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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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aledwg.bsky.social @aledwg.bsky.social · 4d

I see the BBC radio 4 on point with pronouncing Rhun ap Iorwerth “Rune” 🙄

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aledwg.bsky.social @aledwg.bsky.social · 6d

Ha ie!

aledwg.bsky.social @aledwg.bsky.social · 8d

"Lorriau pren". Y cyfan wedi neud mas o bren! Teiars... Y cyfan!?

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 8d

So it turns out the main council expenditure *wasn't* in fact the Diversity and Inclusion training budget?

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 9d

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters on.ft.com/4pTvJ62

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters

Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

on.ft.com

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 17d

There seems to be some *confusion*
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them

“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”

“But, but he was in UKIP”

“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”

So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18d

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18d

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges

Gill admits to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in the European parliament and articles

www.theguardian.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26d

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...

theonion.com

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Dr Adam Evans @a-b-evans.bsky.social · Aug 31

All very impressive but have they tried trying to travel on the train from South Wales to Aberystwyth?

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · Aug 31

The three teenagers walking from UK to Ukraine

They intend to deliver basic aid to orphanages in three Ukrainian cities when they arrive.

www.bbc.com

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aledwg.bsky.social @aledwg.bsky.social · Aug 23

Perhaps his Catholic faith might give him guidance one how to help society's least fortunate? #socialjustice

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 21

JD Vance on homelessness: "I don't know why we accepted that it was reasonable to have crazy people yelling at our kids. You should not have to cross the street in downtown Atlanta to avoid a crazy person yelling at your family. Those are your streets."

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · Aug 23

Just realised (ok, I’m slow) what the playbook is here, I know we bang on about polarisation and culture war but it’s absolutely the same model as America - divisive act, arguable court case, valorising of defendant. Next step is she’s guest speaker at Tory conference.

Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · Aug 22

Can't wait for the ITV drama about Lucy Connolly, a innocent woman guilty of nothing more than committing the crime of inciting racial hatred.

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Ceritheviking @ceritheviking.bsky.social · Aug 18

I’m having big “William de braose Christmas at Abergavenny” vibes about trumps Whitehouse get together today.
#history

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aledwg.bsky.social @aledwg.bsky.social · Aug 14

Ray Bloody Purchase

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · Aug 13

6% of Britons say they have a nemesis

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

aledwg.bsky.social @aledwg.bsky.social · Aug 13

Ah! Another brilliant England and Wales project!

aledwg.bsky.social @aledwg.bsky.social · Aug 2

www.timeout.com/london/news/...

a cartoon character with the words what a time to be alive below him

ALT: a cartoon character with the words what a time to be alive below him

media.tenor.com

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Felix O'Kelly @callidusdominus.bsky.social · Jul 25

Despite the horrific atrocities of the 20th century we just didn't learn. Never again wasn't a statement of fact, it was a mission. And we are failing. Fascism is on the rise again, a genocide is being openly perpetrated, and we are taking the side of the people behind it!

a man holding a picture of the capitol building with the words have we learned nothing from the past behind him

ALT: a man holding a picture of the capitol building with the words have we learned nothing from the past behind him

media.tenor.com

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aledwg.bsky.social @aledwg.bsky.social · Jul 25

No Captain Tom Moore?

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Hwch Ddu Gwta fka Mochyn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · Jul 23

Okay. I'm always wary of this kind of article because they always, perhaps inevitably, buy into a Gwynedd dominated narrative of national struggle to unify the Welsh kingdoms into a single pan-Wales state.
And I have a few problems with that...(long thread incoming lmao)

NationCymru @nation.cymru · Jul 22

Edward I didn’t conquer Wales because he was clever. He conquered it because we tore each other apart ✍️Antony David Davies wp.me/p8Mk4U-138N

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aledwg.bsky.social @aledwg.bsky.social · Jul 24

You’re Party

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aledwg.bsky.social @aledwg.bsky.social · Jul 24

First meeting between Corbyn and Sultana

aledwg.bsky.social @aledwg.bsky.social · Jul 24

Your Party
You’re Party
You are Party

aledwg.bsky.social @aledwg.bsky.social · Jul 24

I Party
You Party
We Party
He / She Parties
They Party

aledwg.bsky.social @aledwg.bsky.social · Jul 24

My Party
Our Party
Your Party
He/She Party
They Party

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aledwg.bsky.social @aledwg.bsky.social · Jul 24

Your Party
You’re Party
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Dr Adam Evans @a-b-evans.bsky.social · Jul 23

With considerable (unprecedented by Welsh standards?) media attention on next year’s #Senedd election, in particular the potential Reform result, this is an interesting piece on the lessons for Reform from UKIP’s… experience after it won 7 AMs at the 2016 Welsh Assembly election
#devolution

What Can Welsh Populism's Past Tell Us Of Its Future?

As Reform UK look set to make substantial ground in the 2026 Senedd election, it is important to look back at the last time the populist-right made Welsh in-roads

lewisnorton.substack.com

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aledwg.bsky.social @aledwg.bsky.social · Jul 17

In other words 51% support voting for 16 and 17 year old.

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