Mochyn 🏴🏳️🌈
@mochyn.bsky.social
Welsh medievalist. Dafydd ap Gruffudd apologist. Julian of Norwich obsessive. Boar of Babylon. Castle botherer. Map drawer. Annibyniaeth. Socialist. Gamer. Horror fan. Queer. He/him.
Gwnewch y pethau bychain.
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Gwnewch y pethau bychain.
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Me writing an essay: queering the middle ages is not about uncovering sexual identities, but about examining the ways in which things don't conform to heteronormative study and thereby unsettle the established orthodoxy through which we view the middle ages
Also me: hahaha he's so gay
Also me: hahaha he's so gay
1 Like = 1 Thing I Like About Movies
I'm dying of boredom back in my hometown, entertain a man please I beg
I'm dying of boredom back in my hometown, entertain a man please I beg
1 Like = 1 Thing I Like About Movies
As if anyone cares but yeah...
As if anyone cares but yeah...
January 27, 2026 at 10:14 PM
1 Like = 1 Thing I Like About Movies
I'm dying of boredom back in my hometown, entertain a man please I beg
I'm dying of boredom back in my hometown, entertain a man please I beg
Need english people to stop including Wales in their north/south discourse. We've got our own gog/hwntw discourse and it's a thousand times more interesting than yours
January 27, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Need english people to stop including Wales in their north/south discourse. We've got our own gog/hwntw discourse and it's a thousand times more interesting than yours
My dream job would be to be sat in a candlelit workshop, pouring over nautical charts, sketching out incredibly detailed maps, but just to take the piss I'd start adding fictional islands and cities and sitting back in glee as chaos takes the world
And here is the map from 1657 in full glory, including the highlighted barbaric part with the lions, the ghost island "Frisland", and the Dutch fighting the Spanish on the sea. Lots to see and zoom, enjoy #skystorians
January 27, 2026 at 6:01 PM
My dream job would be to be sat in a candlelit workshop, pouring over nautical charts, sketching out incredibly detailed maps, but just to take the piss I'd start adding fictional islands and cities and sitting back in glee as chaos takes the world
🎶 On Tuesdays I've got nothing to do, so I go for an early pint up the local workies, it gives me a sense of enormous wellbeing 🎶
January 27, 2026 at 3:01 PM
🎶 On Tuesdays I've got nothing to do, so I go for an early pint up the local workies, it gives me a sense of enormous wellbeing 🎶
Watching come dine with me and once again convinced that all terrestrial TV featuring Welsh people is a psyop designed to convince people that we are by nature stupid and backwards
January 27, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Watching come dine with me and once again convinced that all terrestrial TV featuring Welsh people is a psyop designed to convince people that we are by nature stupid and backwards
Sometimes I think I'd like to live through a horror film but then I remember that time I was walking up Briton Ferry mountain at night and came across a breeze block shed and someone inside whispered "hey come here" and I was curious so I did exactly what the sinister voice said so maybe I wouldn't
January 26, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Sometimes I think I'd like to live through a horror film but then I remember that time I was walking up Briton Ferry mountain at night and came across a breeze block shed and someone inside whispered "hey come here" and I was curious so I did exactly what the sinister voice said so maybe I wouldn't
Inventing a bath so hot that when you drop me in I let out an involuntary scream as steam escapes my carapace
January 26, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Inventing a bath so hot that when you drop me in I let out an involuntary scream as steam escapes my carapace
Wait what? Penrith isn't in Wales? Wtf. Why? If you're going to be called something like that grow up and be on our side of the border
January 26, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Wait what? Penrith isn't in Wales? Wtf. Why? If you're going to be called something like that grow up and be on our side of the border
It's insane we live in a country where a politician can just hop from one party to another and keep their job despite invalidating the mandate they were elected on
January 26, 2026 at 12:38 PM
It's insane we live in a country where a politician can just hop from one party to another and keep their job despite invalidating the mandate they were elected on
Can't believe woke is giving He-Man pronouns. Who next!? She-Hulk?
January 22, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Can't believe woke is giving He-Man pronouns. Who next!? She-Hulk?
In the space of two hours in the local workies I've argued that Gazans are in fact not shipping their troops into the UK to prosecute a jiahd, that trans people do in fact exist, and that AI generation is in fact not artistic creation.
January 22, 2026 at 7:40 PM
In the space of two hours in the local workies I've argued that Gazans are in fact not shipping their troops into the UK to prosecute a jiahd, that trans people do in fact exist, and that AI generation is in fact not artistic creation.
I've taken to drinking in my local workies, frowning into my pint and dispensing sage but unasked for wisdom to anyone who dares make the mistake of sitting near me
January 22, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I've taken to drinking in my local workies, frowning into my pint and dispensing sage but unasked for wisdom to anyone who dares make the mistake of sitting near me
I'm not doing well mentally and I gave that away in a chat with one of my mates and suddenly every gc lit up with "Town Hall Meeting. RE: Mochyn's Upset" lmao
January 21, 2026 at 11:13 PM
I'm not doing well mentally and I gave that away in a chat with one of my mates and suddenly every gc lit up with "Town Hall Meeting. RE: Mochyn's Upset" lmao
Reposted by Mochyn 🏴🏳️🌈
the list of topics to be discussed at the Council of Nicaea in 325CE
January 21, 2026 at 7:42 PM
the list of topics to be discussed at the Council of Nicaea in 325CE
They don't make baths hot enough these days. I want to be scalded, broiled, burned and boiled, seared, scorched, blistered and cooked, I want to get out having felt like I've endured an ordeal and now my sins are cleansed by heavenly fire
January 21, 2026 at 11:00 PM
They don't make baths hot enough these days. I want to be scalded, broiled, burned and boiled, seared, scorched, blistered and cooked, I want to get out having felt like I've endured an ordeal and now my sins are cleansed by heavenly fire
Reposted by Mochyn 🏴🏳️🌈
I know a few of these
January 21, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I know a few of these
Share a bird pic you took
January 20, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Share a bird pic you took
Ten year relationship is over babyyyy. Bring on my slut/going manic era
January 20, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Ten year relationship is over babyyyy. Bring on my slut/going manic era
Okay I need help with this one. It was a ps1 game about a psychic teenager on the run from the shady organisation that created him or something and you needed to collect vials of the drug to replenish your psychic powers
Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers
January 15, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Okay I need help with this one. It was a ps1 game about a psychic teenager on the run from the shady organisation that created him or something and you needed to collect vials of the drug to replenish your psychic powers
The discovery of the Roman villa under the grounds of Margam just solidifies my conviction that Neath Port Talbot is the most historically important place in the world
January 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM
The discovery of the Roman villa under the grounds of Margam just solidifies my conviction that Neath Port Talbot is the most historically important place in the world
Trying not to let these polls fill me with a perverse glee at the thought of labour being wiped out in Wales but I. Am. Failing
January 14, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Trying not to let these polls fill me with a perverse glee at the thought of labour being wiped out in Wales but I. Am. Failing
Well, well, well, look who turns up at my door after ten years
I've got a job for you
Don't even think it. I've got a family now
It'll be rewarding
No. Go somewhere else
It'll be dangerous
God fucking dammit I'm in
*me turning up at my mates door with my plan to steal the Bayeux tapestry*
I've got a job for you
Don't even think it. I've got a family now
It'll be rewarding
No. Go somewhere else
It'll be dangerous
God fucking dammit I'm in
*me turning up at my mates door with my plan to steal the Bayeux tapestry*
January 13, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Well, well, well, look who turns up at my door after ten years
I've got a job for you
Don't even think it. I've got a family now
It'll be rewarding
No. Go somewhere else
It'll be dangerous
God fucking dammit I'm in
*me turning up at my mates door with my plan to steal the Bayeux tapestry*
I've got a job for you
Don't even think it. I've got a family now
It'll be rewarding
No. Go somewhere else
It'll be dangerous
God fucking dammit I'm in
*me turning up at my mates door with my plan to steal the Bayeux tapestry*
This is how I and my mates define our Welshness. Our Welshness is radical, it's just and it is in direct opposition with those who would turn us against our fellow citizens. Welshness is inclusive. We have a chance to hammer that home, to stand for others in solidarity (and for indy 💪)
In Wales, one of the experts I interviewed told me that there are plenty of Welsh people who define Welshness as *not right-wing*. Remember that this part of the U.K. was dominated by the Liberals throughout the 19th century, and then by Labour during the 20th.
January 13, 2026 at 8:30 PM
This is how I and my mates define our Welshness. Our Welshness is radical, it's just and it is in direct opposition with those who would turn us against our fellow citizens. Welshness is inclusive. We have a chance to hammer that home, to stand for others in solidarity (and for indy 💪)
Me when AI deceives me: a mistake that could be made by anyone, it's so realistic, how were my mortal eyes to know??
Me when AI deceives you: you fool! You absolute oaf! Do your eyes not perceive the truth? Are they closed to falsity? You pea-brained ogre, such a lie would never trick one such as I
Me when AI deceives you: you fool! You absolute oaf! Do your eyes not perceive the truth? Are they closed to falsity? You pea-brained ogre, such a lie would never trick one such as I
January 13, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Me when AI deceives me: a mistake that could be made by anyone, it's so realistic, how were my mortal eyes to know??
Me when AI deceives you: you fool! You absolute oaf! Do your eyes not perceive the truth? Are they closed to falsity? You pea-brained ogre, such a lie would never trick one such as I
Me when AI deceives you: you fool! You absolute oaf! Do your eyes not perceive the truth? Are they closed to falsity? You pea-brained ogre, such a lie would never trick one such as I
Why does Plaid, the largest party, not simply eat reform?
BREAKING: Explosive new poll for ITV Cymru Wales puts Plaid Cymru surging ahead of Reform UK in May’s Welsh elections.
Plaid 37%
Reform 23%
Greens 13%
Labour 10%
Tories 10%
Lib Dems 5%
Plaid could form majority with Greens on this basis, with Labour out of govt for first time since devolution.
Plaid 37%
Reform 23%
Greens 13%
Labour 10%
Tories 10%
Lib Dems 5%
Plaid could form majority with Greens on this basis, with Labour out of govt for first time since devolution.
January 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Why does Plaid, the largest party, not simply eat reform?