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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

UK Last public execution 1868. Last execution 1964 US Last public execution 1936 Last execution - 2 last week; 1 failed As of Oct 7, 2026, 36 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. (See below) Not sure the US has “become” anything. It’s always been committed to the death penalty

scheduled executions

Year = Executions +
2026
9
2027
6
2028
8
2029
10
2030
3
Total
36
State
* Executions +
Ohio
27
Florida
3
Texas
2
Alabama
1
Indiana
1
Oklahoma
1
U.S. military
1
Total
36

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That’s lovely. I like Peploe’s Iona too

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No one talks about this👇🏻though We put far too many in prison in the first place We are a highly carceral society England & Wales imprison x2+ more than Holland (65 prisoners/100,000) or Germany (67/100,000) & nearly x3 more than Finland (51/100,000) & Norway (57/100,000).

The Western European Nations
Imprisoning the Most People
Countries with the highest number of prisoners per 100,000 of the national population in 2023
England & Wales 146
Scotland 141
Portugal 121
Spain 113
France 109

Sources: Prison Reform Trust, World Prison Brief, Statista research
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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hahaha Did they all use the same model for lecherous old men?

Painting

SNYDERS, Frans (1569-1657)
The Poulterer's Shop

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They always make me think if this

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Roald Dahl, The Twits

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Haha yes. Me too. I’ve never owned one but can see their beauty and charm! Sadly cats are a no-no in our house - daughter with a severe allergy We did have these beauties before she developed it. (They’re probably why she developed it 😫)

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And he didn’t even provide Alt text for his sensible reactionary little list

Trustworthy on national security and defence
• Competent on criminal justice and border control
• Committed to basic fiscal responsibility
• Willing to acknowledge the need for economic growth
• Supportive of the rule of law
• Willing to defend democratic norms and parliamentary democracy
• Unsqueamish about patriotism
• Averse to extremism, conspiracy theory and racism

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

To prepare for his role with Palantir - that wonderful company co-founded & partly owned by Ayn Rand-loving Peter Thiel, & whose UK CEO is Moseley’s (imo) politically dubious grandson - has Tom Watson been on a Goebbels’ propaganda course?? “ Part of my role will be to correct false information….”

Tom Watson • @tom_watson
X.com

“After six wonderful years at UK Music, I'm joining Palantir UK as Senior Vice President.
Palantir is the most interesting company on the planet, doing work of real consequence: helping Britain and its allies defend themselves, helping police protect our citizens and helping NHS staff get patients treated and home sooner.
London is comfortably its largest centre outside the US, home to more than one in six employees, the highest proportion among the world's largest technology companies.
We have challenges. Some criticism is propaganda. Some raises legitimate questions about large technology companies and sovereign control. Both require answers.
Part of my role will be to correct false information while working with our engineers to ….”

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And the irony here is off the scale

Post saying

“There is no excuse for gunning down unarmed civilians, killing children, burning people alive in their homes, sexual violence, or the kidnapping of civilians (again, including children) to name a few of the war crimes perpetrated by Hamas
If you think there is, you should probs be on a watch list”

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is one reason why we are in such political cack. I provide plenty of evidence for the damage of a particular behavioural approach in children & it’s dismissed as a “political view”🙄 Even someone with a PhD not approaching this critically, instead equating opinion with evidence

Two posts

Ok. It is offensive to me, given how traumatic those years were, for you to ramroad all over an alternate opinion given from lived experiance.
I suspect nothing will help you see any alternate to your politic view, so lets agree to dissagree, shake hands and walk away.
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日》…
• Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky... • 2m
I am not denying your
experience, just your remedy.
The opinions arising out of the lived experience of one person does not good policy make

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I suspect Effie o Blaunau wasn’t entered for BAFTA 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 2026 It was eligible for both BAFTA 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ‘26 (through premiere at festival date) & BAFTA 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ‘27 (through cinema release date) Presumably they have chosen to put it in next year In which case Leisa Gwenllian will be highly unlikely not to win

Feature/Television Film: To be eligible, the film must have a running time exceeding 70 minutes and either:
Be exhibited publicly to a paying audience within a commercial cinema in the UK for no fewer than seven days (not including festival screenings). These need not be consecutive days, nor at the same venue.
• Been screened at a qualifying festival between 1 April 2025 and 31 March 2026. (A list of approved festivals can be found in Appendix 1 of this document).
Been broadcast as per the programme rules above.
All films must meet the eligibility criteria on page

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sentiments of Welsh Chartist William Jones, with 2 others one of the last people in the UK to be sentenced to hanging & quartering, later commuted to transportation for life. We seem to be right back there, with business owners, CEOs & shareholders taking the place of the landed gentry

We, the poor remnants of Ancient Britons, are contined to the mountains of Wales, cultivating an ungrateful soil, whose production is insutficient to support its occupiers. he tendancy of our boasted constitution to accumulate property into few hands, and the present wretched mode of taxing the produce of labour and the necessities of lite, has of late increased the number of our poor into an alarming degree, and must sooner or later reduce the labouring classes into a servile dependency or absolute slavery, and which the insatiable avarice of the landed gentry has partly effected in our country.

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

An example of why the UK is so shitty for children Here’s a reasonably up-market housing development in Cardiff Loads of provision for cars & drivers No provision at all for children to play (The small green space has a notice saying no ball games) In Sweden it would have a mandatory play space

Photo of a block private apartments. Lots of space for parking and cars. Green space of grass a & trees benches & tables - with an adult sunbathing
Nothing for children

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I love her stuff Made a copy of one once.

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I have no expectations of Burnham Why are Labour politicians so endlessly disappointing? (I never expect anything except 💩 from the Tories so they never disappoint)

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Great castle this one, in a glorious valley But native Welsh castles aren’t that rare. Although they make up only 10% of Wales’ castles, because we have so many there’s still quite a few of them www.castlewales.com/native.html

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Are these comparisons overplayed? Here’s Miller going full on eugenics - a fundamental value of Nazism. Trump’s regime may have different ethnic targets (for now - Miller is stupid if he thinks the US right aren’t antisemitic) but like the Nazis they are targeting the left & the “deformed” 1st

First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left
To speak out for me

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I took these from the Eglwyseg escarpment Being both a Welsh prince’s castle & an Iron Age fort the walk up to it is definitely worth the effort.

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Beautiful photo I love that part of the world. You feel could meet Merlin at every bend in the path The whole of the Welsh March through Monmouthshire up to past Hay Bluff is magical Here’s one I took between Hay & Capel-y-ffin a few years back. Wild pony instead of sheep.

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This is why Britain is such a mess We have mostly a “yes” press & media Meanwhile Starmer is trying to shut down the “No” press in a swan song act of anti-democratic authoritarianism: the National Security (State Threats) Bill 2026 The Labour Party is 💀⚰️ #CardiffSchoolOfJournalism

A photo with the following “bilingual” quote

"Y wasg rydd yw'r
elfen bwysicaf oll
er mwyn dwyn y
wladwriaeth i gyfrif.
Mae gwasg daeog yn fygythiad enbyd
i lywodraethu da."
Tom Hopkinson
Cyfarwyddwr Sefydlur
Ganolfan Astudiaethau Newyddiaduraeth
"A free press is the most watchful sentry of the state.
A 'yes' press is fatal to good government."
Tom Hopkinson
Founding Director of the Centre for Journalism Studies

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This is what is wrong with the PLP - a lack of principles Whilst Mahmood is off practicing performative cruelty all they worry about is that this bill looks bad But the real issue is not that this bill is too “draconian” or too strict It’s way too disgusting

Guardian headline reading “Pressure on Mahmood over immigration bill as MPs fear it is too draconian”

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I know it’s “Not all men”. But cases like this, & that of Gisèle Pelicot, leave you looking at all the men in your acquaintance & thinking “Could you do this”? The monsters living quietly amongst us Uuuggghhh

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Articles 12 and 13 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which the UK has signed and ratified

Article 12 (The right to be heard):
Grants every child who is capable of forming views the right to express them freely in all matters affecting them. It requires adults and decision-makers to give those views due weight in accordance with the child's age and maturity.
Article 13 (Freedom of expression): Protects a child's right to seek, receive, and share information and ideas of all kinds.
This can be done orally, in writing, in print, through art, or via the internet. Authorities can only restrict this right if it is legally necessary to protect the rights, reputations, or safety of others.

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

When I was at medical school in the 1970s Lyme disease was extremely rare in Britain - barely got a mention in my course Now every GP needs to be familiar with it, as late diagnosis is not a good idea I assume the big difference in incidence between Scotland and Wales is the deer?

Graph showing huge increase in incidence of Lyme disease

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Could be. Or possibly Noggin the Nog #vikings (my absolute favourite TV programme from 1959 to 1965)

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

If you eat dairy please make sure it all comes from cows allowed out to roam in the fields

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

•“Middlemarch” & “Wives and Daughters” - insights into people •“The Citadel” - made me study medicine • “Wolf Hall” - just SO much to think about there •“The Raj Quartet” - made me view the British Raj very differently to the way I was taught about it at school •And this wonderful poem

Cynddylan on a Tractor
Ah, you should see Cynddylan on a tractor.
Gone the old look that yoked him to the soil, He's a new man now, part of the machine, His nerves of metal and his blood oil.
The clutch curses, but the gears obey His least bidding, and lo, he's away Out of the farmyard, scattering hens.
Riding to work now as a great man should, He is the knight at arms breaking the fields' Mirror of silence, emptying the wood Of foxes and squirrels and bright jays.
The sun comes over the tall trees
Kindling all the hedges, but not for him Who runs his engine on a different fuel.
And all the birds are singing, bills wide in vain, As Cynddylan passes proudly up the lane.

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The state of this 😫 Just arrived through my letterbox. Normalising the crappy working conditions imposed on #NHS staff as a result of chronic underfunding from government

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Not a reason to ban him from entry, but Cenk Uygur is “anti-woke” & expresses problematic views towards trans people Given that race, gender & class are inextricably tied up into who is disadvantaged & exploited under neoliberalism, he’s not really left wing www.plutobooks.com/product/frac...

Identity politics has been a smear for decades. The right use it to lament the loss of free speech, while many on the left bemoan it as the end of class politics. It has been used to dismiss movements such as Black Lives Matter and brought seemingly progressive people into the path of fascism. It has emboldened the march of the transphobes.
In Fractured, the authors move away from the ahistorical temper of the identity politics debate.
Instead of crudely categorising race, gender and sexuality as fixed and immutable identities, or forcing them under the banner of diversity, they argue that these categories are inseparable from the history of class struggle under British and US capitalism.

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This perfect answer was in response to the question “Why does Trump lean forward”? “Someone said he's a centaur missing the back part”

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Sadly I couldn’t make the Hay festival this year So putting up a photo of a wild Welsh mountain pony grazing against a spectacular sunset I took a few years back, driving home via Capel-y-Ffin after spending the day at Hay

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Ukraine was never a democracy In 2019, before the war, it was a hybrid regime in the Economist Democracy index, Russia an authoritarian one. Ukraine scored 5-6 Russia scored 3-4 (Full democracy 8-10) This is hardly “freedom” & “democracy” against tyranny It’s daft & dishonest to frame it thus

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

We call it the Stone Age because virtually no wood survived But really, I think it must have been a wood age When you see what they could work in stone just imagine the wonders they must have made in wood, which was available in abundance Like a huge David Nash retrospective

Picture of some David Nash wood sculptures

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This must st be the most beautiful place in the country an election count is taking place Gwyr Abertawe (Swansea) votes being counted in Brangwyn Hall surrounded by Frank Brangwyn’s fabulous murals

Picture of count taking place in Brangwyn Hall

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

If Kier Starmer doesn’t loudly & soundly condemn this cartoon we’ll know he doesn’t really give a sh*t about antisemitism per se Just about his Israeli and Zionist backers/funders And purging the left from Labour Absolute disgrace from the Times

Cartoon in which Zack Polanski is depicted with a face that doesn’t resemble him at all, but has the sort of features used to depict Fagin in early versions of Oliver Twist

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Also look how bulls have been changed over the last 100+ years His is very weedy

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Wes Streeting quoted in the Times The biggest prick in British politics Here dismissing everyone on the left aged under 30, being unbelievably condescending to Green voters, whilst pretending he remains of any relevance after his rightwing authoritarian genocide-complicit shitshow of a government

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

How did Ireland get a reputation for wit and whimsy when all this was going on?

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

What is wrong with him? It’s like he’s about 5 It wasn’t even a good series

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Glorious I took these recently off Penarth Also rather beautiful but weirdly monochrome

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This is horrifying I cannot understand how our safeguards for vulnerable children have become so profoundly eroded You’d have thought this was one area even the shitty, selfish, snobby, empathy-free Tories would have protected from austerity But it seems not Svtate enabled child abuse

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

That reflects their voting base I guess. It’s a misogynistic patriarchal party Looking at this graph I’m guessing the gender gap in Reform voting intention is significant

Graph of 2026 GE voting intention
Intension to vote reform
Male 30%
Female 22%

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