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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 12h
@paulannett.com they’re copying you, Paul! x.com/tylertaewook...
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Tyler Kim (@tylertaewook) on X
Today we’re launching https://t.co/3PmkMcWHNN, a single front door to the federal government. Instead of opening a bunch of tabs across different agency sites and trying to figure out which informati...
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As 24 hours go, this will take some beating!
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Turns out humanity may not be quite as doomed as first thought. 🙃
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Alex Goldman @agoldman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hi there, my name’s Alex Goldman and I used to host Reply All, and now I host @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social. This is a thread asking for you to consider supporting our show by becoming a premium member. Primarily because of the loss of members you’ll see in the graph below:
A graph showing a significant loss of premium members on 9/12/26
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@watsoncomedian.bsky.social My wife booked tickets for us for tonight’s gig as part of my birthday present in March. It’s now September. And we completely forgot. I hope we made up for our empty seats with the money paid?! Damn. Next time. 🤦‍♂️
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Don't look at the sun, you nutters. Just do a video selfie and look at it on your phone instead.
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
It is remarkable to me that Reform would far rather invest money in foreign oil fields than home-grown, home-generated energy. It goes against *everything* Reform supposedly stands for.
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You couldn't make this up!
Good ole unreliables!
You simply cannot run a modern grid with them and have power when needed and at a reasonable price!
Britain forced to rely on EU to avoid power shortages during heatwave
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Solar panels are overheating and functioning less efficiently during the soaring temperatures - Richard Newstead
Chris Price
Wed, June 24, 2026 at 6:58 PM GMT+1 • 4 min read
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 06/05/2026
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has been mocked after publishing a campaign message in a Welsh newspaper attacking London Mayor Sadiq Khan and urging Powys voters to back his party in the "London elections" this week ✍️ @emilypricejourno.bsky.social
nation.cymru
Farage mocked after urging Powys voters to back Reform in 'London elections'
Emily Price  Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has been mocked after publishing a campaign message in a Welsh newspaper attacking London Mayor Sadiq Khan and urging Powys voters to back his party in the “...
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Remarkably, the Welsh Civil Service opened access talks to would-be parties of government in Wales and Reform UK didn’t take them up on it! Reform isn’t a serious party. Don’t vote for chancers and grifters.
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Liz Saville Roberts AS / MP @lsrplaid.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
On Thursday, Wales will choose between a Plaid Cymru-led government offering hope and ambition, or one led by Reform UK that would threaten our NHS, our language, and even our nationhood. Let’s choose Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
independent.co.uk
The Welsh election is a two-horse race – and Labour is nowhere to be seen
Labour’s domination of Welsh politics is set to come to an abrupt end next week. Holly Evans speaks to Plaid Cymru about whether the Welsh nationalists have what it takes to finally become the country...
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I’ve spent years working in and around political campaigns (including my time with YesCymru in 2020) thinking hard about how narratives take hold, how opinions shift and how outcomes are actually shaped on the ground, by real people, having heartfelt conversations. All told, this isn’t a hot take:
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
If this is Reform’s idea of manifesto material, it tells you everything. A party that chooses its own version of history isn’t fit to lead - it’s controlling the narrative. This isn’t cultural policy, it’s culture-war bollocks. We’re better than this 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Reform to tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says
Election pledges say Reform would ask museums to present history chronologically.
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
If you ever need a reminder of how poorly the Senedd is understood, a quick scroll through the “Welsh Politics” Facebook page will do it.
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Coalition is not democratic, that's strategic cheating ... If one party comes out on top then that should be the party that wins ...
This is just a bunch of WEF commies securing their future whilst all of us will suffer and yet the general populace will still want the boot bigger so they can lick more ... Makes me sick what's happening to this world and only the thickos that vote these commies in can't see it ... It's unbelievable the brainwashing of the unwashed!
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Cornelius Thunderstone Mate, I've read some guff on here lately, but you deserve a prize for golden guff. Total and absolute honk. You deserve an award for fiction.
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Owen Williams and you win the Darwin award of the day, the only guff here mate is between your ears!
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Cornelius Thunderstone "If one party comes out on top then that should be the party that wins" is literally what you wrote.
You've clearly never paid a blind bit of notice to 26 years' worth of Sened and Assembly elections, as no party has *ever* achieved a working majority. Every single Labour government has needed to do deals with other parties to get budgets or 
policies over the line.
Achieving the greatest share of the vote has *never* meant
"running the government". It's entirely down to numbers of seats
- and Senedd electoral mathematics make it almost impossible for any party to get more than half the seats. It was ever thus.
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Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 26/03/2026
BREAKING: WALES BOYCOTT TRUMP'S WORLD CUP.
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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Well this article about hermit crabs has made me sad this morning. I do feel that when you get to know any animal, no matter how humble, you will start to see it as interesting and special. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/m...
Text from the New York Times story, "Saving Hermit Crabs by Breeding them in the Suburbs".

