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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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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 15/09/2026
It did cause a general kerfuffle at the time, Duggee Dug Dug's defence being that he was trying to create something relevant for the kids, a defence that'd have flown slightly more successfully in 1986, rather than 1993. Christian cringe at its cringiest.
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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
Chihuahua vs Acme bsky.app/profile/uk.t...
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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 · 30/08/2026
It went down really, really well! in spite of the presenter having even less of a clue about everything than usual. www.mixcloud.com/NoiseboxRadi... (final ten minutes)
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I Couldn't Speak a Word of English - 19 August 2026 by Noisebox Radio
First broadcast 19 August 2026. You've probably heard the Super Furries, Gorky's and Catatonia, but where could you go on a wider, newer, older and deeper search for more Welsh language music? Let ...
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 19/08/2026
Had a listen and decided, yes! Playing the full album now @noiseboxradio.com -sorry for the short notice, I'll send you a link once it goes on Mixcloud
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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
Just in time! Your interpretation of Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau... just finished on Noisebox. Looking forward to tonight's show
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 09/08/2026
I might mention @simonloverules.bsky.social here for no pertinent reason whatsoever
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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
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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...
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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
I mean it won votes, true, but so did every party that stood. I assume that's not what you're supposed to take away from that headline
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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...
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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
I mean, I can imagine that accidentally slipping onto a playlist sometime else :)
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 09/05/2026
A different theme each week and this week's is rodent related! noiseboxradio.com/ffslive is the form so as to retain a veneer of mystery...
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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!
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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
Admittedly that's if someone requests it. In other news, I've got through to the Vatican at last and apparently, yes he is.
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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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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 25/04/2026
I'm really sorry for thinking you'd got it wrong! Should have known that you of all people would "get" international television trends
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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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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 25/04/2026
Obvious, yes, but never even crossed my mind till now. I should have guessed you were a Radio City alumnus. Never presented myself, but was an uncalled-for music consultant to some of @dafhrees.bsky.social's Welsh-language output in the early 90s and once even visited the 'well apportioned' studios.
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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
It was a bit of a joke I'm afraid. The hexagons on the backdrop reminded me very much of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbu...
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Blockbusters (British game show) - Wikipedia
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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
"kept for best" = "that's how we keep the other one going, like, spare parts". Do you remember Chuggs, used furniture store, operating from a warehouse on the back lane joining Uplands Crescent to Eaton Crescent? That had a C5 which was not for sale at any sensible price :)
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 23/04/2026
With @leightonevans.bsky.social as my witness, I most definitely venerate the factory! The material cradle of the ZX81 and Spectrum can't be easily dismissed, though the same perhaps cannot be said of the (same) manufacturing plant for the Nimslo 3D Camera :D
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 23/04/2026
"Well done once again, William! As I keep saying, you could all learn a lot from him, couldn't we, Justin? Now, yes it is lunchtime but remember what Mr Evans said this morning, that incident at the petrol station nearly got rid of Gower Road..."
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 23/04/2026
Not Welsh, but rather Korean. A company who, if memory serves, would say at the end of their telly ads, "you pay for our product, not our name"...
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 23/04/2026
Well done William! AB also built the brand new 48k+s. And if you want an A rather than an A- in the essay, who made the innards, ie the circuit boards?
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Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net · 23/04/2026
Never been sure to what extent Bluesky truly embraces the folksonomy but 🔝 #zxspectrum #retrocomputing #retrogaming #80s #1980s
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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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