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BashStKid

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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done”

Various permutations of rugby, music, history, farming, rare breeds, food. With a bit of earth sciences, physics, and energy.

Cartref:	Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 🇬🇧
#energy	#solar #wind #renewables
future:	#Annibyniaeth #YesCymru

BashStKid 46m ago

Nation.Cymru 1h ago

Welsh hotel owners cycling 423km to send young dancers to Patagonia
#News

https://nation.cymru/news/welsh-hotel-owners-cycling-423km-to-send-young-dancers-to-patagonia/

Welsh hotel owners cycling 423km to send young dancers to Patagonia

Two Welsh hotel owners have taken on a cycling marathon challenge to raise money to pay for dancers from a small primary school to visit Patagonia. Tony and Donna Cooper-Barney, owners of five star Palé Hall at Llandderfel, near Bala, set off on Saturday on a 423-kilometre ride from Cannes in France to Pisa in […]

Nation.Cymru

BashStKid 59m ago

Bob McIntosh 1h ago

Fossil plant from the Carboniferous #fossil

BashStKid 1h ago

Juggling With Eggs 2h ago

Still much anger online about the attack on the Freedom Flotilla, a civilian unarmed ship attacked by drones while headed towards #Gaza, that Greta #Thunberg was in the process of boarding when the attack took place…but no official condemnation.#Israel has refused to comment and so the mainstream media goes silent and moves on.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/freedom-flotilla-outrage-over-israels-bombing-aid-ship-bound-gaza

‘Redefining rogue state’: Outrage over Israel's bombing of aid ship bound for Gaza

Social media users condemned Israel's drone strike on the vessel and demanded international action

Middle East Eye

BashStKid 1h ago

ShredderLivesOn 1h ago

Here's a depressing little election factoid.

Six of the seven Reform candidates in Doncaster, who Hope Not Hate exposed for making white nationalist posts on social media, have been elected.

The only one who didn't make the cut was Isaiah-John Reasbeck, due to Labour securing one of the two seats in his ward.

https://hopenothate.org.uk/2025/04/17/reform-party-candidates-doncaster/

BashStKid 1h ago

Peter Gleick 5h ago

In case you needed any more evidence that there is simply no one around this mentally ill man willing to tell him "You don't want to post that."

BashStKid 1h ago

Greenseer (Dionne) 🩷🐇🏳️‍⚧️5h ago

A tiny crab museum in Kent has more moral courage than all the political institutions in the UK combined

Thank you, lil' crab people 🏳️‍⚧💕🙏

"Crab Museum comes out swinging for trans people after Supreme Court ruling: Not how biology works"

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/23/crab-museum-supreme-court-ruling-statement/

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #LGBTQIA

Crab Museum comes out swinging for trans people after Supreme Court ruling: ‘Not how biology works’

A crab museum has made arguably one of the most powerful statements on the UK's Supreme Court ruling over the definition of a woman.

PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news

BashStKid 1h ago

Caturday

After a number of years as a refugee a pattern is emerging.

Supremely relaxed everywhere and just taking life and food as he finds it. Unlike his honorary bother, a small black cat who delight in chasing dogs.

spelling correction - although I left brother as bother - fits the varmint.
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

BashStKid 1h ago

Emeritus Prof Christopher May 2h ago

Labour's anti-protest intentions were again on show, even as they lost an appeal against the striking down of some of Suella Braverman's anti-protest laws. As Liberty note, while this is a small victory for freedom to protest, the current Govt. continues to follow the previous Govt's lead in try to curtail & limit political protest.

This is not news to anyone but as Labour continues to lose support, one might wonder whether for some this might be important?

#politics
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may/02/campaigners-claim-victory-as-judges-quash-braverman-move-against-protests

Campaigners claim victory as judges quash Braverman move against protests

Appeal court backs ruling against home secretary’s redefinition of when police could put limits on protesters

The Guardian

BashStKid 1h ago

Emeritus Prof Christopher May 2h ago

Here's a great analysis of the Runcorn by-election from @CherylMorgan which seeks to correct various misapprehensions about why Reform won, whose votes they gained, and why Labour (and the media) are drawing the wrong conclusions.

And its admirably concise for a busy Saturday morning.

#politics #runcorn

https://www.cheryl-morgan.com/lies-damned-lies-and-the-british-press/

Lies, Damned Lies and the British Press | Cheryl's Mewsings

So, Reform has won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election. Judging by what I am seeing in the news and on social media, this is a major defeat for Labour whose voters, we are told, are deserting the party en masse for Reform. The lesson for Labour is apparently clear: they need to double-down on their

Cheryl's Mewsings | Feline thoughts about anything from food to reading to rugby

BashStKid 1h ago

Helen Clayton 1h ago

The friendly farm cat seemed to think I needed grooming (and she’s probably not wrong) 😊

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Helen Clayton 23h ago

I just love May. The woods are so pretty, bursting with fresh green leaves, carpeted with wildflowers, and a cacophony of birdsong. #FootpathFriday

Greenpete 23h ago

@helenclayton Oh, yes, yes! 🥰🌼🌞💚

Petra van Cronenburg 23h ago

@helenclayton You wanted to say "calophony"? 😉 (greek kalos = beautiful, good)

I love these different greens in May.

Helen Clayton 23h ago

@NatureMC ooh that’s a good word. It was a lovely cacophony though.

Merry Christmas 22h ago

Bluebells just lovely.

MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸22h ago

@helenclayton 👋 😊
You decided to go for a yomp after all then?

Helen Clayton 22h ago

@fkamiah17 no just a stroll round the block to get eggs 😊. Are you home yet?

MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸21h ago

@helenclayton Almost. Amazingly, neither train was cancelled or late! I'll be back home around 3. Excited to see what's gone on in the garden while I was away 🌼
Have you been to see the sheeps? 😊
I'll drop you the next instalment of Andor when I get back.

Helen Clayton 21h ago

@fkamiah17 hurrah for trains being on time!

I’ve not been to see the sheeps today although they were in the field next to the house earlier. I have to crack on with the garden but I’m faffing. Made croque monsieur for lunch and now I’m making crème pat for a flan. Having a French moment.

No rush on Andor. I’m still watching season 1! Are you all caught up?

MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸20h ago

@helenclayton Oooh, fancy! Theoretically I could get on with some gardening now (I'm home!) but that's highly unlikely. Tomorrow morning's going to be a whirlwind of activity, but this arvo is definitely slumping and waiting for the Thai place to open 🤣
I powered right through about eight episodes last week! Yes, I'm all caught up. I've been collecting the new Handmaid's Tale for you too 😊

Helen Clayton 19h ago

@fkamiah17 I should have stuck to the patisserie. I’ve cut myself with secateurs while thinning the peach crop. I hate thinning stuff as it is but now I’ll be mildly traumatised as well. Might do something less dangerous.

Slumping sounds good 😊. Ooh handmaid’s tale 😊. It’ll be like watching a docudrama.

MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸19h ago

@helenclayton Aww shit. Gardening injuries are a bastard. Is it a bad one? I hope you're not bleeding into the cakes 😬
I did have a quick wander around, noting the many things that need doing without actually doing any of them 🤣
Took some photos though!
I'll drop you HT as well then. I don't think I can handle it just now. I've not even looked at the news yet. I might wait until after the weekend for that.
You definitely deserve a cuppa and a biscuit 🥰

Helen Clayton 17h ago

@fkamiah17 all fingers and thumbs accounted for!

I’m sure the garden looks blooming lovely. Avoid the news at all costs. 🥰

MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸17h ago

@helenclayton Still, finger injuries are nasty. They seem to hurt more than they have any right to as well!
Lots of signs of germination from the eleventy billion seeds 🥳
Just a few pics from the protests yesterday and that's it until Tuesday. Reality avoidance is addictive 😁

@helenclayton @fkamiah17 oh no! sending healing and sealing to whatever element of you has had its structural integrity compromised. (i don't know why i'm talking like this but) i hope you feel better very, very soon and that it isn't serious.

Helen Clayton 18h ago

@moonrabbit @fkamiah17 ‘twas my finger. The RHS says to cut the excess peaches in half rather than pulling them off so you damage the tree. I wasn’t convinced but gave it a go. My finger was much the same firmness as an unripe peach it seems. Only a flesh wound. I have applied a sticky plaster…and gin.

How goes it there?

Alfred Chow - Maker of Things 16h ago

@helenclayton
The gin should deal with any infections. 😉

@moonrabbit @fkamiah17

Helen Clayton 16h ago

@Maker_of_Things @moonrabbit @fkamiah17 that was my thinking too. Having wine now to make double sure.

MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸16h ago

@helenclayton @Maker_of_Things @moonrabbit I guess that counts as anaesthesia 😂

Alfred Chow - Maker of Things 16h ago

@helenclayton @moonrabbit @fkamiah17
A long time ago, when I couldn't afford to go to a dentist, I would deal with toothache with a whiskey mouth wash!

In hindsight I can't believe that swigging and gargling with 10 year old whiskey was cheaper than the dentist! 🤦‍♀️

@helenclayton @fkamiah17 oh ow. i'm glad you're ok though. unless it's just a flesh wound in the monty python sense, in which case

here it ... goes.

Helen Clayton 14h ago

@moonrabbit @fkamiah17 lol I still have all my digits and limbs so not in the Monty Python sense.

Sue Archer 18h ago

@helenclayton @fkamiah17

Oh ow! I hope it's not too bad.

Helen Clayton 17h ago

@suearcher @fkamiah17 no it hurts more than it needs to.

Sue Archer 17h ago

@helenclayton @fkamiah17

Oh, boo!