Dyfrig Williams
@dyfrigw.bsky.social
Cymraeg! He / Him. Music fan. Cyclist. Scarlet. Work for Research in Practice. Views mine / Barn fi.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
This is such a vital read - a brilliant call for rethinking how public services operate #LeadersF25
Adam Lent: The way that we conceive the public sector hasn't changed in 70 years. We need to think about 'do with' not 'do to' < Adam's overview of this for @thekingsfund.bsky.social is excellent www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-... #LeadersF25
Doing With: Reinventing Public Services In A Time Of Crisis | The King's Fund
If the UK’s public sector is to avoid irreversible decline, we need a radical shift from a ‘do to’ to a ‘do with’ mindset to equip us for the future. Adam Lent explores what 'Doing With' means in real...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
This is such a vital read - a brilliant call for rethinking how public services operate #LeadersF25
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Really interesting framing by Rachael Wardell @theadcsltd.bsky.social around whether we need to build services that last forever, or celebrate the work that we're doing right now. Chimes with this post by @paulitaylor.bsky.social on planned obsolescence paulitaylor.com/2022/01/10/b... #LeadersF25
Built Not To Last: Could Planned Obsolescence Be Good For The Social Sector?
Planned obsolescence is the practice of deliberately creating consumer goods that rapidly become obsolete (or out of date) and therefore need to be frequently replaced. If we designed our organisat…
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November 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Really interesting framing by Rachael Wardell @theadcsltd.bsky.social around whether we need to build services that last forever, or celebrate the work that we're doing right now. Chimes with this post by @paulitaylor.bsky.social on planned obsolescence paulitaylor.com/2022/01/10/b... #LeadersF25
Quote of the day! #LeadersF25 was an absolute winner today
@llannerch.bsky.social: "To be truly radical is to make hope possible instead of despair convincing" < Love this! #LeadersF25
November 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Quote of the day! #LeadersF25 was an absolute winner today
Really interesting podcast on accent bias, although somewhet depressing findings around how accent affects perceptions of employability www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Word of Mouth - Accent Bias - BBC Sounds
Michael Rosen asks Devyani Sharma about the latest research into accent bias in the UK.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Really interesting podcast on accent bias, although somewhet depressing findings around how accent affects perceptions of employability www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Polish poster for the International Peace Race
1967
Artist: Leszek Holdanowicz
1967
Artist: Leszek Holdanowicz
September 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Polish poster for the International Peace Race
1967
Artist: Leszek Holdanowicz
1967
Artist: Leszek Holdanowicz
"There is a delegating of critical decision-making authority away from humans and into immutable rulebooks, policies, bureaucratic protocols, or automated algorithms" paulitaylor.com/2025/10/31/c... < Very good post on failure demand in the public sector from @paulitaylor.bsky.social #localgov
Complaints Rise Because Our Organisations Are Designed To Generate Complaints
The purpose of a system is what it does
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October 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"There is a delegating of critical decision-making authority away from humans and into immutable rulebooks, policies, bureaucratic protocols, or automated algorithms" paulitaylor.com/2025/10/31/c... < Very good post on failure demand in the public sector from @paulitaylor.bsky.social #localgov
Joio yw'r gair anghywir, ond mae'r @podcastpeldroed.bsky.social diweddaraf yn crynhoi teimladau fi i'r dim ar ôl y gemau diwethaf.
The latest Podcast Pêl Droed crystallises why I was so disappointed after the latest games. Now I can move on m.soundcloud.com/podcast_peld...
The latest Podcast Pêl Droed crystallises why I was so disappointed after the latest games. Now I can move on m.soundcloud.com/podcast_peld...
Ep. 194 - England and Belgium review
Play Ep. 194 - England and Belgium review by Podcast Pêl-droed on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Joio yw'r gair anghywir, ond mae'r @podcastpeldroed.bsky.social diweddaraf yn crynhoi teimladau fi i'r dim ar ôl y gemau diwethaf.
The latest Podcast Pêl Droed crystallises why I was so disappointed after the latest games. Now I can move on m.soundcloud.com/podcast_peld...
The latest Podcast Pêl Droed crystallises why I was so disappointed after the latest games. Now I can move on m.soundcloud.com/podcast_peld...