Meredith ap Robert
@meredithaprobert.bsky.social
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Welsh-descended Michigander. Writer. Celtic/Arthurian studies. Non-binary. Hufflepuff.
#Cymruambyth
One of those days where you tell your writing group "I'm jumping in with feedback in a couple minutes," and by a couple minutes you mean eight hours later. 😣
about 2 months ago
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NationCymru
2 months ago
Today, people across the world remember one of the greatest tragedies in Welsh history - the 1966 Aberfan disaster - which left a small mining village robbed of an entire generation
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Cofiwn: World remembers Aberfan disaster
Stephen Price Today, people across the world remember one of the greatest tragedies in Welsh history – the 1966 Aberfan disaster – which left a small mining village robbed of an entire generation. On ...
https://nation.cymru/feature/cofiwn-world-remembers-aberfan-disaster/
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Meredith ap Robert
Liz Saville Roberts AS / MP
3 months ago
Being Welsh is about belonging and shared values. I was a loud south-east London girl who became Welsh, heart and soul. Our Wales is one that welcomes, includes and builds, not one that divides. Proud to close an inspiring weekend at Plaid Cymru conference 💚🏴
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NationCymru
3 months ago
With a wife and three daughters who all speak Welsh at home, rugby legend Alun Wyn Jones is determined to make a change and says learning Welsh is about ‘knowing my roots and belonging to my country’
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Alun Wyn Jones: 'Learning Welsh is about knowing my roots and belonging to my country'
Rugby legend Alun Wyn Jones has said that not speaking his own language while travelling the world is “something I’m not proud of”. Now, with a wife and three daughters who all speak Welsh at home, th...
https://wp.me/p8Mk4U-16ZD
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Sometimes I think I'm being cold or transactional with my family. Then, after I text my parents that I'm really upset and panicking over something and could use reassurance, I get: "Just take a deep breath and relax it will all work out." Maybe I've finally found a use for AI: empathetic parenting
3 months ago
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I realised I might be different in the 9th grade. But not for the reasons you think. A baffled blond girl with a Nordic nose wanted to know: What exactly is a satire? She wasn't dumb. But the idea of there being something wrong in society was beyond her.
meredithaprobert.com/i-realised-i...
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I realised I might be different in the 9th grade – Meredith ap Robert
I realised I might be different in the 9th grade. But not for the reasons you think. In the library one day, a pretty blonde girl with a Nordic nose and her hair pulled back tight asked for help with...
https://meredithaprobert.com/i-realised-i-might-be-different/
3 months ago
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Go Tigers. Go Blue Jays.
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3 months ago
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C'mon Tigers.
#postseason
3 months ago
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Great op-ed from
@benwildsmith.bsky.social
"We, rightly, feel sheltered from the worst excesses of populism in
#Cymru
. What self-governance we have has at least been conducted without calls for violence and repression. It’s no time to be diffident now, though."
nation.cymru/opinion/time...
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Time to Change Tracks
Ben Wildsmith The last legitimately elected and stable government we had was David Cameron’s ministry in 2015. Once that was undone by Brexit a year later, the country has been effectively ungovernabl...
https://nation.cymru/opinion/time-to-change-tracks/
3 months ago
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I've had this one knocking around my head for a while. Grateful to be able to share it with you:
joelaprobert.com/i-realised-i...
#nonbinary
#LGBTQ
#LGBTQwriter
#queer
#childhood
#memoir
#satire
3 months ago
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Meredith ap Robert
Allan Faulds
3 months ago
Absolutely completely and utterly astonishing to see Welsh Labour taking the Scottish Labour approach to their nationalist opponents. Have you seen your polling, my guys?! Even if you beat Plaid, you will *need* them to form a government. They aren't optional! You can't talk about them this way!
