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Nid doddynt, nid ydynt, nid ŷnt barawt. He/him/fe.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13h

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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R @rchlcze.bsky.social · 13h

Quite a few of the asylum seekers we support are actually taking Welsh lessons but none of the English people I know who live here have either started doing that or actually seen it through in any way.

Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 14h

Like to see practically any cunt in Reform manage even GCSE English.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 16h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

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Derek @derekdesanges.bsky.social · Aug 15

with your help we can change this

the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · Aug 14

People are always rightly pointing out that Warhammer contributes more to the British economy than the fishing industry, but the problem is that there just aren't very many folk songs about Warhammer

Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 1d

Headlining. Just had a check out of interest and it's not quite 25 years as I thought, but it was 2002 which isn't that much better.

Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 1d

Remember seeing them in Bristol oh god oh jesus christ twenty-five years ago

Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 1d

Galactic level banger.

Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 1d

It's got "knitting pattern shared round the nans" written all over it.

Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 1d

Post you from a different era.

Cefn Hengoed, 1982. I once asked Dad where the horse came from and apparently that's "just the kind of thing that showed up in Cefn Hengoed in 1982."

The best photo of me ever taken, as a toddler in some kind of red hoodie/cardigan combo, with my Mam holding me on the saddle of a small horse on a very 1980s valleys street. I look perhaps the happiest I've ever been in my life.

Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 2d

Sickos "Ha Ha Ha Yes!" meme

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 2d

It's really starting to look like Trump's insistence that he's ended several wars, along with his hankering for the Nobel Peace Prize, is part of some grotesque effort to balance the ledger with God. America has its very own Jimmy Savile and they made him President.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 2d

If people fancy seeing the sort of fantasy stuff I'm doing for Warhammer, my novella "On the Shoulders of Giants" has its paperback preorder starting next Saturday. If you don't know Warhammer, you don't particularly need to. Just the story of a man with a gun who lives on top of an ogre.

Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 2d

NEITHER DO I

Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 2d

How have you done twice as many as me.

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britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 3d

Jared Leto *is* AI: a tacky thing corporations keep forcing on consumers by putting him in everything even though he’s unprofitable and nobody likes it

Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 3d

RIP Diane Keaton, you would have loved being improbably cast in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 7 with flashback scenes where they de-aged you with AI.

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 3d

Re: Ian Watkins - I met people in that weird Welsh emo poser scene in the 2000s & there was definitely a sort of self-destructive nihilistic edge to it that found ironic humour, & even pride in being vain, selfish, & generally horrible. I always thunk about that when I hear the "megalolz" story.

Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 3d

Conservatism is both inherently a death cult, and a paedophile ring.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4d

gonna keep reposting this until i don't have to

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

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Stuart Webb @inflatabledalek.bsky.social · 3d

@madeley.bsky.social kicking down the door: WALES

Touma asking "Avalon? What's that?"

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 4d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 4d

God I love the French

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Prowls Ghost...but ghostier OOoooOoo 👻 @prowlsghost.bsky.social · 4d

That's the last time I let Trunks watch The Blair Witch Project.

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Catherine “Halloween meme participant” Winters @catherinewinters.com · 4d

At a video game show last year, I demoed my 1990s-office-themed video game After Work with floppy disk handouts instead of cards. They all said “Disk 2 of 6” on them and 100% of the Gen Xs that took one groaned and made a pained face as it triggered something deep inside.

A floppy disk with a sticker proclaiming it to be disk two of six for the office productivity suite “After Work”, in a 1990s software font like it’s Photoshop 3.0 or Word 6.

Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 4d

Because I never got round to reading Skybound I have no idea what the fuck it's all about, except for being something that looks a bit shit.

Madeley @madeley.bsky.social · 4d

My son has his heart on his sleeve and every emotion he experiences on his face, completely unblockable. My daughter, however, has an incredible penchant for the bullshit and a striking poker face that is going to cause no end of trouble, presumably for everyone else rather than her.