Elon Musk is engaging directly with racist content from the leader of “Britain First”, so I’m now pretty much done with Twitter.
Thanks for all the fun.
Find me on Threads instead:
And always remember:
Dim pannas, dim parti.
Elon Musk has fired Twitter's entire accessibility division. Those people whose job it is to think about how blind, deaf and visually impaired people use and experience the product across platforms have been fired.
The man is an embarrassment.
Our elderly neighbour passed away recently. His daughter popped round a few moments ago clutching a large plastic sack. In the sack were all the Christmas presents he’d bought for *our* daughter for the next thirteen years. 😢
• Dec 31: China alerts WHO to new virus
• Jan 24: Boris Johnson misses COBR meeting
• Jan 29: Johnson misses COBR meeting
• Feb 05: Johnson misses COBR meeting
• Feb 12: Johnson misses COBR meeting
• Feb 14: Johnson goes on holiday
• Feb 18: Johnson misses COBR meeting
"We didn't understand [the virus] in the way that we would have liked in the first few weeks and months"
PM Boris Johnson reflects on the government's handling of coronavirus and says "there are things we need to learn"
Listen to what Michael Sheen says. *Really* listen. Take it in.
He’s right.
The oppression our forefathers experienced at the hands of the UK State lives on today.
We are not *given* a voice.
We have to *take* it.
This isn’t their country. It’s ours.
@MKPinNYC
@MaraWilson
@Scaramucci
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
— Ke$ha
I couldn’t possibly love this
@NewyddionS4C
video more.
These little Ukrainian evacuees now attend a Welsh-medium primary school, and their Cymraeg is utterly delightful
😭❤️🏴
This is Zaragoza, north-east Spain yesterday, where 28mm of rain fell in 10 minutes.
This is why
@JustStop_Oil
exists.
The Climate Crisis was created by humanity, and only humanity can prevent its worst excesses from making our only home uninhabitable.
I miscounted. It’s fourteen gifts.
He always told us he’d live till he was 100-years-old, so these gifts would have taken him up to our little girl’s 16th Christmas.
While I disagree profoundly with the institution of monarchy, the current head of state seems to be a deeply cruel and vindictive father and grandfather.
Do you suppose any of them ever stop and think “You know what? We look utterly ludicrous. Perhaps we should jack this pantomime nonsense in, and dedicate our family’s stolen wealth to helping the destitute”?
There’s some press interest in this story, so let me tell you a bit about the man:
Ken was a former salvage diver, seaman, carpenter, baker...
The first time I met him, he was bouncing a 20ft ladder across the face of his house.
He was on top.
He was 83 at the time.
Our dog loved him. I mean, genuine visceral love. It was mainly due to the chocolate digestive biscuits he gave her on first meeting. She’d scream whenever she saw him. Really scream. Like a banshee. He’d call her “my darling” and “sweetheart”.
This is her first meeting.
Brecon Beacons hasn’t “changed” its name. It’s always been Bannau Brycheiniog, it’s just that the English is being dropped.
You already say “Pen y Fan”, “Corn Du” and “Cribyn”, so what’s the problem?
My wife and I think it might make a nice Christmas tradition to give our daughter “a present from Ken” for the next 14 years.
Issue is, we really have to open them now. Nobody wants to give a fifteen-year-old Duplo!
Stop defending the monarchy.
There is no earthly reason why a sovereign state requires a hereditary head of state, his entire extended family and legion of liggers and hangers-on – lavishly funded by the taxpayer.
The Republic of Ireland has a President.
Let’s do that instead.
A teacher in the city of Newport News, Virginia has been critically injured after a child took a gun into school and shot her.
This reaction, from an Englishwoman living there, is visceral. And justified.
The USA has a *major* problem:
Guns.
"The Pied Piper of Britishness marched us all down to the river, and left us there"
@michaelsheen
in crystalline, excoriating form.
We need more oratory like this.
We need reminding of the perniciousness of Westminster’s absolute dominion.
This article needs correcting,
@Newsweek
.
William didn't "inherit" the 'prince of Wales' title from his father. His father conferred it upon him without consulting the people of Wales – to whom that title belongs.
It's called national subjugation.
*Policeman stops English family entirely unaware of devolution*
“So even though Boris says you can go where you want...”
“Yeah, that’s England.”
“Don’t we control Wales as well?”
🤬
This is a profoundly silly, charming, funny, lovely thing.
You’ll need sound on, and you’ll probably share it with everyone you know because it’s just that good.
The audience at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, in multi-part harmony, singing from memory.
The actual audience.
No words on screen, no-one on stage.
Just waiting, and singing.
❤️🏴
“And I’m taking homes away from local families in the process of creating my holiday cottage empire, thereby driving up prices, becoming a net contributor to the destruction of Pembrokeshire’s historic communities, and further impacting the Welsh language”
#HawliFywAdra
I once oversaw Editorial Strategy within the social media division of BBC Content.
The Mash Report was a mainstay of our social channels - nothing compared. It garnered massive, often resoundingly positive engagement. It reached people the BBC rarely reaches.
It was stardust.
This is my MP, Alun Cairns (he’s the one standing on his shiny tippytoes).
He voted to allow raw, untreated, pathogen-laced sewage to be pumped directly into our rivers, waterways and seas.
He played the accordion. We’d hear the strains of oompah drift through the kitchen wall late at night.
He said he’d live to 100.
He planned to do this again...
💫 On this day, four years ago, something magical happened to our little family.
It was a rainy night, and while readying our daughter for bed, there was a knock at the door…
WARNING:
Before you read on, you may need a box of tissues handy. It gets a BIT emotional!
#BeMoreKen
Our elderly neighbour passed away recently. His daughter popped round a few moments ago clutching a large plastic sack. In the sack were all the Christmas presents he’d bought for *our* daughter for the next thirteen years. 😢
On Wales’ Ceredigion coastline lies a lost prehistoric forest, only visible when the tide is at its very lowest and strong winds have shifted the sands.
These remnants of ancient trees may have spawned the tale of Cantre’r Gwaelod - a legendary Welsh city lost to the waves.
🏴 Welsh letter pronunciation: a thread 👉
C
• always the K sound as in cat or Kill
• never S as in city
💬 Conwy
—
Ch
• always as the Ch in the Scottish loch
• never as in lock or church
💬 Rhos-goch
—
Dd
• always sounds like the Th in breathe or Then
💬 Rhuddlan
“England’s decision not to impose restrictions means that the UK Treasury likely won’t be releasing any extra funding. That in turn, will mean Wales won’t be able to afford to impose further restrictions, either.”
It’s not a UK Govt, it’s an English Govt.
I recently spoke with
@theJeremyVine
about
@EryriNPA
’s decision to drop “Snowdon” and “Snowdonia” from use, and elevate Yr Wyddfa and Eryri in both languages.
Now,
@GrindleToons
has released an animated film of that
@BBCRadio2
call.
It’s incredible! 😍🏴
56 years ago, a generation of little children was wiped from the face of the earth in a wholly avoidable tragedy.
Aberfan was real. It happened. And those responsible have dodged accountability for far too long.
Wales can’t, and won’t, forget.
The word "Wales" reveals the origins of Britain, and a gnawing history of Anglo-Saxon oppression…
It was used by invading tribes to mean 'foreigners' or 'outsiders,' despite Brythonic peoples (latterly Welsh, Cornish, Cumbrian, Breton) being native to these isles.
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