Ro Thomas

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[Ro Thomas @_rothomass]

If you want to watch me be funny on a Sunday night at 10:15 from the comfort of your own home, NOW YOU CAN https://t.co/AhJGi9yjxC

[Ro Thomas @_rothomass]

Thoughts and prayers to the guy on the Central line forlornly looking up Glasgow on his weather app today

[jacques @flamencolambada]

I wish SNL UK was still on because I need George Fouracres’ version of Keir’s resigning speech

[Tom Peck @tompeck]

Little bit of history made as Harry Kane, John Stones and Jordan Henderson look set to become the first England internationals to go through a change of prime minister during a major international tournament for a record breaking third time.

[Ro Thomas @_rothomass]

My unhinged opinion on this is that in exchange for taking away social video, the government should be proving all teens with a Mubi subscription so we raise a generation of arthouse cinema critics who will arguably be more annoying than anyone tickled by 6-7

[Scott Bryan @scottygb]

BBC: “What was your screen time?”

Student: “Nine hours.”

BBC: “You’re gong to have a lot more time to fill. What will you do?”

Student: “Stare at a wall.”

[Devon Hardware’s Wife @thatfrood]

i like how for a certain set of millennial women “go piss girl” has become an automatic polite social response in the vein of saying “bless you” but for peeing

[teen of pineapple🍍 @BRATTYBARBl]

Obsessed with this. The truth.

[BBC Press Office @bbcpress]

🪩 Ready for a FAB-U-LOUS #Strictly summer?

Actress Lacey Turner is the first celebrity contestant confirmed for Strictly Come Dancing 2026

More info ➡️ https://t.co/DkLlo9dgjp

[Morgan Ofori @morgankofori]

Some thoughts for @guardianopinion on the ‘most inclusive World Cup to date’ and Omar Artan, the Somali referee ( Africa’s best) barred because of repressive border politics.

https://t.co/ERpjcgsLpk

[Tom Whipple @whippletom]

I tried the government's new AI "Jobcentre in your pocket" chatbot. Could it write me a CV? It could.

It also suggested that I should consider employment law and whether I've been discriminated against.

Key detail: I'm a parrot.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

As if Nigel Farage appearing on Question Time every other week wasn't bad enough, this app is now flooded with AI slop of him appearing on it too. Ta Elon.

[Ro Thomas @_rothomass]

@jackremmington A ball hated to see you coming!!! (This is my era, is pop culture nostalgic for early 2010s yet?)

[jack rem @jackremmington]

Now why am I in it

[Lost In Film @LostInFilm]

Marjane Satrapi (1969 — 2026)

[Ro Thomas @_rothomass]

This is a brilliant piece with some great insights for how the women's game should develop. Spoiler alert: broadcast rights values not the golden bullet

[Flo Lloyd-Hughes @FloydTweet]

Our. insight report on the commercial future of women's football is now live on @The_Cutback

Never before seen rights values for sponsorship and media rights, and insight from experts from across the women's game.

Free to read.

https://t.co/pQpTRSRgTe

[mary @elaine_stritch]

i saw goody proctor using ai

[professional yapper @nifrizzle]

PSA: I found quite an expensive digital camera in an electric bike basket today at the Arsenal Parade. Will return if you can describe what camera it is and recent pics. I want to give it back to the owner!!! PLEASE SHARE

[Ro Thomas @_rothomass]

Hi Lauren please can you wish a happy pride month and 10 month anniversary to my lovely girlfriend Bella who is very kindly spending her day off helping me move flats today!! @BBC6Music

[Ro Thomas @_rothomass]

Horrendously sad

[The Londoner @_TheLondoner]

The body in the wheelchair: How did a troubled family get lost by the state?

On the morning of 7 November 2023, 77-year-old Joan Turnell dressed her daughter Tracey in her bright red raincoat, sat her in her wheelchair and set out from their block of flats in Whitehouse Mews, Leyton. It could have been like any other day if, instead of heading left towards Walthamstow’s town centre, they had made the usual turn right to the nearby park. And if it wasn’t for the look of panic on Joan’s face, the pair of housing officers following the pair discreetly and the smell seeping from the wheelchair, a mix of faeces and decay.

Grey clouds had blocked out the sun by the time she pushed the chair the mile and a half to Walthamstow’s bustling street market. There, in between the Peacocks and the police station, they were joined by a police squad, who asked Joan to stop and escorted her to a secluded car park. When the officers pulled back Tracey’s hood, they discovered a near-skeletal corpse. She had been dead for over a year.

Tracey had no phone, no job, no GP registration, no passport, no friends or romantic partners. There wasn’t a single photo of what she looked like. It was as if, in her far too public death, she had entered the public record for the first time. Police were only able to identify her using her mother’s DNA.

I first encountered their case in February last year, when I read a local news report of the coroner’s inquiry into the death. A few months later, I set out to learn who Tracey and Joan were, and what had led to the tragic events of that mild November day. But I also wanted to know why the sequence of profound failures by the authorities that had resulted in this tragedy have gone unaddressed in the years since Tracey’s death, so much so that a senior coroner investigating the case called for those responsible to be brought to account. “Unless and until somebody actually feels the flames at their feet about the consequences of their actions or inactions,” he explained, “not a great deal changes.”

Via months of interviews with dozens of friends, family members and social care experts — and by obtaining exclusive access to council and coroner’s records — I endeavoured to uncover the reality of Tracey and Joan’s lives, hoping to return a shred of humanity to two people who had long been denied it. It was an effort that would eventually lead me to a rubbish-strewn graveyard on the outskirts of east London.

[Ro Thomas @_rothomass]

Art in motion

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

“Why argue with an Arsenal fan when you can just wait?” We waited. We won. We are champions of England - and we are just one game away from being crowned champions of Europe. Read my piece on what Arsenal means to me here: https://t.co/J6cg388mRH

[Ro Thomas @_rothomass]

🔜 Una Bromleyana ?!

[FC Barcelona Femení @FCBfemeni]

Un llegat. Una icona. Una capitana.
Eterna Alexia. 💙❤️