Tom Newton
@tdnewton.bsky.social
VP at Smoothwall. Into edtech, Leeds United, conservation, photography. Try not to anger the cat. He/him.
https://x.com/thomasnewton on "the other place"
https://x.com/thomasnewton on "the other place"
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So to summarize, your image is packed with mistakes, uses an exploitative tech, fails to communicate a clear message, displays your ignorance, insults the people of that county, makes you look like environmental vandals and fails to describe your key demographic.
This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
So to summarize, your image is packed with mistakes, uses an exploitative tech, fails to communicate a clear message, displays your ignorance, insults the people of that county, makes you look like environmental vandals and fails to describe your key demographic.
This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
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Amazing how many criminals get together and decide the first order of business is emailing each other about the crimes every three minutes
November 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Amazing how many criminals get together and decide the first order of business is emailing each other about the crimes every three minutes
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Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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“had received 38 alerts from Abdur's school- including a report that his lunch box contained nothing but "mouldy bread and water" - but despite this, they were in the process of stepping him down from his care plan”
😧😞
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ten-year-old boy's neglect 'missed' by Oldham social services
A safeguarding review finds there were
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“had received 38 alerts from Abdur's school- including a report that his lunch box contained nothing but "mouldy bread and water" - but despite this, they were in the process of stepping him down from his care plan”
😧😞
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
😧😞
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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In 1066 minarchist monarch William the Conquerer defeated Communist Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, ending Godwinson’s failing Marxist policy of having names with Æ in them
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
In 1066 minarchist monarch William the Conquerer defeated Communist Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, ending Godwinson’s failing Marxist policy of having names with Æ in them
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i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney
November 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney
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Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
futurism.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
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They asked me if I had any specific criticisms of the Ghost Train. I said nothing leapt out at me.
October 10, 2024 at 8:47 AM
They asked me if I had any specific criticisms of the Ghost Train. I said nothing leapt out at me.
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
1
NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
2
[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
3
NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
4
MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
5
NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
6
NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
7
NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
8
KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
9
[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
10
MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
11
[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
12
[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Hello darkness, my old friend.
You’re early. Fuck off.
You’re early. Fuck off.
October 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Hello darkness, my old friend.
You’re early. Fuck off.
You’re early. Fuck off.
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Negotiating or trying to cut a deal with physics really is a mug’s game, as our children will find out soon enough.
www.rte.ie/news/analysi...
www.rte.ie/news/analysi...
Ireland hopes for a discount for missing EU climate goals
Ireland will miss its EU climate targets on agriculture, transport and buildings and likely face financial penalties, but can it secure concessions?
www.rte.ie
October 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Negotiating or trying to cut a deal with physics really is a mug’s game, as our children will find out soon enough.
www.rte.ie/news/analysi...
www.rte.ie/news/analysi...
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I think I could run for election on the single issue of removing the calories from the menus of restaurants. Sir, I am hungover. I do not want to know this delivery could feed an adult puma for a week.
October 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I think I could run for election on the single issue of removing the calories from the menus of restaurants. Sir, I am hungover. I do not want to know this delivery could feed an adult puma for a week.
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Are they overrepresented or has Britain been taken over? Which one is it?
But if they’re saying this out loud, logic doesn’t matter.
But if they’re saying this out loud, logic doesn’t matter.
“It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black and Asian people.”- Sarah Pochin MP
October 26, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Are they overrepresented or has Britain been taken over? Which one is it?
But if they’re saying this out loud, logic doesn’t matter.
But if they’re saying this out loud, logic doesn’t matter.
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These maniacs are sad that advertisers are presenting black & brown people as family members, professionals and users of washing machines rather than iklwa hurling zulus, untrustworthy agents of Vichy, dockyard lascars in opium dens and double crossing Crusader infantry
October 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
These maniacs are sad that advertisers are presenting black & brown people as family members, professionals and users of washing machines rather than iklwa hurling zulus, untrustworthy agents of Vichy, dockyard lascars in opium dens and double crossing Crusader infantry
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See stoat, say stoat, stoated
having lived on an upland farmstead and seen one or two things, I have to reluctantly get behind this, but then we keep a cat so any logic is out of the window
October 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
See stoat, say stoat, stoated
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fish and chips, the native British dish invented by sephardic Jewish migrants in the 18th century using a vegetable no one on this island had encountered before the 16th
The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point
October 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
fish and chips, the native British dish invented by sephardic Jewish migrants in the 18th century using a vegetable no one on this island had encountered before the 16th
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Breaking news: Pope too Christian for Christians
October 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Breaking news: Pope too Christian for Christians
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This can't be true, I read on Facebook that it was all the fault of Rachel Reeves
October 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
This can't be true, I read on Facebook that it was all the fault of Rachel Reeves
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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If you work for/with a charity and have seen these recent attacks play out and would like some advice or guidance on resilience and preparedness I will happily do this pro bono. Get in touch and any help I can give I will.
September 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
If you work for/with a charity and have seen these recent attacks play out and would like some advice or guidance on resilience and preparedness I will happily do this pro bono. Get in touch and any help I can give I will.