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Gethin @gethin76.bsky.social · 3h

I see the Mercury Prize has disappeared up its own arse then 🤷🏻‍♂️

Gethin @gethin76.bsky.social · 8h

My next three days #swn

Gethin @gethin76.bsky.social · 8h

I think the conclusion is more: organise away from where loud mouthed opinionated people suck all the energy out of you

Gethin @gethin76.bsky.social · 11h

This is really interesting given the polarisation on social media these days

Harry Gray @harryhamishgray.bsky.social · 13h

Last year I realised something that has changed my perspective on advocacy

At @walkridegm.org.uk we noticed social media wasn’t having a meaningful impact on active travel delivery, so we shifted our focus to more constructive spaces

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 12h

Good thread this.

Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 14h

Furthermore, a huge vindication for Mark Drakeford here, on two fronts:
1) UK Labour have been salivating at the prospect of a devastating Welsh Labour loss in the new PR list system coming in next year, so they can create a cautionary tale about PR and further argue the merits of FPTP. Well… (1/6)

Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 15h

It sounds mad to acknowledge this but we’re seeing the most successful party in the democratic world crumble.
Welsh Labour have won every domestic election for 103 years and are now slumping to a distant 3rd in FPTP and close to the threshold of not winning *any* Caerphilly-esque seats in #Senedd26

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Gethin @gethin76.bsky.social · 17h

Who’d have thunk that building cars with and engine AND a battery would lead to higher emissions when people don’t use the battery bit properly 🤷🏻‍♂️

Real Gaz on a proper bike: [email protected] @gazza-d.bsky.social · 18h

Turns out hybrids are largely another scam concocted by the car industry to make them look greener than they are.
Pollution from them is 5 times more than tested in the lab.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars, report finds

Analysis of 800,000 European cars found real-world pollution from plug-in hybrids nearly five times greater than lab tests

www.theguardian.com

Gethin @gethin76.bsky.social · 1d

Times must be tough for Steve Lamacq if he's moonlighting as the announcer at the Sumo basho at the Albert Hall

Photo showing a Steve Lamacq-alike in a sumo dohyo in London

Gethin @gethin76.bsky.social · 2d

Both make my credit card weep uncontrollably

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Gethin @gethin76.bsky.social · 2d

Shouldn’t it be “you don’t *really* need that expensive cable”

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 2d

TIL that the aggro af wasps you see in late summer are worker wasps who have finished their nest tasks and are all out seeking sweet stuff and raising hell for the locals with the last days of their lives while waiting to die, wasps are basically just the insect version of retired Brits in Spain

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 2d

For some reason I had laboured under the misapprehension that Moseley disappeared from politics after the 1930s. But he was still at it in the 60s. I did not realise that there was a direct unbroken line of continuity from him to Farage via the National Front. Anyway, Bertie shows us how it’s done.