Sue Beesley
@suebeesley.bsky.social
Gardener. Microlighter. Dabbler in anything interesting. SolarPV devotee since 2011. Heat pump nerd. Still wondering what to do when I grow up. www.bluebellcottage.co.uk
Looking at lines on a graph, it's hard to get a sense of the scale of Arctic sea ice loss over 40 years. Try this... Same day of the year. It's about 23% lower, or 2.7 million square kilometers. That's equivalent to about 32 times the entire island of Ireland. Source: nsidc.org/sea-ice-toda...
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Looking at lines on a graph, it's hard to get a sense of the scale of Arctic sea ice loss over 40 years. Try this... Same day of the year. It's about 23% lower, or 2.7 million square kilometers. That's equivalent to about 32 times the entire island of Ireland. Source: nsidc.org/sea-ice-toda...
Yesterday it was -4C and the ground was too frozen to work. Today it's +14C and I'm planting tulips in a shirt. Cheshire, U.K.
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Yesterday it was -4C and the ground was too frozen to work. Today it's +14C and I'm planting tulips in a shirt. Cheshire, U.K.
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#GMB discussing @zackpolanski.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 6:52 AM
#GMB discussing @zackpolanski.bsky.social
-4C outside this morning. The house is steadily warm at 19.5C throughout and the 200L hot water tank is full of hot water. Yes, air source heat pumps work absolutely fine in sub-zero temperatures.
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
-4C outside this morning. The house is steadily warm at 19.5C throughout and the 200L hot water tank is full of hot water. Yes, air source heat pumps work absolutely fine in sub-zero temperatures.
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Note the contents of the letter from 1981. This is a contemporaneous record, in print expressing deep concern about #Farage's fascist views and racist comments. This is why he cannot deny it in this interivew he knows there is evidence.
From 2020: ‘Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson.’
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/let...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/let...
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Note the contents of the letter from 1981. This is a contemporaneous record, in print expressing deep concern about #Farage's fascist views and racist comments. This is why he cannot deny it in this interivew he knows there is evidence.
People of Norfolk, come and spend a cosy winter evening with me, @themarshtit.bsky.social and @timholtwilson.bsky.social as we talk birds, landscape and history at NWT’s Cley reserve on 5th Dec. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tales-of-b.... #NorfolkWildlifeTrust #NorfolkNature #naturewriting
November 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Hilarious!!
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Hilarious!!
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Just an absolute joke of a newspaper these days
Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Just an absolute joke of a newspaper these days
@theguardian.com headline today compared with @thetelegraph.bsky.social headline. 10 years for taking Russian bribes in the Guardian, might not have paid the correct Council tax in the Telegraph...
November 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
@theguardian.com headline today compared with @thetelegraph.bsky.social headline. 10 years for taking Russian bribes in the Guardian, might not have paid the correct Council tax in the Telegraph...
Both Arctic and Antarctic sea ice levels are near record lows for the time of year... See nsidc.org/sea-ice-toda...
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Both Arctic and Antarctic sea ice levels are near record lows for the time of year... See nsidc.org/sea-ice-toda...
I'm astounded and outraged by Labour's proposed policy on asylum seekers. Not just because it's unfair and inhumane, but because, in effect, it legitimises Reform's false line that asylum seekers are a notable -ve impact on the UK. It pretty much hands the keys to No.10 to Farage. Mean and stupid.
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I'm astounded and outraged by Labour's proposed policy on asylum seekers. Not just because it's unfair and inhumane, but because, in effect, it legitimises Reform's false line that asylum seekers are a notable -ve impact on the UK. It pretty much hands the keys to No.10 to Farage. Mean and stupid.
First of many such judgements, I hope. Theft is theft....
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
November 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
First of many such judgements, I hope. Theft is theft....
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We're in Newcastle with PMUK's Ian Gregg - former chairman of Greggs.
Speaking in a personal capacity, he said: "We hope the Chancellor uses this Budget to raise taxes on the wealthiest people first - who can most afford it - instead of ordinary people who can’t."
