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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@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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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Done. I like the Premium artwork!
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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 · 12/09/2026
Mortifying. 😂
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I assume it was an excellent show?
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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
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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
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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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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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
If you’re serious about where our country goes next, vote like it matters. Because it matters. It *really* bloody matters. Vote for good. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Sign reading “Gorsaf Bleidleisio / Polling Station”
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Wales can move forward - building something fairer, more confident, more in control of its own future. Or it can lurch headlong into something meaner, noisier and ultimately emptier.
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
So we need to be clear-eyed about Thursday. It’s not about perfect alignment with every belief you hold. It’s about our direction of travel.
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
One of the options on the ballot is leaning hard into grievance and division - the sort of politics that far too often edges uncomfortably close to something much *much* darker. Dress it up howevwr you like - we *all* know what it is.
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
If you pretend it isn’t (if you’re one of those that “votes with your heart” in order to ignore reality) you’re not making a statement to anyone. You’re shaping a result. You’re shaping our country’s future. You’re shaping our kids’ lives.
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Thursday isn’t theoretical. It’s maths. In most seats in Wales, this election is already a straight fight. Two parties. One outcome.
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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...
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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
Diolch Siôn.
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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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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Never heard of it.
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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."
publicnotice.co
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 · 20/03/2026
Your legislators are dumbasses.
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Someone send this to that idiot Farage nation.cymru/opinion/wels...
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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 · 10/03/2026
Again, this isn’t the point. We’re at an ideological impasse here.
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
“UK taxpayers pay for it anyway” isn’t the point. The question is who exercises democratic authority over devolved policy. Voters in Wales and Scotland elect institutions to do that. If Westminster spends around them whenever it feels like it, devolution is a courtesy rather than a settlement.
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The UK is a sovereign state and a political union. Scotland is a country.
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
You realise that the executive and the legislature are two different concepts, right?
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Either we have national governments in our own country elected to make decisions on our behalf, or we have a government in another country overruling our own. Regardless of your personal dislike of either the SNP or Plaid, you surely have to recognise the disconnect?
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Starmer directly refers to overriding devolved governments. That’s not coordination, Alex.
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
UK Government legislating in devolved areas is a direct threat to the devolution that Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland’s electorate voted for. It’s an anti-democratic (verging on authoritarian) position for Starmer to take.
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
That’s not what the memorandum says. I refer specifically to this: “early engagement with the Cabinet Office Union and Devolution Directorate on the design and delivery of policies UK-wide, particularly when considering the use of the Financial Assistance Power or legislating in devolved areas”
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Scotland set the legal precedent in 2011. We’ll get a referendum if Plaid add it to their 2029 manifesto and win the subsequent election.
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
It all depends on the governments we elect after independence, doesn’t it?
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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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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
He clearly doesn’t know what the Senedd is.
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