Tomasz Oryński
@orynski
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.
In St Petersburg they apparently can't decide if they have elected a new pope or not:
But on the other hand it shows that Putin was not lying when he was saying that everyone can just buy Russian uniforms in the shop: :)
Hi hi, it's always funny to hear how English people say Britain is one country but north is somewhere 1/4 of it's length from London to the real North :)
I am in southern Portugal. Wanted to go to swimming pool. Both are closed because of some fiesta or holy Mary of something. And then Catholics say lefties are preventing people from having normal lives as they wish. But when I was in Germany for pride week, the swimming pools were open!
#PolishMeme (in the wake of recent russian-propaganda-fuelled anti-Ukrainian sentiments): "Glad to see you back home. Look what Ukrainians did!"
#PolishMeme "Why are you watching my oil refineries? You should argue about the past more! STOP HAVING FUN!"
Hahaha, delivery vans don't use pavements. You ever been to Britain? :D As for the rest of the post, do you even read what I write?
Cartoonist Bartosz Minkiewicz on a recent spat between Poland and Ukraine with taking back orders and stuff:
Meanwhile on a bus in Poland, a notice on the doors to driver's cab: "Air conditioning is switched on and does its best. I know it's too hot, it's too hot for me too"..
I wonder if she watched Krtek when she was a kid. The colour pallete and everything brought it to my mind instantly:
Internet in 2026 is terrible. I tried to search for some information about auxillary air conditioning in my truck. All I am getting is some AI generated generic info or just utter slop. How do I know those pages are AI generated? Well, there are signs:
#PolishMeme "The weather will be presented by our new weather girl, Asia. How's the weather, Asia?" "AAA AAA" "Thank you, Asia"
A joke (or a threat) found in Russian paper by @bbcstever.bsky.social ("Live is better where we aren't" is their version of "grass is greener on the other side") I can't recommend his daily russian press briefing on YouTube enough.
In Olsztyn, Poland, Hunters unveiled a statue of a deer. Founded by selling bullet shells they used in their hunt to scrap. Local people begun placing candles and turned the statue into a memorial to all animals killed by hunters for fun. Pic: olsztyn.com.pl
Meanwhile in the city centre of Turku (no, seriously, I just left the swimming pool in here)