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Sheila Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🚴🐈🌹
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Cardiff, Wales, Europe, cycling, community, environment, hedgehogs, other animals, art, politics, travel, history
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Great to see this legislation in Denmark. UK next please. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features
Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says
www.theguardian.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
So sad, RIP Clem Burke
It is with profound sadness that we relay news of the passing of our beloved friend and bandmate Clem Burke following a private battle with cancer. (1/7)
April 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Liz Truss is still refusing to comment about her first day as an electrical engineer at Heathrow.
March 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Canada giving Marco Rubio the tiniest red carpet they could find in a thrift shop somewhere.
March 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The Prime Minister of Poland is quite clear. Now for the other European leaders please.....
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
February 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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This has to be right. Starmer's summit on Sunday has become a potentially decisive moment. If Europeans don't throw their weight behind Ukraine and behind a massive and immediate increase in their defence efforts (& damn the deficits), Europe will find itself at the mercy of Putin & Trump.
Can't see how Europe and the US can reconcile frankly. The reception to Zelensky among EU leaders vs this doesn't seem bridgeable. This is going to play awfully in every chancellery across Europe. A big split is coming
BREAKING: There has just been a huge argument between Zelenskyy, Trump & Vance in the Oval Office.

Trump calls Zelenskyy disrespectful and says he “is no position to dictate” to the US.

Trump raises his voice to Zelenskyy. He can’t stand someone standing up to him.

This is unbelievable.
February 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Time for Europe to accept that Trump's US cannot be trusted one iota. Any notion of a special relationship is for the fairies. It's for us to support Ukraine now, without the US. Yes, increase defence spending but no, not from aid budgets. Tax increases if needed.
February 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Shocked at what's coming out of the White House, appalling from Trump and Vance.
February 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Spot on 😏
Terrific resignation letter by Anneliese Dodds, this.
February 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"The US sides with Russia". And North Korea and Belarus. This is mad.
Breaking news: U.S. sides with Russia to vote against a U.N. resolution condemning Moscow for the Ukraine war.

Washington’s dramatic shift on the conflict marks a major break with its European allies and coincides with the Trump administration’s bid to repair relations with the Kremlin.
U.S. votes against U.N. resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine war
Washington’s shift on the Ukraine war marks a major break with European allies and comes as the Trump administration aims to repair relations with Russia.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Pretty unimpressed with Welsh Water - bills up by average 27%, mine more than 35%, AND increasing again for a further four years.

Welsh Water is a not-for-profit company. God help those provided by a profit-making one.

This is water ffs 🙄
February 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic.
This is truly shocking read.
The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…
voice.cymru
February 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
At last! Good news, albeit with potential limitations (quotas & health care surcharge), but this will be a great step forward.
eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
New: Starmer ready to offer Youth Mobility Scheme
Keir Starmer's youth mobility proposal aims to strengthen UK-EU relations, addressing labour shortages and opportunities
eastangliabylines.co.uk
February 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"The Guardians of Western Civilisation" 😆😆😆😆
Have a great weekend. It could be our last.
February 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.
February 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Can't quite believe R4 Evan Davies interviewing an Egyptian Senator asking why Trump's insane, despicable, dangerous, offensive suggestion wouldn't work. As if there was merit in the idea. FFS 🤬🤬🤬
February 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Stop worrying about bats and newts? No Rachel Reeves MP – start worrying about the future of our economy if we tear down the nature it depends on.

Nature isn’t a blocker; it’s the foundation of growth.
January 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Great to launch the first Repair Cafe in Llanishen (Cardiff) today. A huge success with a fantastic team of volunteers and more than 30 visitors/repairs in the two-hour session. Less landfill, less consumption, less spending = can only be good 😊
January 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Here we go......🤬🤬🤬
Attn: President Trump announced the withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement.
January 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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To everybody who said our Nazi comparisons were hyperbolic:
January 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Life comes at you fast
January 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Fantastic Christmas TV, bravo #GavinAndStacey 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
December 25, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Most stressful thing about Christmas? The effing sellotape dispenser 😭😭😭
December 23, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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Syrian state TV is now broadcasting just a single, still image.

It reads: “The great revolution has triumphed and the Assad regime has fallen.”

History.

#Syria 🇸🇾
December 8, 2024 at 9:04 AM