Tom Paye
@mrtompaye.bsky.social
Tech PR. Dad. Photographer. Gym bore. Car nerd with a Land Rover problem. Gamer.
@mattgreencomedy.com you’re in Slow Horses! The “is this security related?” line was *chef’s kiss* coming from you.
October 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
@mattgreencomedy.com you’re in Slow Horses! The “is this security related?” line was *chef’s kiss* coming from you.
I guess it goes with the territory of the industry I work in, but god I’m sick of the hot LinkedIn takes from PRs explaining how the Coldplay concert provides a vital lesson in crisis comms
July 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I guess it goes with the territory of the industry I work in, but god I’m sick of the hot LinkedIn takes from PRs explaining how the Coldplay concert provides a vital lesson in crisis comms
Having thought the same about emails from colleagues, I’ve tested this in multiple LLMs and current versions literally can’t make grammatical mistakes, no matter how you word the prompt. Imagine a “fix” to feign humanity won’t be far off, though.
Maybe I shouldn’t say this, lest it be used to make LLM generated text seem more genuine, but I am more and more impressed with students who makes small grammatical errors in their papers. Because it shows they’re actually writing their papers. And that it’s hard for them and they’re *trying*.
May 25, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Having thought the same about emails from colleagues, I’ve tested this in multiple LLMs and current versions literally can’t make grammatical mistakes, no matter how you word the prompt. Imagine a “fix” to feign humanity won’t be far off, though.
Me to 4-year-old: No that’s not right, you silly sausage.
4: You’re a silly chump
4: You’re a silly chump
May 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Me to 4-year-old: No that’s not right, you silly sausage.
4: You’re a silly chump
4: You’re a silly chump
4-year-old: I want a hug with Yoshi and daddy!
Me: Great!
*hugs*
4: I love you, Yoshi
Me: What about daddy?
4: What about Yoshi?
Me: Great!
*hugs*
4: I love you, Yoshi
Me: What about daddy?
4: What about Yoshi?
May 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
4-year-old: I want a hug with Yoshi and daddy!
Me: Great!
*hugs*
4: I love you, Yoshi
Me: What about daddy?
4: What about Yoshi?
Me: Great!
*hugs*
4: I love you, Yoshi
Me: What about daddy?
4: What about Yoshi?
So true about age here. Might be lovely to work from home when you’re older, wealthier, perhaps with a family you enjoy at home, and you’ve got a spare bedroom converted into an office. Younger with none of those things? The office looks okay!
don't want to beef with the specific person who posted this but don't understand why so many people are reluctant to understand that, actually, to quite a lot of people, the idea of just staying at home alone all week fucking sucks? wanting to leave the house and talk to people is normal!
April 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
So true about age here. Might be lovely to work from home when you’re older, wealthier, perhaps with a family you enjoy at home, and you’ve got a spare bedroom converted into an office. Younger with none of those things? The office looks okay!
Heard Island penguins reacting to the tariffs
a penguin wearing a crown stands in front of a crowd of other penguins
ALT: a penguin wearing a crown stands in front of a crowd of other penguins
media.tenor.com
April 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Heard Island penguins reacting to the tariffs
Reposted by Tom Paye
Pretty pleased with my first day as Alexander Armstrong’s PR advisor
March 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Pretty pleased with my first day as Alexander Armstrong’s PR advisor
Me to 4-year-old: Do you like the cat?
4: Yeah I like the cat
Me: Do you love the cat?
4: I love my Bowser Car
4: Yeah I like the cat
Me: Do you love the cat?
4: I love my Bowser Car
February 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Me to 4-year-old: Do you like the cat?
4: Yeah I like the cat
Me: Do you love the cat?
4: I love my Bowser Car
4: Yeah I like the cat
Me: Do you love the cat?
4: I love my Bowser Car
Quite surprised by this. Lived in Chichester for three years, and while it’s quite nice, it’s not THAT nice.
Chichester least affordable area outside London for first-time buyers, data shows
Chichester least affordable area outside London for first-time buyers, data shows
Homes in the city cost 8.5 times the annual earnings of the typical full-time worker, Nationwide says
Chichester is the least affordable area outside London for first-time buyers to get on the property ladder, with homes in the cathedral city costing an…
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Quite surprised by this. Lived in Chichester for three years, and while it’s quite nice, it’s not THAT nice.
What a strange way to angle this story. So… four in five Brits aged 18-45 prefer elected leaders. Hardly groundbreaking news.
One in five Britons aged 18-45 prefer unelected leaders to democracy, poll finds
One in five Britons aged 18-45 prefer unelected leaders to democracy, poll finds
Exclusive: Voters overall are downbeat about politics and almost two-thirds think ‘the UK’s best years are behind us’
One in five generation Z and millennial Britons prefer strong leaders without elections to democracy, and voters overall are feeling…
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
What a strange way to angle this story. So… four in five Brits aged 18-45 prefer elected leaders. Hardly groundbreaking news.
