MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 10hI’m just afraid they’ll adopt a crash and burn attitude after the midterms. 010
Reposted by MeredyddBBrexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is brilliant! And so true! 😂 💀💀💀 A Norwegian consumer protection video about the inbuilt redundancy of so many modern products and apps. 412484
Reposted by MeredyddBMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 571214754184
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Think I'll buy tickets for her Cardiff gig just on the strength of that. 000
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?” Is the only final line of a novel that’s made me burst into tears. Burst. 120
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Ah ok. Ta. I don’t subscribe. I’ll have to go behind the paywall because the contortions will be epic I should think. 010
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I've been reading about Joseph Brodsky; Russian poet born in St Petersburg; "strongly advised" to emigrate from the Soviet Union in 1972; awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature; appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1991; wrote this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_...en.wikipedia.orgOn the Independence of Ukraine - Wikipedia 010
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Trebitsch-Lincoln as Chao Kung. I'd never heard of him before but his story is nuts. A multi part series with him on his deathbed as Chao Kung, looking back over his life. 080
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's so easy to inadvertently patronise people on here but FYI this book is foundational to me as a Welsh person, just in case you don't know it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Wa...en.wikipedia.orgWhen Was Wales? - Wikipedia 010
Reposted by MeredyddBSvetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏 532750525
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Aberystwyth is far more resonant a capital for me as a Welshman. 220
Reposted by MeredyddBKate Bevan @katebevan.com · 05/10/2026European Greens not fucking around here: this is a very strong statement. 211228
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Dr Strangelove. Kubricks manipulation of actors who were all larger than life in real life. It's move from serious to outright satire. The Kennedy assassination that postponed its release. The cut custard pie scene. Contemporary resonance then and now. The people on who the characters were based etc 010
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A friend is a Green Party activist. I said to him, "so the Green Party now says that David Simon, creator of The Wire, is a racist? Wow!" He laughed, said no, but then he started mumbling because of course yes, they are saying that. 050
Reposted by MeredyddBStephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Arguably true and I say that as a scientist). Discuss. (By Kathryn Schulz in the New Yorker). 6207
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Telling that the only two reviews I've seen that laud the film are from the Telegraph and The Mail, both 4/5. 020
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026And then questioned closely, don't let them laugh it off. Why (the racism of) brown people in a boat? Why rats chasing cats? Prisoners are being released precisely because you grossly underfunded the justice system so why highlight that? etc 0161
Reposted by MeredyddBMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I remember in 2015/2016 how SLOW pro-EU mobilisation was -it only really exploded AFTER the Brexit vote. Let's not make that mistake again. At European movement UK, we've been building the mobilisation structures needed. All you need to do is join us. --> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/signup-newsl... 14119
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I know someone who's worked with Kemp. I have no doubt the longer he stays the more likely it is he'll reach supercritical mass and take whatever's near and far with him. 020
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I just read though that its operations have been suspended, banks having closed their accounts. pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-can...pressgazette.co.ukThe Canary suspends operations after second bank account blockedStaff wages have been late since June and Canary website briefly went down. 100
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A trolley dolly in my town told me years ago there are 'deadheaders' on nearly every flight. Passengers just don't notice them. The Korean airlines flight that was shot down by Russia in the early 80s had a deadheading crew on board. I've lost friends over The Canary. 100
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When someone bends down next to me I have to fight the urge to say, "not now," followed by their name. 000
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A famous theatre director said to me that posh people are incomprehensible because they don’t sound the consonants. 020
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Arena doc about him is on YouTube. Most of his contemporaries have an odd verbal tic eg Bill Deedes and his shlur. And Anthony Powell insisted that Powell be pronounced Pole. 120
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yes! The one with Elizabeth Jane Howard where he sticks the boot into Joyce. I thought the same. 220
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Essential reading - martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...martinrobbins.substack.comThe AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring NowElites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems. 000
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Am sharing this far and wide. To paraphrase Clive James about television, those who are scared of what AI will do to the world are probably just scared of the world. 010
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I know it’s by the by but what the F is on his head? 000
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I’m reminded of a man from later that century - Simon de Montfort. His words and actions are the Reform prototype. 010
Reposted by MeredyddBAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'. 1981885406
Reposted by MeredyddBDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026If I am me and I am competent then so what if I'm evil? Billy Shakes wrote this rationalizing horseshit and wrote it way better, Pete: "What do I fear? Myself? There's none else by. Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I. Is there a murderer here? No. Yes, I am. Then fly! What, from myself?" 1418234
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026 I was just reacting to the list as posted. Will read. Ta. 100
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Jennie Lee went to everything; Royal Opera or avant garde in a shed, she was there no matter how perplexing she found the work. 000
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Interesting how it’s the heads of AI firms that rely solely on AI for income that are saying this. They’re going to run out of money before making any is the bleet. 110
MeredyddB @meredyddb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026PMs behave like Hollywood producers, loathe to see through projects green lit by a predecessor they probably hate. 140
Reposted by MeredyddBAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026You know that saying about how the way they treat asylum seekers is the way they’d treat everyone else if they thought they could get away with it? Well, 25378181
