Bethan Angharad
@bethanangharadl.bsky.social
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"And in the darkness I smile at life, as if I were the possessor of charm which would enable me to transform all that is evil and tragical into serenity and happiness. But when I search my mind for the cause of this joy, I find there is no cause, and can only laugh at myself." - Rosa Luxemburg
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Need some hopium? Listen to Dave's podcast with @brightsaver.bsky.social on balcony solar. The cultural and narrative potential here are huge! Cut the red tape and let me plug in!
Today on Volts: I've had more requests to cover this than almost any other topic in the pod's history, so now, at long last, balcony solar! We dig into how "plug-in solar" took off in Europe & how it's making its way to the US, starting in Utah. Backyard DIY types rejoice!
What's the deal with balcony solar?
Cora Stryker joins me to explain how "plug-in" solar took Europe by storm and is finally, via Utah (?), making its way to America.
www.volts.wtf
December 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Need some hopium? Listen to Dave's podcast with @brightsaver.bsky.social on balcony solar. The cultural and narrative potential here are huge! Cut the red tape and let me plug in!
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In a surprise to absolutely no one, the mum she’s describing is not claiming benefits as a “lifestyle choice”.
This paywalled article is full of “in my grandparents day, blah blah blah” and nasty sneery comments about latest iPhones for spoilt children🙄
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This paywalled article is full of “in my grandparents day, blah blah blah” and nasty sneery comments about latest iPhones for spoilt children🙄
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December 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
In a surprise to absolutely no one, the mum she’s describing is not claiming benefits as a “lifestyle choice”.
This paywalled article is full of “in my grandparents day, blah blah blah” and nasty sneery comments about latest iPhones for spoilt children🙄
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This paywalled article is full of “in my grandparents day, blah blah blah” and nasty sneery comments about latest iPhones for spoilt children🙄
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Honest Robbie Jenrick.
December 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Honest Robbie Jenrick.
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"immigration has to go up for our growth goals, but our policy is to bring it down"
uk politics in a nutshell
uk politics in a nutshell
There is an actual interesting little deceit in the budget, namely ther have the OBR still forecasting based on increasing net immigration back to 300-350k whilst the Home Secretary is promising to bring it down from 200k, which does dissolve about half the headroom, but somehow we're doing vibes.
Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.
December 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"immigration has to go up for our growth goals, but our policy is to bring it down"
uk politics in a nutshell
uk politics in a nutshell
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🚨Some personal news.
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Jonathan Gullis, The Seagull's Lament
A New Yorker Profile
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🚨Some personal news.
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
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I have a confession, I wander the picturesque small towns of America, killing young married women.
You may think me monstrous but it must be done so there is a bountiful harvest of sexy widowers for busy corporate women to fall in love with in Hallmark movies next year.
I am a cruel necessity.
You may think me monstrous but it must be done so there is a bountiful harvest of sexy widowers for busy corporate women to fall in love with in Hallmark movies next year.
I am a cruel necessity.
December 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I have a confession, I wander the picturesque small towns of America, killing young married women.
You may think me monstrous but it must be done so there is a bountiful harvest of sexy widowers for busy corporate women to fall in love with in Hallmark movies next year.
I am a cruel necessity.
You may think me monstrous but it must be done so there is a bountiful harvest of sexy widowers for busy corporate women to fall in love with in Hallmark movies next year.
I am a cruel necessity.
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As a person who has to buy and use small boats for work, and has my name on an extensive report filed with DfT into them, do I just report to the police station now or will they arrest me at home?
The UK has gone quite, quite mad.
It's ridiculous that we (just about) survived 14 years of the Tories, only for Labour to allow the madness to take hold and spread.
Some of the stuff in those bullets is just breath-takingly evil.
And it's not winning Labour ANY votes. Just helping Reform.
It's ridiculous that we (just about) survived 14 years of the Tories, only for Labour to allow the madness to take hold and spread.
Some of the stuff in those bullets is just breath-takingly evil.
And it's not winning Labour ANY votes. Just helping Reform.
December 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
As a person who has to buy and use small boats for work, and has my name on an extensive report filed with DfT into them, do I just report to the police station now or will they arrest me at home?
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@mozilla.org please explain yourself.
firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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December 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
@mozilla.org please explain yourself.
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No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
@cosmichope.bsky.social Just seen your feed for the first time and I love you already.
December 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
@cosmichope.bsky.social Just seen your feed for the first time and I love you already.
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wife got a timer for all of our christmas lights so obviously thinking of this
December 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
wife got a timer for all of our christmas lights so obviously thinking of this
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Robert, a new portrait from the Outsiders project. He told me he became homeless, together with his friend Rory, when they were evicted from their accommodation after the pandemic. They haven’t been able to find any safe or stable housing since. They have been at the tent encampment for months
December 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Robert, a new portrait from the Outsiders project. He told me he became homeless, together with his friend Rory, when they were evicted from their accommodation after the pandemic. They haven’t been able to find any safe or stable housing since. They have been at the tent encampment for months
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Douglas! Fetch the vodka!
Oscar had been warned about the dangers of placing his tongue on his spear in minus 10° C weather, but he just couldn’t help himself - 8th/9th century,
Amiens. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 172, f. 5v
Amiens. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 172, f. 5v
December 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Douglas! Fetch the vodka!
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"We've seen a stealth tax come in, not a wealth tax."
@frankadlingtons.bsky.social discusses the Budget on BBC Politics East Midlands.
@frankadlingtons.bsky.social discusses the Budget on BBC Politics East Midlands.
December 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"We've seen a stealth tax come in, not a wealth tax."
@frankadlingtons.bsky.social discusses the Budget on BBC Politics East Midlands.
@frankadlingtons.bsky.social discusses the Budget on BBC Politics East Midlands.
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I think that must have been in one of the Gnostic Gospels.
December 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I think that must have been in one of the Gnostic Gospels.
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There's an Advent Carol Service at 6 pm tonight in the Memorial Chapel of the @glasgow.ac.uk . And it is going to be fabulous!
ugac.online
ugac.online
University of Glasgow Anglican Chaplaincy – Anglican/Episcopal Chaplaincy at the University of Glasgow
ugac.online
December 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
There's an Advent Carol Service at 6 pm tonight in the Memorial Chapel of the @glasgow.ac.uk . And it is going to be fabulous!
ugac.online
ugac.online
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Listening to David Lammy on @BBCr4today attempting to justify abolishing trial by jury, it is increasingly and terrifyingly clear that he simply does not understand the issues.
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Listening to David Lammy on @BBCr4today attempting to justify abolishing trial by jury, it is increasingly and terrifyingly clear that he simply does not understand the issues.
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Summer Storm
Acrylic on textured canvas
www.mickoxley.com/product/orig...
25% of all original sales to @newcastlefoodbank.org
Acrylic on textured canvas
www.mickoxley.com/product/orig...
25% of all original sales to @newcastlefoodbank.org
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Summer Storm
Acrylic on textured canvas
www.mickoxley.com/product/orig...
25% of all original sales to @newcastlefoodbank.org
Acrylic on textured canvas
www.mickoxley.com/product/orig...
25% of all original sales to @newcastlefoodbank.org
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Greetings and good morning it’s the Tuesday day rush hour with our donkeys, sheep and toast
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Greetings and good morning it’s the Tuesday day rush hour with our donkeys, sheep and toast
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The government is already making it worse for children being mis-aged as adults by trialling the use of AI over proper assessments by trained social workers. Now they want to do this. FFS, these are already traumatised children. They need to be treated better.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Children reaching UK by small boat face sim card mouth searches
Home Office accused of putting criminality before dignity with rule seeking intelligence on people-smugglers
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The government is already making it worse for children being mis-aged as adults by trialling the use of AI over proper assessments by trained social workers. Now they want to do this. FFS, these are already traumatised children. They need to be treated better.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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It will never catch on
What if:
Immigration is actually really beneficial to a country and helps secure its future prosperity and long term health of its culture and isn’t a really bad thing like all those rich sociopaths who moved to Dubai say it is?
Immigration is actually really beneficial to a country and helps secure its future prosperity and long term health of its culture and isn’t a really bad thing like all those rich sociopaths who moved to Dubai say it is?
Guys, guys, guys:
what if we provide asylum to lots of refugees so that when the conflict in their homeland ends and economic reconstruction begins we have lots of social links to that country that allow us to forge mutually beneficial economic partnerships with it?
what if we provide asylum to lots of refugees so that when the conflict in their homeland ends and economic reconstruction begins we have lots of social links to that country that allow us to forge mutually beneficial economic partnerships with it?
December 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
It will never catch on