John Davies
@stsikel.bsky.social
Interested in building bridges.
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Earlier this year, I took a trip to south Wales to see how many Doctor Who filming spots I could find in one day. Watch my new video to learn what I discovered during my adventure through time and space ... and Cardiff! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRA7...
Visiting 40+ Doctor Who Filming Locations in One Day
YouTube video by Ellie Blackwood
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November 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Earlier this year, I took a trip to south Wales to see how many Doctor Who filming spots I could find in one day. Watch my new video to learn what I discovered during my adventure through time and space ... and Cardiff! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRA7...
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Nov. 2, 1925: A collapse of two dams in North Wales inundates a small village below, killing 16 people. Three loud booms are heard before a rain-swollen avalanche of 190 million gallons of water comes pouring from a hydroelectric project downhill onto Dolgarrag. 1/2
November 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Nov. 2, 1925: A collapse of two dams in North Wales inundates a small village below, killing 16 people. Three loud booms are heard before a rain-swollen avalanche of 190 million gallons of water comes pouring from a hydroelectric project downhill onto Dolgarrag. 1/2
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Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle...
"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”
Absolutely. Please get on with it.
"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”
Absolutely. Please get on with it.
October 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle...
"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”
Absolutely. Please get on with it.
"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”
Absolutely. Please get on with it.
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Ahead of our next episode about candidate selection, this clip from the Fifth Floor / @walesgovernance.bsky.social event about the beneath-the-surface workings of Welsh Government features former Education Minister Kirsty Williams questioning whether the right people can, and do, enter politics:
October 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Ahead of our next episode about candidate selection, this clip from the Fifth Floor / @walesgovernance.bsky.social event about the beneath-the-surface workings of Welsh Government features former Education Minister Kirsty Williams questioning whether the right people can, and do, enter politics:
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The far-right do not care about the people of Cymru 🏴 ✊
October 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The far-right do not care about the people of Cymru 🏴 ✊
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Cardiff is so welcoming, vibrant and inclusive – everyone has a role to play
Cardiff is so welcoming, vibrant and inclusive – everyone has a role to play - The Jewish Chronicle
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October 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Cardiff is so welcoming, vibrant and inclusive – everyone has a role to play
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Today, we honour the 144 lives lost in the Aberfan disaster, 116 children and 28 adults. On October 21, 1966, tragedy struck when a coal tip engulfed Pantglas Junior School, devastating an entire community.
October 21, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Today, we honour the 144 lives lost in the Aberfan disaster, 116 children and 28 adults. On October 21, 1966, tragedy struck when a coal tip engulfed Pantglas Junior School, devastating an entire community.
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Great to be in Maesteg today to launch our St David’s Day Fund.
Rydym am i Ddydd Gŵyl Dewi y flwyddyn nesaf fod y gorau erioed drwy ariannu digwyddiadau mewn cymunedau ledled Cymru.
Let’s come together next St David’s Day to celebrate what makes Wales special.
Rydym am i Ddydd Gŵyl Dewi y flwyddyn nesaf fod y gorau erioed drwy ariannu digwyddiadau mewn cymunedau ledled Cymru.
Let’s come together next St David’s Day to celebrate what makes Wales special.
October 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Great to be in Maesteg today to launch our St David’s Day Fund.
Rydym am i Ddydd Gŵyl Dewi y flwyddyn nesaf fod y gorau erioed drwy ariannu digwyddiadau mewn cymunedau ledled Cymru.
Let’s come together next St David’s Day to celebrate what makes Wales special.
Rydym am i Ddydd Gŵyl Dewi y flwyddyn nesaf fod y gorau erioed drwy ariannu digwyddiadau mewn cymunedau ledled Cymru.
Let’s come together next St David’s Day to celebrate what makes Wales special.
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Delighted to officially open the Ukrainian Hub Cymru Wales.
Mae cymuned Wcráin wedi dangos cryfder anhygoel – ailadeiladu bywydau, ffurfio cyfeillgarwch a helpu ei gilydd i ymgartrefu.
