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Rhys Jones

@rhys.newydd.net
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By day: reasonably mild-mannered Swansea-based digital media lecturer. But by night: reasonably mild-mannered Swansea-based digital media lecturer. Siarad Cymraeg, all the way. He/him/fo a fe swan.ac.uk/staff/rhys.jones analog.newydd.net

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 15/09/2026
Wow, so, 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81: not only a top seller and a progenitor of survival horror, but a direct influence on one of the most contentious of 8-bit games. Brilliant read 👇
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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 12/09/2026
Hoot hoot! We're delighted to announce Furry Studies 2027. Location: Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia / Online Streaming Date: July 2027 The Call for Papers is now live! Submissions close 8 January 2027. For more info, the theme, and how to submit, go to furrystudies.org.
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Call for Proposals – Furry Studies 2027
Furry Studies 2027 CFP: “How do furries use fursuits, fursonas, and the feeling of ‘fur’ to navigate identity, belonging, and collective creativity?”
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 12/09/2026
Violets are blue Though roses aren't ruddy:
Chihuahua's Napoleon complex explained by study
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 04/09/2026
Good heavens.
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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Tom Baker looking increasingly deranged as Professor Plum on Cluedo
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 16/08/2026
For the next hour on @noiseboxradio.com a chance to hear the show from last Wednesday. Note that the eclipse I mention won't be happening live this time, and if the moon does start covering the sun this afternoon maybe let someone know. Gorgeous music in Welsh, now till 4.
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 09/08/2026
Repeating Wednesday's show in five minutes, with slight audio fixes.. but what's with the extra anthem this time round, and what's a fellow Noisebox presenter who isn't even @ricardoautobahn.co.uk got to do with it? Find out at 3 (though actually the new bit isn't till 3:55) @noiseboxradio.com
The logo for I Couldn't Speak a Word of English: the best in Welsh music with Rhys Jones. A pastiche of the Welsh flag, with a red speech bubble, containing the title of the show, where the red dragon would be
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Simon Love @simonloverules.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I've made a music video for your MTV of "I'm Not Worth It" from the album youtu.be/7rO4-Ypp9Y4?...
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"I'm Not Worth It" by Simon Love
YouTube video by Simon Love
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Ben Baker @benbaker.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As an experiment I've recorded a completely updated and reworked audio version of my "Comedy Cash-In Book Book" from a few years ago. If that sounds your sort of thing, it's on Bandcamp now at a highly competitive market pricing. benbakerbooks.bandcamp.com/album/the-co...
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The Comedy Cash-In Book Audiobook Book, by Ben Baker
12 track album
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 08/07/2026
Starting now on @noiseboxradio.com , the latest of these, worryingly live and hitting its target demographic of fans of the Anglesey Sea Zoo and telephone dialling codes. Now till 8
I couldn't speak a word of English, the best in Welsh music with Rhys Jones
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 28/06/2026
Preparing for #bdigra, in the company of Crash magazine's Worst Game of 1986. It retailed for £7.95 back then. Inflation-adjusted, that's £25 by now. Put another way, three of these = one GTA 6, and I know which I'd go for. Now where's the Spectrum gone?
Photo of a cassette in an opened box and a small game manual, sitting on a powered-up laptop. The cassette has blue text on a white background. It has the logo for EastEnders, and the text: 'Part 1 The Arcade Game, Spectrum 48k'. The booklet, in black on white, has the EastEnders logo on the left hand side, the text 'Part 1: The Arcade Game' at the top, the logo for Macsen Software, and lists four platforms: Amstrad, BBC slash Electron, Commodore 64, and Spectrum 48k
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 28/06/2026
Not that I'm trying to hitch a ride from a duo who are far more popular than me, but if you tune in three hours early to Love and Rain you'll hear 57 minutes of Welsh-language music, badly explained in English. What's not to like? You'll find out. Word of English repeat, @noiseboxradio.com at 3:01pm
The logo for I Couldn't Speak a Word of English: the best in Welsh music with Rhys Jones, stylised in the colours of the Welsh flag
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 17/05/2026
Another chance to hear this, 7 minutes from now, on noiseboxradio.com, with revelations about the new Welsh Government, a song sharing its name with the show, and lots of sousaphone. Join us
Logo for I Couldn't Speak a Word of English: the best in Welsh music with Rhys Jones
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
They've invited him before, and they invited Nick Griffin when I was an undergrad. The premier hobby debating club for the British political class just has a long term belief that fascists are worth listening to.
