Nic Dafis

@TheBreadmonkey you’ll be glad to hear I used to work for the Welsh Arse Council

@Shrigglepuss@godforsaken.website Oh yeah? Name five of their albums…

@drunkenmadman@aus.social I have that as a tshirt! @hmhbLyrics@mastodonapp.uk

@LoganFive@beige.party Wales, as far from a city as it’s possible to be. I do like a full cooked vegan breakfast (sausages, mushrooms, beans etc) but can’t be bothered usually so it’s crumpets and homemade jam today, once I manage to get up

@gwenynen@toot.wales Roedd fy mam yn eitha balch o gael dweud bod hi wedi pleidleisio dros Blaid Cymru am y tro cyntaf. #NotOlBŵmars

@aegir@toot.wales @afewbugs@social.coop We accidently went a similar route to Sue Perkins’ nain and taid, timed the anniversary to fall on a national holiday, so it’s impossible to forget. (Our’s is Sunday!)

@eclectech@things.uk DEFUND THE BBC I’m with you. We’ve had holidays in Wales just about every year since 1998, the only time we came close to having a “staycation” was in 2020, for obvious reasons. @purplepadma@beige.party

@Talia@mstdn.social BBC Wales covered their Senedd Manifesto launch the other day and more or less bemoaned the fact that they can’t get away with completely ignoring them now they’re in line to hold the balance of power after May.

@Quantensalat almost… well, it depends! English spells both voiced (“then”) and voiceless (“thin”) dental fricatives the same, but Welsh uses “dd" for the voiced version ("bedd”), and "th" for voiceless (“beth”). Sorry, tmi, probably!

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party Ben

@Nickiquote@mstdn.social and we have a winner

@gwenynen@toot.wales Fi a Philippa, o leia unwaith y dydd.

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party I met him briefly once, when he was doing a book signing at the Dillons I worked at. Couldn't have been nicer, up there with Pratchett in the Hot Parade of Famous Writers I Met While Working In Book Shops In The 90s. (Typo deliberately left in.)

@david_castleton (sorry, this is classic reply-guy behaviour - in my defence, I’m currently teaching a Welsh class online, so tutorbrain is fully engaged)

@nicegnome@social.horrorhub.club I’m a monster for creating/joining challenges: every author I like, if they’re not already there, every magazine subscription, every series like “Library of Wales”. Booker Prize winners, Nobel laureates, “read the world” types, translations. Do all the challenges.

@richardgrant@mastodon.social Thanks for this. I’m just listening to the Concerto and thought I’d see if anyone had posted about Rautavaara here, and so came across your post.

@SteveWhitty Wow, amazing finds. Reminds me of finding the first three Amon Düül II records in a Scope shop in Totnes. You don’t forget days like these.

@Quantensalat @Elizafox It's relatively trivial compared to some of the examples here, but I once travelled to deepest England for an art exhibition, and the artist's name was painted on the wall of the gallery as ÐAVID JONES, or “Ddavid Jones” in modern Welsh orthography. He sometimes signed himself as "Dafyð”, and often used the Eth symbol in his inscriptions, but putting it at the beginning of his name is just nonsense, or Celtic bollocks as we call it round here.

@pthane@toot.wales We did that in 2003 when the phpbb boardd I ran became unexpectedly popular, and I had to monitor and moderate things a lot more frequently

@kims @hankgreen …called Dave

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social joke’s on you, I boosted it but didn’t vote

@Curator@mastodon.art @Nightworldlove@mastodon.art all good except “eich blodyn” doesn’t mutate

@Curator@mastodon.art @Nightworldlove@mastodon.art (sorry, missed this last night)

(Boosting @healyn@mastodon.social so he can get scolded by some Welsh people for a change.)

@elk It looks and feels fantastic, on the desktop and on mobile. The only thing that’s stopping me switching immediately is that the “post language” picker seems to default back to English (or maybe whatever interface language you have selected) after every toot, even in replies to my own toots. I mostly post in Welsh, and that’s my default language on my server preferences.

@poppacalypse@alpaca.gold Lovely, set as a bookmark so I can treat myself to a bit of Web 1.0 whenever I feel the need. It gave me a motherlode of poetry: https://theotherpages.org/poems/

@TwoClownsEating@beige.party sending this to everyone in Wales who voted for Reform. It’s what they deserve. (Of course, they won’t get it.)

@Nickiquote@mstdn.social now I have to find the video. I’m not a gear head by any means, but I always enjoy watching musos geek out. St Vincent does good ones, and Matt Pike from Sleep/High On Fire.

@wrexhamdotcom@toot.wales There are many good things about this, but the best bit is of course RT Davies is going to show the entirety of his arse over it.