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Tom P (official visualizer)
@tom.2x2.graphics
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Fun: Books, bikes, boardgames
Work: Graphics, data etc. at Carbon Brief
Living in London
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This is a peak London experience
scientits.bsky.social Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · Aug 6
It is my human right to stand outside the French House in Soho on a summer's evening with a nice drink and chat about the day with friends

Do any of these councillors have a clue how people socialise, or do they draw up these plans in their private member clubs with table service?
August 6, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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More websites should start by telling me how well i did something a few weeks back.
Screen shot which declares: "You mowed this lawn in 49 moves. The most efficient path is just 49 moves. You were 100.0% efficient."
August 5, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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Read Emily Wilson's LRB piece so now have a further opinion (to wit Emily Wilson was right)
tom.2x2.graphics Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · Aug 1
Went to see The Odyssey and so now HAVE OPINIONS
August 3, 2026 at 8:17 AM
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Black and white film still. A bunch of men with moustaches (and one woman, sans moustache) wearing 19th century military uniforms, medals, braids etc. studiously attend to a table with a bunch of toy soldiers in formation, a map, and a bottle of russian vodka on it.
August 2, 2026 at 9:11 AM
tom.2x2.graphics
Went to see The Odyssey and so now HAVE OPINIONS
August 1, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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Only took me 8 years and 3 copies of Into The Breach but I finally got all the medals. I got close on Steam a few years back but then a cloud saving issue wiped my progress.
Into the Breach screen grabs of the Global & Squad goals. Got them all.
August 1, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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this is great
hellosami.bsky.social sami 🔵 @hellosami.bsky.social · Jul 9
I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them:

✂️ clipart.studio
July 25, 2026 at 6:35 AM
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10/10 All new shops should just adapt the old shop's signage like this
Photo of a hanging sign for "Massage Acupuncture 210". The bold san-serif letters are placed one by one diagonally across a square board which previously bore some other logo, the cursive squiggles of which can be made out under the ad-hoc typography of the new business.
July 24, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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Just watched Backrooms (its fine). Feels like a film that will have tons of sequels which expand on the "lore" in profoundly stupid ways
July 18, 2026 at 6:06 AM
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100% plonks
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@tomp's finished Cross|word
Lying in Bed
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July 14, 2026 at 6:24 AM
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Same
Disneyland 60t anniversary badge. California 88 colour palette "I'm a beamish super geordie" includes a picture of a super geordie, miners hat, pipe(?), vest, boots and a bottle of newkie brown A badge celebrating the new Sprinter rolling stock on the Cambrian Railway Friends of the earth, extinction is forever
July 12, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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Have never knowingly bought or used a Goodyear product (tyres?) but have had Ice Cube playing in my head since Wednesday so I guess advertising works?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Uq...
July 12, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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Blimp!
The goodyear blimp floating in the blue sky above the city of london, viewed from the south
July 8, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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I always forget the 13 has that lens flare on the cover. Such a strange choice, very "It's 1999 and I've just discovered the filters menu in photoshop" (i say this as someone who discovered the filters menu in photoshop in 1999)
wecdsend.bsky.social We Could Send Letters @wecdsend.bsky.social · Jul 7
Day 3.

While Damon goes with "The ghost I love the most", as someone who is heavily influenced by the Des'ree school of lyrics, I've always preferred to sing:

"Tender is the ghost,
The ghost who makes the toast."

Blur - Tender
song.link/y/a19ZdtPgnSc

#JulyKnowBetter
The cover of Blur's album '13'. Six slices of white toast on a plate.
July 8, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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Always enjoy seeing this little carved out sight line in this otherwise normal building
A photo of a london side street including a brick building where the bricks in one wall have been arranged in a concave shape so it doesn't block the view to (and from) a big round window in the neighbouring church
June 26, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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Goose value 71 !
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Jun 25
SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo

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Internal mechanism The True Source of Value ASI Golden Egg factory inside the goose What you see are the eggs What produces them is the factory itself ACI ASI ASI ASI ASI ASI ASI ASI AS' ASI ASI ASI ASI ASI ASI 55 Market Capitalization Egg = value = JPY 74T + Goose + value a 56 46 Shareholder Value = 3 eggs Goose was not valued Goose value 0? 47 Eggs do not lay eggs 3 → 74 Increase = 71 It was the goose that created value 74 - 3 = 71 Goose value 71 는 49
June 25, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Newspapers at it again
Daily star: "great british bake off..." women in bikinis on a beach Financial Times. Photo of people enjoying a swimming pool in the sun The I. Kids playing in a fountain Darren Cullen's parody sun front cover: The SUN. It's a scorcher! Picture of an empty beach with a skull on it accompanied by the headline "EVERYONE IS DEAD"
June 24, 2026 at 6:46 AM
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@puzzmo.com crossword particularly brutal for non US-ians today 😢
June 23, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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What a beautiful game! Look at the colours used here - magical work! :D
A screenshot from D&D RPG Secret of the Silver Blades (DOS). 2/3rds of the screen is displaying a special event graphic, a first-person view of my characters peering into a deep square stone mineshaft. The colours used, mostly because it's all they had, include hot pinks and bright greens, but they're used expertly, in a manner that suggests light and shadow while giving the scene a magical air.
June 19, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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A thing I love about Splotter games is how they really lean into the absurdity of modeling complex real world systems in reductive boardgame form.
June 17, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social The Best Album of 2001 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · Jun 15
The Best Album of 2001 Round 1 Match #61
#11 Missy Elliott, MISS E... SO ADDICTIVE
VS.
#118 Ruby, SHORT-STAFFED AT THE GENE POOL

Go here to vote: forms.gle/EpQLsVzF5XNY...
First pic:A blue tinted photo of a close up of Missy Elliot, a Black woman with short black hair in what I'd call a Pat Benatar style. She wears large hoop earrings with diamonds, and a collared jacket that is vaguely like camouflage. Behind her are two spherical metal objects, covered with sharp spikes. That are reminiscent of both ocean mines and viruses. Second pic: A painting that is mostly abstract blobs and splashes of color. Most of the image is taken up with a red circle that kind of looks like a Christmas ornament. It is on a blue background and surrounded by splashes of yellow and gold paint.
June 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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Sanyo personal stereo equipment, 1984 ad.
June 13, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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Still think of that last shot whenever I do some ironing (about twice a year)
scarredforlife.bsky.social Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · Jun 4
KEEP FLEXES OUT OF REACH (late 80s): A real late-night horror, usually aired during the ITV Night Time strand well into the 90s. Part of its audience would have been students and ravers coming home from a night spent off their heads, so god knows what effect that last shot had on them.
June 4, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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just in case you ever feel you're not good enough, this is from an old conversation with John Blanche as he and i discussed imposter syndrome a few years back

go well, John. you fucking rocked
I've have to ignore imposter syndrome there's SO many brilliant artists out there why on earth would people want to look at mine ...
June 4, 2026 at 6:32 AM
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my squad:
hedgehog, fox
barn owl, puffin (last minute sub)
bumble bee, frog
florilegia.bsky.social Lorna @florilegia.bsky.social · Jun 3
One for Bluepals here in the UK: have your say on which animals should be on our banknotes. On the topic of finding joy in small things, imagine booting Churchill off the money and replacing him with a puffin ♥️ www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he...
Help us celebrate the UK’s wildlife
Tell us which animals you would like to see on our next series of banknotes by 3 July 2026
www.bankofengland.co.uk
June 3, 2026 at 1:28 PM