Bryn Jones
bryn00.bsky.social
Bryn Jones
@bryn00.bsky.social
An asylum seeker from X and refugee escaping Musk. With posts about the physical sciences, classical music, current affairs, the history of astronomy, pethau Cymraeg a Chymreig, and the great political fraud that is Brexit.

Location: Ynys Môn, Wales.
Storm Goretti is forecast to hit southern Britain on Thursday and Friday.

#StormGoretti
Multiple warnings have been issued for the coming days, here is a summery of the situation as it currently stands 👇

Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning

Stay #WeatherAware⚠️
January 6, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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If you follow this argument through to its logical conclusion there should be a UK Government channel on pornhub.
Cabinet Office Minister Baroness Anderson tells the Lords the Government will keep on using X.

"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."

"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
January 5, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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Ten people convicted for online harassment of France's first lady Brigitte Macron reut.rs/4qANXZw
Ten people convicted for online harassment of France's first lady Brigitte Macron
A Paris court on Monday found ten people guilty for the cyber harassment of France's first lady, Brigitte Macron, in the latest legal action sparked by false claims that she is a transgender woman who was born a man, French media reported.
reut.rs
January 5, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.
January 4, 2026 at 1:10 PM
From Will Hayward: "I speak to people from Reform regularly. The only thing they hate more than immigrants is each other."
January 4, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Today is the 120th anniversary of the birth of the American astronomer William Wilson Morgan (1906-1994) in Bethesda, Tennessee. He carried out research across many fields in astrophysics. He defined the Morgan-Keenan-Kellman system for classifying the spectra of stars, and ...

#HistoryOfAstronomy
January 3, 2026 at 7:44 PM
The Earth is now, January 3d 17h 15m UTC, at perihelion, its closest to the Sun in its annual orbit.

#Perihelion
January 3, 2026 at 5:14 PM
At a press conference at the White House, Donald Trump has said that the United States will govern Venezuela until a transfer of power can be arranged. He has not indicated what the expected timescale for this will be, or whether it will be days, weeks, months or years.
January 3, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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try to make sense of it
So fmr Honduran President Hernandez voluntarily surrendered, and was duly extradited, tried and convicted for drug trafficking, and Trump pardoned him 6w ago.

And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.
January 3, 2026 at 12:46 PM
I now look forward to the United States abducting Vladimir Putin to put him on trial for war crimes. I'm going to have to wait a very long time.
January 3, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Of course, it is possible for Donald Trump and Nicolas Maduro both to be villains in all this.
January 3, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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Trump says US has captured Venezuela President Maduro reut.rs/3N5kCbm
Trump says US has captured Venezuela President Maduro
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said that the United States had captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, and flown them out of the country.
reut.rs
January 3, 2026 at 9:40 AM
And Donald Trump still expects to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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Loud noises heard in Venezuela capital, southern area without electricity reut.rs/3MVr1WJ
Loud noises heard in Venezuela capital, southern area without electricity
Loud noises were being heard in Venezuelan capital Caracas in the early hours of Saturday morning, according to Reuters witnesses, and the southern area of the city, near a major military base, was without electricity.
reut.rs
January 3, 2026 at 6:35 AM
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2025 has broken historical climate records, with provisional Met Office figures showing it has been both the warmest and sunniest year on record for the UK.

Find out more: www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
January 2, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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‘They misjudged Caerphilly’: how the Reform juggernaut backfired in Welsh byelection
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘They misjudged Caerphilly’: how the Reform juggernaut backfired in Welsh byelection
It was assumed that Reform would sweep all before it – but locals rejected the party’s campaign of ‘lies and hate’
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda i chi gyd.

A happy New Year to you all.
January 1, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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I’ve been wondering for the last year when we’d get to the library destruction phase and here we are. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Where do Europeans stand on the Ukraine war at the end of 2025?

% in each country who say they want Ukraine to win, and care that it does so

🇬🇧 70% (+3 from Mar)
🇪🇸 66% (+9)
🇵🇱 65% (new)
🇩🇪 54% (+2)
🇫🇷 40% (-10)
🇮🇹 33% (-1)

(Only 1-7% say same for Russia)

yougov.co.uk/internationa...
December 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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The man taking over the Large Hadron Collider – only to switch it off
The man taking over the Large Hadron Collider – only to switch it off
Next head of Cern backs massive replacement for world’s largest machine to investigate mysteries of the universe
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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I think the key to answering this question is understanding Starmer/Reeves unpopularity among natural allies. A majority of Laboir voters disapprove of him, as do large majorities of LD/Green voters. Hostility from natural political opponents is normal. Hostility from natural supporters is not.
Glad the FT is asking the question. Even if I’m not convinced they found a compelling answer.
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.

www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
Allies concede the prime minister and chancellor have made mistakes yet the level of disdain towards them is still striking
www.ft.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Lick Observatory Damaged

I missed, until now, the news that on Christmas Day, high winds accompanying a violent storm seriously damaged the historic Lick Observatory. The gales were strong enough to rip one of the shutters from the dome of the 36" refracting telescope and send it crashing onto the…
Lick Observatory Damaged
I missed, until now, the news that on Christmas Day, high winds accompanying a violent storm seriously damaged the historic Lick Observatory. The gales were strong enough to rip one of the shutters from the dome of the 36" refracting telescope and send it crashing onto the roof of the adjacent building. The Observatory remains closed to the public while the structural damage is assessed and repairs made.
telescoper.blog
December 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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MORE: The circumstances of this alleged strike targeting Putin’s residence in Novgorod do not conform to the pattern of observed evidence when Ukrainian forces conduct strikes into Russia. 🧵(1/3)
isw.pub/UkrWar122925
December 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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NEW: The Kremlin accused Ukraine of conducting a long-range drone strike targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence in Novgorod Oblast on December 29. 🧵(1/9)

Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar122925

Other Key Takeaways ⬇️
December 30, 2025 at 7:21 AM