Sioe gynnar yn Treorci fory (Sadwrn) / early show tomorrow at the legendary Park and Dare theatre Treorchy. Something like : Elijah Lewis Thomas 7pm Gruff Rhys 8pm

your yearly reminder that #Mabon is a Welsh word plucked out of Y Mabinogi by an American Wiccan in the 1970s for some bullshit reason (maybe bc Welsh sounds all Elvish to non-speakers), it has fuck-all to do with the autumn equinox, & the Welsh witches I know refuse to use it #witchsky

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.

Oes rhywun yn gwybod am lyfr neu adnodd am ysgrifennu llythyrau/e-byst yn y Gymraeg? #cymraeg

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

A play in two parts. #Aberystwyth

XFiles S1:E6: Scully pops open Praat and Mulder talks about the formants

What an absolute fucking baller, 100% legend

delightful!

Why does the UK have a digital skills gap in manufacturing? How to ensure graduates move into manufacturing as well as fintech/cybersec? Our lecturer David Jones ( @dj13730.bsky.social ) was interviewed on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (skip to 48:41) @aberuni.bsky.social

Dr Dave just got interviewed about the digital skills gap in manufacturing on BBC Radio Wales (07:49) 😀🏭🎓 @dj13730.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social @abercompsci.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Working from the National Library today which is ✨beaut✨ but the true highlight has been seeing how many older women spend their day here writing or researching. Nothing has ever motivated me to sort my shit out like the idea of Future Lowri getting to read an old book on a special pillow all day.

live action catbus looking pretty sweet

One of Dave's uni friends is here for the weekend and we're having fun exploring old haunts. I don't want to suggest we're getting old, but we had to leave The Angel early because the music was too loud and we had to stop in Little Tesco on the way home to buy a bottle of Ribena for hot squash...

‘On the nature of linguistics and its transdisciplinary potential’. Our new volume of transdisciplinary research in linguistics will be out in the autumn. If this is of interest to you, the pre-print of the introduction is available here : bit.ly/4eZDlih

20+ years of surgeries, scans, specialists and treatment plans. Every new-to-me GP I have to interact with: maybe you're just depressed? 😑😑😑 (Taken myself out for a Posh Coffee and a Rage Pastry. It was v. good) #WomensHealth #NHS #Endometriosis

"Morfran" (sea raven) in Welsh, too. Although GPC also gives "bilidowcar" which I now need to know everything about immediately. 🐦🐦

Nach robh cothrom agaibh èisteachd ri òraidean Rhind a ghabh Simon Taylor am mìos seo chaidh? Tha iad uile rin cluainntinn air-loidhne a-nis! ~ Did you miss Simon Taylor's Rhind lectures last month? They are all available to listen to online now! buff.ly/lBOcD7M #AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Placenames

Annual* overlocker servicing day *Not even close to annual #Sewing

100 days until Halloween. And with that, a cold breeze filled the air... 🎃🍂

Ozzy Osbourne visited my magic shop. He said he'd like to buy some stink bombs. How many? All of them. I had to go through drawers finding every last one. He bought 900 of them. To sign the credit card slip I handed him a shock pen, which he thought was hilarious and bought that too. RIP

Shiny!

I saw a headline which noted: “Feeling Hoarse? You Might Have the New ‘Stratus’ Covid Variant,” and I will admit that as of late I have been feeling hoarse not from the virus but because I keep shouting that the pandemic isn’t over.

Eek. Real fail here by @britannica.com! They claim: "For those asking: Wales is a principality *within* England, whereas Scotland and England are kingdoms." But there are subtleties to this, so let's lay them out.

I've now signed off on the paperback edits of The Game Changers & it's going to press with a tweaked covered. Hits the shops in August. I know I keep banging on about this stuff but I love, love, love writing about tabletop games & talking about them & I'm going to keep looking for places to do that

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Picked up this absolute treasure at the second-hand book table in Tesco. #Aberystwyth

i have no idea what this pun means but nonetheless: the teaser for tag all stars is here. we have literally never been more back

@mesnilman.bsky.social I am duty-bound to inform you that our 8.38 train from Glasgow Central to Carlisle made a welcome but unscheduled stop in the Snack Zone. Yeah baybeeee. #JLTG #SnackZone

Mynd sha thre 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🚂 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

For those who love Gàidhlig music a prime example are Sian one of the best groups out there with now a new album Araon! BUY IT! sianmusic.com/shop Eadar dà sheanchas, that base on Pèidse Fir Ròdhaig is to die for: [youtube.com/watch?v=xEUE...)

"Did insulting middle aged women and throwing autistic people under the bus work? No? OK, time to say that sexually assaulting & harassing women who you know you have professional power over is just a normal thing working class men do all the time"

As I’ve said before, as someone born and raised in the shadow of coal power, with all the attendant damage to the local environment that caused, I have less than zero sympathy for people whining about very unobtrusive solutions to fix that.

A little levity:

They are beginning to excavate the bodies of nearly 800 babies and infants at just one Catholic mother and baby home. How many other places like this exist? www.bbc.com/news/article...

I bless the rains up in E-e-e-dinburgh.

has anyone ever come across a book written *for* beginning writers that teaches ideas from Systemic Functional Linguistics, like densification and theme and rheme?

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

I love it here. #Glasgow #Glaschu

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💃🏼🥵 #ISFC50

First book group session is today. If you know a teen in Cardiff let them know! 🙂 #TeenBookGroup #Cardiff

Took a break from #ISFC50 goings-on to go look at some old trams, some old gravestones and to recharge the old social battery. Feasgar math a chairdean! #Glasgow #Glaschu

Presented our paper "Applying systemic functional linguistics to build a learner-centred adaptive learning system" at #ISFC50 this morning - off on the conference outing to Loch Lomond this afternoon to celebrate 😀

This is purely a Glasgow Subway stan account now. Sincerest apologies to anyone who followed for niche language content and photos of my cats.

And so it begins! #ISFC50

News of my upcoming talk at #ISFC50 has travelled fast... Ble mae'r Gaidhlig?! - at Glasgow Central station #Cymraeg

Attending my first #SFL conference this week. Realised I don't have any Grown-Up-Academic clothes so panic bought the same top in all the available colours. There's a joke to be made here about function, form and choice, but that'll have to wait until after I finish my slides... 🤓 #ISFC50