Roedd jyst rhaid i mi atgoffa fy hun beth oedd rhain yn y Gymraeg, doh! Mae angen bathodyn arna i... https://paned-o-ge.wales/shop/e-fe-fo/ #Cymraeg

David Gerard@davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 7h ago

hello what do you mean us running bluesky social PBC are a bunch of neoreactionary transphobes no no no uh have some pronouns!! https://bsky.app/profile/helix.midwestspeedfest.com/post/3mzjktyhn5s2d

"Societal missions aren’t weaker versions of technology missions – they are a different kind of undertaking" https://www.researchagenda.news/articles/the-moon-and-the-ghetto-revisited.html < Words to live by, and helpful the next time someone tries to suggest democratic institutions should be […]

Tuuuune! And super appropriate for today! #NowPlaying

Wedi dechrau darllen Brodorion gan Ifan Morgan Jones. Mae'n hynod o ddarllenadwy ac yn atgoffa fi (mewn ffordd da) o'r Beach gan Alex Garland. Rili cwl bod yr adolygiad yma (sydd gyda sbwylars) yn ei awgrymu i ddysgwyr hefyd. Have started reading Brodorion by @Ifanmj. Incredibly readable, like […]

"The Economics of Place is the Economics of Empire, then and now. The ‘problem regions’ of 1930s Britain are largely the ‘problem regions’ of today. The death of an empire has done precisely nothing to rearrange the hierarchy of places in Britain" < Brilliant piece by @calvjones […]

"I find myself returning to the Mabinogion, with its giants, magical transformations, complicated relationships and frequently catastrophic consequences of wounded honour" https://philjohn236790.substack.com/p/the-gods-have-feet-of-clay < Enjoyed this by @PhilJohn on hubris and mythology

The Gods Have Feet of Clay

On hubris, mythology and the peculiar arrogance of punishing ourselves.

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Nawr rwy'n darllen 'O Ran' gan Mererid Hopwood https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zwyfg82/revision/1 Dechreuad addawol. Rwy'n edrych mlaen mynd yn ddyfnach mewn i'r llyfr #Cymraeg

Cyflwyniad - O Ran gan Mererid Hopwood - TGAU Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg Revision - BBC Bitesize

Hanes perthynas tad a merch a geir yn O Ran ond mae problemau Ifan, natur bryderus Angharad ac absenoldeb mam yn taflu cysgod dros eu bywydau.

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Wow - just finished Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Olive is such an interesting and nuanced character, depicted with such warmth.Her flaws explored without judgment. Loved it #Bookstodon https://www.elizabethstrout.com/books/olive-kitteridge

Olive Kitteridge — Elizabeth Strout

In a voice more powerful and compassionate than ever before,  New York Times  bestselling author Elizabeth Strout binds together thirteen rich, luminous narratives into a book with the heft of a novel, through the presence of one larger-than-life, unforgettable character: Olive K

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As someone whose first language is Welsh, I often come across the nuances when using different languages to talk about an issue. This is such important work by on such a sensitive topic area […]

I did an interview for the #NewCivilEngineer magazine, talking about my >4 years as Chair of @nicw. The interview includes thoughts on #Nature, #Nuclear and ... has the Well-being of Future Generations Act actually made any difference in Wales?? […] [Original post on toot.wales]

"The original question, can they be trusted with money, was always pointing in the wrong direction. The real question is whether they are allowed to be ordinary" https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/please-pass-smoked-salmon-adam-bennett-ot9ze/ < Brilliant post from Adam Bennett from Project Change […]

Newydd gorffen Yr Hobyd - cyfieithiad wych o Tolkien. Rwy'n bles bod e mor hawdd i'w ddarllen gan bod e'n ffordd i gael mwy o bobl i ddarllen trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg https://www.tolkientranslations.com/home/table-of-contents/yr-hobyd-welsh #Cymraeg

Yr Hobyd (Welsh)

Yr Hobyd (Welsh [H]), purchased on-line from Melin Bapur in 2024 (paperback)

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Wel dyna chi cast a hanner o ran lleisiau! Edrych mlaen i glywed Rhys Ifans fel Obi-Wan Kenobi! https://newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/un-ffilmiau-eiconig-star-wars-gael-dybio-ir-gymraeg #Cymraeg

Un o ffilmiau eiconig Star Wars i gael ei dybio i'r Gymraeg

Bydd y ffilm eiconig Star Wars: A New Hope yn cael ei dybio’n Gymraeg

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New in Mastodon 4.6: Newsletters 📬 Mastodon servers now support email newsletters, which allow people without a social web account to subscribe to your posts via email. This feature is opt-in at the server level. We're building Mastodon for people and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The Escape Collective podcasts on the state of the bike industry are fascinating. As someone who loves bikes it's good to understand the context. Loads of wider points on economic planning post-COVID and in terms of cost of living […]

ACAA* my latest for @newscientist.com *a cartoon about abbreviations

Waw. Ffilm mor cŵl am beicio mynydd ym Mro Dyfi. Anhygoel fod y fath adnodd naturiol yng Nghymru. Plant arbennig fyd! Wow, such a cool film about Mountain Biking in the Dyfi Valley. Amazing to have such a natural resource in Wales. And super cool kids too! […]

"Our goal shouldn’t just be preserving a chronological feed at all costs. Our goal should be building better relationship" https://jaz.co.uk/2026/05/12/there-are-a-million-fediverses-some-of-them-are-louder-than-others/ < Very thoughtful post from @jaz. As online spaces become more chaotic, this […]

Cafon ni cath newydd cwpl o wythnosau yn ôl. Dal ddim yn ffrindiau ond mae na detente er mwyn ceisio mynd tu fas. Got a new cat a couple of weeks ago. They don't get on yet, but there's a detente for the mutual aim of getting outside #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

🆕 blog! “NHS Goes To War Against Open Source” The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still […]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@streetartutopia/116497972433530561 Happy International Worker's Day everyone! My first as a Trade Union rep. It would be a bit sweeter if my wife hadn't said "Oh God, I married my Dad" when the rep's card came through #SocialJustice […]

Street Art Utopia@streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 6mo ago

Bella Ciao 🎶🎵 🎶🎵 🎶

Really interesting paper by the Carnegie Trust on Wales' Future Generations Act - so much learning around changing behaviour via legislation that's applicable to other countries and sectors too https://carnegieuk.org/publication/future-wellbeing-policy-lessons-from-wales-and-beyond/ #Wales […]

#NowReading Culture and Society by Raymond Williams, prompted by some excellent referencing by @llannerch at an event - what an old school beauty this is! #Bookstodon

Wnaeth y boi bach cael gwers cyntaf gyda Ysgol Sadwrn penwythnos ma. Roedd gweld e'n trafod gyda plant eriall tu allan i'r teulu yn y Gymraeg yn eithaf emosiynol https://ysgolsadwrn.cymru/ #Cymraeg The lil guy had his first Welsh lesson with Ysgol Sadwrn this weekend. Pretty emotional seeing […]

Nawr rwy'n darllen Lan Star gan Anthony Shapland, sydd wedi'i gyfieithu gan Esyllt Angharad Lewis. Rili joio, ond mae'r tafodiaith yn meddwl dyw e ddim yn hawdd i'w ddarllen https://www.ffolio.wales/products/9781036921736 #Cymraeg

Lan Stâr

Unfolding in rural Wales over three years during the late 1980s in a small Valleys community, A Room Above a Shop is a tender and resonant debut from Anthony Shapland. Now adapted and translated by Esyllt Angharad Lewis in dialogue with the author, Lan Stâr also explores the role of language between the two men, playin

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Really enjoyed Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz. But having now read this Guardian review. I'm wondering if I'm a bad egg https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/08/here-goes-nothing-by-steve-toltz-review-an-overblown-afterlife-comedy #Bookstodon

Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz review – an overblown afterlife comedy

A lax approach to plot and character makes this near-future fantasy about a murdered man and his wife only fitfully funny

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"Accessibility isn’t a feature. It’s infrastructure" < Good post on the conceptualisation of equity by @ASegar https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/facilitating-change/2026/04/dei-under-attack-accessibility-lessons/ #DEI #Equity #Equality

DEI under attack: why accessibility shows what we’re getting wrong

DEI is under attack. Why does it matter? Because, at its core, DEI is about love and respect for other people—not as sentiment, but as something you operationalize in how you design systems. There’s a powerful and useful analogy here […] The post DEI under attack: why accessibility shows what we’re getting wrong appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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Does your organisation look beyond individuals when describing extra-familial harm? < Helpful tool on contextual safeguarding linked to this paper on Unearthing the Cultural Facilitators of Contextual Safeguarding Structures […]

New from me: Fediverse Report #158 - What is Mastodon for? On the recent discourse about the Mastodon becoming an echo chamber and the community's anti-ai sentiment, and how the fundamental tension in that @Mastodon allows for people to create communities and 'place' on the instance level, but […]