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Welsh Fan Zone TV 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @welshfanzonetv.bsky.social · 1h

Mark Williams has just won the Xi'an Grand Prix Final 🏆 he becomes the first ever player to win a tour event in his teens, 20’s, 30’s, 40’s and 50’s, also making him snooker's oldest ranking title winner in history 👏

Hopefully the start of a great day for Welsh Sport 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Noris Roberts @norisroberts.bsky.social · 2h

I am sharing with you some of my graphite drawings. I hope you enjoy this small display of my #art @cathaguamia.bsky.social @therealwildthing.bsky.social @ryuma21.bsky.social @kirpalsingh.bsky.social @neopoiesis.bsky.social @malikmarketer.bsky.social

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cathaguamia.bsky.social @cathaguamia.bsky.social · 49m

Let’s just take control of the Crown Estate altogether. It doesn’t work for anybody except - surprise!- the English Crown.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Greenpeace threatens to sue crown estate for driving up cost of offshore wind

Environmental group accuses king’s property management company of ‘milking for profit’ its monopoly ownership of seabed

www.theguardian.com

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Carmen Martínez Sánchez @carmenmartinez.bsky.social · 3h

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 10h

This is correct, in part - as the grim, military historian in me feels the need to note - it is psychologically much harder to get soldiers to open fire on people they view as 'respectable.'

And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 11h

protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space

we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning

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Newyddion S4C @newyddion.s4c.cymru · 2h

🐶 Ble mae Halo? Mae capten Cymru wedi trydar yn Sbaeneg yn cynnig gwobr am ei gi sydd ar goll yn nhalaith Guanajuato

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Uta Frith @utafrith.bsky.social · 3h

Making a real difference.

Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 1d

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM

After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.

mymodernmet.com

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 2h

Australian aid campaign for Spanish Republic. Showing of Spanish War films to raise funds. Assembly Hall, Melbourne, October 1938

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 4h

Rupert Lowe on Nathan Gill, former Reform leader in Wales, who has pleaded guilty to taking bribes from pro-Russian proxies:

"I had absolutely no idea. I was new to the European Parliament, Nathan had been there for years alongside Farage - they were very close."

Shots fired. ~AA

Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10
I have received A LOT of questions about Nathan Gill, having sat as a Brexit Party MEP alongside him in Brussels and Strasbourg. He was also the Reform leader in Wales. For those who don’t know, he has pleaded guilty to taking pro-Russian bribes over a number of months.

Obviously, I had absolutely no idea. I was new to the European Parliament, Nathan had been there for years alongside Farage - they were very close. He was the head of the delegation of our MEPs, so with the whip ran the day-to-day affairs of our grouping and organised activity in Brussels/Strasbourg. He was one of just two MEPs from the previous term Farage allowed to stand again.

He seemed particularly interested in Russian/Ukrainian developments which I found peculiar. There was one event, right at the beginning of our term, which he asked me and other MEPs to attend. Due to his position in the grouping, I agreed. It had a very pro-Russian slant, with individuals who claimed to be close to Putin there. For obvious reasons, I did not attend another such event.

I thought his obsession with that part of the world was strange, but given his years in the Parliament and position in the party, I didn’t think there was more to it. Other MEPs also found it unusual, but we just got on with job.

So to journalists asking, there is my response.

It is disgraceful behaviour, treasonous behaviour.

I am ashamed to have ever sat alongside him.
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cathaguamia.bsky.social @cathaguamia.bsky.social · 2h

Digon o erthyglau am obeithion etholiadol Chega, plaid y dde eithaf yn Portwgal, ond ychydig am eu canlyniad siomedig (iddyn nhw).

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Portugal’s far-right Chega falls well short of expectations in local elections

Party hoped to take 30 municipalities but secured three after share of vote halved from parliamentary elections

www.theguardian.com

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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 7h

The UK Government has announced a half a billion pounds for Wales to "create jobs and grow productivity".

They say this money replaces the cash that used to come from the EU.

The Welsh Gov will decide how the money is spent and it will be distributed over the next 3 years.

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🦇 Grim 🦇 @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 7h

£500m over 3 years to replace an average of £400m a year?

The maths isn't mathsing.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 19h

Marvellous story

Working class hero airbrushed from history in favour of toff academics

And not for the first time

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...

www.theguardian.com

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cathaguamia.bsky.social @cathaguamia.bsky.social · 6h

Mae angen cael y manylion yn gywir: nid ‘fis diwethaf’ bu farw Hefin David @cemlyn.bsky.social ond ym mis Awst.

www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/ert...

Caerffili: Cadarnle Llafur ers 1918, ond pethau'n 'wahanol' y tro hwn

Wrth i isetholiad Caerffili agosáu, mae teimlad bod yr ymgyrch yn wahanol iawn i etholiadau blaenorol yma.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 1d

🇵🇱 My @thetimes column: Poland’s economic miracle

12 out of 17 Polish regions are now richer than West Wales. It has faster internet, cheaper electricity and more high speed rail than Britain

When it comes to regional development it’s the UK, not Poland, that needs to catch up

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cathaguamia.bsky.social @cathaguamia.bsky.social · 8h

A re-run for that old ‘deserving poor v undeserving poor’ of 200 years ago.

cathaguamia.bsky.social @cathaguamia.bsky.social · 8h

Mar de nubes, Gales

Quintin Lake @quintinlake.bsky.social · 18h

A transient baseline from Aran Fawddwy.
At the rear right, the highest peak is Moel Hebog (‘Hill of the Hawk’). At the rear left, the most prominent peak is Moel Ysgyfarnogod (‘Bare Hill of the Hares’), in the Rhinogs. In the foreground, the inversion has filled Cwm Wnion. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#442Mountains

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 18h

Exit polls for Portugal’s nationwide local elections today show the top candidates neck-and-neck in Lisbon and Porto, with the far-right Chega party failing to conquer any major cities.

Portugal election exit polls show Lisbon, Porto too close to call

The far-right Chega party is expected to take over city halls in the country’s interior, but has failed to win outright in major cities.

www.politico.eu

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23h

BBC News explain that because of Brexit, Brits will be photographed and have their fingerprints taken when going into the EU, as the UK now is a third country

BBC News forget to explain that the UK helped create these rules when we were part of the EU because we wanted stronger border control

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cathaguamia.bsky.social @cathaguamia.bsky.social · 21h

Diolch yn fawr i’r ddau ohonynt!

Ail-godi cysgodfeydd ar fynyddoedd Eryri.
www.bbc.com/cymrufyw/ert...

Dau Gofi yn adeiladu llochesau i bobl gysgodi ar fynyddoedd Eryri

Diolch i ymdrechion dau ffrind o Gaernarfon, mae posib cysgodi o'r elfennau ar rai o fynyddoedd Eryri.

www.bbc.com

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cathaguamia.bsky.social @cathaguamia.bsky.social · 1d

Casglu cnau Ffrengig

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Quintin Lake @quintinlake.bsky.social · 1d

Gloaming tones engulf Tyrrau Mawr (‘Big Towers’), part of the Cadair Idris range, as a temperature inversion blankets the Mawddach Estuary. #442Mountains

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Spillers Records @spillersrecords.bsky.social · Mar 1

A closer look at what some of our Welsh playlist for today has included ❤️

We kicked off w/ @adwaithmusic.bsky.social which the whole shop was loving, then we've been through Super Furry Animals, Manics, Catatonia + lots more!

Fair to say its been a stellar selection if we do say so ourselves!

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Daniel G. Williams @danielgwydion.bsky.social · 1d

Farage yn gwrthod yr honiadau fod ei greadigaeth neo-ffasgaidd ddiweddaraf yn gartref i’r BNP ar @NewyddionS4C heno. Ddim yn siwr fod y bois o’i gwmpas wedi’u darbwyllo! #Caerffili

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 1d

Farage has given up the pretence that he barely knew Nathan Gill. He can't do otherwise, given the flood of evidence to the contrary.

Here is Gill saying he's just come from having lunch with Farage on the day that Farage resigned as UKIP leader 4 July 2016?

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