Tom
@tomverse.bsky.social
Van building transport planner, mountaineer and enthusiastic new media consumer. Best known as the guy who farmed vexillology tiktok for likes. beacons.ai/tomverse
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Tom
@tomverse.bsky.social
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More dreams on substack: FairPlayism
open.substack.com/pub/fairplay...
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not kidding: she deserves a nobel prize in literature for posts
Joyce Carol Oates may be the best poster of our time.
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
not kidding: she deserves a nobel prize in literature for posts
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Taking Heads, Fear of Music. 1979
Boy destroying a piano, Pant-Y-Waun, south Wales, 1961, photo by Philip Jones Griffiths (1936-2008).
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Taking Heads, Fear of Music. 1979
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Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
November 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
@parismarx.com This you? Just added me on Facebook.
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
@parismarx.com This you? Just added me on Facebook.
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This is quite the graph and reinforces my view that Bluesky is actually quite revolutionary.
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is quite the graph and reinforces my view that Bluesky is actually quite revolutionary.
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I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.
Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...
Would your home have been under a motorway?
"The most astonishing and destructive thing never to happen to London," says the man who has spent twenty years researching the first true map of the unbuilt Ringways.
substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.
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I'm in bits, kids are crying, "but daddy who's going to do the Is The Escaped Prisoner An Immigrant all-day live feeds now?" and I don't know what to tell them.
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie tells staff departure was “my own decision” but it comes with the BBC preparing to apologise for the way it edited a Trump speech
Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, and the head of BBC News have resigned after a former adviser to the corporation accused it of “serious and systemic” bias in its coverage of issues including Donald Trump, Gaza and trans rights.
In a shock move, Davie said his depature was his own, but comes with the BBC preparing to apologise for the way the broadcaster edited a Donald Trump speech. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I'm in bits, kids are crying, "but daddy who's going to do the Is The Escaped Prisoner An Immigrant all-day live feeds now?" and I don't know what to tell them.
So true. Just log off lads.
twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...
November 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
So true. Just log off lads.
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Facebook tells me that I posted this comment 10 years ago and it’s still the best “being caught bunking off school” story I’ve heard. Apologies for any minor factual inaccuracies in my retelling
October 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Facebook tells me that I posted this comment 10 years ago and it’s still the best “being caught bunking off school” story I’ve heard. Apologies for any minor factual inaccuracies in my retelling
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I went to the opening of this exhibition last week
It features a cool Bellingcat display, showing the work we (primarily Ollie Ballinger @yoruk.bsky.social, Bridget Diakun @godin.bsky.social & Youri van der Weide) produced to track Russian ships surreptitiously exporting grain from occupied Crimea
It features a cool Bellingcat display, showing the work we (primarily Ollie Ballinger @yoruk.bsky.social, Bridget Diakun @godin.bsky.social & Youri van der Weide) produced to track Russian ships surreptitiously exporting grain from occupied Crimea
Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
October 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I went to the opening of this exhibition last week
It features a cool Bellingcat display, showing the work we (primarily Ollie Ballinger @yoruk.bsky.social, Bridget Diakun @godin.bsky.social & Youri van der Weide) produced to track Russian ships surreptitiously exporting grain from occupied Crimea
It features a cool Bellingcat display, showing the work we (primarily Ollie Ballinger @yoruk.bsky.social, Bridget Diakun @godin.bsky.social & Youri van der Weide) produced to track Russian ships surreptitiously exporting grain from occupied Crimea
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the health problems are bad. but the causes? the causes are very good
October 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
the health problems are bad. but the causes? the causes are very good
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Congratulations to @catherinegalway.bsky.social! I know that she will represent Ireland with compassion and integrity. A special thanks to Michael D. Higgins for his inspirational leadership, he represents the very best of Ireland ☘️
October 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Congratulations to @catherinegalway.bsky.social! I know that she will represent Ireland with compassion and integrity. A special thanks to Michael D. Higgins for his inspirational leadership, he represents the very best of Ireland ☘️
Hahahaha @letterboxd.social added the reviews back to the scrolling view hahahaha
October 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Hahahaha @letterboxd.social added the reviews back to the scrolling view hahahaha
Listening to that aleister crowley documentary on radio 4 right now
October 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Listening to that aleister crowley documentary on radio 4 right now
Dream Diary Excerpt, July 29, 2018:
Had this dream where this Chinese student was filming a student film, and I was in a field lolling around with a couple others so he asked us to do a few bleep test style runs up and down the little field and he was filming it.
