Lowri

Semi-detached housing in echelon formation up steep hillside

Four house pebble-dashed terrace with coat of arms in centre

1/ To celebrate #StDavidsDay, a short thread on some of the most spectacular council housing in Wales. Firstly, the Townhill Estate, Swansea, designed by Borough Architect Ernest Morgan and built between 1919-1924

The Gorton and Denton result is fantastic for several reasons, but easily the funniest one is that the Tories got so few votes that they LOST THEIR DEPOSIT.

Allow me to regale you with some Welsh names for animals…

1. Ladybird = buwch goch gwta “short red cow”
2. Otter = dyfrgi or “waterdog”
3. Hamster = bochdew or “fat cheeks”
4. Jellyfish = cont y môr or “sea c*nt”
5. Caterpillar = Siani flewog or “hairy Jane”

Really interesting!

Good to know - thanks! Tried looking everywhere for that.

fry from futurama is shown with a very serious look on his face ALT: fry from futurama is shown with a very serious look on his face

For clarity, not saying he isn't or that we aren't capable of absolute wet wipes of our own, I just get a bit twitchy when people drop in "South Wales Valleys" as a way of making themselves more relatable or man-of-the-people.

As someone from the valleys, his lack of specificity is making me suspish.

🧶 #knit #knitsky

Janet speaking to the media as Roderic O'Gorman watches

The amazing @janetphorner.bsky.social is our candidate in the Dublin Central by-election!

Iconic! There's been a lot of grumbling about the power of some cards, but to think that this season alone has given us double express route, being sent to Coventry AND Fuck Off Bike Kid - they are truly spoiling us.

"It's not right that people who don't live in a country with HS2 should bear the cost for others who do live in a country with HS2... oh wait"

I did an optional urban planning module as part of my OU degree in linguistics (no, I'm not sure either).

Needless to say I thoroughly enjoyed Sam's run. Reminded me of the time my other half took me to MK for my birthday so I could see the infrastructure & design for myself.

He's a patient man.

Not gonna lie, Transport geography sounds pretty cool!

Good grief. Do people who don't go to uni not benefit from doctors, librarians, researchers, lawyers, architects, artists, writers, archivists, historians, designers, programmers, etc etc etc...? What is this weird unjoined up world she imagines?

SO GOOD right?

Haven't seen telly this gripping since Noel's House Party.

Went to my local library this morning to do a bit of research for my current book project and my goodness such a life-affirming space! There was an adult being taught to read on the next table, children enjoying story time, countless people taking out books. So grateful for our libraries ❤️

In my head they're still here. I periodically pop to the station in Aber with a pack of Welsh cakes and a stick of Barry Island rock and hope for the best.

Cc. @mesnilman.bsky.social

Nice little structural ambiguity for the #linguistics feed

@lowriwilliams.bsky.social

Tour de France is going over both the Rhigos and Penrhys!

youtu.be/yJNz__zpNOo?...

"Where you off on your holibobs this year 'en?"

"Côte de Rhigos, butttttt"

(Serious note though how cool is that? Best view on earth)

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Transcends the language thing too which is always what Plaid needed to get a foothold there (FWIW I credit Leanne Wood for this because she was always out and about being bloody brilliant when I lived down there).

If the valleys really do go Plaid, and I'm not completely convinced, but if they do, I am absolutely going to ugly cry.

Lots of my family back home (Rhondda Fawr down to Ponty) were talking positively about Plaid recently at a wedding. Would never have predicted that even a couple of years ago.

Something has massively shifted and I think the disgust of Reform is stronger than gets reported. I hope it's enough.

My poor little wet duck 🥲

I AM SO EXCITED!!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This one is even madder than the Senedd one in many ways.

Indisputable. A river of character.

8 A snapshot of the emerging because-X construction 8 A snapshot of the emerging because-X construction was published in English Sociosyntax on page 227.

Years ago, 957 people from Twitter contributed to my research on 'because X' and I promised I'd share the results with them. I can't, because twitter, but please share it with people here anyway: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Non-paywalled pre-print: kar.kent.ac.uk/105654/
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