If the police can arrest an elderly female vicar for protesting against the genocide in Gaza, then they can arrest the people responsible for the ‘thuggish and intimidating behaviour’ happening in Portsmouth, can't they? ✍️Alun Smith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1sCD

'My wife doesn't work' poster (c.1976) by See Red Women's Workshop, London. One of thd many artists Interviewed in the newest womensart book.... #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.

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Chefs kiss

Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!

  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...

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After losing federal funding for a decades-long study on marmots, a group of UCLA scientists turned to OnlyFans to raise money for their research.

'Mae’n gywilyddus' Dywedodd beirniaid cystadleuaeth Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen yn yr Eisteddfod eu bod nhw’n amau mai AI oedd wedi ysgrifennu un o’r nofelau a gafodd eu cyflwyno i'r gystadleuaeth eleni

‘Cywilyddus’: Beirniaid yn amau mai AI oedd wedi ysgrifennu un o nofelau cystadleuaeth Daniel Owen

Mae beirniaid cystadleuaeth Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen yn yr Eisteddfod yn dweud eu bod nhw’n amau mai AI oedd wedi ysgrifennu un o’r nofelau a gafodd eu cyflwyno i'r gystadleuaeth eleni

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Araith trydanol / Phenomenal speech 🔥👏 Speaking truth to power,highlighting an inconvenient truth. Love the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Cymraeg references & comparison. Maori language beaten out of us? Sounds familiar. Am ysbrydoliaeth / What an inspiration. Tamatha Paul 👏⚫️🇳🇿 #Aotearoa

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Tamatha Paul, Member of Parliament for Wellington Central #tamathapaul #maori

Nope. No, you haven’t.

94-year-old Clacton voter's beautiful takedown of Reform canvasser is must-watch

94-year-old Clacton voter's beautiful takedown of Reform canvasser is must-watch

A clip has gone viral online of a 94-year-old Clacton voter beautifully dismantling all the arguments of a Reform councillor.

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🔴 Reform UK Plans To Jail Candidates For Using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish On Election Leaflets EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage’s party propose amendment to the Government’s elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison

Reform UK Plans To Jail Candidates For Using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish On Election Leaflets

EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage's party propose amendment to the Government's elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison

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I'm not sure I understand religion. My Christian family insists we all say what we're thankful for before dinner. They say things like "I'm thankful for the strength to be a good person," but get really angry when I say I'm thankful for things like Anusol and Sellotape.

Children embrace Cornish language as it enjoys ‘remarkable resurgence’

Children embrace Cornish language as it enjoys ‘remarkable resurgence’

Go Cornish Celebration engages younger generation as council finalises strategy to boost everyday use of Kernewek Seven-year-old Albie, a pupil at Trewirgie infants’ school in Redruth, did not hesitate when asked why he liked learning Kernewek, the Cornish language. “We used to talk this way in the old days,” he said. “And I like speaking now. I enjoy the songs we sing, the Cornish books we read, all the words. It’s fun.” Continue reading...

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An enthralling, supernatural tale of friendship, zombies, and language. ‘Anfarwol’ is a marvelously written page-turner which follows a group of 11 year olds on a trip to a language immersion course to learn Welsh for the start of secondary school which suddenly goes awry ✍️Onwy Gower

Book review: Anfarwol by Rebecca Roberts

We continue our reviews of books shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award for 2026. This time we consider one of the titles in the Welsh language Children and Young People’s category. You can ...

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Tom Morello can do no wrong.

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OLLIE'S BIG CLEAR OUT! Here are 3 shelves of HUGELY popular kids books You can have any FOUR for £10 (free P+P). Deals can be negotiated. Please share (and buy). UK only.

Yesterday, a judge ruled that four Palestine Action activists should be sentenced as terrorists, despite being tried by their jury for lesser charges relating to criminal damage. This is unprecedented. Anandita Abraham was outside court where John McDonnell MP and one of the jurors made speeches

Space ships, yeah? We’re all going to Mars are we? 2.2 Billion people in the world don’t have access to clean drinking water. Are you bringing them to Mars too? You bunch of gullible, greedy cunts.

I did a version of this years ago based around the actual illustration from a real army recruitment ad

Martin Calladine@uglygame.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you like playing football, you might also like shooting at and getting shot by people. Top quality World Cup tie-in from army recruiters.

Sex, austerity and mugs of vodka: how the Greek myth Iphigenia became a Welsh-language film sensation

Sex, austerity and mugs of vodka: how the Greek myth Iphigenia became a Welsh-language film sensation

The movie adaptation of Gary Owen’s acclaimed play Iphigenia in Splott, Effi o Blaenau, is released this month. Here, its director and crew explain why they relocated the film to a post-industrial mining town – and refused to make it in English

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SIGNED BOOK NEWS! We'll be getting SIGNED copies of "Post-It Notes from the Underground" by Simon Crump Published by the magnificent @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Simon is one of my VERY FAVOURITE authors ever. Order HERE biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

“AI makes no demands, requires no moral consideration, and does not attempt to germinate a culture, a cuisine, or a language in your sacred soil”: @doctorow.pluralistic.net on how billionaires are using AI to dispense with inconvenient humans www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to stay silent at Hay festival

Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to stay silent at Hay festival

Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak on stage on her lawyer’s advice amid tech firm’s sanction Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams was forced to sit in silence on stage at an event at Hay festival, after lawyers advised her not to speak because of ongoing legal action brought by Meta. Wynn-Williams, whose bestselling memoir, Careless People, details her years working at Facebook, was due to appear in conversation with the investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr and academic Tim Wu. Continue reading...

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A leaked letter signed by 400 female writers has criticised the corporation for what it calls the ‘silencing of women’s voices’ in women’s stories for commissioning a male writer for a drama about the Met police and the Sarah Everard murder. Read it in full here: www.thenerve.news/p/female-scr...

Disgyblion Ysgol Glantaf a Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen yn cyrraedd maes Eisteddfod yr Urdd yn 1978 i gystadlu côr bechgyn dan 12.

The former Chief Executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, on @Nigel_Farage's claims of Russian hacking.

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As requested I have now added a link through to (where available) stories about how the Reform councillors lost their position: refukked.lovable.app

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Interactive online bingo card keeping track of the local election Reform UK exits

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