Tom Sulston
banner
tom.sulston.net
Tom Sulston
@tom.sulston.net
Digital rights, bicycles, cats, kitchens.
Don't blame my employer for my bad choice of words.
ITYM "pick up" but yes.
October 31, 2025 at 1:14 AM
October 31, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Is … is she lifting him clean off the ground there?
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Looks like I picked the wrong century to quit smoking pot.
October 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
October 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
It is the content, but it is also the platforms. Their unregulated algorithms push bigotry and mis/dis-information at us to increase "engagement" and advertising dollars. We could try to fix that first.
October 13, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I am not an expert in American sportsball, but could swear that throwing the ball at the ground shortly before getting sacked is naughty and not allowed.
October 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
_Some_ people are fine with what social media companies do with their image. Many others are not but now they will be opted-in, and for more platforms than just socials.

And the tool-providers will want to store faces for training their algorithms.
September 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Is a person's face not part of their identity?
September 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Yes! Privatisation has been a massive clusterfuck in so many domains not least of which telcos.
September 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Is it weird for a person to celebrate how they're going to make children more miserable and less safe? It feels like it's weird. This is weird.
September 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Perhaps eSafety should have it explained to them that a "pull request" on Github is different to Grindr.
September 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Because that's how it's pronounced.
September 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
How does this man, husband of the Guardian's editor-in-chief, keep getting published in the Guardian? It is a mystery.
September 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM