There's perhaps a too hefty slice of hyperbole in @squidgerugby.bsky.social's historical metaphors but this is a really well argued cri de coeur for a rethink of the slash Welsh regions proposal being peddled by the WRU.
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"Anthropic acknowledged it ['s new Claude Mythos Preview AI] demonstrated 'a potentially dangerous capability for circumventing [the company’s] safeguards'". Not in the least bit end times scary....
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Nice to see both Return to My Trees and Seascape here. Technically, I'd argue I'm not solely a nature writer - my books are more a cocktail of nature with history, folklore, sustainability and mapping misadventures....but I won't quibble!
How nice that @theguardian.com have named their ongoing series about climate and the oceans after my book Seascape 😀
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In my last book, Seascape, I consider how salt marsh, sea grass and littoral dunes offer natural protection to the Welsh coach. So it is good to see this study being published.
Plaid must be licking their lips.
Looking at the news this morning about targeting desalination plants, it might be worth revisiting Michael Klare's insightful book from the early 2000s titled Resource Wars.
It's a funny old St. David's Day when you find yourself in Malaga writing a book chapter about the effect of the Welsh Methodist Revival on the uplands of Wales. Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!
Really @nation.cymru....this is a story? There was a reason I gave up on Wales Online and this isn't it.
It's a really good book that takes a complicated period of history and brings it to life for people like myself. It informed my last book about the coast of Wales and continues to do so with my new project about the uplands of Wales.
Just started watching BBC Wales' Boom Town - the story of how Merthyr Made the World. It should be great....and then they outsource their own research and credibility to an AI LLM and reproduce it (gushingly) as if it's fact without checking its output. Words fail...
Is she walking the chutzpah trail?
“With student loans the UK government has become a loanshark. Trapping poorly paid graduates in decades of “debt” that they can realistically never repay. If it were a commercial deal the government would be trying to regulate the company out of business.”
Lewis Goodall
A wonderful display in Waterstones Cardiff's window!
'Return to My Trees' by @mateoy.bsky.social is @waterstones.bsky.social Wales Book of the Month for January 📚
Make sure to pop into your local Waterstones to browse.
If this was your grandfather....you'd put him in a home.
Rather than bothering to read every news headline in 2026, I've come up with a workaround.
HED: There is no precedent....
Next story.
Now available in paperback!
Order your copy of 'Return to My Trees: Notes from the Welsh Woodlands' by @mateoy.bsky.social through the link below!
📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/return-...
I'm hoping there is some great market research behind Wales Online's decision to instigate a paywall for premium content. But seriously, have they read their own content?
Now in Paperback! ‘This is an inspiring story about one man's determination and the power of trees. It should not be missed.’ Dame Judi Dench
A new years resolution that you will actually want to keep? Reading more!
Start off with @waterstones.bsky.social's January Wales Book of the Month, 'Return to My Trees: Notes from the Welsh Woodlands' by @mateoy.bsky.social!
This is unverified but abhorrent if it is real.
Ouch...I was keen to be swayed by the appeal of Tiny Forests.
A nice start to 2026 - @waterstones.bsky.social featuring the new paperback edition of Return to My Trees.
Filth personified
Bet that Joseph Nye never thought Monroe would come back to trump his soft power....
Cuba first by the sounds of things.