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 16/05/2026
Enjoyed reading this in The @Battlegroundeu.bsky.social - John Foster (@johnfoster.bsky.social, possibly?) on Kneecap, the memorialisation of conflict, and the wider cultural politics of what Tystion called 'hip-hop poetry in motion in the mother tongue' thebattleground.substack.com/p/anticoloni...
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Anticolonial Hip-Hop
Fenian, by Kneecap
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 13/05/2026
Sunny intervals forecast for an all-Cymraeg, all-Super Furry Animals (and associates) special, the first in a new series of @wordofenglish.bsky.social in precisely 6 minutes on @noiseboxradio.com . Best get dinner eaten then
A tub of guacamole
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 12/05/2026
Excellent to see such best-practice behaviour from those responsible for the most consequential higher-ed-tech in the world 🤨 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Canvas hack: Company pays criminals to delete students' stolen data
The company behind Canvas says it has
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 10/05/2026
The reporter won't have written the headline here, but Reform very notably didn't win the largest number of seats in Swansea... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
How Reform won votes from Swansea to Sunderland
Many voters have turned to Reform UK with devastating consequences for the main two parties, Labour and the Conservatives.
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 09/05/2026
Half an hour left before the request shutters... shutter. Requests still welcome!
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 09/05/2026
I'm helming tonight's themed Saturday night request show on wireless Internet station @noiseboxradio.com, this week all about rodents,l of all varieties. Go to NoiseboxRadio.com/ffslive to get an explanation and make your request, and hear a shambolic presenter play it out from 9pm onwards!
noiseboxradio.com
Free-For-All Saturday
Anything goes on Saturday nights in Noisebox Radio’s live request show! Every Saturday afternoon you can come to this page to see what the theme is for this week’s show, and submit your…
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 09/05/2026
'In 1985, Welsh historian Gwyn Alf Williams described Labour majorities standing “like Aneurin Bevan’s memorial stones”. Forty years on, the stones have finally been eroded.' @nyedavies.bsky.social in @theconversation.com on the making of a new epoch in Wales theconversation.com/after-more-t...
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After more than a century, Labour has lost Wales
It was once unthinkable – and former first minister Eluned Morgan losing her seat added to the party’s catastrophic result.
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 07/05/2026
Except for viewers in Wales and Scotland, who can just turn up, so please do (polling card makes things quicker mind) #ItsDevolved
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 27/04/2026
Sosej bîns a spam, we-hei! youtu.be/-3sgxVpO_oA
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Rocyn - Sosej Bins a Chips
YouTube video by Ffarout
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Andy Ross @andyross1962.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The menu ( in Welsh ) of Caffi Spam at Colwyn Bay for the unveiling of the Terry Jones statue this afternoon.
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 25/04/2026
We need to properly talk at some point! Preparing a five minute talk about Carmarthen's Macsen Software, to be given at the end of June, and their main hit was the tape on the left here... flic.kr/p/abqhvT
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Blockbusters / Ateb ac Atal
Dau gasét a gynhyrchwyd gan y cwmni Meddalwedd Macsen, o Gaerfyrddin. Ateb ac Atal oedd fersiwn Gymraeg y gêm Blockbusters, oedd ei hun yn addasiad o sioe gwis hynod boblogaidd yr un cyfnod. Roedd Blo...
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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Oh and for fans of hospital radio airplay stats, A Boy From Nowhere was requested on Radio City in Swansea every night for months in 1987. So yeah, that’s brought me some flashbacks. #totp
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 24/04/2026
Bob Holness has let himself go
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 23/04/2026
Happy St Sir Clive Day, everyone. May the forty-forth be with you. Prize* competition - precisely why does the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, which looks at South Wales' industrial heritage, have on display, specifically, a Spectrum 48k+? * cannot be substituted with other yogurt brands
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🕹️ Davey Sloan 👾 @sloanysoft.itch.io · 23/04/2026
44 years of this absolute dreamboat of a computer! Happy birthday #ZXSpectrum
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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
For most if not all of the '80s, when his best music was new, Prince was routinely slagged off, belittled & mocked in the British music press. Even when he received good reviews, they were grudging. He was viewed as that funny little guy who didn't talk to anybody at the BRIT Awards. Remember that.
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Sarah Peploe @sarahpeploe.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 29/03/2026
ED: Purple Rain. SHAUN: No. ED: Sign o' the Times? SHAUN: Definitely not.
'Sculpture made of man who fought knifeman with tusk' (BBC headline)
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Is it Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch nation.cymru/culture/mass...
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Massive Welsh name signs up for Celebrity Traitors - report
As anticipation of Series 2 of Celebrity Traitors gathers pace, a famous Welsh star is reported to have signed up for the show. Award-winning actor and Welsh National Theatre artistic director Michael...
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 26/03/2026
Preparing for a seminar on histories of video games, games as mediating-objects, and ludic worlds, and a memory comes to mind: playing Elite on my Electron in January 1986, then wandering into the living room and seeing the news of the Challenger disaster. Stunned by the juxtaposition, then as now.
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
meanwhile, a lot of teenagers think Harriet Tubman, Anne Frank, and Helen Keller were hoaxes
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 18/03/2026
If you're looking for a playlist to sum up the diverse listenership of @noiseboxradio.com, try this thread, and these three freewheeling hours of radio www.mixcloud.com/NoiseboxRadi... (And yeah, Madoc/Tarmey, perhaps not Recordiau Sain's finest release. Clearly @pantosplaining.bsky.social's fault)
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Ben Baker Vs Everybody
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Jurgen Habermas, philosopher and German, European public intellectual has died, aged 96 (Spiegel) www.spiegel.de/kultur/philo...
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Philosoph Jürgen Habermas gestorben
Jürgen Habermas ist tot. Der Philosoph und Soziologe starb heute im Alter von 96 Jahren in Starnberg.
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 01/03/2026
Happy St David's Day! I'm on @noiseboxradio.com right now, playing music from and by a wide variety of Welsh Davids, Dewis and Dafydds. Who knows, you might hear something you like. Croeso! noiseboxradio.com
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 27/02/2026
This was excellent fun to do and it'll be great to hear it again. Thanks Ben!
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 08/02/2026
I feel there's a theme developing today
A BBC Micro loading Brian Clough's Football Fortunes
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 08/02/2026
a) PHWOAR EH b) as noted, three of these would have more processing power, storage and memory than _all_ the 1.5 million+ Beebs sold back in the day. That's somehow both astonishing and unsurprising www.raspberrypi.com/news/beige-i... #retrocomputing
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Beige is back: Remembering the BBC Micro with Raspberry Pi 500+ - Raspberry Pi
In a polite nod to four decades of British computing, we modified a Raspberry Pi 500+ to look like a BBC Micro.
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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The #teletext recovery computer is back online, running through a tape from (a friend of) @rhys.newydd.net. Testing video/audio capture in #OBS alongside VBI capture using vhs-teletext. No rare ads yet, though. The frame drop messages are spurious: capture doesn't seem to be adversely affected.
A square LCD PC monitor (showing a Linux Mint desktop with OBS, a terminal window, and task manager open), keyboard and trackpad, video recorder, and slim PC, nestled in with various ornaments and an old printer being used as a shelf. A Sonic The Hedgehog figure is holding an Xbox-style gamepad upside down, next to a ceramic ornament of a cottage.
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Jake Parappa Hainey @jakeparappahainey.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
There are basically two types of comics. 1. Comics about cats who hate mondays 2. Comics about cats who like lasagna If you get REALLY good you can do both, but don't run before you can walk.
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 19/01/2026
A joyous Blue Monday. youtu.be/aWriuQzR3kc
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Blue Monday
YouTube video by Wetdude3D
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
LLMs are spam generators. That is all. They're designed to generate plausibly human-like text well enough to pass a generic Turing Test. That's why people believe they're "intelligent". But really, all they are is spam generators. We have hit the spamularity.
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 16/12/2025
Ben's playing indie/alt songs of 1995, a year when I came here, formed lasting friendships, and determined the rest of my life. This reminds me of Musiquarium, of singles of the week, and discovering who I was/who the adult me would become. Quite the nostalgia, then, on @noiseboxradio.com till 9
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 09/12/2025
Musically, performing* a million-selling record, alongside its composer, in a computer museum, clad in a labcoat once worn on Top of the Pops, remains one of the most unexpected yet delicious things to have happened in my adult life. * OK, in my case that's in the pre-1991 TOTP sense. Still counts
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 05/12/2025
Terrific article from @henbapurnewydd.bsky.social on Welshness, myth and the algorithm: open.substack.com/pub/llinos/p...
open.substack.com
The Helicopter Over Newport That Nobody Questioned
How spectacle softens the strange until it feels ordinary.
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Oh. My. Word.
youtu.be
Sparks on The Zig and Zag Show
YouTube video by daztraction
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