Dr Ieithydd (Carys)
@yrieithydd.bsky.social
Christian, Tertiary (TSSF), Verger, ASNC PhD, linguist,
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My friend's son was hit by a car whilst cycling yesterday outside Swindon. He is seriously injured. The car sped off and the police are looking for witnesses, particularly those with dashcams.
Please do share the article below if you're local to that area:
Please do share the article below if you're local to that area:
Cyclist suffers serious injuries in suspected hit and run on busy road
A cyclist suffered potentially life changing injuries in a suspected hit and run near Swindon.
www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
My friend's son was hit by a car whilst cycling yesterday outside Swindon. He is seriously injured. The car sped off and the police are looking for witnesses, particularly those with dashcams.
Please do share the article below if you're local to that area:
Please do share the article below if you're local to that area:
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Yeah. Sometimes, behind all the bellowing and bluster and fluency in social justice verbiage, you might observe a person’s behavior and realize their vision of justice is just “When is it my turn at the top? When is it my turn to do the violence?”
December 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Yeah. Sometimes, behind all the bellowing and bluster and fluency in social justice verbiage, you might observe a person’s behavior and realize their vision of justice is just “When is it my turn at the top? When is it my turn to do the violence?”
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JUSTICE FOR KAOS
I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
JUSTICE FOR KAOS
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Finally, those differences we DO have, those moments of misunderstanding are so easily talked through.
We as queer people need to talk to each other, across the generations. Let's stop allowing cis het incendiary media divide us and exploit our differences, and talk for us.
We as queer people need to talk to each other, across the generations. Let's stop allowing cis het incendiary media divide us and exploit our differences, and talk for us.
December 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Finally, those differences we DO have, those moments of misunderstanding are so easily talked through.
We as queer people need to talk to each other, across the generations. Let's stop allowing cis het incendiary media divide us and exploit our differences, and talk for us.
We as queer people need to talk to each other, across the generations. Let's stop allowing cis het incendiary media divide us and exploit our differences, and talk for us.
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Something I'd like to address. There's this idea that TQ+ folk are all 21 year-old art students... and all the 'normal' old school folk are LGB and entirely left behind and confused by 'pronouns'...
Every talk I give, know who the most outspoken trans allies are? Queer folk in their 70s!!
Every talk I give, know who the most outspoken trans allies are? Queer folk in their 70s!!
December 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Something I'd like to address. There's this idea that TQ+ folk are all 21 year-old art students... and all the 'normal' old school folk are LGB and entirely left behind and confused by 'pronouns'...
Every talk I give, know who the most outspoken trans allies are? Queer folk in their 70s!!
Every talk I give, know who the most outspoken trans allies are? Queer folk in their 70s!!
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Ask most people in the UK about the Channel Islands, There are aspects of the "home front" that are forgotten.
December 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Ask most people in the UK about the Channel Islands, There are aspects of the "home front" that are forgotten.
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The people who actually lived through it, like your mother, would surely understand. But in the folk memory of the UK the war still seems to many like a shining moment of pride, courage and success: the UK 'won' the war.
December 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The people who actually lived through it, like your mother, would surely understand. But in the folk memory of the UK the war still seems to many like a shining moment of pride, courage and success: the UK 'won' the war.
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A Dutch commentator perceptively observed: ‘The British are the only people who look back on WWII with pride and pleasure (‘our finest hour’). Everyone else was either occupier or occupied, and they look back with grief and with a steely determination never to let that happen in Europe again.’
December 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A Dutch commentator perceptively observed: ‘The British are the only people who look back on WWII with pride and pleasure (‘our finest hour’). Everyone else was either occupier or occupied, and they look back with grief and with a steely determination never to let that happen in Europe again.’
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Young adults dont need being forced off benefits into underpaid bar work or construction. They need secure well paid opportunities that will be long term and stable. And if you cant offer them that, give them secure livable benefits.
December 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Young adults dont need being forced off benefits into underpaid bar work or construction. They need secure well paid opportunities that will be long term and stable. And if you cant offer them that, give them secure livable benefits.
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The “Labour” Party finds itself arguing ordinary workers, carers and others are “takers”.
Hey everyone, here's the news, if you aren't a high earner, entrepreneur or a "skilled frontline worker" (whatever the fuck that means) the "Labour" Party says you aren't contributing, you're a taker!
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The “Labour” Party finds itself arguing ordinary workers, carers and others are “takers”.
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Would you like 30 seconds of Daphne enjoying a fuss?
December 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Would you like 30 seconds of Daphne enjoying a fuss?
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UK based short guys: where do you buy smart clothes that fit?
(I am 5 ft 3 and 10.5 stone, I need clothes that would fit a hobbit.)
(I am 5 ft 3 and 10.5 stone, I need clothes that would fit a hobbit.)
December 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
UK based short guys: where do you buy smart clothes that fit?
(I am 5 ft 3 and 10.5 stone, I need clothes that would fit a hobbit.)
(I am 5 ft 3 and 10.5 stone, I need clothes that would fit a hobbit.)
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Translation: Double/triple check numbers/symbols. Those are the only things a monolingual client understands in the source, and you look deeply incompetent if you get them wrong.
Business: Ask the client for more. More money, more time, more resources, whatever you can get.
Business: Ask the client for more. More money, more time, more resources, whatever you can get.
