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Producer, Welsh Politics commentary, Welsh Politics Pod/Hiraeth/Yr Hen Iaith 🏆 Pods. Nerth gwlad ei gwybodaeth. Cymro, Pontypriddian, Proxy Canadian & Æresdansker 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 (cyfrif personol/personal account)

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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · Nov 17

So for all the folks interested, or based, in #Wales here is an easy (non-comprehensive!!!) list of 150 of the best follows.

#Wales #Cymru #Cymreig #Cymraeg #Welsh
go.bsky.app/Ji44uiV

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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 1h

Haha. No way!

Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 2h

Haha. Wasn’t there a Dragon computer made in Wales around the same time?

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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 4h

#ForzaDyfed

Binary Dinosaurs @binarydinosaurs.co.uk · 4h

I’m calling that a win. Your next challenge is to try and work out where this machine came from originally 😆

Overall picture of an Acorn A3000, still marked as ‘British Broadcasting Corporation’. It’s also stamped as belonging to Adran Addysg Dyfed Education Department.

It needs a clean, but that can wait. I have a RetroFest to prepare for.

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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 4h

Wow, great to see it back in working shape and even better to see that it came from Dyfed, a county itself that no longer exists and is just waiting to be brought back to life!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 6h

Madeleine Grant yn y Spectator

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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 7h

Quite!

Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 8h

This sort of stuff really makes my blood boil. Doing this to a lurcher i utterly rotten behaviour. Thankfully this has a happy ending:

Malnourished dog found tied to tree on footpath www.bbc.com/news/article...

Newport: Malnourished dog found tied to tree on footpath

Rudi, a lurcher, was found by a member of the public near a golf course in Newport.

www.bbc.com

Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 8h

The Vikings took lots of land/loot in Wales (Anglesey, Swansea just to name a couple of telltale names)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_c...

Roman conquest of Anglesey - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 8h

Just heard a commentator describe the plight of the Conservative Party, facing an existential crisis, as like the Celtic druids being cornered on Ynys Môn as the Roman (Reform) army chases them down before a grisly end.

Never heard the metaphor before (le alone from London). Is it common? #YnysMôn

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 17h

the heart wants what it wants

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 20h

Censoring the press isn't enough for the Trump administration. Now they're even trying to censor court records that discuss the press's reporting.

This is unheard of.

Opposition Filed Against DOJ Effort to Strike Context from Complaint About Qatar’s ‘Gifted’ Jet to Trump Administration - American Oversight

As the DOJ refuses the prompt release of a memo clearing the Qatari jet ‘gift,’ Freedom of the Press Foundation, represented by American Oversight, argues against erasing this context and the agency’s...

americanoversight.org

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's Truth Social post to AG Pam Bondi last month, urging the prosecution of his political enemies — including both James Comey and Letitia James — was meant to be a private message.

Comey's lawyers will likely use that post to argue the case against him should be tossed out.

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · 1d

10 October 1963

Detectives are investigating a case of a man who had a two-inch nail driven into the top of his head. The man had a headache and the nail was driven into his head as a cure at a Black Magic party.

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Sky News @news.sky.com · 1d

Thomas Tuchel criticises England fans after Wales win at Wembley

Thomas Tuchel has criticised the home fans at Wembley for England's 3-0 win over Wales last night, saying the stadium "was silent" except for the away end.

news.sky.com

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 1d

Movie idea: The Incredible Journey but in this one, the animals hijack a plane to get home.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 1d

‘We spent £2,000 flying our cat to America - she wasn't grateful’

Chris Morris, reading tomorrow’s newspaper headlines.

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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 2d

This is on display in Caerphilly as part of the by-election.

Worth bearing in mind that the council proposing the closure of the libraries in controlled by Labour...

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 2d

🇸🇪🇺🇦 Sweden has transferred 400 tons of fishing nets to Ukraine to create protection against kamikaze drones.

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 2d

so simple and so perfect

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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 2d

This will date me… the original version of Alone in the Dark

Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 2d

Jyst i egluro, mae’r teitl yn cyfeirio at y cynnwys, nid y cyflwynwyr 😉

Am @ambobdim.bsky.social · 2d

Pennod 72: Y Ffŵl a’r Pregethwr: Yr Anterliwt (rhan 4)

Gwyliwch a gwrandewch ar bennod newydd Yr Hen Iaith @yrheniaith.bsky.social gyda @richardwynjones.bsky.social a @jerryhunter.bsky.social ar Am nawr:

Listen and watch now:

www.ambobdim.cymru/profile-cont...

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2d

Jason Blum says Hollywood should 'embrace AI' and viewers 'don't care if what they’re looking at is AI"

"it’s here to stay. It’s very important to use it ethically and legally, and for studios and guilds to protect the copyright of the artists"

(via Variety)

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Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 2d

The Trappings of Opposition.

Kemi Badenoch likes the freedom of opposition (tax cuts! easy answers!) — but is less keen on doing the heavy analytical lifting.

✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/kemi-baden...

My newsletter, out now.

For many years, the conventional wisdom in Westminster dictated that veteran Labour MP Harriet Harman was a “humourless feminist”. There was more than a whiff of misogyny about this. Not least when Harman — no doubt with the help of her adviser and sometime stand-up comedian Ayesha (now Baroness) Hazarika — was more than capable of landing a decent punchline.

My favourite came during the 2010 Queen’s Speech when, as acting deputy leader, Harman took aim squarely at the Liberal Democrats. The party, thrust into government for the first time in decades and led by future Mark Zuckerberg bag-carrier Nick Clegg, had requested that it hold on to “Short money”. That is, funding to support opposition parties in carrying out their parliamentary duties. Harman remarked:

Some say that the Liberal Democrats like to be all things to all people. But even they can’t be both in government and in opposition. They can’t fudge this one. They are in government — they can’t claim Short money. We’re all familiar with the notion of clinging on to the trappings of power. But the Liberal Democrats are surely the first party to attempt to cling onto the trappings of opposition.

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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 2d

Efallai mae’n jyst cymryd tipyn o amser i gael ei ‘indecsio’?