Duzhe d’akuju - Diolch am y Croeso - what you've built is really special.
Mae cymuned Wcráin wedi dangos cryfder anhygoel – ailadeiladu bywydau, ffurfio cyfeillgarwch a helpu ei gilydd i ymgartrefu.
Duzhe d’akuju - Diolch am y Croeso - what you've built is really special.
October 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Delighted to officially open the Ukrainian Hub Cymru Wales.
Mae cymuned Wcráin wedi dangos cryfder anhygoel – ailadeiladu bywydau, ffurfio cyfeillgarwch a helpu ei gilydd i ymgartrefu.
Duzhe d’akuju - Diolch am y Croeso - what you've built is really special.
Mae cymuned Wcráin wedi dangos cryfder anhygoel – ailadeiladu bywydau, ffurfio cyfeillgarwch a helpu ei gilydd i ymgartrefu.
Duzhe d’akuju - Diolch am y Croeso - what you've built is really special.
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There is now mountains of incontrovertible evidence that if you repeat, amplify and parrot the #FarRight then voters go and vote for *them* in numbers. Will any of the centre learn this before it’s already far too late?? All signs from Labour say point to no ☹️
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:48 AM
There is now mountains of incontrovertible evidence that if you repeat, amplify and parrot the #FarRight then voters go and vote for *them* in numbers. Will any of the centre learn this before it’s already far too late?? All signs from Labour say point to no ☹️
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Think we’ve crossed a pretty major threshold – and a very bad one – if a journalist working in the lobby for a major newspaper group can tweet like this without professional consequences.
A mainstream “journalist” calling for a British MP to be deported. Is it because I’m Muslim? Next time, just say it with your chest.
October 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Think we’ve crossed a pretty major threshold – and a very bad one – if a journalist working in the lobby for a major newspaper group can tweet like this without professional consequences.
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I've just discovered there's a chip shop in Llangynwyd called 'Frying Nemo' 😭
October 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I've just discovered there's a chip shop in Llangynwyd called 'Frying Nemo' 😭
Jacob. People like us. Murdered because they were dehumanised.
15 October 1936 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Jacob Vieyra, was born in Rotterdam.
In February 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
In February 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
October 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Jacob. People like us. Murdered because they were dehumanised.
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Is the position being argued here "Welsh Labour should have been clearer that their refugee policy was designed to mainly help white people"?
October 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Is the position being argued here "Welsh Labour should have been clearer that their refugee policy was designed to mainly help white people"?
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🚨Christian children were told they'd "be Muslim by year 6"!🚨
😱Sounds outrageous?
You know the drill…
If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some
1/25
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😱Sounds outrageous?
You know the drill…
If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some
1/25
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October 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
🚨Christian children were told they'd "be Muslim by year 6"!🚨
😱Sounds outrageous?
You know the drill…
If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some
1/25
🧵
😱Sounds outrageous?
You know the drill…
If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some
1/25
🧵
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Faith leaders and Politicians standing together to bridge divides following Heaton Park attack and suspected arson on Peacehaven mosque.
Last night we welcomed the new Minister for Faith & Communities Miatta Fahnbulleh to our latest event of the Optimistic Alliance.
Last night we welcomed the new Minister for Faith & Communities Miatta Fahnbulleh to our latest event of the Optimistic Alliance.
October 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Faith leaders and Politicians standing together to bridge divides following Heaton Park attack and suspected arson on Peacehaven mosque.
Last night we welcomed the new Minister for Faith & Communities Miatta Fahnbulleh to our latest event of the Optimistic Alliance.
Last night we welcomed the new Minister for Faith & Communities Miatta Fahnbulleh to our latest event of the Optimistic Alliance.
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Hamas and Israel have agreed to implement the first phase of the Gaza peace plan. Qatari media says that includes the release of the 20 living hostages in one go. Sky News Arabia says it will also include an Israeli withdrawal from 70% of the Gaza Strip.
