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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin

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Caru Cathod, Cymru, Cymraeg, Ceredigion - IN THAT ORDER. Hefyd busnesau cymunedol. Eengleesh also spok, agus beagan Gàidhlig 's Gaeilge.

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Time to rename Transport for Wales as Transport for the Valleys

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Does the festival end by stuffing Liz Truss into the puppet and setting it on fire?

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What "the Home Office want him to do" is not come to the UK, under any circumstances..

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There's a 1994 film in Cymraeg Ymadawiad Arthur with a similar plot. Someone loses the disc with all of Welsh culture on it, bar fragments. This refers to King Arthur who will fix things. So they go back to get King Arthur. And actually get a 1960s rugby player nicknamed 'King' Arthur. Great film

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Burn the heretic!

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I think he'll fit in well in Starmer's 'Labour'. Voted to support illegal Rwanda recportations. Voted to make it harder for Unions to work. Basically a Sunak Yes-man. He is the very model of a modern Labour General. TBF, he's said he's not standing at the GE.

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But what on Earth will UK do will another dozen non-functional and aircraft-less aircraft carriers?

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Robin Wilson's avatar Robin Wilson @robintw.bsky.social
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I created a cool web app using
Ordnance Survey data - British Placename Mapper (placenames.rtwilson.com). It allows you to search for place names that match various criteria (starts with 'great', ends with 'burgh' etc) and plot them on an interactive map. #gis #geospatial #mapping

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin's avatar Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social
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Cool. But there doesn't seem to be any button to actually 'do the search'

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin's avatar Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social
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Not to be confused with Judy, a British comic for girls (1860-1991)

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Sounds really interesting, and I look forward to reading the PDF, but I don't think I'll be putting a copy on my shelves! Even 30% off £108 is still not cheap! Academic publishers really are taking the piss these days! I don't understand the economics of it all.

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Massive conflict - it's only a little less than the median UK salary (£34k). This is why we should ban MPs from voting on any matter where they have a potential conflict of interest (as happens in local government). Merely 'declaring their interest' is insufficient.

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What happened to the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act? Does it not apply to Labour councils who can make some cash? Why the sudden change of heart? Follow the money.

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Well, #bothsides...

I used to live in Peterborough, lots of disused brick pits that had filled with water. They then used them to dump fly ash fromm power stations. which formed a hard crust with gloop underneath. Repeat several times. Then build houses on top? Don't grow anything with deep roots!

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On the basis of that statement I think we can safely predict: 1) The Re-Fukers won't be standing against any Tories with a faint hope of winning 2) Lord Farage will be ambassador to the US for a few weeks until he's replaced by Starmer's choice - Lord Sunak.

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Houston, we are horny 🚨

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Nothing like skimming through the chapter titles of the three-volume Cambridge World History of Genocide to make you despair of humanity [also, free Palestine]

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LLMs obviously software of taste. Outwith is a fine word. (even if the stupid spellchecker doesn't like it!)

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Have you contacted the Ukrainians to see if you can buy some FPV drones with suitable warheads?

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Should they just have a major restructure and only have courses in Eng.Lit, Creative Writing and Accountancy. The Three Rs. And rename themselves as Canterbury Primary School? Or if they want to be a real University, go back to the Trivium and Quadrivium?

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I agree with Nigel Farage. Absolutely disgraceful and unpatriotic that Nike should change the colour of the flag. They should be ditched and, ideally, bankrupted.

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"A Motorola technician assured me the only reason Motorola persisted making flip phones for so long wasn't to extend the device from ear to mouth but (genuinely) because someone high up at the company was a Star Trek fan." [Autosave is for Wimps] autosaveisforwimps.substack.com/p/why-are-yo...

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There once was a gourmet from Crediton Took some pate de fois gras and spread it on A chocolate biscuit Then murmur'd "I'll risk it" His tomb bears the date that he said it on.

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I wondered if that was what you meant. But surely Starmer is hunting for a Very-fractionally-less-Blue-than-the-Tories October? Starmer is Red in the same way the GOP in America is Red.

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And the Met Police do precisely f*ck all about it.

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And how many PMs would that be since the election? 7? And six of them unelected.

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Small contribution sent. Stay safe. героям слава

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And no clear reason: "reflects our commitment to driving value. We believe that streamlining and better focusing our offering will be in the best long-term interests of our members." How is completely cancelling the service "better focusing" or "in the interests of our members"? Driving value?

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Allison Good's avatar Allison Good @allisonwgood.bsky.social
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If this is true, shouldn’t there be, like, massive consequences?

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin's avatar Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social
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Perhaps those countries that believed Israel's lies, even knowing their history of lies, and stopped UNRWA aid should make some recompense? Double their aid contributions to UNRWA? Impose sanctions on Israel?

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Interesting idea. Would it encourage extra sales of the paper as all the members of a choir would buy a copy?

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I'm not convinced that many soldiers who got home from Dunkirk would a) be wearing long puttees or b) have managed to get out with a full pack and equipment.

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Golding doesn't know his history clearly. OH's grandfather found out the hard way that WWI would be over by Christmas 1914, a Warwickshire postman, he lies in a grave in St Sever Extension Rouen next to Ali Akbar a Sowar with the Indian Cavalry. The Indian army saved the allies in that winter.

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Okay, there may be other issues with burning trees - smoke pollution, carcinogens etc, but CO2 isn't really one of them. Arguably there is a short term benefit compared to letting the trees die and rot, as that produces some methane, which is 80x more powerful as a greenhouse gas than CO2

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But to be fair, the wood burned releases carbon. That carbon is then absorbed by the trees planted to replace the ones burnt. Which are in turn burned in 20 years time. and so the cycle goes on. Zero net impact over time Burning trees that died 100 million years ago doesn't work the same way

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Putin's bribes to the Tories are really paying dividends! But it's very Tory - charge a UK student thousands to go to University. Give it free to the children of their Russian mates.

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This Saturday, 2 March, visit us to meet costumed re-enactors to explore some of the stories and lives of women during the tumult of the Civil Wars of the 1640s. This is a free event! For more details go to: cromwellmuseum.org/events/women...

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But what use is a security "guarantee" if it can be blocked by a bunch of Putin-funded Republicans in congress? And how much use were the "security guarantees" given to Ukraine when it have up its nuclear weapons? Send weapons and ammunition. As much as possible

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But Boris Johnson already has British citizenship

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Can some suitable punishment be devised for the librarian that stuck the barcode over the handwriting? First letter p. Could it be Latin? Something like per (from)? Or some other Latin word?

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It's never-ending! After my (very reasonably priced) builder had sorted my slates we had a chat & decided that come summer, some more work will be needed - rebuild one of the chimneys (scaffolding needed), window painting, wall patching & painting, maybe redo bit of roof - that will not be cheap!

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