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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 17/01/2026
More and more of us are coming to terms with not only our queer identities, but also our neurodiversity. What are the parallels?  From the archive @diffwyscriafol.bsky.social  👇
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What can we learn from ‘neuroqueer’ theory?
Increasing rates of neurodiversity are no more a trend than the higher proportion of people coming out - but there are some parallels between neurodiversity and queerness
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A. @nonamename.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
As part of our conference "Speech and Society", we are holding a public round table on Language Politics & Revitalization in Wales - in Welsh, with live translation! If you're around, please drop by!! **June 23rd, Room 1.62 Glamorgan Building, Cardiff Uni** @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social
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Language Politics & Revitalization in Wales 
Roundtable with Heledd Melangell, Owain Rhys Lewis & Huw L Williams 

1330 Tuesday 23rd June in Speech and Society. Contemporary Philosophy of Language 
Room 1.61 Glamorgan Building 

Supported by the Mind Association
Contact: phillangcardiff@gmail.com
Gwleidyddiaeth ac Adfer Iaith yng Nghymru
Trafodaeth Ford Gron gyda Heledd Melangell, Owain Rhys Lewis a Huw L Williams

1330 Dydd Mawrth 23ain Mehefin 
yn Lleferydd a Chymdeithas. Athroniaeth laith Gyfoes

Ystafell -1.61
Adeilad Morgannwg

Wedi ei noddi gan y Mind Association
Cyflwyniad: https://forms.gle/5VLszXeDpM4tjyiN8
Cyswllt:  phillangcardiff@gmail-com
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Diffwys Criafol @diffwyscriafol.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Cyfrol newydd Diffwys Criafol - diolch gwasg Y Stamp am Gyhoeddi www.instagram.com/p/DQ6TpBLDHH...
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 16/06/2025
A major new funding row has erupted after the Welsh Government accepted a decision of its UK counterpart to allow an English ministry to administer the latest post-Brexit aid round for Wales ✍️Martin Shipton
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English government department will decide on aid projects for Wales - just like under the Tories
Martin Shipton A major new funding row has erupted after the Welsh Government accepted a decision of its UK counterpart to allow an English ministry to administer the latest post-Brexit aid round for ...
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Rebecca Marie Wilks @rebeccamarie.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
A pretty novel form of psychic damage is losing your news media job, having your entire portfolio of work wiped from the Internet, only for it to then be resurrected without your consent to promote an AI slop factory scam! Find out more about this headache here 👇
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Diffwys Criafol @diffwyscriafol.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Labour is disgustiing @prifweinidog.gov.wales you should all defect to Greens or Plaid. They mwy not be that inspiring, but they're not genocidal murderers
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Is this disgusting irony lost on anyone in the west??? Netanyahu admits to turning Gaza into “Concentration Camp”!!! www.owenjones.news/p/gaza-will-...
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Gaza will be concentration camp, declares Netanyahu
His colleague, meanwhile, says Gaza will be destroyed. Genocide in plain sight
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Am @ambobdim.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Eisiau ysgrifennu am natur a'r argyfwng hinsawdd? Dyma'r dosbarth meistr i chi. Book Inclusive Journalism Cymru's free Zoom masterclass on environmental writing! 🌱 Gwesteion/Guests: @durreshahwar.bsky.social, Owen Sheers, Taylor Edmonds 21/5 19:00 amam.cymru/inclusivejou...
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Diffwys Criafol @diffwyscriafol.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I have a piece in Buzz Magazine - thanks to Film Hub Wales www.buzzmag.co.uk/do-not-go-ge...
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Restored 2001 movie DO NOT GO GENTLE and the Welsh class politics of care
Nearly 25 years after its release, Do Not Go Gentle returns to cinemas, with its themes of class fissures and social care still relevant.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/04/2025
Concerning New Study Finds Nation’s Poverty Growing Faster Than Officials Can Build Prisons theonion.com/concern...
Concerning New Study Finds Nation’s Poverty Growing Faster Than Officials Can Build Prisons
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 03/04/2025
Over half a million children could die as a result of UK aid cuts to vaccination programmes, MPs have heard
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UK aid cuts to vaccines could lead to half a million child deaths, MPs warned
Over half a million children could die as a result of UK aid cuts to vaccination programmes, MPs have heard. Conservative former minister Sir David Davis asked Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty ...
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Cymdeithas yr Iaith @cymdeithas.cymru · 29/03/2025
Diolch i bawb ddaeth i rali Nid yw Cymru ar Werth heddiw i fynnu dyfodol i'n cymunedau
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Richard Wyn Jones @richardwynjones.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
As hundreds of my university colleagues across Wales lose their jobs, I wrote this for @nation.cymru - do please share nation.cymru/opinion/yes-...
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Yes, there is a way out of the crisis currently enveloping Welsh universities!
Richard Wyn Jones Remarkably enough, the recent announcements by various Welsh universities that they intend to cut jobs – and even close entire departments – seem to have come as a shock to many poli...
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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
OK so this just happened! ✊🔥😎 “Stars including Sir Elton John, Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles & Stormzy call on the PM to help save Cardiff University's school of music. The department with a global reputation is earmarked for closure under proposed cuts.” www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...
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Ed Sheeran and Harry Styles call to save Cardiff University music school
The department with a global reputation is earmarked for closure under proposed cuts
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Diffwys Criafol @diffwyscriafol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I missed the year anniversary of publishing this blog. I was shocked when I was told it's had over 10k hits...
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The Welsh language and Class: Paradoxes and Contradictions - Common/Wealth
This blog is hard to write. Not just because it’s a rare paid opportunity, and I’m worried it just won’t be good enough, but because […]
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 14/11/2024
🧠 “Everyone’s experience of neurodivergence is valid wherever they fall on the spectrum, in the same way as everyone’s right to identify as queer should be respected, regardless of what kind of relationship they are in or how they present” - Diffwys Criafol www.wearequeeraf.com/what-can-we-...
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What can we learn from ‘neuroqueer’ theory?
Increasing rates of neurodiversity are no more a trend than the higher proportion of people coming out - but there are some parallels between neurodiversity and queerness
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Diffwys Criafol @diffwyscriafol.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Stori sy gen i tro yma - ddim fel arter yn 'sgwennu ffuglen ond dyma ymgais amrwd! subv3rs3.substack.com/p/rhyddid
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Rob Thomas @robthomasbirds.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Yes, the interview was originally published as an edited transcript in 2018, long before Wendy Larner had applied her views to Cardiff University. The document linked to in the VC’s all-staff email on Thursday was the final proofs doc, ie after peer review and the VC’s own subsequent edits.
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“Differing Grief” on geographer and vice-chancellor Wendy Larner nation.cymru/news/cardiff...
Technological capitalism
An article on Substack by an author using the pseudonym Diffwys Criafol (Differing Grief) states: "The current vice chancellor of Cardiff University, Wendy Larner, was also once hopeful of an alternative to the brutality of Neoliberalism from what I see of her early academic work. However it now seems that she is currently embracing her role as its handmaiden, purporting that our line of escape from the contradictions of capitalism is deepening technological capitalism.
"She earns £290k a year. Surrounding her are 10 executive board members who were collectively paid £2.3m in 2023. A revolting…
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This is horrifying. Wendy Larner used to write about poverty, race, gender & globalisation. She co-edited a book in 2010 called *The Point Is To Change It*. Then she became Management... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Cardiff UCU @cardiffucu.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
'This is a clear attack on freedom of speech and freedom to organise. It is unprecedented for a University to try to close down legitimate trade union activity in this way. It also appears to be evidence of a climate of fear' @hefindavid.bsky.social nation.cymru/news/cardiff...
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Cardiff University 'may have broken the law' by threatening union
Martin Shipton Cardiff University’s threat to take action against the University and College Union for comments it made to Nation.Cymru could be in breach of a law protecting academic freedom, we have...
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 19/03/2025
More than 650 students at crisis-hit Cardiff University were affected by course changes during the last academic year, a Freedom of Information disclosure has revealed ✍️ Martin Shipton
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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Cardiff University confirms that in College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 699 jobs are “in scope” of redundancy with 86 in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion. At the leading Welsh university in the capital of (checks notes) Wales 13 are in the (checks notes) School of Welsh.
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Cardiff University releases breakdown of academics 'in scope' for redundancy
Martin Shipton Cardiff University has released to Nation.Cymru the breakdown by School of the 1,807 academics who have been told their jobs are “in scope” to be cut. The university announced in Januar...
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 12/03/2025
Cardiff University academics are hoping members of the House of Lords will take up their campaign against job losses this week when the university holds a reception for its alumni ✍️Martin Shipton
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Union takes campaign against Cardiff University cuts to the House of Lords
Martin Shipton Cardiff University academics are hoping members of the House of Lords will take up their campaign against job losses this week when the university holds a reception for its alumni. Lord...
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YesCymru @yes.cymru · 12/03/2025
Pam ymuno â'r Orymdaith dros Annibyniaeth yn y Barri ar 26 Ebrill? 🤔 ❗RHESWM #12 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cael ei gadael ar lwyfan y byd... Mae Cymru'n dod yn fwy ynysig gan ideoleg San Steffan. Bydd annibyniaeth yn ein galluogi i ffynnu ar lwyfan y byd.
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Diffwys Criafol @diffwyscriafol.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Cymdeithas yr Iaith @cymdeithas.cymru · 10/03/2025
Tynodd BBC ffilm am fywyd yn Gasa am bod y bachgen sy'n lleisio'r ffilm yn fab i gyn ddirprwy-weinidog dros Amaeth dan lywodraeth Hammas. Go brin mai dyna'r rheswm go iawn, ond beth bynnag y rheswm, mae'r BBC yn gwrthod rhoi llais i bobl dan ormes. Gwyliwch y ffilm fan hyn rumble.com/v6nm6n9-bbc-...
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BBC: Gaza - How to Survive a Warzone
A BBC documentary that the BBC took down shortly after they posted it under threats from the Zionist lobby. Also blocked from YouTube. Reuploaded from here: https://mega.nz/file/YpJngIQR#ElO_TUOUe2lnf
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Leighton Andrews @leightonandrews.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cyfweliad heno ar S4C Interview tonight on S4C www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Newyddion a Chwaraeon - Sun, 09 Mar 2025
Newyddion a chwaraeon y penwythnos. Weekend news and sport.
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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I just a BBC Radio Wales interview for Cardiff UCU. Cardiff Uni needs to work in true social partnership with the Union, and draw on its millions in available ££ to fund a more gradual recovery which doesn’t destroy 400+ jobs & irreparably harm the University/Wales. ✊👇 youtu.be/tqjaFuFdESM?...
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Dr Andy Williams from Cardiff UCU on the struggle to save 400+ jobs at Cardiff Uni. 10.03.25
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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Leighton Andrews: "What they have done is frankly destroy trust and goodwill within the university and morale at the moment is through the floor. These are the people you need, to boost the university, but at everybody's focus is on their own jobs." www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...
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Cardiff University staff in 'climate of fear' amid plan to slash 400 jobs
Leighton Andrews called it a moment of fundamental significance for Welsh Government and Welsh democracy
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Bijan Parsia @bparsia.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Again, the heavy handed response is inappropriate even if the defensive take were substantively correct. Which I don’t think it is. I think the use of “fake news” in her email is pretty damning for charitable interpretations of her interview.
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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
UCU condemns climate of fear @ Cardiff Uni in wake of VC’s attacks on free speech: “We stand by our claim that the [VC & uni executive board] are not worthy of our trust, and we urge all university staff to engage with our vote of no confidence.” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/under-f...
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Under-fire Cardiff v-c calls out ‘fake news’ in epigenetics row
Leader of Welsh institution, already under pressure over massive job cuts, claims words were “grossly misinterpreted”
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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Cardiff Uni VC Wendy Larner implies “things like poverty have a genetic explanation”. Cardiff UCU: “In the context of her vision for a more elitist university, cutting schools like nursing & favouring ‘higher quality’ students, the attitude indicated here is disturbing.” nation.cymru/news/cardiff...
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Cardiff University Vice Chancellor 'implied poverty is caused by genetics'
Martin Shipton A university vice chancellor who is leading a proposal to cut 400 jobs and close five Schools including Nursing and Music has been criticised for implying that poverty is caused by gene...