Had this dream where this Chinese student was filming a student film, and I was in a field lolling around with a couple others so he asked us to do a few bleep test style runs up and down the little field and he was filming it.
October 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Dream Diary Excerpt, July 29, 2018:
Had this dream where this Chinese student was filming a student film, and I was in a field lolling around with a couple others so he asked us to do a few bleep test style runs up and down the little field and he was filming it.
Had this dream where this Chinese student was filming a student film, and I was in a field lolling around with a couple others so he asked us to do a few bleep test style runs up and down the little field and he was filming it.
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I'm German and I adore reading Fesshole and AnonOpin. My Fess: Afterwards I always talk to myself and the cat with a, possibly incorrect, British accent. "Havin' a bit of a nap on the comfy chair, are we? Tha's alroight then."
October 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I'm German and I adore reading Fesshole and AnonOpin. My Fess: Afterwards I always talk to myself and the cat with a, possibly incorrect, British accent. "Havin' a bit of a nap on the comfy chair, are we? Tha's alroight then."
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The Doctor is real.
Lux (including its encore) proves that the Doctor is not fictional.
It's us. We are made up.
If you accept this simple truth and pay close attention, you can even tell if today was written by Steven Moffat or Chris Chibnall.
Lux (including its encore) proves that the Doctor is not fictional.
It's us. We are made up.
If you accept this simple truth and pay close attention, you can even tell if today was written by Steven Moffat or Chris Chibnall.
October 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The Doctor is real.
Lux (including its encore) proves that the Doctor is not fictional.
It's us. We are made up.
If you accept this simple truth and pay close attention, you can even tell if today was written by Steven Moffat or Chris Chibnall.
Lux (including its encore) proves that the Doctor is not fictional.
It's us. We are made up.
If you accept this simple truth and pay close attention, you can even tell if today was written by Steven Moffat or Chris Chibnall.
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Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today!
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
October 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today!
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
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This is the single most overrated image on the internet. Pisses me off how every time I see it, it has thousands of Likes.
September 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is the single most overrated image on the internet. Pisses me off how every time I see it, it has thousands of Likes.
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Dr Who died in 1966 and was secretly replaced with an actor.
Tell me your most unhinged Doctor Who opinion. I mean, if you’re a fan, they’re likely all unhinged anyway.
October 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Dr Who died in 1966 and was secretly replaced with an actor.
Just had my first visit to The 1% Guild 🪫 vole.wtf/one-percent/
The 1% Guild 🪫
An exclusive club for those who live life on the edge.
vole.wtf
October 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Just had my first visit to The 1% Guild 🪫 vole.wtf/one-percent/
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Stupid BBC news article seems to imply that Caerphilly town is the entirety of Caerphilly constituency. An area which, as far as I know, includes as far afield as Bargoed, Blackwood, Rhymney, Crosskeys.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Caerphilly by-election shines new spotlight on historic town
Why the Caerphilly by-election is about more than just sending one representative to Cardiff Bay.
www.bbc.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Stupid BBC news article seems to imply that Caerphilly town is the entirety of Caerphilly constituency. An area which, as far as I know, includes as far afield as Bargoed, Blackwood, Rhymney, Crosskeys.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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LIVE SCENES FROM WALES
#WorldBollardAssociation 🏴
#WorldBollardAssociation 🏴
October 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
LIVE SCENES FROM WALES
#WorldBollardAssociation 🏴
#WorldBollardAssociation 🏴