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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 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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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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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
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Earlier this year I had the pleasure of working on a freelance project working with a guy who had this as his linkedin bio...
a linked in bio screen-grabbed: "Automation sniper. Ops Slayer. Occasional pitch roaster. No Mercy.
October 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Last 4 albums.
The Egyptian lover king of ecstasy (his greatest hits) a black guy in an 80s suit looking at us over his dark glasses whilst leaning on the door of his black Mercedes Kal el astrall voyager. A sci-fi /fantasy illustration of a woman in armour with a cape standing on a a rock in front of a Rogers Dean style landscape Conan, violence dimension. Fantasy illustration of adventurers approaching a big doorway to the stars The armed, the future is here and everything needs to be destroyed. A Thai man driven a tricycle loaded up with cardboard and scrap
October 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Urg! Affinity Designer and Publisher are both really great and the reason I like them is that they just let me get on with doing the job at hand, run decently fast and have fewer bugs than the competion. Can't emphasise enough how much I don't want "a shift in how creative freedom is defined"
"You've chosen to see the future first. Now you're at the front of the queue for what's next. This isn't just another update. It's the beginning of something new. A shift in how creative freedom is defined. Keep an eye on our social channels. We'll be sharing glimpses of what's about to unfold."
October 3, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Luckily I caught the postman before he'd totally shredded the packaging as he forced the new issue of @wyrdscience.bsky.social through our slightly too small letterbox
Photo of my hand holding the latest issue of Wyrd Science magazine. The cover is a neon coloured illustration of a couple of space fantasy adventurers, swords and ray-guns at the ready, exploring a cave/ dungeon/ space hulk type environment. Naturally there are also skulls.
September 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Ripping CDs like it’s 1999
A metal box full of a couple of hundred CDs in sort of envelope things
September 27, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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think this might be the worst one?
Badly photoshopped cover for Uncle Tom's Cabin. Uncle Tom looks like he's eaten something really nasty but doesn't want to be rude about it and so is trying to smile through the unpleasantness.
September 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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this?
www.ft.com/content/43da...
September 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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intriguing
A car under wraps. Looks like an American 70s pickup truck, very low and long, a flash of orange paint visible under a dirty fabric covering.
September 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Batteries got really good and solar power got cheap.
a chart showing battery cost falling sharply whilst energy density rises steeply A chart showing that solar power is now cheaper than fossil fuels from a position of being about 2x as expensive a decade ago
September 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Lol, no. Also, interesting choice to illustrate this piece with a picture of a traffic clogged Parisan roundabout.
A series of 6 heatmaps showing how paris has drastically reduced airpollution over the last 20 years espescially dramatic fall between 2017 and 2024 largely achieved by taking cars of the roads
September 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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When people talk about windfarms destroying nature they're what they often really mean is that they're destroying their enjoyment of nature. Nature is still considered a comodity from whihc they can extract something. Beneath the surface the north sea has nothing beyond it's capital value.
A Scandanavian costal landscape with a network of pipes descending from the clouds and creeping tentacle like across the ground. It looks like an alien invasion. The infrastructure extends as far as the distant horizon.
September 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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we did it before, with a bit of luck we can do it again (or at-least these doofuses can do it to themselves again)
robert scoble, a massive uncool loser, wearing google ‘smart glasses’ in the shower and yelling like a red faced and over excited toddler
August 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM