Sue Beesley
@suebeesley.bsky.social
Gardener. Occasional microlighter. SolarPV devotee since 2011. Heat pump nerd.... Also at @bluebellcottage.bsky.social. See also: www.bluebellcottage.co.uk
One day the specifics of the Farage/Russia connection will be laid bare. Until then, all we have are the words that come out of his own mouth.
Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐
December 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
One day the specifics of the Farage/Russia connection will be laid bare. Until then, all we have are the words that come out of his own mouth.
Oh, the white flower buds look like fairy lights, don't they?
December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Oh, the white flower buds look like fairy lights, don't they?
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The Edgeworthia popping in the dusk...
December 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The Edgeworthia popping in the dusk...
This is surely not the intent of the Supreme Court. I can see that in sport, and for under 18's the inclusion of transwomen brings specific challenges, but for the W.I. to reach the same conclusion, after legal advice, is extraordinary, after decades of inclusion.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This is surely not the intent of the Supreme Court. I can see that in sport, and for under 18's the inclusion of transwomen brings specific challenges, but for the W.I. to reach the same conclusion, after legal advice, is extraordinary, after decades of inclusion.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Arctic sea-ice is at its lowest recorded for the 1st December, down almost 3 million square kilometers on the same day in 1982. Source: nsidc.org/sea-ice-toda...
December 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Arctic sea-ice is at its lowest recorded for the 1st December, down almost 3 million square kilometers on the same day in 1982. Source: nsidc.org/sea-ice-toda...
"It's not ideal that OpenAI's success may depend on big companies using it to replace human workers at huge scales. How will people pay for OpenAI if nobody has a job?"
Exactly my thoughts. If AI fails, it fails. If it succeeds, it still fails...
Exactly my thoughts. If AI fails, it fails. If it succeeds, it still fails...
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"It's not ideal that OpenAI's success may depend on big companies using it to replace human workers at huge scales. How will people pay for OpenAI if nobody has a job?"
Exactly my thoughts. If AI fails, it fails. If it succeeds, it still fails...
Exactly my thoughts. If AI fails, it fails. If it succeeds, it still fails...
Stuck for gift ideas for the gardener in your life? How about a kit to encourage them to save seeds, with a 'how-to' booklet? Or help them start growing with our very own annual meadow mix. Both beautifully presented in attractive, re-usable tins and created at our nursery in Cheshire. x
Two unique Christmas gift ideas..
-Seed Saving Kit - save your own seeds, with a 'how to' booklet written by Sue :-)
-9,000 annual wildflower seeds in a pretty little gift tin - the perfect stocking filler.
www.bluebellcottage.co.uk/search?q=ann...
www.bluebellcottage.co.uk/search?q=see...
-Seed Saving Kit - save your own seeds, with a 'how to' booklet written by Sue :-)
-9,000 annual wildflower seeds in a pretty little gift tin - the perfect stocking filler.
www.bluebellcottage.co.uk/search?q=ann...
www.bluebellcottage.co.uk/search?q=see...
November 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Stuck for gift ideas for the gardener in your life? How about a kit to encourage them to save seeds, with a 'how-to' booklet? Or help them start growing with our very own annual meadow mix. Both beautifully presented in attractive, re-usable tins and created at our nursery in Cheshire. x
I'm reading with some amusement that 'Your Party' conference is riven with factions, mired in petty rows and that Sultana has swanned off in a huff. But what has really caught my attention are the party banners behind Corbyn. Dark grey on grey. Brooding, glowering, gothically gloomy.
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I'm reading with some amusement that 'Your Party' conference is riven with factions, mired in petty rows and that Sultana has swanned off in a huff. But what has really caught my attention are the party banners behind Corbyn. Dark grey on grey. Brooding, glowering, gothically gloomy.
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.