Dyfrig Williams
@dyfrigw.bsky.social
Cymraeg! He / Him. Music fan. Cyclist. Scarlet. Work for Research in Practice. Views mine / Barn fi.
#NowReading The Care Manifesto by The Care Collective www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... Really interesting and multifaceted definition of care in this section #BookSky
January 11, 2026 at 9:13 PM
#NowReading The Care Manifesto by The Care Collective www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... Really interesting and multifaceted definition of care in this section #BookSky
Had a go at reading The Underground Railroad, which is rightly a very heavy read. It's something I'm going to have to come back to another time www.thenationalbookreview.com/features/201... #BookSky
REVIEW: Colson Whitehead Brilliantly Reimagines the Underground Railroad — The National Book Review
A Novel that Explores Slavery and the Search for Freedom
www.thenationalbookreview.com
January 11, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Had a go at reading The Underground Railroad, which is rightly a very heavy read. It's something I'm going to have to come back to another time www.thenationalbookreview.com/features/201... #BookSky
Rili cŵl bod S4C yn hybu diwylliant amgen fel beicio mynydd, doedd e ddim yn naws y darlledwr wrth i mi dyfu i fyny.
Very cool that S4C is sharing content around alternative culture like MTB, didn't see any of this in the Welsh language growing up (subtitles available) m.youtube.com/watch?v=ryIU...
Very cool that S4C is sharing content around alternative culture like MTB, didn't see any of this in the Welsh language growing up (subtitles available) m.youtube.com/watch?v=ryIU...
Sgwrs ar y Beic - Emyr Davies | Manon Lloyd chats to downhill mountain bike racer Emyr Davies | S4C
YouTube video by S4C Chwaraeon
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December 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Rili cŵl bod S4C yn hybu diwylliant amgen fel beicio mynydd, doedd e ddim yn naws y darlledwr wrth i mi dyfu i fyny.
Very cool that S4C is sharing content around alternative culture like MTB, didn't see any of this in the Welsh language growing up (subtitles available) m.youtube.com/watch?v=ryIU...
Very cool that S4C is sharing content around alternative culture like MTB, didn't see any of this in the Welsh language growing up (subtitles available) m.youtube.com/watch?v=ryIU...
Absolutely loved Mordew by Alex Pheby - probably the best fantasy book I've read. Really disappointed in the follow up, Malarkoi though. Felt much more focused on world building than characterisation www.epicindie.net/bookreviews/... #booksky
Book Review: Malarkoi by Alex Pheby — EPIC
Malarkoi is a strange and understandably divisive follow up to the cult hit Mordew. While the latter used its strangeness and overwhelming complexity to tell what was essentially a very tightly knit c...
www.epicindie.net
December 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Absolutely loved Mordew by Alex Pheby - probably the best fantasy book I've read. Really disappointed in the follow up, Malarkoi though. Felt much more focused on world building than characterisation www.epicindie.net/bookreviews/... #booksky
"I’m worried about what this means in the long term, what it’s going to look like in the future” www.politico.com/news/magazin... < A vision from the future of a future Reform government
‘I Didn’t Vote for This’: A Revolt Against DOGE Cuts, Deep in Trump Country
Trump administration policies slashing staffing and funding for public lands are waking a sleeping political giant in Montana. Will either party notice?
www.politico.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"I’m worried about what this means in the long term, what it’s going to look like in the future” www.politico.com/news/magazin... < A vision from the future of a future Reform government
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A new report from NCVO explores impact of rise in extremism and social division on the voluntary sector.
via @ncvo.bsky.social
via @ncvo.bsky.social
Charities facing mission-limiting hostility, fear and intimidation
A new report from NCVO explores impact of rise in extremism and social division on the voluntary sector.
www.ncvo.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
A new report from NCVO explores impact of rise in extremism and social division on the voluntary sector.
via @ncvo.bsky.social
via @ncvo.bsky.social
"The 21st century is loud, recursive, flooded with information and tech we barely understand. The absurd is not a philosophical stance — it has become a material condition."
< My colleague Phil perfectly encapsulates my unease with the state of the world substack.com/inbox/post/1...
< My colleague Phil perfectly encapsulates my unease with the state of the world substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The New Absurd: Why the 21st Century Has Outgrown Its Myths
by Phil John
substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"The 21st century is loud, recursive, flooded with information and tech we barely understand. The absurd is not a philosophical stance — it has become a material condition."
< My colleague Phil perfectly encapsulates my unease with the state of the world substack.com/inbox/post/1...
< My colleague Phil perfectly encapsulates my unease with the state of the world substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
December 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
Really good discussion around the power of lived experience in this Messy Social Work podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r... It really makes me want to read Darren McGarvey’s The Trauma Industrial Complex!
Rich and Tim discuss the Trauma Industrial Complex
Podcast Episode · Messy Social Work · 14/11/2025 · 52m
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December 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Really good discussion around the power of lived experience in this Messy Social Work podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r... It really makes me want to read Darren McGarvey’s The Trauma Industrial Complex!
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This both blows my mind and becomes less surprising every day
December 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This both blows my mind and becomes less surprising every day
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Just putting up the Christmas decorations in the staff room.
December 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Just putting up the Christmas decorations in the staff room.
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"Where you have gender-blind policy, it produces gendered consequences for girls."
Dr Pippa Goodfellow, our Deputy Director of Policy, Communications and Strategy, was on BBC4 Woman's Hour to talk about the need to create sufficient provision for girls in custody.
Listen from 26:10:
Dr Pippa Goodfellow, our Deputy Director of Policy, Communications and Strategy, was on BBC4 Woman's Hour to talk about the need to create sufficient provision for girls in custody.
Listen from 26:10:
Woman's Hour - Kids social media ban in Australia, Tracey Emin on Bridget Riley, What your bum says about your health - BBC Sounds
Australia's landmark social media ban for children is being challenged in court.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"Where you have gender-blind policy, it produces gendered consequences for girls."
Dr Pippa Goodfellow, our Deputy Director of Policy, Communications and Strategy, was on BBC4 Woman's Hour to talk about the need to create sufficient provision for girls in custody.
Listen from 26:10:
Dr Pippa Goodfellow, our Deputy Director of Policy, Communications and Strategy, was on BBC4 Woman's Hour to talk about the need to create sufficient provision for girls in custody.
Listen from 26:10:
Dal i joio edrych nol dros Cymru yn erbyn Gog Macedonia. Mae'r @podcastpeldroed.bsky.social diweddaraf yn gret.
Still basking in Wales' win over North Macedonia. Enjoyed the latest Podcast Pel Droed on both the dross at Liechtenstein and the epic win soundcloud.com/podcast_peld...
Still basking in Wales' win over North Macedonia. Enjoyed the latest Podcast Pel Droed on both the dross at Liechtenstein and the epic win soundcloud.com/podcast_peld...
Ep.195 - Seventh Heaven: Liechtenstein and North Macedonia review
Leon and Russell look back at the final round of World Cup qualifiers, a window that started frustratingly in Vaduz but ended in Cardiff with the biggest victory in 47 years.
Mae Leon a Russell yn ed
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November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Dal i joio edrych nol dros Cymru yn erbyn Gog Macedonia. Mae'r @podcastpeldroed.bsky.social diweddaraf yn gret.
Still basking in Wales' win over North Macedonia. Enjoyed the latest Podcast Pel Droed on both the dross at Liechtenstein and the epic win soundcloud.com/podcast_peld...
Still basking in Wales' win over North Macedonia. Enjoyed the latest Podcast Pel Droed on both the dross at Liechtenstein and the epic win soundcloud.com/podcast_peld...
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Many of our community in Wales will be familiar with our Welsh language mapping project: Mapio Cymru. The team has recently published guidance on how to identify the name of a feature in Welsh. This has been a long time coming, after lots of consultation with interested people and organisations.