Speaking in a personal capacity, he said: "We hope the Chancellor uses this Budget to raise taxes on the wealthiest people first - who can most afford it - instead of ordinary people who can’t."
November 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We're in Newcastle with PMUK's Ian Gregg - former chairman of Greggs.
Speaking in a personal capacity, he said: "We hope the Chancellor uses this Budget to raise taxes on the wealthiest people first - who can most afford it - instead of ordinary people who can’t."
Speaking in a personal capacity, he said: "We hope the Chancellor uses this Budget to raise taxes on the wealthiest people first - who can most afford it - instead of ordinary people who can’t."
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Fantastic to be out with new members and Cheshire West and Chester Young Greens knocking on doors, speaking to residents and solving issues.
#DrawTheLine #makehopenormalagain #VoteGreen
Join.greenparty.org.uk
#DrawTheLine #makehopenormalagain #VoteGreen
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Fantastic to be out with new members and Cheshire West and Chester Young Greens knocking on doors, speaking to residents and solving issues.
#DrawTheLine #makehopenormalagain #VoteGreen
Join.greenparty.org.uk
#DrawTheLine #makehopenormalagain #VoteGreen
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Well this is good news - for the UK's north west region anyway... Reservoir levels have recovered to near normal.
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Well this is good news - for the UK's north west region anyway... Reservoir levels have recovered to near normal.
On the question of 'why did the Dems sit on the Epstein files for four years if they had nothing to hide?' This seems to cover it....
Journalist Julie Brown, an expert on the Epstein scandal, answers a question you may have about why Biden didn't release the Epstein files.
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On the question of 'why did the Dems sit on the Epstein files for four years if they had nothing to hide?' This seems to cover it....
A very interesting run through of the history and policy shifts in the Green Party. Nicely matured now :-).
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A very interesting run through of the history and policy shifts in the Green Party. Nicely matured now :-).
I get that this is an 'inspired by' adaptation. I'm fine with upping the 'sexually charged' bit - EB wrote what was possible in 1847. But why end it when Cathy dies? Why not show Heathcliff's self-destructive vengeance, ultimately defeated by love and kindness?
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
‘There’s an enormous amount of sado-masochism in this book’: Emerald Fennell defends her Wuthering Heights adaptation
At the Brontë Women’s Writing festival, the Saltburn director explained her decision to cast Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in her sex-charged retelling of Emily Brontë’s novel
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I get that this is an 'inspired by' adaptation. I'm fine with upping the 'sexually charged' bit - EB wrote what was possible in 1847. But why end it when Cathy dies? Why not show Heathcliff's self-destructive vengeance, ultimately defeated by love and kindness?
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
Am compiling a list of people I am 100% certain are not in the Epstein files. No. 1. Barack Obama...
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Am compiling a list of people I am 100% certain are not in the Epstein files. No. 1. Barack Obama...
How long before a sizeable chunk of the Republican Party twig that Trump is now a huge liability, flip, and throw him under the Epstein bus?
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
How long before a sizeable chunk of the Republican Party twig that Trump is now a huge liability, flip, and throw him under the Epstein bus?
The conflict of interest is outrageous, isn't it....
Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners
Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The conflict of interest is outrageous, isn't it....
I just cannot fathom why the leadership of the #BBC is deliberately prostrating itself before people who have said repeatedly and publicly that they intend to bring it down.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I just cannot fathom why the leadership of the #BBC is deliberately prostrating itself before people who have said repeatedly and publicly that they intend to bring it down.
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Writer Ronald Blythe was born on this day in 1922. Like Edmund Blunden, who influenced him, he championed John Clare. He was President of the John Clare Society for some thirty-odd years: 'Just as Clare had the power to articulate the life of the fields and common lands with a reality unknown 》
November 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Writer Ronald Blythe was born on this day in 1922. Like Edmund Blunden, who influenced him, he championed John Clare. He was President of the John Clare Society for some thirty-odd years: 'Just as Clare had the power to articulate the life of the fields and common lands with a reality unknown 》