Julian Beach
@trink-uk.bsky.social
Freelance Management Consultant in Social Care, Health and Supported Housing, Scouts Leader, cyclist, runner, open water swimmer, open source technology enthusiast (#Linux, #QGIS and #HomeAssistant) and #RealBread baker. Geek in a non-geek community!
Son very happy with his slip mat from @gailmyerscough.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Son very happy with his slip mat from @gailmyerscough.co.uk
@mrjohncrace.bsky.social Thank you for a great session in Manchester tonight. It was very good to see you in person and you managed to be both amusing and sobering at the same time!
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
@mrjohncrace.bsky.social Thank you for a great session in Manchester tonight. It was very good to see you in person and you managed to be both amusing and sobering at the same time!
A few weeks ago someone posted a short video of a cat's plaintive mewing for food. Cosmos, a Siamese cat, wants to tell you about the correct way to get attention from your humans - she's just come in and wants a stroke. #caturday #proofofcat
November 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
A few weeks ago someone posted a short video of a cat's plaintive mewing for food. Cosmos, a Siamese cat, wants to tell you about the correct way to get attention from your humans - she's just come in and wants a stroke. #caturday #proofofcat
Happy #caturday from Cosmos, the yowling tyrant who seems to spend much of her day noisily demanding to be stroked, as only Siamese cats do.
November 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Happy #caturday from Cosmos, the yowling tyrant who seems to spend much of her day noisily demanding to be stroked, as only Siamese cats do.
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The Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5 million U.S. government grant because it required them to renounce all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...
www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5 million U.S. government grant because it required them to renounce all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...
www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...
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A super bit of Swift conservation in Felixstowe where this building hosting multiple nests went under scaffolding. The builders listened, adapted the scaffolding to permit Swifts to access their nest sites, kept the nooks open & now added Swift bricks to help the colony expand.
October 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
A super bit of Swift conservation in Felixstowe where this building hosting multiple nests went under scaffolding. The builders listened, adapted the scaffolding to permit Swifts to access their nest sites, kept the nooks open & now added Swift bricks to help the colony expand.
@metlstorm.risky.biz Very good Risky Business episode with Amberleigh. You make a good team!
October 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
@metlstorm.risky.biz Very good Risky Business episode with Amberleigh. You make a good team!
@popey.me Just listening to your Ask The Hosts answer about Jean Michel Jarre at the Docklands. I didn't go, but could see that Docklands from the bedsit I was living in at the time, so listened to the live radio broadcast and watched the fireworks and lasers from Camberwell.
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
@popey.me Just listening to your Ask The Hosts answer about Jean Michel Jarre at the Docklands. I didn't go, but could see that Docklands from the bedsit I was living in at the time, so listened to the live radio broadcast and watched the fireworks and lasers from Camberwell.
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BIG NEWS!! The second BillableHour Summer Tee is now available with all profits going to @savechildrenUK. It is a banger from design superstar @gailmyerscough.co.uk and a must have for any lawyer (link to shop in reply). As you'd expect from a tee this reasonable, it comes in many colours. BEHOLD!!
July 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
BIG NEWS!! The second BillableHour Summer Tee is now available with all profits going to @savechildrenUK. It is a banger from design superstar @gailmyerscough.co.uk and a must have for any lawyer (link to shop in reply). As you'd expect from a tee this reasonable, it comes in many colours. BEHOLD!!
Final #ProofOfCat for Aura, was has kidney failure and is making her final trip to the vet tomorrow. We are all very sad.
June 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Final #ProofOfCat for Aura, was has kidney failure and is making her final trip to the vet tomorrow. We are all very sad.
#HADay2025 We had a great meetup in Manchester UK with lots of interesting discussions about Home Assistant and home automations with experience of Home Assistant going back to the earliest versions (PIP installs) to 6 months.
Looking forward to doing it again next year, if not before.
Looking forward to doing it again next year, if not before.
May 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
#HADay2025 We had a great meetup in Manchester UK with lots of interesting discussions about Home Assistant and home automations with experience of Home Assistant going back to the earliest versions (PIP installs) to 6 months.
Looking forward to doing it again next year, if not before.
Looking forward to doing it again next year, if not before.
A Swift catching the evening light
May 20, 2025 at 7:15 AM
A Swift catching the evening light
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Wow! 1800 emails from food industry lobbyists to health officials in 1 year! Persuaded govt to remove UPF references from policy guidance.
Great investigation by @theguardian.com & @thesoilassociation.bsky.social. We at @sustainweb.org have signed joint letter www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
Great investigation by @theguardian.com & @thesoilassociation.bsky.social. We at @sustainweb.org have signed joint letter www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
UK government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms
Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals guidance for retailers in England changed after campaign by global food firms
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Wow! 1800 emails from food industry lobbyists to health officials in 1 year! Persuaded govt to remove UPF references from policy guidance.
Great investigation by @theguardian.com & @thesoilassociation.bsky.social. We at @sustainweb.org have signed joint letter www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
Great investigation by @theguardian.com & @thesoilassociation.bsky.social. We at @sustainweb.org have signed joint letter www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
Synchronised sleeping on #caturday #proofofcat
April 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Synchronised sleeping on #caturday #proofofcat
bsky.app/profile/ktla... @marcusbrig.bsky.social Have they been to your show? We had a great time in Manchester tonight and I hope you have a good journey home.
