Tomos Doran 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 (@portraitinflesh) / X

Tomos Doran 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇵🇸

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Tomos Doran 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇵🇸

@portraitinflesh

Blogger, writer, Welsh. Reach me at: [email protected] Add me on Bluesky: @portraitinflesh.bsky.social

Cardiff, Wales, UK

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@portraitinflesh
Jun 5, 2025
I spend all day on social media, absorbing the world's horrors, making enemies. It simply can't be good for my already rocky mental health. So, I've ordered a Kindle, and plan to spend a lot more of my time reading, instead. The prospect already feels so welcoming. Wish me luck.
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@portraitinflesh
Nov 8, 2024
It's going to be a busy few years for the face-eating leopards meme.
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@portraitinflesh
Nov 2, 2024
I don't want to be mean, but anyone who thinks "fifteen minute cities" means people literally won't be allowed to travel more than a quarter of an hour away from home probably need supervision every time they use a pair of scissors.
Sharron Davies HoL MBE
@sharrond62
Oct 31, 2024
I’m so not up for 15 min communities. It will not work for families with active kids doing all sorts of activities. And whilst the little people get to live confined with little choice those in the WEF fly in their jets & on their yachts telling ‘ the people’ to reduce their
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@portraitinflesh
Mar 1, 2025
This is the great irony: Zelenskyy actually embodies the old-school masculine virtues MAGA claims to venerate. "I need ammo, not a ride" is the sort of thing an action movie hero would say. But it's not wrapped up in a reactionary, woman-hating social agenda, so they despise him.
Sam
@slimsherwood
Feb 28, 2025
Don't doubt that if Trump and Vance had been in Zelenskyy's position at the start of the invasion they'd have been on the first helicopter out of Kyiv.
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@portraitinflesh
Mar 7, 2023
Welcome to 2023, where you literally can't drive a car in a random direction without hitting a podcast.
Fifty Shades of Whey
@davenewworld_2
Mar 6, 2023
Holy shit. A car smashed through a cafe while they were recording a podcast. 😳
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@portraitinflesh
Apr 15, 2017
Tell you what, mate: you get yourself shot in the head, then you can have a go.
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@portraitinflesh
Jul 23, 2025
In honour of the late Prince of Darkness, here's a fantastic story Rick Wakeman once told about him, on Have I Got News For You. Apologies for the TikTok-esque format, it's the only version I could find online. #OzzyOsbourneRIP
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@portraitinflesh
Nov 6, 2024
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
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@portraitinflesh
May 14, 2025
I see this is doing the rounds again. Take it from a South Wales native: the overlap between Welsh speakers and niqab wearers is close to non-existent, doubly so in Newport. More generally: if you read an anecdote that perfectly and conveniently confirms your priors: it's fake.
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@portraitinflesh
Jul 29, 2016
This is amazing. The Star thinks a five-"inch gun is literally five inches long.
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@portraitinflesh
Dec 22, 2023
Why does ANYONE find Joe Rogan at all impressive? Yes, he does fantastic numbers. What if that's because we live in an age where loudmouthed morons have more capacity to project their nonsense than they once did?
Republicans against Trump
@RpsAgainstTrump
Dec 22, 2023
Joe Rogan mocks President Biden (”You’re done.”) for saying “We didn't have enough airports” during the Revolutionary War, then realizes Trump is the one who said it. Biden just quoted Trump to mock him. Oops.
The Tennessee Holler
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The Tennessee Holler
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@portraitinflesh
Mar 13, 2018
Typo for the ages.
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@portraitinflesh
Aug 21, 2024
Sorry to be thick, but isn't part of the deal with civil disobedience that you accept you'll be punished for your actions? What did they expect, they'd simply get away with breaking the law if their cause is just enough? Imagine if the justice system actually worked that way.
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@portraitinflesh
Aug 6, 2022
I'll very likely regret this, but... THAT Jack Monroe recipe is (a) just one of hundreds and (b) specifically designed for foodbank users who end up with tins of pasta they wouldn't have chosen for themselves. She's really, really not telling poor people to be content with slop.