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I feels growth abroad, mister

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Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections

Heb ddarllen dim byd gan JF o’r blaen, edrych ymlaen.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/484fcc35-295f-46b5-b3e0-bad9b682278f

nic, to random Welsh
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Milkweed - Myths & Legends of Wales

Casgliad o ganeuon wedi’u seilio ar y llyfr gan Tony Roberts, Sir Benfro

https://milkweedfolk.bandcamp.com/album/myths-and-legends-of-wales

nic, to random Welsh
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- un o’r albyms cyntaf i fi brynu ar CD yn y 2000au cynnar pan ddes i ma’s o fy ngaeafgwsg priodasol - newydd gael copi feinyl sgleiniog.

The – Valedictory Songs

https://album.link/gb/i/1668021581

nic,
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Os dych chi ddim wedi clywed y Bevis Frond o'r blaen, does dim lle gwell na hyn i ddechrau. Dyw Walthamstow erioed wedi bod yn nes at Abbey Road.

nic, to random Welsh
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Enw dw i heb weld yn y ffrwd ers sbel…

https://yt.drgnz.club/watch?v=SxcnTVEntEk

buffyleigh, to random
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Just finished listening to The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway by #Genesis for the first time. Wtf was Peter Gabriel smoking when he came up with that story?!!

nic,
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@buffyleigh Have you listened to any Van der Graaf Generator yet? They were earlydays label-mates of Genesis, never really got the mainstream recognition, but their stuff has aged pretty well. I'd recommend Still Life (1976) as a good starting point, and I wish I’d put this in my 1001 Albums recs!

https://album.link/i/714502369

nic,
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@buffyleigh yes, please! I’ll try to do a write up for this and the others I’ve suggested once we finish classes for the summer

nic, to random Welsh
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Ro’n i’n meddwl am Bronski Beat bwyddiwrnod, fel y record cyntaf i fi brynu oedd yn amlwg â thema hoyw

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=0FGkNchiQO0

nic,
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https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=88sARuFu-tc

nic, to random
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Starting to find “look at this example of how shit Google AI Overview is" just as tiresome as all other AI content.

We know it's shit. The reason it has fucked up is almost always obvious and easily replicable. It's just badly written software. Pretending it's Skynet isn't helpful.

nic,
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The “petrol pasta" thing was a shitty chatgpt generated website, the “eat rocks” thing was The Onion, the “presidential alumni of some university” was a that same university's alumni magazine.

It's not “artificial intelligence”, it's bad search engine design.

You can even ask Google how to avoid this shit, and it’ll give you an honest answer:

https://www.google.com/search?q=google+without+ai+answers&udm=14

nic,
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ok, you need to know “the udm=14 trick”, but even that's Googlable

https://www.google.com/search?q=udm%3D14&udm=14

nic, to random Welsh
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Ffeindio fy hun meddwl am y trac ‘ma mwyfwy y dyddiau ‘ma. Cofio postio ar yr hen flog, a rhoi “all this Welsh shit is a waste of time" yn deitl iddo a chael ymatebion ffyrnig gan bobl sy ddim wedi boddran gwrando ar y gân

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=SnP04fi4SpY

nic, to random Welsh
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Cael peint bach yn y lle arferol. Och

nic, to random Welsh
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Llaw dde Cranogwen, yn dal yr allwedd.

Dailingual, to random
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Diwrnod Day

nic,
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@Dailingual Ah, diolch i ti, ro’n i jyst am fynd i'r dafarn… Dw i dal am fynd i'r dafarn, ond o leia dw i’n gwybod beth i ddisgwyl nawr!

nic, to random
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related: do any Mastodon clients show the language tag on used on other people's toots? The web interface doesn’t, Ivory doesn’t, and I haven't got any other clients loaded atm.
https://toot.wales/@nic/112501244847385918

nic,
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I do filter by language, not because I don't like seeing toots in languages I don't understand, or don't know how to use the “translate" button in Ivory, but because I have a fairly busy homefeed, and am lazy. So if I see a toot in a language I don't understand, I almost always just scroll past, unless there's a link to something that catches my eye.

nic,
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I occasionally get replies here advising me to translate all my toots, so that Welsh learners can learn something, or to increase engagement, or something else you'd have to pay me to care about ;)

nic,
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fwiw, I filter all languages except the two I post in, the one other I can read slowly and badly (French) and the other ‘Celtic’ languages, which I like to see in my timeline, and often include interesting links about language shift.

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...and in case this isn't clear, this isn't a “you're doing Mastodon wrong" toot.

If you toot in a language I don't understand, and don't tag your toots, that's absolutely fine. I usually don't even notice, and if I do I can decide to temp mute, or unfollow, or disable boosts. I’m responsible for my feed, not you.

littlerachyb, to random
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It's sometimes hard to remember what we love about a place when everything is on fire so here is a none exhaustive list of the things I love about here*

Add some if you like

*here denotes any place/area/city/planet/cave you reside.

nic,
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@littlerachyb We have an informal "no power tools on Sundays" rule in our house, but I have lots of free time during the week, so I don't get too upset when other people break this rule they've never heard of.

I've dabbled with "no screen Sundays" as well, but that hasn't stuck yet. Maybe this summer...

nic, to random Welsh
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Newydd orffen gwrando ar lyfr sain “Transcendent Kingdom” gan Yaa Gyasi, y tro cyntaf i fi fenthyg llyfr sain o’r llyfrgell.

Gwrandawais ar yr ail hanner ar 1.5x, a phan es i nôl at y cyflymder gwreiddiol am y penodau ola, roedd yn swnio’n araf dros ben. Profiad rhyfedd wrth glywed am raglennu niwral mewn llygod.

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2021/feb/24/transcendent-kingdom-by-yaa-gyasi-review-a-profound-follow-up-to-homecoming

nic,
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@gwenynen Dw i’n gweld, diolch.

nic,
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@gwenynen ach, ie - de i ddim yn y farchnad am lot o gyfrolau academaidd, ond mae Routledge yn codi crocbris am lyfrau Gareth King, sef rhai o’r llyfrau mwya defnyddiol i bobl sy’n dysgu Cymraeg, tiwtoriaid a dysgwyr

joelanman, to random
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Go use this thing I designed

https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

nic,
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@natureworks I was just surprised that the actual designer of such a good resource was here on the Fedi. I've never bothered with a postal vote before, as our polling station is literally round the corner - but an election during college holidays is a bit unusual, and we might want to go away that week, so it was good to be reminded to sort it out.

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