Helen K Jeffrey
@imhelenj.bsky.social
Creative, crossing the streams. Former Associate Publisher @londonreview.bsky.social Supports @goodchancecal Has a #heatpump. #communityenergy. Gloucestershire mostly. Chairperson of Forest Community Energy ⚡
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Helen K Jeffrey
@imhelenj.bsky.social
· Nov 6
A Forest Community's Battle for Affordable, Clean Energy
YouTube video by Climate Centre
youtu.be
Here is a lovely short film about Forest Community Energy made by @climatecentreuk.bsky.social when Octopus Energy came to visit the Forest of Dean.. youtu.be/KliF6Abpee8?...
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Anyone craving more folklore and folk horror in their bluesky lives might like the starter pack I made. I'm always adding to it, especially trying to include artists, musicians, performers, morris dancers, mummers, etc. Let me know if I'm missing anyone :) go.bsky.app/LXSZqSM
January 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Anyone craving more folklore and folk horror in their bluesky lives might like the starter pack I made. I'm always adding to it, especially trying to include artists, musicians, performers, morris dancers, mummers, etc. Let me know if I'm missing anyone :) go.bsky.app/LXSZqSM
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🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
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How to rapidly scale the heat pump market?
“The main hurdle is the price ratio of gas to electricity. [Reforming taxation of energy] would unlock a much more market-driven transition.”
That’s what I told the FT. Excellent piece.
“The main hurdle is the price ratio of gas to electricity. [Reforming taxation of energy] would unlock a much more market-driven transition.”
That’s what I told the FT. Excellent piece.
November 14, 2025 at 7:09 AM
How to rapidly scale the heat pump market?
“The main hurdle is the price ratio of gas to electricity. [Reforming taxation of energy] would unlock a much more market-driven transition.”
That’s what I told the FT. Excellent piece.
“The main hurdle is the price ratio of gas to electricity. [Reforming taxation of energy] would unlock a much more market-driven transition.”
That’s what I told the FT. Excellent piece.
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🍺 Forest of Dean Pubs – I Want to Hear from You!
Our pubs are the heart of the Forest—supporting local musicians, boosting the economy, and building community.
Share how you think I can support Forest of Dean pubs here:
📝 teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19...
Our pubs are the heart of the Forest—supporting local musicians, boosting the economy, and building community.
Share how you think I can support Forest of Dean pubs here:
📝 teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19...
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🍺 Forest of Dean Pubs – I Want to Hear from You!
Our pubs are the heart of the Forest—supporting local musicians, boosting the economy, and building community.
Share how you think I can support Forest of Dean pubs here:
📝 teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19...
Our pubs are the heart of the Forest—supporting local musicians, boosting the economy, and building community.
Share how you think I can support Forest of Dean pubs here:
📝 teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19...
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva
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November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Is it officially the year of the website rebrand?! 🎨💻
Our friends @commenergyengland.bsky.social just launched an absolutely B-E-A-utiful new website… check it out 👇
…and earlier this year, our friends @westmillenergy.bsky.social did the same! We love seeing our community powering up ⚡💚
Our friends @commenergyengland.bsky.social just launched an absolutely B-E-A-utiful new website… check it out 👇
…and earlier this year, our friends @westmillenergy.bsky.social did the same! We love seeing our community powering up ⚡💚
Community Energy England
It’s been a journey – and we’re delighted to share our new look with you. Read about our new website Representing hundreds of community energy and associated organisations, we are the only…
communityenergyengland.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Is it officially the year of the website rebrand?! 🎨💻
Our friends @commenergyengland.bsky.social just launched an absolutely B-E-A-utiful new website… check it out 👇
…and earlier this year, our friends @westmillenergy.bsky.social did the same! We love seeing our community powering up ⚡💚
Our friends @commenergyengland.bsky.social just launched an absolutely B-E-A-utiful new website… check it out 👇
…and earlier this year, our friends @westmillenergy.bsky.social did the same! We love seeing our community powering up ⚡💚
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We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
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Hooray, an @xkcd.com about tides! Although only little ones, round here we can get a tidal range of 10 *metres* .
xkcd.com/3135/
xkcd.com/3135/
![[Single frame, with Megan and Cueball standing at a coastline with grass, with water and waves visible. They are looking at the ocean and are standing together.]
Cueball: Hey, where's that big island we were looking at this morning?
Megan: Oh, it's underwater. The ocean's depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day.
Cueball: What?
Megan: It's because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects.
Cueball: What???
[Caption below the frame:]
People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.
Transcript thanks to explainxkcd](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d67aicqw6nicsf7cjauvzuo3/bafkreibnctesneis67q7qz6tgdszao5vn2zzjlqzdblcy4h6vygipyclni@jpeg)
August 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Hooray, an @xkcd.com about tides! Although only little ones, round here we can get a tidal range of 10 *metres* .
xkcd.com/3135/
xkcd.com/3135/
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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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Please don't cut back shrubs and hedgerows until wildlife has taken all the autumn berries! Hawthorn, for example, is a fantastic source of food for birds - including blackbirds, thrushes and (if the weather gets very cold) waxwings.
