Heskie

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Originally from Wirral (still a #Tranmere fan), growing up on the edge of the Mersey with a view of the docks, Pier Head and the Three Graces, and occasionally my uncle's Pilot boat, but long time living in Dorset. Growing vegetables organically, advocate of #organicgardening. Seeing the world anew through the eyes of our 4 and a half year old granddaughter; yet worrying about the world we are leaving her.
My gardening bloghttp://soggydaygardener.blogspot.com/
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HeskieMay 5, 2025
VE Day
If you watch nothing else on TV today at least go to BBC iPlayer (VE Day 80: The Nation Pays Tribute) and see the Sophie Raworth interviews with Ruth Klauber (101 years old, RAF veteran airframe mechanic). We forget the wisdom of such seniors at our peril.
#VEDay
HeskieApr 24, 2025
How many of us, I wonder, arrived at Mastodon and other alternatives because of an inclination to think differently?
I was prompted by the appearance of an unwanted AI button on WhatsApp to look for other options and I discovered a useful European list of European online services, so I posted the link on Bluesky and now here: https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to
European alternatives for popular services | European Alternatives

We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

European Alternatives
HeskieMar 1, 2025
Emeritus Prof Christopher MayMar 1, 2025

Anyone who was surprised by the turn of events during President Zelenskyy's visit to the Court of the Tangerine Tyrant really hasn't been paying attention....

confronted with a leader whose country is fighting for its life, the Orange one did one thing & one thing only: asked 'what's in this for me'?

A bully is a bully and can only turn situations such as this into humiliation & pain for those in need.

If this is the new world order, then we really are in a dark place.

#politics #Ukraine

HeskieMar 1, 2025
TouaregtweetMar 1, 2025

“Today, Donald Trump irreparably destroyed the 80-year-old post-World War II international order,” says Chris Hayes on Trump and JD Vance’s attack on Zelenskyy in the Oval Office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThLlfMvMRY #Trump #Vance #Zelensky #Putin #Russia #Ukraine #politics

Chris Hayes: Trump ‘irreparably destroyed’ world order with Zelenskyy blowup

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HeskieNov 8, 2024
Show threadHarshad SharmaNov 8, 2024

It remains crazy to me how planting trees and waiting few years** results in one of the most magical experience a human can have - take a walk in the garden and feed one's body and heart, with gratitude to mother nature.

**not discounting some maintenance, pruning... but zero pesticides, fungicides. Don't believe those you tell you it's impossible to grow food without poisons. Prove them wrong, you have the whole food web on your side - above and below ground!

#gardening

HeskieNov 7, 2024
Eugen RochkoNov 6, 2024
I think it's going to be more important than ever that #Mastodon and the #fediverse are not centrally operated out of the US unlike almost every other social media platform out there.
HeskieNov 7, 2024
As I digest the news from #USA, I happen to be reading #Harari #Nexus. In the section on the role of communication in democracies this morning I stumbled upon: “In the 1828 presidential elections, Adams lost to Andrew Jackson – a rich slave-holding planter from Tennessee who was successfully rebranded in numerous newspaper columns as ‘the man of the people’ and who claimed that the previous elections were in fact stolen by Adams and by the corrupt Washington elites.”
Plus ça change!
HeskieNov 5, 2024
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖Nov 4, 2024
The first UK car sales data for October has been published. In the month just passed 21% of new registrations were pure EVs. Perhaps the more intriguing thing is that the position of pure petrol and hybrids has flipped. Only 34% of new deliveries were straight petrol whereas 39% were some sort of hybrid. Will we see the market become split largely between EVs and hybrids? https://newautomotive.org/ecc
UK EV Market Data — New AutoMotive

Find out which car company is winning the battle for a share of the market for new EVs, which company is going big on hybrids, and who is clinging on to petrol or diesel.

New AutoMotive
HeskieOct 26, 2024
Perhaps these stories are linked? https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/news/bird-crime-across-the-uk-showing-no-signs-of-stopping? From 2022 (the good news is that Chris Loder lost his seat at the General Election). https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/15/mp-eagles-not-welcome-constituency-received-funds-shooting-estate-chris-loder #RSPB #WildLife #crime
Bird crime across the UK showing no signs of stopping

HeskieOct 25, 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/oct/25/sarah-akinterinwa-distant-prospect-uk-slavery-reparations-cartoon?CMP=share_btn_url
"On 28 August 1833 Parliament passed legislation that abolished slavery within the British Empire, emancipating more than 800,000 enslaved Africans. As part of the compromise that helped to secure abolition, the British government agreed a generous compensation package of £20 million to slave-owners for the loss of their ‘property’" [bankofengland.co.uk]
That's £2,983,444,781 now, descendants of the owners could be compensating descendants of the slaves, couldn't they?
Sarah Akinterinwa on the distant prospect of UK slavery reparations – cartoon

Keir Starmer has continued to reject calls to formally discuss the issue at the Commonwealth summit in Samoa

The Guardian