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Jon Roberts

@kaardiffboy.bsky.social
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Adopted Cardiffian - retired and happy - family, travel, socialist, history, law, petsitting, aviation, music. I'm too old to put up with nonsense and block fools and knaves.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £354m a year tax free from the tax payer including £132m personal spending money and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed. Like if he needs a pay cut. RT if you want the Monarchy gone. #NotmyKing
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I am bloody proud to be an #RNLI supporter and member! These brilliant men and women have quite enough to cope with without being harassed by the scum of the earth. Their only concern is to help people in danger at sea - not check passports first! Which is how it should be. Please RT if you agree🙏
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Jon Roberts @kaardiffboy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
@willhaycardiff.bsky.social Had your application for accreditation to the Reform Party Conference refused yet? You'd be in good company.
A screenshot of Twitter posts from Peter Geoghan and Michael Crick saying they'd been refused accreditation at the Reform Party Conference.
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Jon Roberts @kaardiffboy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
@jostevenslabour.bsky.social Tell Starmer that we will not enable the threatened genocide in Iran - prevent the US from using UK bases to murder civilians.
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Jon Roberts @kaardiffboy.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
A charity has bought 1,195 acres in West Wales for rewilding, costing £2.2m, half of which was secured by a loan. They need to raise money to repay that loan and are seeking donations, some of which will be match-funded by a generous donor. Please consider helping. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/tirnatur
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Wales’s largest rewilding site - location revealed
Help create a wilder Wales where nature and people flourish together and provide hope for future generations.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Murder rates in comparable US cities. Look at London? Anyone who spouts Trumps lies is a traitor.
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Jon Roberts @kaardiffboy.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I love the Japanese Ambassador - it must have taken a lot of time to learn. John Redwood, a one-time Tory "Welsh" Secretary of State couldn't even be bothered to learn how to mime the words. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Japanese ambassador to UK and first minister sing Welsh anthem
Hiroshi Suzuki and Eluned Morgan sing Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau on a trip to Conwy Castle.
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Bruce Gorrie @bsrg1.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in England’s A&Es each year. Older people left in excrement, wet beds, denied pain relief, forced to watch/hear other patients die. NHS money pilfered by PFI and privatisation But ... Govts have fiscal rules and don't want to tax the rich.
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Nearly 150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in England’s A&Es each year
Older people left in their own excrement and wet beds for hours and forced to watch others die, Age UK report finds
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
www.facebook.com/share/p/19C1... My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)
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adeadmanwalking.bsky.social @adeadmanwalking.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
New Yvette Cooper Road Sign (cartoon, Tim Sanders)
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Jon Roberts @kaardiffboy.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
@playingout.bsky.social We've been running a play street in Cardiff for 7 years. The Council used one of our event photos to encourage more play streets in the city. Here's a few of the Facebook responses. Never fail to be stunned at the vehemence of opposition to kids playing on their own streets.
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Jon Roberts @kaardiffboy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I salute you.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Today, the UK government intends to ban the non-violent protesters Palestine Action as a "terrorist" group, exposing anyone supporting them to terrorism charges. In 2 days, 380,000 people have watched this video on YT alone. You're going to need a bigger prison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkV...
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Sharing This Video Could Get You 14 Years in Prison
YouTube video by Double Down News
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Jon Roberts @kaardiffboy.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
MPs in a Labour government stuff their faces with fancy food, subsidised by our taxes, when they are hellbent on taking money from our poorest and most disadvantaged. They are Tories in all but name. It's shameful.
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Jon Roberts @kaardiffboy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
@cardiffunilib.bsky.social Will your employers have the confidence in their own brand to dare to do the right thing?
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Repost proudly if you have left X and joined Bluesky full time 🦋
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Little Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳
Old oak tree with twisted branches in autumn woodland of ancient oaks
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Jon Roberts @kaardiffboy.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Brave leadership gets results. Trying to please everyone is a tactic that is doomed to failure.
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Jon Roberts @kaardiffboy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Talk on Captain Scott this Wednesday. For more Roath history and future events,have a look at Roathlocalhistorysociety.org
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Jon Roberts @kaardiffboy.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Billionaires shouldn't be snowflakes.
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Jon Roberts @kaardiffboy.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
@huwthomas-wales.bsky.social @deathcardiff.bsky.social @sarahmerry.bsky.social @jenburkecdf.bsky.social Surely the time has come for Cardiff Council to make a stand??
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 01/01/2025
An Express poll needs more input. You know what to do... Note: the link takes you directly to the poll, so you won't boost their ad impressions. Ignore the request for an email address - it's not required to submit the poll. xd.wayin.com/display/cont...
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Jon Roberts @kaardiffboy.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Less than a year in, and he's out of ideas, falling back on the Tory recipe of despair - worsening standards. Why did we bother voting Labour? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Starmer asks UK regulators for ideas to boost growth
The prime minister writes to regulators including Ofgem and Ofwat for ideas to boost economic growth.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 20/12/2024
We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky. Help us gain our following back Follow Retweet Repeat Join the park side @altyellonatpark.org
Black wolf looking straight at the camera. Pine forest behind. Yellow eyes.
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Jon Roberts @kaardiffboy.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... So bills for Dŵr Cymru customers will be the highest in England and Wales. They're a not-for-profit company, and pay no dividends. Wales has the 2nd lowest disposable income per capita of any UK region. Why will customers who can least afford it pay so much?
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Water bills to rise by £31 over next five years, regulator says
The higher than proposed bill rise in England and Wales comes amid public anger over sewage discharges.
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Jon Roberts @kaardiffboy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
roathlocalhistorysociety.org/2024/12/15/m... Interesting account of radio history, Roath and Marconi
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Marconi and the part Roath played inventing the radio
It seems like people from Wales played quite a role in the invention of the wireless telegraph and wireless radio. Marconi traditionally gets the credit for the invention but this article looks at …
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Jon Roberts @kaardiffboy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
This coming Wednesday - Zoom option available.
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Calbear @calbeargirl.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
@goodwilllibrarian.bsky.social
Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. 

If you use your library, please share. 

Picture of library aisle filled with books.
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Jon Roberts @kaardiffboy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Just realised I've been on Bluesky for 3 months without posting a single cat pic, so here's our boy. He usually has a lot to say - here I think he's demanding that we admire his fine whiskers.
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Dave Haslam @davehaslam.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Copies of this poster appearing in Manchester this weekend. Worth a read. Applicable also to other British cities I am sure. Too many vested interests have talked up the emerging urban model.
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Would you like a crash course in understanding Wales? Of course you do. I think it is time for my first ever Bluesky thread! These are series of maps to help you better understand the country of Cymru! [Thread]
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Jon Roberts @kaardiffboy.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
Britain's worsening child poverty is shameful and must be a top priority for a Labour government. Tinkering with a flawed system is not the answer. There needs to be a fundamental redistribution of wealth from the richest to the poorest.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 10/09/2024
So much of the heritage of Welsh history has disappeared. We cannot treasure and learn from what we fail to protect. You can take positive action starting today | Irram Irshad
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Use Welsh heritage or lose it
So much of the heritage of Welsh history has disappeared. We cannot treasure and learn from what we fail to protect. You can take positive action starting today
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Suffolk Broad (aka Anna) 🇬🇧🇵🇱🇪🇺 @annadamski.bsky.social · 18/08/2024
This. ⤵️
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Jon Roberts @kaardiffboy.bsky.social · 17/08/2024
@jenburkecdf.bsky.social Good to see social responsibility in a public service. Does Cardiff plan to do the same?
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Jon Roberts @kaardiffboy.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
@jenburkecdf.bsky.social HiJen - welcome to BlueSky. Any chance that Cardiff Council might abandon the toxic cesspool that is Twitter/X and move to (or at least offer the alternative of) an alternative platform?
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