iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 30/09/2026

In France random supermarkets sell boursin stuffed inside little cured ham rollups and it is one of life's great pleasures

020

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 30/09/2026

Not to mention that the Tory Chair demonstrates he doesn't understand the difference between AV and PR - what a moron!

110

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 29/09/2026

Yeah but during and since the last election the media and JK Rowling have done a number on the British public so they now think perfectly normal use of facilities by trans folk is somehow dangerous

010

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 19/09/2026

Yeah can't imagine the court even needs to find it a matter of opinion. They'd struggle to even get Mahmood on it not being true.

021

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 16/09/2026

The last PM who did nothing to arrest the rise of racism, 2025 (colourised)

000

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 10/09/2026

Really good stuff from @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social here - more Labour MPs should be saying the same. Mahmood's ILR reforms are unfair, will undermine migrant integration and only embolden the far right's attack on the world's best and brightest who want to contribute to the UK 👏

03112

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 04/09/2026

Source: PPERA 2000 s61. www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/4.... Both Orr and Jukes, and arguably Farage, did acts in furtherance of arrangements likely to facilitate donations to Reform by an impermissible donor.

011

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 02/09/2026

I appreciate you care about this important topic so you're trying to shoehorn it into this conversation about ILR, I just don't think that relationship is supported by the data

210

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 13/08/2026

Dw mate justice has been served

291

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 10/08/2026

The British public have become transphobic. Depressing but true.

100

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 07/08/2026

Congratulations! These were some of our faves too

2711

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 02/08/2026

A poor read IMO. Some cranks (and many more non-antisemitic left wingers) left the Labour Party since 2019 after the purge of Jeremy Corbyn. And yet the prevalence of anti-trans views has grown both within the Party and in the UK as a whole. YouGov found that, between 2020 and 2025,

240

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 01/08/2026

Turns out I'm kind of a centrist in Sweden, which totally matches being a liberal soft leftie hankering for a Scandi welfare state in these parts 🤷‍♂️

020

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 01/08/2026

That said I'm having such a good time with this - thanks for the rec

220

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 10/07/2026

I accept I'm not gonna convince anyone else. But this from the principal funder of the FWS case doesn't immediately strike me as "good faith" so much as straight up playground name-calling...

050

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 09/07/2026

This is mental, and rancid, and a massive step backwards.

010

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 09/07/2026

Fun fact for Labour Party members: per the latest rulebook, you're permitted to canvass for (albeit not donate to or share a party with) Count Binface. Anyone up for a summery trip to Clacton? 📋🗑️🙂 labour.org.uk/resources/la...

000

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 03/07/2026

Sure, Ed Balls is a Blairite and this is absolutely not just the i failing to understand there's a difference between 'Blairite' and 'anyone in Labour to the right of Ed Miliband'😑 Calling Balls a Blairite is Gordon Brown erasure and I simply will not have it.

130

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 02/07/2026

Good to see thinking about who develops and controls the models we rely on. We need more detail - but sovereign, or at the very least capacity to switch *to* sovereign, LLMs is non-negotiable.

010

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 25/06/2026

As a home automation nut I was also delighted to see some of these motorised ones in the south of France (Carcasonne) while visiting the other day! (45C did however demand air con in addition to these passive measures...) www.somfy.fr/produits/vol...

110

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 25/06/2026

Agree with the passive cooling thoughts (I'm a big fan of the massive external wooden shades in the Mediterranean). On the time transfer - sure but it'd be more efficient to do the same time transfer in a power plant. Utility economies of scale are best! www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-med...

200

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 31/05/2026

I think this would be pretty easily solvable tbh

100

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 23/05/2026

In part, but even without NIMBYs the growth they require to survive this phase of acceleration demands immediate increase in capacity (eg check out Google's token serve numbers). Fossil fuels are so much quicker and the plants so much denser per kwH.

000

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 22/05/2026

Live footage of Andy Burnham reacting to our very low net migration figures

020

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 17/05/2026

It's okay, I actually found a great article from the Migration Observatory on the topic at this madlad's instigation and it's proven informative. I do find the "Blocked by" number kind of wild tho!

110

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 17/05/2026

I think the questions were far too simplistic to be enlightening. More vibes than what I'd actually prefer policy-wise.

120

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 16/05/2026

Just one more example, alongside what Jess Phillips and many, many more anonymous ministerial sources have said. We all wanted Keir to succeed - but he's just temperamentally unsuited to political leadership. www.ft.com/content/94aa...

030

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 15/05/2026

We're halfway through May and it's already above the average for 2025. As the kind of guy who follows open source CVEs religiously: there has 100% been a big spike in high severity ones in the past month.

200

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 15/05/2026

Yeah tbh I only included back to Mandelson as I'm not familiar with the earlier history so fact checking is harder. But with the standard Claude proviso:

131

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 15/05/2026

Yeah if you're only counting scandals where there's personal enrichment (Ecclestone and Cash for Peerages for instance both involved payments to the parties and were significantly bigger in size)

411661

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 15/05/2026

This is from Claude so usual caveats apply but the numbers look accurate. The criteria were: personal enrichment and rules have to have been broken.

010

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 15/05/2026

I think this only applies for *personal* financial scandals. Eg Bernie Ecclestone was £5m, Cash for Honours was nearly £14m

100

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 14/05/2026

Yeah let's just hope we get the Burnham who did buses rather the one who chickened out of a clean air zone www.ft.com/content/9dd4...

020

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 14/05/2026

"Supporting a Labour politician making a tilt at the leadership on the basis of a promise to do electoral reform" I'm sure there's no way that can go wrong...

010

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 12/05/2026

IT IS TIME. MY BODY IS READY. FOR CHAOS. WITH. ED. MILIBAND.

111

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 10/05/2026

Ohhh I was actually wrong to think Josh Simons going over the top & calling for the PM to go was a sign of being disgruntled at being fired for investigating journalists. It was actually a genius loyalist move; he is so loathed among the 2024 PLP intake that it's actually shored up Keir's position 👏

120

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 10/05/2026

Ange can complain all she likes, but the NEC is completely controlled by Keir. The only way Andy's getting into Parliament is if Keir consents or gets couped. This is a weak-sauce intervention which will be ignored by a guy arrogant enough to think he can overturn historically bad approval ratings.

130

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 09/05/2026

I too yearn for chaos. Suspect that Ed wouldn't have ruled himself out repeatedly from doing a job he's literally done before (at least the leadership part of it) if there weren't a really strong personal reason not to do so ☹️

100

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 04/05/2026

Deeply amusing that No 10 could not find *a single backbencher* willing to be named. Can't help but think the only member of the PLP making this argument is called Steir Karmer and he's wearing a pretty unconvincing moustache.

000

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 29/04/2026

He pledged it in 2020 then cynically dropped it once it no longer served his purposes. There's a video of him at that point accurately explaining the problem with FPTP so he's thought about it to that extent!

000

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 23/04/2026

Great stuff from @london.gov.uk. This kind of muscular, values-based, inclusive patriotism is the PM's instinct and indeed was something he pursued in his first year. But he let McSweeney persuade him it was better to concede to the far right rather than hold the line. bsky.app/profile/lond...

000

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 21/04/2026

Ironic that in making the "delegitimising valid concerns" argument, Mahmood herself shuts down critique of her illiberal, unfair policies as illegitimate. Saying she's trying to out-Reform Reform is a policy point; nothing to do with saying she doesn't belong here. Vapid, defensive nonsense.

020

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 21/04/2026

If you can name any other PM in the entire history of British democracy who came back from these consistently terrible numbers I'll be delighted to change my mind and agree with you.

000

Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 20/04/2026

I wanted chaos so badly my then-fiancée cross-stitched the tweet for my birthday

020