Dr Ieithydd (Carys)
@yrieithydd.bsky.social
Christian, Tertiary (TSSF), Verger, ASNC PhD, linguist,
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I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so
November 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so
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i think about stuff like this wrt translating ancient languages where it’s like “we call this the uhhhh Dative of Unexpectedness? i guess? it was used two times ever and we’re not really sure why”
Seeing people write things like “on accident” (rather than by accident) makes my lexicography senses tingle. It seems on the one hand obviously wrong and yet clearly makes sense to the person writing it and I want to grasp why?
November 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
i think about stuff like this wrt translating ancient languages where it’s like “we call this the uhhhh Dative of Unexpectedness? i guess? it was used two times ever and we’re not really sure why”
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America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
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I read an article once saying doctors needed to learn from pseudoscience pushers how to make patients feel heard and supported because otherwise the patients would continue to listen to the pseudoscience. The comments were full of smug crap like "Why should we learn from them, they are wrong"
November 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I read an article once saying doctors needed to learn from pseudoscience pushers how to make patients feel heard and supported because otherwise the patients would continue to listen to the pseudoscience. The comments were full of smug crap like "Why should we learn from them, they are wrong"
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I would argue that midwifery is actually the oldest profession. A number of other mammals have similar practices of checking in on herd members labouring. We have the capacity to help each other and we have always done this. THAT is natural. To help is to be human.
November 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I would argue that midwifery is actually the oldest profession. A number of other mammals have similar practices of checking in on herd members labouring. We have the capacity to help each other and we have always done this. THAT is natural. To help is to be human.
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I have very strong views on this and it’s because I understand and support ppl who want to give birth in the comfort of their own homes, and I support ppl who want to give birth pain free, and I support ppl who want to survive giving birth because I am a historian and I know how lucky that is.
November 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I have very strong views on this and it’s because I understand and support ppl who want to give birth in the comfort of their own homes, and I support ppl who want to give birth pain free, and I support ppl who want to survive giving birth because I am a historian and I know how lucky that is.
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I had a healthy second vaginally-delivered baby. Because I survived the first birth because of timely and capable medical intervention.
November 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I had a healthy second vaginally-delivered baby. Because I survived the first birth because of timely and capable medical intervention.
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How do I know this? Because we spoke about it at length after I developed sepsis in labour and had a crash section. Two things are both true: much medical intervention in birth is unnecessary, and also, certain inventions save many, many lives.
November 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
How do I know this? Because we spoke about it at length after I developed sepsis in labour and had a crash section. Two things are both true: much medical intervention in birth is unnecessary, and also, certain inventions save many, many lives.
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I’m gonna come right out on here on main and say that my father-in-law, who most of these people hero worship, fully believed in the role of medical intervention where necessary, and in the importance of birth attendants who can recognise that ‘when necessary’ part
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I’m gonna come right out on here on main and say that my father-in-law, who most of these people hero worship, fully believed in the role of medical intervention where necessary, and in the importance of birth attendants who can recognise that ‘when necessary’ part
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Interestingly it's The Dorset Museum in Dorchester that's stepped in to fundraise in a very short space of time
They emphasise private buyers as the risk, but an overseas museum would be bad too. A private buyer can put on long-term loan to an institution...
www.dorsetmuseum.org/sherborne-al...
They emphasise private buyers as the risk, but an overseas museum would be bad too. A private buyer can put on long-term loan to an institution...
www.dorsetmuseum.org/sherborne-al...
The Master of the Sherborne Almshouse Triptych - Dorset Museum & Art Gallery Shop
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November 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Interestingly it's The Dorset Museum in Dorchester that's stepped in to fundraise in a very short space of time
They emphasise private buyers as the risk, but an overseas museum would be bad too. A private buyer can put on long-term loan to an institution...
www.dorsetmuseum.org/sherborne-al...
They emphasise private buyers as the risk, but an overseas museum would be bad too. A private buyer can put on long-term loan to an institution...
www.dorsetmuseum.org/sherborne-al...
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Indeed. In addition: essentially, “people don’t like densification” is in general just “people mostly want to live in a home like the one they grew up in, but nicer”. Which is fine (me too!) but it also is self-correcting after a while.
I think this is a very important point in yimby discourse: people say they don’t like densification but in London at least the densification is happening anyway. It happens via house shares, kids living in parents houses forever etc. you get the densification with or without more housing!
A long time ago Ian Mulherin made this chart and this is densification. That part is already happening! Look at the line for London!
November 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Indeed. In addition: essentially, “people don’t like densification” is in general just “people mostly want to live in a home like the one they grew up in, but nicer”. Which is fine (me too!) but it also is self-correcting after a while.
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Tolkien isn't in the business of giving final answers. If he was, he would've written a systematic theology, not a legendarium. His work is one giant thought experiment, a space where he—and we—can grapple with our biggest questions. If theology is Job's friends, Middle-earth is Job.
Death as the Gift of Men is so obviously Tolkien trying to square the brutal reality of loss with his Christian belief in Death as the wages of sin. For 60 years he wrestled with what might be humanity's greatest existential problem. He offers back, not a religious answer, but a religious question.
November 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Tolkien isn't in the business of giving final answers. If he was, he would've written a systematic theology, not a legendarium. His work is one giant thought experiment, a space where he—and we—can grapple with our biggest questions. If theology is Job's friends, Middle-earth is Job.
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Writing a new blog post ... first one in a while! The Church of England still can't work out how to do doctrine.
November 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Writing a new blog post ... first one in a while! The Church of England still can't work out how to do doctrine.
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The other issue is we include the UK Emissions Trading Scheme and Carbon Price Support in the wholesale electricity price, but there is no corresponding carbon tax on domestic gas consumption. Crazy that the carbon tax has the opposite incentive to domestic consumers that it is supposed to have!
November 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The other issue is we include the UK Emissions Trading Scheme and Carbon Price Support in the wholesale electricity price, but there is no corresponding carbon tax on domestic gas consumption. Crazy that the carbon tax has the opposite incentive to domestic consumers that it is supposed to have!
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Just want to give enormous credit to my colleague Dan Lewis, who not only spotted this problem yesterday but produced a huge amount of analysis.
We very much hope to see action in the Budget to address this.
www.nesta.org.uk/press-releas...
We very much hope to see action in the Budget to address this.
www.nesta.org.uk/press-releas...
Price gap between gas and electricity hits highest level since energy crisis of 2022
Sharp increases in electricity costs are set to push the electricity-to-gas price ratio to its highest level since the 2022 energy crisis, according to new analysis from the innovation foundation Nest...
www.nesta.org.uk
November 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Just want to give enormous credit to my colleague Dan Lewis, who not only spotted this problem yesterday but produced a huge amount of analysis.
We very much hope to see action in the Budget to address this.
www.nesta.org.uk/press-releas...
We very much hope to see action in the Budget to address this.
www.nesta.org.uk/press-releas...
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To give an idea of how damaging this change is, a typical dual fuel household will see their bill rise by £2.50 in January.
A household using an electric storage heater - already most at risk of fuel poverty - will see a £100 increase. That is deeply unfair and needs to be addressed
A household using an electric storage heater - already most at risk of fuel poverty - will see a £100 increase. That is deeply unfair and needs to be addressed
November 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
To give an idea of how damaging this change is, a typical dual fuel household will see their bill rise by £2.50 in January.
A household using an electric storage heater - already most at risk of fuel poverty - will see a £100 increase. That is deeply unfair and needs to be addressed
A household using an electric storage heater - already most at risk of fuel poverty - will see a £100 increase. That is deeply unfair and needs to be addressed
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Yeah Advent is * meant * to be a penitential season, but with Christmas starting so soon these days it's rather overshadowed.
November 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Yeah Advent is * meant * to be a penitential season, but with Christmas starting so soon these days it's rather overshadowed.
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The public are fed up with experts getting things wrong. So we’ve invented a machine that will get things wrong more quickly”
November 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The public are fed up with experts getting things wrong. So we’ve invented a machine that will get things wrong more quickly”
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AI is enormously complex and expensive, with insane overheads. If all it does is summarise shit moderately badly, draw queasy pop culture crap, and lie, but cost shitloads to use, it’s not a workable business. It’ll switch off. And you won’t be using it.
November 22, 2025 at 11:32 AM
AI is enormously complex and expensive, with insane overheads. If all it does is summarise shit moderately badly, draw queasy pop culture crap, and lie, but cost shitloads to use, it’s not a workable business. It’ll switch off. And you won’t be using it.
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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
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Any woman they *say* they think might be trans. Whether they do or not.
And they can be barred without consequences whatever the answer.
And they can be barred without consequences whatever the answer.
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Any woman they *say* they think might be trans. Whether they do or not.
And they can be barred without consequences whatever the answer.
And they can be barred without consequences whatever the answer.
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I don’t use FB but haven’t actually deleted my account and I went over to have a look and oh my gosh, the patience but dogged trans support this person shows in their answers to respondents is admirable.
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I don’t use FB but haven’t actually deleted my account and I went over to have a look and oh my gosh, the patience but dogged trans support this person shows in their answers to respondents is admirable.
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Yeah! It's really fucking weird, but to me he's one of the composers whose work is most sensitive to whether the performers have "it" or not, and I have no idea what the "it" is that some are missing! It's not emotion, it's not technical skill, it's not vocal blending, I just don't KNOW what it is!
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Yeah! It's really fucking weird, but to me he's one of the composers whose work is most sensitive to whether the performers have "it" or not, and I have no idea what the "it" is that some are missing! It's not emotion, it's not technical skill, it's not vocal blending, I just don't KNOW what it is!
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Yes! I miss the part of the Catholic Church that knew human creativity and joy in beautiful things honors God because God gave us the ability to create beauty and joy, and wants us to share it!
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Yes! I miss the part of the Catholic Church that knew human creativity and joy in beautiful things honors God because God gave us the ability to create beauty and joy, and wants us to share it!
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PLEASE, retail workers
from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round
(factcheck: true)
the public space stuff this time of year is a lot
(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)
PLEASE DO THIS
it is a kindness
from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round
(factcheck: true)
the public space stuff this time of year is a lot
(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)
PLEASE DO THIS
it is a kindness
When I worked at a bookstore, I quickly learned that people cannot tell the difference between Xmas music and any Baroque or Elizabethan music album that doesn't get too organ-ish. I used this to my advantage.
One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
PLEASE, retail workers
from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round
(factcheck: true)
the public space stuff this time of year is a lot
(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)
PLEASE DO THIS
it is a kindness
from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round
(factcheck: true)
the public space stuff this time of year is a lot
(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)
PLEASE DO THIS
it is a kindness