"She began to see them in new ways. They are social animals that thrive in family groups. They require large spaces with hamster wheels for exercise, display distinct personalities and communicate with unique chirps. Like parrots and ball pythons, they can live 50 years.

“They’re voiceless, misunderstood, elegant, incredible creatures that nobody cares about,” Akers said in her makeshift lab, where bright aquariums line the walls. In one, Fernandina, a stately, purple, baseball-sized crab around 40 years old, unfurled herself from a coconut hut. “They live so long, they must have some knowledge or sentience.”

It pains Akers and her crab-loving friends that so many hermit crabs are denied the chance of a long life. Some store owners toss them out at the end of the beach season if they aren’t sold.

“It’s ingrained in that boardwalk mentality that the crab is for the summer,” said Stacy Griffith Wodicker, of Fairfield, Ill. Her organization, the Land Hermit Crab Owners Society (motto: “Good Friends in a Pinch”) helps rehome unwanted pet crabs."
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Dave Bagpuss Forsey ☕️ @bagpuss.org · 27/03/2026
Hang on a minute
Mark 'Meta' Zuck - the man doesn't give a fuck (about your privacy)Roger Mellie - the man on the telly (who says bollocks)
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/03/2026
Beavers ‘breathe new life’ into Dorset as dams built and biodiversity returns
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Beavers ‘breathe new life’ into Dorset as dams built and biodiversity returns
National Trust says one year after reintroduction they are enriching habitats and may be having kits this summer They were released this time last year with fanfare, much hope and also, perhaps, a little trepidation. Twelve months on, there have been ups and downs for the first beavers to be (officially) reintroduced into the wild in England since the semiaquatic mammals were hunted to extinction 400 years ago. Continue reading...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/03/2026
"A major story that probably doesn’t get talked about enough is the reality that the president of the United States is, well, out of his mind."
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Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story
"The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."
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Jac Larner @jaclarner.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New poll in Wales, this time with constituency level estimates from YouGov(🥳). Polling in Wales has been pretty noisy over the last 24 months with some big house effects, but the general vote intention trend is clear - May 2026 is a two-horse race between Plaid Cymru and Reform
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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
*rant incoming* "We should be doing it more thoughtfully, and more slowly" says lady in this article.... No. We shouldn't. We've had fifty fucking years to do things carefully and slowly and what that's mean is that we've done bugger all in that time to even keep pace with climate change (1)
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The Reform candidate for Caerphilly is a liar.
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Someone send this to that idiot Farage nation.cymru/opinion/wels...
nation.cymru
Welsh: the language that shaped Britain
Owen Williams Listen carefully, and you’ll hear it: a language older than the hills, older than the state. The names of rivers and mountains still whisper it – Pen-y-Fan, Penicuik, Aberystwyth, Aberde...
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Welsh Govt has NO control over Immigration. Voting Reform in the Welsh General Election because you’re cross about small boats on the Kent shoreline is utterly mindless. (And before some lunatic mentions ‘Nation of Sanctuary’, it’s just a resettlement scheme for people granted asylum by UK Govt)
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 17/03/2026
In 387 AD, a saint was born in Banwen, high in Wales’ Dulais Valley. He would become the Celtic world’s most iconic figurehead. To his adopted Irish home and kin, he is known simply as Saint Patrick ✍️ Owen Williams
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The story of St Patrick the patron saint of Ireland… from Wales
Owen Williams In 387 AD, a saint was born in Banwen, high in Wales’ Dulais Valley. He would become the Celtic world’s most iconic figurehead. Every March, he is celebrated in towns and cities across t...
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
If in doubt, share it out. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Welsh Government is legally-bound to provide a refugee resettlement scheme under UK Law.

It created Nation of Sanctuary to support the people sent here by UK Government.

Scotland and Northern Ireland also have their own resettlement schemes.

The only way a future Welsh Government can ‘opt out’ of providing a resettlement scheme is for Wales to leave the UK.
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
He should be censured by the Electoral Commission for this utter nonsense. Deliberately dangerous disinformation. Starmer doesn’t lead Welsh Government and isn’t standing for election to the Senedd. Challenge based on the facts, not fantasy.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Immigration and Asylum are decided by UK Government. “Nation of Sanctuary” is how Welsh Government follows the law once people are placed here. Similar schemes exist in Scotland and Northern Ireland Simple facts. No spin. Please share. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Schrödinger's Cymru. #annibyniaeth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Schrödinger's Cymru
(n.) A paradox in which Wales is too poor to survive as an independent country and simultaneously too rich to let go
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/02/2026
‘You can tell the mood has changed’: How Plaid Cymru led the Welsh fightback against Reform
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‘You can tell the mood has changed’: How Plaid Cymru led the Welsh fightback against Reform
Nigel Farage’s party was on the charge in Wales – but after the seismic Caerphilly byelection, progressives now believe they can come out on top in May
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©️garethaethwy 2024 @garethaethwy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Your regular reminder that immigration is not devolved to Wales. Anyone who tries telling you that a vote for any party in the forthcoming Senedd elections is NOT a vote to end immigration.
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Immigration and Asylum are decided by UK Government. “Nation of Sanctuary” is how Welsh Government follows the law once people are placed here. Similar schemes exist in Scotland and Northern Ireland Simple facts. No spin. Please share. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Hard truths for people voting Reform in Wales to “stop immigration”: 1. It won’t work 2. Only UK Government decides who is resettled, and where 3. The devolved governments created resettlement schemes to comply with UK Law: - Nation of Sanctuary - New Scots Strategy - NI Refugee Resettlement Scheme
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 14/01/2026
Also: Greenland is already under the NATO umbrella! Neither Russia nor China is going to "get it"! Look at a map – what are those two countries between Greenland and Russia? This is just absolute crankery. You can't sanewash this (even though people are trying).
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Hard to find a bigger treat to freedom of the press than the President openly reminding a powerful journalist, on TV, that the journalist only has his job because of the President, and everyone being so lazily used to this sort of thing they don't even bother to edit it out for propriety's sake.
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Let’s also lose the monarchy.
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Dico Jenkins 🍉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @siencyn.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Loves this I does!
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This is “Plygain”. It’s an old Welsh form of harmonic carol singing. It’s the most Christmassy thing you’ll see today.🎄 Goosebumps. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Reform is not a new party, it’s a rehash of the Brexit Party, which is itself a rejig of UKIP. Don’t con yourself that it’s anything other than a moneymaking exercise.
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Anianegwr @anianegwr.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Sickening. Racist POS. The same people are anti-Welsh bigots. WHITE ANGLO-SUPREMACIST IMPERIALIST FASCISM. Yes we should be outraged. Yes he should be loudly and publicly castigated for his views. The time to fight fascism is long overdue.
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Last Christmas, I gave you my heart, But the very next day, MRSA.
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Our girl left us Thursday. She was so unwell, and so ready to be still. Wci was a joy. A gentle, caring little dog, and this house and this family is far emptier without her - but we are so much richer for having known her and having loved her. And we’re so proud to have been her whole world ❤️
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Anianegwr @anianegwr.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I'd rather that the political power to develop the Welsh economy was in in the hands of Wales' democratically elected representatives thank you.
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Anianegwr @anianegwr.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
@owswills.bsky.social explains very well here why this singular concept of Great Britain is divorced from reality. What stands for Cymraeg also stands for Scottish Gaelic. Moreover, Britain is a place of many cultures and languages. We are certainly not one nation nation.cymru/opinion/the-... 2/9
nation.cymru
The UK is not a single-language state. It’s time Starmer caught up
Owen Williams When Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared that “if you want to live in the UK, you should speak English,” he wasn’t just parroting a tired line about integration. He was exposing a deepe...
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Don-Key @don-key1959.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
And had Reform not been standing, you'd have heard nothing about an election in a small Welsh town...
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
the new Plaid Cymru assembly member for Caerphilly sounds like a proper community-minded character: "Still a councillor, he also has four voluntary jobs, working in two local schools, a community coffee shop and a foodbank...." www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politic...
walesonline.co.uk
What you need to know about Lindsay Whittle, new Senedd member for Caerphilly
The veteran Plaid Cymru campaigner won the Caerphilly by-election
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
"Amazing result for Plaid Cymru, so here's a guest from Reform anyway..."
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/10/2025
Caerphilly byelection a triumph of positivity over division, says Plaid Cymru leader
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Caerphilly byelection a triumph of positivity over division, says Plaid Cymru leader
Rhun ap Iorwerth says party’s win was more than just rejection of immigration-obsessed Reform or rudderless Labour * UK politics live – latest updates Plaid Cymru can offer a positive vision for Wales for voters who want to reject the divisiveness of Reform UK, the party’s leader has said after a triumphant Welsh parliamentary byelection. Rhun ap Iorwerth said the 47% win for his party in the Caerphilly byelection was a rejection of Reform and its obsession with immigration, which, while important, did not overshadow more pressing issues, such as healthcare and housing. Continue reading...
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