Ed Bridges

@DrEdBridges@toot.wales
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Social science policy wonk, pacifist, dysgwr Cymraeg, talk a lot about Newport County, more fun than I sound. Views ≠ my employer’s. 
North Cardiff, via South Oxfordshire.
About me:https://toot.wales/@DrEdBridges/110802853442050349

The draining board of every Welsh-speaking family in #Caerdydd #Cardiff the day after #Tafwyl

(plus a bonus cat because he will drink from the tap or from muddy puddles, but never ever from the bowl of clean water next to his feeder, the wazzock)

#CatsOfMastodon
#CathodOFastodon

Ac yn olaf yn #Tafwyl (i fi), roedd #Mellt yn band perffaith #ShoutyBlokesWithGuitars i orffen y penwythnos.
Prynhawn hyfryd i #Tafwyl. Wedi siarad gyda lot o ffrindiau, a nawr mae #LosBlancos yn “smashing it” yn y pabell. 👌🏻

You know you’re a fan of #WelshPolitics when you find yourself part of the ultras making the trip for Vaughan Roderick & Richard Wyn Jones (a).

#tafwyl #WelshPol #WalesPol #WalesPolitics

When you’ve got to do backing vocals at #Tafwyl at 4pm but need to be at beekeeping class for 5.30pm…

Look at this fawning guff. We're being told what to think here - "this is the GOOD kind of military parade, folks, not the HORRIBLE kind that our enemies might hold..."

#EverydayMilitarism #militarism #pacifism #UKpolitics #UKpol #TroopingTheColour #NotMyKing

And whilst I'm having a rant about British imperialism and monarchy...

Note the irony that on the same day Trump is holding a birthday military parade for his own vanity in America, here in the UK we having stupid bloody #TroopingTheColour so that King Chuck can have, er, a birthday military parade for his vanity.

#UKpolitics #UKpol #NotMyKing #Republican

A big congratulations to all those who have TURNED DOWN honours in today's list, in protest at the whole rotten imperialist system.

#honours2025 #honours

When the facial recognition algorithm says
You are guilty. Sorry if a women in Manchester wrongly accused of shoplifting and getting banned from shops despite being innocent. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdr510p7kymo #biometrics #news #survillance
Facial recognition error sees woman accused of theft

An apparent mix-up with the technology led to Danielle Horan being wrongly accused of shoplifting.

BBC News