1940 Irish language scif-fi book Manannán by Máiréad Ní Ghráda
It is the first Mecha Robot outside of Japan and mention of a Gravity assist in fiction. It was never republished or translated.
do you guys hear that bell tolling? wonder who it’s for. it’s so loud lmao
Today is International Men’s Day. So here’s to refugee men fleeing abuse, trans men denied healthcare, queer men bullied for being different, Black men racially profiled, disabled men excluded from work, and all the other men who fail at being “real men.” May we continue to cultivate our humanity.
2 seventh-century people with west African ancestry found buried in England – a story of diversity and integration in early Anglo-Saxon society 🏺🧪🧬
theconversation.com/two-seventh-...
These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.
Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.
Redacted Shakespeare for the concentration addled youth of today. "Shall I compare thee to a Summers day? Thou art hot" The rest is blocked out.
Welsh poll sees Plaid and Reform contesting a polarised electorate.
Reform is the leading party among the over 50s (half of whom are on the righ politically).
Plaid is resonating with the Welsh under 50 (where two-thirds vote for centre-left parties)
plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel
Yes! This was good. Always been a Dushku fan.
Gun violence is out of control. The victims of gun violence are Republicans, Democrats, independents, and kids, who have no political affiliation whatsoever.
We need to tone down the incendiary political rhetoric, for sure, but we also need to do something about guns.
The guns!
To potentially oversimplify this, but the number of people arrested at the Palestine Action protests exceeds the entire number of people, on average, attending the anti-asylum hotels protests, yet they are called "fringe" and those outside hotels are called the "voice of the people".
A fictional journey through time spanning nearly two centuries won its author a prestigious prize at the National Eisteddfod in Wrexham
Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go
Falch bod ti wedi mwynhau Philip! Diolch! 🤩
Newydd orffen Anfarwol a wedi ei fwynhau . Stephen King a Clive Barkeraidd mewn mannau.
Diolch, sawl awr ddifyr o ddarllen.
Sut bydd y ddau yn ymdopi a CCTV?
Grêt! 🙌
Lacuna presumed: 'During large demonstrations they organised at Sheerness [which at that time was technically not British soil due to an obscure subclause of the Holy Roman Empire's treaty of Campo Formio]."
Chwilio am rywbeth i'w ddarllen yn yr haul? Mae enillwyr y Steddfod a Llyfr y Flwyddyn ar werth yn eich siop lyfrau leol. #eisteddfod #darllen #cymru #carudarllen
A black paperback book of Lovecraft stories in Welsh, translated by Peredur Glyn. In the background are glimpses of two dogs lying down
Lovecraft's too difficult for me to follow along in English but I'm managing just fine in Welsh! 🤭🤭 Diolch i'r llyfrgell am gael y llyfr 'ma!! Dyma'r tro cynta dw i 'di darllen stori llawn gan Lovecraft
#langsky #booksky
Falch bod ti'n mwynhau! 😁
Mae gen i gwpl o lyfrau i'w darllen!
Anfarwol gan Peredur Glyn, enillydd Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen 2025
Cuddliwio gan Bryn Jones, enillydd y Fedal Ryddiaith 2025
Cysgod y Mabinogi gan Peredur Glyn
Ar gael o @ylolfa.bsky.social fel e-lyfr 'fyd.
Hwrê, diolch yn fawr!
Wel roedd o'n gyfrinachol tan dydd Mawrth dwytha! 😆 Ond diolch am dy longyfarchion! Gobeithio na fydd dy antenae hanesyddol yn cael eu poenydio ormod gan unrhyw drwydded artistig dwi wedi ei ddefnyddio!
Anglophone eighteenth-century specialists - there's an award-winning new novel about Theophilus Cibber that most of you can't read because it's in Welsh. Reflect on your poor decisions #C18th
Ardderchog!
Ar hyn o bryd mae yna gopis wedi eu llofnodi yno!
Open box containing multiple copies of the novel Anfarwol by Peredur Glyn. One book is standing upright at the top of the photo, showing the front cover in full, which shows a monocrhome woodcut of an 18th century man with his eyes in red.
Dyma ANFARWOL, y nofel yr enillais i Wobr Goffa Daniel Owen efo hi'r wythnos ddwytha. Dwi dal methu coelio'r peth, na'r holl sylwadau eithriadol o garedig dwi wedi eu cael gan bobl. Mae'r nofel ar gael i'w phrynu rŵan - yn dy siop lyfrau leol neu ar-lein: www.ylolfa.com/cynnyrch/978...