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Thomas I-G
@thomasig.bsky.social
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Incoherent views expressed are my own He/Him 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 Слава Україні🇺🇦 My substack: Notes and Rambles https://open.substack.com/pub/notesandrambles?r=1ix0um&utm_medium=ios My photo alt: @afilmphotographer https://bsky.app/profile/afilmphotographer.bsky.social
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · Jun 5
One of those days
George III: ... the Colonies
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 6h
"We think you'd like Cat Treats based on your recent purchase"
a black cat is sitting at a table playing with a laptop computer .
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 6h
The cats have hacked my Amazon account again...
A phone notification from Amazon: Thank you for purchasing with Amazon. We think you'd like Cat Treats based on your recent purchase.
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 8h
Fascinating results here.
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 8h
🧵/ Our major new study on young men, masculinity, and misogyny questions the extent to which Gen Z men are really more likely to hold misogynist views than older generations of men
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 8h
Elon Musk's key ventures:

SpaceX
xAI
Model X
YaXley-Lennon
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 8h
Just totally unserious proposals and harms the overall argument that council tax, income, NI etc is broken and needs reform.

Ugh, exhausting.
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 8h
This is very nearly the other side of the coin of Jeremy Hunt (and others) after his last budget saying that they would look to scrap NI in the future with no uplift anywhere else.
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 8h
Me: "we desperately need a debate about reforming the broken tax system"
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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 9h
As soon as you move away from the first idea (unique), market dynamics push towards homogenisation (everyone loves something a bit like Jackson Pollock) and lack of innovation (lots of Jackson Pollock derivatives).
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 9h
"Maybe there is some Trumpian business model where hurting your suppliers AND customers is a good idea..."
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 9h
Hilarious. Not a shred of self-reflection to be found.
FT article 14/10/2025 This is a sign of how weak their economy is, and they want to pull everybody else down with them," Bessent said on Monday. "Maybe there is some Leninist business model where hurting your customers is a good idea, but they are the largest supplier to the world," he added. "If they want to slow down the global economy, they will be hurt the most." Bessent added: "They are in the middle of a recession/depression, and they are trying to export their way out of it. The problem is they're exacerbating their standing in the world
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 9h
Morning.

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Simon & Garfunkel - El Condor Pasa (If I Could) (Audio)
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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 17h
"Le Pen turns the screw".

She can't run for President even if he does resign, and controls just 21% of the Assemblée nationale.
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 21h
As a bisexual man, married to a man
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 21h
"Nuts Magazine endorse the Green Party"
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 22h
Umm, does the 'K' in UKIP now stand for Kaiser?
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 22h
UKIP's new logo looks a bit Far Righty.
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 22h
Posting 'me from a different era' doesn't quite work because I still own this very Christmas jumper and a pair of near-identical red trousers from when I was 18.

My fashion sense has been unchanged from when I was a teenager.
A picture of me when I was 18, wearing a Christmas jumper with deers on, red trousers
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 22h
I may have a couple hours spare in central on Wednesday afternoon, pint?
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1d
The 'stop talking our country down!' brigade in full force today, I see
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1d
Would love to see, if they had one that is, the strategy board in the LOTO's office. Just incoherent and mad lines and arrows all over the place leading everywhere and nowhere.
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1d
She just cannot bring herself to say anything positive whatsoever - who cares about X-driven scoffing at Jonathan Powell? Just a totally unserious character.
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1d
Lol, actually wild stuff to say on today of all days when it's pretty good news all round.
The Guardian live page update from today: Referring to the post from Steve Witkoff this morning (see 9.53am), Badenoch said: ■ I was not born yesterday. I think it is actually very sad that the government is having to beg people to send tweets to say something nice about Jonathan Powell. The American ambassador to Israel has actually criticised the government, saying they are delusional for saying that they have anything to do with this peace deal. I think that that is quite tragic, the way that the UK's reputation is falling under this Labour government.
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David Lewis @davidclewis.bsky.social · 1d
News Breaking • @SkyNewsBreak Footballer Paul Gascoigne has arrived at scene saying he is a friend of Raoul Moat. 22:07 • 09/07/2010 • Twitter
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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 1d
So basically this is Iranian Hostage Crisis 2.0, just with a 9-month delay in the payoff for no particular reason.
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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 1d
This seems like confirmation
Then Mr. Trump won the presidency back, and the Biden administration was determined to get a cease-fire in place by January, before it left office. It drafted a peace plan, much of which was quite similar to the “20 point plan” Mr. Trump recently issued. There was slow progress: More than 130 hostages had been released by the time the January cease-fire took place. “We handed over a cease-fire that silenced the guns, had hostages coming out and aid going in, along with a day-after plan to make it permanent,” Mr. Blinken said. But when the new administration took over, “the moment was squandered,” he added. “Israel and Hamas went back to war for eight months.” Israeli officials tell a different story. Mr. Biden was a lame duck, they noted, and disengaged. Mr. Trump was a known entity, less likely to lecture Mr. Netanyahu in private or public. They put their money on a new president, and a new negotiating team
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1d
For speed.

No wait, that's not it.
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1d
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Why There's a 1957 Cadillac Encased in Concrete In a Chicago Parking Garage
This massive Cadillac has been set in stone for 55 years, and can be seen by anyone who walks past this Chicago parking garage.
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