Safe to say that unemployment is starting to drive me a little crazy
January 9, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Safe to say that unemployment is starting to drive me a little crazy
Finally selling the old Land Rover. Put an ad on Facebook marketplace and that place is WILD. Just been absolutely inundated with messages. Impossible to keep up with all of them, SO much work just to get rid of a crappy old car
January 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Finally selling the old Land Rover. Put an ad on Facebook marketplace and that place is WILD. Just been absolutely inundated with messages. Impossible to keep up with all of them, SO much work just to get rid of a crappy old car
Every parent does this
Before the kids learned to tell the time, we would record the previous years countdown and fireworks and play it on New Years Eve whenever we wanted them to go to bed. They thought they'd seen in the new year, went bed without a fuss and we got an early night. Win-win.
January 3, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Every parent does this
Telling the boy we’re going to meet Santa today was a huge mistake. He was up at 5.30am, bursting with excitement, and has been bouncing off the walls driving himself (and everyone else in the house) stir crazy. Christmas give me strength
December 18, 2024 at 4:05 AM
Telling the boy we’re going to meet Santa today was a huge mistake. He was up at 5.30am, bursting with excitement, and has been bouncing off the walls driving himself (and everyone else in the house) stir crazy. Christmas give me strength
Lord give me the strength to not sing “and I’ve brought lots of porn for copping” this holiday season
December 10, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Lord give me the strength to not sing “and I’ve brought lots of porn for copping” this holiday season
Reposted by Tom Paye
one of the worst things about being alive and online at the moment is that we're not meant to, say, call people thick or say they got conned and deserved it, and I think that the Hawk Tuah girl crypto scam is the end of that era for me, I *want* to call these people stupid and laugh at them
December 6, 2024 at 6:31 PM
one of the worst things about being alive and online at the moment is that we're not meant to, say, call people thick or say they got conned and deserved it, and I think that the Hawk Tuah girl crypto scam is the end of that era for me, I *want* to call these people stupid and laugh at them
Reposted by Tom Paye
I hope hawk tuah girl pays her taxes on her $50m, puts them in a nice investment account and never feels the need to exist in public again
December 6, 2024 at 8:16 PM
I hope hawk tuah girl pays her taxes on her $50m, puts them in a nice investment account and never feels the need to exist in public again
Reposted by Tom Paye
90s investment advice
Sure China's got great upside potential so long as you can live with the volatility
20s investment advice
We'd caution against putting >10% of your portfolio into the cock spit girl's make-believe money
Sure China's got great upside potential so long as you can live with the volatility
20s investment advice
We'd caution against putting >10% of your portfolio into the cock spit girl's make-believe money
December 5, 2024 at 4:31 PM
90s investment advice
Sure China's got great upside potential so long as you can live with the volatility
20s investment advice
We'd caution against putting >10% of your portfolio into the cock spit girl's make-believe money
Sure China's got great upside potential so long as you can live with the volatility
20s investment advice
We'd caution against putting >10% of your portfolio into the cock spit girl's make-believe money
Book 17 of 2024 ✅
The One from the Other by Philip Kerr
Fourth in the Bernie Gunther series, it’s another fabulously well researched and paced whodunnit. With larger moral questions than you’d expect from a simple detective novel, plus a frenetic writing style, make it unputdownable.
The One from the Other by Philip Kerr
Fourth in the Bernie Gunther series, it’s another fabulously well researched and paced whodunnit. With larger moral questions than you’d expect from a simple detective novel, plus a frenetic writing style, make it unputdownable.
December 4, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Book 17 of 2024 ✅
The One from the Other by Philip Kerr
Fourth in the Bernie Gunther series, it’s another fabulously well researched and paced whodunnit. With larger moral questions than you’d expect from a simple detective novel, plus a frenetic writing style, make it unputdownable.
The One from the Other by Philip Kerr
Fourth in the Bernie Gunther series, it’s another fabulously well researched and paced whodunnit. With larger moral questions than you’d expect from a simple detective novel, plus a frenetic writing style, make it unputdownable.
Hey @kaiserneko.bsky.social, check it out my wife has set me up for my own DBcember
December 1, 2024 at 3:21 AM
Hey @kaiserneko.bsky.social, check it out my wife has set me up for my own DBcember
Rich coming from a country where a “biscuit” is a lump of hard yet chewy dough covered in gravy
November 30, 2024 at 2:45 AM
Rich coming from a country where a “biscuit” is a lump of hard yet chewy dough covered in gravy
I do actually agree with Meta on this. No expert but I can’t see how the positives of social media for young people can be so easily discounted
Meta accuses Australian government of failing to consider young people’s voices with world-first social media ban
Meta accuses Australian government of failing to consider young people’s voices with world-first social media ban
One independent MP calls bill – which passed on Thursday – a ‘1970 solution for a 2024 problem’
Social media company Meta has accused the Australian government of rushing to introduce an under-16 social media ban without properly considering the evidence…
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2024 at 6:09 AM
I do actually agree with Meta on this. No expert but I can’t see how the positives of social media for young people can be so easily discounted