#Kazakhstan's economy is on the up, forging closer ties with China. I returned there after two decades as I followed the #Wales football team and consider how the country has changed. My report on @BBCRadio4 From our own Correspondent is at 1130 today.

“I am Aladdin Sarsippius Sulemenagic Jackson the Third. The world renowned reptilian lover. I sang for Aqueduct Pocket … I sang for Relaxed Atmosphere … I sang for Third World Lover. Ya hearda them?" leftovertakeout.com/post/1307653...

In a day full of profound insights, this was one of the most 'wow' #LeadersF25

Shamelessly pinched from Mary Graham, Aboriginal activist and elder. This a great starting point parrhesiajournal.org/wp-content/u...

Megadeth have released a live unplugged album and I'd appreciate some privacy while I come to terms with the traumatic news

Picked this up in a charity shop and was reminded how good a sports writer McIlvanney was

The New York Cosmos are one of the most distinctive brands in world football Odd then to think that an early suggestion for their name was the New York Lovers, who'd wear pink with hearts running along the trim 💗

Has Llŷr Powell been packed off to a gulag yet?

Penny* for Nathan Gill's thoughts this morning *obviously, far less than his going rate

Hannah Arendt laid out the logic 70 years ago. we're just catching up to her now.

Clean Anus, with support from: =Gayness Fragile Masculinity Doors 7pm 🤘

FAW, is this you?

Well, she does live in Dinas Powys after all

Just heard about Tom's case thanks to @jacobinmag.bsky.social. As astonishing as it is appalling

Glastonbury Arms, Bute Street, #Cardff city centre Once ran by the parents of one of @teamgbofficial.bsky.social's greatest Olympians, Paulo Radmilovic, it was adjacent to the Glamorgan Canal Now the site of the @radissonblu.bsky.social hotel #thenandnow

The Eagle Hotel on the junction of Adam Street & Windsor Rd Built on the site of an old horse pound c.1850s it prided itself on offering 'good stabling' By the 1960s was derelict & made way for the new Central Fire Station that was vacating Westgate St, in turn replaced with student flats in 2012

St Mary the Virgin Church, Caerau Built in the C13th on the site of Caerau Hillfort, it's first mentioned by Pope Nicholas IV in 1291 It's cemetery is predominantly home to a number of graves from the 1890s-1930s Congregations declined and it was deconsecrated in 1971 #thenandnow

Don't know who is behind these bin ads but I salute their Welsh music knowledge

Ymunwch â ni yn Chapter ar noson cyn y gêm Cymru-Gog. Macedonia fis nesaf am ein diweddaraf ym mhêl-droed ar y sgrîn loyw: 🎥 The Third Half (2012) 🎬 Darko Mitrevski 🌎 Macedonia 📆 17 Tachwedd Rhagflas: youtu.be/dy-yuONtn4A?...

Join us on the eve of the Cymru-N.Macedonia match next month at Chapter for the latest in our football on the silver screen events: 🎥 The Third Half (2012) 🎬 Darko Mitrevski 🌎 Macedonia 📆 17 November Trailer youtu.be/dy-yuONtn4A?...

Without urgent action to prepare for the worsening impacts of climate change, Wales risks being left dangerously exposed, a new report has warned

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So proud of this young man Moneab for opening the NICW event in @grangetowncardiff.bsky.social today I wouldn't have done it when I was in the sixth form!

To have been still in the game on 5-7 minutes would have been nice...

Can't stand banal militarism at sport

Just upgraded the memory in my laptop and that more or less makes me Bill Gates, right?

By updating the Wales team's Wikipedia page today I feel I've righted a longstanding, intolerable and unjust oversight

Only a few months ago her own party allowed David Neal to spend £200k on buying the First Minister job

Cardiff city centre about to get even windier

Explains why he had to sign for an English club and not a Welsh one

This is a wonderful book. Available on Cardiff's public library catalogue @sportingheritage.bsky.social

Two cheeks of the same arse

Attempting to vote from his car isn't the headline here. This line is: “Vaughan has totally checked out from his job at the moment"

Remember that time we voted for sovereignty?

Hmm, ok, but the notion that at 17 one lacks the maturity to realise that Hitler was c**t is worrisome. I certainly did and went to a far less posh school

What happens when you let a parrot name itself

The policy raises issues related to civil liberty, government surveillance, data security, cost, institutional racism...but no, sodding dragons

Mark Spitznagel: “The markets are perverse. They exist to screw people" “The biggest risk to investors isn’t the market – it’s themselves" Big downturn incoming. Buckle up folks share.google/Ckw7tOs7rPr2...

Do we know if the UK walked or toadied?

Behind her eyes you can see she doesn't believe a word coming out of her mouth At least they didn't send Alex Davies-Jones to defend the policy

To coincide with Gŵyl Sain, which is being held to celebrate 50 years since the opening of Sain’s first recording studio, Sain is releasing a special compilation including tracks recorded at Sain Studios over the past half century

@sportingheritage.bsky.social a couple of #sportingheritage tributes unveiled in Wales recently A purple plaque at Roath Park in Cardiff in honour of Irene Steer, the first Welshwoman to win Olympic gold Statue in Ebbw Vale in honour of former marathon record holder Steve Jones

One for the political historians Has there ever been a UK government that has had such a large mandate and majority, yet done so little with it?

Strange way of spelling 'invasion'

Don't forget the smacking ban. That put people off How can anyone be expected to enjoy a caravan break in Prestatyn without being able to give little Jonny a wallop?

My blackberry and damson jam is my new jam

when your Socialism is excessively Anglocentric....