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Got lost in the woods as a child

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Mostly amazed or bewildered
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Beth Winter & I held the last in a series of three community assemblies in Treherbert this week. People getting together to consider how we can work to build community assets which generate wealth.

#ValleysCymunedoli #CommunityWealthBuilding
#RaymondWilliams

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March 29, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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In memory David Paul Greenfield, English keyboardist, singer and songwriter for the punk rock band The Stranglers

29 March 1949 – 3 May 2020

The Stranglers - No More Heroes • TopPop

#punk #punks #punkrock #stranglers #history #punkrockhistory #otd
March 29, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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emilypricejourno.bsky.social
💧 A Senedd petition has been launched to save one of Wales’ most beautiful historic canals after legislation was enacted that severely restricts the supply of water that feeds it.

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March 26, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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She’d had four sons, I knew that well enough,
and each one wrong. All born blind, they say,
slack-jawed and simple, web-footed,
rickety as sticks…

—Robin Robertson, “At Roane Head”
published in the @lrb.co.uk, 14 August 2008
#BookWormSat #InternationalSealDay 🦭
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At Roane Head Robin Robertson for John Burnside You’d know her house by the drawn blinds – by the cormorants pitched on the boundary wall, the black crosses of their wings hung out to dry. You’d tell it by the quicken and the pine that hid it from the sea and from the brief light of the sun, and by Aonghas the collie, lying at the door where he died: a rack of bones like a sprung trap. A fork of barnacle geese came over, with that slow squeak of rusty saws. The bitter sea’s complaining pull and roll; a whicker of pigeons, lifting in the wood. She’d had four sons, I knew that well enough, and each one wrong. All born blind, they say, slack-jawed and simple, web-footed, rickety as sticks. Beautiful faces, I’m told, though blank as air. Someone saw them once, outside, hirpling down to the shore, chittering like rats, and said they were fine swimmers, but I would have guessed at that. Her husband left her: said they couldn’t be his, they were more fish than human; he said they were beglamoured, and searched their skin for the showing marks. For years she tended each difficult flame: their tight, flickering bodies. Each night she closed the scales of their eyes to smoor the fire. Until he came again, that last time, thick with drink, saying he’d had enough of this, all this witchery, and made them stand in a row by their beds, twitching. Their hands flapped; herring-eyes rolled in their heads. He went along the line relaxing them one after another with a small knife. They say she goes out every night to lay blankets on the graves to keep them warm. It would put the heart across you, all that grief. There was an otter worrying in the leaves, a heron loping slow over the water when I came at scraich of day, back to her door. She’d hung four stones in a necklace, wore four rings on the hand that led me past the room with four small candles burning which she called ‘the room of rain’. Milky smoke poured up from the grate like a waterfall in reverse and she said my name, and it was the only thing and the last thing that she said. She gave me a skylark’s egg in a bed of frost; gave me twists of my four sons’ hair; gave me her husband’s head in a wooden box. Then she gave me the sealskin, and I put it on.
March 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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US ‘deletes evidence’ of Russia’s kidnap of thousands of Ukrainian children
Researchers at Yale University had been compiling database of alleged Russian war crimes, including abduction of up to 35,000 children
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March 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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theul.bsky.social
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

Primroses at the UL, March 2025.
A patch of yellow primroses in the sunshine. We see Cambridge University Library in the background.
March 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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zoejardiniere.bsky.social
With no safe routes available to ppl fleeing danger, irregular journeys to the UK will continue.

Our MPs must understand there are realistic, humane alternatives to REGULATE the arrival of asylum seekers.

🙏 Pls email your MP to attend this important event help.care4calais.org/page/168077/...
Will your MP support 'Change' and back safe routes?
Take two minutes to email your local MP and ask them to attend the launch of Care4Calais' new safe routes report.
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March 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Councillors in Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil have backed calls for the Crown Estate to be devolved to Wales
Two more Welsh councils back calls for devolution of Crown Estate
Anthony Lewis – Local democracy reporter Councillors in Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil have backed calls for the Crown Estate to be devolved to Wales. Notices of motion were approved at full cou...
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March 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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nothoodlum.bsky.social
A brilliant Banksy.
March 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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When lords came from Din Eidin,
A host of picked men from each region,
In strife with the English, splendid army…

