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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I officially have a new favourite sentence, courtesy of this insane Nazi account on Twitter/"X": "Women are literally Jews with tits." "WOMEN ARE LITERALLY JEWS WITH TITS." Poetry. I shall now be using it at every opportunity.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What I think as I contemplate the giraffe: "What an improbable creature! But on the other hand, who am I, a mere naked ape, to say what is or is not 'improbable'?" What the giraffe thinks as it contemplates me: "MONCH MONCH MONCH THAT'S NOT AN ACACIA LEAF!!!!! MONCH MONCH MONCH"

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 01/10/2026

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I live in rural. I go to the pub. I don't paint my nails
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Am I right wing, far right or fascist?
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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SHE WAS EIGHT HANDS HIGH YOU SICK FUCK

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Until this week, I had somehow never heard Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes' original version of "Don't Leave Me This Way", featuring Teddy Pendergrass. I love the Thelma Houston and Communards covers, but this is on a whole other level. Simply magnificent, a perfect mid-'70s groove. Do have a listen.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To "anti-Zionists", Israeli policy towards the Palestinians is meant to be the new Holocaust. In truth, the situation in the Holy Land since 1948 doesn't actually resemble the Holocaust in any way. So, inevitably, they end up having to rewrite the history of the Holocaust, to better match the libel.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Left: a Jewish prisoner of Nazi Germany. Right: a Ukrainian prisoner of Putin's Russia. This is the progress humanity has made in eighty years: people are still starved to death in camps, but now their underwear has a brand name on it. So says I: we are a brutal kind.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I *strongly* approve of what Holly's Merry Moggies does, yet, when I first read this Facebook post of theirs, all I could think was, "this is the Pissfingers of cats". Am I a horrible, horrible person? Almost certainly. Either way, if you can give this lovely boy a loving home, please, please do so.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Someone on Twitter/"X" recently posted the following: "most men would 100% be sex workers if they were women" The tweet has more than one-and-a-half thousand likes, at the time of writing. This is roughly how I think those people picture "sex work":

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here are "Britain's rudest places", according to the Telegraph. I am DISGUSTED to see Wales completely unrepresented on this list. Even the bloody Cornish are on there. Come on, fellow Cymraeg, let's have some national pride and rename Crickhowell "Rectal Prolapse", or something. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's Aisling Bea with a brilliant variation on the old Margaret Atwood line, about men fearing that women will laugh at them and women fearing that men will kill them.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you're too young and/or foreign to know what I meant here by "the one with the kid and the frisbee", this is the video I was talking about. Scared multiple generations of British schoolchildren absolutely senseless, so it probably worked. Public information films didn't fuck around in those days.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nice sentiment, but this is one of those viral soundbites that collapses under the slightest scrutiny. When, precisely, were "we" taught to fear witches? Did I miss school that day? Was it a video, like the one with the kid and the frisbee, only he's turned into a toad instead of being electrocuted?

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Other countries have no qualms in limiting who can be part of their citizenry and use ethnicity and culture as criteria" says Braverman, of Reform. She wants to do that for English (a non-citizenship identity). To do it for citizenship too is a Restore argument that could exclude her

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This really is quite a read. Once went to a conference (not in semester time, obvs) at Mount Holyoke College, which isn't so far away. Wonder if anyone in the article is a graduate?

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Ben Mitchell @bmitchellwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In another age, most of the people in this article would be sectioned. That said, enjoy this wonderful example of the purity spiral in action. You can go out of your way to accommodate this bunch of narcissists but it'll never be enough. This is what passes for 'progressivism' nowadays.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As a public service, I'm posting screenshots of the whole of THAT Boston Globe article, which is sadly paywalled, because it really is just that extraordinary, and hilarious, a document. These people are not well. Interesting/telling that the only voice of reason is the trans woman bartender. (1/4)

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh, for goodness's sake. Yes, Narnia is a Christian allegory. That doesn't make it Christian *scripture*. The series also includes dragons, dwarfs, centaurs, unicorns, talking beavers, and Father Christmas, which suggests Lewis didn't take his creation nearly as seriously as some of his admirers do.

spectator.com

Why Meryl Streep shouldn’t voice Aslan

Growing up in an evangelical Christian household, it will hardly surprise you to learn that I was a big fan of C.S. Lewis’s fictional children’s series The Chronicles of Narnia. Pictured below is my o...

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You couldn't ask for a more perfect example than this of the chin-stroking, pseudo-intellectual inanity of foreign policy "realists". They think they're the only grown-ups in the room, playing their great imaginary game of Risk. Meanwhile, anyone who knows to call a spade a spade is merely repulsed.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just found this brilliant nugget on Wikipedia. I've rarely felt so proud to be British. And yes, now I come to think of it, an episode of ISIHAC probably *would* be one of the few things to cheer me up over a meal of giant mutant cockroach.

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Why must you sniff every random bush and stick, Amydog? What important information could you possibly be getting from this, I asked the dog in between hours of scrolling through social media bullshit

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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The problem with the Charles/Diana marriage was never the age gap. Rather, it was the unaccountable fact that, in the terminal quarter of the twentieth century, the heir to the British throne was somehow still obliged to marry an eligible virgin he barely knew instead of the woman he actually loved.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm not generally keen on practical jokes, which are often needlessly cruel, but this is pure, unadulterated genius. Same fundamental "brought this on myself" element as the dead dove gag from Arrested Development, and the consequences are no worse than a squirt of ketchup in the palm. Lovely stuff.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Friend in NYC just sent me this photo, with the comment, "state of these cunts". Which I find I can't improve upon.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This sanctions mess with Israel is becoming quite the blackpill for me, I have to admit. All sorts of people I'd previously assumed were Zionists with solid liberal principles have suddenly discovered their core duty is to defend Israel's current government at all costs. An ugly spectacle all round.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We should all be in awe of Ukrainian ingenuity. Ashamed, too, that these courageous, singular people have been so consistently let down by the alleged "free world". If and when they win, the victory will be entirely their own, and too many of us ought to be asking ourselves some difficult questions.

cbsnews.com

Millennial woman designing Ukraine's own ballistic missile says it will soon put Moscow in reach

Before Russia invaded, Iryna Terekh designed patios. Now she runs a Ukrainian defense company testing a missile she says will soon put Moscow in range.

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Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Not to put words in anyone's mouths, but look out for the prominent British, Jewish, otherwise vociferous Zionists who are notable absentees from the chorus attacking the Uk's new sanctions. Because even among those who traditionally take a pro-Israel view, settlements are a big dividing line.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Is this a joke, or has this person just never spent five seconds in a pro-Israel online space? Palestinians are *constantly* characterized as terrorists or terrorist supporters based on the actions of a minority! For what it's worth, I don't think it's fair to demonize *either* people on that basis.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In the first Red Dwarf novel, Lister is in an It's a Wonderful Life VR that's killing him. He swears he'll leave, just not on Christmas Eve. The book ends: "But, of course, in Bedford Falls it was always Christmas Eve..." Anyway, I was going to take a day off social media, but there's too much news!

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

For decades, Benjamin Netanyahu's bargain with the Israeli people has amounted to: "You don't have to like me, but I'll keep you safe." Now we know he betrayed that trust in the worst way imaginable. If there is any justice, this will be the final nail in his political coffin. *If* there is justice.

timesofisrael.com

Days before Oct 7, UAE leader warned Netanyahu Hamas was planning war, but PM did nothing with info — report

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is a watch a Facebook ad just tried to flog me. It costs a touch over twenty-five quid. I can't express how depressing it is that there are adult human beings who will think, "wow! What a deal!", instead of, "that cheap piece of shit will fall to pieces after about five minutes out of the box."

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Matt @matthewblott.com · 06/09/2026

LOL Yeah it's completely dumb but I have heard this before and my answer is always: fine, if that's what the people want. They would then have to deal with the practicalities - customs, borders, currency conversions, flight paths etc and the argument quickly falls down.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Here it is, folks: the dumbest fucking argument you're ever going to see, for anything, from anyone. I want to frame it and put it in a museum.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Racists are indeed delighted when they have the opportunity to portray accomplished black people as frauds. That's why it would be great if avowed anti-racists didn't make life easy for them by deifying *actual* frauds like Jason Arday. Sorry, that's simply what he was, the evidence is overwhelming.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Despite this excruciating clip (if you have the stomach for it), I don't think Miriam Margolyes is actually a dyed-in-the-wool racist. She's just a daft old cow with zero filter between her brain and her mouth, who also considers herself so right-on, she's allowed to say anything. That's bad enough.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm 65% sure this is fake, but if not, this has to be the most intellectually respectable reason to seek a divorce I've ever heard of.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I still frequently think about a comment I saw under the Huxley Pig intro on YouTube, in about 2010. Watch the video, below, before you read the rest of this post. Done? OK. The comment said: "What's he let the seagull into the house for? stupid fat cunt" I've literally *never* laughed so much.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Dog just stopped at the foot of the stairs, looking bewildered, so I asked him, "what's wrong?" Not sure which is worse, that I'm talking out loud to my dog with no other humans in the house, or that he didn't even answer.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"...and now we move on to liars..."

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 30/08/2026

*looks to camera*

"I’ll put the true part of it on the record myself. My marriage ended because I refused to stop fighting for the rights of my wife and my daughter, women (who Jon would call “cis women”), at a time when it was made very difficult to do so. And rather than support me, almost every friend I had looked the other way and let me be painted as a monster and a madman instead. Ardal O’Hanlon. Adam Buxton. Amelia Bullmore. Bill Bailey. A long and ignominious list.

My lawyers will be reading his chapter about me carefully, but my instinct is not to sue him, and to let it stand exactly as written, a signed confession, an indictment of him and the cowardly, careerist, mendacious class of people who could roughly gather under the title “Graham Linehan’s old friends and colleagues”.”

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Yair Netanyahu, there, once again somehow managing the impossible feat of being a bigger raging prick than any of the Trump offspring.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Are we, at some point, going to talk about the fact Reginald D. Hunter revealing himself as a deranged antisemite doesn't seem to have harmed his comedy career in the slightest? Doesn't look great.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Vaping could save millions of lives. The reason people hate it is because it is pleasurable, and some innate puritan part of their brain insists that quitting smoking should involve suffering iandunt.substack.com/p/lost-in-th...

iandunt.substack.com

Lost in the cloud: How vaping was undermined by a moral panic

New data shows that vaping is by far the most effective way to stop people smoking. It’s about time we acclimatise ourselves to the evidence.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Have I mentioned lately that I love my dog? Cos I do. He's an eleven-year-old brindle lurcher called Buddy. Here are three of my favourite old photos of him, plus one I took just now. Every afternoon, he solemnly reports to me for a good ear scroggle, and I'm always delighted to oblige.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Border collies are so bloody clever, it almost feels like a waste to only use them for herding livestock. I'm not saying they could be lawyers or accountants, but surely, say, manning the self-checkouts at Tesco would be well within their capabilities.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Imagine what a haunted house of a psyche Chaya Raichik must have to be a thirty-one-year-old Jewish woman who has spent her entire life in Los Angeles and New York City, yet passionately supports Donald Trump at his stupidest and most obnoxious. Her family must be so embarrassed.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Cleese versus Margolyes, surely the Iran-Iraq war of dustups between elderly gobshites.

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