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Richard Martin

@mimosacymru.bsky.social

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Producer, Welsh Politics commentary, Welsh Politics Pod/Hiraeth/Yr Hen Iaith 🏆 Pods. Nerth gwlad ei gwybodaeth. Cymro, Pontypriddian, Proxy Canadian & Æresdansker 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 (cyfrif personol/personal account)

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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · Nov 17

So for all the folks interested, or based, in #Wales here is an easy (non-comprehensive!!!) list of 150 of the best follows.

#Wales #Cymru #Cymreig #Cymraeg #Welsh
go.bsky.app/Ji44uiV

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Wales Governance Centre | Canolfan Llywodraethiant Cymru @walesgovernance.bsky.social · 2h

NEWYDD: Dadansoddi Cyllideb Ddrafft Amlinellol Llywodraeth Cymru 2026-27 gan tîm ymchwil Dadansoddi Cyllid Cymru👇

NEW: Analysing the 2026-27 Welsh Government Outline Draft Budget by the Wales Fiscal Analysis team 👇
#Wales #Cymru #Senedd26

blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wal...

‘Neutral’ or ‘Neutered’? Analysing the 2026-27 Welsh Government Outline Draft Budget

Showcasing current research, comments and analysis on the law, politics, history, culture, government and political economy of Wales from the Wales Governance Centre.

blogs.cardiff.ac.uk

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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 7h

Interestingly, a very complicated relationship with political Wales.

Deeply opposed to any recognition of national politics here, and vehemently against the creation of the Welsh parliament.

Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 7h

If only he was interested in taking it away from Saudi Arabia…

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 19h

#OtD 14 Oct 1977 anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant was "pied" by Thom Higgins, a gay rights activist. She then began praying and burst into tears. Following a boycott, she lost her job as brand ambassador for Florida orange juice. More LGBT+ history here: workingclasshistory.com/tag/lgbtq/

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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 8h

Excellent, love this from @elunedmorgan.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
nation.cymru/news/first-m...

First Minister announces new celebration fund for St David’s Day 2026

The First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan will today announce a new fund for communities across Wales to help them celebrate St David’s Day next year. Applications will open today for activities aimed...

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 19h

The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama has received a £2 million legacy donation securing funding for the first phase of its ambitious redevelopment of Cardiff’s historic Old Library

Funding secured for first phase of Old Library transformation

The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (RWCMD) has received a £2 million legacy donation securing funding for the first phase of its ambitious redevelopment of Cardiff’s historic Old Library. The an...

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WIRED @wired.com · 21h

NEW: A presentation that has been shared with the Trump administration references Tesla, Ikea, TSMC, and more in its plan to rebuild the region. Some of these companies say they had absolutely no idea they were mentioned.

A Plan to Rebuild Gaza Lists Nearly 30 Companies. Many Say They're Not Involved

A presentation that has been shared with the Trump administration references Tesla, Ikea, TSMC, and more in its plan to rebuild Gaza. Some of these companies say they had no idea they were mentioned.

www.wired.com

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io9 @io9dotcom.bsky.social · 1d

Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died

The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.

gizmodo.com

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Wales Governance Centre | Canolfan Llywodraethiant Cymru @walesgovernance.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to Dr @nyedavies.bsky.social discuss the life and political journey of totemic - and complex - figure of Welsh Labour history, Aneurin Bevan 👇

Available on the History Extra podcast from the BBC History Magazine in Apple, Spotify, and all other podcast apps
open.spotify.com/episode/6sOy...

Spotify – Web Player

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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 1d

Agree. Especially the concentration stuff. There’s something really self-defeating going on there that feels more like an on-pitch issue than a coaching one.

Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 1d

Tough result to take but imho being upset that we didn’t beat Belgium (!) is a bit ott.

We were a whisker away from hooding them 3-3 over there and an adrenaline shot away from clawing back to 3-3 at home. Both - imho - would have been good results for our team, such as it is.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 1d

Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov issued a new round of veiled threats towards Moldova on Oct. 12, warning Chisinau not to suffer from the same fate as Ukraine just weeks after an election that saw Moldova’s pro-European Action and Solidarity Party (PAS) secure a parliamentary majority.

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Did You See? @tvdidyousee.bsky.social · 3d

#OnThisDay 12 October 1988
IT'S DOCTOR DUD!
Pint-sized sex symbol #DudleyMoore is set to be the next #DrWho - in a 19 million dollar American film version of the time traveller . . .

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 2d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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EU Council @consilium.europa.eu · 3d

Today, the entry/exit system gets underway.

This new digital border system will streamline travel, enhance security, and improve the efficiency of border controls for non-EU nationals entering or exiting the EU.

Full implementation is planned for 10 April 2026.

More info → link.europa.eu/mnYbcy

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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 2d

“The Britainshrinkers”

British Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social · 2d

GOING PLACES FAST (1974)

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 4d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

alan moore hated people like thiel misinterpreting his work so profoundly that he dropped out of public life to become a shaman and worship a snake deity

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Brandon @bcfox.bsky.social · 3d

watching great British bake off and once again asking if the UK is aware that the war ended

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 3d

This man is basically putting every other man on the platform to shame.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Jul 21

Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet.

IG risolve

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 3d

You may call it ‘Chatfishing’, but I shall only refer to it as ‘Cyrano de Berger-App’
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 3d

Firstly, make a list of yellow things upon which colour comparisons can be made…

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

‘Hits the nose like wasabi’: the best (and worst) supermarket English mustard, tasted and rated

Complex in flavour, yet simple to make, mustard holds a strong position in condiment corner, but which jars should you be ‘as keen as …’ to taste?

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 3d

RIP Diane Keaton
My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool.
She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out.
What a unique talent & human being.

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 3d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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