nyzn
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Grateful immigrant to rural Wales, hobby sheep farmer, sheep colour genetics obsessive, refugee from high tech. Dysgwraig Cymraeg. I don't follow back unless I think you are relevant to my interests.
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Labour are dancing to the tune of Reform's cruel agenda on asylum.
These proposals, including confiscating personal belongings, will punish people who have already endured unimaginable hardship and will create further divisions in our communities.
Plaid Cymru rejects such performative cruelty.
These proposals, including confiscating personal belongings, will punish people who have already endured unimaginable hardship and will create further divisions in our communities.
Plaid Cymru rejects such performative cruelty.
November 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Labour are dancing to the tune of Reform's cruel agenda on asylum.
These proposals, including confiscating personal belongings, will punish people who have already endured unimaginable hardship and will create further divisions in our communities.
Plaid Cymru rejects such performative cruelty.
These proposals, including confiscating personal belongings, will punish people who have already endured unimaginable hardship and will create further divisions in our communities.
Plaid Cymru rejects such performative cruelty.
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Imagine how far the £2.5billion announced for nuclear today could go if it was invested in energy communities.
Community Energy Wales Manifesto:
communityenergy.wales/content/publ...
Community Energy Wales Manifesto:
communityenergy.wales/content/publ...
November 13, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Imagine how far the £2.5billion announced for nuclear today could go if it was invested in energy communities.
Community Energy Wales Manifesto:
communityenergy.wales/content/publ...
Community Energy Wales Manifesto:
communityenergy.wales/content/publ...
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Such an imaginative lead for heritage in Scotland. I saw similar graphic novel artists used to illustrate the Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon museum in Northumberland in May. A hugely effective new way to communicate archaeology 👏👏
www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
Archaeologists and Game Designers Collaborate to Create “Basically the Best Book on the Picts Ever Written” - Dig It!
Carved in Stone: A Storyteller’s Guide to the Picts is an illustrated and comprehensive book for anyone interested in Scotland’s past, including those who play tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs). Fol...
www.digitscotland.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Such an imaginative lead for heritage in Scotland. I saw similar graphic novel artists used to illustrate the Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon museum in Northumberland in May. A hugely effective new way to communicate archaeology 👏👏
www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
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One of the government's plans for the NHS is "left shift", taking services from hospitals and placing them in the community. Closer to the residents, more responsive to their needs, cheaper, and faster services.
What's not to like?
This is not as easy as some think. A short thread:
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What's not to like?
This is not as easy as some think. A short thread:
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October 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
One of the government's plans for the NHS is "left shift", taking services from hospitals and placing them in the community. Closer to the residents, more responsive to their needs, cheaper, and faster services.
What's not to like?
This is not as easy as some think. A short thread:
1/
What's not to like?
This is not as easy as some think. A short thread:
1/
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I’m never quite sure what the ‘woke right’ is, but in my imagination it means someone who includes a land acknowledgement to the local aristocratic landowner in their email signature
October 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I’m never quite sure what the ‘woke right’ is, but in my imagination it means someone who includes a land acknowledgement to the local aristocratic landowner in their email signature
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Is there a more lying prefix than the "perma" in "permalink"?
October 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Is there a more lying prefix than the "perma" in "permalink"?
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The achievable carbon uptake from planting trees is much lower than previous estimates, and even lower than many nations have committed to. New paper by Wang et al. in Science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌏🌳🌲🌐
September 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The achievable carbon uptake from planting trees is much lower than previous estimates, and even lower than many nations have committed to. New paper by Wang et al. in Science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌏🌳🌲🌐
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I hate how successful this would be.
August 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I hate how successful this would be.
So bizarre to get messages from sheep pharmaceutical suppliers asking me to rate my purchases. Half tempted to go write that the Heptavac vaccine had a lovely strawberry flavour but the blowfly strike protection pour-on gave me a rash.
August 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
So bizarre to get messages from sheep pharmaceutical suppliers asking me to rate my purchases. Half tempted to go write that the Heptavac vaccine had a lovely strawberry flavour but the blowfly strike protection pour-on gave me a rash.
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I wrote a short rant about what irks me when people anthropomorphize LLMs:
addxorrol.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-no...
addxorrol.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-no...
A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs
In many discussions where questions of "alignment" or "AI safety" crop up, I am baffled by seriously intelligent people imbuing almost magic...
addxorrol.blogspot.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I wrote a short rant about what irks me when people anthropomorphize LLMs:
addxorrol.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-no...
addxorrol.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-no...
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I'm seeing a lot of irate reactions to this story but forest restoration is much more complex and unpredictable than this implies. Just because you leave land vacant doesn't mean that trees will suddenly appear, nor the trees that you would like.
Government ‘failing to support natural regeneration of trees in England’
Campaigners say targets for woodland creation are unlikely to be met because 95% of grants are for planting
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I'm seeing a lot of irate reactions to this story but forest restoration is much more complex and unpredictable than this implies. Just because you leave land vacant doesn't mean that trees will suddenly appear, nor the trees that you would like.
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Explosive response of the British Medical Association to the Supreme Court's "biologically nonsensical" ruling: "We recognize as doctors that sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine".
April 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Explosive response of the British Medical Association to the Supreme Court's "biologically nonsensical" ruling: "We recognize as doctors that sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine".
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Shower thought: just realised how much His Dark Materials has the same structure as a classic JRPG.
First level: you and your cute animal companion sneak into a study! A childhood friend joins your party.
Final level: you, your love interest and a motley crew kill God.
First level: you and your cute animal companion sneak into a study! A childhood friend joins your party.
Final level: you, your love interest and a motley crew kill God.
April 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Shower thought: just realised how much His Dark Materials has the same structure as a classic JRPG.
First level: you and your cute animal companion sneak into a study! A childhood friend joins your party.
Final level: you, your love interest and a motley crew kill God.
First level: you and your cute animal companion sneak into a study! A childhood friend joins your party.
Final level: you, your love interest and a motley crew kill God.
When all the cherries finally line up on the slot machine! The black (appearing) lamb on the left is solid colour, guaranteed not extension dominant, guaranteed at least a dilute carrier, and with luck (50% chance but I have a good feeling) homozygous dilute. The girl on the right is fab too.
April 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
When all the cherries finally line up on the slot machine! The black (appearing) lamb on the left is solid colour, guaranteed not extension dominant, guaranteed at least a dilute carrier, and with luck (50% chance but I have a good feeling) homozygous dilute. The girl on the right is fab too.
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One of the best example of the incongruousness to Celtic speakers of some anglophone Celticism.
To Anglophones: "Dramatic Celtic Word: The Dramatic Celtic Card Game"
To Welsh people: Might as well be "Essex: The Card Game"
To Anglophones: "Dramatic Celtic Word: The Dramatic Celtic Card Game"
To Welsh people: Might as well be "Essex: The Card Game"
April 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
One of the best example of the incongruousness to Celtic speakers of some anglophone Celticism.
To Anglophones: "Dramatic Celtic Word: The Dramatic Celtic Card Game"
To Welsh people: Might as well be "Essex: The Card Game"
To Anglophones: "Dramatic Celtic Word: The Dramatic Celtic Card Game"
To Welsh people: Might as well be "Essex: The Card Game"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... As usual, Green GEN Cymru is repeating the line "New grid infrastructure is urgently required as Wales' electricity needs grow" which is certainly true! But as far as I can tell none of their proposals involve improving the grid in Wales.
Pylon plans in rural Wales could spark social unrest, Plaid warns
A green energy company is threatening landowners with legal action as they deny access requests.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... As usual, Green GEN Cymru is repeating the line "New grid infrastructure is urgently required as Wales' electricity needs grow" which is certainly true! But as far as I can tell none of their proposals involve improving the grid in Wales.
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Just doing some reading about the design of cryptographic protocols.
March 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Just doing some reading about the design of cryptographic protocols.
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my omelas response take is simply that stories in this genre should be known as omelettes
March 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
my omelas response take is simply that stories in this genre should be known as omelettes
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If we want to help everyone who wants to work do so, we should first ask how to reform the environment they face, rather than risk those who can’t work being pushed further into poverty and indignity.
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March 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
If we want to help everyone who wants to work do so, we should first ask how to reform the environment they face, rather than risk those who can’t work being pushed further into poverty and indignity.
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Fascinating that someone as single-mindedly power hungry as Gavin Newsom was incapable of recognizing that he COULD have become an extremely powerful anti-Trump warlord almost instantly if he’d gone hard in that direction.
Instead, he irretrievably shot himself in the dick by starting a podcast.
Instead, he irretrievably shot himself in the dick by starting a podcast.
California has the strength and size to hit the MAGA freaks hard, but that becomes a lot harder when its governor is a sniveling collaborationist.
I don’t think we have the *time* to just wait for Gavin Newsom to term out at this point.
I don’t think we have the *time* to just wait for Gavin Newsom to term out at this point.
God, I really wish California had a better leader than that feckless meat-puppet right now.
March 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Fascinating that someone as single-mindedly power hungry as Gavin Newsom was incapable of recognizing that he COULD have become an extremely powerful anti-Trump warlord almost instantly if he’d gone hard in that direction.
Instead, he irretrievably shot himself in the dick by starting a podcast.
Instead, he irretrievably shot himself in the dick by starting a podcast.
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It's Monday, which is a good day to remember that the data broker industry must be destroyed: gizmodo.com/data-broker-...
Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users
The advertising industry is immensely powerful, and disturbingly opaque.
gizmodo.com
March 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It's Monday, which is a good day to remember that the data broker industry must be destroyed: gizmodo.com/data-broker-...
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The gods are displeased with our leaders and are sending their most disturbing signal tonight
Tonight's the night! A total lunar eclipse and blood moon will be visible across the US.
Here’s how—and when—to watch it in your area.
Here’s how—and when—to watch it in your area.
How to See the Total Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon This Month
On March 14, skywatchers in the Americas will be able to see the first of 2025’s two total lunar eclipses.
wrd.cm
March 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The gods are displeased with our leaders and are sending their most disturbing signal tonight
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Wales has been screwed over by its own Labour MPs.
The 27 Welsh Labour MPs voted to deny Wales millions of £ in the coming years.
When I approached them they gave very weak excuses for their actions.
Stay with me here because it's a bit fiddly but really matters.
[Thread]
The 27 Welsh Labour MPs voted to deny Wales millions of £ in the coming years.
When I approached them they gave very weak excuses for their actions.
Stay with me here because it's a bit fiddly but really matters.
[Thread]
March 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Wales has been screwed over by its own Labour MPs.
The 27 Welsh Labour MPs voted to deny Wales millions of £ in the coming years.
When I approached them they gave very weak excuses for their actions.
Stay with me here because it's a bit fiddly but really matters.
[Thread]
The 27 Welsh Labour MPs voted to deny Wales millions of £ in the coming years.
When I approached them they gave very weak excuses for their actions.
Stay with me here because it's a bit fiddly but really matters.
[Thread]
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Volkswagen is the latest carmaker to announce the return of physical buttons. We’re making progress.
Volkswagen is bringing back physical buttons
“Honestly, it’s a car. It’s not a phone.”
www.theverge.com
March 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Volkswagen is the latest carmaker to announce the return of physical buttons. We’re making progress.