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.
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.
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Skye Balou
@skyebalou.bsky.social
· Apr 7
Life, love and hope – a 40-year-old tale evolves to engage with the world’s most pressing crisis: climate change.
Here's my story about a story:
skyebalou.wordpress.com
Here's my story about a story:
skyebalou.wordpress.com
The Apostropher’s Revenge
[a sordid story of salacious spellcheck]
[a sordid story of salacious spellcheck]
December 1, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The Apostropher’s Revenge
[a sordid story of salacious spellcheck]
[a sordid story of salacious spellcheck]
OK so not a massive take-up for my beach quiz.
Hardly surprising, a beach is a beach, is a beach.
But here are the locations:
Top right: Tobago Cays, Grenadines, Caribbean. Busy, busy.
There used to be wonderful coral - probably mostly bleached now 😢
Hardly surprising, a beach is a beach, is a beach.
But here are the locations:
Top right: Tobago Cays, Grenadines, Caribbean. Busy, busy.
There used to be wonderful coral - probably mostly bleached now 😢
Four widespread locations.
Which is the furthest north and which the furthest south?
Which is within 500 miles of the Equator?
Which is nearly 4,000 miles from the Equator?
Best guess answers on a Wish You Were Here postcard.
Which is the furthest north and which the furthest south?
Which is within 500 miles of the Equator?
Which is nearly 4,000 miles from the Equator?
Best guess answers on a Wish You Were Here postcard.
November 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
OK so not a massive take-up for my beach quiz.
Hardly surprising, a beach is a beach, is a beach.
But here are the locations:
Top right: Tobago Cays, Grenadines, Caribbean. Busy, busy.
There used to be wonderful coral - probably mostly bleached now 😢
Hardly surprising, a beach is a beach, is a beach.
But here are the locations:
Top right: Tobago Cays, Grenadines, Caribbean. Busy, busy.
There used to be wonderful coral - probably mostly bleached now 😢
"Words, words. They're all we have to go on."
[Guildenstern]
RIP Sir Tom Stoppard
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Words fail some of us. Sometimes.
Sometimes even Words cannot substitute for Tears.
[with apologies to Paul Simon]
[Guildenstern]
RIP Sir Tom Stoppard
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Words fail some of us. Sometimes.
Sometimes even Words cannot substitute for Tears.
[with apologies to Paul Simon]
November 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"Words, words. They're all we have to go on."
[Guildenstern]
RIP Sir Tom Stoppard
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Words fail some of us. Sometimes.
Sometimes even Words cannot substitute for Tears.
[with apologies to Paul Simon]
[Guildenstern]
RIP Sir Tom Stoppard
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Words fail some of us. Sometimes.
Sometimes even Words cannot substitute for Tears.
[with apologies to Paul Simon]
And this ⬇️
‘I have watched politicians failing yet and yet again’: lessons from a life as an environment writer www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘I have watched politicians failing yet and yet again’: lessons from a life as an environment writer
Paul Brown looks back at his career reporting on the climate crisis, failed summit and nuclear power – and how to do it well
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
And this ⬇️
And they’ll all be lost if we don’t stop putting 50 billion + tonnes of CO2, mainly from fossil fuels, up into the atmosphere EVERY fucking year 😡
But tomorrow I’ll let you know where they are. Apart from one, I will never return to them. You can probably guess roughly where that one is 🥰
But tomorrow I’ll let you know where they are. Apart from one, I will never return to them. You can probably guess roughly where that one is 🥰
Four widespread locations.
Which is the furthest north and which the furthest south?
Which is within 500 miles of the Equator?
Which is nearly 4,000 miles from the Equator?
Best guess answers on a Wish You Were Here postcard.
Which is the furthest north and which the furthest south?
Which is within 500 miles of the Equator?
Which is nearly 4,000 miles from the Equator?
Best guess answers on a Wish You Were Here postcard.
November 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
And they’ll all be lost if we don’t stop putting 50 billion + tonnes of CO2, mainly from fossil fuels, up into the atmosphere EVERY fucking year 😡
But tomorrow I’ll let you know where they are. Apart from one, I will never return to them. You can probably guess roughly where that one is 🥰
But tomorrow I’ll let you know where they are. Apart from one, I will never return to them. You can probably guess roughly where that one is 🥰
Excellent piece.
It’s so obvious that transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables is the solution & that vested interests do their damn desperate worst to delay & deflect from that indisputable FACT.
