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Tomato Soup

@souptomatosoup.uk
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Anything posted here are my personal views. Anonymised UK policy generalist with far too much experience, especially economic, tax, and international. Preferred pronouns: They/Them/Their. @souptomatosoup on twitter Banner credit @pickardje.bsky.social

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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 2h
Attempting to have a functioning life, while not giving in to the fatigue that the medical profession refuses to treat.
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Man Exhausted on Floor After a Bad Day
ALT: Man Exhausted on Floor After a Bad Day
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Medieval barbarism
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I spoke about hate crime figures with Henry Bonsu on @timesradio for broadcast later 146,825 hate crimes recorded - Over 100k racially motivated hate crimes +9% - Religiously motivated hate crimes up to 11,419 (+13%) Over 5k against Muslims, over 3k against Jews www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Hate crime figures rise after more offences motivated by religion and race, figures show
Figures supplied by police forces suggest nearly 150,000 hate crimes were recorded between April 2025 and March 2026
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 07/10/2026
At this point in my life, I long since gave up on first person shooters, I was rubbish at them when younger, but lack the reaction speeds completely now. But inexplicably I am good at PUBG mobile…I suspect that the controls are SO awful, it’s hard to be skilled just on reaction speeds…
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
adding '5 British doggers' to the list of surprising defeats for the US military, alongside the IRGC, Viet Cong, and geography
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 05/10/2026
I have been out of the loop on this Green Party issue. Can I check with people who are more informed, is the issue here a claim that anti-zionism is anti semitism, or is it that the Green Party 'thing' is so badly written (through intent or accident) as to aim at AZ but be AS?
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 02/10/2026
Weird question but need input: Just had therapist talking about “just feeling and acknowledging emotions” I pointed out how I don’t really know what that entails but didn’t get any guidance. What is your brain doing/thinking when this happens? “I am sad” well…now what? Just think that on repeat?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 29/09/2026
I thought believing in evolution and survival of the fittest was 'woke' and progressive...but noone thought so when it came to releasing that leopard in the pre-school...
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Remember, Jenrick is not stupid. He's a trained lawyer, he knows the difference between police and court bail. He's just a turd.
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 12/09/2026
Seriously FUCK Thames water, after months of justifying double charges (they will not be refunding) now I have no water on a saturday evening.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Rockstar Games Collaborated With Pro-Trump Artist for GTA VI, Artist Says The video game will feature custom vehicles from a MAGA artist who appeared on stage at a Trump rally. meidasnews.com/news/rocksta...
meidasnews.com
Rockstar Games Collaborated With Pro-Trump Artist for GTA VI, Artist Says
The video game will feature custom vehicles from a MAGA artist who appeared on stage at a Trump rally.
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ben Yong: The Civil Service: A Public Good, Not the Enemy Within ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/08/27/b...
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Ben Yong: The Civil Service: A Public Good, Not the Enemy Within
Reform Party MP Danny Kruger is concerned. The UK, he says, has ‘a bloated, paralysed centre of government and a mutinous bureaucracy’; and that ‘Real power is held not by the elected government bu…
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Putin will attempt one last major push/escalation, striking Ukraine’s civilians and economy with ballistic missiles while mobilizing to advance on the front. Russia’s resource use will peak and then finally start to drop. If Ukraine survives this surge, it can win the war
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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 26/08/2026
Well, this was inevitable. Forstater is now using her own case to argue that racism should/is protected as a philosophical belief 🤮
"Even comments which are “serious, severely hurtful and 
prejudicial”are covered by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human rights (freedom of expression) which doesn't mean absolute freedom of expression in a situations, but employers should treat beliefs equally.

As the judge said in my case even beliefs that are profoundly distressing and offensive to many others are beliefs that must be tolerated in a pluralist society.""Cofnas's hereditarian belief has already been found to be "worthy of respect in a democratic society" by a court in the UK. 

Though not binding in Belgium, but its anti-discrimination law is based on the same principle.

Still it's better to have a good job than a good legal case. 

Ghent uni could string out the suspension - the process is the punishment.

If there are calls for a staff member to be discriminated against because of their beliefs the answer should be No (unless the belief falls below the v low threshold for belief discrimination), not "oh well if 2000 people object..."
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“My parents died so fuck yours too,” is quite the argument against reasonable healthcare
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Massive landslide due to floods in Gyirong County, Shigatse City, Tibet. The amount of victims will be considerable
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 26/08/2026
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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh no, goodbye to a real one. Used her fame and money to better the lives of others.
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Dolly Parton, country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80
Songwriter of I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5 also invested millions in child literacy, Covid-19 vaccine development and other causes
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 22/08/2026
AI CEO: the cup contains petrol *throws lit matches*
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 19/08/2026
I understand that as a neurodiverse person, who is very literal. I will often be misunderstood as people assume inferences I did not intend. But how does the same thing not drive neurotypical people absolutely insane? Or is it somehow just not a problem to be misunderstood incessantly?
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 19/08/2026
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 17/08/2026
The only reason to oppose vaccines is if you are in the business of selling small coffins.
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 16/08/2026
In place of food and sanity, please accept hollow thanks
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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
From her piece in UnHerd:
only secondarily connected to skin color. Namely: at some point, the university sector decided that intellectual disability was something that should be mitigated, rather than treated as disqualifying one from scholarly life. Conditions such as dyslexia and dyspraxia, autism, ADHD, speech delay (and so on) were now to be treated as unfair obstacles to a person's dreams of pursuing an academic career, rather than constituting evidence they were unsuited. And since
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 15/08/2026
Dr Ardays death is the result of a public lynching at the hands of the british media.
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 13/08/2026
Just ordered a create your own pizza for delivery...and forgot to customise the options...my health is not improving with this ongoing fatigue, yet I have to return to work in a few weeks...
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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 12/08/2026
Eurgh, I see football is back AGAIN, overground packed with arsenal fans. Can we please just give it a break for a year? We will all be much happier…
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Oh
Google trends graph showing searches for “eyes hurt” spiking in the UK about an hour ago
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 09/08/2026
Watched Blues Brothers for first time in about a decade. One of the best films ever - definitively cool.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
🇺🇸 MALIGN SM INFLUENCE evident in the stoking of those NI riots. Not JUST USA. Most X accounts posting about Belfast & Southampton unrest were based outside UK Analysis shows 55% of accounts were located overseas – and seven of 12 most-read posts came from US www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
theguardian.com
Most X accounts posting about Belfast and Southampton unrest were based outside UK
Exclusive: Analysis shows 55% of accounts were overseas – and seven of 12 most-read posts came from US
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Over on Threads, AI's evangelists are winning hearts and minds.
A Threads post by an account called scottfoospeaks that reads: "You think Al uses a lot of water? Wait till you hear about agriculture." The post has 1.6k likes and 2.9k comments.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
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Robert McSweeney @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org · 27/07/2026
ICYMI… Last week, the Daily Telegraph and others claimed that extreme European heatwaves had been "caused" by a fall in air pollution. Scientists told @carbonbrief.org why this is "wrong" and how it was a "misleading" framing of the underlying research. ⬇️
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1
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James @northamptonian.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Only just got to see this. It contains a remarkable graph. Appears that Councils stopped building houses...and basically nobody took their place.
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 21/07/2026
New favourite quote, courtesy of Daniel Sloss the comedian: If you want to use alternative medicine, be prepared for the alternative result; being dead
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Anne @anneb.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
And on The Tube in London... the people speak out.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 21/07/2026
Well, he's helped kill loads of trans kids and then covered it up as his training so he's ready...
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 21/07/2026
New favourite quote, courtesy of Daniel Sloss the comedian: If you want to use alternative medicine, be prepared for the alternative result; being dead
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 20/07/2026
A lot of this work to achieve it was done under Theresa May as PM, I worked on it. But got shelved under her successors. The housing first pilots were meant to be a start, not an only. They were a HUGE part of Manchester progress - and came from Westminster.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
'They'll be kicking themselves. They've kicked everybody else'. 🤣
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 19/07/2026
Football is fundamentally a boring sport Other than kids with sweatshirts for goalposts...it should be replaced with better sports.
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 19/07/2026
a theme of love...how unamerican!
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 19/07/2026
Am I the only one who thought Bieber had died during covid? Legit thought I saw news articles about it...
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 19/07/2026
They even water the pitch at the hydration breaks?! Just to make it slippery?
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Tomato Soup @souptomatosoup.uk · 17/07/2026
Modern transphobia was always a drogue 'chute for increased misogyny and homophobia.
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