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Matthew Yeomans
@mateoy.bsky.social
Author of Seascape - Notes from a changing coast published by Calon Books in 2025. Founder of walking site, Tramping, and Executive Nature - biz writing & comms coaching. Also wrote Return to My Trees, Trust Inc. and lots more.
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Just started watching BBC Wales' Boom Town - the story of how Merthyr Made the World. It should be great....and then they outsource their own research and credibility to an AI LLM and reproduce it (gushingly) as if it's fact without checking its output. Words fail...
February 1, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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“With student loans the UK government has become a loanshark. Trapping poorly paid graduates in decades of “debt” that they can realistically never repay. If it were a commercial deal the government would be trying to regulate the company out of business.”
Lewis Goodall
January 29, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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A wonderful display in Waterstones Cardiff's window!

'Return to My Trees' by @mateoy.bsky.social is @waterstones.bsky.social Wales Book of the Month for January 📚

Make sure to pop into your local Waterstones to browse.
January 27, 2026 at 5:57 PM
If this was your grandfather....you'd put him in a home.
January 21, 2026 at 1:58 PM
While we're on the subject of national security.....

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn
Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Rather than bothering to read every news headline in 2026, I've come up with a workaround.

HED: There is no precedent....

Next story.
January 15, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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Now available in paperback!

Order your copy of 'Return to My Trees: Notes from the Welsh Woodlands' by @mateoy.bsky.social through the link below!

📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/return-...
January 15, 2026 at 9:07 AM
I'm hoping there is some great market research behind Wales Online's decision to instigate a paywall for premium content. But seriously, have they read their own content?
January 14, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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A new years resolution that you will actually want to keep? Reading more!

Start off with @waterstones.bsky.social's January Wales Book of the Month, 'Return to My Trees: Notes from the Welsh Woodlands' by @mateoy.bsky.social!
January 8, 2026 at 5:16 PM
This is unverified but abhorrent if it is real.
It looks like a cold-blooding killing by an ICE agent to a person who wasn’t doing anything to them.
This is the video.
January 7, 2026 at 6:42 PM
A nice start to 2026 - @waterstones.bsky.social featuring the new paperback edition of Return to My Trees.
January 5, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Bet that Joseph Nye never thought Monroe would come back to trump his soft power....
January 3, 2026 at 7:02 PM
How to build an extremist army in plain sight. Wonder what it's real purpose might be?
New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows.

A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j
ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans for hires
An internal ICE document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to rapidly hire thousands of deportation officers.
wapo.st
December 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Reposted by Matthew Yeomans
I am desperately worried for 20 yr old Qesser Zuhrah who is dangerously ill at HMP Bronzefield. It remains very unclear how soon she will be transferred to hospital.

Qesser is on day 46 of hunger strike. It should not take this long to get the help she needs.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers ‘may die without Lammy’s intervention’
Justice secretary criticised for refusing to meet lawyers who say health of their jailed clients is ‘rapidly deteriorating’
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Nailed on semi-finalists then.....😂
December 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Nice to see @mjtoma.bsky.social bringing some calm and gravitas to the amped up frenzy of Morning Joe.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmht...
Michael Tomasky: Trump is poised to take the nation down deeply dark, deeply unpopular path
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Just one month to go! With only a few weeks until the big day, why not wrap up your present shopping with some books from our gift guide?

📚 www.uwp.co.uk/genre/Calon/
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Who could have imagined that Andrew was so willing to make a sacrifice for Labour?
October 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Interested in how society can invest in nature through its commitment to trees and woodlands? I'll be chatting about afforestation, rewilding, partnerships with farmers and much more at the @othervoiceslive.bsky.social in Aberteifi/Cardigan this weekend.

www.othervoices.ie/events/other...
Other Voices Cardigan 2025 | Other Voices Events
Other Voices Cardigan 2025, Oct 30, 2025. Other Voices Cardigan 2025
www.othervoices.ie
October 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Having travelled to and spent time with local people from Sarayaku some 25 years ago, the principle of a living intelligent forest really resonates.
José Gualinga talked with ICN about his people's Living Forest Declaration, an explanation of how Sarayaku people have always understood their Amazonian territory: as a living, intelligent forest—not a collection of resources for humans to exploit

insideclimatenews.org/news/1710202...
How a Declaration of Ancestral Wisdom Is Changing Law, Science and Our Understanding of the World - Inside Climate News
José Gualinga discusses his Kichwa People of Sarayaku’s visionary Living Forest Declaration and the importance of collaborating across cultures and areas of expertise.
insideclimatenews.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Forget AI. Some bright spark has invented pen and paper.
This minimalist, paper-based to-do manager can help you focus on completing your important tasks while staying offline. nyti.ms/4h8ijiC
October 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Stuck for something to do this evening? Why not pop down to Rhiwbina library in #Cardiff where I'll be chatting about Seascape and the many ways that the sea has shaped the lives of the people of #Wales...and continues to do so.

www.ticketsource.co.uk/friends-of-r...
www.ticketsource.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM