Reposted by LowriWill Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026A friend and I have launched a new media company for Wales providing local news. Fully details here: willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/what-comes...willhaywardwales.substack.comWhat comes next…Our plans for the future 77724
Reposted by LowriTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Ok, so we need someone beloved of elderly south coast racists to stand against him. 18313
Reposted by LowriWill Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 06/07/2026In Blaenau Gwent, 48.6% of children are in income deprivation. It is about 40% in Merthyr, Denbighshire, Neath Port Talbot, Torfaen, Newport, Cardiff, Wrexham, Swansea and Caerphilly. You read our special report in the newsletter: willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/the-hardes...willhaywardwales.substack.comThe hardest places to live in WalesMaps, maps, maps 24327
Reposted by LowriWill Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Your no-bullshit guide to asylum in Wales. willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/the-no-bs-...willhaywardwales.substack.comThe no-BS guide to asylum in WalesWhat the Nation of Sanctuary really is and the reality for refugees in Cymru 54226
Reposted by LowriWill Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 24/06/2026As you boil in the heat, never forget that all those people who for decades have deliberately and maliciously disrupted efforts to tackle climate change are probably sitting comfortable in their large air conditioned houses. Houses funded on the back of lies/misinformation they helped propagate. 9327132
Reposted by LowriOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Such good news. Human beings are capable of magical and wonderful things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukCervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given HPV vaccineA new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008. 302123783247
Reposted by LowriMark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Seeing the Peter Serafinowicz Harry Potter announcement just made me think, once again, about this excellent James Acaster bit from Off Menu. 1629401094
Reposted by LowriWill Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Labour MS Shav Taj gives passionate speech in the Senedd in response to Reform’s rhetoric on immigrants. 38325
Reposted by LowriCrystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room + 7948191678
Reposted by LowriLuke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Domino clock!datapoems.ioDominoThe time told as black domino tiles with white pips: each half a digit 0-9, flipping as the clock advances. 85316
Reposted by LowriMyles Lobdell @myleslobdell.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Kids in schoolyards across Britain will be trading mp4 rips of tiktoks over local mesh networks. 051
Reposted by Lowrikinoko @kinokosaur.bsky.social · 15/06/2026> Internet destroyed as all content is migrated to massive social media sites. > Ban kids from using those same social media sites. I taught myself HTML at 11 years old thanks to Neopets, and it's a skill I still use in my professional work. Kids have nowhere online to hang out and learn now. 0181
Reposted by LowriRobert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Feels like a lot of STEM guys believed coding was the hardest thing a human could do, and assumed that once somebody invented an AI that can code, it would follow naturally that the AI can do all of the lesser non-coding things that other dumber people were doing 371704317
Lowri @lowriwilliams.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Thoroughly enjoyed this. @nation.cymru nation.cymru/opinion/your...nation.cymruYou're in Wales. Act like it.Molly Stubbs With hindsight, the MacMillan car park attendant at Hay Festival simply chose a bad time to make his joke. It had been a scorching few days, the kind we rarely get in this country. “I thi... 121
Reposted by LowriMitchell Volk @mvolk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com 8083763798
Reposted by LowriDr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026As an anthropologist, I endorse this message! 273207256675
Reposted by LowriNebula @nebula.tv · 27/05/2026it's a beautiful day to ride trains and watch Downie Express 1542
Reposted by LowriJanne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 26/05/2026I well recall the online debates where the majority of debaters opined that zero traffic deaths is an utopian goal and would require methods that would kill Helsinki, if not bring about totalitarian communism 222076529
Reposted by LowriJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 21/05/2026Did work experience at a local museum when I was young, and they constantly had people asking them if stuff was important/valuable, which they took in good humour because people were engaged, but virtually always the answer was "No, but that's good, because otherwise you'd have stolen antiquities." 2337
Reposted by LowriBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/05/2026“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons for more walkable streets.fastcompany.com50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable StreetsFrom making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here. 15578225
Reposted by LowriDan Tappin @oitappin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Cardiff people, library people, book people. Please lend some support. 268
Reposted by LowriKate Bevan @katebevan.com · 12/05/2026Important announcement: a staycation is where you have time off and stay at home. It is not a holiday away from home in the UK. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 33598109
Reposted by LowriLuke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 10/05/2026This is how I can tell if people read my source 1113513
Reposted by LowriLeanne Wood @leannewood.bsky.social · 11/05/202660% of the new Plaid Cymru Members of the Senedd are women. 🥰 512632
Reposted by LowriIwan Williams @iwanwills.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Surely this isn’t real,surely 😂👏🥴👀 #AccidentalReform #Senedd26 🏴 1148
Reposted by LowriMadeley @madeley.bsky.social · 09/05/2026It's almost like we are genuinely different nations with genuinely different priorities and cultures. 34110
Reposted by LowriGregor/Fisher @grogipher.bsky.social · 09/05/2026The second trans msp will represent jk Rowling and I know she's going to be fucking seething hahahah 47213
Reposted by Lowritehdrok.bsky.social @tehdrok.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Quote of the day goes to Eluned Morgan, who is standing down as first Minister and Labour leader in Wales after losing her seat. To Reform: “We need to hear the anger, not feed it” 46530
Reposted by LowriWill Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The two Green MSs in Wales right now are: - Anthony Slaughter - Paul Rock Rock and Slaughter is the 1980s cop duo we never knew we needed. 1121349
Reposted by LowriMôr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Eluned Morgan is a classic example of the glass cliff, in which women are more likely to break the "glass ceiling" (i.e. achieve leadership roles in, for example, business, government etc) during periods of crisis or downturn when the risk of failure is highest 2236
Reposted by LowriWill Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 08/05/2026On a personal level, I feel sorry for Eluned Morgan. It was a big deal that she was the first woman to be First Minister. Say what you want about her, but to suggest the Labour result is just down to her is wrong. 1925735
Reposted by LowriWill Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 08/05/2026While there were huge shortcomings in how she led the Welsh Government, the seeds of today WERE PLANTED LONG AGO. If Labour try to pin this all on her and fail to learn lessons, they will continue in their spiral. 6954
Reposted by Lowrifrank n furter @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026She made mistakes but Starmer really fucked her over too. him losing Wales like this is fucking embarrassing, a massive own goal 1101
Reposted by LowriThe Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 08/05/2026First Ever Green Senedd member 🎉 Anthony Slaughter has been elected to the Senedd in Caerdydd Penarth – huge congratulations! 10658128
Reposted by LowriLorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 08/05/2026G'wan Caerdydd Penarth! 3 Plaid and 1 Green: that's a result! 2134
Reposted by LowriMadeley @madeley.bsky.social · 08/05/2026BBC news instituting a revolutionary new spelling of "Caerfilli", managing to get it wrong in both languages. 54515
Reposted by LowriClaire Vaughan @pixieglas.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I'm so sick of this. Why do they have to do this? Why do they care so much about dismissing the Welsh? It's infuriating. 23611
Reposted by Lowrifrank n furter @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026*best marketing voice* depressed by the election results? why not purchase an anti-fascist owl print, as a treat? anti-fascist owls will never vote for reform, and can be trusted to work co-operatively for the greater good at all times! shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/hex-... 14721
Reposted by LowriLegend @fubarrockchick.bsky.social · 08/05/20265 SNP wins in 🏴 so far , Shetland, Dundee, Kilmarnock and Aberdeen areas 141
Reposted by LowriBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026gotta love when a whole education system makes itself vulnerable by making a large number of institutions dependent on a proprietary lms whose continuity or reliability they have no control over *chef's kiss* now let's do it again, but bigger, with ai 3493128
Reposted by LowriVashti @vashtijoy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Some turnouts: Afan Ogwr Rhondda: 44.77% Bangor Conwy Môn: 53.85% Blaenau Gwent Caerffili Rhymni: 47.7% Caerdydd Penarth: 56.85% Casnewydd Islwyn: 47.8% Ceredigion Penfro: 55.2% Clwyd: 51.39% Fflint Wrecsam: 45.60% Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr: 47.36% Sir Fynwy Torfaen: 51.9% Sir Gaerfyrddin: 55.97% 166
Reposted by LowriWill Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Reform are refusing to talk to our reporters at the election counts. Champions of free speech? 🤣🤣 1619064
Reposted by LowriDr Adam Evans @a-b-evans.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Two early turnouts confirmed from Senedd constituencies: Blaenau Gwent Caerffili Rhymni 47.7% Casnewydd Islwyn 47.8% Considering that these cover areas with some of the lowest turnouts in 2021, this suggests this could be the first Senedd election where turnout passes the 50% barrier. #Senedd26 12213
Reposted by LowriAlistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 08/05/2026Lots of English people are extremely right wing. It's been this way my entire life. I'm past being sad about it. 7172