iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Cambridge Analytica, funded by dark money, is the company that brought us the poisonous brexit ads and targeting - consequence free in the UK.

051

Reposted by Tom

Science Magazine @science.org · 14/06/2026

A new Science study shows that bumble bees can position a ball underneath a fake “flower” to reach a reward, suggesting they can exhibit spontaneous problem-solving and challenging the notion that such advanced cognitive abilities are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates. scim.ag/4vs08dC

362095606

Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

Pretty impressed with the mustard seed cover crop. Sprouted and growing fast after just 1 week. Also put some field beans in there but they're yet to show. #allotment

060

Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

1 kg of Cara maincrop seed potatoes became 17 kg a few months later. Not bad for a first attempt! #allotment #potato

2171

Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

Questions the BBC should be asking

010

Reposted by Tom

Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 11/09/2026

Let's bring more land into community / charity ownership! Donate to help buy this and you will be matched with a bonus donation

0157

Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

Hello @infomaniak.bsky.social if i want 1TB storage (synched to my PC) plus email plus office suite, what package should I go for? Your kSuite pro seems aimed at business users

000

Reposted by Tom

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New PISA data out England is now top ten in all three areas (reading, maths, science) and the second highest performing country outside of east Asia (after Estonia). This is a huge public policy success.

451039254

Reposted by Tom

HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 05/09/2026

This morning at 7:30am, a group of men dressed in black and their faces covered, gathered in Dover. The men, members of the anti-migrant vigilante group Patriot Platform, proceeded to block the port of Dover and several roads nearby. Our briefing: hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/05/p...

hopenothate.org.uk

Patriot Platform’s masked members march on Dover – HOPE not hate

At approximately 7:30 this morning, hundreds of black-clad members of Patriot Platform, a far-right vigilante unit, blockaded roads in Dover. They marched north east off...

39287185

Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

Hmm, not sure about that

000

Reposted by Tom

Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today’s poem is called ‘Love is a Skin’.

Love is a Skin

love is a skin
that protects you,
a warmth that spreads
from the tips of your fingers
to your heart

sorry – not love –
glove, i meant glove

Brian Bilston

630155

Reposted by Tom

Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If you've perused Italian media over the last few weeks you'll have seen two names recurring frequently in the headlines: Sigfrido Ranucci and Walter Lavitola. These two very different personalities are at the centre of an intricate news story that seems crazy even by Italian standards [Thread] >> 1

59330

Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026

A previous tenant (or perhaps the council) put in a corrugated iron fence, backfilled with rubble and glass. It's collapsed and spilled into my allotment. I did manage to get one sheet out with a lot of effort. The others I'm hoping to just bury.

150

Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social ends with a call to governments to end vendor lock in. It's not going to happen. One of the reasons everyone should move to ATProto services like Bluesky and ActivityPub services like Feddit

000

Reposted by Tom

Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just remembered the Dolly Parton bus.

The National Express 925 bus service between Woking Station and Heathrow Airport.

192719504

Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026

Incredible 6th century mosaics in Ravenna. Astonishing that they are still here, undamaged after all this time. A small glimpse of what Rome and Byzantium must have been back in the day.

181

Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

Bologna is such a beautiful city. This is the view from the clock tower

040

Reposted by Tom

British Science Association @britsciassoc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

There's less than a month to go until the British Science Festival with @unisouthampton.bsky.social in Southampton! #BSF26 Turns out it clashes with London Fashion Week. We're not sure whether they have any science, but we DO have a catwalk on our programme... www.visitbritain.com/en/things-to...

visitbritain.com

Events and things to do in Britain in September

Autumn is here, but Britain’s festival season is still in full bloom.

132

Reposted by Tom

Seaside Heritage Network @seasidenetwork.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Two #seasidetransport nominees from our #bucketandspadelist. Volks Electric Railway has been running along #brighton seafront since 1883 while #aberystwyth cliff railway has been providing breath taking views since 1896. seasideheritage.org.uk/bucket-spade... 📷Tim Steven/ @karenaverby.bsky.social

0105

Reposted by Tom

Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I thought we were better than this

Google Trends chart showing spiking search interest in "eyes hurt" in the UK just after the eclipse

1529868

Reposted by Tom

Flashes App 🌩️ @flashes.blue · 05/08/2026

I know this is asking a lot but if you have an account in the godforsaken place that they call LinkedIn we'd be super stoked if you could give our new site there a follow. We need to build up a presence across the incumbent networks to draw in more people. Thank you so much!!!

linkedin.com

Flashes | LinkedIn

Flashes | 29 followers on LinkedIn. The Instagram for the Open Social Web. Loved by 100k+ users. Featured by Apple, The Verge & Forbes. | Flashes is the visual social app for the open social web. ...

109717

Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026

Probably should have cut this courgette a bit earlier... #allotment

170

Reposted by Tom

John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 31/07/2026

New from me: Until recently, the gap between comfortably-off and just-getting-started could plausibly be crossed in a decade or two of hard work. Growth in asset prices means that’s no longer true: even a lifetime of striving doesn’t offer a realistic prospect of feeling you’ve “made it”.

22513198

Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 25/07/2026

@vc40ladybirds.bsky.social do you know what these are. Not ladybirds, as I first thought!

130

Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

What are these bugs on my french beans? Any ideas? #allotment

241

Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 15/07/2026

I've just signed "Kopparberg, stop advertising on Rupert Murdoch’s Talk Radio" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ko... @StopFundingHate

actionstorm.org

000

Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 10/07/2026

After years in endless meetings at work talking about it, my other half has only gone and done it. She's picked the low hanging fruit.

160

Reposted by Tom

Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Did you know that charities working to challenge racism, support refugees & promote human rights increasingly face large-scale online abuse & threats? What this report - quite strikingly - omits to mention is that such abuse often follows hostile UK media attacks /1 news.sky.com/story/staff-...

news.sky.com

Staff at 'thousands of charities' threatened and intimidated for 'doing their jobs'

The Charity Commission surveyed nearly 3,000 charity trustees, and over a quarter said they had been affected by a "challenging social environment"

14834

Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 09/07/2026

This is actually a beautiful experience. Avoid if you don't like AI, but if your curious about either AI or poetry, you should try.

000

Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 06/07/2026

A miracle on the courgette front. They kept rotting, but a bit of research suggested calcium deficiency, perhaps made worse by planting them where the brambles had been rotting down over winter. I ground up and spread a chalk pebble from the beach, and a week later they are looking magnificent

130

Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 05/07/2026

Moved my compost bins to their final position at the end of the allotment

160

Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

My first potatoes. Thought there was going to be nothing down there, given how sickly the plants look. Then these beauties appeared. #allotment

2121

Reposted by Tom

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The treatment of this woman is absolutely outrageous and one of the most egregious corporate violations of free speech I've seen. I have just bought the book as a fuck you to Facebook. It's available here uk.bookshop.org/p/books/care...

uk.bookshop.org

Careless People: A story of where I used to work

The number one global bestseller and Book of the Year 2025 for Audible, The Times, Cosmopolitan, The Economist and more.‘Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to b...

931008499

Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 27/06/2026

Garlic did alright, despite the blight

180

Reposted by Tom

General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Body language experts, is this good? #EngGha

914222