Incredibly disappointing that Gates takes the stance that he is, he could do so much better.
It’s so obvious that transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables is the solution & that vested interests do their damn desperate worst to delay & deflect from that indisputable FACT.
Incredibly disappointing that Gates takes the stance that he is, he could do so much better.
"Michael Mann To Bill Gates: What World Are You Living In?" by Carolyn Fortuna for @cleantechnica.bsky.social: cleantechnica.com/2025/11/29/m...
Michael Mann To Bill Gates: What World Are You Living In? - CleanTechnica
Mann offers a roadmap against an "ecocidal agenda" driven by plutocrats, polluters, petrostates, propagandists, and much of the press.
cleantechnica.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Excellent piece.
It’s so obvious that transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables is the solution & that vested interests do their damn desperate worst to delay & deflect from that indisputable FACT.
Incredibly disappointing that Gates takes the stance that he is, he could do so much better.
It’s so obvious that transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables is the solution & that vested interests do their damn desperate worst to delay & deflect from that indisputable FACT.
Incredibly disappointing that Gates takes the stance that he is, he could do so much better.
But the waters of The Minch, between the mainland & Eileanan Siar (the Western Isles) are not always benign and hold many tragic stories.
One of the worst is told in this Skipinnish song: The Iolaire
tinyurl.com/Skipinnish-T...
One of many pages relating to HMY Iolaire:
tinyurl.com/bdek3hzc
One of the worst is told in this Skipinnish song: The Iolaire
tinyurl.com/Skipinnish-T...
One of many pages relating to HMY Iolaire:
tinyurl.com/bdek3hzc
Skipinnish- Iolaire - Eden Court Inverness
Very moving song about the tragic sinking of HMY Iolaire on the 1st of January 1919.
tinyurl.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
But the waters of The Minch, between the mainland & Eileanan Siar (the Western Isles) are not always benign and hold many tragic stories.
One of the worst is told in this Skipinnish song: The Iolaire
tinyurl.com/Skipinnish-T...
One of many pages relating to HMY Iolaire:
tinyurl.com/bdek3hzc
One of the worst is told in this Skipinnish song: The Iolaire
tinyurl.com/Skipinnish-T...
One of many pages relating to HMY Iolaire:
tinyurl.com/bdek3hzc
November 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Just 5 miles apart
November 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Just 5 miles apart
Watching over Eigg
Maybe egg also 🐥
Maybe egg also 🐥
November 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Watching over Eigg
Maybe egg also 🐥
Maybe egg also 🐥
November 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Four widespread locations.
Which is the furthest north and which the furthest south?
Which is within 500 miles of the Equator?
Which is nearly 4,000 miles from the Equator?
Best guess answers on a Wish You Were Here postcard.
Which is the furthest north and which the furthest south?
Which is within 500 miles of the Equator?
Which is nearly 4,000 miles from the Equator?
Best guess answers on a Wish You Were Here postcard.
November 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Four widespread locations.
Which is the furthest north and which the furthest south?
Which is within 500 miles of the Equator?
Which is nearly 4,000 miles from the Equator?
Best guess answers on a Wish You Were Here postcard.
Which is the furthest north and which the furthest south?
Which is within 500 miles of the Equator?
Which is nearly 4,000 miles from the Equator?
Best guess answers on a Wish You Were Here postcard.
I suspect the footprints were not the work of the oystercatcher
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I suspect the footprints were not the work of the oystercatcher
A deadbeat dead boat is one that is "lazy, irresponsible and evades its responsibilities and obligations".
Relaxing on the beach after a hard life is what I'd call it.
Relaxing on the beach after a hard life is what I'd call it.
November 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
A deadbeat dead boat is one that is "lazy, irresponsible and evades its responsibilities and obligations".
Relaxing on the beach after a hard life is what I'd call it.
Relaxing on the beach after a hard life is what I'd call it.
Sandy tracks are always so enticing
November 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Sandy tracks are always so enticing
All Happening at Hynish Harbour
November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
All Happening at Hynish Harbour
Chilling in Scarinish, Tiree
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Chilling in Scarinish, Tiree
Another day dawned
Approaching Tiree
Approaching Tiree
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Another day dawned
Approaching Tiree
Approaching Tiree
Another day will dawn
November 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Another day will dawn
Little Ganavan Beach, by Oban
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Little Ganavan Beach, by Oban