Vici
@vicibox.bsky.social
Independent Spirit reflecting light from the Dark Mirror; retired Harwell Scientist PhD FInstP, Writer & Artist navigating zeitgeist towards the post-Holocene.
Walking home from shopping, Elizabeth engaged me in a game of BBC Dessert Island Disks to take my mind off of my Sciatica pain. These were my choices and why. I realise they are the crossroads of my career ;-)
February 10, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Walking home from shopping, Elizabeth engaged me in a game of BBC Dessert Island Disks to take my mind off of my Sciatica pain. These were my choices and why. I realise they are the crossroads of my career ;-)
Well Iceland is taking it seriously but, they are in the firing line. It's a disgrace that people in the climate firing line are doing the most, are the least able & are getting little help from the people who are doing the most damage & can afford to help. You know who you are & you are a disgrace.
February 10, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Well Iceland is taking it seriously but, they are in the firing line. It's a disgrace that people in the climate firing line are doing the most, are the least able & are getting little help from the people who are doing the most damage & can afford to help. You know who you are & you are a disgrace.
My Mum would have been 98 today. This was her Wedding day 14/01/1950. My father was a Society Photographer & this was taken by his London KenMoore Studios partner who put it in the dailies. Post Smog we lived here after 1954. Yes I'm named after Dad & his Mum Julia (Vici Julianna). Rest easy Mum ;-)
February 10, 2026 at 12:20 PM
My Mum would have been 98 today. This was her Wedding day 14/01/1950. My father was a Society Photographer & this was taken by his London KenMoore Studios partner who put it in the dailies. Post Smog we lived here after 1954. Yes I'm named after Dad & his Mum Julia (Vici Julianna). Rest easy Mum ;-)
I don't think that is exactly the correct analysis; existing reefs will die; are dying already. However, they will move. They will start again in more favourable cooler water conditions. In fact, all species and plants are moving & migrating in response to climate if they are able to.
February 9, 2026 at 5:42 PM
I don't think that is exactly the correct analysis; existing reefs will die; are dying already. However, they will move. They will start again in more favourable cooler water conditions. In fact, all species and plants are moving & migrating in response to climate if they are able to.
As I said in my COP30 art Installation, The Party at the End of the World, we only have two parliaments left before we hit the buffers at 2035. Now would be a good time to panic and, when calm again, take this damn Environmental crisis seriously #6thMassExtinction ;-)
February 9, 2026 at 4:39 PM
As I said in my COP30 art Installation, The Party at the End of the World, we only have two parliaments left before we hit the buffers at 2035. Now would be a good time to panic and, when calm again, take this damn Environmental crisis seriously #6thMassExtinction ;-)
This is really a good film on climate mechanisms. Problem is so much has tipped in the time since this was made. Would be good to get somebody to fund a remake. We are now over +1.5C & there are so many tipping points active. Now we need panic to jump start emergency action to reach sustainability.
February 8, 2026 at 2:50 PM
This is really a good film on climate mechanisms. Problem is so much has tipped in the time since this was made. Would be good to get somebody to fund a remake. We are now over +1.5C & there are so many tipping points active. Now we need panic to jump start emergency action to reach sustainability.
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I’d like to get this excellent short animated film on climate & societal tipping points by @leomurray.bsky.social to a million views + hundreds of thousands of 👍🏽 - as one commenter has said. Please, share it around and make it happen. Made in 2008 - now all coming true!
youtube.com/watch?v=VnyL...
youtube.com/watch?v=VnyL...
Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip (HD)
YouTube video by Ligermorph
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February 8, 2026 at 12:02 PM
I’d like to get this excellent short animated film on climate & societal tipping points by @leomurray.bsky.social to a million views + hundreds of thousands of 👍🏽 - as one commenter has said. Please, share it around and make it happen. Made in 2008 - now all coming true!
youtube.com/watch?v=VnyL...
youtube.com/watch?v=VnyL...
That already happened the day after the Brexit referendum; British Scientists were dropped from EU projects on that very day because there was no certainty in our future. Much of my own work was funded by the EU; I started in the EURATOM Dragon HTR Project and many more projects followed.
February 6, 2026 at 3:36 PM
That already happened the day after the Brexit referendum; British Scientists were dropped from EU projects on that very day because there was no certainty in our future. Much of my own work was funded by the EU; I started in the EURATOM Dragon HTR Project and many more projects followed.
Climate change is like pain; it is the body's way of telling you to stop doing whatever you are doing to allow rest for the healing process. If you ignore pain you get infection and die. Its the same with Climate; if you don't stop making the biosphere worse the planet will be unlivable & we die.
February 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Climate change is like pain; it is the body's way of telling you to stop doing whatever you are doing to allow rest for the healing process. If you ignore pain you get infection and die. Its the same with Climate; if you don't stop making the biosphere worse the planet will be unlivable & we die.
I think of people like Jocelyn Bell (Pulsars) & Rosalind Franklin (DNA) who were treated appallingly. I guess that having a hair shirt Quaker distaste of prizes in general (I never even attended my graduation ceremonies) makes me an outlier.
February 4, 2026 at 1:47 PM
I think of people like Jocelyn Bell (Pulsars) & Rosalind Franklin (DNA) who were treated appallingly. I guess that having a hair shirt Quaker distaste of prizes in general (I never even attended my graduation ceremonies) makes me an outlier.
Tell me about it; right now my every waking moment is taken up by this in my home town Alton fighting the Council. Government tearing up planning regs is causing increased water extraction & shortages with the river running dry. This the edge of a National Park!!!
February 3, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Tell me about it; right now my every waking moment is taken up by this in my home town Alton fighting the Council. Government tearing up planning regs is causing increased water extraction & shortages with the river running dry. This the edge of a National Park!!!
Frankly I don't give a toss about the Nobel Prize; just another "peer reviewed" jolly by the boys considered "sound". As far as I'm concerned I am more impressed by people's life work; not their publications but, their actual life work. Did it change the world? This lady changed the world it seems.
February 3, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Frankly I don't give a toss about the Nobel Prize; just another "peer reviewed" jolly by the boys considered "sound". As far as I'm concerned I am more impressed by people's life work; not their publications but, their actual life work. Did it change the world? This lady changed the world it seems.
Happy World Wetlands Day. With a 73% decline in species populations since 1970 there has never been a more urgent need to preserve what is left before the 6th Mass Extinction drags us all into the abyss. Wetlands are crucial to our own survival ;-)
February 2, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Happy World Wetlands Day. With a 73% decline in species populations since 1970 there has never been a more urgent need to preserve what is left before the 6th Mass Extinction drags us all into the abyss. Wetlands are crucial to our own survival ;-)
Facebook just reminded me that our Loddon Lilies were in flower this time last year. Looking through my Diary I can see that they were 21days earlier this year. Goodness our climate is so screwed.
January 31, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Facebook just reminded me that our Loddon Lilies were in flower this time last year. Looking through my Diary I can see that they were 21days earlier this year. Goodness our climate is so screwed.
My Panoramic Street Show from 6yrs ago. I had forgotten it was to commemorate the end of the old European dream just before Brexit stole it from us - sigh
January 29, 2026 at 12:06 PM
My Panoramic Street Show from 6yrs ago. I had forgotten it was to commemorate the end of the old European dream just before Brexit stole it from us - sigh
Why is this calling to me? I have been in deep introspection for a month. I think its a metaphor for the world I have lost. I can see that my world is dead and that I don't belong in the world that is emerging. I was never part of the mainstream 🧸 www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3nP...
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
YouTube video by TheCureVEVO
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January 25, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Why is this calling to me? I have been in deep introspection for a month. I think its a metaphor for the world I have lost. I can see that my world is dead and that I don't belong in the world that is emerging. I was never part of the mainstream 🧸 www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3nP...
In October the Library PCs all stopped working except for a small laptop added for admin. The PCs are all working again & I notice they are now running ChromeOS. Microsoft has committed global suicide. Nobody is upgrading they are all switching. Nobody will dump good equipment to suit US oligarchs.
January 24, 2026 at 4:23 PM
In October the Library PCs all stopped working except for a small laptop added for admin. The PCs are all working again & I notice they are now running ChromeOS. Microsoft has committed global suicide. Nobody is upgrading they are all switching. Nobody will dump good equipment to suit US oligarchs.
COP26 we distanced & globally 7,107,212 died from Covid; by COP30 we had become less resilient. Now the buffers loom by 2035. I feel as helpless as a Bronze Age Minoan. A Dark Age now would be mercy. I no longer know what else I can do to help. I am old & talking to the deaf #6thMassExtinction
January 22, 2026 at 3:57 PM
COP26 we distanced & globally 7,107,212 died from Covid; by COP30 we had become less resilient. Now the buffers loom by 2035. I feel as helpless as a Bronze Age Minoan. A Dark Age now would be mercy. I no longer know what else I can do to help. I am old & talking to the deaf #6thMassExtinction
The lake was created 300yrs ago to supply a Paper Mill. A faction of the Council wants to reinstate the original stream with a designer walk along its banks, leaving a small duck pond separated from the stream. Unfortunately the stream is drying out so will just be a flood drain full of litter.
January 18, 2026 at 11:12 AM
The lake was created 300yrs ago to supply a Paper Mill. A faction of the Council wants to reinstate the original stream with a designer walk along its banks, leaving a small duck pond separated from the stream. Unfortunately the stream is drying out so will just be a flood drain full of litter.
Swifts are the bird that brought environment destruction home to me. We had a rare swift colony on top of our brewery. The attraction of our town to swifts was obvious; a now destroyed artificial cliff next to a feeding pond. They came back found new town homes; now they are destroying the lake.
January 16, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Swifts are the bird that brought environment destruction home to me. We had a rare swift colony on top of our brewery. The attraction of our town to swifts was obvious; a now destroyed artificial cliff next to a feeding pond. They came back found new town homes; now they are destroying the lake.
Quite and the Trans community is the one with the highest mortality of any minority group; it used to be about 35% when I last saw the figures. They are the ones being persecuted by this bigoted Government.
January 13, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Quite and the Trans community is the one with the highest mortality of any minority group; it used to be about 35% when I last saw the figures. They are the ones being persecuted by this bigoted Government.
Feeling the upsurge of my demons more than ever this Xmas; I even went to the Quaker meeting to try calm my mind. My life has been torn between Earth & Surface Science versus Art & Writing. My mind lately has been dominated by remembering my Harwell science years ;-)
January 13, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Feeling the upsurge of my demons more than ever this Xmas; I even went to the Quaker meeting to try calm my mind. My life has been torn between Earth & Surface Science versus Art & Writing. My mind lately has been dominated by remembering my Harwell science years ;-)
The Loddon Lilies in the garden are in flower. Wont be long before the bluebells start poking through.The recent storms have filled the pond and sparrows and wood pidgeons were bathing and drinking there this morning. Spring is bursting out all over ;-)
January 9, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The Loddon Lilies in the garden are in flower. Wont be long before the bluebells start poking through.The recent storms have filled the pond and sparrows and wood pidgeons were bathing and drinking there this morning. Spring is bursting out all over ;-)
Unfortunately I predicted that 2025 would be the year from hell in 2021. I said the climate would tip, resources would become critical and social unrest would result in mass migration and conflict. I set the buffers for collapse at 2040. It was worse; buffers crash now set at 2035 - sigh
January 7, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Unfortunately I predicted that 2025 would be the year from hell in 2021. I said the climate would tip, resources would become critical and social unrest would result in mass migration and conflict. I set the buffers for collapse at 2040. It was worse; buffers crash now set at 2035 - sigh
There's no business like snow business; there's no business I know. What a surprise this morning. I was expecting a hard frost; not snow ;-)
January 5, 2026 at 11:07 PM
There's no business like snow business; there's no business I know. What a surprise this morning. I was expecting a hard frost; not snow ;-)