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Many of our community in Wales will be familiar with our Welsh language mapping project: Mapio Cymru. The team has recently published guidance on how to identify the name of a feature in Welsh. This has been a long time coming, after lots of consultation with interested people and organisations.
"Knowledge exists only in their native language, passed on orally, and is mostly absent from digital spaces – let alone AI systems" aeon.co/essays/gener... < Very interesting piece on the bias inherent in the AI knowledgebase
Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays
Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too
aeon.co
November 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
"Knowledge exists only in their native language, passed on orally, and is mostly absent from digital spaces – let alone AI systems" aeon.co/essays/gener... < Very interesting piece on the bias inherent in the AI knowledgebase
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The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. n.pr/47WGe0m
Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51
The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels.
n.pr
November 16, 2025 at 4:41 AM
The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. n.pr/47WGe0m
"We need better tech. We need it to be made in better ways and for better uses, and above all, in and for communities" www.wrecka.ge/sparks-fly-up/ < This is very cool on the potential of Bonfire by @kissane.myatproto.social
Sparks fly up
Once you’ve seized the tools of political life to build communal power, it’s hard to forget what a hammer feels like in your hand.
www.wrecka.ge
November 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
"We need better tech. We need it to be made in better ways and for better uses, and above all, in and for communities" www.wrecka.ge/sparks-fly-up/ < This is very cool on the potential of Bonfire by @kissane.myatproto.social
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How the BBC is labelling content created with the help of AI www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
How we’re designing user-centred AI labels at the BBC
As a public service organisation, it’s vital that audiences can trust what they see in BBC content and understand how AI is used.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
How the BBC is labelling content created with the help of AI www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Fascinating podcast on building defiance as a skillset. It considers how we can move it from a negative definition into a positive one where it aligns with our values www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
Why We’re Wired to Obey—And How to Reclaim Your Voice
Why saying no is harder than it should be.
www.scientificamerican.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Fascinating podcast on building defiance as a skillset. It considers how we can move it from a negative definition into a positive one where it aligns with our values www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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It's kind of wild how almost all politics in the UK is a demand for perfect systems that work 100% of the time and angry denunciations of systems that have redundancy or error checking as wasteful bureaucracy.
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It's kind of wild how almost all politics in the UK is a demand for perfect systems that work 100% of the time and angry denunciations of systems that have redundancy or error checking as wasteful bureaucracy.
"What this sort of reporting ultimately means is that if you have enough money to get somebody to produce a white paper for you, you are ready to enter into the rushing current of elite reportage" lithub.com/maybe-dont-t... < Very good take down of straw man arguments on studies of equity
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"What this sort of reporting ultimately means is that if you have enough money to get somebody to produce a white paper for you, you are ready to enter into the rushing current of elite reportage" lithub.com/maybe-dont-t... < Very good take down of straw man arguments on studies of equity
This autobiography sounds like an *amazing* read
I interviewed the awesome Roddy Bottum www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘I was the only out queer guy in rock’: Faith No More’s Roddy Bottum
The keyboard player on his heroin overdose, how Kurt Cobain wanted to be gay and why his memoir will ruin his Christian relatives’ Thanksgiving dinner
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This autobiography sounds like an *amazing* read
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Hurrah for some positive news about decent people
Another amazing article worth a read and share!
metro.co.uk/2025/11/07/c...
metro.co.uk/2025/11/07/c...
Cyclists have just proven that including trans women isn’t hard
Cycling UK have gravely misjudged the people they claimed to represent.
metro.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Hurrah for some positive news about decent people
Really interesting episode of All in the Mind, which examines whether Trigger Warnings accomplish what we intend them to. Lots to ponder here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - All in the Mind, Should we be using trigger warnings?
We interrogate growing evidence that suggests trigger warnings aren’t working as intended.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Really interesting episode of All in the Mind, which examines whether Trigger Warnings accomplish what we intend them to. Lots to ponder here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...