—Y GODODDIN, one of the oldest literary works from Scotland, is written in Old Welsh. The poet Aneirin may have been born in Dumbarton
#BookWormSat
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Page 14 of Llyfr Aneirin (‘The Book of Aneirin’), which contains verses from ‘Y Gododdin”. The image shows a hand-written manuscript on parchment which is brown with age. The proto-gothic letters are clear, black, legible, and well-formed. Each paragraph begins with a decorative capital, written alternately in red and blue ink.
March 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
February 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
No second state visit for Trump
This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...
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March 1, 2025 at 7:46 AM
yanndenning.bsky.social
Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
No second state visit for Trump
This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...
you.38degrees.org.uk
March 1, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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emilypricejourno.bsky.social
Last night Labour MPs again blocked a Plaid Cymru amendment that would have seen Crown Estate powers handed to the Welsh Government.
February 25, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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janh1.bsky.social
Cartoonist Matt nails Trump.
Sign at the top of the image says “The Boyhood of Donald Trump” cartoon of boy with axe standing by fallen tree telling his father “I cannot tell a lie, father, the cherry tree started it.”
February 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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brexitpirates.bsky.social
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February 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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zoejardiniere.bsky.social
Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt
February 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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dankaszeta.bsky.social
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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The Creative Future Writers’ Award is the only free to enter national poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction competition for all underrepresented writers.

The optional theme is ‘Wild’.

Fifteen winners (5 winners in each category).

Please share :)
Our Annual Writers' Award is open for entries! - Creative Future
We’re excited to announce our 2024 Writers’ Award Competition is officially open for entries!
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February 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Four crabs from the cold firth
alive for a shilling…

—Angus Calder, “Crab”
from WAKING IN WAIKATO (diehard, 1997)

Angus Calder (1942–2008) – journalist, historian, editor, critic, & poet – was born #OTD, 5 Feb
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/crab/
Crab by Angus Calder Four crabs from the cold firth alive for a shilling. The largest reared in the pot, in spite of the fierce water, but soon we cracked his limbs with our teeth and wheedled with spoons and fingers for the last shreds of flesh from the crannies of his briny body. In that brittle maze I found no features to remind me of our brains, our livers or our smooth bellies, yet doubtless their functions were held by some part of the paste of his cavities. Spread, soup and risotto – only the gills were rejected. In the days we ate him I did not forget his moment on the floor to amuse the baby, when she gloated at the slow clash of his last menace, nor that shape which made me think of a soft soldier fried in the cockpit of a tank.
February 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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brexitpirates.bsky.social
The Daily Mail: "We lied to foment race hate".
politicalsatirical.bsky.social Political Satirical @politicalsatirical.bsky.social · Jan 31
Hitler's shitrag, forced to make a retraction in public.

So spread it around lovely people.

Make sure people know.

Right Wing is making shit up.

To stoke hatred & division!

Just Like Trump.
January 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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🔴How Right-Wing Media Spread the False Claim That One in Twelve Londoners Are ‘Illegal Migrants’

There is a deliberate attempt to mislead the public, in order to push for Trump-style mass deportations, argues Zoe Gardner

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How Right-Wing Media Spread the False Claim That One in Twelve Londoners Are 'Illegal Migrants'
There is a deliberate attempt to mislead the public, in order to push for Trump-style mass deportations, argues Zoe Gardner
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January 31, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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jdportes.bsky.social
The Times essentially reprinted the Telegraph's nonsense story about "illegal migrants" [thread appended below.]

They have now published a detailed correction. I expect the Telegraph to follow.
We wrongly said that a study on behalf of Thames Water showed “1 in 12 Londoners is an illegal migrant” (News, Jan 23). In fact the study covered only 7 million people in specific “water resource zones”, not the whole population of London, which is closer to 9 million. 1 in 12 was the highest of a range of estimates for the proportion of “irregular migrants”, but these estimates included some people who are not illegal immigrants, such as those given indefinite leave to remain, as well as some British-born children of migrants with irregular status.
January 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
While I’ve gratefully watched Bishop Budde's act of bravery remind us of the power of a single voice, my greatest fear is that she will be the only one of her kind; that in a few days she will prove to be an outlier, just a beautiful aberration.

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Don't Let Bishop Budde Stand Alone: A Challenge to Every Minister in America.
To the Ministers in America,
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January 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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cohencidents.bsky.social
For all of those who have posted my cartoon with my signature cut off, here is the original.
January 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM