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@barryrichards.bsky.social
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Welsh & European Graphic & Interactive Designer/Developer, especially in e-learning, but also in indoor mapping. Lomographer. Views are own; weithiau yn Gymraeg

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11h
🚨 We’re calling on Ofcom to open a formal investigation into Nigel Farage presenting GB News shows and whether his programme on 15 September 2026 was within the rules on impartiality ⚠️ Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias.
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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LordSteveyPofStoke @lordsteveyp.bsky.social · 6h

NIGEL FARAGE, TOMMY ROBINSON, DANNY TOMMO
RUPERT LOWE AND ANGRY BALACLAVA MAN

THE MEN WHO STARE AT BOATS
NO GOATS. NO GLORY
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barryrichards.bsky.social @barryrichards.bsky.social · 6h
They do some good, important journalism at @bylinetimes.bsky.social but I won’t be renewing my subscription. Why? On 7th May Plaid Cymru overturned >100 years of Labour electoral hegemony & 27 yrs of Labour Welsh government, who collapsed from 21 to 9 seats in a Senedd expanded from 60 to 96 seats
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 8h
Yes! Yes! Send him! ASAP!!!
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 8h
Today I heard someone use the Human Centipede as a way to explain why large model AI is inevitably heading towards its own self destruction by tainting its future inputs, and honestly? It was a beautiful teaching metaphor.
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
roko’s basilisk is a masochistic psychosexual fantasy about an abusive all-powerful father figure and more people should say so
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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CrouchingPenguinHiddenSword @sgtwaddles42.bsky.social · 14h
You know I'd ask who TF wants this, but I know exactly who wants this so my comment is: I need people to be more skeptical of the idea that convenience is an unalloyed good thing
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14h
🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said
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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 14h
It's almost refreshing, the way they just say, straight up, they want to kill you.
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Anianegwr @anianegwr.bsky.social · 15h
But you can't have referendums if you're Welsh, Scottish or Irish.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 29/09/2026
Plaid Cymru has challenged Andy Burnham to match his promise of a 'new politics' with more powers for Wales
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Plaid tells Burnham ‘new politics’ must mean more powers for Wales
Mark Mansfield Plaid Cymru has challenged Andy Burnham to match his promise of a “new politics” with more powers for Wales. Responding to the Prime Minister’s Labour conference speech, the party’s Wes...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23h
Deloitte paid its UK-based partners £1.125m. Firm has 784 equity partners. Due to self-employed status of partners, employer national insurance (ENI) is not paid on profits shared. 150,000 ENI avoided on every £1m of profits shared. Billions lost across the country. Must end this privilege.
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Deloitte UK advisory arm rebounds to growth as new boss insists AI 'can’t replace lived experience'
Big Four giant Deloitte's new UK boss, Darren Graves, insisted AI “can’t replace lived experience” as the firm's advisory arms return to growth.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 14h
Always remember ... Brexit was the first salvo in a Putin-backed attack upon the West. The same battle is now being fought throughout Europe. If the UK finally bins Brexit and rejoins the EU, it will be seen as a victory for the whole of Europe — and a decisive strike against Putin-backed populism.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14h
1. On Tuesday morning, Trump unveiled America dot gov, which he described as “the ultimate product.” Right now, it is basically a chatbot that draws data from official government websites. As a result it is brutally efficient at debunking Trump’s lies.
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YesCymru @yes.cymru · 19/09/2026
Cerys Hutin talks to Siôn Jobbins of Radio YesCymru about her journey learning Welsh, her growing online following, her support for Welsh independence, and why she’ll be speaking at the March for Independence in Aberystwyth on Saturday 26 September. youtu.be/0x4ZXhX8tAY?...
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Cerys Hutin - Welsh independence campaigner and content creator on Radio YesCymru
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YesCymru @yes.cymru · 18/09/2026
BETHANY DAVIES Dylanwadwraig boblogaidd sy’n hyrwyddo’r Gymraeg, diwylliant a hanes Cymru. Popular influencer promoting the Welsh language, culture and history. Gorymdaith Annibyniaeth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 March for Independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🗓️ 1pm, 26/09/26 📍 ABERYSTWYTH
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YesCymru @yes.cymru · 22/09/2026
Sgwrs arbennig rhwng dau o’n siaradwyr yng Ngorymdaith Annibyniaeth Aberystwyth ar 26 Medi, Siôn Jobbins a Bethany Davies ar Radio YesCymru A fantastic discussion between Siôn Jobbins and Bethany Davies, two of our speakers at the March for Independence in Aberystwyth on 26 September!
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think there should be a museum of shame, that shows every atrocity, broken law, corruption and treasonous act. It should be a cautionary tale to anyone who wants to follow in his footsteps.
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Ruck the WRU @ruckthewru.bsky.social · 16h
While at Microsoft he worked on Windows XP. I seem to remember the main problems with Windows XP were memory issues, driver failures, restrictive licensing, poor support and prone to frequent attacks and crashes. Sound familiar?
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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you think my trans daughter wanting to stay connected to the camaraderie and benefits of team sports is a greater threat to your daughter than 50 young men in a group chat doing NOTHING while she’s gang-raped then you’re a fucking idiot.
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Golwg360 @golwg.360.cymru · 16h
Comisiynwyr iaith yn bryderus am effaith toriadau’r BBC ar ieithoedd lleiafrifol Mae Comisiynydd y Gymraeg yn dweud bod angen peidio seilio penderfyniadau ar werth am arian yn unig ✍️ Rhiannon Heledd Williams
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Comisiynwyr iaith yn bryderus am effaith toriadau’r BBC ar ieithoedd lleiafrifol
Mae Comisiynydd y Gymraeg yn dweud bod angen peidio seilio penderfyniadau ar werth am arian yn unig
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Helen Dawson @mshelendawson.bsky.social · 21h
Setting aside whether or not the tech works and whether or not they are abiding by their contractual data requirements, the reason for invoking the break clause is that the NHS has been “captured” by a vendor. What tech bros call a ‘moat’ is what the people inside it call a siege.
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Andy Wheatley @andywheatley.bsky.social · 20h
Oh the irony. Wasn't it Tom Watson who once said to James Murdoch "You must be the first mafia boss in history that didn't know he was running a criminal enterprise"?
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22h
Here’s the moment @labourlewis.bsky.social read out the letter at a fringe event at Labour conference hosted by @the-citizens.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/the-...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22h
It’s pretty nuts. Tom Watson’s very first intervention in his new job at spytech firm Palantir is to write a letter to his former colleague @labourlewis.bsky.social detailing all the times the firm has monitored his anti-Palantir activities
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22h
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 19h
The Welsh Language Commissioner and the Irish Language Commissioner for Northern Ireland have raised concerns about the impact of BBC cuts on minority-language services
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Welsh and Irish language commissioners raise concerns over BBC cuts
Stephen Price The Welsh Language Commissioner and the Irish Language Commissioner for Northern Ireland have raised concerns about the impact of BBC cuts on minority-language services. Efa Gruffudd Jon...
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James O'Neill @jconeill.co.uk · 20h
I'd also add brings in plans that aren't a "decade" away which means they'll never ever happen.
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Linda Henderson @lintrinsic.bsky.social · 19h
Carefully worded speeches don't count for much. Actions are more important, and so far his actions have been the antithesis of progressive. I'm not holding my breath for anything different and Labour has lost my vote regardless.
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 20h
I'll believe Burnham is a progressive when he brings forward laws to undo our historically hostile position against LGBTQ+ people, immigrants and refugees, and protesters. Until then he's just Blue Labour with better vibes.
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Paul Sandars🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @paulsandars.bsky.social · 19h
So can anyone please explain why Burnham chose to penalise working class pensioners rather than tax the rich?
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 19h
Rupert Lowe-Life referred to parliamentary watchdog over complaint about his anti-Muslim rhetoric His response on X to his racist, Islamophobic, vile followers for those that complained “These thugs can piss off I am absolutely sick of aggressive and domineering Muslims” He’s not fit to be an MP
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Rupert Lowe MP referred to Prevent and parliamentary watchdog over anti-Muslim rhetoric
FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail 5Pillars has learned that formal complaints have been submitted against Rupert Lowe MP to counter-terrorism police and Parliament’s standards watchdog over his repeated rhe...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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Palesfenian 🇮🇪❤️🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇺 @iamamnot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The instruction following bot follows instructions it doesn't know or care if those instructions are from the ,owner",or their customers 🤣 And it's not a person it can't be meaningfully held responsible for anything.
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨Exclusive🚨: I have exculpatory evidence in what is easily the dumbest congressional oversight episode of the year...maybe the decade. I was at the Iowa v. MD game & just looked at my pics & sure enough, someone who looks like Jack Smith is sitting in Sec 109, Row 1. Complete & total vindication!
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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AJ @ajfarrelly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We are the fifth biggest economy. We have one of the lowest pensions in the developed world. We have one of the highest pension ages in the developed world. And we're being told we still can't afford it. What we can't afford is £70bn+ subsidies to water companies, bailouts for banks, and PPE fraud.
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🌙 𝕹𝖎𝖙𝖊-𝕺𝖜𝖑🦉 @nite-owl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The only way to get rid of rape culture is to treat rapists like criminals. Their crime should always be made known, and by forcing themselves on a person, scarring them for life, they should be barred from any position where they could have power over another.
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Irish Unity @irishunity.bsky.social · 23h
If only the Orange Order had another route they could march... #Drumcree #GarvaghyRoad
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🍉🕎 #BREAKING | Thousands of Anti-Zionist Jews Are Protesting In Jerusalem Against Forced Conscription, Calling The IDF Enemy Army "שחררו את החטופים מכלא 10 שלעולם לא ישרתו בצבא האויב" "Release the hostages from prison 10 that will never serve in the enemy army"
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
Trump White House misspells “United” on the official “super intelligence” document with AI executives. Instead of “President of the United States,” it reads: “President of the Unites States.” Nothing says “super intelligence” quite like misspelling the name of the country.
Screenshot of a Truth Social post from Donald J. Trump’s verified @realDonaldTrump account displaying a signed document titled “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities.” The document outlines voluntary AI safety and oversight commitments for companies developing frontier artificial intelligence models. On the right side are signatures and company labels for leaders including Sundar Pichai of Google, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Greg Brockman of OpenAI, Elon Musk of xAI, and Jensen Huang of Nvidia. Near the center-right, Donald J. Trump’s large signature appears above the printed title identifying him as president. The title contains a noticeable typo: instead of “President of the United States,” it reads, “President of the Unites States,” misspelling “United” as “Unites.”
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
El Salvador continues to imprison ICE-Gestapo deportees from the US even after the major backlash of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case with quite a few people disappearing entirely. This would be called crimes against humanity. Every MAGA official who allowed these atrocities to happen should be jailed.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The punishment for the disgusting Cornell rapists was to simply write an essay about their heinous crime whilst women can be thrown in jail for using abortion healthcare services. That’s the fucked up timeline we’re living in.
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barryrichards.bsky.social @barryrichards.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For all the fluffing Burnham is getting from centrists right now, this is the salient point for Wales: Burnham believes it is England’s right to decide whether Wales can be an independent nation or not. Not the people of Wales. That is colonialism. #indyWales www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Andy Burnham rules out giving Wales independence referendum powers
Andy Burnham told the BBC Westminster should have a "say on an issue of that magnitude".
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23h
Opposition leader dismisses Netanyahu's warning of possible attacks during next month's general election.
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Israel's Lapid accuses Netanyahu of ‘fear-mongering' over attack warning
Opposition leader dismisses Netanyahu's warning of possible attacks during next month's general election.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A Scottish Labour MP and former minister has been branded an “idiot” after saying he would sack half of the NHS managers he’d met 👇
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Row as Scottish Labour MP says he'd sack half the NHS managers he's met
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