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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I’m going to take away the jobs and livelihoods of 400 of my staff. But if you question my judgement I will accuse you all of bullying me …
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Marianne O'Doherty @marianneodoherty.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I reread the original. It still says 'if things like poverty have a genetic explanation'. This still sounds like reheated Bell Curve bullshit to me, and it is hard to come to a charitable explanation for that.
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Apart from not fully grasping epigenetics, she also doesn't seem to understand how journalism works. Providing a comment to a journalist does not equal 'endorsing' the article. As any PR manager who's been giving the same bland quote to journalists for the past year could have told her.
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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Love to see the idiom of left accountability – “I am calling this out”, “we are better than this”, “who we are as a community” – being used by a £290k pa VC against a trade union protesting redundancies. Crit Geog! ✊
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Diffwys Criafol @diffwyscriafol.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Kiwi Musk cries "fake news"
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Under-fire Cardiff v-c calls out ‘fake news’ in epigenetics row
Leader of Welsh institution, already under pressure over massive job cuts, claims words were “grossly misinterpreted”
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Diffwys Criafol @diffwyscriafol.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Hitting back against a blog likening her to Musk she does the most Trump-Muskesque thing and threatans staff, throws a public tantrum and even accusess a respected news outlet of "fake news" 🙃🙃🤣
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 07/03/2025
Cardiff University’s beleaguered Vice Chancellor Wendy Larner has sent a message to all staff falsely accusing Nation Cymru of publishing 'fake news' about her and berating the University and College Union for criticising her ✍️ Martin Shipton
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Cardiff University sparks row after falsely accusing Nation.Cymru of publishing 'fake news'
Martin Shipton Cardiff University’s beleaguered Vice Chancellor Wendy Larner has sent a message to all staff falsely accusing Nation.Cymru of publishing “fake news” about her and berating the Universi...
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Kaja Brown (she/they) @kajaamybrown.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Today's your last chance to sign up for a day of amazing free events with Inclusive Journalism Cymru. I'm so excited about the neurodivergent friendly networking session - there'll be stim toys, a sensory room, a buddy system - and it's open to everyone ❤️ inclusivejournalism.cymru/event/join-u...
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Join us for our Networking, AGM and Showcase Event - Inclusive Journalism Cymru
Join us for our AGM, Cymru & I book launch and party at Chapter Arts Centre on 23rd September
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Diffwys Criafol @diffwyscriafol.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Looking for tips for pitching to magazines / news outlets. I hardly ever get a response - any suggestions? Bizzarley i pitched the piece Shipton quoted at length but didnt get a response from Nation Cymru. Is it that news outlets only comission people they know?
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Marine Furet @marine-furet.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I've been waiting for a reason to post on here! Six months after joining @nestauk.bsky.social, my first blog is out. More and more households in Wales are turning to clean heat, but could the Welsh Government do more to speed up adoption? www.nesta.org.uk/blog/the-wel...
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The Welsh Government must commit to planning reform so we can unleash clean heat
We’re proposing three simple planning policies that could support Wales’ clean heat future
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Well this is a fascinating mixture (ahem) of ideas from the Cardiff Vice-Chancellor. In the same interview, "decolonisation of research is vital", "everyone should read Marx", and "we must prepare for the revelation that poverty is genetic" (!!!) exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/ex...
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View of Conversation with... Wendy Larner
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
It's giving early C20th Eugenic Fabianism
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Here's the original piece that highlighted this, which means you don't have to read Martin Shipton quoting it (who does unavoidably good muckraking at times but, alas, remains a transphobe)
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Diffwys Criafol @diffwyscriafol.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
My blog quoted in this 👇
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Diffwys Criafol @diffwyscriafol.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Hapus iawn i gyhoeddi bod gen i gerdd fach yn y flodeygerdd yma 🐣✨
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Diffwys Criafol @diffwyscriafol.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Cardiff University, Techno-fascism & did the VC really say that poverty is genetic? open.substack.com/pub/subv3rs3...
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Cardiff University, Techno-fascism & did the VC really say that poverty is genetic?
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