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Skye Balou
@skyebalou.bsky.social
🇺🇦🦋 #LocalHero Brit Awake
Likes: kindness & countryside; music & morality; decency & dunes; humour & hope, hopefully knowing when alliteration must simply stop
Dislikes: The obvious really. The antithesis of the above. Climate change denial/doomism is top.
Pinned
Sharing this space with G-pa – 78 rpm (rocking past midnight). He’ll put a G in his posts. Images are a mix of his & mine over the years.
Like me, he loves the movie #LocalHero & worries about climate change, so much he wrote a script for a climate follow-up. Open this post to read more in my reply.
"I want a Greenland"
"You can’t have one"
"If you don't give me a Greenland I'll scream & I'll scream & I'll scream"
"OK brat, but just remember who you are & that some of the grown-ups might be very cross with you"
"Don’t care I'll scream & scream & scream"
"OK here’s how it is. You're out"
January 19, 2026 at 5:46 PM
"I want a Noble"
"We can't give you one, you haven't been noble enough"
"If you don't give me a Noble I'll scream & I'll scream & I'll scream"
"OK dearest but just remember who you are and that some of the grown-ups might be upset"
"I'll scream & I'll scream & I'll scream"
"OK that's it. You're out"
January 19, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Misty for me
January 19, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Luxury abode with a view
of Sorisdale Bay, Isle of Coll
January 19, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Traigh baile a' Mhuilinn, Isle of Tiree

Milltown Beach
❤️
January 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Otter, deer, hare, otter, plastic
January 19, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Gott Bay, Isle of Tiree with Isle of Mull beyond
January 19, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Getting close
to
the whole of the Moon
January 19, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Scarinish, Tiree
January 19, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Barra from Vatersay
January 17, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Skye from Corran
January 17, 2026 at 11:38 AM
What, precisely, does “Britain is broken“ mean Mr Jenrick?
January 16, 2026 at 6:17 PM
@andrewrawnsley.bsky.social
"The danger for Reform is that it looks more and more like a refugee camp for discredited Conservatives than it does the insurgent force for change that it claims to be."

Absolutely 💯 as it should be, because it's the truth.

observer.co.uk/news/politic...
A traitor has been banished – but Jenrick sacking could h...
The Tory leader’s sacking of her rival over ‘irrefutable evidence’ he was plotting to defect to Reform may ruin his and Nigel Farage’s plans, but the infighting will harm her party
observer.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 2:28 PM
This morning's wee riverside ramble
January 16, 2026 at 11:33 AM
And you know what?
tfump will be saying And you no what? I got the Noble piece prize. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Except in caps.
January 16, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Reposted by Skye Balou
And whilst we're on the subject why is the UK gov't still using X as its main social media outlet & why, as at July '25 hasn't SAFE (its assessment framework) concluded that Bluesky is a far more appropriate medium? X last assessed April 2023.

questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament
Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.
questions-statements.parliament.uk
January 15, 2026 at 11:05 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=atNF...

@michaelemann.bsky.social
This wee video chimes with your quote in this extract.

We no longer accept their odious lies.
January 14, 2026 at 7:18 PM
January 14, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Some of the best of America

An American Tune

[needs sound]
January 14, 2026 at 2:57 PM
The sun will still shine

A 3-minute song-video.
The burning of fossil fuels has to stop.

Those of us with the longest future have the strongest stake.
Talk about the climate crisis and what WE can do about it.

#ClimateCrisis #YouthForClimate #ClimateAction

www.youtube.com/watch?v=atNF...
The sun will still shine
YouTube video by Richard Large
www.youtube.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:03 AM
St Michael's Mount on 23 December. Sadly I expect a lot of those trees on its western flank have been lost last week in storm Goretti.
January 13, 2026 at 4:42 PM
That means you baby gull. Turnstones welcome.
January 13, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Loch Maree
January 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Jolly nice coastline
January 8, 2026 at 10:27 PM