iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Thrilled to be the special guest performer at Off the Chest's birthday event this October! This is my first time on a proper line-up at a poetry event and I couldn't be more excited. Get your ticket! 🎟️ shorturl.at/42qVo

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday. Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

just go an ig ad for a serum "clinically proven to reduce the appearance of expression lines" ...EXPRESSION LINES! god forbid my face hold any evidence of having ever smiled or laughed in my lifetime

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

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A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/08/2025

we really do need to figure out how this guy managed to create an environment where he can say "i wasted an amount of taxpayer dollars so large I can't even tell you how much it was" & it doesn't cause immediate national outrage

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 17/06/2025

this! don't call me a "denialist", "pessimist" or anything negative if I have all the empirical evidence and receipts while the other side shows up with "potentials", "possibilities" & other buzzword. call me an expert, a scientist or a realist

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Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Completely devoured the audiobook of @adelewalton.bsky.social's 'Logging Off: The Human Cost of our Digital World.' A personal yet thoroughly researched and accessible look at growing up with social media, big tech, gen-AI, workers rights, and more. Felt equally terrifying and galvanising 📚

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Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I recently performed my poem about Ethan Hunt to a crowd while a pianist accompanied with a relaxed Mission Impossible theme and it was literally the best moment ever!!

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Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

3 years today since I lost my dad. I wrote this 6 months after and every word is still true. Trying to live good and do good, always with you in mind.

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World Without

A stream of consciousness about grief and my dad.

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Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

For Anas Al-Sharif, and every Palestinian journalist killed by Israel 🇵🇸🕊️

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

JK Rowling tweeting got a boycott of M&S, stretching facts to the breaking point, and making the world a worse place for absolutely everyone.

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Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

my post office has had a small refurb, and where there used to be colouring books and stationery there is now a locked glass cabinet filled with vape pens and labubus and it made my heart a little sad

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Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Performed my writing for the first time very recently at an Off the Chest open mic! Despite the trembling notebook, I am really so proud of this and can’t wait to do more and build my confidence🫰🏼🎤

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Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Pleased to have voted today for @zackpolanski.bsky.social as Leader of @greenparty.org.uk – truly think he can make some real progress for the left in the UK, and hopefully open up collaboration with Corbyn, Sultana, and the new party forming 💚

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Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Haven’t stopped thinking about the Skims ‘Seamless Sculpt Face Wrap’ and morning sheds on TikTok, and ‘high maintenance to be low maintenance,' and thus felt compelled to write something. millicentwrites.substack.com/p/the-mornin...

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The Morning Shed

Even my rest is now another arena prime for the labour of my beautification

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Palestine Solidarity Campaign @pscupdates.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

🚨 SUMMER OF ACTION FOR GAZA Israel is starving the Palestinian people in Gaza to death with its blockade. We must take emergency action to pressure our government to do all it can to end Israel's genocide. Take part in our Summer of action for Gaza in August and September. #StopArmingIsrael

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Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

If any pals want to see some live poetry, I have two gigs coming up after reading my work aloud for literally the first time last week. Terrifying and exciting in equal measure... 📅 August 7, Spit Nights 🎟️ shorturl.at/KeFQ5 📅 August 20, Morocco Bound Books 🎟️ shorturl.at/1IxPv

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Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I think this mass produced trinket culture is for sure a recession marker. We are looking for any semblance of control so we buy ‘little treats’ because it’s all we can afford that will offer that agency.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

It's time for a new kind of political party - one that belongs to you. Sign up at yourparty.uk.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The EHRC – the body which is meant to protect our human rights – is proposing guidance which would turn the Equality Act into a bathroom ban. If this becomes law, it would force trans people out of public life. And terrifyingly - this is all happening behind closed doors 🧵

Don't let them take away our rights behind closed doors

The EHRC's proposed Code of Practice would devastate trans+ lives and put everybody at risk.

This trans bathroom ban is set to become law with no debate, no scrutiny and no vote in Parliament.

We have to act now.

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Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I visited the Aesop Free Queer Library on my lunch and had such lovely conversations in the queue! They had so many exciting titles, it was a difficult task to choose my book, but excited to have walked away with a hardback of Ocean Vuong's The Emperor of Gladness 📚

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Diyora Shadijanova @thediyora.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

With the unseasonably hot weather we’ve been experiencing (every year), it feels timely to kick my @hyphenonline.com books column off with five compelling reads on the climate crisis.

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Top reads to learn about the climate crisis

Hyphen's books columnist reflects on the theme of environment and picks nonfiction titles to help engage with the issue

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Since Bob Vylan said "Death, death to the IDF" the IDF has killed 400 Palestinians. Which is why he said what he said.

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 23/06/2025

Our politics is broken. That's why I’ve joined the Green Party to vote for @zackpolanski.bsky.social Be part of the movement: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Had the most gorgeous evening at Bard Books celebrating four authors and their debut novels, hearing more about their processes and inspirations was so energising 📚 Congratulations Xenobe Purvis, Gabriel Flynn, Lisa Smith, and Gurnaik Johal!

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Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Yes, joy is an act of resistance. It just can't be your ONLY act of resistance.

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 10/06/2025

obviously good that nick frost actually did address this but a) human rights aren't really an opinion b) you're still doing the series!!! she's actively contributing to making life hell for trans people!!! why are you acting as though she said she hates italian food or something?!

Quote from Nick Frost from Variety: "Frost revealed in the interview that he had to disable comments on his Instagram post about his casting due to the amount of backlash. However, he said of the author: "She's allowed her opinion and I'm allowed
mine, they just don't align in any way, shape or form."
When asked if he fears the debate over Rowling may overshadow the series, Frost said, "I don't know," adding: "But maybe it shouldn't blow over? We shouldn't just hope it will go away, because it makes it easier.
Maybe we should educate ourselves."

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Every person aboard the Madleen is a hero. The genocidal Israeli state's attack on unarmed activists aboard a UK-flagged vessel delivering aid to Gaza is a flagrant breach of international law. The UK must sanction Israel, end all arms & surveillance, & expel its ambassador.

Photo of the crew holding their hands up after being intercepted and attacked by the genocidal Israeli navy — and kidnapped

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Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

We MUST speak up for the Madleen Freedom Flotilla NOW. 📧 Email your local rep and the FCDO 🪧 Find your local protest 🇵🇸 Don’t look away London — FDCO Building at 1 pm and Downing Street at 6 pm

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Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

🌎 Had a great time today exploring @earthfest.bsky.social Events like these are so energising and crucial to combat the oft paralysing anxiety that comes with fighting for climate justice. Earth Fest is still on tomorrow ft. an expo, panels, workshops and music – and it's FREE!

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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Israel continues to block humanitarian aid into Gaza — and has now hinted it will prevent the Madleen from distributing aid to starving Palestinians. The British government must end its complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

independent.co.uk

Israel suggests it will block Greta Thunberg’s aid ship from reaching Gaza

The ‘Madleen’ set sail from Italy aiming to deliver a ‘symbolic’ amount of aid to the enclave

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Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words." Ursula K. Le Guin, 2014

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Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

My latest 'Good Stuff' post on Substack, featuring Mission Impossible, positive actions for Palestine, new music, books, and more to check out. 🔗 bit.ly/436XyyH

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Good Stuff #2 – Mission Impossible, The Co-Op, and Max La Manna

Another dose of good stuff, news and food and more.

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Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

UK pals and creatives who want to oppose gen-AI and its impacts, here are 2 actions you can take right now: 🔉 Ask your MP to safeguard creative rights in AI: shorturl.at/xk0E4 📰 Fill out gov AI consultation: shorturl.at/PlA0i 📝 Draft answers for above: shorturl.at/V8zqO

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Millicent Thomas @millicenttho.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

i am here to confess that, as a recovering theatre kid, the wicked press tour has brought me to tears on more than one occasion

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