Oedipus Mars
@oedipusmars.bsky.social
Cymro’n syllu ar y byd mawr drwy lens pêl-droed, llenyddiaeth a cherddoriaeth / Welshman imbibing the world through literature, music and football
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🤡 Brexiteers now reduced to defending their brexit shitshow with
“Don’t blame us - blame the people in power.”
But they chose the policy, set the red lines, poisoned the debate, and made the promises.
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“Don’t blame us - blame the people in power.”
But they chose the policy, set the red lines, poisoned the debate, and made the promises.
🧵
December 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🤡 Brexiteers now reduced to defending their brexit shitshow with
“Don’t blame us - blame the people in power.”
But they chose the policy, set the red lines, poisoned the debate, and made the promises.
🧵
“Don’t blame us - blame the people in power.”
But they chose the policy, set the red lines, poisoned the debate, and made the promises.
🧵
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This data is old (2017) but it makes a point I’m not tiring to repeat: as privileged people we are terrible at estimating how good we have it. Americans and Australians think that a whopping 43% of the world are richer than they are. The median US income puts you in the top three percent globally.
December 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This data is old (2017) but it makes a point I’m not tiring to repeat: as privileged people we are terrible at estimating how good we have it. Americans and Australians think that a whopping 43% of the world are richer than they are. The median US income puts you in the top three percent globally.
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Every year I’m reposting this classic map to wish you a Merry Christmas 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Every year I’m reposting this classic map to wish you a Merry Christmas 🎄
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We condemn the scandalous US visa ban on former EU Commisioner Breton and digital activists. Protecting democracy isn’t censorship. ✋🏼
Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech.
Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼
Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech.
Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼
December 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We condemn the scandalous US visa ban on former EU Commisioner Breton and digital activists. Protecting democracy isn’t censorship. ✋🏼
Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech.
Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼
Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech.
Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼
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Giveaway!
I’m giving one lucky person the chance to pick one shelf of books from our Bertvent bookcase.
Follow and repost by midday on Saturday 27th and I’ll pick someone at random! Which shelf will you choose?
(UK only)
I’m giving one lucky person the chance to pick one shelf of books from our Bertvent bookcase.
Follow and repost by midday on Saturday 27th and I’ll pick someone at random! Which shelf will you choose?
(UK only)
December 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Giveaway!
I’m giving one lucky person the chance to pick one shelf of books from our Bertvent bookcase.
Follow and repost by midday on Saturday 27th and I’ll pick someone at random! Which shelf will you choose?
(UK only)
I’m giving one lucky person the chance to pick one shelf of books from our Bertvent bookcase.
Follow and repost by midday on Saturday 27th and I’ll pick someone at random! Which shelf will you choose?
(UK only)
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Best. Habs. Win. Of. The. Season.
December 24, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Best. Habs. Win. Of. The. Season.
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
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If you have a moral compass,if you stand up for social justice,if you value humanity,if you don’t agree with killing kids,I don’t see how you can remain part of Starmer’s Labour this Christmas.
Just appalling. A sickening waste of police resources & time. History will not be kind 😢💔🇵🇸 #GazaGenocide
Just appalling. A sickening waste of police resources & time. History will not be kind 😢💔🇵🇸 #GazaGenocide
Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
December 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
If you have a moral compass,if you stand up for social justice,if you value humanity,if you don’t agree with killing kids,I don’t see how you can remain part of Starmer’s Labour this Christmas.
Just appalling. A sickening waste of police resources & time. History will not be kind 😢💔🇵🇸 #GazaGenocide
Just appalling. A sickening waste of police resources & time. History will not be kind 😢💔🇵🇸 #GazaGenocide
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Shout out to Scrivener, a text editing and writing program that basically only gives writers useful features and thus is admirably AI free.
December 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Shout out to Scrivener, a text editing and writing program that basically only gives writers useful features and thus is admirably AI free.
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
During the week that Westminster announces more Barnett betrayal on the transport funding front, and the siphoning of funding from our elected Senedd through town centre improvement cash… nation.cymru/feature/orew...
Orewin Bridge: The battle that cost Wales its nationhood
This week marks the 743rd anniversary of the Battle or Orewin Bridge, the confrontation on 11 December 1282 and changed the course of Welsh history.
nation.cymru
December 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
During the week that Westminster announces more Barnett betrayal on the transport funding front, and the siphoning of funding from our elected Senedd through town centre improvement cash… nation.cymru/feature/orew...
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The best thing Starmer could do now would be to start negotiations for re-entry to the customs union and promise a referendum on returning to the EU. That should spike Farage’s guns✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-1aHF
December 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The best thing Starmer could do now would be to start negotiations for re-entry to the customs union and promise a referendum on returning to the EU. That should spike Farage’s guns✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-1aHF
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A reminder that when Gary Lineker was under fire a couple of years back for criticising the Conservatives while a BBC presenter, the channel said, by contrast, it was fine for Lord Sugar to repeatedly endorse the Tories because he was "free to say, as a business person, what he wants to say."
December 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A reminder that when Gary Lineker was under fire a couple of years back for criticising the Conservatives while a BBC presenter, the channel said, by contrast, it was fine for Lord Sugar to repeatedly endorse the Tories because he was "free to say, as a business person, what he wants to say."
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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
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Diolch to all the lovely people we've been seeing this festive season!
Dont forget, in addition to our normal hours we're also open Sundays & Mondays in the build-up
Sun & Mon 11am - 4pm
Tue - Sat 10am - 5:30pm
See you soon 🎶❤️🎄
Dont forget, in addition to our normal hours we're also open Sundays & Mondays in the build-up
Sun & Mon 11am - 4pm
Tue - Sat 10am - 5:30pm
See you soon 🎶❤️🎄
December 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Diolch to all the lovely people we've been seeing this festive season!
Dont forget, in addition to our normal hours we're also open Sundays & Mondays in the build-up
Sun & Mon 11am - 4pm
Tue - Sat 10am - 5:30pm
See you soon 🎶❤️🎄
Dont forget, in addition to our normal hours we're also open Sundays & Mondays in the build-up
Sun & Mon 11am - 4pm
Tue - Sat 10am - 5:30pm
See you soon 🎶❤️🎄
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How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
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I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
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The thing I still can't forgive Corbyn for is the generational harm he caused by enabling Brexit. When Starmer is gone, hopefully soon, I will feel the same way about the profound harm he has caused by making it palatable for the Far Right to ditch human rights norms. It will be his shameful legacy.
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The thing I still can't forgive Corbyn for is the generational harm he caused by enabling Brexit. When Starmer is gone, hopefully soon, I will feel the same way about the profound harm he has caused by making it palatable for the Far Right to ditch human rights norms. It will be his shameful legacy.
Fixed it for you, bloody nationalist that I am….
December 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Fixed it for you, bloody nationalist that I am….
A ble mae @yes.cymru yn hyn i gyd? Beth am drefnu ambell i brotest chwim tu allan i swyddfeydd Llywodraeth Prydain yng Nghaerdydd er mwyn corddi’r dyfroedd, yn hytrach na set-pieces bach neis bob chwe mis?
A row has broken out over a multi-billion-pound rail link between Liverpool and Hull which has been designated as an ‘England and Wales’ project by the UK Government✍️Emily Price
Anger as major Liverpool - Hull rail link designated as 'England and Wales' project
Emily Price A row has broken out over a multi-billion-pound rail link between Liverpool and Hull which has been designated as an “England and Wales” project by the UK Government. Northern Powerhouse ...
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December 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
A ble mae @yes.cymru yn hyn i gyd? Beth am drefnu ambell i brotest chwim tu allan i swyddfeydd Llywodraeth Prydain yng Nghaerdydd er mwyn corddi’r dyfroedd, yn hytrach na set-pieces bach neis bob chwe mis?
@pollytoynbee.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @theguardian.com @willhaycardiff.bsky.social and anyone else - this is calculated systematic impoverishment of Wales. It is beyond unfair. It is neglect. It is racist. UKLab come across here as English nationalists on the scale of Farage.
A row has broken out over a multi-billion-pound rail link between Liverpool and Hull which has been designated as an ‘England and Wales’ project by the UK Government✍️Emily Price
Anger as major Liverpool - Hull rail link designated as 'England and Wales' project
Emily Price A row has broken out over a multi-billion-pound rail link between Liverpool and Hull which has been designated as an “England and Wales” project by the UK Government. Northern Powerhouse ...
wp.me
December 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
@pollytoynbee.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @theguardian.com @willhaycardiff.bsky.social and anyone else - this is calculated systematic impoverishment of Wales. It is beyond unfair. It is neglect. It is racist. UKLab come across here as English nationalists on the scale of Farage.
Here we go again! When will people like @jostevenslabour.bsky.social and @abarroscurtis.bsky.social stand up for constituents? Scotland and NI get funding why not us? This is the systematic impoverishment of Wales. Over and over and over.
A row has broken out over a multi-billion-pound rail link between Liverpool and Hull which has been designated as an ‘England and Wales’ project by the UK Government✍️Emily Price
Anger as major Liverpool - Hull rail link designated as 'England and Wales' project
Emily Price A row has broken out over a multi-billion-pound rail link between Liverpool and Hull which has been designated as an “England and Wales” project by the UK Government. Northern Powerhouse ...
wp.me
December 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Here we go again! When will people like @jostevenslabour.bsky.social and @abarroscurtis.bsky.social stand up for constituents? Scotland and NI get funding why not us? This is the systematic impoverishment of Wales. Over and over and over.
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Big news:
1. Leaked Welsh Labour report shows what went wrong in Caerphilly.
2. Sec of State for Wales seemingly doesn't attend Welsh Gov summit because she wasn't given speaking roll.
3. I questioned UK Gov minister who told Wales to "be grateful" for terrible rail deal.
tinyurl.com/yc5wbvy2
1. Leaked Welsh Labour report shows what went wrong in Caerphilly.
2. Sec of State for Wales seemingly doesn't attend Welsh Gov summit because she wasn't given speaking roll.
3. I questioned UK Gov minister who told Wales to "be grateful" for terrible rail deal.
tinyurl.com/yc5wbvy2
Leaked Welsh Labour report lays bare divides
Plus we quizzed the UK minister who told Wales to "be grateful"
willhaywardwales.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Big news:
1. Leaked Welsh Labour report shows what went wrong in Caerphilly.
2. Sec of State for Wales seemingly doesn't attend Welsh Gov summit because she wasn't given speaking roll.
3. I questioned UK Gov minister who told Wales to "be grateful" for terrible rail deal.
tinyurl.com/yc5wbvy2
1. Leaked Welsh Labour report shows what went wrong in Caerphilly.
2. Sec of State for Wales seemingly doesn't attend Welsh Gov summit because she wasn't given speaking roll.
3. I questioned UK Gov minister who told Wales to "be grateful" for terrible rail deal.
tinyurl.com/yc5wbvy2