Tomasz Rykała
@tomaszrykala.bsky.social
Androiddev, DJing & Cookery. Increasingly political.
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What words to hear on my 20th anniversary of arriving in the UK! I can tell her exactly why Poland has done so well - the EU had paid a very large part in it ! Why are they clapping.
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This little poll seems to have really upset the racists - many of whom don't appear to live anywhere near London
Why not upset them a little more.
www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/2562835...
Why not upset them a little more.
www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/2562835...
Do south east Londoners support Sadiq Khan? Poll
Do south east Londoners support Sadiq Khan? Vote in our poll.
www.newsshopper.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This little poll seems to have really upset the racists - many of whom don't appear to live anywhere near London
Why not upset them a little more.
www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/2562835...
Why not upset them a little more.
www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/2562835...
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Excellent column from @stephenkb.bsky.social on what
@alanmanning4.bsky.social refers to as the “infernal circle” of immigration policy www.ft.com/content/1144...
@alanmanning4.bsky.social refers to as the “infernal circle” of immigration policy www.ft.com/content/1144...
Labour needs a way out of the infernal circle of immigration policy
Politics today is about ‘open vs closed’, but the UK government’s approach risks appeasing no one
www.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Excellent column from @stephenkb.bsky.social on what
@alanmanning4.bsky.social refers to as the “infernal circle” of immigration policy www.ft.com/content/1144...
@alanmanning4.bsky.social refers to as the “infernal circle” of immigration policy www.ft.com/content/1144...
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State research agency CBOS has found its highest-ever level of support in Poland for the introduction of same-sex civil partnerships.
Over 62% are now in favour, up from 52% last year and just 25% in 2011, when the question was first asked.
Over 62% are now in favour, up from 52% last year and just 25% in 2011, when the question was first asked.
Polish state polling agency finds record support for same-sex partnerships
notesfrompoland.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
State research agency CBOS has found its highest-ever level of support in Poland for the introduction of same-sex civil partnerships.
Over 62% are now in favour, up from 52% last year and just 25% in 2011, when the question was first asked.
Over 62% are now in favour, up from 52% last year and just 25% in 2011, when the question was first asked.
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This is what a Reform government will look like. It will collapse in months
Exclusive: Reform’s flagship Kent administration is planning to shut down multiple council committees as it struggles to fill posts after losing nine of its own councillors
Reform Council in Chaos as It Prepares to Slash Scrutiny Committees Following Wave of Councillor Suspensions
EXCLUSIVE: Reform's flagship Kent administration is planning to shut down multiple council committees as it struggles to fill posts after suspending nine of its own councillors
bylinetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This is what a Reform government will look like. It will collapse in months
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Train worker hero credited with saving lives in the Huntingdon knife attack named as Samir Zitouni.
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Train worker hero credited with saving lives in the Huntingdon knife attack named as Samir Zitouni.
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Truss was a lettuce. Badenoch is the iceberg.
October 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Truss was a lettuce. Badenoch is the iceberg.
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In other shocking news, Reform UK's tax-cut promises now just "an aspiration". ~AA
![Screengrab from the Guardian's live political rolling feed:
Richard Tice confirms Reform abandoning firm commitment to most of £90bn tax cuts in 2024 manifesto
Richard Tice, the Reform UK deputy leader, has confirmed that the party has dropped its commitment to most of the £90bn tax cuts it was promising in its election manifesto last year.
In a significant change of tack, the party is now saying that it will not implement tax cuts until it has cut government spending first.
Tice and Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, still believe that colossal cuts in public spending are achievable, and that these could be used to fund big tax cuts. But they have abandoned the bravado of the 2024 Reform manifesto, which implied rebalancing the economy in that way was relatively straightforward.
At their party conferences Labour and the Conservatives both claimed that Reform’s irresponsible economic policies would crash the economy just like Liz Truss’s mini-budget, and it is now clear that this line of attack seems to have had an impact.
In its manifesto, Reform proposed tax cuts worth £90bn, alongside spending commitments worth £50bn. The key tax cut would have been lifting the tax-free personal allowance to £20,000.
Today Tice told Times Radio that this was no longer a commitment, but just an “aspiration”. He said Reform remained committed to getting rid of net zero environmental levies, but he went on: “All the other details [in the manifesto] go because we’re in a different time.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:agxhun7wf2fm3fdfj6zrm33y/bafkreibwcjrhnn4dmfn5i2x36tq5gtminwkfmxc2svx3qwucdx22guhjia@jpeg)
October 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
In other shocking news, Reform UK's tax-cut promises now just "an aspiration". ~AA
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What words to hear on my 20th anniversary of arriving in the UK! I can tell her exactly why Poland has done so well - the EU had paid a very large part in it ! Why are they clapping.
October 8, 2025 at 10:37 AM
What words to hear on my 20th anniversary of arriving in the UK! I can tell her exactly why Poland has done so well - the EU had paid a very large part in it ! Why are they clapping.
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The number of fully electric passenger vehicles in Poland has passed 100,000 for the first time.
Sales of EVs in Poland have risen at one of the fastest rates in the EU this year, following the introduction of state subsidies for buyers.
Sales of EVs in Poland have risen at one of the fastest rates in the EU this year, following the introduction of state subsidies for buyers.
Number of fully electric passenger vehicles in Poland passes 100,000
notesfrompoland.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The number of fully electric passenger vehicles in Poland has passed 100,000 for the first time.
Sales of EVs in Poland have risen at one of the fastest rates in the EU this year, following the introduction of state subsidies for buyers.
Sales of EVs in Poland have risen at one of the fastest rates in the EU this year, following the introduction of state subsidies for buyers.
What a time to be alive...
October 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
What a time to be alive...
Friday : didn't know one thing about golf.
Saturday : "ok, friends, I'll tune in with you to see what this thing is about."
Sunday : "oh my god, what nerves, what drama, I love the #RyderCup !!" 🤣
Saturday : "ok, friends, I'll tune in with you to see what this thing is about."
Sunday : "oh my god, what nerves, what drama, I love the #RyderCup !!" 🤣
September 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Friday : didn't know one thing about golf.
Saturday : "ok, friends, I'll tune in with you to see what this thing is about."
Sunday : "oh my god, what nerves, what drama, I love the #RyderCup !!" 🤣
Saturday : "ok, friends, I'll tune in with you to see what this thing is about."
Sunday : "oh my god, what nerves, what drama, I love the #RyderCup !!" 🤣
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A helpful primer.
There seems to be some *confusion*
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them
“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”
“But, but he was in UKIP”
“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”
So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵
1/14
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them
“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”
“But, but he was in UKIP”
“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”
So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵
1/14
September 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A helpful primer.
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Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.
September 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.
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In London, hate will never win.
September 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM
In London, hate will never win.
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Putting my money where my mouth is. The Verge nailed it when none of the big outlets had a clue what they were looking at.
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Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer scratched bullets with a Helldivers combo and a furry sex meme
Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer scratched bullets with a Helldivers combo and a furry sex meme
The suspected shooter left a hodgepodge of extremely online taunts.
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September 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Putting my money where my mouth is. The Verge nailed it when none of the big outlets had a clue what they were looking at.
Subscribed.
Subscribed.
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will be doing some more general columns for the guardian going forward. this one is on remigration and the evolution of a far-right pipe dream into mainstream discourse. I promise they won’t all be this depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? | Jonthan Liew
The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
will be doing some more general columns for the guardian going forward. this one is on remigration and the evolution of a far-right pipe dream into mainstream discourse. I promise they won’t all be this depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Poland's GDP is set to rise above $1 trillion this year, a fact celebrated today by Prime Minister Donald Tusk
It will become only the 20th such economy in the world, and foreign minister Radosław Sikorski asked his American counterpart Marco Rubio today for the US to support Poland joining the G20
It will become only the 20th such economy in the world, and foreign minister Radosław Sikorski asked his American counterpart Marco Rubio today for the US to support Poland joining the G20
September 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Poland's GDP is set to rise above $1 trillion this year, a fact celebrated today by Prime Minister Donald Tusk
It will become only the 20th such economy in the world, and foreign minister Radosław Sikorski asked his American counterpart Marco Rubio today for the US to support Poland joining the G20
It will become only the 20th such economy in the world, and foreign minister Radosław Sikorski asked his American counterpart Marco Rubio today for the US to support Poland joining the G20
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Sarah, if the silent majority want to say things like "Set fire to all the f***ing hotels full of the b******s for all that I care" then they are violent arseholes and they should stay silent
August 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Sarah, if the silent majority want to say things like "Set fire to all the f***ing hotels full of the b******s for all that I care" then they are violent arseholes and they should stay silent
Astounding work from Amazon.
August 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Astounding work from Amazon.
It's called FinTech because it will spawn "el fin" do your "tech" career.
August 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It's called FinTech because it will spawn "el fin" do your "tech" career.
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Excellent cartoon by @bjennings90.bsky.social. 🎯
August 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Excellent cartoon by @bjennings90.bsky.social. 🎯
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Poland is sliding back towards populism. Democrats elsewhere should heed our mistakes | Karolina Wigura and Jarosław Kuisz
Poland is sliding back towards populism. Democrats elsewhere should heed our mistakes | Karolina Wigura and Jarosław Kuisz
Donald Tusk has failed to offer a positive vision for the future. Without one, liberals will just be an interval between populist acts, say historian Karolina Wigura and journalist Jarosław Kuisz
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Poland is sliding back towards populism. Democrats elsewhere should heed our mistakes | Karolina Wigura and Jarosław Kuisz
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Lawyers getting busted for fake AI-generated citations shows what’s coming. Experts aren’t verifying AI output, and as non-experts adopt these tools, it’ll only get worse.
We’ll need new safeguards. The expert being fired won’t be enough when your doctor or lawyer depends on an AI hallucination.
We’ll need new safeguards. The expert being fired won’t be enough when your doctor or lawyer depends on an AI hallucination.
July 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Lawyers getting busted for fake AI-generated citations shows what’s coming. Experts aren’t verifying AI output, and as non-experts adopt these tools, it’ll only get worse.
We’ll need new safeguards. The expert being fired won’t be enough when your doctor or lawyer depends on an AI hallucination.
We’ll need new safeguards. The expert being fired won’t be enough when your doctor or lawyer depends on an AI hallucination.