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Liz Silversmith

@lizsilversmith.bsky.social

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Aspiring Lesley Knope. Answers to cats 🐈‍⬛🐈 Environmentalist 🍄 🍃 🦋 🐝 🌳 Welsh learner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Politics churner 🗳️ ADHD everything everywhere all at once 💜 🏳️‍🌈 Personal account.

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Liz Silversmith @lizsilversmith.bsky.social · Aug 3

I wrote a thing!

Bylines Cymru @bylines.cymru · Aug 1

The circular economy starts on the high street

Railing against internet shopping and retail parks isn’t getting us anywhere; how can we revive our high streets in a way that might last?

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The circular economy starts on the high street

Railing against internet shopping and retail parks isn’t getting us anywhere; how can we revive our high streets in a way that might last?

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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 5d

First of all, 5mm isn't microscopic and you CAN see them.

Second of all, the fact that our Chancellor thinks she can't see these seems to mean she thinks they're not worthy of our consideration.

A hallmark of this government's terminal lack of imagination.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Liz Silversmith @lizsilversmith.bsky.social · 6d

Extemely true! Us owls are maligned by society as lazy when it's just our biological chronotype

an owl and a cat are sitting in a nest with a tik tok watermark

ALT: an owl and a cat are sitting in a nest with a tik tok watermark

media.tenor.com

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Liz Silversmith @lizsilversmith.bsky.social · 8d

Sometimes I would trade being a night owl for a lark. But then I remember all the sunset and moonscapes I enjoy and feel better about grumpy mornings

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Liz Silversmith @lizsilversmith.bsky.social · 8d

Spoiler - they did not do better

Liz Silversmith @lizsilversmith.bsky.social · Jul 24

Oh apparently this is just 'temporary', according to other reports... www.thenational.scot/news/2533812...

Thank goodness but honestly, even temporarily, do better... please...

'One that belongs to you': Jeremy Corbyn reveals temporary name of new party

JEREMY Corbyn has revealed the name of his new party formed alongside Zarah Sultana

www.thenational.scot

Liz Silversmith @lizsilversmith.bsky.social · 8d

Love Father Ted and find Black Books also stands up to time as just brilliant in my eyes, but I think much because of the cast too.

Too may writers make brilliant stuff but aren’t quite sound of mind and character in reality or as they age. I feel similarly about Joss Whedon and Morrissey.

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 10d

"I asked Chat GPT"

Well we asked an expert and then we asked other experts in that field to review the first expert's work.

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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 29d

Only now able to post about today's Country Diary I wrote, because I've been stomping around a bog in the Cambrian Mountains all day 😁

If we can overcome the barriers we're told to have in place, we have so much more in common.

Please read and share!

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Country diary: Searching for sanctuary, we find something else entirely | Eben Muse

Drakes Broughton, Worcestershire: The scourge of rural litter is enough to bring anyone together, even a farmer and us, trying to camp for the night in his field

www.theguardian.com

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Liz Silversmith @lizsilversmith.bsky.social · 12d

The rare art of compromise… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wales deserves wealth fund from wind - Mark Drakeford

The former first minister has called for the creation of a sovereign wealth fund out of profits from the Crown Estate.

www.bbc.co.uk

Liz Silversmith @lizsilversmith.bsky.social · Sep 9

Hold my calls kitty!

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · Aug 28

Reform UK: “Free speech! You can’t say anything these days!”

Also Reform UK: “You’re banned from reporting on our council because we don’t like what you said.”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK Nottinghamshire council leader bans local newspaper's reporters

The Nottingham Post describes the ban as

www.bbc.co.uk

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Liz Silversmith @lizsilversmith.bsky.social · Aug 20

And creators, @11bitstudios.bsky.social, are here too! So a direct ‘thank you for restoring my faith in gaming’ to you guys, I’ve enjoyed it so much.

Also try This War of Mine, another I can’t get enough of! More resource, less zapping floaty spheres (spoiler for alters) but again, story is king.

Liz Silversmith @lizsilversmith.bsky.social · Aug 20

Just a PSA for gamers, The Alters is one of the best I’ve played in a long time and I recommend it to everyone who likes story in their gaming.

But especially for people who like resource management, replay-ability with different methods, and sci fi lovers who hear ‘clones’ and go “oooooooh”

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Liz Silversmith @lizsilversmith.bsky.social · Aug 17

Yeah, I thought this was a bit of an odd one to write up… as though it was taking a long + slightly contrived way round to just criticise the reforms. Surely anyone sensible, even not knowing much about the bill, would assume there was a commencement clause at a reasonably close date 🤷🏻‍♀️

Liz Silversmith @lizsilversmith.bsky.social · Aug 3

I wrote a thing!

Bylines Cymru @bylines.cymru · Aug 1

The circular economy starts on the high street

Railing against internet shopping and retail parks isn’t getting us anywhere; how can we revive our high streets in a way that might last?

bylines.cymru

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Liz Silversmith @lizsilversmith.bsky.social · Jul 28

On a serious note, there are sometimes flaws in siting (sometimes proposed on a high value nature site, that is in terms of actual biodiversity, not a nice looking landscape) and there can be improvements. But most objecting to their existence on principle?! Bizarre. They are lovely.

Liz Silversmith @lizsilversmith.bsky.social · Jul 28

I think people against wind turbines should just be disconnected from the grid - surely that’s what they want? They are anti electricity? No probs, no more electricity for you!

Liz Silversmith @lizsilversmith.bsky.social · Jul 24

Oh apparently this is just 'temporary', according to other reports... www.thenational.scot/news/2533812...

Thank goodness but honestly, even temporarily, do better... please...

'One that belongs to you': Jeremy Corbyn reveals temporary name of new party

JEREMY Corbyn has revealed the name of his new party formed alongside Zarah Sultana

www.thenational.scot

Liz Silversmith @lizsilversmith.bsky.social · Jul 24

ITS NOT EVEN GOOGLE-ABLE

Liz Silversmith @lizsilversmith.bsky.social · Jul 24

Please please keep workshopping it guys... this is not a sensible name...

"I've just joined Your Party"
"Oh, MY party?"
"No, YOUR PARTY"
"So, what, my political party"
"No The Your Party"
"THE MY PARTY?!"

James Ball @jamesrball.com · Jul 24

Ironically, “Your Party” sounds exactly like the sort of name that comes out of endless focus groups with undecided centrist voters.

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Liz Silversmith @lizsilversmith.bsky.social · Jul 24

Not sure Welsh Conservatives' policy to 'force people back into offices 5 days a week' is the vote winner they think it is...

Welsh Gov has realised the huge work-life balance benefits WFH gives... I'm sure most employees would agree on need to downsize the office.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Use offices or lose them, Eluned Morgan tells Welsh government staff

Less than a fifth of Welsh government staff use the office, as the vast majority work from home.

www.bbc.co.uk

Liz Silversmith @lizsilversmith.bsky.social · Jun 20

Woof, VERY TONE DEAF from UK Ministers

I really like Jo Stevens, did some 2014/15 campaigning with her & know she means well, but she's got MUCH work to convince the rest to treat Wales better. If nothing else, it's been a Labour heartland for years, have some sense...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Be grateful for Welsh rail cash, UK Labour minister tells MP

Treasury minister tells MP they should be

www.bbc.co.uk

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · Jun 4

I’m never understand people who claim humans are the pinnacle of evolution when I have to sign in to Microsoft Team while he spends his morning like this.

An orange cat snoozing on a fuzzy gray mat

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Liz Silversmith @lizsilversmith.bsky.social · Jun 3

Extremely cute AND informative table additions from @transport-wales.bsky.social, well done 👏

Who doesn’t love a map

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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · May 24

National Park CEOs calling for wild camping to be expanded so that it can be properly managed makes total sense.

It's a wonder this hasn't happened sooner.

Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · May 24

Labour ‘should lead a wild camping revival’

Excellent piece in the Times today with CEO of Dartmoor National Park calling on the government to change the law so wild camping can take place in other national parks - a call echoed by the unstoppable @campaignerkate.bsky.social of OSS:

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Patrice @autisticpresence.bsky.social · May 13

If you’re walking around the world with an invisible disability (which is the lived experience for many late discovered and highly masked #autistic people),

sometimes the kindest thing you can do for yourself is to simply pause and acknowledge that

“This is really hard."

palm trees blowing in the breeze at a beach at sunset.

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