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
Prisoner 951
Superb
True
Love story
Perseverance
SNAFU at the Foreign Office
Rejection of prevarication
IRGC bastards
Tory government little better
Deserves Awards
Nazanin, Richard and Gabriella deserve contentment
Hope they’re achieving this
Watch if you possibly can
Superb
True
Love story
Perseverance
SNAFU at the Foreign Office
Rejection of prevarication
IRGC bastards
Tory government little better
Deserves Awards
Nazanin, Richard and Gabriella deserve contentment
Hope they’re achieving this
Watch if you possibly can
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Prisoner 951
Superb
True
Love story
Perseverance
SNAFU at the Foreign Office
Rejection of prevarication
IRGC bastards
Tory government little better
Deserves Awards
Nazanin, Richard and Gabriella deserve contentment
Hope they’re achieving this
Watch if you possibly can
Superb
True
Love story
Perseverance
SNAFU at the Foreign Office
Rejection of prevarication
IRGC bastards
Tory government little better
Deserves Awards
Nazanin, Richard and Gabriella deserve contentment
Hope they’re achieving this
Watch if you possibly can
Berwick-upon-Tweed, very close to the east coast border, which for some reason hits the North Sea a couple of miles north, ensuring the town is in Northumberland. But only since 1482.
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Berwick-upon-Tweed, very close to the east coast border, which for some reason hits the North Sea a couple of miles north, ensuring the town is in Northumberland. But only since 1482.
Bamburgh, Northumberland.
Stunning and justifiably full of visitors.
Stunning and justifiably full of visitors.
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Bamburgh, Northumberland.
Stunning and justifiably full of visitors.
Stunning and justifiably full of visitors.
Dunstanburgh Castle, on the magnificent Northumberland coast.
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Dunstanburgh Castle, on the magnificent Northumberland coast.
Nice rocky profile, from Camusdarach
November 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Nice rocky profile, from Camusdarach
Something's reminded me of the beautiful slow air by Tammy Anderson (1910-1991) Da Slockit Light, about migration in the 1960s from the rural areas of his homeland, Shetland.
Here's a nice version, evidently playing in the wild along with some noisy birds & Mull sheep.
tinyurl.com/TheSpeedOfSh...
Here's a nice version, evidently playing in the wild along with some noisy birds & Mull sheep.
tinyurl.com/TheSpeedOfSh...
The speed of sheep
Eventide for sheep in the slow lane at Bunessan, Ross of Mull.
The music that was playing is "Da Slockit Licht" (The Lights are Out) written in 1969 by Tom Anderson (Shetland fiddler), performed by Paul Sartin & Benji Kirkpatrick, from the compilation album Folk Music of Scotland.
I don't know who the birds or the sheep were..
tinyurl.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Something's reminded me of the beautiful slow air by Tammy Anderson (1910-1991) Da Slockit Light, about migration in the 1960s from the rural areas of his homeland, Shetland.
Here's a nice version, evidently playing in the wild along with some noisy birds & Mull sheep.
tinyurl.com/TheSpeedOfSh...
Here's a nice version, evidently playing in the wild along with some noisy birds & Mull sheep.
tinyurl.com/TheSpeedOfSh...
Hampden Park-by-Sea
November 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Hampden Park-by-Sea
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Something's missing 🤔
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Something's missing 🤔
Parking's at a premium on Barra 😉
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Parking's at a premium on Barra 😉
Here's a couple of quick questions for Putin. Even though I'm fairly sure he's not one of my followers (though could be hiding out there), nevertheless word travels fast around here:
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Here's a couple of quick questions for Putin. Even though I'm fairly sure he's not one of my followers (though could be hiding out there), nevertheless word travels fast around here:
What's in a name?
Castlebay
Castlebay
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
What's in a name?
Castlebay
Castlebay
Course set to Castlebay
November 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Course set to Castlebay
Q19 #LocalHero quiz
#LocalHero quiz
Q19. When Mac tells Happer he's watching the Aurora Borealis when & where does Happer say he last saw it himself?
Q19. When Mac tells Happer he's watching the Aurora Borealis when & where does Happer say he last saw it himself?
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Q19 #LocalHero quiz
Reposted by Skye Balou
Don’t you think we’ve reached (or are on the very edge of) a positive tipping point of many people, who are also voters & investors, saying: fuck it, we know what the problem is, we know what we need to do, never mind petrostates, trump & COP non-delivery, we’re just going to get on & do it? 😊
November 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Don’t you think we’ve reached (or are on the very edge of) a positive tipping point of many people, who are also voters & investors, saying: fuck it, we know what the problem is, we know what we need to do, never mind petrostates, trump & COP non-delivery, we’re just going to get on & do it? 😊
Yes.
The necessity for unanimous consensus, as against majority consensus, has become a major obstacle to so many areas of global & regional cooperation & decision making. Bullies, vested interests & idiots are allowed to prevail.
Come gather round people
The times they need to be a-changin’.
The necessity for unanimous consensus, as against majority consensus, has become a major obstacle to so many areas of global & regional cooperation & decision making. Bullies, vested interests & idiots are allowed to prevail.
Come gather round people
The times they need to be a-changin’.
November 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Yes.
The necessity for unanimous consensus, as against majority consensus, has become a major obstacle to so many areas of global & regional cooperation & decision making. Bullies, vested interests & idiots are allowed to prevail.
Come gather round people
The times they need to be a-changin’.
The necessity for unanimous consensus, as against majority consensus, has become a major obstacle to so many areas of global & regional cooperation & decision making. Bullies, vested interests & idiots are allowed to prevail.
Come gather round people
The times they need to be a-changin’.
Reposted by Skye Balou
Countries meeting in Brazil for two weeks could manage ONLY a VOLUNTARY agreement to BEGIN discussions on a roadmap to an EVENTUAL phase-out of fossil fuels, and they achieved this INCREMENTAL progress only in the teeth of IMPLACABLE OPPOSITION from OIL-PRODUCING countries.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Petrostates, such as Saudi Arabia, Russia--and the U.S. under Republican rule--are a threat to us and the planet, and must be treated as such.
#ScienceUnderSiege
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#ScienceUnderSiege
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff
Wealthy countries agree to triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Countries meeting in Brazil for two weeks could manage ONLY a VOLUNTARY agreement to BEGIN discussions on a roadmap to an EVENTUAL phase-out of fossil fuels, and they achieved this INCREMENTAL progress only in the teeth of IMPLACABLE OPPOSITION from OIL-PRODUCING countries.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Loch Morar.
Is that Morag the Monster?
Is that Morag the Monster?
November 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Loch Morar.
Is that Morag the Monster?
Is that Morag the Monster?