Tom Foster 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇹🇷🇯🇵

Communications consultant. Former journalist. History and film nerd. Occasional grammar stickler. No, you're not 'a little bit OCD'.

[Tom Foster 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇹🇷🇯🇵 @goosetdf]

An open letter about OCD on #WorldMentalHealthDay:

Liking something a certain way is not OCD. Liking to have a tidy kitchen is not OCD. And you're not being "a little OCD" because of liking your coffee a certain way.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a horrible condition that 1/

[Tom Foster 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇹🇷🇯🇵 @goosetdf]

@DrMarianaClaire @thedebralea I love how many conservatives are having a meltdown about this. As having travelled quite a bit in the ME, you absolutely can in many countries there.

They just have this blinded, stereotypical view and shout "liar" when things don't fit their narrative 🤦

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Fair play to this guy. He's absolutely spot. This is the Britain I love and know.

[Tom Foster 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇹🇷🇯🇵 @goosetdf]

@bambibristol Small dog syndrome 😅

[Tom Foster 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇹🇷🇯🇵 @goosetdf]

@richigi1 @Dplanet It really wasn't. Even a cursory knowledge of history and politics makes it very clear. They were literally the epitome of far right ideology. They hijacked the term socialist purely for propaganda reasons, while being supported by big business and being very anti-socialist.

[Tom Foster 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇹🇷🇯🇵 @goosetdf]

@sarahreesnz @Dplanet Er, they really, really weren't...

[Tom Foster 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇹🇷🇯🇵 @goosetdf]

@grok @InternetH0F @grok could you also tell me the rest of the top 10 most famous to visit my profile?

[Tom Foster 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇹🇷🇯🇵 @goosetdf]

@2000trees Whut. Hadn't seen this anywhere else until now. Literally one of the main bands I wanted to see at Trees this year ...

[Tom Foster 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇹🇷🇯🇵 @goosetdf]

@HumansNoContext Elon Musk

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

Amplifying & disseminating lies & falsehoods *is* suppressing the truth, even, perhaps especially, when done in the name of ‘free speech’. Otherwise, you make an excellent point.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

#THREAD

On 8 July, Jordan Peterson interviewed Stephen Yaxley Lennon (Tommy Robinson), painting him as a valiant investigative truth-seeking journalist & persecuted victim of the "Communist Government" of, er, Canada.

I've put together a few of Robinson's questionable claims.

[Tom Foster 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇹🇷🇯🇵 @goosetdf]

WTF

[Republican Accountability @AccountableGOP]

Trump: “Get out and vote just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years it will be fixed. It'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore...In four years you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good your not gonna have to vote.”

[Josh Ellis @jzellis]

I'm gonna explain to y'all why Britain considers 78°F/25°C hot. I know hot because I grew up in Texas and spent half my life in Las Vegas. So I am absolutely qualified to explain this to the rest of you who laugh at UK "heat waves".

[Vee @SuperSquidoodle]

Hi, someone who has never owned an iPhone, here: this is a joke, right?

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

#THREAD

Rumour has it, the character leading Nigel Farage away is George Cottrell, an interesting chap, who may give some insight into Farage's 'anti-elite' Reform UK team.

(Btw, I don't agree with chucking drinks over anyone).

So who is George Cottrell?

[Michael Spicer @MrMichaelSpicer]

the room next door - Rishi Sunak and the Eye Roller

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread on the beauty of wildlife 🧵

1. When it’s cold enough to see the melody

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

“Israel has the most extremist religious nationalist government in its history. They have no intention of living side by side with the Palestinians…there’s no end game here politically other than complete domination and ethnic cleansing.”

-Jeffrey Sachs

https://t.co/O3nWFTDTI2

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Israel has killed over 11,500 Palestinian children in Gaza and the West Bank since October 7th, when 36 Israeli children were killed.

It’s impossible to imagine that number. This is what it looks like. A line 5km long.

(Location: Bournemouth Beach)