tompl.bsky.social

A devourer of things both written and illustrated. Finds joy in creating. Too many interests, rarely bored. Professional scruff. He/Him.

[Azur Lane Official @AzurLane_EN]

🏎️Azur Lane 8th Anniversary Livestream Trailer - Repost for Giveaway!

The Azur Lane 8th Anniversary Livestream is fast approaching! Mark your calendars for August 8th, 19:00 (UTC-7) on YouTube.🎉

Get ready to drive at full throttle!

Set Reminder for the Livestream: https://t.co/ccbNp7BITY

⏰Event period: until 8/12/2026 23:59 (UTC-7)
We will randomly pick 20 lucky Commanders from X and Facebook to win 500 Gems each.

HD version: https://t.co/3CCmj1j0Du

#AzurLane #Yostar #AzurLane8thAnniv

[Cineworld @cineworld]

REPOST FOR A CHANCE TO WIN! 🔁

To celebrate #MarioDay, and Mario Super Galaxy Movie tickets going on sale, we're giving away FIVE Mario merch packs! 🍄 🌌 To enter, just repost!

T&Cs apply: https://t.co/tOqZJNsvUe
Must be UK resident over 16. Enter by 23:59 GMT, 17/03/2026.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

🧵 1/ Not enough people are linking Reform & MAGA.

It’s time to correct that by talking about Nigel Farage, MAGA money, and a US PR firm with direct ties to Bannon.

It’s not patriotism and pints it’s a shared plan and international far-right coordination.

Let’s unpack it👇

[Douglas A. Boneparth @dougboneparth]

Amazon: Tariffs are making things more expensive.

White House: No they aren’t.

Amazon: *shows prices with tariffs*

White House: This is a hostile and political act!

[tompl.bsky.social @tompl]

That’s Melania, and you bet your shit she uses every trick in the book to avoid being the subject of Little Tariff-in-Chief’s desire.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

JD Vance: “The president said we have to have Greenland…We cannot just ignore this place. We cannot just ignore the president’s desires.”

[Mark Rees @reviewwales]

Royal Mail launches Myths & Legends stamp collection based on UK folklore:
Designed by Adam Simpson they feature include:
• The Loch Ness Monster
• Cornish piskies
• Blodeuwedd from the Mabinogion
• Beowulf & Grendel
• Grindylow
• Black Shuck
• Selkie
• Fionn mac Cumhaill

[Morag Mitchell @MoragMitchell3]

I just read this on Facebook:

Someone asked "Why do many British people not like Donald Trump?"

Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:

1/

[JΛMΣƧ @JMSFNY]

Schools: safety of the children, staff and parents is our top priority. We will be closed.

Work: you can dodge the debris.

#StormÉowyn

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

People have had enough of Elon Musk interfering with our country’s democracy when he clearly knows nothing about Britain.

It’s time to summon the US ambassador to ask why an incoming US official is suggesting the UK government should be overthrown.

[Bay Area People’s Republic 🚩☭ @21stcentury_ML]

They came up with a new word for “working multiple jobs to survive”

[Rachel Aaron/Bach 🌻 @Rachel_Aaron]

If you're looking for some escapism today, might I recommend NICE DRAGONS FINISH LAST? It's fun, it's hopeful, there are dragons, and it's five books long, so you can keep reading/listening as long as you need ❤️

(But please vote first)
https://t.co/ztLr6Lco9w

[tea ☕️ @realteaemoji]

bags with threatening auras

[tompl.bsky.social @tompl]

@Nexyyy7 @TeawithTolkien Sauron just wondering how the rings would corrupt them…

*Pippin using a Hobbit ring to make third breakfast a thing*

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

I'll tell you what goes on here. 🧵

[tompl.bsky.social @tompl]

@camobscura

[Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused]

Sometimes I’ll buy one of those really big bags of posh Tyrells Crisps and think “why, this amount of crisps will last me three, maybe four days?”. But then I will sit down with the big bag of crisps, and I will enter into what might medically be referred to as a “crisp trance”.

[tompl.bsky.social @tompl]

@bookiesnacksize The only real response in this case https://t.co/zQfC3tCdMO

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Why?

"Why don't we produce English coaches of Tuchel's standard, Collymore "?

Two reasons.

1. £13,700 to do your Pro licence in England, today. In Spain it's around €2000. There are 2200 Spanish pro licence coaches. There are 200 English pro licence coaches. Look at the correlation between cost and coaching number.

2. Gerrard, Lampard, Rooney all took jobs instead of doing 3 years at SGP. Why? Gerrard got £2.5m at Rangers, Lampard £1m Derby, Rooney $1m Washington. Fuentes, Spanish head coach coached Sevilla and Bilbao youth on around €30k then Alaves first team where he lasted 6 months on around €100k before being sacked ( for those who thought Southgate Boro CV wasn't up to scratch).

So English coaches have to pay 10 times more than European compatriots to get the same qualification, and English players don't give SGP an identity because they never get there, they go straight to jobs where their fame gets them inflated salary and deal.

I invite anyone reading this to..

Tell me Gerrard's philosophy.
Lampard's philosophy.
Rooney's philosophy.

You can't. Because they never went to SGP to learn one or develop one with each other. An "English way". All winners by the way.

Spain? France? Every 12 year old could tell you the arse end of every Spanish coach, what the core tenets are and how they play. Why? Those coaches coaches with each other, can afford the courses and develop an overall style that suits the environment they work in ( Spain), which is then taken abroad and utilised everywhere.

Deal with the root causes and we'll get our coaches.