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Tom P (official visualizer)
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Fun: Books, bikes, boardgames
Work: Graphics, data etc. at Carbon Brief
Living in London
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dracos.co.uk
After seeing Meta cutting their metaverse group by 30%, having lost… $444 per second over the last five years: archive.is/2025.12.04-1... thought I’d look in on some McKinsey reports
McKinsey Global Institute By 2025, Internet of things applications could have $11 trillion impact July 22, 2015 McKinsey Global Institute Al could increase corporate profits by $4.4 trillion a year, according to new research July 7, 2023 • The stakes are high: By 2030, the US B2C retail market alone could see up to $1 trillion in orchestrated revenue from agentic commerce, with global projections reaching as high as $3 trillion to $5 trillion, according to McKinsey research. • This trend will have the breadth of impact of prior web and mobile-commerce revolutions, but it can move even faster since agents can traverse the same digital paths to purchase as humans, allowing them to "ride on the rails" laid down by these prior revolutions. McKinsey & Company Growth, Marketing & Sales Value creation in the metaverse With its potential to generate up to $5 trillion in value by 2030, the metaverse is too big for companies to ignore
December 5, 2025 at 7:17 AM
tom.2x2.graphics
This is just as good as the first one. Maybe the best thing I’ve read this year? Really hoping there’s a book 3 at some point. I want to know what happens to Karen! I want to know what happen to Françoise!
A photo of a hand holding the comic ’My favourite thing is monsters, book 2’ by Emile Ferris. Shows a drawing of a young girl/ werewolf staring straight out at the viewer.
December 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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robertshrimsley.bsky.social
Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:

His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
tom.2x2.graphics
✅ Pixies.
If 3ft High... was the same length as Doolittle it might be perfect. As it is, much as I love it, I do tend skip quite a bit. There's nothing on Doolittle I'd fast forward through.
(think 1989 me would have prob prefered De La Soul but I heard neither album till much later)
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
tom.2x2.graphics
Painting some little guys for the Alien RPG
A hand holding a small painted miniature figure of a yellow and black loader exoskeleton from the movie Aliens above a cluttered desk. A hand holding a painted miniature of an alien from the film Alien above a painting desk, it's a kind of purple / orange black colour scheme. A collection of painted aliens RPG character minis on a wooden surface: humans in space worker uniforms, tan jackets and grey-blue work trousers in the foreground. Additional minis visible but out of focus in the background.
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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jim.londoncentric.media
I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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chappelltracker.bsky.social
An absolutely perfect sequence of slides on the Esquire Instagram account
Black background with large white sans-serif text showing a quote: “I am literally in a position that I can get things made, and so I should get as many things made as possible that follow my belief system.” The quote is attributed to Jon M. Chu, whose name appears in small caps at the bottom. A small “2/5” appears in the top right corner, indicating this is the second slide in a series. Vlack background with large white serif text reading, “What’s Next for Jon M. Chu?” Below it, a bullet point says, “Mattel’s Hot Wheels movie, co-produced by J.J. Abrams.”
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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dracos.co.uk
I have kept URLs, that perhaps 3 people looked at in 2001, working/redirecting since. The @britishlibrary.bsky.social (“preserve the UK’s national collection of … digital content.”) can’t maintain links from a few months ago (e.g. blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-af...), now returning a 308 Permanent Redirect
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
tom.2x2.graphics
This deserves some alt text
A book page reading: "ghosts, boggles, bloody-bones, spirits, demons, ignis fatui, brownies, bugbears, black dogs, spectres, shellycoats, scare-crows, witches, wizards, barguests, Robin-Goodfellows, hags, night-bats, scrags, breaknecks, fantasms, hobgoblins, hobhoul-ards, boggy-boes, dobbies, hobthrusts, fetches, kelpies, warlocks, mock-beggars, mum-pokers, Jemmy-burties, urchins, satyrs, pans, fauns, sirens, tritons, centaurs, calcars, nymphs, imps, incu-busses, spoorns, men-in-the-oak, hellwains, fire-drakes, kit-a-can-sticks, Tom-tumblers, melch-dicks, larrs, kitty-witches, hobby-lanthorns, Dick-a-Tuesdays, Elf-fires, Gylburnt-tails, knockers, elves, raw-heads, Meg-with-the-wads, old-shocks, ouphs, pad-fooits, pixies, pictrees, giants, dwarfs, Tom-pokers, tutgots, snapdragons, sprets, spunks, conjurers, thurses, spurns, tantarrabobs, swaithes, tints, tod-lowries, Jack-in-the-Wads, mormos, changelings, redcaps, yeth-hounds, colt-pixies, Tom-thumbs, blackbugs, boggarts, scar-bugs, shag-foals, hodge-poch-ers, hob-thrushes, bugs, bull-beggars, bygorns, bolls, caddies, bomen, brags, wraithes, waffs, flay-boggarts, fiends, gallytrots, imps, gytrashes, patches, hob-and-lanthorns, gringes, boguests, bonelesses, Peg-powlers, pucks, fays, kidnappers, gally-beggars, hudskins, nickers, madcaps, trolls, robinets, friars' lanthorns, silk-ies, cauld-lads, death-hearses, goblins, hob-headlesses, bugga-boes, kows, or cowes, nickies, nacks (necks), waiths, miffies, buckies, gholes, sylphs, guests, swarths, freiths, freits, gy-carlins (Gyre-carling), pigmies, chittifaces, nixies, Jinny-burnt-tails, dudmen, hell-hounds, dopple-gangers, boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, hobbits, hobgoblins, brown-men, cowies, dunnies, wirrikows, alholdes, mannikins, follets, korreds, lubberkins, cluricauns, kobolds, leprechauns, kors, mares, korreds, puckles, korigans, sylvans, succubuses, black-men, Shadows, banshees, lianhanshees, clabbernappers, Gabriel-hounds, mawkins, doubles, corpse…
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
tom.2x2.graphics
Those areas are wildly different sizes. A & B are tiny compared with G & D
The first of a series of 3 orthographic projection maps showing how apparently equal areas drawn on a mercator projection map are infact totally different 2 of 3 3 of 3
November 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
tom.2x2.graphics
Love this Sarah Evans painting, the light is perfect, reminds me of the village where i grew up.