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Rounding out my list of
#Michigan
off-the-beaten path is the Brooklyn Street Local LLC in Corktown,
#Detroit
. (I didn't take better pictures, because I was too busy enjoying the food.) Check out the full list:
joelaprobert.com/michigan-hor...
#poutine
#bestof
#summer2025
#eatlocal
3 months ago
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Third on my list of
#Michigan
hors chemin:
#Muskegon
. There's nothing like
#LakeMichigan
during the summer, but I can do without the crowds. Muskegon gives you two phenomonal options in close proximity: Muskegon State Park and Duck Lake State Park. Read on:
joelaprobert.com/michigan-hor...
3 months ago
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#2 on my list of
#Michigan
summer 2025 favourites:
#QahwahHouse
of Grand Rapids, a welcome oasis on the city's northeast corner—a respite from the endlessly unimaginative big box chains that dominate the suburbs, with late night hours to boot.
joelaprobert.com/michigan-hor...
3 months ago
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At the top of my list of
#Michigan
summer favourites: the
#NorthCountryTrail
. Like a Narnian otherworld, you hardly know it's there, but open the door and you'll find you've tumbled into a magical world right on your doorstep. Read on:
joelaprobert.com/michigan-hor...
3 months ago
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Check my math for me: Two months living at home = two years of therapy.
3 months ago
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I recently unearthed my high school journal, and turned the pages all the way back to the start: August 25, 2004. My list of goals for my junior year of high school included everything from beating video games, to proselytizing.
#recoveringfromreligion
joelaprobert.com/both-wanting...
4 months ago
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Looking back two decades, I wonder what chance "a skinny kid with a funny name" ever had appealing to our better angels when we were already stewing knee-deep in decades of me-first materialism. It felt like a moment of transformation. Was it just an illusion?
joelaprobert.com/americans-ar...
4 months ago
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What started as a bit of a rant turned into a lament. That's the power of writing. It forces us to sit down with our thoughts and make sense of them. It makes us face what we're really feeling and name it. Here's part 2 in Americans are the frog in the pot:
joelaprobert.com/americans-ar...
4 months ago
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Wow! What a nice surprise when I opened Ninnau this morning. I knew they had picked up the article, but I didn't expect to be on the cover. If you'd like to read the article (without squinting), you can check in out on
@nation.cymru
:
nation.cymru/feature/wale...
4 months ago
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I love seeing
@formerknownasjuan.bsky.social
's work out in the wild. 🥰 Follow us over on
@argentaffy.bsky.social
for more of his work. (And mine, too!)
#BuenosAires
#Argentina
#stickers
#illustrator
#Patreon
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4 months ago
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Welcome to the next installment in Remade: An anthology of the world's end & new beginnings. The new beginnings are on the way. I promise. But for now, it's still the end of the world.
#speculativefiction
#AmericanApocalypse
#rapture
#RemadeNovel
www.patreon.com/posts/136431...
4 months ago
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I'm excited that I'm making some progress with my novel, Remade. I have a few ongoing projects, but this is the one that's speaking to me right now in a way that I can't ignore. Looking forward to sharing the latest section later this week.
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5 months ago
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Only in Cymraeg ...
#Duolingo
#Welsh
#Cymraeg
#Archdruid
5 months ago
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Meredith ap Robert
Juan and Joel
5 months ago
Some new goodies for our
#Patreon
community, heading your way soon! Sign up:
patreon.com/Argentaffy
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Part 2 on its way soon. If you'd like it sent directly to your inbox, visit my blog and hit subscribe at the bottom of the post.
