tom-p.bsky.social
@tom-p.bsky.social
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Kings of Leon did predict this tbf 😬
December 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Most Spanish words come from Latin, but did you know there are 2 different types?

Words inherited from spoken Latin vs. words borrowed from written Latin during the Middle Ages and after.

Some words took both routes, creating doublets.

Here’s episode 3 of my 10-part doublet series.
Next: Italian.
December 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
December 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I, Richard Littlejohn, concur.
I endorse this message. My name is Isabel Oakeshot.
Donald Trump is a scumbag, a liar, a fraud, a disgusting orange rat and best friend of Jeffrey Epstein.

If you're reading this in the future, immigration officer..my name is Nigel Farage.
December 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
This site is brilliant
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)

The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

> neal.fun/size-of-life/
December 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Watching the new BBC show about people making tiny dioramas of places from people's pasts - a sort of miniature-based version of the Repair Shop in some ways - and it's doing that thing that BBC entertainment shows do where we seem to be in a parallel universe to the one in their news output.
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Jesus Christ, the "remastered" Beatles Anthology documentary they re-released is filled with AI slop. Look at John and Paul's faces, and the "T" on Beatles.
November 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I'm just going to see a man about a dog
"Leave it, he's not worth it!"
November 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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good morning gang, let’s all suffer together
November 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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October 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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🤦‍♀️ Midland mainline electrification has been paused indefinitely.
🤦‍♀️ The northern legs of Hs2 have been slashed.
🤦‍♀️ Northern Powerhouse Rail is still a pipe dream.

🛤 We need new rail not new roads and the govt should get with the programme.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dismay at government pause to Midland Mainline electrification
Councils say full electrification is essential as the government diverts funding elsewhere.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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"Parking is such sweet sorrow"
October 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I still remember 868.9983 from my PhD years.
Possibly tangential but:

Fiction should be shelved in the 800s
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵
October 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...
October 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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I attended a big local authority conference on Midland Main Line electrification on my first ever day at work in 1986. I retired this year before it has been delivered.

Remind me what makes Britain Great?
Spending a decade watching a dedicated high speed railway between several of the UK's largest cities get repeatedly downgraded to what can now be described as an "electrified link" (currently being delivered on the existing line and delayed since the early 1990s) is radicalising.
September 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Over 50% of Reform voters and nearly 50% of Tory voters (and a good 10-15% of other voters) are people you cannot trust to honour a contract. This is what our politicians are pandering to: liars and cheats.
The majority of Reform UK voters would see indefinite leave to remain removed from all of the groups we asked about, apart from those who have lived in the UK for 20+ years

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
September 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Interesting regarding AI and Kpop Demon Hunters 1/2
September 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM