Zoë Bestel
@zoebestel.bsky.social
Child of Hale, daughter of Galloway, occasionally floating around Glasgow. Weaver of stories, crafter of songs, lyrically waxing and waning with the moon to the gentle sway of folk revival. At home: Green thumbed permaculture enthusiast. 💚🐸✨🌻
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Zoë Bestel
@zoebestel.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Wasteland (Demo) - Zoë Bestel // Official Video
YouTube video by Zoë Bestel
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My latest single, a call to action. Will we really allow our shared tears to fall wasted on a wasteland of dead-ends? No. Nature has the tools to heal and WE ARE NATURE.
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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
Monbiot explaining the shift of the Overton Window. What is becoming normalised is incredibly disturbing.
No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵
October 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Monbiot explaining the shift of the Overton Window. What is becoming normalised is incredibly disturbing.
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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....
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025....
Something inside so wrong: Labi Siffre tells Tommy Robinson to stop using anti-apartheid anthem
Exclusive: UK singer, 80, says it is ‘absurd’ as a ‘positive atheist, homosexual black artist’ for far right to claim his work
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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....
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.
Thanks brain. Could you have just sent a list? Unnecessary nervous system freak out for a reminder to put a wash on.
September 29, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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.
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.
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.
Cool.
"Solar-powered ‘artificial plant’ purifies radioactive soil by 95% in 20 days"
interestingengineering.com/innovation/a...
"Solar-powered ‘artificial plant’ purifies radioactive soil by 95% in 20 days"
interestingengineering.com/innovation/a...
New ‘artificial plant’ uses solar power to clean radioactive soil
Researchers have created a game-changing device that purifies radioactive soil using nothing but sunlight.
interestingengineering.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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.
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 💚
September 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Bluesky surely likes its logo-sake pictures? Speckled wood butterfly 💚
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This assault is not collateral damage in conflict; it is ecocide.
Ecocide and resistance in Palestine
The Palestinian perspective: Israel is committing not only human violence, but also climate violence: genocide and ecocide.
theecologist.org
September 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This assault is not collateral damage in conflict; it is ecocide.
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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/...
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules
Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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/...
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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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.
September 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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.
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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.
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.
August 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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.
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.
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How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
bookriot.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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.
July 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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.
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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
🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/2fdf4a
July 26, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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
🎧 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...
Demand justice for Palestine
Demand justice for Palestine
huriya.netlify.app
July 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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...
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I'm live!! www.youtube.com/live/R7y-Vy6...
The Zoë Bestel Live Stream 7pm on (not) Wednesday's no.122
YouTube video by Zoë Bestel
www.youtube.com
June 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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...
June 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A small reminder, in case it was needed, that the Governments of the world are not their people...
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A robin made a nest in one of my plant pots right outside my studio. The baby birds are hatching today.
June 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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...
Ukulele Plausch with Zoë Bestel
YouTube video by Martha Zan
www.youtube.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I am live tonight HERE: www.youtube.com/live/MKOdqTw...
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Such a lovely thing from @zoebestel.bsky.social
You can feel your heartbeat slow down as it plays.
youtube.com/watch?v=bEw4...
You can feel your heartbeat slow down as it plays.
youtube.com/watch?v=bEw4...
another chai morning - Zoë Bestel // Official Music Video
YouTube video by Zoë Bestel
youtube.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Such a lovely thing from @zoebestel.bsky.social
You can feel your heartbeat slow down as it plays.
youtube.com/watch?v=bEw4...
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
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
May 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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
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
May 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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!
But I have been sidetracked from editing The Monkees cover I did over the weekend scrolling Discogs for the album... hazards of the job!
May 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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!
But I have been sidetracked from editing The Monkees cover I did over the weekend scrolling Discogs for the album... hazards of the job!