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Alasdair Pettinger
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Words | history | sounds. Author, editor, archivist. Autistic. Latchy student of Gàidhlig, Cymraeg, Kreyòl & stringed instruments. Book: Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846. Researching revolutionary slogans. North Pembrokeshire. www.bulldozia.com
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I freely confess that I’d never even heard of C18th century poet Angharad James until this episode of @yrheniaith.bsky.social but her work is remarkable

Read this lovely overview by @jerryhunter.bsky.social then please search your attic for the lost ‘llyfr coch’!

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Yr Hen Iaith part 76: A Friend’s Invitation and a Mother’s Grief: the poetry of Angharad James
Jerry Hunter As was noted while discussing the medieval poet Gwerful Mechain in episode 27 and the sixteenth-century poet Alis ferch Gruffudd in episode 38, one of the most exciting developments in We...
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December 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Big fan of Sean Borodale. The bio Poetry Ireland provides here ignores his first book, 'Notes for an Atlas', which I enthuse about here: www.bulldozia.com/2011/11/27/s...
December 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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If you are addicted to heroin you can have your blood tested to help you manage the health risks. But if you are a child trying to access healthcare, in line with international norms, Wes Streeting's position is that you "must" be treated worse.
goodlawproject.org Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d
The Times yesterday, on how trans kids, denied the healthcare they need, are buying black market hormones.

Of course, this is *exactly* what everyone said would happen. And its risks are dramatically amplified by Streeting telling GPs they must stop offering blood tests.
“He didn’t have the money, so they paid for him to get some black market oestrogen,” Fiona said. “He got it sent to a friend who passed it on at school. And he managed to get shots and syringes from an STD clinic.” Experts are increasingly concerned that an illicit trade in black market cross-sex hormones is thriving as the NHS clamps down on prescriptions of the drugs for fear of long-term side effects.
December 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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quinnslobodian.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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What a loathsome headline.
December 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Preseli skies, an hour before sunset.
Colour photograph. Upland moor catching the late afternoon light, a blue sky with interesting and varied clouds, some in shadow. A fence leads away from the viewer from bottom left corner to disappear in the distance, the horizon dividing the image so that the sky takes up nearly three quarters of it.
December 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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ayasinvan.bsky.social
Interesting use of street-level graphics to transform a cross-walk into a data visualization in the Tuzla Municipality of Istanbul, to depict the stark and devastating figures of the number of people killed and injured (20,000) over the last 10 years at cross-walks across the country.
November 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Choose your shibboleth carefully. A lesson from the Gordon Riots. In 1780 the Protestant Association recommended its supporters wear blue cockades as they marched on Parliament to protest the Catholic Relief Act. 1/3 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wp-content/u...
A contemporary engraving depictng the 'Burning, Plundering and Destruction of Newgate [Prison] by the Rioters on the memorable 7thy of June 1780'. The prison burns in the background, while many 'rioters' dominate the foreground, many armed with sticks, cudgels, swords, etc, and many wearing hats adorned with blue cockades. Although some of the 'rioters' are seen assaulting individuals (and 'No Popery' banners are visible), by this stage the riots had begun to attack symbols of authoritarian power (prisons, the Bank of England) rather than individual Catholics.
December 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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This book (and all others by @edinburghup.bsky.social) are half price this weekend from their website: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-frederi...
Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846
Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846
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November 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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jrcarpenter.bsky.social
the joy of not being sold anything. billboard by Banksy
November 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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nithincoca.com
To those of us following human rights in #Tibet, the #Uyghur regions & illegal rare earth mining in #Laos or #Myanmar the fact that #China derailed the inclusion of mining & critical minerals in the #COP30 #JustTransition program is no surprise

for @codastory.com

www.codastory.com/climate-cris...
China’s green energy miracle and a conspiracy of silence - Coda Story
With Beijing indispensable to the global transition away from fossil fuels, questions are no longer being asked about the human cost
www.codastory.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Flaubert proved the same - and with more humour - in 'Bouvard and Pecuchet', though 'Googling and reading about it' was shown to be not much better.
us.theconversation.com The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 18d
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Two middle-aged blokes talking about music of yesteryear (a bit too laid back and smooth for me), but the chat about the ambient underground scene in South London in the early 1990s is very interesting. Strictly Kev talks us through the Telepathic Fish compilation: www.mixcloud.com/do_you_radio...
The Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show w/ Charlie Bones & Strictly Kev talking Telepathic Fish - 05/08/25
Listen to The Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show w/ Charlie Bones & Strictly Kev talking Telepathic Fish - 05/08/25 by Do!! You!!! Radio
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November 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Trains cancelled.
Photo of reconstructed platform of long-disused railway station, showing three life-size figurines, a man standing, and a woman and child sitting on bench, with regular wooden fence running behind, with station sign - 'Rosebush' (and two GWR logos) in red - above. Leafless trees in the background. Everything covered in snow, the figures included, seemingly unconcerned, perhaps frozen to death as they wait for a non-existent train.
November 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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HAITI ARE INTO THEIR FIRST WORLD CUP IN HALF A CENTURY ❤️
November 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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glasgowcoa.bsky.social
A wee wander round the Green today + spotted this banner someone has put at the front of the People's Palace - Elseth King RIP 🐦🌳🔔🐟
A banner draped on tailing at the steps of the People's Palace. There's a stone carved Glasgow CoA on the building behind
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Just came across this podcast from @jemgilbert.bsky.social and Tim Lawrence. No indication of when it was made, but their discussion of the political nuances of the summer of love & the momentous influence of David Mancuso was excellent: www.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk/series1/welc...
E01: Welcome — Home
Tune in, turn on, get down!
www.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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What a great Pick of the Week from @scouttzofiya.bsky.social with cod-slam poetry, the word 'cistension', the sound of agoraphobia, Walt Whitman, Johnny Cash, an introduction to musique concrète and a closing snippet of strangeness from LINTD: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Pick of the Week, Scout Tzofiya Bolton
Scout Tzofiya Bolton presents a selection of the best bits of audio across the BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Handbill advertising a debate hosted by Robert Wedderburn in London in August 1819, a week before Peterloo. 1/2
Image of torn handbill with National Archives watermark, printed in different fonts and type sizes. The text is centred. It reads: 'Can it be Murder to / KILL A / TYRANT? / At Hopkins-Street Chapel, / Near BERWICK-STREET, SOHO. / On Monday Evening, August 9, 1819, / The Following Question will be / DEBATED, / 'Has a Slave an inherent right to slay his Master, who refuses him / HIS LIBERTY?' / The Offspring of an African Slave will / open the Question. / Chair taken at half-past eight o'Clock. Admittance 6d. / The case of Mr. Carlisle after two evenings Discussion in the presence of / a very respectable Assembly, was decided in his favor without a discenting / voice, and a monument proposed to be erected to perpetuate his praise. / The following Question will next be Debated, viz. / Is it possible for the Government to be extricated from the accumulating perils with which it is daily surrounding itself? / Debates in future will be held twice a week, viz. Monday and Wednesday. / N.B. Lectures every Sunday morning at eleven, afternoon at three.' (National Archives, https://images.nationalarchives.gov.uk/asset/81116/)
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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k2mey.bsky.social
What's the linguistically correct term for Santa's little helpers?

Subordinate clauses

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November 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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andrea4gs.bsky.social
Without even consulting members, UNISON backs Bridget Phillipson as Deputy Labour Leader. Its time to put UNISON members first.
For too long, UNISON's leadership has offered unconditional support to politicians who attack our members. The current General Secretary has backed Starmer at every turn despite his refusal to ever back us. Now, without even consulting members, UNISON has endorsed the Starmer- backed Bridget Phillipson for Labour deputy leader - a candidate who voted to slash winter fuel and disability benefits. It's unacceptable that UNISON's leadership is yet again advancing the interests of politicians who make our members' lives worse. If I'm elected General Secretary, it will always be UNISON members first, not the Labour Party. Andrea Egan for General Secretary
September 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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'The BBC will only survive if the people who fund it are actively and directly involved in running it. An institution that began life as a private company and became a chartered corporation must now become a public service cooperative': substack.com/inbox/post/....
Abolish the BBC?
The real crisis for the broadcaster is the rise of US-based digital media and the growing need for a democratic media
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November 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
"We loan books from the local library, or we loan books through it from a library far away. But we also lend ourselves to the library — enlarging the commons and participating in the political project of making an informed society." @shannonmattern.bsky.social

placesjournal.org/article/extr...
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
placesjournal.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
bulldozia.com
'P for Relief' using Mamdani meme generator (made by @foone) adapting bodega-style fonts and colour of 'Mamdani for New York'.
November 9, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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robfordmancs.bsky.social
Or to put it another way, both Nigel Farage and Zack Polanski will have reasons to celebrate if Labour introduce an ultra-hardline asylum policy modelled on an unpopular Danish government which is allied with the centre-right. Polanski will get more Lab recruits, and that increases Farage's lead.
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM