Leftish, greenish, bookish. 50 years urban 🚲, 4 years 🦽. Londoner, Hackney, Lea Valley. Bad naturalist (urban). Warré beek. Was community tree carer, forest gardener, bikeability teacher, TU H&S librarian. Climate Doomer 2006-. Read poetry voluntarilyhttps://bsky.app/profile/hackneymartian.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/hackneymartian.bsky.social/post/3m6zqwfc3722aLast week saw a media flurry when Baroness Lawrence testified to the energy #spycops put into subverting the family justice campaign, not investigating Stephen's murder. This week there are 2 days more to hear Peter Francis who fessed up. Meanwhile COPS beavers away on a shoestring... [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Dec 2025 20:12 +0000at://did:plc:cnmeajndjozdapodda4exsec/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6zqwfc3722ahttps://bsky.app/profile/hackneymartian.bsky.social/post/3m4pqsnmx722hAlso, it's always winter but never Christmas [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Nov 2025 09:53 +0000at://did:plc:cnmeajndjozdapodda4exsec/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4pqsnmx722hhttps://bsky.app/profile/hackneymartian.bsky.social/post/3m2pfzz3ef22hAlso on Kobo, for those who avoid Amazon. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Oct 2025 19:50 +0000at://did:plc:cnmeajndjozdapodda4exsec/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2pfzz3ef22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/hackneymartian.bsky.social/post/3lvvkfzjyds24Oak galls on Hackney Marsh. Right, a knopper (wasp) gall. Left, I've not noticed this one before, they're made by the gorgeously named Silk-button Spangle Gall Wasp (thanks, Seek app). Both wasps produce an autumn generation of parthenogenetic females & then in Spring a sexual generation. Amazing08 Aug 2025 15:19 +0000at://did:plc:cnmeajndjozdapodda4exsec/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvvkfzjyds24https://bsky.app/profile/hackneymartian.bsky.social/post/3lomj5v7lns2uNeil's first go at waxing leaders on #Warré bars. Comb wax from past seasons (foundation free so no pesticides). Bain Marie. A water-soaked guide piece held against the bar. And that vital tool, a cunningly bent teaspoon. And ... voilá! #beekeeping07 May 2025 23:06 +0000at://did:plc:cnmeajndjozdapodda4exsec/app.bsky.feed.post/3lomj5v7lns2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/hackneymartian.bsky.social/post/3lnrtqfxwo22qSome marathons are metaphorical [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Apr 2025 08:33 +0000at://did:plc:cnmeajndjozdapodda4exsec/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnrtqfxwo22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/hackneymartian.bsky.social/post/3lnkz4nii722fJustin Webb at it again on #Radio4 #Today -- It must be so grievous being a researcher on that programme. You put facts in front of Webb and the little pub Tory in his head shouts Lalalala. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Apr 2025 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:cnmeajndjozdapodda4exsec/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnkz4nii722fhttps://bsky.app/profile/hackneymartian.bsky.social/post/3lmon3ipid22uJust heard BBC World Service use the word reprisals of Gaza. Unscripted panellist Alistair Burt of RUSI on Weekend. Violation of laws of war. Oops.13 Apr 2025 08:31 +0000at://did:plc:cnmeajndjozdapodda4exsec/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmon3ipid22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/hackneymartian.bsky.social/post/3llgimxf36c22Nick Robinson on Today telling Peter Hain 'You dug up pitches' (he didn't) & Hain having to correct the pub Tory version of history which Robinson carries round in his head. BBC accuracy much?28 Mar 2025 09:25 +0000at://did:plc:cnmeajndjozdapodda4exsec/app.bsky.feed.post/3llgimxf36c22https://bsky.app/profile/hackneymartian.bsky.social/post/3ljs7la3nnc2tHolborn post office. Rang twice. Sat in my wheelchair for 15 minutes. WTAF. Luckily my wife was with me & able to go to counter.07 Mar 2025 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:cnmeajndjozdapodda4exsec/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljs7la3nnc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/hackneymartian.bsky.social/post/3lcvggoxd2c2d"It is “too early” to say whether the UK will strip the wife of Bashar al-Assad, Asma al-Assad, of her British citizenship, the prime minister has said." Guardian. Shamima Begum also went to Syria to marry a terrorist & was stripped in 2024. The Met investigated Asma for torture & terrorism09 Dec 2024 19:09 +0000at://did:plc:cnmeajndjozdapodda4exsec/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcvggoxd2c2d