iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

10951771145

Reposted by Alex Thomson

~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It feels so bleakly absurd that every few months there's a shocking story about some large group of men enacting violent harm on women and girls, and in the gaps everyone just goes back to arguing about whether immigrants or trans people in general might somehow be a threat to women and girls.

03914

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

132524872

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

3529111649

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I wrote this about Palestine, Germany, Israel, genocide, Uganda, and the recent fallout from the Robert Kraft/Ed Sheeran/Macklemore affair. If of interest, please share. www.musaokwonga.com/takes/genoci...

Genocide. We should probably start there. Genocide, the act that Israel is still committing against Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank, is something which - as someone whose family comes from the north of Uganda - continues to shape my life. Our ethnic group endured a genocide at the hands of the Ugandan government that lasted twenty years, and the world didn’t care. It still doesn’t care, because the victims were poor and black. When Ed Sheeran’s tour began to disintegrate, as I read the response to his actions and comments, I was reminded that the greatest crime of Palestinians, committed in 1948, was to exist on the soil that Israel wanted for itself. Israel has never forgiven them for that, and perhaps it never will. It never forgave them for the Great March of Return, the 2018 protest that ended in a hail of bullets and hundreds of Palestinian deaths, a fifth of which were children.

17348

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:

thehandbasket.co

I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see

'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.

342515942

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If you or someone in your house is not trans, the only thing you should ever think about trans kids is “How might I brighten their day should I come across one?” Beyond that, you’re a fucking weirdo who is extremely useful to nazis.

131837345

Alex Thomson @mistertee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh god he's exactly as much of a boring bastard as I imagined. Common sense! It's fucking common sense! Everything's actually fantastically simple and people just need to use common sense!

020

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I set up a donation a couple of years ago out of pure spite. Do it.

416138

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Gerard McCarthy's response to Maureen Lipman is so fucking good

281481530

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"We just don't have British resident donors that would support us ... That's the grim reality". "The Electoral Commission...are completely useless. They're just so dumb & ineffective". Some jaw-dropping quotes in this film from senior figures in Reform. We need updated laws AND proper enforcement

17591203

Alex Thomson @mistertee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My nickname at school, owing to a surfeit of Alexes, was Mr T. So it's nice to read that the real deal is, well, the real deal

0202

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think the Simpsons is like Shakespeare. There are lots of famous lines you could quote, but even more than that there are loads of words or phrases that have slipped into everyday language, without us consciously remembering where they’re from.

7435

Alex Thomson @mistertee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The 5 Simpsons lines I've uttered most off the top of my head: 5) It's a perfectly cromulent word. 4) Let that be a lesson to you: Kids never learn. 3) [after contributing nothing] Looks like my work here is done! 2) I just think they're neat 1) It's all coming up Milhouse!

100

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Guardian once asked me 'what one change would you make to achieve Black equality in Britain?' and it feels appropriate to share my answer again

Athena Kugblenu: Allow Black people to be mediocre too!
Athena Kugblenu
I would like to replace #blackexcellence with #blackmediocrity. True equality is when our talent:recognition ratio is allowed to be as broad as white people’s. Lewis Hamilton had to win two Formula One titles before he bagged BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2014; Greg Rusedski only had to get battered by Pat Rafter to win his. Kwasi Kwarteng steered the economy towards an iceberg and got sacked. Jeremy Hunt drove the NHS over a cliff, now he’s chancellor. Don’t get me started on how many football clubs get ruined by freshly retired white footballers while very qualified Black managers are overlooked. When the arc of the moral universe bends towards Black people failing upwards as their peers do, we will be in the promised land.

544699870

Alex Thomson @mistertee.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I bought some Apple Airpod Pro 3's last month, they were eye-wateringly expensive but it turns out they're absolutely fantastic. I am slightly annoyed they were worth the extra cash? I think I hoped there was some kind of cheat code to getting a great bit of kit for hardly any money. There isn't

001

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

17170882920

Alex Thomson @mistertee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is gutting. He was so good, and he had so much more to say.

000

Alex Thomson @mistertee.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Took a client for a Five Guys at lunch today. First time I've ever been to one! Why did it ever get popular?

100

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 20/07/2026

Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM

Labour leader will visit king to accept role on Monday and will start making cabinet appointments that afternoon

592057656

Alex Thomson @mistertee.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Argentina have been so bad that I actually think less of all the people who live there, who aren't involved

020

Alex Thomson @mistertee.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I know it's the World Cup final but I still just thought: Wow they got Tom Cruise

000

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Tiffany C. Graham @bluenote123.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but that’s rape. www.salon.com/2026/07/15/m...

Quote from a paragraph in the attached article.

30459461473

Alex Thomson @mistertee.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Ffs. I wish Djokovic wasn't so fucking good.

001

Alex Thomson @mistertee.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Love the fact the ten o clock news is being delayed for a not especially important Wimbledon match between two non-British people. Something nice about, as a nation, just sort of collectively going "Nah this is good real life can wait"

000

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Chain Bear @stuartcb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So the BBC have to let all the other political leaders have half an hour of live airtime for personal grievances right?

121383

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Andreas Lindh @andreaslindh.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Ex Pearl Jam drummer David Abbruzzese on Elon Musk and the gutting of USAID. "Fascism survives by turning corpses into math. It sells death as tradeoffs, budget lines, acceptable loss. People who would never step over a dying child on a sidewalk will vote for that spreadsheet every two years."

Elon Musk dared people to name a single person who died because he gutted USAID. Nicholas Kristof answered with names: children, ages, villages, even a five-month-old baby. He dragged the dead out of spreadsheet fog and back into the room. Musk responded with a profanity-laced tantrum, furious that the bodies refused to stay offstage.

Fascism survives by turning corpses into math. It sells death as tradeoffs, budget lines, acceptable loss. People who would never step over a dying child on a sidewalk will vote for that spreadsheet every two years. The spell breaks when the dead arrive one by one with names and faces, so the strongman does the cheapest thing he has. He attacks the witness.

If these estimates hold, Elon Musk helped push millions of human beings, including children, into the kill zone. This is mass death on a historic scale. It belongs in history books beside some of the most repulsive names mankind has produced. Of course he cannot handle names. Names carry funerals, villages, children, and the full human weight of what he did. They pin the crime to the body."

5324154

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I think that the worst thing about the "refugee tax" is that the high accommodation costs are caused by the Home Office, and in particular their inability to make fast AND accurate decisions, leaving people rotting in those grim places. Refugees are effectively being fined for HO incompetence.

327196

Alex Thomson @mistertee.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

And thank god we had a sprinkling of rain overnight to maintain the humidity!

000

Alex Thomson @mistertee.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

My scheme of getting some cool morning air in and then battening down the hatches really does rely on it being below 24° at any point

010

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.

16531851761

Alex Thomson @mistertee.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I wish I was as certain of anything as my instagram feed is that I want to see Ricky Gervais-related content

000

Alex Thomson @mistertee.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

ITV have crossed to - for some reason - Adam Richman for live reaction from a bar to Cabo Verde's 0-0 victory over Spain. Baffling but correct decision

Adam Richman with Cabo Verde fans looking DELIGHTED

010

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 08/06/2026

reading about the May government for a thing and mad, mad, mad that a Conservative Prime Minister said this nine years ago, I hate how much we've lost since then! I hate it so much! www.theguardian.com/society/2017...

201175320

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 22/05/2026

A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

51962735

Alex Thomson @mistertee.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Also looks like they gained [squints] ONE Reform UK voter? It's a bold strategy, etc

010

Alex Thomson @mistertee.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Love the sections of Masterchef where a top chef supervises amateurs through some of their nigh-on impossibly complex dishes and the comments are all, "Wow this contestant did great!" This is mainly testament to the chef making sure they didn't fuck it up, surely

000

Reposted by Alex Thomson

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Voter ID laws are stupid and this fucking government couldn't even be bothered to abolish them

513837

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 27/04/2026

Have you ever noticed that the massive, coordinated, multi-year assault on trans rights is based on NOTHING WHATSOEVER

8586602801

Reposted by Alex Thomson

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I am sure 10th times a charm. Same old policies, and yet more hundreds of millions of pounds wasted, money which could be going into local communities to support everyone. All made worse by Labour's decision to close existing, genuine, safer options for people. #r4tiday www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

UK and France strike new £662m small boats deal

The three-year agreement will see at least 50 riot-trained police officers drafted in to tackle violence and “hostile crowds”.

812852

Reposted by Alex Thomson

REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I will be more interested when they make this about prosthetics instead of robots. Show me robotics for humans, not robots in the place of humans doing human things, for the love of god

1418023

Reposted by Alex Thomson

onion person @junlper.beer · 11/04/2026

i will never forget how elon musk said absolutely nothing at all about the NASA artemis ii mission except one post making fun of that women who took the photo of the launch in the reflection of her glasses. he hates space

256120401959

Alex Thomson @mistertee.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

It's quite common to read these and think, Oh my god, you absolute arsehole. But this one's especially annoying. Does basically fuck all and seems to think they've saved the day. Christ

010