Mini_Motobeic
@minimotobeic.bsky.social
Versys 1000 rider. I also fly. Author on early 20th century wireless systems, their archaeology and history. Aerial photography interpreter, Nazi war crimes investigations on Alderney. Found up and often inside the mountains of north Wales. Cymro Cymraeg.
The sheer frustration of a slow-moving front. Waiting for bright sunshine to do some aerial archaeology.🤨
December 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The sheer frustration of a slow-moving front. Waiting for bright sunshine to do some aerial archaeology.🤨
December 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
It's an OK day.
Mr. Kawasaki, set coordinates for the mountain roads...
#motorbikes #motoblue #blueskymoto
Mr. Kawasaki, set coordinates for the mountain roads...
#motorbikes #motoblue #blueskymoto
December 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
It's an OK day.
Mr. Kawasaki, set coordinates for the mountain roads...
#motorbikes #motoblue #blueskymoto
Mr. Kawasaki, set coordinates for the mountain roads...
#motorbikes #motoblue #blueskymoto
It's very likely you haven't heard that PA protesters are in a life-threatening state of hunger striking after a year under remand, with no trial.
The Israeli press has no difficulty in balanced coverage of events.
#palestine #gaza #fascism #labour #starmer
The Israeli press has no difficulty in balanced coverage of events.
#palestine #gaza #fascism #labour #starmer
December 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
It's very likely you haven't heard that PA protesters are in a life-threatening state of hunger striking after a year under remand, with no trial.
The Israeli press has no difficulty in balanced coverage of events.
#palestine #gaza #fascism #labour #starmer
The Israeli press has no difficulty in balanced coverage of events.
#palestine #gaza #fascism #labour #starmer
@mrjamesob.bsky.social No speakin' forrin Farridge sends Senedd campaigning material for Wales in...English, with precisely no Welsh.
The invited (return-paid) response has been duly sent!
The invited (return-paid) response has been duly sent!
December 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social No speakin' forrin Farridge sends Senedd campaigning material for Wales in...English, with precisely no Welsh.
The invited (return-paid) response has been duly sent!
The invited (return-paid) response has been duly sent!
When in Wales, Mr. 'Frankly' Farridge, you issue material in Welsh and English, not merely English alone.
By your own token, Fagman, you should insist all immigrants from England to Wales must speak Welsh and integrate fully, not live in anglo-ghettos.
#senedd #elections #reform #cymru #wales
By your own token, Fagman, you should insist all immigrants from England to Wales must speak Welsh and integrate fully, not live in anglo-ghettos.
#senedd #elections #reform #cymru #wales
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
When in Wales, Mr. 'Frankly' Farridge, you issue material in Welsh and English, not merely English alone.
By your own token, Fagman, you should insist all immigrants from England to Wales must speak Welsh and integrate fully, not live in anglo-ghettos.
#senedd #elections #reform #cymru #wales
By your own token, Fagman, you should insist all immigrants from England to Wales must speak Welsh and integrate fully, not live in anglo-ghettos.
#senedd #elections #reform #cymru #wales
Yesterday's inversion around the western slopes of the Carneddau, Eryri.
About 10 Celsius under the cloud, around 22 Celsius (feels like temp) above it (from about 750m amsl). Air so dry it was like pins in the nostrils at times.
Very, very tired now!
#photography #mountains #cymru #wales
About 10 Celsius under the cloud, around 22 Celsius (feels like temp) above it (from about 750m amsl). Air so dry it was like pins in the nostrils at times.
Very, very tired now!
#photography #mountains #cymru #wales
October 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Yesterday's inversion around the western slopes of the Carneddau, Eryri.
About 10 Celsius under the cloud, around 22 Celsius (feels like temp) above it (from about 750m amsl). Air so dry it was like pins in the nostrils at times.
Very, very tired now!
#photography #mountains #cymru #wales
About 10 Celsius under the cloud, around 22 Celsius (feels like temp) above it (from about 750m amsl). Air so dry it was like pins in the nostrils at times.
Very, very tired now!
#photography #mountains #cymru #wales
September 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Servicing and new tyres bill for the Versys 1000 this month:
£728.
Ouch!
#kawasaki #motorcycles #motoblue
£728.
Ouch!
#kawasaki #motorcycles #motoblue
September 10, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Servicing and new tyres bill for the Versys 1000 this month:
£728.
Ouch!
#kawasaki #motorcycles #motoblue
£728.
Ouch!
#kawasaki #motorcycles #motoblue
A decent mass of Canadian wildfire smoke has crossed the Atlantic and has now arrived over the UK. Look out for streaks high in the atmosphere from around an hour before sunset/sunrise and also for a dimmed and/or reddened sun.
#wildfires #weather #atmosphere #science #photography
#wildfires #weather #atmosphere #science #photography
August 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
A decent mass of Canadian wildfire smoke has crossed the Atlantic and has now arrived over the UK. Look out for streaks high in the atmosphere from around an hour before sunset/sunrise and also for a dimmed and/or reddened sun.
#wildfires #weather #atmosphere #science #photography
#wildfires #weather #atmosphere #science #photography
Smoke from Canadian wildfires is weakly visible in the early evening skies over north Wales at the moment. It will become much more evident, probably with quite a red sunset, later this evening.
#weather #wildfires #sky #science
#weather #wildfires #sky #science
August 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Smoke from Canadian wildfires is weakly visible in the early evening skies over north Wales at the moment. It will become much more evident, probably with quite a red sunset, later this evening.
#weather #wildfires #sky #science
#weather #wildfires #sky #science
I hope that @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social and @zarahsultana.bsky.social will keep in mind Aneurin Bevan's 1949 words as they rebuild the left of politics:
August 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I hope that @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social and @zarahsultana.bsky.social will keep in mind Aneurin Bevan's 1949 words as they rebuild the left of politics:
After Kamchatka eruption past days, worth keeping an eye on the pre-sunset and sunrise sky for dust transported around the northern hemisphere, wherever you happen to be.
These were images I took from north Wales following the Sarychev eruption in 2009.
#volcano #atmosphere #weather #science
These were images I took from north Wales following the Sarychev eruption in 2009.
#volcano #atmosphere #weather #science
August 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
After Kamchatka eruption past days, worth keeping an eye on the pre-sunset and sunrise sky for dust transported around the northern hemisphere, wherever you happen to be.
These were images I took from north Wales following the Sarychev eruption in 2009.
#volcano #atmosphere #weather #science
These were images I took from north Wales following the Sarychev eruption in 2009.
#volcano #atmosphere #weather #science
Not every day you get to stand inside an 1850 waterwheel pit, with the (Truro made) wheel still there - even if the buckets are not.
#cymru #wales #heritage #photography #mines
#cymru #wales #heritage #photography #mines
August 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Not every day you get to stand inside an 1850 waterwheel pit, with the (Truro made) wheel still there - even if the buckets are not.
#cymru #wales #heritage #photography #mines
#cymru #wales #heritage #photography #mines
The 'new normal' - except it's a worsening 'normal' with every passing year.
2025 Sea ice extent, 2025:
#climate #climatechange #arctic
2025 Sea ice extent, 2025:
#climate #climatechange #arctic
July 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The 'new normal' - except it's a worsening 'normal' with every passing year.
2025 Sea ice extent, 2025:
#climate #climatechange #arctic
2025 Sea ice extent, 2025:
#climate #climatechange #arctic
1901. The state protects the landed elite quarry owner (who simply stole thousands of acres of common land) by accompanying strike-breakers during the Great Penrhyn Strike (1900-1903).
Protests were quashed with armed soldiers. Families went hungry.
Nothing has changed.
Protests were quashed with armed soldiers. Families went hungry.
Nothing has changed.
July 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
1901. The state protects the landed elite quarry owner (who simply stole thousands of acres of common land) by accompanying strike-breakers during the Great Penrhyn Strike (1900-1903).
Protests were quashed with armed soldiers. Families went hungry.
Nothing has changed.
Protests were quashed with armed soldiers. Families went hungry.
Nothing has changed.
Why socialism?
My area is a slate quarrying one. In the 1800s, rich elites simply stole thousands of acres of common land for their own enrichment through slate extraction. They were Parliamentarians who made laws for themselves. They quashed protests with armed cavalry.
Seem familiar?
#socialism
My area is a slate quarrying one. In the 1800s, rich elites simply stole thousands of acres of common land for their own enrichment through slate extraction. They were Parliamentarians who made laws for themselves. They quashed protests with armed cavalry.
Seem familiar?
#socialism
July 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Why socialism?
My area is a slate quarrying one. In the 1800s, rich elites simply stole thousands of acres of common land for their own enrichment through slate extraction. They were Parliamentarians who made laws for themselves. They quashed protests with armed cavalry.
Seem familiar?
#socialism
My area is a slate quarrying one. In the 1800s, rich elites simply stole thousands of acres of common land for their own enrichment through slate extraction. They were Parliamentarians who made laws for themselves. They quashed protests with armed cavalry.
Seem familiar?
#socialism
Symbols of Capitalism
Eglwys Crist, Llanddeiniolen (1857); Henry Kennedy, architect.
The church, an Anglican rich man's installation in a firmly nonconformist area, was funded by Dinorwig slate quarry owner, Thomas Assheton Smith, who enclosed 2600 acres of common land for himself.
#capitalism
Eglwys Crist, Llanddeiniolen (1857); Henry Kennedy, architect.
The church, an Anglican rich man's installation in a firmly nonconformist area, was funded by Dinorwig slate quarry owner, Thomas Assheton Smith, who enclosed 2600 acres of common land for himself.
#capitalism
July 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Symbols of Capitalism
Eglwys Crist, Llanddeiniolen (1857); Henry Kennedy, architect.
The church, an Anglican rich man's installation in a firmly nonconformist area, was funded by Dinorwig slate quarry owner, Thomas Assheton Smith, who enclosed 2600 acres of common land for himself.
#capitalism
Eglwys Crist, Llanddeiniolen (1857); Henry Kennedy, architect.
The church, an Anglican rich man's installation in a firmly nonconformist area, was funded by Dinorwig slate quarry owner, Thomas Assheton Smith, who enclosed 2600 acres of common land for himself.
#capitalism
All hail, the King of America!
No expense and no clearing of the highway too much bother or too much against the ordinary way of things to stop the Great Fascist Motorcade getting from A to B without as much as a whisper from the Unwashed.
Trump, go home!
#trump #fascism #resist
No expense and no clearing of the highway too much bother or too much against the ordinary way of things to stop the Great Fascist Motorcade getting from A to B without as much as a whisper from the Unwashed.
Trump, go home!
#trump #fascism #resist
July 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
And there's the proof: it's the disaffected, selfish Tory voter that is jumping ship and boosting Deform.
As the Tories dropped, Deform gained in equal measure.
Remember that, when Farage and his UK equivalent of ICE is stealing your data, compiling lists, banning books etc...
#fascism #reform
As the Tories dropped, Deform gained in equal measure.
Remember that, when Farage and his UK equivalent of ICE is stealing your data, compiling lists, banning books etc...
#fascism #reform
July 26, 2025 at 6:40 AM