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...
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…
November 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Our courtyard ten minutes ago. We do not in fact have a swimming pool. 250-year-old drains, which go we know not where.
November 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Our courtyard ten minutes ago. We do not in fact have a swimming pool. 250-year-old drains, which go we know not where.
A little audio/engineering nerdery: Visiting Vinyl Source (Glasgow), I spotted these tonearms. Mark makes them himself - fluid damped unipivots, machined from brass and stainless steel, with jewelled bearings.
A true craftsman - if I were looking for a high-end tonearm…
www.thevinylsource.co.uk
A true craftsman - if I were looking for a high-end tonearm…
www.thevinylsource.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
A little audio/engineering nerdery: Visiting Vinyl Source (Glasgow), I spotted these tonearms. Mark makes them himself - fluid damped unipivots, machined from brass and stainless steel, with jewelled bearings.
A true craftsman - if I were looking for a high-end tonearm…
www.thevinylsource.co.uk
A true craftsman - if I were looking for a high-end tonearm…
www.thevinylsource.co.uk
When we were designing h2g2.com in the late 90s, it was axiomatic that it needed to be based on each user’s provable identity. They could have multiple context/-based personae, but all blind (or open) authenticated against that ID. Personal bots would always be labelled as such and also tagged… 1/3
h2g2.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
When we were designing h2g2.com in the late 90s, it was axiomatic that it needed to be based on each user’s provable identity. They could have multiple context/-based personae, but all blind (or open) authenticated against that ID. Personal bots would always be labelled as such and also tagged… 1/3
Please, please, this…
Zack Polanski tells the BBC it would be "very tempting" for him to stand in Keir Starmer's seat at the next general election
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Please, please, this…
Over the summer, a colony of bumble bees took up residence in a bathroom extractor duct. So we switched off the power, left them alone and waited for the Autumn. Cleared out the comb & brood cells today - everything is now working again, but downstairs is permeated by the heavy scent of honey
#bees
#bees
November 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Over the summer, a colony of bumble bees took up residence in a bathroom extractor duct. So we switched off the power, left them alone and waited for the Autumn. Cleared out the comb & brood cells today - everything is now working again, but downstairs is permeated by the heavy scent of honey
#bees
#bees
I just had to check if this was for real. I’m very happy to say that it is.
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I just had to check if this was for real. I’m very happy to say that it is.
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Major props for Chuck. Huge.
November 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Major props for Chuck. Huge.
Reposted by Richard Harris
Somewhere in that publishing house there was a production designer who worked very hard to make sure the pages played out that way. And perhaps died very happy.
The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Somewhere in that publishing house there was a production designer who worked very hard to make sure the pages played out that way. And perhaps died very happy.
Autumn is segueing into winter hereabouts - the first snows are dusting the mountains and we're due our first 'proper' fall come Tuesday. But at least IT. HAS. STOPPED. RAINING.
All images taken with Olympus OM-1/150-400mm f4.5 IS.
#scotland #highlands #landscape #photography
All images taken with Olympus OM-1/150-400mm f4.5 IS.
#scotland #highlands #landscape #photography
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Autumn is segueing into winter hereabouts - the first snows are dusting the mountains and we're due our first 'proper' fall come Tuesday. But at least IT. HAS. STOPPED. RAINING.
All images taken with Olympus OM-1/150-400mm f4.5 IS.
#scotland #highlands #landscape #photography
All images taken with Olympus OM-1/150-400mm f4.5 IS.
#scotland #highlands #landscape #photography
This has been bugging me for years, so I finally sat down and worked it out: in The Winter Soldier, Zola claims that his brain was transferred to 200,000 feet of magnetic tape circa 1972. Well, at the best 6250dpi density of the time, that's 1.788GB. Peabrain.
#marvel #captainamerica
#marvel #captainamerica
November 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This has been bugging me for years, so I finally sat down and worked it out: in The Winter Soldier, Zola claims that his brain was transferred to 200,000 feet of magnetic tape circa 1972. Well, at the best 6250dpi density of the time, that's 1.788GB. Peabrain.
#marvel #captainamerica
#marvel #captainamerica
Another day with in-house review: “You do realise that your model fails to take into account edge effects at watershed boundaries?”.
#climatedata
#catsanyday
#climatedata
#catsanyday
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Another day with in-house review: “You do realise that your model fails to take into account edge effects at watershed boundaries?”.
#climatedata
#catsanyday
#climatedata
#catsanyday
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The Ganga River, which sustains the lives of at least 600 million people, is facing its worst dry spell and lowest streamflow in 1,300 years, according to a recent study, reports Mongabay India’s Simrin Sirur.
India’s Ganga River drying at unprecedented levels
The Ganga River, which sustains the lives of at least 600 million people, is facing its worst dry spell and lowest streamflow in 1,300 years, according to a recent study, reports Mongabay India’s…
news.mongabay.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The Ganga River, which sustains the lives of at least 600 million people, is facing its worst dry spell and lowest streamflow in 1,300 years, according to a recent study, reports Mongabay India’s Simrin Sirur.
It pains me to say it, but do not buy an iPhone 17 until Apple has fixed the issues with its N1 comms chip: networking - WiFi, Bluetooth, mobile data and phone calls are unreliable and have not been addressed by either software update so far. Hubris and failure to test a critical system component?
November 4, 2025 at 10:17 AM
It pains me to say it, but do not buy an iPhone 17 until Apple has fixed the issues with its N1 comms chip: networking - WiFi, Bluetooth, mobile data and phone calls are unreliable and have not been addressed by either software update so far. Hubris and failure to test a critical system component?
I mean, adaptive, auto-negotiating, frequency hopping FISH.
Wow this is wild 🤯
🧪🎢⚛️🧬
🧪🎢⚛️🧬
Jamming avoidance response - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I mean, adaptive, auto-negotiating, frequency hopping FISH.
