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Books, heavy metal, rugby (Scarlets, RGC.)
Librarian. Cymraeg. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Caru llyfrgelloedd / love libraries 📚📕📗📘📙📔
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You must read @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on the latest “too big to fail” stock market shattering statements of the Tech Bros.

Alex Karp and Sam Altman in full head wagging denial mode should tell you all you need to know about the reckoning to come

broligarchy.substack.com/p/peter-thie...
Peter Thiel Gets Out of Dodge
Yesterday, I published on "Great AI Bubble". Today, Silicon Valley's Dr Evil dumps his stock
broligarchy.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Hi. Could at least 40 people buy a Life of Sharks 2026 Calendar? For a project I’m working on*

thelifeofsharks.com

*my overdraft
November 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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The actual Department of US Homeland Security.

Incredible.
November 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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The Carnegies are introducing an age-inclusive longlist shadowing offer, so reading groups of all ages can join in. This will run alongside our regular shortlist shadowing, giving even more ways to take part — full details coming soon!
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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A NEW CHRISTMAS THING!

The Big Green Books Advent Calendar!

Choose from 4, 6 or 12 books.

Your chance to unwrap a new surprise book every few days in the run up to Christmas.

The books will be chosen based on what you enjoy reading.

More info HERE

www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
November 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Map of Wales according to the WRU.
October 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Poster can be downloaded from my website www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/single-post/...
October 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
@joelakerry1981.bsky.social Hi, are you still a CILIP Chartership mentor?
October 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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US prosecutors keep charging women with ‘pregnancy-related crimes’ | Arwa Mahdawi
US prosecutors keep charging women with ‘pregnancy-related crimes’ | Arwa Mahdawi
In the two years after Roe v Wade was overturned, hundreds were charged amid growing acceptance of ‘fetal personhood’
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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🔴NEW🔴

Thread 🧵

@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...
bylinetimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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🔴How Western Media Whitewashed Israel’s Mass-Abduction of Activists

Over 450 members of the aid flotilla to Gaza are now being held by Israel in an “anti-terror” prison in the Negev desert, reports @mathildamall.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/h...
How Western Media Whitewashed Israel’s Mass-Abduction of Activists
Over 450 members of the aid flotilla to Gaza are now being held by Israel in an “anti-terror” prison in the Negev desert
bylinetimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Mae rhanbarth rygbi y Scarlets werth £17.3m i'r economi leol medd Cyngor Sir Gâr
'Mwy na chlwb rygbi': Y Scarlets werth £17.3m i'r economi medd Cyngor Sir Gâr
Dywedodd y Cyngor bod yr asesiad wedi ei gyflwyno fel rhan o broses ymgynghori'r Undeb ar ddyfodol y gêm broffesiynol
newyddion.s4c.cymru
October 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Help us build a new kind of media. Please sign up. More coming soon! @thenerve.news 🙏🙏🙏

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The Nerve
Fearless, independent journalism covering culture, politics and tech.
www.thenerve.news
September 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Independent publisher Graffeg has stepped in to save thousands of beautiful books from being pulped, taking on stock originally published by the now defunct Unbound after the company ceased trading
Welsh publisher rescues thousands of Jackie Morris books from being destroyed
Independent publisher Graffeg has stepped in to save thousands of beautiful books from being pulped, taking on stock originally published by the now defunct Unbound (after that company ceased trading)...
wp.me
September 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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I'm trying to raise a bit of money to send books to a new Mobile Library being set up specifically to support the homeless in London.

It's being organised by the charity "PINT Giving".

I'm donating £100 & if you can help too, i'd be so grateful.

More info here.

tinyurl.com/37yn63zu
September 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Stephen Yaxley-Lennon being deported twice in 24 hours - first from Colombia, then from Panama - because he’s deemed a national security threat, just a week after he led a march calling for migrants to be deported, is the kind of schadenfreude we can all savour.
September 20, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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As the dark shadows of fascism fan out across the land, the brightest stars of the British left are bickering about the log-in details for their new website.
September 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil: ‘We took Slayer’s Dave Lombardo to Todmorden for a curry and a pint’
Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil: ‘We took Slayer’s Dave Lombardo to Todmorden for a curry and a pint’
With the band’s 10th album out this week, their frontman answers your questions on Matt Cardle’s version of Many of Horror, playing a German swimming pool – and getting carried away over Richard Ashcroft
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is a fantastic read, @galleybeggars.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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September 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM