Benjamin Lowry

If memory serves, he didn’t even do that much. It was Maurice Wilkins who brought Franklin’s notebook to Watson and Crick.

If you want a Welsh map tip, have a look at a map compairing train lines in Wales before and after the Beeching cuts. Genuinly enraging!

What did Ynys Môn do to offend?

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

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The Climate Paradox: Why We Need to Reset Action on Climate Change The Climate Paradox: Why We Need to Reset Action on Climate Change

TBI claims here that AI could decrease energy consumption by up to 30% by making heating, cooling, and lighting more efficent. The citation for this does not mention AI once.

What a high standard of evidence.

It's just 10,000 words of 'please invest in my startup'

institute.global/insights/cli...

I'd certainly like to hear loud critisism of this from @plaidcymru.bsky.social if we meant what we said in the '24 manifesto.

@rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social

Defining a person's gender by their 'biological sex' doesn't work becuase 'biological sex' doesn't mean anything.

Regardless of what anyone says, this is an open door for more discrimation against trans people.

I wonder if you could get a box at Bayreuth for 'security reasons'?

'Well, your average terrorist is statistically unlikley to want to sit though all 5 and a half hours of Götterdämmerung, so it's really the safest place to be'

Reeves cites ‘security perspective’ after accepting free concert tickets Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said she accepted free tickets to see Sabrina Carpenter live because it was “the right thing to do from a security perspective”. The Chancellor said she and a family membe...

A) Corbyn sat in the stands at football matches while leader of the opposition.
B) Legal =/= Moral.
C) Seriously?

nation.cymru/news/reeves-...

Wales least affordable part of Britain for first-time buyers Wales is the most difficult part of Britain for first-time buyers to buy a home, a new report finds.

This is, *again*, just the inevitable result of austerity. We've had 13ish years of it with the tories, we'll have 5-10 years of it with labour.

For a party that believes money should go to improving quality of life rather than bombs and oil: @plaidcymru.bsky.social.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Aside from the glaring No True Scotsman fallacy in the government's conception of 'those who genuinly need disability benefits'. The framing that cutting benefits is somehow a kindness is patronising and either a knowing misdirection or demonstrative of a serious astrangement from the real world.

I watched the press conference Starmer and Trump held yesterday.

Of all of the words I've thought or spoken about Starmer, none seem as appropriate as coward.

Saw the show in August last year; marvellous, utterly life-affirming.

Diolch yn fawr iawn.

Reeves backs Heathrow expansion saying third runway is 'badly needed' - live updates The chancellor says the airport is at

Pointless, expensive, environmentally ruinous.

Imagine if a tenth of the money instead went to ensuring long term - and broad - access to education.

There’s never any money for Cardiff Uni, RWCMD, etc. but there’s plenty of money for this.

@plaidcymru.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...

In Zagreb, and a few other places, they’re basically pronounced the same; with a sound sort of half way between the two.

Maybe one day I’ll manage to reliably enunciate the difference, but for now this is my little refuge.

"Lie" is absolutely disgusting framing. She had sex with a guy who turned out to be such a violent "Gender Critical" that he tried to kill after learning she was trans. I wonder why she had to keep her personal medical history from him huh?! As if you would tell a potential murderer your info. Sick

Delighted.

What the trans awards logo on the top. Below it it says "villain of the year, Wes streeting" and to the right of that is a photo of Wes streeting with devil horns.

With 281 votes in this year's What The Trans Awards.

Wes Streeting has won the award of Villain Of The Year.

Check out the awards show episode here:

whatthetrans.com/ep121/

If @plaidcymru.bsky.social are serious about building a fairer Wales, then certainly when it comes to trans rights, Thorn’s axiom ‘if someone wants to transition, that’s their business’ must be at the heart of policy.

An absolutely excellent piece by Abi Thorne on structural issues with trans care in the NHS, pathologization, and trust.

I always find that Brahms, quite probably through his experience with Clara Schumann, just seems to ‘get it’ for me.

Particularly the 3rd piano quartet. He just seems to find a way to really pull you through a train of thought and experience, all the highs and lows, and make you feel unalone.

Brahms, lots of Brahms.

VAT at 4,000,000,000%

They say if you’re good little children, Kropotkin will bring you bread on Christmas Day. Of course, he’ll also bring you bread if you’re bad because your access to goods shouldn’t be determined by someone’s moral judgement of you.

Love the Kavakos Ysaÿe, excellent choice!

Bendigedig, that’s wonderful to hear.

Hope they still come out with some public statement though.

It is unsurprising that a Labour government who won on a platform of stale, right wing policy, and with the lowest share of the vote of any Labour campaign for a decade, would have such a flagrant disregard for democracy.

Streeting won by ~500 votes last time, make sure it doesn’t happen again.

@plaidcymru.bsky.social ?
@rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social ?

A public statement of support to trans people would be enormously meaningful and important.

Labour are failing Wales and Welsh trans people.
We need to show that trans people are, and always will be, safe and joyously welcome in Wales.

Footnote: Westminster overriding the Scottish parliament is also outrageous. Not that they would have faced much resistance with Swinney et.al.

Wales needs more power devolved such that it can stand against bigotry like this from Westminster.

@plaidcymru.bsky.social
@rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social