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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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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 · 16d
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
tom.2x2.graphics
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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stephencollins.bsky.social
1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]
October 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
tom.2x2.graphics
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
tom.2x2.graphics
"Unhinged" beliefs: board games edition...

The time they show on the side of the box (60-90 mins etc) is a recommendation not a promise i.e. if you're not getting the game played in the time the box suggests that's more likely an issue with your group of players than with the games design.
October 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
tom.2x2.graphics
on Monday the opening riff from Mastodon’s Blood and Thunder rose up from the depths of my mind and it’s been stuck there ever since

music.apple.com/gb/album/blo...
Blood and Thunder by Mastodon on Apple Music
Song · 2004 · Duration 3:48
music.apple.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
tom.2x2.graphics
There’s a YouTube ad for deliveroo that I keep getting, sounds like the voice over is done by hanne lippard (I assume it’s not, but who knows?)
October 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
tom.2x2.graphics
Llwyngwril
merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Oct 8
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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perplexingruins.bsky.social
Interrupting hiatus to say that I really appreciate @wyrdscience.bsky.social @johnpower.bsky.social
Sure, you can google games articles, but the very act of curation is one of love. And to have such a publication available is special!
Gives me the same feelings as Under the Radar from college days
October 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM