October 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
December 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
If you're talking about the Morcom garden in Oakland, yes it is wonderful!
August 9, 2026 at 2:46 AM
If you're talking about the Morcom garden in Oakland, yes it is wonderful!
July 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The Cerne Giant in its Early Medieval Context by Tom Morcom
& myself is now freely available for 1 month www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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& myself is now freely available for 1 month www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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January 2, 2024 at 3:48 PM
The Cerne Giant in its Early Medieval Context by Tom Morcom
& myself is now freely available for 1 month www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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& myself is now freely available for 1 month www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Taking a break from work to (literally) stop and smell the roses! At Morcom Rose Garden in Oakland! 🌹
July 6, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Taking a break from work to (literally) stop and smell the roses! At Morcom Rose Garden in Oakland! 🌹
art walk
I buy a painting
from a shy young man
just because
of his blue eyes
Joanne Morcom
NeonGraffiti
#tanka #5lines #TankaPoem #poetry
I buy a painting
from a shy young man
just because
of his blue eyes
Joanne Morcom
NeonGraffiti
#tanka #5lines #TankaPoem #poetry
April 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
art walk
I buy a painting
from a shy young man
just because
of his blue eyes
Joanne Morcom
NeonGraffiti
#tanka #5lines #TankaPoem #poetry
I buy a painting
from a shy young man
just because
of his blue eyes
Joanne Morcom
NeonGraffiti
#tanka #5lines #TankaPoem #poetry
New blog post on a local attraction and its stonework
Stones of the Morcom Rose Garden
The last few weeks, off and on, I’ve paid some close attention to the landscape and stones in the Morcom Rose Garden. First, I’ve managed to find some facts about the land’s geolo…
oaklandgeology.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
New blog post on a local attraction and its stonework
it doesn’t seem right
to die in the springtime . . .
better to pass away
in the autumn months
when the world’s golden
—Joanne Morcom
25 Death Poems, Atlas Poetica, Special Feature, Guest Editor Michael H. Lester, 2019
(an individual’s reckoning with their own death)
#jisei #tankapoem #tanka
to die in the springtime . . .
better to pass away
in the autumn months
when the world’s golden
—Joanne Morcom
25 Death Poems, Atlas Poetica, Special Feature, Guest Editor Michael H. Lester, 2019
(an individual’s reckoning with their own death)
#jisei #tankapoem #tanka
August 10, 2026 at 2:17 PM
it doesn’t seem right
to die in the springtime . . .
better to pass away
in the autumn months
when the world’s golden
—Joanne Morcom
25 Death Poems, Atlas Poetica, Special Feature, Guest Editor Michael H. Lester, 2019
(an individual’s reckoning with their own death)
#jisei #tankapoem #tanka
to die in the springtime . . .
better to pass away
in the autumn months
when the world’s golden
—Joanne Morcom
25 Death Poems, Atlas Poetica, Special Feature, Guest Editor Michael H. Lester, 2019
(an individual’s reckoning with their own death)
#jisei #tankapoem #tanka
#QueerWritersChat. Harvey Milk and Alan Turing fall in love in the afterlife, heal from their traumas and plan to change history with a group of fellow marginalized heroes. Together with Chris Morcom, they have a child, a trans masc robot.
Welcome to #QueerWritersChat!
To start things off, introduce yourself and tell us what you're working on!
Next question at :10!
@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers
To start things off, introduce yourself and tell us what you're working on!
Next question at :10!
@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers
April 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
#QueerWritersChat. Harvey Milk and Alan Turing fall in love in the afterlife, heal from their traumas and plan to change history with a group of fellow marginalized heroes. Together with Chris Morcom, they have a child, a trans masc robot.
Today on Ancient Office Hours, Dr. Tom Morcom, an associate lecturer in Old Norse Language and Literature at University College London discuss his fascination with the richness of Old Norse saga literature, medieval Icelandic society, and how Old Norse literature compares to classical works.
July 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Today on Ancient Office Hours, Dr. Tom Morcom, an associate lecturer in Old Norse Language and Literature at University College London discuss his fascination with the richness of Old Norse saga literature, medieval Icelandic society, and how Old Norse literature compares to classical works.
Thieves stole 51 shrubs and uprooted others at the Oakland botanical park earlier this month.
Morcom Rose Garden fundraising after vandalism and theft
Thieves stole 51 shrubs and uprooted others at the Oakland botanical park earlier this month.
oaklandside.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Thieves stole 51 shrubs and uprooted others at the Oakland botanical park earlier this month.
last day at work
I leave the worry stone
on my desk
-Joanne Morcom
https://tinywords.com/2026/07/29/49559/
July 29, 2026 at 4:00 PM
last day at work
I leave the worry stone
on my desk
-Joanne Morcom
https://tinywords.com/2026/07/29/49559/
yeah i choose to believe you and regret questioning it because 🥺💔😭🏳️🌈👻
![Alan Turing and the ‘Nature of Spirit’
Mezzotint portrait of Christopher Morcom by Norman Hirst, 1930. (Sherborne School Archives)
When Alan Turing’s school friend Christopher Morcom died aged 18 in February 1930, Alan wrote to his mother saying, ‘I feel sure that I shall meet Morcom again somewhere & that there will be some work for us to do together, as I believed there was for us to do here.’
Two years after Christopher Morcom’s death, Alan went to stay with the Morcom family at their home the Clock House, near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire. During his visit, Alan wrote ‘Nature of Spirit’ in which he stated his beliefs about the relationship between the spirit and the body:
‘THE CLOCK HOUSE
BROMSGROVE
[undated, c. April 1932]
Nature of Spirit
It used to be supposed in Science that if everything was known about the universe at any particular moment then we can predict what it will be through all the future. This idea was really due to the great success of astronomical prediction. More modern science, however, has come to the conclusion that when we are dealing with atoms & electrons we are quite unable to know the exact state of them; our instruments being made of atoms & electrons themselves. The conception then of being able to know the exact state of the universe then really must break down on the small scale. This means then that the theory which held that as eclipses etc. were predestined so were all our actions, breaks down too. We have a will which is able to determine the action of the atoms probably in a small portion of the brain, or possibly all over it. The rest of the body acts so as to amplify this. There is now the question which must be answered as to how the action of the other atoms of the universe are regulated. Probably by the same law and simply by the remote effects of spirit but since they have no amplifying apparatus they seem to be regulated by pure chance. The apparent iron predestination of physics is almost a combination of …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbm4h5azbz4n2soidoykoimo/bafkreibfoshr77lpzbiwzysi4dj474png3272d72olvcrgo7ztfppznnqy)
May 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
yeah i choose to believe you and regret questioning it because 🥺💔😭🏳️🌈👻
cue unhinged mega thread of photos of me/i've taken in the bay
January 13, 2026 at 8:18 PM
cue unhinged mega thread of photos of me/i've taken in the bay
she’s dykesplaining
November 8, 2023 at 12:30 AM
she’s dykesplaining
what the hell they gave me a placard at the rose garden??
December 23, 2024 at 4:55 PM
what the hell they gave me a placard at the rose garden??
O relacionamento foi interrompido abruptamente em 1930, quando Morcom faleceu, vitimado pela tuberculose. Especula-se que essa experiência teria levado Turing a questionar a existência de Deus. Em 1931, o jovem ingressou no King’s College, Cambridge, onde estudou matemática
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June 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
O relacionamento foi interrompido abruptamente em 1930, quando Morcom faleceu, vitimado pela tuberculose. Especula-se que essa experiência teria levado Turing a questionar a existência de Deus. Em 1931, o jovem ingressou no King’s College, Cambridge, onde estudou matemática
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AFLW B&F Top 10
1 - Maddi Gay (151 votes) 2 - Georgia Nanscawen (147) 3 - Georgia Clarke (128 ) =4 - Maddy Prespakis (121) =4 - Steph Wales (121) 6 - Steph Cain (119) 7 - Amy Gaylor (118) 8 - Daria Bannister (110) 9 - Alex Morcom (106) 10 - Bess Keaney (105)
1 - Maddi Gay (151 votes) 2 - Georgia Nanscawen (147) 3 - Georgia Clarke (128 ) =4 - Maddy Prespakis (121) =4 - Steph Wales (121) 6 - Steph Cain (119) 7 - Amy Gaylor (118) 8 - Daria Bannister (110) 9 - Alex Morcom (106) 10 - Bess Keaney (105)
December 6, 2024 at 7:40 PM
AFLW B&F Top 10
1 - Maddi Gay (151 votes) 2 - Georgia Nanscawen (147) 3 - Georgia Clarke (128 ) =4 - Maddy Prespakis (121) =4 - Steph Wales (121) 6 - Steph Cain (119) 7 - Amy Gaylor (118) 8 - Daria Bannister (110) 9 - Alex Morcom (106) 10 - Bess Keaney (105)
1 - Maddi Gay (151 votes) 2 - Georgia Nanscawen (147) 3 - Georgia Clarke (128 ) =4 - Maddy Prespakis (121) =4 - Steph Wales (121) 6 - Steph Cain (119) 7 - Amy Gaylor (118) 8 - Daria Bannister (110) 9 - Alex Morcom (106) 10 - Bess Keaney (105)
Desde cedo, Turing demonstrou enorme curiosidade científica e um talento precoce para a resolução de problemas. Aos 13 anos, ele ingressou na Sherborne School, um prestigioso internato de Dorset. Foi lá que, 3 anos depois, ele conheceu Christopher Morcom, seu primeiro amor.
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June 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Desde cedo, Turing demonstrou enorme curiosidade científica e um talento precoce para a resolução de problemas. Aos 13 anos, ele ingressou na Sherborne School, um prestigioso internato de Dorset. Foi lá que, 3 anos depois, ele conheceu Christopher Morcom, seu primeiro amor.
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Better late than never I suppose! Hi, I’m Dr Tom Morcom and I’m currently filling in as Associate Lecturer in Old Norse at UCL. My research interests are mainly Old Norse sagas and narratology but I’ve pinwheeled between plenty of other areas too- recently codicology, typology, and the Cerne Giant!
November 15, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Better late than never I suppose! Hi, I’m Dr Tom Morcom and I’m currently filling in as Associate Lecturer in Old Norse at UCL. My research interests are mainly Old Norse sagas and narratology but I’ve pinwheeled between plenty of other areas too- recently codicology, typology, and the Cerne Giant!
On this day in 1964:
Jet magazine publishes on its cover young Black attorneys Claudia Morcom and Anna Diggs for a feature called "Women Lawyers to Aid Mississippi 'Freedom Corps.’"
Jet magazine publishes on its cover young Black attorneys Claudia Morcom and Anna Diggs for a feature called "Women Lawyers to Aid Mississippi 'Freedom Corps.’"
July 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
On this day in 1964:
Jet magazine publishes on its cover young Black attorneys Claudia Morcom and Anna Diggs for a feature called "Women Lawyers to Aid Mississippi 'Freedom Corps.’"
Jet magazine publishes on its cover young Black attorneys Claudia Morcom and Anna Diggs for a feature called "Women Lawyers to Aid Mississippi 'Freedom Corps.’"
OTD c.900 St. Eadwold died at Cerne, Dorset and is said to have been buried in his cell.
Thomas Morcom uncovers a new theory about the identity of the Cerne Abbas giant in Dorset which links the figure with Eadwold of Cerne, the 9th-century hermit, Anglian Prince and patron saint of Cerne.
Thomas Morcom uncovers a new theory about the identity of the Cerne Abbas giant in Dorset which links the figure with Eadwold of Cerne, the 9th-century hermit, Anglian Prince and patron saint of Cerne.
The Cerne Abbas Hermit?
In the light of new dating evidence, Thomas Morcom uncovers an exciting new theory as to the identity of the Cerne Abbas giant in Dorset.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
August 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
OTD c.900 St. Eadwold died at Cerne, Dorset and is said to have been buried in his cell.
Thomas Morcom uncovers a new theory about the identity of the Cerne Abbas giant in Dorset which links the figure with Eadwold of Cerne, the 9th-century hermit, Anglian Prince and patron saint of Cerne.
Thomas Morcom uncovers a new theory about the identity of the Cerne Abbas giant in Dorset which links the figure with Eadwold of Cerne, the 9th-century hermit, Anglian Prince and patron saint of Cerne.
May 3, 2026 at 1:14 AM