iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Live in: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Born in: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Parents: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Grandparents: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇸 Been to: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇹🇬🇷🇨🇾🇺🇸🇪🇸🇨🇦🇫🇷🇳🇴🇩🇰🇨🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪🇧🇪🇨🇭🇮🇹🇳🇱🇮🇪🇯🇵 Oh goodness that’s quite a few countries actually isn’t it. (I’m not counting 🇩🇪 as I was only there for 54 minutes)

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

These beloved episodes. And also “Flashback”

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

D’you think all you World Cup live-tweeters could use a hashtag that I could mute please? That’d be nice. My feed is 95% cryptic references to what I assume is Eng-er-land playing tonight?

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

D’you think all you World Cup live-tweeters could use a hashtag that I could mute please? That’d be nice. My feed is 95% cryptic references to what I assume is Eng-er-land playing tonight?

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Worthwhile 🧵 only if you can galvanise yourself for it. Every civil servant who worked on this rather than resigning, I genuinely hope you rot in hell. It is so obviously, clearly, brazenly morally *repugnant*

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Manos: The Hands of AJ 💀🤚🏻 @uisgebeatha.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This entire thread is brilliant, but this part in particular really hits hard. Something bright and wonderful I shared with friends has become clouded with anxiety and disappointment and it still makes me angry to see how it's been ruined

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Anathema 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @anathemaweatherwax.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Deep Space Nine works best as a show if everyone is in one huge complicated polycule and it’s just never mentioned on screen.

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Just had a friend suggestion, people-you-may-know, of W*s Str**t*ng and I CANNOT emphasise enough how Ron-Swanson-chucking-his-computer-in-the-bin I am about this. 🤮

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 20/01/2026

going to use "at my most enigmatic and expansive" to describe the next time I have a few too many wines

Screenshot from BBC News live text coverage of Trump press conference:
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This news conference could go on for a very long time

(byline: Gary O'Donoghue, Chief North America correspondent at the White House)

This is the president in his most enigmatic and expansive mood. During the campaign this used to be called "the weave" – meandering from subject to subject, often the connections not immediately obvious.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Not even the prompts. If you are a Twitter user in the UK and Twitter sticks a Grok CSAM image in your feed for WHATEVER reason, well congrats your device just downloaded child porn. And you are legally responsible for that.

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Delighted that John & Gareth have a Christmas quiz in the fine tradition of @lonrec.bsky.social, nerdily entertaining yet impossible for me to get more than about two answers correct 🥲🥲😭

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

What a beautiful timeline pairing

A tweet from Lewis Goodall that says NEW: Nathan Gill, Reform’s former leader in Wales, sentenced to 10.5 years in prison over pro-Russia bribes. It’s immediately followed by a tweet from Susie Dent, posted one minute earlier, that says Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else. Obviously Susie is being v timely and current-affairsy with her word of the day, but to see it *immediately* next to said current affairs is delightfully chef’s-kiss

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute

Objectives To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting Research institute ...

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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Old trains in the yards around Crewe station wot I had not seen before: • not just the APT train in a siding, but a decrepit-looking APT power car just by itself • an old Manchester Metrolink T-68 tram, hiding behind trees • an InterCity 225 locomotive with the name plaque *My Lovely Horse* 🐎

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Shoutout to our super-friendly & helpful local ironmonger/hardware shop who, when I was struggling and failing to find a sufficiently small spanner to tighten these bolts on the bed, suggested wingnuts instead and gave me two free. Try that level of service in Wilko’s. Love your local high street <3

A nut at the end of a bolt, inside a circular recess on a wooden bed frame. The recess is helpfully too small to get the head of a spanner inside to tighten it. Presumably when we assembled the bed a decade ago it came with a little tool to get inside here, that has since been lost

The same recess with the same bolt, now topped off with a wingnut that’ll be a piece of piss to hand-tighten

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Some numtot-fapping twink in Labour Caerphilly is desperately trying to make their doomed byelection candidate into Andy Byford

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Seiriol Davies @seirioldavies.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Hello folxbunch! Peculiar first post on here but I am clearing out some stuff, and looking to give away a few copies of: (1) the annotated script book and (2) the songbook of How to Win. NB these are from the 2017 version, so, "retro collectors items" 🤗. Free to a good home, DM me or something xx

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 12/09/2025

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Holding important meetings, lamenting bad things, urging people to do good things. The same routine for 20 months. And all the while the arms exports continue, the surveillance flights continue, trade and investment continues, normal diplomatic relations continue. Complicity in genocide continues.

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

After seven years of uncertainty and three hugely disruptive years of works, I am OVERJOYED to wake up to news from our management company confirming the flats are no longer Likely to Support Combustion. Cladding hell is over*! 🥳🥳🥳 * HUGE solidarity to all of you for which it still very much isn’t

A balcony covered in protective sheeting and much, much scaffolding, giving the appearance nay the ACTUALITY of living in a building site. What you can’t see from the image is that it was taken through a 5cm gap in the window, as this was all we were able to open any window in the flat for a year. A YEAR. Oh the photo was taken on film so it’s got a lovely subtle grain and colour

A fully-Remediated balcony with shiny new white wall panels and a wood-looking slatted brise soleil that is actually now very cleverly disguised aluminium. None of these materials are now potentially lethal, hurray! The furniture is returned, plants restocked, the decking freshly oiled, and the windows WIDE OPEN oh my god the bliss. This looks like a lovely place to sit of a summer evening

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

At @tate.bsky.social Modern tonight for a hugely moving, poignant, galvanising talk+viewing of the UK AIDS memorial quilt. It’s on display in the Turbine Hall until Sunday and oh *my* it’s important. It hit me like a ton of bricks. If you can, go

A colourful patchwork quilt, laid out in three large strips on the floor of the cavernous Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, as seen from a balcony above. People are walking slowly alongside it, taking in the monumentality and the detail. Each panel is a personal commemoration of a friend, family member or other loved one lost to AIDS in the nineties. Quite a few people were moved to tears, including your dear author

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Today’s the joyous biannual occasion when Thames Water deigns to send you a bill, and doesn’t explicitly tell you that, despite your usage being up 4% year-on-year, your monthly direct debit is being whacked up by EIGHTY-SIX PERCENT. Fuck you and your asset-stripping dividends, Thames Water.

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

My week has mainly been composed of flamenco-adjacent pop gigs, y estoy AQUÍ para ellas 💃🏻🇪🇸

A quartet of flamenco performers strum their guitars and are generally virtuousic under the glow of spotlights shining on a giant mirrorball suspended from the ceiling

A pair of chairs sit on a stage at Sadlers Wells, bathed in red light

A band play on stage, illuminated by dappled orangey-red light, with a giant mirrorball above them

A band play on stage while the crowd goes WILD

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Mum & Dad are preparing to move house, for the first time in FORTY-THREE YEARS. Cue lots of time spent sorting through decades of memories (and Lego), and wistfully enjoying every moment spent in the house on these final visits because there aren’t going to be any more

My brother loads the boot of the car outside a large detached suburban house. He is being as sensible as befits a forty-nine-year-old

Three bird feeders hang silhouetted against an upward view of houses, bright in the sunshine, and a lovely blue sky

Some daffodils in pots on the front drive. The combination of sunny day and 35mm film camera make them positively luminous

Some items on the side in a living room: a camera, family photos, a plant in a ceramic pot. The scene is suburban and familial and warm

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

There should be a little badge you can wear to let people know that your hair is 'doing a thing' today. I'm not trying to look like this. This isn't who I am. I invite you to accept it as I have and join me in hoping for better tomorrows.

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I am so up for this confluence of civil disobedience and absolutely batshit, bonkers *absurdity*

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 16/04/2025

as always, I am excited for the unveiling of the definition of “biological woman” which includes all women and excludes all non-women, I’m sure they must have that locked down by now. how hard could it be

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We have a new neighbour. Hello, curious void!

A black cat sitting directly outside our balcony door, looking in through the glass. It’s a void of a kitty, a silhouette with only eyes visible

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Jo Miles @jomiles.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

Jadzia Dax and Kor hugging: "Curzon, my beloved old friend." "I'm Jadzia now." "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"

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Lazybrian @lazybrian.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Quark On he runway you are serving solid gold press latinum. But in the comedy challenge you forgot the 97th Rule of Acquisition, if you want to profit, dont bore Q! You're safe

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

↓ 𝙷𝙴𝙽𝙳𝙾𝙽 𝙲𝙴𝙽𝚃𝚁𝙰𝙻 ' ' 𝚅

A line diagram on the tube, half ripped off. On the ripped-off part someone has made an annotation in cute lil’ red pen

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DroOoOoOoOoOoOo 👻 @drwsplnd.com · 04/03/2025

It's pancake day! It's pancake day! it's p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-pancake day!

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Turns out I really needed this tonight 🫠 (Feet on main etc etc)

A pair of feet poke out from the hot bubbles

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

New timesink just dropped. If you want me I’ll be in my Japan Railway Journal

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Richard Baker @rchrdbkr.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This is good policy, doing exactly what it was intended to do. It should be rolled out across the UK.

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

In case you missed my Insta-story spamming, Seiriol & I went to Lanzarote and had a gorgeous time and here are some photos of us having a gorgeous time

Rich takes a selfie in the sun, with sunnies on, standing in front of some salt pans in the background. It’s a sunny day and he’s being a slut in a vest

Seiriol stands by some volcanic rocks, the splashy Atlantic in the background. They’re looking effortlessly dashing in orange-and-white casual shirt and sunnies

Seiriol & Rich take a selfie in a cactus garden nestled in an old quarry

Seiriol relaxes in a chair at a seaside bar, reading a book and enjoying a glass of sangria

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Oh look it’s Sunday, Sonia Sodha’s being transphobic again

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

We have way too many books cluttering up the bookcase, so I’ve resolved to read-then-charity-shop a load of them. Some have sat unread since I got them 🥲, but others are books I enjoyed years ago and wanted to revisit. 2024’s first read: wonderful Bill Bryson, just as witty and warm as I remember

Paperback of Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods, sitting on my parents’ kitchen counter

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Chris has a high-class CG artist

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Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I blame @squawkbox.uk for getting me into this 'mapping all my rail trips' game, via @jonworth.eu's guide. So much still to colour in... u.osmfr.org/m/1160808/ if you want to have a closer look

A map of western & central Europe with a few rail lines coloured in, showing where I've travelled. Lots of England & Wales, a few major axes through France and into Switzerland and Italy, and several little smudges of metro travels in various cities. Lots and lots of empty space, as unlike everyone else doing this, I've yet to go interrailing

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