Richard Harris
@beeblebrox.com
Climate, complexity, data & cats
Climate & Ecosystem Data Intelligence. Born at 315ppm, now 426.6. Social tech innovator/entrepreneur, writer, photographer, ecologist, motorcyclist, cyclist, skier. Ex-CTO of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Owned by cats
Climate & Ecosystem Data Intelligence. Born at 315ppm, now 426.6. Social tech innovator/entrepreneur, writer, photographer, ecologist, motorcyclist, cyclist, skier. Ex-CTO of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Owned by cats
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Richard Harris
@beeblebrox.com
· Oct 21
With lots of new folks coming on board, a brief summary of me: I'm co-founder of BlueGlobe, a geospatial data intelligence platform, focussed on data-driven understanding, planning, forecasting and monitoring for environmental resilience & Climate Change response. More at: blueglo.be/news/everyth...
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Somewhere in that publishing house there was a production designer who worked very hard to make sure the pages played out that way. And perhaps died very happy.
The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Somewhere in that publishing house there was a production designer who worked very hard to make sure the pages played out that way. And perhaps died very happy.
Autumn is segueing into winter hereabouts - the first snows are dusting the mountains and we're due our first 'proper' fall come Tuesday. But at least IT. HAS. STOPPED. RAINING.
All images taken with Olympus OM-1/150-400mm f4.5 IS.
#scotland #highlands #landscape #photography
All images taken with Olympus OM-1/150-400mm f4.5 IS.
#scotland #highlands #landscape #photography
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Autumn is segueing into winter hereabouts - the first snows are dusting the mountains and we're due our first 'proper' fall come Tuesday. But at least IT. HAS. STOPPED. RAINING.
All images taken with Olympus OM-1/150-400mm f4.5 IS.
#scotland #highlands #landscape #photography
All images taken with Olympus OM-1/150-400mm f4.5 IS.
#scotland #highlands #landscape #photography
This has been bugging me for years, so I finally sat down and worked it out: in The Winter Soldier, Zola claims that his brain was transferred to 200,000 feet of magnetic tape circa 1972. Well, at the best 6250dpi density of the time, that's 1.788GB. Peabrain.
#marvel #captainamerica
#marvel #captainamerica
November 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This has been bugging me for years, so I finally sat down and worked it out: in The Winter Soldier, Zola claims that his brain was transferred to 200,000 feet of magnetic tape circa 1972. Well, at the best 6250dpi density of the time, that's 1.788GB. Peabrain.
#marvel #captainamerica
#marvel #captainamerica
Another day with in-house review: “You do realise that your model fails to take into account edge effects at watershed boundaries?”.
#climatedata
#catsanyday
#climatedata
#catsanyday
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Another day with in-house review: “You do realise that your model fails to take into account edge effects at watershed boundaries?”.
#climatedata
#catsanyday
#climatedata
#catsanyday
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The Ganga River, which sustains the lives of at least 600 million people, is facing its worst dry spell and lowest streamflow in 1,300 years, according to a recent study, reports Mongabay India’s Simrin Sirur.
India’s Ganga River drying at unprecedented levels
The Ganga River, which sustains the lives of at least 600 million people, is facing its worst dry spell and lowest streamflow in 1,300 years, according to a recent study, reports Mongabay India’s…
news.mongabay.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The Ganga River, which sustains the lives of at least 600 million people, is facing its worst dry spell and lowest streamflow in 1,300 years, according to a recent study, reports Mongabay India’s Simrin Sirur.
It pains me to say it, but do not buy an iPhone 17 until Apple has fixed the issues with its N1 comms chip: networking - WiFi, Bluetooth, mobile data and phone calls are unreliable and have not been addressed by either software update so far. Hubris and failure to test a critical system component?
November 4, 2025 at 10:17 AM
It pains me to say it, but do not buy an iPhone 17 until Apple has fixed the issues with its N1 comms chip: networking - WiFi, Bluetooth, mobile data and phone calls are unreliable and have not been addressed by either software update so far. Hubris and failure to test a critical system component?
I mean, adaptive, auto-negotiating, frequency hopping FISH.
Wow this is wild 🤯
🧪🎢⚛️🧬
🧪🎢⚛️🧬
Jamming avoidance response - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I mean, adaptive, auto-negotiating, frequency hopping FISH.
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Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!
The 3-year mean rate of atmospheric CO2 growth just hit a new record high reaching a growth rate of 7.88 ppm per 3 years for October, 2025. This breaks the previous record high of 7.83 ppm per 3 years, from February, 2019.
Net-Zero by 2050? The Climate 8-ball is bored.
Code UFB!!!
The 3-year mean rate of atmospheric CO2 growth just hit a new record high reaching a growth rate of 7.88 ppm per 3 years for October, 2025. This breaks the previous record high of 7.83 ppm per 3 years, from February, 2019.
Net-Zero by 2050? The Climate 8-ball is bored.
November 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!
The 3-year mean rate of atmospheric CO2 growth just hit a new record high reaching a growth rate of 7.88 ppm per 3 years for October, 2025. This breaks the previous record high of 7.83 ppm per 3 years, from February, 2019.
Net-Zero by 2050? The Climate 8-ball is bored.
Code UFB!!!
The 3-year mean rate of atmospheric CO2 growth just hit a new record high reaching a growth rate of 7.88 ppm per 3 years for October, 2025. This breaks the previous record high of 7.83 ppm per 3 years, from February, 2019.
Net-Zero by 2050? The Climate 8-ball is bored.
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Corrupt Britannia.
UK Govts bury bank scandals.
Frauds, moneylaundering not investigated.
FCA, SFO rarely prosecute.
HBOS frauds report promised by 2018, nothing published, ministers don't answer questions.
City of London Police funded by Lloyds Bank, UK Finance, financial institutions.
UK Govts bury bank scandals.
Frauds, moneylaundering not investigated.
FCA, SFO rarely prosecute.
HBOS frauds report promised by 2018, nothing published, ministers don't answer questions.
City of London Police funded by Lloyds Bank, UK Finance, financial institutions.
Why the banking industry is not a paragon of free markets, efficiency, or honesty
Despite making record profits and paying record returns to shareholders it resents paying taxes.
leftfootforward.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Corrupt Britannia.
UK Govts bury bank scandals.
Frauds, moneylaundering not investigated.
FCA, SFO rarely prosecute.
HBOS frauds report promised by 2018, nothing published, ministers don't answer questions.
City of London Police funded by Lloyds Bank, UK Finance, financial institutions.
UK Govts bury bank scandals.
Frauds, moneylaundering not investigated.
FCA, SFO rarely prosecute.
HBOS frauds report promised by 2018, nothing published, ministers don't answer questions.
City of London Police funded by Lloyds Bank, UK Finance, financial institutions.
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What could have possibly happened in 2016 to result in such a steep decline? Who could possible know…
October 31, 2025 at 7:59 AM
What could have possibly happened in 2016 to result in such a steep decline? Who could possible know…
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This. Is. Fucking. Brilliant! 🤣
October 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
This. Is. Fucking. Brilliant! 🤣
“Climate Change is a hoax”. I would like to put deniers in the path of this. And spare the people of Jamaica from the unfolding disaster.
tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/ad...
CI# /Pressure/ Vmax
8.5 / 871.4mb/185.0kt
Which makes it the strongest hurricane recorded
tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/ad...
CI# /Pressure/ Vmax
8.5 / 871.4mb/185.0kt
Which makes it the strongest hurricane recorded
tropic.ssec.wisc.edu
October 28, 2025 at 6:52 AM
“Climate Change is a hoax”. I would like to put deniers in the path of this. And spare the people of Jamaica from the unfolding disaster.
tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/ad...
CI# /Pressure/ Vmax
8.5 / 871.4mb/185.0kt
Which makes it the strongest hurricane recorded
tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/ad...
CI# /Pressure/ Vmax
8.5 / 871.4mb/185.0kt
Which makes it the strongest hurricane recorded
All political parties annoy me at times. And I’ve avoided joining, to show impartiality when advising politicians across the spectrum. But, with humanity so determinedly sleepwalking into a spiral of crises, I’ve now joined the Green Party. It really does make sense.
#greenparty #scottishgreens
#greenparty #scottishgreens
October 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
All political parties annoy me at times. And I’ve avoided joining, to show impartiality when advising politicians across the spectrum. But, with humanity so determinedly sleepwalking into a spiral of crises, I’ve now joined the Green Party. It really does make sense.
#greenparty #scottishgreens
#greenparty #scottishgreens
It's the Scottish Government this time in ostrich-denial mode: they've restricted Covid vaccination boosters to the over-75s. This ignores all clinical evidence and is a recipe for a spike this winter that will further stress the NHS. "For what of a nail, the horseshoe was lost…"
October 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
It's the Scottish Government this time in ostrich-denial mode: they've restricted Covid vaccination boosters to the over-75s. This ignores all clinical evidence and is a recipe for a spike this winter that will further stress the NHS. "For what of a nail, the horseshoe was lost…"
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After months of Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy, Ukraine hit power grids deep across the country
Zelenskyy had warned Ukraine would retaliate proportionally. Belgorod now faces blackouts while authorities ration fuel for generators
euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/24/f...
Zelenskyy had warned Ukraine would retaliate proportionally. Belgorod now faces blackouts while authorities ration fuel for generators
euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/24/f...
Frontline report: From victim to retaliator – Ukraine targets Russian energy grid across multiple regions
After months of Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities, Ukraine has launched massive retaliatory strikes on Russia's power infrastructure, plunging regions like Belgorod and Kursk into…
euromaidanpress.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
After months of Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy, Ukraine hit power grids deep across the country
Zelenskyy had warned Ukraine would retaliate proportionally. Belgorod now faces blackouts while authorities ration fuel for generators
euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/24/f...
Zelenskyy had warned Ukraine would retaliate proportionally. Belgorod now faces blackouts while authorities ration fuel for generators
euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/24/f...
Altman & co claim that ChatGPT is solving hitherto unsolvable maths problems? So how about we start with the basics: exhibit A - the AI summary of my Apple TV invoice: £11.65. Exhibit B - the actual content: £9.99. Apple “Intelligence” has failed to distinguish ‘VAT inclusive’ and has added it on.
October 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Altman & co claim that ChatGPT is solving hitherto unsolvable maths problems? So how about we start with the basics: exhibit A - the AI summary of my Apple TV invoice: £11.65. Exhibit B - the actual content: £9.99. Apple “Intelligence” has failed to distinguish ‘VAT inclusive’ and has added it on.
ChatGPT did something useful today: I used it to query the Torx screwdriver size for my Asrock motherboard. "Probably T8", it came back with. "Bugger", thought I - "I don't have a T8 driver". ChatGPT then added, "Remember that Asrock motherboards ship with a T8 screwdriver? No I hadn't. And it had.
October 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
ChatGPT did something useful today: I used it to query the Torx screwdriver size for my Asrock motherboard. "Probably T8", it came back with. "Bugger", thought I - "I don't have a T8 driver". ChatGPT then added, "Remember that Asrock motherboards ship with a T8 screwdriver? No I hadn't. And it had.
October 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Another report on how our high visa costs deter top R&D talent
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
April 22, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Another report on how our high visa costs deter top R&D talent
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
An impressive level of seismic activity today for Scotland: a 3.6 magnitude at 0825BST today, & even bigger shake at 1807BST - our house is built on quartz bedrock and the whole place leapt around. Which is going it some for a 200-year-old stone house with metre-thick walls! The cats are unamused.
October 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
An impressive level of seismic activity today for Scotland: a 3.6 magnitude at 0825BST today, & even bigger shake at 1807BST - our house is built on quartz bedrock and the whole place leapt around. Which is going it some for a 200-year-old stone house with metre-thick walls! The cats are unamused.
With the current AWS outage, I’m noticing that organisations like Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland are affected. Which means that they’re hosting in US-East-1 (Virginia). So what happened to holding customer data in GDPR-compliant regions? I have questions…
#AWS
#AWS
October 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
With the current AWS outage, I’m noticing that organisations like Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland are affected. Which means that they’re hosting in US-East-1 (Virginia). So what happened to holding customer data in GDPR-compliant regions? I have questions…
#AWS
#AWS
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This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
October 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
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Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
October 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
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