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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 East Anglia Bylines. I run Lewackie Pitolenie podcast in Polish.
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Depressing brilliance from my pal Ruben Bolling.

I tried this AI on twitter. Apparently it still works and is not being censored yet:

#Polishmeme - What is your record in the 1000-metre sprint? - 400 metres.

How stupid you have to be to expect people in government to be able to write five bullet point of what they did last week that would be actually useful and not just corpotate technobabble? It's not like you can sum up government official's weekly work in five sentences.

British exceptionalism still fascinates me. After sticking middle finger to Europe at any chance for at least 10 years, offending us in every possible way, and telling us you don't need us because of your special relationship with the US, you still think YOU are the ones to bring unity to Europe?

1) the far right hit a retail store with a boycott for carrying LGBTQ+ inclusive items, resulting in financial damage 2) the state then sues the store for hurting shareholders by causing the boycott The principle: the right has no agency. We are somehow responsible for the results of their hate.

#Polishmeme Trump: "I am going to sell you to Putin if he lets me build a Trump Tower on the rubble of Warsaw" Duda: "I don't understand anything. I'll smile and put my thumb up, maybe Kaczyński will praise me"

Ouch

I am watching a political drama on Netflix in which the US, led by female black president, is not afraid to stand up for Russia and in which evil autistic sociopath tech mogul is met with justice and then found dead in the cell... What a boring alternative timeline. :D

Yay for Brexit! I broke the system in Finland again!! ;-) See, I have a Polish driving license, but a British CPC card (you need it to drive trucks). This has now expired, so I need my periodic training done. I asked how to do it - as here there are no cards but 95 code on the license. 1/

According to Polish war reporter Marcin Ogdowski Americans are threatening Ukrainians with pulling the plug on starlink. Most starlinks in use in Ukraine are provided and paid for on commercial basis by Polish government. This, apart from anything else, would open an interesting legal issue.

Let me take this format for a spin

#Storytime 🧵 Some years ago I was driving trucks to Outer Hebrides. On one day as I was heading in my empty truck for a ferry a guy I knew hailed me down on a bus stop somewhere on Benbecula. He asked if I can help two guys with their bikes to get to the ferry, as the weather was treacherous. 1/

#Czechmeme "you shouldn't have started"

notesfrompoland.com/2025/02/21/p... I am sure they will be back to quoting Marian Turski about "not being indifferent" in no time.

Ukraine according to Trump:

youtu.be/sM_V9VL1AWI?... First comment: "On the flip side, a man named Andrew Tate didn't recycle his Pizza box and this caused 33 supercars to be taken off the road."