To my fellow translators: what do you wish someone had taught you about translation (whether the act or translation or having a freelance job) that you had to learn by yourself?
December 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Translation: Double/triple check numbers/symbols. Those are the only things a monolingual client understands in the source, and you look deeply incompetent if you get them wrong.
Business: Ask the client for more. More money, more time, more resources, whatever you can get.
Business: Ask the client for more. More money, more time, more resources, whatever you can get.
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By the way everyone, what right-wing politicians say about immigrants is literally also what they believe about you.
You having an ordinary job is a kind of favour your generous employer and the nation has done you, allowing you to reproduce your existence despite not being AN ENTREPRENEUR
You having an ordinary job is a kind of favour your generous employer and the nation has done you, allowing you to reproduce your existence despite not being AN ENTREPRENEUR
December 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
By the way everyone, what right-wing politicians say about immigrants is literally also what they believe about you.
You having an ordinary job is a kind of favour your generous employer and the nation has done you, allowing you to reproduce your existence despite not being AN ENTREPRENEUR
You having an ordinary job is a kind of favour your generous employer and the nation has done you, allowing you to reproduce your existence despite not being AN ENTREPRENEUR
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Y neges glir gan Lywodraeth y DG yw bod eich gwerth fel bod dynol yn seiliedig ar yr hyn rydych chi'n ei wneud fel gwaith a faint o arian sydd gennych chi. Mae'n egluro cymaint am eu penderfyniadau polisi a ble maen nhw'n canolbwyntio eu hegni.
December 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Y neges glir gan Lywodraeth y DG yw bod eich gwerth fel bod dynol yn seiliedig ar yr hyn rydych chi'n ei wneud fel gwaith a faint o arian sydd gennych chi. Mae'n egluro cymaint am eu penderfyniadau polisi a ble maen nhw'n canolbwyntio eu hegni.
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It's also: you don't know who is going to become what. A society more confident in itself would believe a little bit more in its ability to make anyone thrive and give back.
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It's also: you don't know who is going to become what. A society more confident in itself would believe a little bit more in its ability to make anyone thrive and give back.
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Good (also as the article says but the headline obscures, this is part of a wider and co-ordinated response which also involves the Baptists, the Methodists, and the URC)
December 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Good (also as the article says but the headline obscures, this is part of a wider and co-ordinated response which also involves the Baptists, the Methodists, and the URC)
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Still gonna advocate composting the rich. They’ve got so many fillers and dodgy supplements and random drugs in them, they’re not edible, even as feed. No sense poisoning our food supply when we do need composted nutrients for tree farms and fiber crops.
December 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Still gonna advocate composting the rich. They’ve got so many fillers and dodgy supplements and random drugs in them, they’re not edible, even as feed. No sense poisoning our food supply when we do need composted nutrients for tree farms and fiber crops.
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I have been thinking about this for years now.
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I have been thinking about this for years now.
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Sam Vimes is a copper to his core and has also put more thought into ACAB than just about anyone
you need to know all the ways you can be a bastard if you want to carefully, painstakingly try to set up rules to prevent you from doing them
you need to know all the ways you can be a bastard if you want to carefully, painstakingly try to set up rules to prevent you from doing them
December 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Sam Vimes is a copper to his core and has also put more thought into ACAB than just about anyone
you need to know all the ways you can be a bastard if you want to carefully, painstakingly try to set up rules to prevent you from doing them
you need to know all the ways you can be a bastard if you want to carefully, painstakingly try to set up rules to prevent you from doing them
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I'd note that except when held very carefully, it's a dangerous thought for a priest, too.
Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch
“He didn’t look around, and watch and learn, and then say, ‘This is how people are, how do we deal with it?’ No, he sat and thought: ‘This is how the people ought to be, how can we change them?’ And that was a good enough thought for a priest but not for a copper…”
“He didn’t look around, and watch and learn, and then say, ‘This is how people are, how do we deal with it?’ No, he sat and thought: ‘This is how the people ought to be, how can we change them?’ And that was a good enough thought for a priest but not for a copper…”
Discworld QOTD, from Eric
"Hell, it has been suggested, is other people.
This has always come as a bit of a surprise to many demons, who had always thought that hell was sticking sharp things into people and pushing them into lakes of blood and so on."
"Hell, it has been suggested, is other people.
This has always come as a bit of a surprise to many demons, who had always thought that hell was sticking sharp things into people and pushing them into lakes of blood and so on."
December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I'd note that except when held very carefully, it's a dangerous thought for a priest, too.
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And perhaps I will conclude this rant with the following: regarding the whole “snowflake” notion—personally, I am delighted to embrace the unique and fragile human being I am, as everyone is. 12/12 FIN
December 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
And perhaps I will conclude this rant with the following: regarding the whole “snowflake” notion—personally, I am delighted to embrace the unique and fragile human being I am, as everyone is. 12/12 FIN
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As someone with experience as both a service user and a provider, I find that the portrayal of overdiagnosis in mental health is misleading. While there are indeed misdiagnoses and cases that are missed, overdiagnoses often result in less tragic outcomes compared to underdiagnoses. 2/
December 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
As someone with experience as both a service user and a provider, I find that the portrayal of overdiagnosis in mental health is misleading. While there are indeed misdiagnoses and cases that are missed, overdiagnoses often result in less tragic outcomes compared to underdiagnoses. 2/