Dr Ieithydd (Carys)
@yrieithydd.bsky.social
Christian, Tertiary (TSSF), Verger, ASNC PhD, linguist,
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The media narrative around Farage here needs to be "You're grotesque and stupid and fascistic now for not understanding with hindsight how cruel and stupid you were", not (just) "You were a protofascist dickhead as a teen".
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The media narrative around Farage here needs to be "You're grotesque and stupid and fascistic now for not understanding with hindsight how cruel and stupid you were", not (just) "You were a protofascist dickhead as a teen".
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Yes, I can google this, but I’d like to ask my well-read and discerning peeps here first:
Can you recommend any poems or prose fiction that deal with a youngish or middle-aged person grappling with becoming the/a head of their family when the older generation dies or becomes incapacitated?
Can you recommend any poems or prose fiction that deal with a youngish or middle-aged person grappling with becoming the/a head of their family when the older generation dies or becomes incapacitated?
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Yes, I can google this, but I’d like to ask my well-read and discerning peeps here first:
Can you recommend any poems or prose fiction that deal with a youngish or middle-aged person grappling with becoming the/a head of their family when the older generation dies or becomes incapacitated?
Can you recommend any poems or prose fiction that deal with a youngish or middle-aged person grappling with becoming the/a head of their family when the older generation dies or becomes incapacitated?
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I'm hearing criticisms of the end to the two child limit, because it was done just to mollify Labour backbenchers, at a cost of £billions.
I remember another govt delivering a referendum on EU membership, just to mollify restive backbenchers. That's costing way, way more... A little perspective?
I remember another govt delivering a referendum on EU membership, just to mollify restive backbenchers. That's costing way, way more... A little perspective?
November 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I'm hearing criticisms of the end to the two child limit, because it was done just to mollify Labour backbenchers, at a cost of £billions.
I remember another govt delivering a referendum on EU membership, just to mollify restive backbenchers. That's costing way, way more... A little perspective?
I remember another govt delivering a referendum on EU membership, just to mollify restive backbenchers. That's costing way, way more... A little perspective?
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Cheering the two child limit ending isn’t patting Starmer’s Labour on the back or ignoring his record. It’s acknowledging 8 years of hard campaigning and ridding the country of a cruel, toxic policy. Half a million children won’t be hungry anymore. Celebrate today. Tomorrow, pick the next fight.
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Cheering the two child limit ending isn’t patting Starmer’s Labour on the back or ignoring his record. It’s acknowledging 8 years of hard campaigning and ridding the country of a cruel, toxic policy. Half a million children won’t be hungry anymore. Celebrate today. Tomorrow, pick the next fight.
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And if you're living in a £5 million home and can't afford the annual payments, moving is very much an option.
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
And if you're living in a £5 million home and can't afford the annual payments, moving is very much an option.
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It's amazing how when poor people can't afford food they need to spend less on luxuries and sell any non-essential assets if they want to eat, but when rich people can't afford their own assets the solution is obviously to give them a free ride.
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It's amazing how when poor people can't afford food they need to spend less on luxuries and sell any non-essential assets if they want to eat, but when rich people can't afford their own assets the solution is obviously to give them a free ride.
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Let's get in early here.
IF YOU ARE LIVING IN A £5 million home YOU ARE RICH
IF YOU ARE LIVING IN A £5 million home YOU ARE RICH
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Let's get in early here.
IF YOU ARE LIVING IN A £5 million home YOU ARE RICH
IF YOU ARE LIVING IN A £5 million home YOU ARE RICH
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Fine, sell them and break them up so four families can live there.
Cue rich people moaning about how they can no longer afford to live in their castles.... God it's all so horribly predictable
🚨 BREXIT BUDGET🚨
"From 2028, I am introducing a high value council tax surcharge in England. An annual £2,500 charge for properties worth more than £2 million, rising to £7,500 for properties worth more than £5 million."
"From 2028, I am introducing a high value council tax surcharge in England. An annual £2,500 charge for properties worth more than £2 million, rising to £7,500 for properties worth more than £5 million."
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Fine, sell them and break them up so four families can live there.
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Some have claimed unfairly that Jim is not an especially bright cat, but we believe this is untrue, and that the reality is more complex. He is simply very *emotionally* intelligent.
November 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Some have claimed unfairly that Jim is not an especially bright cat, but we believe this is untrue, and that the reality is more complex. He is simply very *emotionally* intelligent.
Chant evensong. #TinyJoys So glad I asked @valouriousknight.bsky.social about it when he mentioned it for the O antiphons last year. Such a wonderful little community.
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Chant evensong. #TinyJoys So glad I asked @valouriousknight.bsky.social about it when he mentioned it for the O antiphons last year. Such a wonderful little community.
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Time we got rid of the whole dishonest notion of NI.
The NI take has been going into the general taxation pool for more than half of my life now. And it makes people believe their pensions aren’t benefits, and the NHS isn’t paid for with taxes, which they obviously are.
The NI take has been going into the general taxation pool for more than half of my life now. And it makes people believe their pensions aren’t benefits, and the NHS isn’t paid for with taxes, which they obviously are.
"Labour are concerned that raising Income Tax or NI will cut spending power, so instead they will just bring more of your income under NI and have you pay tax on that instead. No, this is not the same because shut up."
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Time we got rid of the whole dishonest notion of NI.
The NI take has been going into the general taxation pool for more than half of my life now. And it makes people believe their pensions aren’t benefits, and the NHS isn’t paid for with taxes, which they obviously are.
The NI take has been going into the general taxation pool for more than half of my life now. And it makes people believe their pensions aren’t benefits, and the NHS isn’t paid for with taxes, which they obviously are.
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This school chaplaincy role is looking for a "Committee Christian" which I know the Church of England has in abundance but is probably not what they meant (*committed).
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This school chaplaincy role is looking for a "Committee Christian" which I know the Church of England has in abundance but is probably not what they meant (*committed).
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The mystery here is they could have gone for “fast food restaurant” or “takeaway”… House styles, man. Never change.
Every single person in Britain: "the chippy" or, if we're being fancy, "the chip shop"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The mystery here is they could have gone for “fast food restaurant” or “takeaway”… House styles, man. Never change.
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Can you say institutional capture?
That change is explicitly in breach of their style guide: www.bbc.co.uk/newsstylegui...
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www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Can you say institutional capture?
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Trouble is, if it's using existing track (and those rails don't look new) then only one side faces a platform. Also, rail timetables/schedules are only partly there for passenger convenience, they also have an important function preventing collisions.
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Trouble is, if it's using existing track (and those rails don't look new) then only one side faces a platform. Also, rail timetables/schedules are only partly there for passenger convenience, they also have an important function preventing collisions.
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Still: the end of the two child cap on child benefit is straightforwardly good news. It was an iniquitous policy that did a lot of harm to vulnerable children and it is good that it's going.
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Still: the end of the two child cap on child benefit is straightforwardly good news. It was an iniquitous policy that did a lot of harm to vulnerable children and it is good that it's going.
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The sad thing about the accidental release of the full budget is that I can't ask my accountant dad what he thinks of the budget 10 seconds after the Chancellor stops talking, so that he can tell me with excessive patience that it's only the headlines and he can't read the full thing until tomorrow.
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The sad thing about the accidental release of the full budget is that I can't ask my accountant dad what he thinks of the budget 10 seconds after the Chancellor stops talking, so that he can tell me with excessive patience that it's only the headlines and he can't read the full thing until tomorrow.
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This turned out not to be the industry I was thinking of, which is telling, what?
It’s so cool to have hitched your wagon 20 years ago to an industry that was booming beyond anyone’s expectations and have it turn out to be stripmined and utterly hollowed out by Shareholder Value, and every other industry you could slot into has been, surprise, hollowed out by Shareholder Value
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This turned out not to be the industry I was thinking of, which is telling, what?
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A great deal of ‘welfare’ spending is basically the taxpayer picking up the tab for economic and political failures. I mean, how much of the UK’s welfare spending is basically down to the housing crisis and a decade of minimal wage growth?
There's an advert on his website for a 'Depot Supervisor' that pays £12.75 an hour for shift work.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
A great deal of ‘welfare’ spending is basically the taxpayer picking up the tab for economic and political failures. I mean, how much of the UK’s welfare spending is basically down to the housing crisis and a decade of minimal wage growth?
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7 x 3000+ students + 17 smaller institutions must mean 30,000+ affected students. That’s about the same size as Sheffield uni, which employs 8000ish staff. Why is the government tolerating the impending collapse of up to 24 related employers and 8000+ more lost jobs? Where is the sense of crisis?
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
7 x 3000+ students + 17 smaller institutions must mean 30,000+ affected students. That’s about the same size as Sheffield uni, which employs 8000ish staff. Why is the government tolerating the impending collapse of up to 24 related employers and 8000+ more lost jobs? Where is the sense of crisis?
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i mean i suppose weve got the certainty that things are only going to get worse and this government is going to kick us as we collapse
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
i mean i suppose weve got the certainty that things are only going to get worse and this government is going to kick us as we collapse
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You have to admit, knowing the govt's going to starve the universities is a form of certainty... (sarcasm)
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
You have to admit, knowing the govt's going to starve the universities is a form of certainty... (sarcasm)
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Dave watched this government Education Committee meeting so you didn’t have to. But you do have to read his summary (if you have any interest in the future of HE)
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Dave watched this government Education Committee meeting so you didn’t have to. But you do have to read his summary (if you have any interest in the future of HE)
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*Middle Wallop is one of the three villages of the Wallops. The other two are Over Wallop and...wait for it...Nether Wallop.
Look it up if you don't believe me.
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Look it up if you don't believe me.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
*Middle Wallop is one of the three villages of the Wallops. The other two are Over Wallop and...wait for it...Nether Wallop.
Look it up if you don't believe me.
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Look it up if you don't believe me.
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There's another one (Farleigh Wallop), over by Basingstoke. A landscape-based name from Old English waella and hop, meaning, roughly, valley of the springing water.
That has nothing to do with your tale which is first rate.
That has nothing to do with your tale which is first rate.
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
There's another one (Farleigh Wallop), over by Basingstoke. A landscape-based name from Old English waella and hop, meaning, roughly, valley of the springing water.
That has nothing to do with your tale which is first rate.
That has nothing to do with your tale which is first rate.