@meredithaprobert.bsky.social
Celtic studies PhD & Arthurian MA @ Bangor. English MA @ Purdue, French MA @ U Delaware. Writer. Emigrant. Tired. 🏴 🇦🇷
@meredithaprobert.bsky.socialI've tried to fit you on a page
Your heroes' tributes
And obelisks
Your good air and golden suns
Your silver rivers and electric nights
Floods that swept me away
Caught in currents I didn’t understand
Baptised in a water of new life
@meredithaprobert.bsky.socialExcited for our first markets this fall (more on that soon). Give @argentaffy.bsky.social a follow and we'll let you know where and when we'll be.
@meredithaprobert.bsky.socialLegend. Dydd Gwener hapus, pawb.
@meredithaprobert.bsky.socialYesterday, I reported someone had spilled a large tin of paint across the pavement (honestly, WTF). This morning, the city's outside cleaning it up. I lived in a dozen different US cities, and I can't imagine any of them would've lifted a finger. This is how govt is supposed to work. #Wales #Swansea
@meredithaprobert.bsky.social"Prophets and prophecies do not predict the future, nor are they mystical, ahistorical occurrences. They are simply diagnoses of the times in which we live, and visions of what must be done to get free." –@nicke.bsky.social
@scotnational.bsky.socialReposted by @meredithaprobert.bsky.socialTomorrow's front page 📰 New satellite pictures lay bare Israel's destruction of Gaza
@meredithaprobert.bsky.socialGreat night up in the cheap seats. Invigorating to be together in this wonderful room full of people. So many of us have been feeling helpless and alone. We need more opportunities to come together to listen, talk, rage—and imagine a future beyond this catastrophic moment.
@meredithaprobert.bsky.socialTaking the train to Bristol for a lecture. Won’t get home until after 1 am (but with these trains, only God knows). This is like the late 30s, PhD student version of clubbing.
@meredithaprobert.bsky.socialFrom the independence march in #Aberystwyth on 26 September. #annibyniaeth
@meredithaprobert.bsky.socialSecond independence march!
@meredithaprobert.bsky.socialI think @todayinfocus.bsky.social is a great podcast — but my god, they've had more podcasts on Taylor Swift in the past few years than Scotland and Wales combined.
@meredithaprobert.bsky.socialExcellent article from @benwildsmith.bsky.social in @nation.cymru. We're accustomed to pragmatism as a euphemism for the impotent, do-nothing politics that has defined ostensibly left-wing politics this century. We need more pragmatism rooted in moral clarity & vision.
@plaidcymru.bsky.socialReposted by @meredithaprobert.bsky.socialToday we remember #OwainGlyndŵr, who fought for a Wales that could govern itself 🏴
More than 600 years later, that ambition lives on.
Plaid Cymru will always stand up for #Wales to have the voice, powers and resources we need to shape our own future ✊
@argentaffy.bsky.socialReposted by @meredithaprobert.bsky.socialExcited to share a bit of @formerknownasjuan.bsky.social's story: How he fell in love w/ drawing as a kid (w/ "two pesos in my pocket and an A5 notebook"), how he fell out of love — and his road back.
#art #creativity #illustration #impostersyndrome #inspiration
@meredithaprobert.bsky.socialThere is no better case for "big government" than AI. While a few (mostly men) become extraordinarily wealthy, they are guzzling natural resources, disrupting communities, driving up utility prices—and potentially endangering our very existence.
@meredithaprobert.bsky.socialA really excellent column on @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, antisemitism, and who's allowed to criticise Israel. Well worth a read:
“I love and revere Judaism and the Jewish people. I believe they’re a light onto the world. But they are not the same as AIPAC and Israel.”
@scotnational.bsky.socialReposted by @meredithaprobert.bsky.socialTomorrow's front page as the Celtic Alliance meets
@meredithaprobert.bsky.socialSome of the poetry I've been working on lately.
@meredithaprobert.bsky.socialHas Lisa Leblanc just released the soundtrack for my diss? 😅
Vive l'Acadie. Lisa am byth.
@meredithaprobert.bsky.socialProgressives standing up for progressive values. About damn time! When will US Democratic leadership follow suit and actually represent the majority of Dems who would like to see similar measures? #FreePalestine
