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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 4h

There's some faith in Welsh transport infrastructure that is heartening, if misplaced.

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 5h

THAT'S NOT A COMET, THEY'RE COMING BACK FOR ME, SO LONG SUCKERS, A HAHAHAHAHA

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5h

3/I Atlas: a rare comet from beyond our solar system is being closely tracked – what can it teach us?

Only the third interstellar comet ever to be seen contains material from other star systems that can be observed close up

www.theguardian.com

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 5h

A minor producer of romantic fantasy is now a Promantacy Produceling.

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 19h

a sign that says `` woke up and chose violence '' with a green switch .

Alt: "Woke up and chose violence" meme with a check box being ticked next to "Violence".

media.tenor.com

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 5d

Get in losers, we're doing the English and American Civil Wars all rolled into one

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 20h

(I'm kidding, jacks, I love you all really.)

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 20h

Yes it's annoying that I'm agreeing with a Tory, more so that I'm agreeing with someone from Swansea.

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 20h

It's incredibly annoying that modern life has worked out in such a way as I keep agreeing with Michael Heseltine on stuff.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 23h

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 20h

Absolutely no sign of any rock star who used to be a taxi driver except for Paul Stanley from Kiss and I'm pretty sure I haven't mixed him up with a working class northerner. This is bizarre. I've hallucinated a fact completely from nowhere.

Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 2d

Eric Burdon, also not a taxi driver. This is going to send me mad, surely I haven't just made this up.

Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 2d

I have thought for years that Joe Cocker was a cab driver in Sheffield before he got famous but apparently not, so apologies to anyone I've ever misled with that "fun fact" and also does anyone know of any grit-voiced English rhythm and blues singers of the 60s I've possibly mixed him up with.

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 20h

TRACEY, NO

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 21h

Indiana Jones but the film is a month long and it's about him taking a chapel in Carmarthen apart brick by brick and transporting it to a field in Cardiff.

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Nicki @cardiffbites.bsky.social · 23h

IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM

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

Two men arrested following burglary at St Fagans museum

The men are in custody in Northamptonshire as police continue to search for the stolen jewellery.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 22h

The collective noun for Welsh people is a squabble.

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Copper-BOO Shots @copperbotshots.bsky.social · 1d

Nice to see Amazon figuring out the Bond gun disaster.

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 23h

Team pov

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Bethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social · 1d

RETVRN

Internet Archive @archive.org · 1d

🐹 Before viral videos on TikTok or YouTube, there was Hampsterdance.

Full of dancing hamster GIFs & a sped-up tune, it became one of the internet’s first viral hits.

You can still dance to it on the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19991222...

#Wayback1T

🧵

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 1d

You should see how they actually age in Port Talbot.

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Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 1d

Clearly he unmistakably originates from @cardiffbites.bsky.social's home town, it's written all over him.

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 1d

Right. Apologies for the delay. Really didn’t expect so much interest in a grumpy little Welsh owl so thank you for all the kind words - I’ve loved reading some of your own rescue stories.

Lots of you had rehab-related questions so thought I’d tackle the big ones here in one looong thread… 🧵

Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 3d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