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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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I don't think there's anything wrong with the original board. It's fine. My aim was to 1. make it feel a bit more like an artefact of the time, like a real map, and 2. decrease the visual noise and increase the contrast between the board and the player components
The original Cuba Libre board set up and ready to play
January 21, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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One of my plans for the year is to try my hand at graphic-design for boardgames etc. so I've been working on redesigning/ reskinning some of the games on my shelf. The last couple of weeks I've been rethinking the map for Cuba Libre (still very much in progress)
A map of Cuba with various boxes and flow charts superimposed
January 21, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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If you want to feel slightly unsettled/ like there's something wrong with your eyes our local upholsterers have just the chair for you!
A shop window featuring a chair covered in a. material that looks weirdly out of focus, it's not a nice feeling.
January 20, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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A really neat site looking at mode share in differences across cities, it doesn't really try to assess how good a transport system is other than implicitly (by usage) but you can see the same pattern of US cities being terrible for both public transport and active travel
vis.csh.ac.at/citiesmoving/
A set of ternary plots the main take away is that North American cities don't use cars much more than other global cities
January 20, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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I will never stop mourning Geeta on Willesden Lane. Vijay's about 50m up the road get all the attention and a shout out in a Zadie Smith book (NW). But Geeta was for the real heads; 20 years later I still haven't had a better masala dosa.
An advertising flyer with a montage of dingy looking photos, an 01 phone number and 70s style "Indian" font screens shot from Hardens website : This threadbare South Indian café, in Kilburn, is "a lovely family-run business", say fans, with "authentic home-made dishes" , impeccably "helpful" service, and "extraordinarily low" prices; some meals, however, have seemed uncharacteristically "ordinary" of late; BYO.
January 19, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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Talisman card art is GREAT
A Talisman card: Enemy Animal APE. The image shows a huge boggle eyed ape looming over an unsuspecting medieval peasant in a hood and smock Another card: a picture of a toad looking surprised, as well he might: he's being zapped by a magic spell. the card text is simply "TOAD"
January 3, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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It's the Adeptus Titanicus (1988) rule book subtitle "EPIC BATTLES BETWEEN GIANT ROBOTS"! The cover illustration depicts two massive hulking robots stomping across a battle field guns blazing in all directions whilst little space marines run around in the ruins at their feet
January 2, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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35 (Haunting of Hill House slipping through the closing door this afternoon)
The three images show the following book covers… From Above. An (Info)Graphic Novel Martin Panchaud Being Mortal Atul Gawande My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (part 2) Emil Ferris November Cahokia Jazz Francis Spufford Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 3 Kanehito Yamada, Tsukasa Abe October Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 2 Kanehito Yamada, Tsukasa Abe Cardboard Ghosts Amabel Holland Chocky John Wyndham Ducks Kate Beaton My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (part 1) Emil Ferris The Double José Saramago September England, England Julian Barnes The Long Mars Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman Carter Beats The Devil Glen David Gold August Witch Hat Atelier 11 Kamome Shirahama Witch Hat Atelier 10 Kamome Shirahama Witch Hat Atelier 9 Kamome Shirahama Witch Hat Atelier 8 Kamome Shirahama Adam Bede George Eliot June The Fell Sarah Moss Use Of Weapons Iain M. Banks May Some Trick Helen DeWitt Light Perpetual Francis Spufford Gilead Marilynne Robinson April The Universal Baseball Association, J Henry Waugh Prop. Robert Coover March The Book Of Love Kelly Link February Foster Clair Keegan Emergency Daisy Hildyard The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman Raymond Briggs The English Understand Wool Helen DeWitt Euro Wargames Seven Surrenders Ada Palmer January Too Like The Lightning Ada Palmer See the alt text of the previous image See the alt text of the first image
December 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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4 games that I played most in 2025
Joraku box art: a floating world-eq picture of the 6 Daimyo characters from the game Arcs box art: Kyle Ferrin's distinctive cartoon aliens, spaceships and so on Bus: A cartoon bus coming out of a swirly time tunnel pub in the background, wonky clock in the foreground Race For The Galaxy: a space station orbiting a planet, the kind of thing that might appear on "hard" sci-fi books of the 70s, vaguely Chris Foss style (i.e. lots of small windows)
December 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Red skellingtons!
A miniatture skeleton with a shield, spear and ragged armour in black red and white. It's painted black, red and white in a scratchy style with lots of comic style cross hatching. A miniature skeleton standard bearer painted int he same black, red and white style. The whole gang of skelleton models (actually only 9, 1 is not in shot). All painted in the same black, red and white style. The boss skeleton model big axe and curved sword, cloak and scraps o hair flapping in the wind. Painted in the same black, red and white style.
December 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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All present and correct 🫡
A shelf with wyrd sceince 1-7 neatly lined up. Also visible issues of Senet magazine and some design books
December 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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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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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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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
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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
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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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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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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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Indiana Jones, breaking into my grandmother’s kitchen and declaring ’this belongs in a museum’ before making off with the kettle
A perfectly normal plastic Kenwood kettle from the 1980s on a shelf at the v & a storehouse
October 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Another dwarf
An early 90s games workshop metal dwarf, painted adequately. In the background are a bunch of acrylic paint pots (dropper style, I’m not a monster)
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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... and my axe
an electric guitar in the shape of an axe
October 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM