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Tomasz Oryński

@orynski.eu

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Freelance journalist, blogger, podcaster, translator, and... trucker, who left the UK after 17 years due to Brexit. I live in Helsinki now. I write, among others, for Britske Listy and the Bylines network. I run Lewackie Pitolenie podcast in Polish.

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · Mar 11

I want to stay and watch the binfire up close, so I am not deleting my account on Twitter yet, but on 12 Dec 24 I decided it's no longer worth being active there, that account is just for lurking now.

There is much more life here and on Mastodon anyway.

(post update due to new Bluesky handle)

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sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social @sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social · 45m

Tadhg Hickey from the #GlobalSumudFlotilla, speaks about coming face-to-face with the INHUMANE CRUELTY of the "THE MOST MORAL ARMY IN THE WORLD", selected by "GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE", after being KIDNAPPED by ISREALI PIRATES in INTERNATIONAL WATERS and TAKEN HOSTAGE into an ILLIGALLY OCCUPIED TERRITORY

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 49m

...was made out of beans.

Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 49m

Saying that, I think going as far as to ban things like "veggie burgers" is silly. As long as the name clearly indicates that they are not made out of meat, it should be fine. I like bean burgers for example and I have nothing agains that name.

I would be annoyed tho if I ordered a burger and it...

Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 50m

Everyone is still free to make their own meals, to be as creative with their cooking as they want and to eat whatever they please. Clear name convention when burger and sausage means exactly what you would expect from burger and sausage is, if antyhing, helpful for the consumers.

Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 50m

...vegan dishes are good - I like them, I eat everything - but usually the prentend ones are never as good as the real thing.

We don't allow palm oil spreads to be called "butter", we don't want anyone who makes grape juice sparkly to call it "champagne", there is no attack on freedom in this.

Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 50m

I for one welcome this: www.euroveg.eu/european-par...

I bought some burgers that turned out to be minced woodchips by mistake. I also been to a "burger restaurant" where only after waiting for the table and ordering our drinks we learned all burgers on the menu are vegetarian.

Vegetarian and...

European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’ - European Vegetarian Union

Brussels, 8 October 2025 European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’: coalition calls decision misguided and counterproductive This Wednesday the Members of the E...

www.euroveg.eu

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1h

Yurii Shapovalov, a doctor, spent 7 years, 7 months, and 3 days imprisoned in Russian-occupied Donetsk for his pro-Ukrainian position.

Yurii is a native of Donetsk and a physician with 30 years of experience. He worked as a neurophysiologist at the diagnostic center of the regional hospital.

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 1h

*bit.

Arrgh!

Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 1h

living*

stupid autocorrect!

Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 1h

and that's all while doing nothing and living of those stolen benefits! That big was the hardest! :)

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 1h

Absolutely. My 15 roommates and I were always leaving that way. Fortunately, we were saving on food too, so we were also able to save on beds, as we were just using window blinds as bunk beds :)

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 1h

Don't worry, you're safe. After two decades of austerity topped with Brexit you don't have many to be stolen anyway :)

Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 1h

i am referring here to the thing that all Poles often heard that they are not contributing to the UK economy because they live in groups of 15 people in each flat and save all the money to send it home :)

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 2h

If you want to be in your home, you need to get a residency status or have your home located in the country you are a citizen of.

As it was explained to you numerous times :-)

Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 3h

This just popped on my facebook's page of my Alma mater.

So if you are foreign student in the UK now you have to log in your lectures attendance in a special app?

www.facebook.com/share/r/15Uu...

And yet, at the same time, I see British people thinking 180 days per year in Schengen is unfair.

Redirecting...

www.facebook.com

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 3h

I heard many "my life is ok, and so are you as her friends, but the others..." too :-)

Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 3h

And they were sending all those opportunities home! They were building their country at our expense! :-)

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 3h

Bloody Poles, came here, stole all our opportunities!

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 3h

...had been recovered to Poland long ago with all of his belongings.

He was lucky that there is so much Poles in the UK now so he was able to find someone speaking Polish who helped him to get home. I heard his story from one of those people who helped him out.

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 3h

Finally he was released (i don't know exact circumstances). They just threw him onto the street as they arrested him. He was wearing flip flops, shorts and a tank top, as he was arrested in the summer. But it was November already. He had no phone, no cash and wasn't speaking English and his truck...

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 3h

So the driver in such situation is expected to pay a heavy fine, going into dozens of thousands of pounds. He worked for a small family company that only had a couple of trucks they simply didn't had this kind of money, so he was held for several months.

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 3h

I have no problems believing that. I saw how Britain treats even people who did nothing wrong.

I heard of a Polish truck driver once who was arrested after migrants had been found in his trailer. They sneaked into it in Calais, but Britain treats drivers as if they done it deliberately.

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 3h

If you ask him what he thinks of Britain (where he lived for many years), you will surely learn a few new swearwords. Even I did. And I am a native Polish speaker :-)

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 3h

Yes. And it's not an isolated case. See here for more: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Man dies at Brook House migrant removal centre

Security firm Serco said a 26-year-old man died at the West Sussex detention facility on Sunday.

www.bbc.com

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 3h

...company no longer sends him that way, to the envy of all other drivers who still have to go and endure endless delays and mountains of paperwork at the border only then to be driving in the country with the worst infrastructure for truckers anywhere in Europe :-)

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