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@gkt-wales

BBC Journalist. I’m interested in science, history, art, folklore, music, sport, food and drink. Also MW7GKT in my spare time.

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Hartley Hare! 🙌

11.03.2026 20:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Wordle 1,726 2/6 😎

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11.03.2026 20:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ha! I’m missing the game which was a random daily satellite image of a city somewhere on Earth. That went behind a paywall. This is good fun though! 👍

11.03.2026 18:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.

www.maptap.gg March 11
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Final score: 961

11.03.2026 18:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Well I will never forget that day and I was half a World away. Extraordinary and terrifying.

10.03.2026 23:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

31 years ago tonight I was in my last week as a newsreader at Red Dragon FM in Cardiff just before joining the Beeb 🙌

10.03.2026 21:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Some spring sunshine would be nice - it has been far too gloomy- but it was nice to watch this Blue Tit zipping about in the garden. Quite a character with his bandit mask.

08.03.2026 17:08 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Wow, evocative!

07.03.2026 09:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tower Rescue 1,000 feet in the air - Longview Fire Department - Feb. 28, 2026
Tower Rescue 1,000 feet in the air - Longview Fire Department - Feb. 28, 2026 YouTube video by City of Longview

I have never been in a balloon. I remember when a friend was offered a free hot air balloon trip from Cardiff Castle and they crash-landed in front of a bus on the A48M 😧
Anyway this is an extraordinary story from Texas last weekend. Sheer terror!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=im30...

06.03.2026 14:47 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m developing a twitch! 🍻😘

04.03.2026 22:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

OK it’s 2026 so we can discuss buff slugs. Relatively normal discourse under the circumstances.

04.03.2026 22:03 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I should not be judgy at all - very sorry - but every day I find a new reason to dislike it all. The latest include wars designed by AI - well by Claude! Another horrible thing today about a person self harming. And all the wasted energy, the entropy, disinformation. Billionaire AI oligarchs.

04.03.2026 21:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh no - not AI. I appreciate it does stuff but I don’t want even a helpful Google suggestion. Smash it all!

02.03.2026 22:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

🙌 Richly deserved! 👏

01.03.2026 23:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Icon of St David from St David’s Cathedral shrine, Pembrokeshire

Icon of St David from St David’s Cathedral shrine, Pembrokeshire

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant hapus pawb! 🌼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Happy Saint David’s Day everyone!

“While he was holding forth in a voice clear to all, the ground beneath him swells upward and is raised into a hill. Placed on the top, he is seen by all, so that standing on a high hill he might lift his voice like a trumpet..”

01.03.2026 13:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Umm what is this monster? (scared)

28.02.2026 22:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tremendous effort! 👏

26.02.2026 23:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Daughter #3 and I went today. It was excellent! She had the Thai chicken salad bowl - I had a chicken gyros wrap with paprika fries. I’d recommend to anyone. 👍

25.02.2026 22:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Rose Wylie: The 91-year-old art world rebel in her prime The artist is the first female British painter to have a solo show in the main galleries of the Royal Academy.

I feel bad that I didn’t know more about Rose Wylie previously. This story doesn’t really give you much but I have enjoyed researching!

Rose Wylie: The 91-year-old art world rebel in her prime www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

25.02.2026 00:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The really cool fact is that the silver tower opposite - which is supposed to be a water feature - has a big control room underneath that’s very cyberpunk. There’s a staircase to the top of the tower too. I’m very lucky to have had the underground tour!

24.02.2026 20:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is this AI or is John Barron really still alive and calling into C-SPAN?!! 😅

22.02.2026 23:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cardiff in the Sun
Cardiff in the Sun YouTube video by Super Furry Animals - Topic

There’s always the sensible option of a ding.wales cycle tour led by the legendary @markhutchings.bsky.social Coffee on offer of course if you have time Rob. A tune for the journey!

youtu.be/N0c7jxL-UcE?...

22.02.2026 23:13 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Strangely bobsleighs remind me of the eponymous car in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang .
I think it’s their long “bonnets” and the fact that it’s bonkers.😅

22.02.2026 11:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Crikey. A five minute walk away and I had no idea! Appreciated!

21.02.2026 11:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’ve not followed an ice hockey match in maybe 30 years but watched Canada’s last gasp 3-2 winner against Finland in the men’s semis. To be fair, a thriller!
Still totally invested for the curling final tomorrow! It always delivers! 🥌🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

20.02.2026 20:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Crikey.

20.02.2026 00:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One way of putting it!

19.02.2026 00:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thinking of precedents. It could be potentially something like the bombing of Yugoslavia (aka Serbia) in 1999. My main instinct is to think - the Pentagon is moving all these assets into the region. Can they walk it back? What is the end goal? What targets if it happens? No boots at all.

19.02.2026 00:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Well it’s obviously about Iran but if this is “pressure” then the Pentagon will struggle to de-escalate itself. It’s putting in place a force capable of a sustained air campaign not an overnight attack. At least two carrier strike groups as well. How exactly are the negotiations going?

18.02.2026 22:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Really big numbers of US military aircraft moving through (or from) the UK and the rest of Europe heading east at the moment. By one count, 41 fast jets via Lakenheath in a few days. Plus numerous tankers to refuel and also transport C17s, C5s. Biggest deployment in over 20 years perhaps?

18.02.2026 22:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0