Morning on Ynys Môn (with sheep and a dead tree):

Question and answer session with director Marc Evans and director of photography Eira Wyn Jones after the showing of ‘Effi o Blaenau’ at Pontio, Bangor last night. A good and ‘hard hitting’ film:

Afternoon on Afon Menai (before the rain):

Navelwort and wild roses on Ynys Môn:

Morning on Ynys Môn:

Good piece by @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social on an Afghan "of fighting age”, a speaker of Farsi, Uzbek, Russian, Hindi and English, and a “friendly, eloquent Lothario”. With some useful linguistic research on the emergence of the phrase “men of fighting age”: open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Semyon Skrepetsky was pretty good, which is why Putin had him killed:

Russian dictators have a long history of killing their critics in other countries. Google Ramón Mercader for information about a famous case:

This is true but he also sounds like he's reading the shipping forecast. "Starmer's leadership: good, occasionally moderate, becoming very poor later. There are warnings of gales in Makerfield."

Morning in Cwm Cadnant:

If the U.K. was a police state as this political philosopher purports to believe, the far right politicians that he favours would be in jail or in an early grave like opposition politicians in Russia, a country he seems to quite like. They aren’t. Ergo this is bollocks:

As Putin attacks a Kyiv cathedral, here is John Piper’s painting of Coventry Cathedral in flames when attacked by Hitler in November 1940. Brutal dictators do this sort of thing:

Grasses, hogweed and bindweed on Ynys Môn:

Eryri morning:

As Trump enters his 9th decade, it’s worth recalling that Musk once said something true about him. But he went on to spend vast amounts of money to put him back in the White House:

"... her laughter was like the sound of the merry stream that came singing out of the hills past the walls of her father’s house." (J. R. R. Tolkien, Unfinished Tales, p. 58).

Sophia Smith Galer in ‘How to Kill a Language’ on Kurdish translator Kareem Abdulrahman on the importance of translation:

Two Musicians: singer-songwriter Gwilym Bowen Rhys in a storming performance at Yr Heulen in Felinheli, and harpist Mared Emlyn in a Plethu Cerddoriaeth Cymru ac Wcrain/Wales-Ukraine Music Project workshop in Barmouth/Y Bermo:

13 Farage rioters in Southampton sentenced to jail so far www.cps.gov.uk/wessex/news/...

Morning on Ynys Môn:

There is something terribly wrong about an economy that produces its first trillionaire, but cannot provide health care for its people. Or one in which the richest handful of families have the combined wealth of almost forty percent of the rest of the country.

Never forget that Trump betrayed the US by appointing a Russian agent as Director of National Intelligence. He knew what he was doing

When I was young all the brilliant rugby players were men (Gareth Edwards, J.P.R. Williams, etc., etc.). Nowadays some of them are women:

13 June 1882 | A German Jewish woman, Helene Dorner, was born in Berlin. In June 1943 she was incarcerated in #Theresienstadt Ghetto and in October 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

A bit of history: Ronald Reagan (1987): “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Marco Rubio (2016): “I congratulate the Russian people on Russia Day.”

The World Cup is well underway. Some people were talking about the start of the World Cup yesterday, but it definitely didn’t begin until today: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

One Russian asset cheers on another Russian asset. Putin’s Soviet predecessors were more powerful than he is, but none of them had so many in the West and especially in the US working hard to help them achieve their goals:

The competition is very strong, but this looks like a strong candidate for the title “maddest tweet of the week”:

I’m sure this Irishman would not mind at all if the U.K. invaded Ireland in an attempt to make a colony again, and would not be bothered if other countries helped the U.K. war effort:

There are few more disgusting spectacles than right wing hacks and politicians trying to excuse the rioting in Belfast. If rioting was happening outside their homes and in their leafy avenues they'd have a very different take.

Morning on Afon Menai:

Gotta get your steps in:

Musk's shock troops: "The court heard that Medhurst, had 51 previous convictions for 96 offences, including handling stolen goods, burglary and shoplifting." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sensible advice to British servicemen landing in France in 1944.

Elon’s Freedom Fighters. Nice lads.

'Opening the World Cup' does sound like something in Norse myth that would cause the sundering of the earth and release of all evil

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

Afternoon on Ynys Môn:

Interesting piece on ‘decline porn’ and 'Anglofuturism', and the way 'AI' has alllowed much of what were once known as conservatives to live in a fantasy world and encourage others to do the same: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/con...

Made me think of drones:

Care workers. They are looking after the old and sick. Racist thugs - egged on by Musk and a whole host of political figures - tried to kill them. The absolute shame of it

Another Northern Ireland stabbing. Oddly it didn’t attract much attention and certainly didn’t lead the riots. Funny that: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'A strongman president, self-styled redeemer of national glory, is trapped in a conflict he can’t win but doesn’t know how to end without looking like a loser... It could be Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin; Iran or Ukraine.' @rafaelbehr.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Youngsters on Ynys Môn:

All he wanted was to be PM. Everything else and everything else this turnip of a man says is absolutely irrelevant

I somehow doubt whether “the whole of the United Kingdom” did hit the streets at 7pm tonight, as predicted by our man in Moscow. (Obviously I mean Putin’s man in Moscow.)

Eryri evening:

This looks a lot like an admission that the manifesto was poorly thought out:

After a hard day storming the beaches, what could be better than a refreshing swim to cool down?

Good piece by @kenanmalik.bsky.social on the racism of the right wing response of Farage and others to the Nowak murder and the flawed official anti-racism that may have played a role in how the police acted: observer.co.uk/news/politic...