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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧

@sirtom.bsky.social

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Yorkshireman. Slow food. Left leaning. Live and let live. I do not support Truth Twisters.Woke. Rejoiner. SW France. I support Wülferhampton action.

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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · Mar 23

I used to work at a good university. Bailed out on VR. It appears to have been the best decision I could have made. Still sane ( according to me)

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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 19m

elmo from sesame street standing in front of a wall

ALT: elmo from sesame street standing in front of a wall

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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 22m

We went to a party once, and after drinking a lot, we decided to make garlic bread. Poor communicstion led to two lots of 'loaded' garlic butter being made. We used it all anyway.
The next morning we went to the Turkish bath to try to sweat it out. We literally cleared the place.

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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 30m

That joke wasn't cheap. Look how many people have blocked you because of it.

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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 34m

a woman wearing glasses is smiling and says you 're really really lucky

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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 40m

"NURSE!! QUICK!!"

Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 47m

Get well soon!
Mrs Tom and I went for our vaccinations last Friday. Got to the pharmacy only to be told that our appointments are for this coming Friday!

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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 50m

You're an actual GP, aren't you?

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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 53m

Funnily enough, I was reading up about it recently. Someone tried numerous methods, and found that his slow cooker got too hot. He then tried a rice cooker on 'hold warm' setting and found it worked well. It just so happens that I have an old one I picked up in lidl, kicking around.

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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 1h

Please don't write a character who cuts their leg off with a chainsaw.

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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 1h

My only advice is that she shouldn't Google it. I still haven't. It isn't my job and it isn't hers (I presume!). Let the people who know what they're doing get on with it.
For reassurance, It has changed my life. If needed (and it sometimes is), I'd have it done again in a heartbeat (pun intended).

Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 1h

I had a cardioversion over 5 years ago. Twice. It worked for a few days then flipped back. I then had cardiac ablation. Life changing. It worked a treat. I now run 5k every other morning. So my message is, if it doesn't work long term, there are other things that can be tried.

Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 2h

We live in Garlic country.
Search our a recipe for garlic soup. It's fab.
*tip. Substitute some black garlic for fresh garlic. It adds something quite special.

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Boris Trump @boristrump6.bsky.social · 19h

The ECHR was Britain’s response to WW2 fascist regimes. With authoritarianism on the rise again, we’d be mad to give up the protections it provides. Tell your MP we won’t let that happen! actionstorm.org/petitions/pr...

actionstorm.org

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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks!

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote this on Nathan Gill, Russian bribes, Reform and Farage nearly two weeks ago. Here it is again if you’re sick of the silence of the UK media

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

It's time we asked some serious questions about Reform and Russia, says Neil Mackay

As a former prominent leader of Reform faces jail for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, Neil Mackay says we have to ask serious…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 7h

Yikes? Where is that?

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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 19h

Splendid report by Byline Times about Refuk's Kremlin r🐀ts 👇
Insiders have told Byline Times it is ‘inconceivable’ the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide’s pro Russian statements
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 9h

Apologies. Soros.

Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 9h

So this is what they want to do to Antifa?
Oh, sorry, these *are* the graves of Antifa, who fought to save us from fascism.
Sorry, mistake.

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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 9h

a gauge that says irony at the top

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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 10h

By next year?

Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 10h

You shouldn't be, either. This is the kind of stuff we flocked here for.

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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 10h

I'm rapidly going off George Sorros. I heard that he is supposed to be funding all us left wing, ANTIFA types ( the Allies who fought and died in WW2 for us all were Antifa, by the way, but I digress). Well, I haven't received a single penny from him! It's scandalous.

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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 10h

Now *that* is a retort. Bravo!

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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtom.bsky.social · 10h

I've never seen one in my entire life, and that's the Gods honest truth.