sarahevanswelshartist.com
Painting, "Moonlight over Rhossili". a patchwork of snowy fields running down to the sea with a scattering of buildings in the middle distance all viewed from a hill. A photo of Llwyngwril in the 80s. a patchwork of snowy fields running down to the sea with a scattering of buildings in the middle distance all viewed from a hill. Also some children with sledges in the nearest field
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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groomb.bsky.social
Rhossili Beach, Gower Peninsula, painting by Welsh artist Sarah Evans. #WomensArt
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
tom.2x2.graphics
There’s something about Wes Streeting’s waxen visage that reminds me of the kid in that old Frys chocolate advert
That fry’s chocolate advert showing a shiny faced child exhibiting a series of emotions: desperation, pacification, expectation, acclamation, realisation “it’s fry’s”
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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wattfrompedro.bsky.social
today the hoot page turns twentynine!

hootpage.com

I keep on keepin on...
November 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
tom.2x2.graphics
Always love to see bookcases, if there are any in the background of photos I gurantee I will zoom in on them to have a nose around (have even been known to screencap zoom meetigns to do the same) so in the spirit of providing others with the same pleasure here's the one that sits next to my desk...
Photo of the top half of a bookcase, I'm affraid I'm not going to type in all the titles as there's quite a few. Photo of the bottom half of the same bookcase.
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
tom.2x2.graphics
Was able to perform an impromtu experiment last night re earplug efficacy when I lost one of mine and had to make do with a cheap foam one from Boots in my left ear. Conclusion: it's definately worth having decent ear plugs.
Castle Rat on stage bathed in red light: A woman with big red hair wearing a scale mail bikini and armed with a sword and shield waves said sword at a woman stealing a magic book (or something?) a guitarist in a leather plague doctor mask looks on High on Fire on stage: Right a sweaty topless man playing guitar infront of an Orange (brand and colour) amplifier. Left a man ith a big beard and a bass guitar, in the background a drumer (star of the show IMO)
November 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
tom.2x2.graphics
Clearly they should get Jordan Peele to do it
Jordan Peele in that Gremlins 2 writers room sketch he did back in the day
November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Other work of the Ladybird artists

‘Bonfire Night’ (1951)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
A view looking down on a group of families surrounding a lit bonfire. Almost all the illumination in the picture comes from the bonfire and the contrast is warm and striking
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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centuriesofsound.bsky.social
Great clip of Ted Chippington on Pebble Mill in 1986. YT comment otm - "It's quite a talent to be able to make an entire audience laugh and for not one of them to realise that you're funny."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmup...
Ted Chippington - 'She Loves You' and interview on Pebble Mill (BBC)
YouTube video by Chris McCray
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
tom.2x2.graphics
Games used to so effortlessly mix the mundane and the strange.
vghistory.bsky.social videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Nov 3
farmer, loading screen, sinclair ql (1987) qxl.win/farmer.htm
the farmer, red hat, light blue top, purple sleeves, white pants, dark blue boots, is reach out for a large pear in the middle of the screen. on the other side of the pear is a small purple creature with green legs and blue feet, spiky white hair, yellow nose, tongue out(?).
November 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
tom.2x2.graphics
Accidentally painted this guy to look like Santa
A warhammer miniature, a kind of giant undead 19th century Russian with an axe. The bushy white beard and big red coat give him distinct Father Christmas vibes (but undead)
November 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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tomewing.bsky.social
We need to rustle up a few more votes for Neneh here
November 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
tom.2x2.graphics
re Jose Saramago and dogs: This is from Ursula Le Guin's review of his last novel (I've read enough of his books now to be able to confirm that this simple ranking system is correct esp if as Le Guin suggests you count elephants as dogs)
www.theguardian.com/books/2010/j...
In the last phrase of this eloquent sentence, Saramago doesn't say fellow-men, but fellow-creatures. To him "man" is not the sole subject of human interest, in whom all value and meaning inheres, but a member of a large household. Saramago's reminder to us that we aren't the be-all and end-all of creation is, usually, a dog. I developed a simple ranking system for his fiction: the books with a dog are better than the ones with no dog; the more important the dog, the better the book.
October 31, 2025 at 9:59 AM
tom.2x2.graphics
October reading
A montage of book cover photos. The Double by Jose Saramago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris, Ducks by Kate Beaton, Chocky by John Wyndham, Cardboard Ghosts by Amabel Holland, Frieren Vol. 2 by Kanehito Yamada & Tsukasa Abe
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM
tom.2x2.graphics
The Wedding Present seem like they should be the kind of band I'd like but I can't stand them, wheras the B52s seem like the kind of band I should find irritating and ... well I only find them irritating sometimes.
October 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM