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Tom Roberts
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One of the most consistent principles in his life is to become unbelievably partisan in every conflict he encounters, and then to win the conflict using a barrage of extreme verbal force.

He/Him

https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
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Going to keep plugging this for now, but after years of just food posting into the ether I have made an Instagram of my food pictures as well as tips for recipes etc.

www.instagram.com/tpgeats

Some example photos here, but please follow if of interest:
Knowing to say "alaykum salam" got me surprisingly far
February 3, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Yes, but that's beside the point.
February 3, 2026 at 12:03 PM
An actual friend pointed this out last night as I was trying to charm our way into a restaurant and started wheedling my way into their good books to get a table.
February 3, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Continuing a theme of "white boy spends too much time in the middle east" I now address almost everyone as "my friend."
February 3, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Yeah, again very loudly saying our politicians are often outraged by being criticised for behaviour that in the private sector would get you, at best, blacklisted and at worst jailed.
February 3, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Having largely ignored it last year but seen it on a lot of best of 2025 lists, god Raye's WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! Is just spectacular.

Properly propulsive, funny and full of energy, a real tour de force of sarcastic talent. The mash-up of RnB and jazz horns screams Bruno Mars at his best, I love it.
February 3, 2026 at 10:51 AM
To borrow an @dsquareddigest.bsky.social joke, there are a lot of unanswered questions like "Where's the money?" And "no seriously, where is the fucking money?"
February 3, 2026 at 10:26 AM
"The richest man in the world has created a machine to produce CSAM and our solution is to restrict access to it to 17 year olds and above." Is just not a serious policy response!
This has been sped up because of X's abhorrentness, but there's a reluctance to confront those issues head on.

We're instead approaching a bleak political consensus of "the internet is bad, corrosive and illegality is mainstream but we can't do anything about that other than banning u16s"
February 3, 2026 at 10:24 AM
After he's exposed as a paedophile, despite his actual finance career seemingly being fairly unremarkable *he mostly manages already rich people's money* he maintains this strangehold on the finance and political elite. I just feel like I'm going mad just reading these barely literate emails.
February 3, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Every detail of this man's life raises further questions, he's plucked from teaching to a career in finance, ends up doing a bonkers fraud recovery role with a fake passport, runs a massive Ponzi scheme with no consequences, gets a sweetheart plea deal and suddenly he's just this "fixer." COME ON!
February 3, 2026 at 10:18 AM
It's hard not to feel like a conspiracy theorist as we find out so many very senior people at our biggest companies do seem to have just accepted that genuflecting to a paedophile was just a part of the process?
Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler sought Jeffrey Epstein’s help to secure a top job at Facebook just months before the sex offender’s arrest, and advised him on how to respond to press coverage of his crimes. ft.trib.al/P3CyJeg
February 3, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Deploying one to the magic roundabout and watching it commit the automotive equivalent of seppuku
February 3, 2026 at 10:09 AM
February 3, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Martin Short is in it as well?
February 3, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Like, I don't think it's likely that Mandelson will see any real punishment for this, but leaking sensitive tax information to those who could benefit from it, whilst they're funding your husbands lifestyle to the tune of 10s of thousands, does feel like selling market sensitive information.
February 3, 2026 at 10:00 AM
To go one step further, what Mandelson did is effectively what the Big 4 did in Australia and that culminated in the resignation of all the leadership team, 10 partners getting canned, a sell off of parts of PwC Australia and massive increases in fines. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PwC_tax...
February 3, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Lisa Nandy fuming that Wigan is once again left behind as Barnsley surpasses the singularity.
"In the latest move in Labour’s drive to inject AI into Britain’s bloodstream, the government has announced three US tech companies ... have agreed to help as the council pushes to apply AI to local schools, hospitals, GPs and businesses in Barnsley" www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Barnsley rebranded UK’s first ‘tech town’ as US giants join AI push
Minister announces Microsoft, Cisco and Adobe to help apply AI to local schools, hospitals, GPs and businesses
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Makes sense, I'm always falling for the counterfeit John Oxleys on here
February 3, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Glup Shitto
The Book of Boba Fett - Chapter 6: From the Desert Comes a Stranger premiered on this day 4 years ago.

A single episode of Star Wars TV that featured….

• Luke Skywalker
• Din Djarin
• Grogu
• Ahsoka
• Cad Bane
• R2-D2
• Boba Fett
• Fennec
• Cobb Vanth
• Krrsantan
February 3, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Jodorowsky's Harry Potter
February 3, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Actually, the world we got this from uses base 8, but don't worry, base 8 is a lot like base 10 if you're missing 2 fingers.
February 2, 2026 at 11:48 PM
The love of the game (keeping 80 year olds alive)
February 2, 2026 at 11:29 PM
You know why, Stephen
February 2, 2026 at 11:01 PM
On behalf of the coalition?
February 2, 2026 at 10:30 PM