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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

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1h

Boo! Hiss! (No cheeky delayed pint pour moi)

Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1h

Touch and go moment where I either make the train with a minute spare or be forced to wait an hour.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

The government’s restrictions on immigration will turn this around any day now.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

Latest YouGov government approval ratings, 11-13 October 2025

Approve: 14% (+1 from 4-6 Oct)
Disapprove: 69% (=)
Net: -55 (+1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1h

Quite a precedent to set from a former DPS

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1d

I may have a couple hours spare in central on Wednesday afternoon, pint?

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1d

"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 .

ALT: a black cat is sitting at a table playing with a laptop computer .

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

Fascinating results here.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

🧵/ 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 · 1d

Elon Musk's key ventures:

SpaceX
xAI
Model X
YaXley-Lennon

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1d

Just totally unserious proposals and harms the overall argument that council tax, income, NI etc is broken and needs reform.

Ugh, exhausting.

Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1d

Me: "we desperately need a debate about reforming the broken tax system"

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

"Maybe there is some Trumpian business model where hurting your suppliers AND customers is a good idea..."

Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

Morning.

youtu.be/i6d3yVq1Xtw?...

Simon & Garfunkel - El Condor Pasa (If I Could) (Audio)

YouTube video by SimonGarfunkelVEVO

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 1d

"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 · 1d

As a bisexual man, married to a man

a man covering his nose with his hand while talking into a microphone in front of a wall with barclays advertisements

ALT: a man covering his nose with his hand while talking into a microphone in front of a wall with barclays advertisements

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1d

"Nuts Magazine endorse the Green Party"

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1d

Umm, does the 'K' in UKIP now stand for Kaiser?

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

UKIP's new logo looks a bit Far Righty.

Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1d

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

Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1d

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

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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