Reposted by Richard Harris
Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!
The 3-year mean rate of atmospheric CO2 growth just hit a new record high reaching a growth rate of 7.88 ppm per 3 years for October, 2025. This breaks the previous record high of 7.83 ppm per 3 years, from February, 2019.
Net-Zero by 2050? The Climate 8-ball is bored.
Code UFB!!!
The 3-year mean rate of atmospheric CO2 growth just hit a new record high reaching a growth rate of 7.88 ppm per 3 years for October, 2025. This breaks the previous record high of 7.83 ppm per 3 years, from February, 2019.
Net-Zero by 2050? The Climate 8-ball is bored.
November 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!
The 3-year mean rate of atmospheric CO2 growth just hit a new record high reaching a growth rate of 7.88 ppm per 3 years for October, 2025. This breaks the previous record high of 7.83 ppm per 3 years, from February, 2019.
Net-Zero by 2050? The Climate 8-ball is bored.
Code UFB!!!
The 3-year mean rate of atmospheric CO2 growth just hit a new record high reaching a growth rate of 7.88 ppm per 3 years for October, 2025. This breaks the previous record high of 7.83 ppm per 3 years, from February, 2019.
Net-Zero by 2050? The Climate 8-ball is bored.
Reposted by Richard Harris
Corrupt Britannia.
UK Govts bury bank scandals.
Frauds, moneylaundering not investigated.
FCA, SFO rarely prosecute.
HBOS frauds report promised by 2018, nothing published, ministers don't answer questions.
City of London Police funded by Lloyds Bank, UK Finance, financial institutions.
UK Govts bury bank scandals.
Frauds, moneylaundering not investigated.
FCA, SFO rarely prosecute.
HBOS frauds report promised by 2018, nothing published, ministers don't answer questions.
City of London Police funded by Lloyds Bank, UK Finance, financial institutions.
Why the banking industry is not a paragon of free markets, efficiency, or honesty
Despite making record profits and paying record returns to shareholders it resents paying taxes.
leftfootforward.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Corrupt Britannia.
UK Govts bury bank scandals.
Frauds, moneylaundering not investigated.
FCA, SFO rarely prosecute.
HBOS frauds report promised by 2018, nothing published, ministers don't answer questions.
City of London Police funded by Lloyds Bank, UK Finance, financial institutions.
UK Govts bury bank scandals.
Frauds, moneylaundering not investigated.
FCA, SFO rarely prosecute.
HBOS frauds report promised by 2018, nothing published, ministers don't answer questions.
City of London Police funded by Lloyds Bank, UK Finance, financial institutions.
Reposted by Richard Harris
This. Is. Fucking. Brilliant! 🤣
October 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
This. Is. Fucking. Brilliant! 🤣
“Climate Change is a hoax”. I would like to put deniers in the path of this. And spare the people of Jamaica from the unfolding disaster.
tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/ad...
CI# /Pressure/ Vmax
8.5 / 871.4mb/185.0kt
Which makes it the strongest hurricane recorded
tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/ad...
CI# /Pressure/ Vmax
8.5 / 871.4mb/185.0kt
Which makes it the strongest hurricane recorded
tropic.ssec.wisc.edu
October 28, 2025 at 6:52 AM
“Climate Change is a hoax”. I would like to put deniers in the path of this. And spare the people of Jamaica from the unfolding disaster.
tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/ad...
CI# /Pressure/ Vmax
8.5 / 871.4mb/185.0kt
Which makes it the strongest hurricane recorded
tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/ad...
CI# /Pressure/ Vmax
8.5 / 871.4mb/185.0kt
Which makes it the strongest hurricane recorded
All political parties annoy me at times. And I’ve avoided joining, to show impartiality when advising politicians across the spectrum. But, with humanity so determinedly sleepwalking into a spiral of crises, I’ve now joined the Green Party. It really does make sense.
#greenparty #scottishgreens
#greenparty #scottishgreens
October 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
All political parties annoy me at times. And I’ve avoided joining, to show impartiality when advising politicians across the spectrum. But, with humanity so determinedly sleepwalking into a spiral of crises, I’ve now joined the Green Party. It really does make sense.
#greenparty #scottishgreens
#greenparty #scottishgreens
It's the Scottish Government this time in ostrich-denial mode: they've restricted Covid vaccination boosters to the over-75s. This ignores all clinical evidence and is a recipe for a spike this winter that will further stress the NHS. "For what of a nail, the horseshoe was lost…"
October 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
It's the Scottish Government this time in ostrich-denial mode: they've restricted Covid vaccination boosters to the over-75s. This ignores all clinical evidence and is a recipe for a spike this winter that will further stress the NHS. "For what of a nail, the horseshoe was lost…"
Reposted by Richard Harris
After months of Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy, Ukraine hit power grids deep across the country
Zelenskyy had warned Ukraine would retaliate proportionally. Belgorod now faces blackouts while authorities ration fuel for generators
euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/24/f...
Zelenskyy had warned Ukraine would retaliate proportionally. Belgorod now faces blackouts while authorities ration fuel for generators
euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/24/f...
Frontline report: From victim to retaliator – Ukraine targets Russian energy grid across multiple regions
After months of Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities, Ukraine has launched massive retaliatory strikes on Russia's power infrastructure, plunging regions like Belgorod and Kursk into…
euromaidanpress.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
After months of Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy, Ukraine hit power grids deep across the country
Zelenskyy had warned Ukraine would retaliate proportionally. Belgorod now faces blackouts while authorities ration fuel for generators
euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/24/f...
Zelenskyy had warned Ukraine would retaliate proportionally. Belgorod now faces blackouts while authorities ration fuel for generators
euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/24/f...