Labi Siffre has issued Tommy Ten Names with a cease and desist order against the use of his song 'Something inside so strong'. Good man! I hope he sues him. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025....

It’s been a while since I’ve woken up from an anxiety dream, and then promptly forgotten what happened in the dream for it to be immediately replaced with odd jobs I need to do soon. Thanks brain. Could you have just sent a list? Unnecessary nervous system freak out for a reminder to put a wash on.

Article & the press release are full of misleading information on a paper which is worrying anyway. We need research into & implementation of BIO-remediation, not "artificial" "devices" that emulate plants. Stop re-inventing the wheel & learn from nature WITH nature. P.S that pic is a pea shoot.

Bluesky surely likes its logo-sake pictures? Speckled wood butterfly 💚

This assault is not collateral damage in conflict; it is ecocide.

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'll be speaking at the @defendourjuries.bsky.social press conference today, ahead of the pro-Palestine protests this weekend. Already, seven of its spokespeople have been pre-emptively arrested, in a gross infringement of their right to free speech and free assembly. This is what police states do.

Saw a post I won’t reference saying art is something only folks born into money have time for. I am a data point of one but say that’s not true. Advice I give to early career artists: live as cheaply as possible, in a place with other creatives around. Be stingy so you can be free to fail.

How about that? A victory for people who actually read.

So often we fixate on one species, or one element of a complex interconnected web, and don’t get me wrong; trees are beautiful, but willynilly planting them is not what will sequester the most carbon.

Martin Simpson joins @chrisgpackham.bsky.social and his dogs Sid and Nancy for an evocative musical walk in the New Forest in our new episode, out now. 🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/2fdf4a

With one year to go until the 2026 Holyrood elections, demand your MSPs back our demands to stand with Palestine 🇵🇸 huriya.netlify.app/act/scot4pal...

I'm live!! www.youtube.com/live/R7y-Vy6...

A small reminder, in case it was needed, that the Governments of the world are not their people...

A robin made a nest in one of my plant pots right outside my studio. The baby birds are hatching today.

I am live tonight HERE: www.youtube.com/live/MKOdqTw...

Such a lovely thing from @zoebestel.bsky.social You can feel your heartbeat slow down as it plays. youtube.com/watch?v=bEw4...

Songs from the garden 🌱 Bit of The Monkees to herald the setting sun 🌅 Had to get over my perfectionism to post this as I wasn’t fully happy with the video quality but it’s human innit 💚 Enjoy! Will get a full version on the blog soon, and MP3 to lovely Team B x

Sad part of discovering albums from the 1970s is finding new wonderful artists and finding out that they died recently, like Ellen McIlwaine. Huge resurgence of love for this era, I could speculate the multitude of reasons why, but consistently so many 'forgotten' artists majoritively talented women

Monday morning is the perfect morning to listen to the whole of Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part 1. Real affinity with 70s albums at the moment! But I have been sidetracked from editing The Monkees cover I did over the weekend scrolling Discogs for the album... hazards of the job!

Fascism is surging in the UK and we'd be kidding ourselves to pretend Scotland is immune. I'm launching a newsletter today, focusing on the practical work Greens and socialists can do to win this struggle and build a fairer world. rossgreer.beehiiv.com/p/a-better-w...

Caught the tiniest glimpse of the salad patch shrew! (Yes I’m growing my salads in an ‘raised bed’ of an old tractor tire)

New Anywhere But Westminster, deep into Reform's sweep of Lincolnshire, and the sadness, hope & fear running alongside it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Shifting my focus back into long form, I'm resurrecting my blog! zoebestel.co.uk/greyskieslin...

iM LIVE www.youtube.com/live/N8Xu2iM...

Happy Wednesday, friends! I’ll be live from my little corner of the internet to yours from just after 7pm BST 🌞 Come say hello: www.youtube.com/live/1L_5o3y...

I'M LIVE NOW www.youtube.com/live/wN8bJ_a...

We’ve dilapidated the wool industry so badly that something that should be affordable like socks I’m now seeing for £16.99 for one single pair. Meanwhile farmers are burning wool on islands because it costs too much to export to the mainland to be processed. What’s going on here?

A rare THURSDAY stream tonight ;) See you at 7pm BST x youtube.com/live/Q7SWPYo...

If you ever need an escape from the hustle and bustle of the world, do tune into one of the beautiful @zoebestel.bsky.social YouTube sessions, you will feel so much lighter afterwards and her community is full of genuinely beautiful souls! Give Zoë a follow here and on YT, she’s wonderful x

I'll be LIVE in 15 minutes from my little corner of the internet to yours x Come join me :))) www.youtube.com/live/prIZ-0Z...

I woke up this morning and looked out my window. There’s a baby in the field; a galloway calf. It’s attempting to get into the garden and I’m playfully enquiring to mum through the upstairs window that she calls over to her kid, as I’d rather not have my raspberry canes trampled. /1

My wee dad making a bunch of good points, proud of him being creative in this way x Also hilarious click bait thumbnail youtu.be/Z_qIt-9NAlE?...

I'm live in five!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFdk...

I'm live now x www.youtube.com/live/zQLck1a...

Needed to sing a song with a friend, so got myself to a wee alley in Liverpool for a small slice of March sun 🌞 youtu.be/JiTykHiU2vo?...

👏 Write 👏 for 👏 yourself 👏

Been making a point to read the newspaper headlines whenever I’m in a supermarket and what is most baffling is the majority of the news they don’t print on the front pages. The Scottish Sun was just a full page advertisement for TUI yesterday, not that I’m surprised.

"This is all connected because it is all connected because WE are all connected" Quoting my own lyrics, but aye bylinetimes.com/2025/01/26/t...

Wait, I thought disinformation was dead?

Very chatty taxi driver last night was talking about this suspiciously, and I didn't know anything about it to inform him - headlines like this don't help. People will only complain that the line is closed.

The Zoë Bestel Live Stream at 7pm Wednesday's #108 will be live from 7.10pm today, here: www.youtube.com/live/BwDndRT...

There isn't really nostalgia anymore,I'm nostalgic for the feeling of nostalgia. There was a time as a child, when I heard the theme tune to my fave cartoon for the last time. Actually gone, banished into my memory. Until I heard it again on a bebo flashbox in 2007 and could play it on loop forever

The subtext of all the misinformation on the LA wildfires is: we could have prevented this from happening, even with climate change, by competent "adaptation." I think it would be really helpful if trusted scientific voices could start making it even more clear that adaptation has limits. 1/2

Hahahaha we practiced this once before hand and I absolutely shat the second verse, but was a pleasure to share a stage with these two 😌

Beautiful souls! If you’re ever looking for a wonderful escape from the world, subscribe to the beautiful @zoebestel.bsky.social’s YouTube channel- she does a regular livestream of music and chat and it’s all incredibly wonderful and entertaining! Keep Yourselves Nice x youtube.com/@zoebestel?s...

More than half of Brits think there'll always be significant levels of homelessness