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Americans are the frog in the pot, part I: Grand Rapids – Meredith ap Robert
Grand Rapids is a weird place to call home. Today it’s all breweries and hipsters and weed dispensaries and overpriced apartments. But growing up, it was Bland Rapids. A place so boring and unimaginat...
https://joelaprobert.com/americans-are-the-frog-in-the-pot-part-i-grand-rapids/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMDJPVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHre4njeogwgi9Eji5oV2ewmcujX9pSMlYASfQlA9vZlhyErFnC7c3mgC_QkB_aem_sofMxyi0FEDGgoixs-JVXA
5 months ago
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Meredith ap Robert
Juan and Joel
5 months ago
Our
#BuenosAires
and brand-new
#Michigan
stickers are in the mail for our
#Patreon
community! Want to join? Sign up here:
patreon.com/Argentaffy
#illustration
#LGBTQcreators
#stickers
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Newyddion cyffrous! Such exciting news for
@bangoruniversity.bsky.social
!
nation.cymru/feature/arth...
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Arthurian studies boosted with significant European grant
A professor at a Welsh university has received a prestigious €3 million grant to explore manuscripts related to King Arthur alongside scholars from across Europe. Professor Raluca Radulescu from Bango...
https://nation.cymru/feature/arthurian-studies-boosted-with-significant-european-grant/
5 months ago
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So grateful to
@nation.cymru
for allowing me to share my thoughts on
@naaswch.bsky.social
and the 2025 International Conference on Welsh Studies.
#Wales
#Cymru
#WelshStudies
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Wales and the world: strengthening transatlantic ties
Joel Romero-Meredith For a scholar who often begins presentations by showing audience members where to find Wales on the map, NAASWCH is a welcome change of pace. Short for the North American Associat...
https://nation.cymru/feature/wales-and-the-world-strengthening-transatlantic-ties/
5 months ago
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Meredith ap Robert
Juan and Joel
5 months ago
Getting our new
#Michigan
stickers ready to send out!
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I came across the remarks I gave at the 2009
#LGBTQ
Panel at Calvin University. Most of all, I'm grateful to be living the quiet life I craved all those years ago: to be married to a wonderful man, to have the support of a loving family, to have my "square inch."
joelaprobert.com/rites-of-pas...
5 months ago
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Come on, Google. Do better.
#microaggression
5 months ago
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Amazing few days at
@naaswch.bsky.social
. Can't wait for the next!
5 months ago
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A classic 1-2 punch of American ignorance and indifference.
#GOP
legislators want to look tough. All they do is shift the blame. They doubt experts and science (re: climate change), and can't bother humbling themselves to ask, "Hey, how can we help right now?"
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
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Manitoba premier shoots back at U.S. lawmakers over smoke complaint | CBC News
Manitoba's premier shot back on Thursday at six U.S. lawmakers who recently complained about Canadian wildfire smoke travelling south, which they said was making it difficult for some Americans to enj...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-wildfire-smoke-ruining-americans-summer-1.7580738
6 months ago
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New post: History from the cheap seats: Paris, July 2024
joelaprobert.com/history-from...
6 months ago
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Sign up for our Patreon to join the story.
patreon.com/Argentaffy
#SkyWriters
#RemadeNovel
#speculativefiction
#americanapocalypse
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6 months ago
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When you call and your mother says, "One second, we're pulling into the drive" and find yourself waiting by the phone for half an hour ...
6 months ago
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Excited to continue to journey this week.
#RemadeNovel
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6 months ago
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From
@nation.cymru
: "Measures that were presented as unavoidable to prevent disaster, have been revealed as the voluntary political choices of a gov't that considers a wealth tax to be beyond the pale, while accepting the Tory dogma that we are a nation of scroungers."
nation.cymru/opinion/the-...
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The Death Throes of Labour
Ben Wildsmith Keir Starmer’s government was always going to be dreadful. Having dismantled the party’s progressive programme, leaving a threadbare manifesto that shrugged, ‘Hey, we can’t be any worse ...
https://nation.cymru/opinion/the-death-throes-of-labour/
6 months ago
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New
@argentaffy.bsky.social
newsletter on its way! ✍️ Sign up to get the latest from me and
@formerknownasjuan.bsky.social
. E-mail, comment, or DM. We'll add you to the list!
6 months ago
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NEW POST Between dissertations, I'm reconnecting with the joy of reading—and for me, that means revisiting some old favorites: Susan Cooper's Over Sea, Under Stone, and Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain.
#childrenslit
#YA
#YAlit
#fiction
#Wales
#KingArthur
joelaprobert.com/nostalgia-th...
6 months ago
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Engrossing conversation on where we are and how we got here. I'm still processing it, and plan to listen a second time this weekend.
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
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Film-maker Adam Curtis on why this moment feels so weird – podcast
The award-winning film-maker talks to Michael Safi about the big ideas that have run out of road
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/jun/20/film-maker-adam-curtis-on-why-this-moment-feels-so-weird-podcast
6 months ago
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Meredith ap Robert
Juan and Joel
6 months ago
@formerknownasjuan.bsky.social
has done some really AMAZING work this semester at Escuela DaVinci. Check out his redesign of the book cover for Sasha Velour's The Big Reveal:
#drag
#queerart
#book
#bookcover
#SkyBooks
#design
#graphicdesign
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Semester almost over! Here's my proudest work. | Argentaffy
Get more from Argentaffy on Patreon
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Excited for the
@celticstudents.bsky.social
conference tomorrow. Not excited about getting up at 5 am local time. 😅
#attendingremotely
7 months ago
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Meredith ap Robert
Will Hayward - Wales Journo
7 months ago
History has taught us that prosperity for the people of Cymru won’t come from extracting the resources under their feet, but from developing the people themselves.
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More outstanding writing from
@willhaycardiff.bsky.social
. "The current situation represents the worst of both worlds: it gives the illusion of Wales having a voice when it comes with a pre-installed mute button."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Here's how the government can save a few quid: abolish this pointless cabinet position | Will Hayward
Constantly short-changed by London, Cymru needs a voice in Westminster – but the obsolete role of Welsh secretary is not it, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/06/uk-politics-wales-secretary-of-state-government?fbclid=IwY2xjawKv98lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFRQWZoa1ZrN3lPbG9BckhuAR6apOW3FTE4_yxg30vW8B0wjEllGXy0gQlic_Jy9zkBvkt7vogIN5FV7T0uqw_aem_uw1sGtQukQIG8vUMNnMOSw
7 months ago
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Grand Rapids is weird. Today it’s all breweries, hipsters, and overpriced apartments. But growing up, it was Bland Rapids: so boring that corporations would come to town to trial new products. If the straight-laced people of Grand Rapids, will buy it, anyone will!
joelaprobert.com/americans-ar...
7 months ago
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The pro-natalist movement isn't just looking for more babies. "They’re looking for more of what they consider higher-quality babies … which is a judgment that they’re making that might have, I think frequently does have, racial connotations."
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Making America pregnant again: the pro-natalist movement – podcast
Moira Donegan on the different groups of people who want the US population to produce more babies
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/jun/02/making-america-pregnant-again-pro-natalist-movement-podcast?fbclid=IwY2xjawKq0UlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFWOVRVYXVLTEhoVzdVdlRJAR5-PNdylIhHrrqLCWbfyRESqi5XrBrf2Xsu5OiPWR0cN9XGUD9yiN-6woxOhA_aem_HdvTxWwGQryPbZvI4h1SJA
7 months ago
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"Welsh is not a “minority language.” It is an indigenous language of Britain. It’s a language that grew here, shaped by the deep time of these islands – by the millennia it has spent in, and of, this land, shaping it and being shaped by it."
nation.cymru/opinion/wels...
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Welsh: the language that shaped Britain
Owen Williams Listen carefully, and you’ll hear it: a language older than the hills, older than the state. The names of rivers and mountains still whisper it – Pen-y-Fan, Penicuik, Aberystwyth, Aberde...
https://nation.cymru/opinion/welsh-the-language-that-shaped-britain/
7 months ago
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Powering through funding apps.
7 months ago
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