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Please don't cut back shrubs and hedgerows until wildlife has taken all the autumn berries! Hawthorn, for example, is a fantastic source of food for birds - including blackbirds, thrushes and (if the weather gets very cold) waxwings.
Torchwood ?
Thanks to the BBC for speaking to BGS' engineering geologist Ashley Patton about our work monitoring the 'secret' geothermal energy underneath Cardiff, and what it means for homes and businesses locally and nationally.
Click the link to learn more:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Click the link to learn more:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Secret' geothermal energy under Cardiff could heat every home
Untapped underground energy could have potentially huge implications for Cardiff's 124,000 homes.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Torchwood ?
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This is criminal, or should be. It’s definitely immoral. Burning old growth trees for energy should be banned. Biomass is not carbon neutral and it makes nasty air pollution.
Claims of felling 250 year-old trees + shipping them thousands of miles to burn in a power station, releasing fine particulate pollution linked to breathing + heart conditions.
Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions?
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Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions?
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Official data from government of British Columbia, along with satellite monitoring, backs claims that a Canadian subsidiary owned by Drax sourced 250-year-old trees to manufacture biomass pellets as recently as this year
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
This is criminal, or should be. It’s definitely immoral. Burning old growth trees for energy should be banned. Biomass is not carbon neutral and it makes nasty air pollution.
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We held a great energy-saving drop-in last week - read all about it here:
#communityenergy
www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk/an-excellent...
#communityenergy
www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk/an-excellent...
An Excellent Event
Our drop-in afternoon on Saturday was buzzing!
There was real community feeling as people mingled, checked out our smart-home tech displays, discussed solar diverters with Gwent Energy CIC, found out...
www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk
November 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
We held a great energy-saving drop-in last week - read all about it here:
#communityenergy
www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk/an-excellent...
#communityenergy
www.forestcommunityenergy.org.uk/an-excellent...
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You can’t afford a coal mine.
You can’t afford a gas turbine.
You can’t afford an oil rig.
Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can.
But you can afford a solar power station on your roof.
Now, ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.
You can’t afford a gas turbine.
You can’t afford an oil rig.
Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can.
But you can afford a solar power station on your roof.
Now, ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
You can’t afford a coal mine.
You can’t afford a gas turbine.
You can’t afford an oil rig.
Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can.
But you can afford a solar power station on your roof.
Now, ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.
You can’t afford a gas turbine.
You can’t afford an oil rig.
Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can.
But you can afford a solar power station on your roof.
Now, ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.
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Ooh looks good.
Years of work and collab with an incredible team at #BBCStudios #AppleTV @framestore.bsky.social ... involving so many camera operators, writers, producers, effects people, artists and others, #PrehistoricPlanetaIceAge is out on #AppleTV Nov 26th. A definitive vision of Ice Age wildlife worldwide.
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Ooh looks good.
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I have spent my entire professional life understanding the British point of view on foreign policy. I get certain historic and cultural differences. But the wilder the world gets the more infuriated I become by the dismissive attitude many Brits have towards the EU as a peace project./
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I have spent my entire professional life understanding the British point of view on foreign policy. I get certain historic and cultural differences. But the wilder the world gets the more infuriated I become by the dismissive attitude many Brits have towards the EU as a peace project./
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NEW: I wrote about the exciting world of flame retardants!
Seriously - this stuff is fascinating. I visited a firm here in Belfast treating wood with a mysterious "natural" mixture that can hold back fire.
With rising wildfires, such tech is increasingly sought-after.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Seriously - this stuff is fascinating. I visited a firm here in Belfast treating wood with a mysterious "natural" mixture that can hold back fire.
With rising wildfires, such tech is increasingly sought-after.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Fire-blocking chemicals promise safer buildings
New treatments promise to make buildings fire-resistant without using older, toxic chemicals.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
NEW: I wrote about the exciting world of flame retardants!
Seriously - this stuff is fascinating. I visited a firm here in Belfast treating wood with a mysterious "natural" mixture that can hold back fire.
With rising wildfires, such tech is increasingly sought-after.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Seriously - this stuff is fascinating. I visited a firm here in Belfast treating wood with a mysterious "natural" mixture that can hold back fire.
With rising wildfires, such tech is increasingly sought-after.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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‘To be held without charge and questioned under threat of criminal prosecution without a lawyer is otherwise unheard of in British law. At a port of entry or exit, this cornerstone of British justice no longer applies.’
Asim Qureshi on misuses of the Terrorism Act:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Asim Qureshi on misuses of the Terrorism Act:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Asim Qureshi · Short Cuts: Misuses of the Terrorism Act
Thousands of people each year are detained and questioned under Schedule 7, the majority of them from ethnic minority...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
‘To be held without charge and questioned under threat of criminal prosecution without a lawyer is otherwise unheard of in British law. At a port of entry or exit, this cornerstone of British justice no longer applies.’
Asim Qureshi on misuses of the Terrorism Act:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Asim Qureshi on misuses of the Terrorism Act:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
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Reason enough for me.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Reason enough for me.
Feedback welcome!
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Feedback welcome!