It's publication day!

Enwogion o fri: Diversity Project 2023-2025

Our free #DiversityProject anthology for the #Bywgraffiadur has just dropped on KC Works. Over 40 authors contributed more than 60 articles about the most fascinating people in #Welsh #history you could possibly imagine.

We've covered #BAMEHistory #LGBTQ_ and #DisabilityHistory, #WomensHistory, #ArtHistory, the #HistoryOfScience, #HistoryOfReligion and #Wales

Frankly, there's not a single article in this collection that's not bound to be of interest to someone.

Get your own copy here as PDF or epub. And because we're in Wales, we even offer you two versions.

English: https://works.hcommons.org/records/dtb9c-bzm89
Cymraeg: https://doi.org/10.17613/mmwvm-ryh93

Doing another updated #introduction since most of my pertinent info is in my profile bio.

I'm a late-diagnosed #ActuallyAutistic who joined Fedi in '22 (she/her). I love all things #horror, am learning #Welsh/ #Cymraeg & have a #cat named Moon (short for Amunet).

Other special interests: #Android #FOSS apps, #Horses, #Zoology, #Psychology, British TV, #JoeDallesandro films & reading (#fantasy, science journals, historical mystery, etc).

Special talent: Causing hilarious misunderstandings.

Yeah... I had two trips planned to the US this year, fortunately neither firm-firm enough to prevent me cancelling.

Going to take a hard line at work about travel there for the next four years. I'm going to miss the annual conference in Boston I usually go to every year.

C'est la vie. Other such conferences exist elsewhere, in less batshit mental countries.

#wales #welsh #US

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly67j35y99o

Like #russia, the #US is no longer safe for tourists. In just the last two weeks, US authorities have detained two individuals: #Welsh citizen Becky Burke and Fabian Schmidt, a #German national who has been a US permanent resident since 2008.

Burke was held in a "#prison-like" #ICE processing center, while Schmidt was "violently interrogated."

Burke stated, "They keep saying in all their booklets that this is not a prison. It's hard to distinguish from my conception of a prison."

The 2005 GameCube game #FireEmblem: Path of Radiance and its Wii sequel, Radiant Dawn, feature #Welsh character names. Greil, Gawain, Gareth, Rhys, and Heddwyn all have Welsh origins, while the magic tome Creiddylad is named after a mythical Welsh figure. More: walesingames.com/fire-emblem-...

Great little video here on the rediscovery and importance of #Welsh Black Oats.

"Filmed in Welsh with English subtitles, it epitomises how and why reviving seed diversity is a transformational act, helping to re-value and pass on the language, skills and culture that have enabled farmers and rural communities to thrive for generations in Wales, and around our living planet". #farming #ArableFarming #SeedExchange #SeedPreservation #DiwylliantCymreig #Cymru #Cymraeg

https://gaiafoundation.org/llafur-ni/

#languages #linguistics #Wales #Welsh

"The National Library of Wales has been working hard in this space too, crowdsourcing Welsh names for historic sites, improving Wikipedia articles about Welsh places and recording sound clips of local people pronouncing their place names. The Library has made all this data available via Wikidata, a sister project of Wikipedia aimed at collecting and sharing the world’s knowledge as open data."

https://www.library.wales/news/article/crowdsourced-data-enriching-welsh-language-resources

National Library of Wales: Crowdsourced data enriching Welsh language resources. “The National Library of Wales has been working hard in this space too, crowdsourcing Welsh names for historic sites, improving Wikipedia articles about Welsh places and recording sound clips of local people pronouncing their place names. The Library has made all this data available via Wikidata, a sister project […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/10/national-library-of-wales-crowdsourced-data-enriching-welsh-language-resources/

Yes Glossika, I concur.
/me waves to NERSC folks.
#Welsh #Cymraeg

HT @rmblaber1956 !

"Early poems about #Merlin portray him as #environmentalist, say scholars

Re-examination of #Welsh poems dating back to 10th century show #Myrddin as prophet concerned by human interactions with #Nature

by Steven Morris
Tue 25 Feb 2025 07.13 EST

"He is probably most often thought of today as a wizard, a shape-shifter or a mentor to the young King Arthur.

"But a detailed re-examination of Myrddin – Merlin – by Welsh scholars suggests he can also be considered an early British environmentalist deeply worried about human interaction with the natural world.

"Over the past three years academics from three Welsh universities have edited and translated more than 100 poems, all in Cymraeg (Welsh), about Merlin dating back as far as the 10th century.

"David Callander, who is based at Cardiff University’s school of Welsh, said some of the conclusions of the Myrddin Poetry Project challenged the modern view of the figure."

Tagging
@sevmunro

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/25/early-poems-about-merlin-portray-him-as-environmentalist-say-scholars
#History #Poetry #WelshHistory #Magic #Nature #Magicians

#Photography #Cymraeg #Pembroke #Welsh #Dragon #Griffin Today's beastie

Bore da

#BonDia
Idioma: #Welsh
#BondDia

“We have a fully bilingual website but nobody ises the Welsh version”

When your translation looks like it’s been done by a monoglot feeding individual words into Google Translate, it tends to be opaque at best (top left) and unusable at worse (bottom left). I had to switch to the English version to see what “Cadw at Eto” was supposed to mean.

Are there any nice #Welsh speakers out there who can help me out with the names of different types of wood/trees?

Ash
Beech
Birch
Cedar
Cherry
Elm
Fir
Larch
Oak
Pine
Sycamore
Walnut
Yew

#GlobalBritain . The #Welsh edition:

"Cardiff University planned cuts 'risk collapse of #maths infrastructure in Wales' warn world experts"
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"The international reputation of #Cardiff University is at stake amid brutal proposed cuts which could 'spectacularly backfire', some of the world's leading mathematicians have warned"
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/education/cardiff-university-planned-cuts-risk-30982105

Sometimes, a spade has to be called a spade.

My reflection on how Welsh heritage is suffering due to language issues.

And no, it's not Welsh that's the problem!

https://welsharchaeology.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-welsh-archaeological-industry-new.html

How to say "I love you" in the six Celtic languages! #welsh #cymraeg #irish #scottish #Gaelic #manx #breton #cornish