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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Watermelons float. Farmers in Asia and Latin America send them down rivers and canals instead of trucks, cutting bruising and fuel use at once.

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Comically bad efforts - it is Automated Trickiness, and keeps showing its limits. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Why A.I. Food Slop Looks So Gross (Gift Article)

Is anything even real anymore?

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Parliamentary system in trouble www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/w... Yet the West still fights wars and economic pressure to impose it on places where the population are content with what they have. mrgwydionmwilliams.quora.com/Competitive-...

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India Cut 130 Million From Voter Roll, Fueling Protests Against Modi (Gift Article)

Public anger is growing over an exercise that critics say undermines the world’s largest democracy, particularly disenfranchising Muslims under the Hindu nationalist government.

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Burnham condemns Thatcher, but keeps most of her phoney economics. Also Israel, and unjustified charges of terrorism against anti-Zionists. And why most mass deaths in the 20th century were not caused by left-wingers. labouraffairsmagazine.com/2026/10/06/o...

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October 2026 Issue of Labour Affairs Magazine

Labour Affairs – October 2026 October 2026: click to read it on-line at our website. Or get the whole October 2026 magazine as a PDF. Editorial: Can People Live On Hope Alone? Was The Soviet …

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“The Aging Brain Isn't Declining – It's Adapting, Study Finds” www.sciencealert.com/the-aging-br... Before the modern age, anyone who lived to be old would have learned what was essential.

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The Aging Brain Isn't Declining – It's Adapting, Study Finds

As we get older, our episodic memory – managed by the hippocampus region – gradually gets worse.

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“How China became the world’s gold superpower “Beijing built its dominance through innovation and meticulous planning, not superior natural reserves” www.scmp.com/opinion/chin... A product of long-term US neglect of real wealth-creation. A belief in Fancy Finance as essential. Clinton also guilty

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Opinion | How China became the world’s gold superpower

Beijing built its dominance through innovation and meticulous planning, not superior natural reserves.

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In Britain, the Hard-Left Workers Party is challenging the ruling Labour Party in a by-election for Holborn and St Pancras. George Galloway may achieve another surprise win. Someone has done a nice graphic for it.

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The botched execution of a female murderer in the USA is an example of a society that has gone wrong. I give specific reasons why they need to change massively. And why Britain and the rest of Europe should move away from their influence. mrgwydionmwilliams.quora.com/The-USA-s-Po...

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The USA’s Pointless Death Rituals

I hadn’t seen another US execution as worth commenting on. But I changed my mind when I saw the news this morning (1st October) Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike survives execution attempt afte...

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In Russia, pro-Western and anti-war voters are a small minority. Where they got on the ballot, they got few votes. mrgwydionmwilliams.quora.com/6-of-Russian...

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

East Germans were let down by unification. And Russia having freely pulled out in 1990, they don't see it as a current danger. So many vote for the Hard Right, who have little in common with actual Nazis. mrgwydionmwilliams.quora.com/Failure-of-G...

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Failure of German Liberal Imperialism

* Hard Right Peacemongers in Germany * Appalling Danger of Donbass Majority Rule? Hard Right Peacemongers in Germany From 2022 and the sabotage of a moderate peace that Zelensky almost accepted, the ...

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mr-yoyito.bsky.social @mr-yoyito.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Excellent political cartoon. It’s too bad Ed Sheeran won’t get it.

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Foreign actors believed to be behind the terrorist attack on RAF Fairford. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Life on a moon -, but not much of it. “Earth microbes survive simulated conditions of Saturn moon’s ocean” www.theguardian.com/science/2026... But that need not mean anything fancy. Sunlight is the big source of energy on Earth.

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Earth microbes survive simulated conditions of Saturn moon’s ocean

Experiment suggests organisms could live in harsh environment under Enceladus’s icy crust, strengthening possibility moon could support life

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

20th century Communism played by the same rules as the West, emerging in the First World War and seeking to end it. Accounts like the Black Book of Communism are full of errors. mrgwydionmwilliams.quora.com/Guilt-for-20...

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Guilt for 20th Century Mass Deaths

* Lenin as Peacemaker * Marxist Guilt? * The Black Book as Unreliable Source * Junk Politics About China * The Meaning of Responsibility - A Wider Project? * Appendix - The Unavoidable Second Wor...

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

All change in Germany. The Hard Right advance, the Hard Left also. The Link and BSW. In Meccklenburg-West Pomerania, the Christian Democrats fell below the 5% threshold , no representatives . The AfD cannot form a government, but the Social Democrats might need The Link as well as the Greens.

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That's what happens when you elect politicians tied to business interests. Most US Democrats, as well as US Republicans.

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yemen’s Ansarallah movement, known in the West as Houthis, undermes the Western hegemony among Arabs and Muslims. Saudi Arabia is a product of Western-backed conquest and is vulnerable. “Ansarallah galvanizes the Arab world: tectonic changes lie ahead.” trendcompass.substack.com/p/ansarallah...

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Ansarallah galvanizes the Arab world: tectonic changes lie ahead.

Key Markets report for Friday, 18 September 2026

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Global leaders urged to join initiative to fight extreme inequality” www.theguardian.com/inequality/2... Aallowing more inequality has never boosted growth, except maybe in post-Mao China. And China was already catching up with the USA when Nixon gave them a good deal for world trade.

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Global leaders urged to join initiative to fight extreme inequality

More than 1,500 academics and economists sign letter, calling growing gap between richest and poorest ‘a policy choice that can be reversed’

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Slavery was not a footnote to British history. It helped shape the nation” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/comm... --Exploitation of Irish Catholics and genocidal settlement of North America, Australia and New Zealand was also part of it. As was massive exploitation of Southern Africa.

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Freedom-loving Britain was at the heart of the 18th century slave trade – and this register proves it | William Pettigrew

Register of British Slave Traders reveals how deeply the trafficking of Africans was embedded in the country’s politics, economy, institutions and culture

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“The Transfer of Crimea in 1954: Law, Ambition, and the Ukrainian Nomenklatura… “The 1954 transfer violated at least Articles 16 and 18 of the 1936 USSR Constitution,” rinalu17.substack.com/p/the-transf... The Kiev government wanted Crimea & Donbass, trashing the Russian culture of the majority .

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The Transfer of Crimea in 1954: Law, Ambition, and the Ukrainian Nomenklatura

Khrushchev broke his own constitution to buy Ukraine's loyalty, and the bill came due in 2014

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Laughter from the ghost of Saddam Hussein? “[Iran said] the drone attack on its neighbour's East-West pipeline had originated in one of its provinces.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... We in the Ernest Bevin Society said at the time it was stupid. labouraffairsmagazine.com/past-issues/....

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Saudi Arabia shuts key oil pipeline after drone attack launched from Iraq

Iraq removes a military commander and opens investigations into the attack that came from an area bordering Iran.

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A clever Canadian cartoon about the tariff war that Trump started. x.com/sarrah_bellu...

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/w...

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4 Things We Found in Secret Ukrainian Military Audits (Gift Article)

The documents amount to an autopsy of the weapons-contracting process.

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Faulty Founding Fathers of the USA labouraffairs.com/2026/09/01/n... I keep seeing people claiming that the USA was founded on the idea of liberty. Not true at all. No one thought women should vote. They wanted an All-White USA. Lincoln wanted to send African-American somewhere else etc.

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

" Dependence Day: A generation after the Soviet Union fell, Ukraine is a ruined proxy of the West "Ukraine could have bridged East and West. Instead, corruption, nationalism, and Western meddling left it broken" swentr.site/news/644593-...

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Dependence Day: A generation after the Soviet Union fell, Ukraine is a ruined proxy of the West

After the USSR, Ukraine could have bridged East and West. Instead, corruption, nationalism and Western meddling left it broken

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Lots of people talk tough, then get surprised when it happens to them.

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A nice collection of red-headed people www.theguardian.com/us-news/gall... My own has faded.

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It demoralises the audience. It encourages athletes to damage their bodies in a quest for speed.

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Why alien civilisations would probably not want to visit us, never mind invade and take our planet. www.quora.com/profile/Gwyd...

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wartime rationing made Britons healthier "These Babies Grew Up With Strict Sugar Limits. Decades Later, The Results Are Dramatic." www.sciencealert.com/these-babies...

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These Babies Grew Up With Strict Sugar Limits. Decades Later, The Results Are Dramatic.

It was January 1940, and the United Kingdom had a serious problem.

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The West's leaders ‘fight to the last Ukrainian’. Whatever they say in public, they have been careful to keep things within limits. They did not attempt to place a ban on Russian air power, which is how they destroyed Libya. www.quora.com/profile/Gwyd...

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The Ukraine Conflict is Nowhere Near a World War - Quora

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Make the streets safe for muggers and rapists? Why is everyone terrified that they can be seen by complete strangers when they are in a public place? Isn't that always so? One of many liberal ideas I reject. labouraffairsmagazine.com/m-articles-b...

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News Blog – October 2018

Liberalism is Dead. Bury It! Cultivated Bigots Run Wild Rich Britain Does Not Care Voter Power Australia – Waltzing to a Foolish Theme Genome Seekers and the Half-Blood Girl Money In a Sickening W…

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Close to the truth. And caused by Iran destroying the US bases that normally supplied it and allowed safe breaks from duty.

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Back in 2018, I made a range of predictions on the theme of the West’s aggressive liberalism failing globally. This included a warning of something very like the recent Mecca Pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkiye. mrgwydionmwilliams.quora.com/The-Mecca-Pa...

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The Mecca Pact as a Danger for Israel

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Gwydion Williams @gwydionm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Most experts said that it was happening in the 1990s. Three decades have been wasted, because governments got into the habit of giving businesses whatever they lobbied for. They stopped believing in Public Interest, which used to be accepted by conservatives as well as leftists.

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