keeping on making this point.
Give this one a read if you have not already done so.
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Give this one a read if you have not already done so.
You know what, UK Student Loans Company? If you are going to keep sending Mrs. P threatening letters about updating her details on your web site, maybe your web site should actually fucking work more often than one day in ten?
November 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
You know what, UK Student Loans Company? If you are going to keep sending Mrs. P threatening letters about updating her details on your web site, maybe your web site should actually fucking work more often than one day in ten?
Get this one read, people, it is hitting the bullseye again, essentially referring the orange shitgibbon to the case of Arkell vs Pressdram (aka @privateeyenews.bsky.social ).
GB News hosting Trumplethinskin so he can have a fannywobble about Panorama is the most utterly deranged media crossover of the year and is absolutely peak 2025.
Reader Discretion - I went sweary.
Reader Discretion - I went sweary.
Trumplethinskin Goes After the BBC - Because Facts Keep Hurting His Feelings
The man who demanded people "fight like hell" now insists the real injury was a slightly compressed quote on Panorama.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Get this one read, people, it is hitting the bullseye again, essentially referring the orange shitgibbon to the case of Arkell vs Pressdram (aka @privateeyenews.bsky.social ).