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New account. Mochyn. Welsh medievalist. Dafydd ap Gruffudd apologist. Annibyniaeth. Queer. He/him. @mochynbrwnt_ insta and threads
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To reiterate: this is an anti-YesCymru account and my Wales is inclusive of everyone who wants to call this country home (royals excluded), socialist and pro-trans rights. Just to save you the bother
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I swear to god they just whip up new ones in a lab just to confuse us cause who tf is this????
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Fuck him. Fuck his entire party. Fuck every politician who has worked so hard to keep us trapped in this cycle of misery and hopelessness
🚨 NEW: In his first major speech as Prime Minister on Tuesday, Keir Starmer will warn that life in the UK “is going to get worse” before it gets better
“Things are worse than we ever imagined”
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I love Wales sometimes. Like yeah those people in the robes are our official bards and druids. Why? Because two hundred years ago one guy embarked on a quest of monumental historical forgery and now no one is really sure which parts of Welsh history are real or not
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A Welsh person, an Irish person and a Scottish person walk into a bar
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Hearing Welsh accents in video games which to the world probably sound very fantasyesque but to Welsh people it just adds to the immersion. Like yeah that wizard sounds like my mam
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Gerald of Wales records the story of a planned assault on Dinefwr by the english who hired a Welshman to help them survey the castle. The guide took the english along the most difficult route to the castle, stopping now and then to eat some of grass explaining that the Welsh...
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Ours were just named after Welsh kings ya bunch of freaks
The rise of Britishcore: 100 experiences that define and unite modern Britons
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Friendly reminder that the Mari Lwyd is not "a creature from Welsh folklore". It's a wassailing tradition. Nobody believed or told stories about the Mari haunting the woods of Wales or creeping up on you on lonely country roads
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I love these claims because they all rest on the supposed ability of the Welsh to recognise an english person on sight
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Very proud to see counter protests against the far right being mobilised in Cardiff but seeing too many people on their high horses claiming that the same hatred we're witnessing in england doesn't exist in Wales. It very much does and we'd be foolish to ignore that fact
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English guy at the pub: god why does it all have to be in Welsh, I can't understand a word of it.
The 'Welsh', folks? A small "Croeso" on the largely english signage.
I stg a more fragile people have never existed. The sooner we close the border the better
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Hate when english people include us in maps of their north/south divide. Like, sorry but this is a whole different country and our own north/south discourse is infinitely more interesting than yours
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Married to Prince Edward...who the fuck is Prince Edward?
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Put them all in a submarine. Give the ocean what it craves
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I'm all for gatekeeping Welsh mythology actually. If we allow next door access to it it'll be a matter of weeks before they're claiming it as their own
I genuinely think it’s insane that, growing up in Britain, there’s an entire native mythological cycle, encompassing vast swathes of the country, that most people have no educational access to
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of the area were used to subsisting on grass in times of hardship. Daunted by the difficultly of the assault and the hardiness of the defenders the attack was called off
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American just asked about my book and I got to explain Glyndwr to him and I got literally giddy with excitement
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Like of course our biggest cultural festival stems from the forgeries of the worst man to happen to Welsh historical study since Edward Ist
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Fucking love the eisteddfod me. Bards. Druids. Big arse sword. A oes heddwch??
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Parachuted labour mps experiencing the shambles that is Welsh public transport for the first time: fuck up. I dont care if you find it hard to visit London from your holiday home in Pembrokeshire or some shit. We live this everyday. We've earned our rage. You have not
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Gotta wonder about the motives of people who don't want their children being taught what constitutes inappropriate touching
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Fuck off
Conservative leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch calls Senedd expansion 'abhorrent' and 'sheer arrogance'
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This place deserves nothing but love for making such a welcoming and inclusive space in the heart of Cardiff. Im gonna start guarding it with a bazooka
Unfortunately, we are not able to open today as we have been robbed in the early hours of this morning. This means we have no cash float, till system or cafe stock to open today and we are also missing our front window.
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Had the most amazing time at the Eisteddfod. Coming from a non Welsh speaking family it can be easy to let Welsh slip under the radar but being surrounded by tens of thousands of people speaking nothing but Welsh showed me just how thriving and vibrant our national language is
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Guys guys guys I've just been accepted onto my masters in medieval studies!
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Discussing the edwardian conquest of Wales the other day and the lecturer goes "was it a conquest though? Shouldn't we think of it more like a cultural exchange" and I was like uuum yeah if the exchange is violent and one way
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I wish Wales embraced it's historical figures with the obsessive passion with which Florence embraces the Medici. Those guys are everywhere. I want statues of poets on every street corner, murals of long dead rulers on every wall
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"Look at Wales not taking part in the riots. Well done Wales" well I remember when Wales largest independence movement imploded due to bigotry so go on butt keep talking
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Made the mistake of clicking on the comments of a video about someone visiting Wales and every other comment was "my holiday home is in Wales, I love it" and now I'm siphoning petrol from the cars parked outside and amassing a frankly illegal amount of matches 🔥
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Self respect
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What he means is english culture. Hardly believe they're going to start advocating for Welsh classes in england. British just means english in a way thats palatable to the other nations of this island. Always has been
'We want people to live in a harmonious country under a single British culture.'
'Multiculturalism has failed', Reform UK's
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, emphasising the need to 'train up our own' to fill the gaps left by skills shortages.
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Seeing so many tiktoks claiming it's a creature from Welsh mythology and nope. Just a fun tradition that yeah may represent death or winter (who am I to say what meaning you find in it) but it's not like the gwyllgi or the tylwyth teg
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Not ambitious enough. Push it now. End our suffering
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I support independence but the comparison with a people who are facing blatant oppression and genocide is gross
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Jumping off this adorable pic to remind you that according to the Mabinogion pigs are fairy creatures from the Otherworld gifted to the people of southern Wales by the king of Annwn and the people of northern Wales got so jealous they started a war to claim them
I made friends with these little creatures, and one tried to nibble me 🐷
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There's already a tonne of sinister and creepy mythological and folkloric entities in Wales. We don't need to fabricate them
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In the 15th century Gwerful Mechain wrote a poem slagging off her neighbours for not letting her shag their husbands
Imagine explaining to a medieval peasant the concept of “body count”
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Every Glyndwr's day i think Wales should stage a cheeky revolution. Just to improve our bargaining position. And to keep next door on their toes 😑
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You know what, I'm gonna at least laugh about the tories being annihilated in Wales. I'm gonna find an iota of joy in that before I go back to the labour hate. I owe myself that much
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Trauma dumping this. Emotional labour that. Im starting to think some of you have never had an actual friend in your lives
Sorry to break the ice like this but friends are not obligated to hear you vent, especially considering the fact that it can be damaging to the other person's mental health if it becomes too much (speaking from experience)
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Me biting my tongue in lecture as the lecturer describes Wales as an uncivilised land with no bridges lmao
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Hope won't come from the political class. It'll come from family, friends, community. Do your best to look out for one another and eventually we will emerge happy and hopeful
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Remembering the english guy who was holding court on the train to Cardiff explaining to a rapt audience of his friends that Welsh is so different to english because it comes from the vikings. Shocking scenes
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Studying medieval Wales and trying to figure out which Rhys ap Rhys ap Rhys is fighting which Rhys ap Rhys ap Rhys
Game of Thrones fans: “Why do they keep naming princes Aegon?! That’s just going to lead to even more confusion!”
Me: *laughs in Ptolemies*
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"They just sense our englishness" you're right. Have you considered not being so english? Maybe then our magic sais detecting abilities would stop working
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Had a lot of questions about whether the Mari Lwyd is a "closed" custom, or whether anyone can do it. I think it's quite open but I will say I think it's important not to divorce it from its Welsh language context. If you're gonna do it, do it in Welsh baby!
Friendly reminder that the Mari Lwyd is not "a creature from Welsh folklore". It's a wassailing tradition. Nobody believed or told stories about the Mari haunting the woods of Wales or creeping up on you on lonely country roads
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"Lesser mortals" One day in an average working person's life would be enough to kill the entire royal family
✍️ 'When lesser mortals would have stayed at home, Catherine proved that the show goes on' | Writes
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The way I'm one mental breakdown from worshipping this thing as a god
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Dipping my Jenkins pastie in the Tawe and immediately dying of dysentery
Went to Roatan to dip my mango in the ocean like Rihanna! And it’s so good!!! 😩
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Needing english politicians to understand that there is no single "british culture". This island is home to many cultures and languages and no matter how hard they try that isn't going to change. Their ancestors tried and failed and they will too
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In Florence and I've seen three buildings I've jumped off in assassins creed and my worst trait is thinking that I too could leap off them into a haybale and survive
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Find it eternally interesting that many of our towns started life as english settler towns where Welsh people were officially, if often not in fact, excluded or marginalised and yet some, like Caernarfon, have become popularly seen as bastions of the Welsh language and culture
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Regular reminder that there is no principality of Wales. It was abolished centuries ago. The title prince of Wales is just that. A title. And it has no factual or constitutional bearing on the lives of the people of Wales. The sooner it is done away with the better
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That American who's touring the UK on tiktok just said Hereford is in Wales and english people are losing their minds in the comments. I see you don't like the taste of your own medicine. Pity
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Anyway this calan gaeaf I'm going as the giant foal stealing hand from the Mabinogion
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I like it when our country demonstrates an ounce of empathy. Now let's go the whole way and throw the capitalist system that penalises empathy down the drain
Wales becomes first UK nation to offer free school meals to all primary pupils
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Like, they're gonna do away with the NHS. We can all see that right? It's going to happen. It's a matter of time. The only way we keep the NHS in Wales is through independence. We have to put it beyond the reach of the criminals in Westminster
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Wales about to become a cultural wasteland and nobody in charge seems to give a single damn
Awful, this should be unthinkable:
"Welsh National Opera (WNO), Wales’ largest arts employer, is being forced to make its orchestra and chorus part time and the rest of the company has been offered voluntary redundancy because of huge funding cuts."
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Cause British people are thick
Why has the ‘15-minute city’ taken off in Paris but become a toxic idea in UK?
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I always find it weird when people are upset by people with mental illness not cleaning their teeth or washing. "I can accept people hurting and killing themselves but not keeping up with personal hygiene is beyond the pale!"
some of you should not be pursuing a career as a psychiatrist or psychologist if you can’t handle people w depression finding it hard to brush their teeth because i’ll let you in on a little secret: mental illness gets far more gross than that
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Gonna abscond with this and become the most feared and notorious bisexual on the high seas
WATCH: A massive ship that looks like it's straight out of a pirate story is docking in Cardiff Bay
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"Christ is king" in bio and it's the worst person you've ever met
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My one regret about my decision not to have children is that I really wanted to give my kids the most obnoxiously Welsh names possible so that they'd sound like a character out of the Mabinogion
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Seen more "Wales is a principality not a country" bs.
1. A principality is just a country ruled by a prince.
2. The principality was abolished in the 16th century.
3. Wales has it's own government, legislature, laws and language. By any metric it's more of a country than england
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Never forget during lockdown an english family travelling to Wales and when they were questioned they responded "dont we own Wales?". Get tf out
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...concise explanation of the principality of Wales I'd ever heard and the english guy just picked up his pint and left the bar and I just really hope she's having an amazing day
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The idea that Wales is still a principality and the idea that it should somehow influence our position within the UK. People going about their lives with a medieval world perception. Drives me absolutely insane
Which historical myth or misconception do you find the most fascinating (and frustrating)?
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Theres no such thing as anti-englishness. We merely observe their attitudes and listen to what they say and respond accordingly
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Please. We all know what Britishness is. We live here. The true essence of Britishness is pettiness and spite. About not wanting a good thing because it might help a group of people you don't like. This country is a disease
Britishness to me isn’t about a flag. I couldn’t care less about a bloody flag. Britishness is about behaving properly. Understatedness. Kindness. Compassion. Humanity. Living up to the values of people who’ve gone before me. Trying to be better than deep down I feel I am.
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These aren't things we've all done. These are things cunts do
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Far too many gays still frothing at the mouth for eurovision on my feed. Your gayness doesn't exempt you from this. You don't get a pass on solidarity. Dont be scabs
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Remembering the time I was at the Builders with Rach and the woman behind the bar asked me what I studied in history and I said medieval Wales and an english guy next to me who clearly knew nothing piped up and before I could say a word she reeled off the most correct and...
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It should be illegal for people in public office to accept "gifts" of any kind. Lobbying in any shape and form should be completely prohibited
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Far right: we should kill minorities
Leftists: maybe we shouldn't
Centrists: aha see one and the same
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Very me coded
once I was in Wales and this drunk guy was just absolutely cussing and ranting about what an asshole that guy Edward was and I was like what guy where? and he was talking about Edward I, from the Edwardian conquest of 1283
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I came out to my mother at my friend's engagement party. She was sat at our table with a man who was a stranger to her and she leant across and whispered "who tf is this man" and i whispered back "my boyfriend" she was SHOOK
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And no we weren't posh. There was a kid in school who we thought was posh cause both his parents worked lol
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Bring back chunky Wales
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The second you step outside of depression and anxiety people's willingness to understand and accept mental illness goes right out the window
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Seeing a lot of accounts claiming medieval people didn't care about cleanliness. Gerald of Wales says of the Welsh people "...they take great care of their teeth...they are constantly cleaning them with hazelshoots and rubbing them with cloth until they shine like ivory"
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Dydd Santes Dwynwen hapus pawb! Celebrate in the traditional manner with lovespoons, turning people into blocks of ice, and abjuring society to live a life of quiet contemplation on an isolated island
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Does Britain have a lying, pernicious, power coddling national media that constantly seeks to scapegoat the working class to benefit the corporate and political classes?
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The only reason I'm doing my masters is so I can more intellectually argue that every historical figure you love is gay
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Really need people to stop bringing up DNA when it comes to discussing culture and nationality.
"The Welsh are genetically very different to..." ssshhh.
Genetics have no bearing on language, culture and nationhood
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There are Welsh people joining in on the attacks in england. We're not immune to far right rhetoric here in Wales and we have to remain vigilant of that. The revent events in Llanelli shows that the same sentiments exist here. Turning a blind eye to it doesn't mean it isn't there
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Was talking to a random drunk guy in the pub and went "you know what you do when your misses breaks up with you?" and I worriedly say no and he goes "don't let it harden you, don't turn to ice, keep your heart and your life open to love" and mate. That's beautiful
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Do people actually think saying "Palestinians don't support the gays" is going to get us to go "oh well in that case maybe Israel is right to commit a genocide!" Get to fuck
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Tucking into this beauty. "The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts" by Delyth Badder and Mark Norman. Only twenty pages in and already loving it. Also brilliant to see just how much Welsh is presented and utilised in the book
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Just bankrupted myself paying for a train ticket. The entire industry is a con. Nationalise it properly and immediately
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Too many private school kids on my feed trying to justify why their wealth means they should have better opportunities. I would just throw you all into cement mixers tbh
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