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Mike Parker @mikeparker.bsky.social · 10h

Terrific front page from @theweek.com

The cover of this week’s edition of the current affairs magazine, The Week, showing a fire-breathing dragon chasing Farage and Starmer.

Alwyn ap Huw @alwynaphuw.bsky.social · 21h

Every job lost because of AI, is the loss of a customer who had a wage that s/he could spend on your product. Robots don't have any need to spend money. Robots are Bad Capitalism!

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Wikimedia Australia @wmau.bsky.social · 22h

WMAU has signed the Open Heritage Statement, supporting fair, open access to cultural heritage, with respect for Indigenous knowledge.
Read our statement 👉https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimedia_Australia_signs_the_Open_Heritage_Statement

Wikimedia Australia signs the Open Heritage Statement

WMAU has signed the Open Heritage Statement, supporting fair, open access to cultural heritage, with respect for Indigenous knowledge.

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Alwyn ap Huw @alwynaphuw.bsky.social · 1d

The estimated seat nos are based on an uniform national swing. A lesson from Caerffili last week is that uns will be unlikely in the next general election. The anti Reform vote will coalesce behind the most likely center / left party to beat them at a constituency level.

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Calendr360 @calendr.360.cymru · 1d

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Line Stockford @linecaro.bsky.social · 1d

Support if you can. 🥀 🖊️

E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 1d

The translators for this project: Sifiso Mzobe and Zukiswa Wanner, aren't online here, but I hope people will give it a look and help us support them. Getting this second book funded would mean so much to so many people.

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African Translation Project, Goal 4: Fully Fund Two Translations, by 31 October, still needed: $3070, 69%, If this goal is met: Translations will be fully funded for Bengithi Lizokuna and Zvinobvinza,...

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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

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Alwyn ap Huw @alwynaphuw.bsky.social · 1d

Like booze, fags and porn gambling is addictive, so advertising it should be banned like booze, fags and porn adverts are.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit.

British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit.

Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit.

It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.

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Alwyn ap Huw @alwynaphuw.bsky.social · 1d

The Fabians were right wing humanists who objected to nonconformist influence on the Liberal Party, not radical communists. They were committed eugenicists though, so would be attracted by the current Labour Party's attacks on the old, the disabled and poor people with too many kids.

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Iris Cook @montrose.bsky.social · 2d

Deform

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Alwyn ap Huw @alwynaphuw.bsky.social · 2d

Rhedeg etholiadau datganoledig o ganol sefydliad San Steffan — gôl agored i ymgyrchoedd @plaidcymru.bsky.social a'r @snp.org

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Alwyn ap Huw @alwynaphuw.bsky.social · 3d

Welsh & Scottish Labour MPs only secured a Labour UK government between 1964 & 1966 and between 1974 & 1976. All other Labour governments have either been landslide of more than the total number of Welsh & Scots Lab MPS or minority governments dependent on MPs from other parties.

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Alwyn ap Huw @alwynaphuw.bsky.social · 3d

None of them alive now, but I called all of my parents cousins aunty or uncle, because they were close family of a similar age to my parents. It would have been too formal to call them Mrs / Miss or Mr and too rude for a child to use their first name alone.

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 3d

Wanting Scottish or Welsh independence is not reactionary nationalism. Reactionary nationalism is wrapping yourself in British flags, supporting Brexit & banging on about immigration.

You don't get a free pass from reactionary nationalism because you're British.

Keir Starmer speaking at the Labour confderence in front of a huge British flag.

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Alwyn ap Huw @alwynaphuw.bsky.social · 3d

Pam trydedd bont, bydd yn cael ei chwythu gan yr un gwyntoedd a'r ddwy bont arall? A oes reswm dros beidio ag agor cyswllt trwy dwnnel?

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Leighton Andrews @leightonandrews.bsky.social · 3d

This should be a worry for @WelshGovernment - if you don’t get literacy right, it’s hard to get anything else right in education, no matter how impressed you are by your new Curriculum

Rhys Williams @rhyswilliamsnews.bsky.social · 4d

Exclusive: A member of the Welsh Government’s expert literacy panel has resigned, warning the new £8.2m national programme to improve reading is “flawed” and “not fit for purpose”.

Full story below
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely, we should tell people who are thinking of voting Reform that it's the political equivalent of drunk driving, something only arseholes do.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP.

And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.

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Alwyn ap Huw @alwynaphuw.bsky.social · 3d

If anybody fancies having a go at reading the original text of Gwyllllis yn Nayd, it is on Wicidestun (Welsh version of Wikisource) cy.wikisource.org/wiki/Gwyllll...

Frontispiece of Gwyllis yn Nayad. The Lords Prayer written in Dr William Price's version of druidic Welsh:

GWYLLLLIS YN NAYD.

Yn Tayd wut Ti yn y Nevvoydd! Sancttudd vyddddo dy Ennw Di dyet dy
Dyrrunas! Byddddet dy Wyllllis Di arr ydd Ddauarr meggis ym ma I yn
y Nevvoydd! Dyrro inni eddddu yn Barra Bynnyddddiol A madddda yn
Dyled Dion vel ym madddduwnni yu Dyledwurr! Na arrwinni u Brovvidigayth yuththurr ynggwarred Ni rayg yd Drwgg! Cannis dy yuddddot Ti uw yd Dyrrnnas yg gallllu a yryggogonniant yn oys oyssoydd A ym Menn! A ym Menn! A ym Menn!"

Arryggraphphwyd I gann DR. WILLIAM PRICE o yb Bont y Priyth Ymmorryggannwg. A ych choyvrrestrwyd I yn Neuadd yll Lleennoggion yn yll Llynndann Dudd Albann Arrththann 1871.

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Alwyn ap Huw @alwynaphuw.bsky.social · 5d

If they're throwing beans on you-you're toast.

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Jonathan T Clark @jonathantclark.bsky.social · 5d

Do you want to help Plaid Cymru build a fairer, more ambitious Wales?

Here are 3 ways you can get involved today

www.partyof.wales/volunteer

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone can become disabled.

Anyone can lose their job.

Anyone can become homeless.

Anyone can go hungry.

These are not moral failings. They can happen in an instant.

Most people are far closer to living in poverty than they realize.

We must fight for one another & for the most vulnerable.

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Plaid Cymru Sir Fynwy / Monmouthshire @plaidsirfynwy.bsky.social · 6d

Os yw buddugoliaeth hanesyddol Plaid Cymru yng Nghaerffili wedi’ch ysbrydoli i ethol Plaid Cymru yma yn Sir Fynwy Torfaen yn 2026 – cofrestrwch yma: sft.partyof.wales/act

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Plaid Cymru Sir Fynwy / Monmouthshire @plaidsirfynwy.bsky.social · 6d

If Plaid Cymru’s historic win in Caerffili has inspired you to elect Plaid Cymru here in Sir Fynwy Torfaen in 2026 - sign up here: sft.partyof.wales/act

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

How did we beat Nigel Farage and Reform in Caerphilly? We stood by our convictions | Rhun ap Iorwerth

Welsh voters have rejected Labour and Starmerite managerialism. By offering hope and not division we showed the populist right can be beaten, says Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid Cymru

www.theguardian.com

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