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Tom Woodhead

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Writer, mastering engineer, used to sing in ¡Forward, Russia! I master records for a living, I'm really good at it: www.hippocraticmastering.com

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · Jan 7

Musicians! To celebrate my 13th year(!) as a full-time mastering engineer I threw together this playlist of some of the stuff I've mastered. Here's to the next 13 years - I'm way cheaper than Abbey Road but better at mastering. Hit me up

open.spotify.com/playlist/3zF...

Tom Woodhead/Hippocratic Mastering showreel

Playlist · kingtoad · 60 items

open.spotify.com

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 1d

‘Niceness’ without significant redistribution of wealth

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 1d

Actually it turns out my computer wasn't switched on

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 1d

So is *that* why I’ve not been able to log in to anything?

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this election I have no stake in has been going on for about three years

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 3d

You know when they *finally* elect the mayor of New York City? Will he get to do any governing or does the next race begin immediately?

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 5d

The hole in a guitar is traditionally used to store soft cheeses and dried meats which are fed to the drummer when he does a good job

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 4d

People also massively overstate the amount of 'story' in the typical online recipe. It's like when people who've never read Dickens make jokes about how he was paid by the word

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 4d

The amount of handwaving from the 50+ cohort astounds me; so many people who act like it’s all baffling, impossible-to-understand science fiction when the basics of how it all works can be understood with an hour or so’s reading

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 5d

I wonder which tech company is going to be the first to put the undo function behind a paywall

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 5d

Is there any other good stuff you can only get in autumn/winter? Might have to lean into it to assuage my SAD

(No-one say anything to do with Xmas or (especially) Halloween/pumpkins)

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 5d

The only good thing about this time of year

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 5d

They’ve started selling cox apples in Sainsbury’s again. We are so back.

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 5d

Wars can reduce populations, increase hardship and render entire cities to rubble and ash - but what are they?

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 5d

Sandwiches can reduce hunger, increase happiness and provide nutrition - but what are they?

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 5d

Soundscapes can reduce pain, promote wellness and reduce stress - but what are they

Photo of a content woman with her eyes closed, rain-streaked window in the background. Headline: 'Soundscapes can reduce pain, promote wellness and reduce stress - but what are they?'

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 6d

That’s a cool age to start buying it

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 6d

Apologies for the extremely low-hanging fruit

A screenshot of Father Ted, when the guy yells 'I hear you're a racist now, Father?' from behind a drystone wall.

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 6d

Posted by @22grandpod.bsky.social on Twitter earlier. There I am, in the bottom left corner, grimacing as usual

An NME cover from August 2005 (Cover stars The Magic Numbers).

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 6d

I mean not that I've done anything to earn it for almost 20 years

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 6d

My entire payment today was £16.50, lol

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 6d

Wow, that’s insane

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 6d

How much do you get for that?

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 7d

I clearly don't think this is unhinged as otherwise I wouldn't say it, but the idea of reading any novel with the aid of a 'companion guide', especially for the first reading, is baffling to me

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 8d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 8d

‘They are the most educated generation in history, but they are living through an economic slump following decades of high-speed growth. The vision of upward mobility has waned, replaced by the rat race.’

Yun Sheng on China’s Gen Z: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Yun Sheng · Short Cuts: China’s Gen Z

A passive-aggressive ‘lying flat’ attitude is easily dismissed as laziness, but Gen Z-ers have developed a...

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 8d

You mean like 'niche'? and 'route'?