Breaking baaaaad : a #Welsh #farmer from #Llangadog turned to #crime and nicked 73 #sheep from his own neighbour, apparently to pay a debt - he managed to avoid jail but was very sheepish in Court

This does prove its the rural folk robbing from one another, town/city guys like me have 0 desire to buy livestock from dubious sources (I don't think I could even fit 1 (one) lamb into my car and wouldn't try it, as well as being illegal and unsafe it won't do the interior any good)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clynkyqzg4wo

#introduction

I'm 20 years old and I currently study #linguistics, so of course languages are one of my main interests

My native language is Dutch and I speak English fluently. At the moment I'm mainly focussing on learning #Welsh (especially now that i'm taking classes), with some #Czech whenever I have time (I'm trying to at least get to a conversational level before my university exchange)

My poem "The Selkie" has been published by Welsh speculative fiction/poetry magazine Gwyllion. https://gwyllionmagazine.com/ #SpeculativePoetry #PoetryCommunity #LitMag #Wales #Welsh #selkie

It seems #Welsh speakers walk faster

Alice Abadam, Anglo #Welsh suffragist, feminist public speaker, Catholic convert. Said "the Constructive Feminist has to be no man's shadow. She must be herself – free to the very soul of sex servility. So, & only so, can she save a stricken world" d #OTD 31 Mar 1940 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Abadam
@CarveHerName @histodons #WHM #WHM2025 #whm25

It's publication day!

Enwogion o fri: Diversity Project 2023-2025

Our free #DiversityProject anthology for the #Bywgraffiadur has just dropped on KC Works. Over 40 authors contributed more than 60 articles about the most fascinating people in #Welsh #history you could possibly imagine.

We've covered #BAMEHistory #LGBTQ_ and #DisabilityHistory, #WomensHistory, #ArtHistory, the #HistoryOfScience, #HistoryOfReligion and #Wales

Frankly, there's not a single article in this collection that's not bound to be of interest to someone.

Get your own copy here as PDF or epub. And because we're in Wales, we even offer you two versions.

English: https://works.hcommons.org/records/dtb9c-bzm89
Cymraeg: https://doi.org/10.17613/mmwvm-ryh93

Yeah... I had two trips planned to the US this year, fortunately neither firm-firm enough to prevent me cancelling.

Going to take a hard line at work about travel there for the next four years. I'm going to miss the annual conference in Boston I usually go to every year.

C'est la vie. Other such conferences exist elsewhere, in less batshit mental countries.

#wales #welsh #US

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly67j35y99o

Elon Musk salute drawn on #Welsh beach in Tesla protest

The "world’s biggest anti-Elon #Musk #protest" has been staged on a #beach in #Wales.

Campaign group #LedByDonkeys used a #Tesla to rake out the words "DON’T BUY A TESLA" alongside an image of Musk giving a #Nazi salute.

The message was created on Black Rock sands near #Porthmadog in Wales, and is supposedly visible from space.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25015445.elon-musk-salute-drawn-welsh-beach-tesla-protest/

Like #russia, the #US is no longer safe for tourists. In just the last two weeks, US authorities have detained two individuals: #Welsh citizen Becky Burke and Fabian Schmidt, a #German national who has been a US permanent resident since 2008.

Burke was held in a "#prison-like" #ICE processing center, while Schmidt was "violently interrogated."

Burke stated, "They keep saying in all their booklets that this is not a prison. It's hard to distinguish from my conception of a prison."

#GlobalBritain . The #Welsh edition:

"Cardiff University planned cuts 'risk collapse of #maths infrastructure in Wales' warn world experts"
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"The international reputation of #Cardiff University is at stake amid brutal proposed cuts which could 'spectacularly backfire', some of the world's leading mathematicians have warned"
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/education/cardiff-university-planned-cuts-risk-30982105

Let's never forget the mediaeval word for an owl in Welsh:

Loving the sheer size of the #Welsh community on Mastodon. I didn’t expect us to have such a big footprint here in all honesty, but I’m all for it! :D

Jason Evans has been championing the wiki projects at the Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru | The National Library of Wales for ten years now!

In this blog he reflects on Wikimedia UK's collaboration with the library, and how it's built a sustainable future for Welsh culture online through open access.

https://bit.ly/4htHuey

@Jason
#welsh #culture #heritage #languages #cymru #libraries #GLAM

24 Jan 1596: William Midleton finishes his #Welsh #Cymraeg metrical psalms #otd while at anchor at #Panama - published posthumously in 1603 as "Psalmae Brenihol Brophwyd Dafyd" (eebo)

Here have some pictures of my gremlins

I wrote this article in 2015. This week a storm in Great Britain named Eowyn stirred a lot of online searches that led to a brief boost in traffic to this article.

Meanwhile, over in Great Britain itself, some Irish and Scottish news sites (who shall go unnamed) appear to have used some of my text (maybe with slight editing) to explain to their readers the etymology of the name.

After years of having my articles raped by YouTubers I guess I'm getting used to it, but it would have been nice if these media sites had provided links.

#lotr #middleearth #fantasy #jrrtolkien #welsh #oldenglish #greatbritain #gaelic #news #weather #journalism

https://middle-earth.xenite.org/did-j-r-r-tolkien-invent-the-name-eowyn/

Si vous n'avez pas encore le #TristwchYFenywod, un 4ème pressage du vinyle est dispo ici :

https://night-school.bandcamp.com/album/tristwch-y-fenywod