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Steffan.J @cymrufod.bsky.social · 2h

I'm not really following it, and I'm pretty sure I'm in the top 3% of news digesters.

Steffan.J @cymrufod.bsky.social · 5h

Chomsky got aggressively defensive when asked about the nature of his association with Epstein.
'None of your business!'

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 8h

I have a fun thing in my life where my social circle are leftlib urban PMC, half my family are from deep red North Wales and the other half are British Indians and you think “ok you should ALL be Labour’s core vote and you ALL hate the government”

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Steffan.J @cymrufod.bsky.social · 7h

Plaid/Reform switchers are exceptionally rare.

That's not to say there are no Welsh-identifying supporters for Faragism, or that we couldn't go down that route.

Steffan.J @cymrufod.bsky.social · 7h

I'm not trying to excuse my country, nor am I against migration from England, but around a third of the population have moved here from England. Those areas which have a high level of Faragist support align with high levels of such people.

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Steffan.J @cymrufod.bsky.social · 21h

Really great news

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Steffan.J @cymrufod.bsky.social · 1d

One thing your pod could do would be to discuss the limiting of immigration to A-Level standard English.
I'm assuming there are very many qualified builders and engineers in the world who don't cross that threshold.

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Steffan.J @cymrufod.bsky.social · 4d

Bury the lede.

Though Public Service Broadcasting was/is a great band name.

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Steffan.J @cymrufod.bsky.social · 4d

The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Gulf War
The surprise Tory win in 1992
New Labour victory in 1997
Welsh Assembly referendum

Britpop wasn't an event, but it captured and partly created the anti-elitist, all-inclusive, apolitical pre-millennium zeitgeist.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 5d

What five events defined your childhood?

• The Challenger Explosion
• The Fall of the Berlin Wall
• The Gulf War
• The Oklahoma City Bombing
• The Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal

I have no memory of the Chernobyl disaster. But I remember the Challenger disaster from the same year.

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Steffan.J @cymrufod.bsky.social · 4d

Opposing the death penalty but being fine with the state enabling the circumstances for the death penalty to take place is in many ways more dishonest and morally worse than simply advocating for the death penalty.

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Steffan.J @cymrufod.bsky.social · 4d

It's not about being tolerant or kind.
Human Rights are intended to be universal, otherwise they're just human privileges.
Just as I believe even child rapists have a right to a fair trial, I believe they have a right to not be killed during their punishment.

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Steffan.J @cymrufod.bsky.social · 4d

You seem to be saying it's ok for prison officials to let prisoners be killed.
No-one here is sad that he's dead, but it's a reasonable principled point that the state, once it's imprisoned someone, has a duty to protect them.
It's very strange for a human rights advocate to think otherwise.

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Steffan.J @cymrufod.bsky.social · 5d

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.

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Steffan.J @cymrufod.bsky.social · 5d

They'll drive the prices of the remaining non-rent controlled even higher, i.e. for young people and those who migrate to cities.
It'll also disincentivise those lucky enough to get rent controls from moving and their landlords to improve the properties, meaning the problems will baked in for longer

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Steffan.J @cymrufod.bsky.social · 5d

Social housing is good, but it should be noted that we have one of the highest levels of social housing, while also having the highest level of homelessness.

We do however have one of the lowest level of empty homes, meaning we have under-supply.

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Steffan.J @cymrufod.bsky.social · 5d

I do remember a story of a Lysenkoist trying to prove the theory correct by cutting off the tails of countless generations of mice in the hope of producing a tailless mouse.

He only ended the project when someone pointed out that jews have carried out a similar test without any noticeable success.

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Steffan.J @cymrufod.bsky.social · 5d

A curiously large number of recent US presidents have been left-handed.
Not sure if it's pure coincidence, but it seems pretty unlikely if so.