You read that right. A startup recently announced the launch of the world’s first live sperm race, and you will be able to watch its inaugural edition right here in Los Angeles. According t…
Sperm racing? A new sport is coming to Los Angeles
You read that right. A startup recently announced the launch of the world’s first live sperm race, and you will be able to watch its inaugural edition right here in Los Angeles. According t…
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April 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
bsky.app/profile/ktla... @marcusbrig.bsky.social Have they been to your show? We had a great time in Manchester tonight and I hope you have a good journey home.
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"As the evenning aproacheth, hypsters hath desended upon our towne, drinnking our wyne as unikornes feast upon rayes of the sonne."
Chaucer Tweets the South by Southwest Festival
#SXSW hath begunne. Felawshipe is wrot amongst many fyne hypster pilgrimes. The pathwayes overflowe with dangley baddges. - - -As the evenning apro...
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March 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"As the evenning aproacheth, hypsters hath desended upon our towne, drinnking our wyne as unikornes feast upon rayes of the sonne."
Someone called me about this poor #fox they had spotted. I called www.thefoxrescuers.org.uk and 30 minutes later a volunteer had driven out, captured the fox and taken it to the vet. Sadly it had to be put to sleep, but thanks to the volunteers who give up their time to rescue suffering animals.
March 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Someone called me about this poor #fox they had spotted. I called www.thefoxrescuers.org.uk and 30 minutes later a volunteer had driven out, captured the fox and taken it to the vet. Sadly it had to be put to sleep, but thanks to the volunteers who give up their time to rescue suffering animals.
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Today's moment of zen: visdeurbel.nl
The fish doorbell in Utrecht, NL. Underwater live stream at a canal lock. Ring the bell to let the lock keeper know, so fish can travel upstream. 3,5 million viewer/year. 800 viewers at the moment. It's therapeutic.
H/T De Standaard
The fish doorbell in Utrecht, NL. Underwater live stream at a canal lock. Ring the bell to let the lock keeper know, so fish can travel upstream. 3,5 million viewer/year. 800 viewers at the moment. It's therapeutic.
H/T De Standaard
De Visdeurbel — De Visdeurbel
Zie je een vis? Druk op de Visdeurbel dan opent onze sluiswachter de sluis en kunnen de vissen doorzwemmen.
visdeurbel.nl
March 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Today's moment of zen: visdeurbel.nl
The fish doorbell in Utrecht, NL. Underwater live stream at a canal lock. Ring the bell to let the lock keeper know, so fish can travel upstream. 3,5 million viewer/year. 800 viewers at the moment. It's therapeutic.
H/T De Standaard
The fish doorbell in Utrecht, NL. Underwater live stream at a canal lock. Ring the bell to let the lock keeper know, so fish can travel upstream. 3,5 million viewer/year. 800 viewers at the moment. It's therapeutic.
H/T De Standaard
@rostaylor.bsky.social You mentioned the French Tawny Owls on @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social. We have Tawny Owls living on the walking/cycling path behind our house, a few miles from the centre of Manchester, and Barn Owls living nearby too - I saw one out hunting early one morning last week.
March 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
@rostaylor.bsky.social You mentioned the French Tawny Owls on @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social. We have Tawny Owls living on the walking/cycling path behind our house, a few miles from the centre of Manchester, and Barn Owls living nearby too - I saw one out hunting early one morning last week.
@paulburston.bsky.social @natashadevon.bsky.social Thanks for the great Bunker I have just finished listening too. Now feeling nostalgic for the 80s and 90s when things weren't great but at least there was a common purpose.
February 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
@paulburston.bsky.social @natashadevon.bsky.social Thanks for the great Bunker I have just finished listening too. Now feeling nostalgic for the 80s and 90s when things weren't great but at least there was a common purpose.
@nndroid.bsky.social @bunkerpod.bsky.social @alexvont.bsky.social Great interview with Neil Kinnock and very fitting for the 1,500th episode. I've been listening from the start, although I might have missed a few, but it surely can't be 5 years!
February 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
@nndroid.bsky.social @bunkerpod.bsky.social @alexvont.bsky.social Great interview with Neil Kinnock and very fitting for the 1,500th episode. I've been listening from the start, although I might have missed a few, but it surely can't be 5 years!
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Sheryl Crow:
“My parents always said you are who you hang out with.
There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla.
Money donated to NPR, which is under threat by President Musk, in hopes the truth will…find its way to those willing to know [it].”
“My parents always said you are who you hang out with.
There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla.
Money donated to NPR, which is under threat by President Musk, in hopes the truth will…find its way to those willing to know [it].”
February 15, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Sheryl Crow:
“My parents always said you are who you hang out with.
There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla.
Money donated to NPR, which is under threat by President Musk, in hopes the truth will…find its way to those willing to know [it].”
“My parents always said you are who you hang out with.
There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla.
Money donated to NPR, which is under threat by President Musk, in hopes the truth will…find its way to those willing to know [it].”
Cosmos is engrossed with Conclave. Nothing she likes more than a good drama, apart from wildlife programmes with birds. #proofofcat
February 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Cosmos is engrossed with Conclave. Nothing she likes more than a good drama, apart from wildlife programmes with birds. #proofofcat