Eirlys (Simple Carrot)
@simplecarrot.bsky.social
Cymraes.
So angry, all the time - oh look a cat!
So angry, all the time - oh look a cat!
Fuck off!
Disgraced former First Minister Vaughan Gething is being lined up for a peerage by Keir Starmer, according to a report in The Times ✍️Martin Shipton
Outrage as Vaughan Gething said to be in line for peerage
Martin Shipton Disgraced former First Minister Vaughan Gething is being lined up for a peerage by Keir Starmer, according to a report in The Times. He is one of a number of Labour loyalists expected t...
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December 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Fuck off!
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I am not going to deny that AI transcription and translation is improving fast, but as a speaker and researcher in a minority language I am not lookng forward to a bunch of anglophones clicking a button and telling me about my specialism with no ability to check the originals
December 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I am not going to deny that AI transcription and translation is improving fast, but as a speaker and researcher in a minority language I am not lookng forward to a bunch of anglophones clicking a button and telling me about my specialism with no ability to check the originals
Now, obviously this woman's behaviour is indefensible, but it is interesting how different the response is when the victims are men. If this had happened the other way around ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Twerking' police officer sacked for groping colleagues at party
A misconduct panel says PC Pamela Pritchard breached the force's standards of behaviour.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Now, obviously this woman's behaviour is indefensible, but it is interesting how different the response is when the victims are men. If this had happened the other way around ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Hot Mum was last shown on the BBC in 1984. Farage was last shown on the BBC just now.
Farage tried to excuse his past racist remarks by referencing the BBC's past output.
But the BBC now broadcasts some old shows with prominent warnings, and others it won't rebroadcast at all. So it is VERY clear that they understand that attitudes back then are unacceptable to modern sensibilities.
But the BBC now broadcasts some old shows with prominent warnings, and others it won't rebroadcast at all. So it is VERY clear that they understand that attitudes back then are unacceptable to modern sensibilities.
December 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Hot Mum was last shown on the BBC in 1984. Farage was last shown on the BBC just now.
I know there's more to it, but this does annoy me.
Years and years campaigns encouraging people to ask for help when they are suffering with mental health problems.
More people ask for help when they are suffering with mental health problems.
OMG why are so many people asking for help when they are suffering with mental health problems.
More people ask for help when they are suffering with mental health problems.
OMG why are so many people asking for help when they are suffering with mental health problems.
December 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I know there's more to it, but this does annoy me.
Years and years campaigns encouraging people to ask for help when they are suffering with mental health problems.
More people ask for help when they are suffering with mental health problems.
OMG why are so many people asking for help when they are suffering with mental health problems.
More people ask for help when they are suffering with mental health problems.
OMG why are so many people asking for help when they are suffering with mental health problems.
December 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Years and years campaigns encouraging people to ask for help when they are suffering with mental health problems.
More people ask for help when they are suffering with mental health problems.
OMG why are so many people asking for help when they are suffering with mental health problems.
More people ask for help when they are suffering with mental health problems.
OMG why are so many people asking for help when they are suffering with mental health problems.
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AN OLD MAN RANTS: increasingly coming across waiters chummily asking ‘what have you been up to this morning?’ while taking a lunch order or ‘any plans for the rest of the day?’ Obv they mean it kindly. But JUST STOP IT. You don’t know if I’ve been to a funeral, or am going for a prostate exam 1/2
December 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
AN OLD MAN RANTS: increasingly coming across waiters chummily asking ‘what have you been up to this morning?’ while taking a lunch order or ‘any plans for the rest of the day?’ Obv they mean it kindly. But JUST STOP IT. You don’t know if I’ve been to a funeral, or am going for a prostate exam 1/2
Why the hell is that Yusuf bloke going to be on Question Time again?
December 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Why the hell is that Yusuf bloke going to be on Question Time again?
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🔴There's been a lot of coverage about David Lammy’s cuts to jury trials but relatively little - nothing! - on his plans to scrap the automatic right to appeal so I took a look for @bylinetimes.bsky.social.
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
David Lammy's Plans to Scrap Automatic Right to Appeal Risk 'Increasing Miscarriages of Justice'
Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing "vital safeguards" and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice
bylinetimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
🔴There's been a lot of coverage about David Lammy’s cuts to jury trials but relatively little - nothing! - on his plans to scrap the automatic right to appeal so I took a look for @bylinetimes.bsky.social.
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
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"Listen, I know it sounds like I'm regurgitating the least likely to shower parts of Reddit but I'm actually just following the science, which clearly tells us that poor men never have sex.
That's why you never see poor children. Just doesn't happen. Science."
That's why you never see poor children. Just doesn't happen. Science."
Yes where else could men possibly receive this scorching insight
December 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"Listen, I know it sounds like I'm regurgitating the least likely to shower parts of Reddit but I'm actually just following the science, which clearly tells us that poor men never have sex.
That's why you never see poor children. Just doesn't happen. Science."
That's why you never see poor children. Just doesn't happen. Science."
That's an odd way of spelling Australia.
December 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
That's an odd way of spelling Australia.
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Ein Hysgrifennydd Gwladol annwyl.
"Mae Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru Jo Stevens wedi amddiffyn peidio â defnyddio’r Gymraeg mewn taflenni sy’n cael eu hanfon at etholwyr yn Nwyrain Caerdydd, gan ddweud bod “bron pawb yn siarad Saesneg”."
golwg.360.cymru/newyddion/gw...
"Mae Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru Jo Stevens wedi amddiffyn peidio â defnyddio’r Gymraeg mewn taflenni sy’n cael eu hanfon at etholwyr yn Nwyrain Caerdydd, gan ddweud bod “bron pawb yn siarad Saesneg”."
golwg.360.cymru/newyddion/gw...
Cyfathrebu’n ddwyieithog: “Mae bron pawb yn siarad Saesneg”
Mae Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru Jo Stevens wedi amddiffyn peidio â defnyddio’r Gymraeg mewn taflenni sy’n cael eu hanfon at etholwyr yn Nwyrain Caerdydd, gan ddweud bod “bron pawb yn siarad Saesneg”. A...
golwg.360.cymru
December 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Ein Hysgrifennydd Gwladol annwyl.
"Mae Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru Jo Stevens wedi amddiffyn peidio â defnyddio’r Gymraeg mewn taflenni sy’n cael eu hanfon at etholwyr yn Nwyrain Caerdydd, gan ddweud bod “bron pawb yn siarad Saesneg”."
golwg.360.cymru/newyddion/gw...
"Mae Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru Jo Stevens wedi amddiffyn peidio â defnyddio’r Gymraeg mewn taflenni sy’n cael eu hanfon at etholwyr yn Nwyrain Caerdydd, gan ddweud bod “bron pawb yn siarad Saesneg”."
golwg.360.cymru/newyddion/gw...
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Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
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Sabrina Carpenter's post yesterday calling the White House video "evil and disgusting" is in record-setting ratio territory: 1.3 million likes (20x more than WH's), 177,000 reposts, 83 million views
December 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Sabrina Carpenter's post yesterday calling the White House video "evil and disgusting" is in record-setting ratio territory: 1.3 million likes (20x more than WH's), 177,000 reposts, 83 million views
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You will be shocked to discover after reading these stories that while Rachel Reeves claimed to have been the "British girls under-14 [chess] champion" she was in reality merely the "Under 14s British Women’s Chess Association (BWCA) Girls" Champion.
This is getting utterly ridiculous now
This is getting utterly ridiculous now
December 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
You will be shocked to discover after reading these stories that while Rachel Reeves claimed to have been the "British girls under-14 [chess] champion" she was in reality merely the "Under 14s British Women’s Chess Association (BWCA) Girls" Champion.
This is getting utterly ridiculous now
This is getting utterly ridiculous now
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BREAKING NEWS
Over a third of Welsh Labour Senedd Members have written to Keir Starmer to stop undermining devolution.
They say:
"If this was being done by a Tory Government, we would be calling for a judicial review. This must never happen again."
1/2
Over a third of Welsh Labour Senedd Members have written to Keir Starmer to stop undermining devolution.
They say:
"If this was being done by a Tory Government, we would be calling for a judicial review. This must never happen again."
1/2
December 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
BREAKING NEWS
Over a third of Welsh Labour Senedd Members have written to Keir Starmer to stop undermining devolution.
They say:
"If this was being done by a Tory Government, we would be calling for a judicial review. This must never happen again."
1/2
Over a third of Welsh Labour Senedd Members have written to Keir Starmer to stop undermining devolution.
They say:
"If this was being done by a Tory Government, we would be calling for a judicial review. This must never happen again."
1/2
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The guy's literally got one leg, but that's apparently one too many for the DWP to consider him disabled www.mirror.co.uk/money/dwp-fi...
DWP demands £36k PIP back from one-legged dad filmed playing cricket
Shaun Rigby lost a leg when he was a child
www.mirror.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The guy's literally got one leg, but that's apparently one too many for the DWP to consider him disabled www.mirror.co.uk/money/dwp-fi...
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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ODYSSEUS: wife I am home after 20 years
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
December 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
ODYSSEUS: wife I am home after 20 years
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
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Good thread on some of the reasons for the state of near collapse of the court system - none of which will be improved by restricting jury trials. ⬇️
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
December 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Good thread on some of the reasons for the state of near collapse of the court system - none of which will be improved by restricting jury trials. ⬇️
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In Welsh it's mis Rhagfyr, which means 'the month of foreshortening'. Does what it says on the tin, I guess.
Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
In Welsh it's mis Rhagfyr, which means 'the month of foreshortening'. Does what it says on the tin, I guess.
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Christmas at the BBC
![Title panel:
CHRISTMAS… AT THE BBC.
The Traitors Christmas Special:
Who in the BBC Boardroom is trying to bring down the gaff from within?
[Image: The Traitors scene with Claudia Winkleman looking like “ooh-er” while the BBC board sit at a table looking suspiciously at each other]
Apologising To The People Who Want To Destroy Us At Christmas:
A festive extravaganza of self-flagellation before our enemies
[Image: A cozy fireside scene with Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch standing, while at their feet lots of BBC employees are kneeling before them and begging for forgiveness].
Donald's Big Distraction:
Heartwarming Julia Donaldson animation in which a dragon sues the BBC to draw his friends' attention onto something else
[Image: Julia Donaldson’s ‘Zog’ with a Donald Trump wig, holding up a lawyer’s letter to show his dragon friends while trying to block their view of a pile of box files and computer drives some with ‘Epstein’ written on them].
The King's Speech:
We let Nigel Farage tell you the BBC is left wing as if that's some kind of fact
[Image: Nigel Farage as the King delivering his Christmas speech to camera].
A Ghost Story for Christmas:
A venerable British institution is haunted by Boris Johnson's appointees
[Image: A BBC studio with a window, outside in the dark snowy night a spectral apparition in the form of Robbie Gibb taps at the window and wails “I want to destroooy you”]
Christmas Labour Inertia-Time:
Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy present four hours of total silence from under their desks
[Image: Show them both under their desks holding up glasses of sherry]
Rightward Drift Christmas Special:
A bonanza of trust-corrosion with confected immigration panic and Reform coverage
[Image: A computer and a smartphone in a cute snowy scene, both displaying the BBC News website with multiple headlines and LIVE feeds and and BREAKING NEWS stories headlined: “IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS!”]
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November 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Christmas at the BBC
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Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
"IT IS ... UNFAIR.
‘That’s life, master.’
BUT I’M NOT.
‘I meant this is how it’s supposed to go, master,’ said Albert.
NO. YOU MEAN THIS IS HOW IT GOES."
"IT IS ... UNFAIR.
‘That’s life, master.’
BUT I’M NOT.
‘I meant this is how it’s supposed to go, master,’ said Albert.
NO. YOU MEAN THIS IS HOW IT GOES."
Discworld QOTD, from The Truth
December 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
"IT IS ... UNFAIR.
‘That’s life, master.’
BUT I’M NOT.
‘I meant this is how it’s supposed to go, master,’ said Albert.
NO. YOU MEAN THIS IS HOW IT GOES."
"IT IS ... UNFAIR.
‘That’s life, master.’
BUT I’M NOT.
‘I meant this is how it’s supposed to go, master,’ said Albert.
NO. YOU MEAN THIS IS HOW IT GOES."
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The Labour Party is haemorrhaging votes among the under 40s.
Where do the under 40s get their news?
For most of them it's not from traditional media.
Yet the news paper barons are still treated as gods of the political scene.
Where do the under 40s get their news?
For most of them it's not from traditional media.
Yet the news paper barons are still treated as gods of the political scene.
December 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The Labour Party is haemorrhaging votes among the under 40s.
Where do the under 40s get their news?
For most of them it's not from traditional media.
Yet the news paper barons are still treated as gods of the political scene.
Where do the under 40s get their news?
For most of them it's not from traditional media.
Yet the news paper barons are still treated as gods of the political scene.