October 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Hamas and Israel have agreed to implement the first phase of the Gaza peace plan. Qatari media says that includes the release of the 20 living hostages in one go. Sky News Arabia says it will also include an Israeli withdrawal from 70% of the Gaza Strip.
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Politicians are using Ukrainian refugees as a political football.
The Welsh Conservative leader says he is against Wales' Nation of Sanctuary policy.
But this wasn't always his position...
It seems his morals have changed because he is worried about Reform taking his votes.
The Welsh Conservative leader says he is against Wales' Nation of Sanctuary policy.
But this wasn't always his position...
It seems his morals have changed because he is worried about Reform taking his votes.
October 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Politicians are using Ukrainian refugees as a political football.
The Welsh Conservative leader says he is against Wales' Nation of Sanctuary policy.
But this wasn't always his position...
It seems his morals have changed because he is worried about Reform taking his votes.
The Welsh Conservative leader says he is against Wales' Nation of Sanctuary policy.
But this wasn't always his position...
It seems his morals have changed because he is worried about Reform taking his votes.
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Llongyfarchiadau mawr to Don Leisure winner of Welsh Music Prize 2025 for Tyrchu Sain - haeddiannol iawn 👏🏾🎧 youtu.be/u-2K-vsWU8U?...
Cynnau Tân
YouTube video by Don Leisure - Topic
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October 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Llongyfarchiadau mawr to Don Leisure winner of Welsh Music Prize 2025 for Tyrchu Sain - haeddiannol iawn 👏🏾🎧 youtu.be/u-2K-vsWU8U?...
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A human rights position is universal, requiring us all to extend rights and protections to those we disagree with
Yes, you can deny some groups are owed human rights, but only by denying their humanity
Yes, you can deny some groups are owed human rights, but only by denying their humanity
October 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A human rights position is universal, requiring us all to extend rights and protections to those we disagree with
Yes, you can deny some groups are owed human rights, but only by denying their humanity
Yes, you can deny some groups are owed human rights, but only by denying their humanity
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Moving to large scale sites won’t save money. The last government tried and it ended up costing more with people housed in unsuitable places. The cheaper and faster way to get out of hotels is to give leave to people who will either eventually get it anyway or who can’t be removed.
Asylum hotel closures could be be fast-tracked to help Reeves balance books in Budget, Treasury source indicates
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Asylum hotel closures could be be fast-tracked to help Reeves balance books in Budget
Treasury says asylum costs are 'top of the list' for savings
inews.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Moving to large scale sites won’t save money. The last government tried and it ended up costing more with people housed in unsuitable places. The cheaper and faster way to get out of hotels is to give leave to people who will either eventually get it anyway or who can’t be removed.
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I contacted company owner & he joined Bsky. Welcome @lowensskincare.bsky.social! Looking for wonderful family brand in Canada? Give a follow!
While all seems a big mistake (not by Lowen's), it's what real customers are experiencing due to tariff snafus.
UPS? I'm not only customer having issues...
While all seems a big mistake (not by Lowen's), it's what real customers are experiencing due to tariff snafus.
UPS? I'm not only customer having issues...
Hi all. Adam looped me in. I wasn't on prior (have been avoiding SM)
So, the refusal costs would be billed to us - which, I've recommended that Adam do
For the fees - all or our products are duty, tax and tariff exempt under CUSMA, the paperwork was sent in hardcopy and via email.
So, UPS...?
So, the refusal costs would be billed to us - which, I've recommended that Adam do
For the fees - all or our products are duty, tax and tariff exempt under CUSMA, the paperwork was sent in hardcopy and via email.
So, UPS...?
October 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I contacted company owner & he joined Bsky. Welcome @lowensskincare.bsky.social! Looking for wonderful family brand in Canada? Give a follow!
While all seems a big mistake (not by Lowen's), it's what real customers are experiencing due to tariff snafus.
UPS? I'm not only customer having issues...
While all seems a big mistake (not by Lowen's), it's what real customers are experiencing due to tariff snafus.
UPS? I'm not only customer having issues...