23 July 1995. Cardiff Arms Park. REM Cranberries Belly I have not a single photo from the gig but flipping heck. ♥️

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Gregynog Hall Gifted to the University of Wales in 1960, Gregynog hosts conferences, often academic, and will I suspect be known to many UK academics If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Thanks to @emmaraczka.bsky.social we now know that this parade was walking up Station Terrace, and my guess is then turning right to go to what is now the rugby club, but back then might well have been playing fields So probably St David's College v Cardiff Uni, but what year?

So has anyone actually ever done a mashup of The Smiths’ Girlfriend In a Coma + KC And The Sunshine Band’s Give It Up?

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I’m not sure what’s worse: That Puma thought it was a good idea to shoehorn some odd lyrics about running into a comedy pothead anthem; or that they completely disregarded the apostrophe.

If you were to create a 2010s higher education themed cocktail called the Pump Prime, what would it include?

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Gwnewch y pethau bychain. A reminder to live your lives just as Blink 182 would have wanted.

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Netflix desperately hoping I’ll miss the fact that the subscription is going up by calling it a ‘price update’.

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Important article about the very real impact on victims. So much digital naivety from the authorities and those responsible. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@hayleyclarke.bsky.social Hi Hayley! Is there any chance please of updating this to reflect that OfS is only the regulator for HE in England (the article starts with a Cardiff student + the story also features on the Wales page, but OfS has no remit in Wales). Diolch! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have spent so long muting six nations discourse on social media that I didn’t even know it was starting tonight.

Why would you ignore the circumflex on Llŷn? Little bit annoyed at the lack of use of the Welsh diacritic in popular news items, particularly when you see Éowyn done right in the next paragraph.

Band names based on popular spam: Japanese Insole Lickme 2037 Huusk Knives Mystery Box Big Wins CloudStorage High County Casino Youthful Brain Salt Water Trick SHRIMP Warning Bladder Relief Play Now Shipment Notice Lucky Day QuikHeat Executive Order Impact Cadbury

The first six notes of Dana International’s 1998 Eurovision winner sound like Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau.

Six paragraphs in is too too far in before mentioning that this applies only to England, though, according to me. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Have Twitter migrants missed my education devolution policy content?! Today I am asking: If you’re a publication that’s writing about skills gaps in different UK nations and English regions, have you thought about asking for comments more widely than just England’s Department for Education? Or…

Oes angen poeni / do we need to worry?

1990s Spanish taxi drivers. “Ah, Mark Hughes!” 2000s Spanish taxi drivers “Ah, Ryan Giggs!” 2010s Spanish taxi drivers “Ah, Gareth Bale!” 2024 French waiter (born in Turkey) “Ah, John Toshack!” Points of reference when you tell people you’re from Wales.

Casually scrolling the socials, and totally mixing up comments about H1B with those about HS1. Why is Musk bothered about the 109km rail line between St Pancras and the Channel Tunnel? And why are travellers from the UK saying that skilled tech immigrants to the US should stop in Kent?

It would seem wrong not to mention the flurry of excitement round our way in the 1980s when former US President Jimmy Carter went fishing with my old primary school headteacher in west Wales. www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...

Every time I open Blue Sky, I have to sing its name in the style of this Kajagoogoo song, and now you will have to too, mwahahahaha etc. m.youtube.com/watch?v=rkpG...

Acting ages are wild aren’t they? Gail from Coronation Street’s on-screen mum is 8 years older than her irl. There are 5 years between the actors who play Alma’s (off of Not Normal) mum and nan, aka Alma’s mum’s mum.

But then there's at least 70 other journalists, some who fall under TUPE but have no other rights, or the option of pay-off. And then the 'freelancers' - critics, writers, columnists, photographers, editors, subs - all with Guardian contracts. Who, this week, all got canned. 4/

Oh wow - her son really does look a bit like Scott Mills.

What was more eye-wateringly boring as a kid than your parents bumping into their friends at the supermarket / on the street while you tagged along and they had a jolly good catch up while you were like

“Flipping put them in quarantine, NOW!” Me, worrying about anyone novichok-adjacent in Netflix’s Carry-on.

I honestly thought we were now selling Clwb biscuits in Cymru.

Imagine being a publication that’s so proudly and angry-facedly “anti-woke” that it forgets to bother with basic fact-checking. No, the HE Freedom of Speech Act will not cover “Britain’s”universities.

Little bit, yes, no?

Exciting times! If you want to forward a safari news article from your iPhone and need point to a key bit for the recipient, just highlight the interesting section, click send and - voilà! - their own personalised link! Jermazing.

An AI-generated song is the *best* gift for anyone’s [checks] thirty-secondth birthday.

*Timetable changes from 15 December - please check your journey.* My journey’s last train home - 22.43 - is still impossible to catch after a live event. 😞 Boo!

Organisations - please could you start saving your docs in the latest docx Word format rather than Word 97-2003; and please find the tick symbol ✓ ✔on your system so you stop mis-using square root √ . 🙄 #NotAllOrganisations Diolch.

Ble sy’n neis i fwyta yn C’fyrddin de, gyfeillion?

Elis James nos yfory de. Feri gwd! Edrych mlaen. 👏

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*Checks if the Slow Horses theme tune was sung by Jemaine Clement.*

TfW Rail feeling my pain when they asked me to submit my delay repay claim by getting me to identify all the buses in the grid.

Windows:would you like to shut down and restart? Will take approx 5 minutes. Easy! Also Windows: I have switched myself off after 4 minutes. Re-enter login. Update will take a further 7 minutes. Re-enter login. 7% there. 96% there. Off we go again! Re-enter login. You wanted to do some work today?

“Definitely don’t need an umbrella today.” Oh.

Remembering when we all used to host Virgin Vie parties and wear shimmer body lotion around 20 years ago.

Shoe vendors! If I’m trying on a delicious pair of footwear, please believe me whenever I say they’re too narrow / long / rubby / owchy. 1. No, they don’t fit me properly. 2. Yes I know they’re lovely. 3. No, I still won’t buy them (see 1, above).

Remember, it’s only a starter pack if it comes from the Start region of France, otherwise it’s just a sparkling echo chamber

Mastodon: unwieldy; bit woolly; in danger of becoming extinct. 🦣 Threads: starting to unravel; name invokes memories of terrifying British apocalyptic nuclear war drama. 💥 Bluesky: