Tom Hallett
@thomashallett.bsky.social
Content manager in academic publishing comms. Keen pedestrian, cyclist, and runner. Less keen driver. Dorset-based.
Wondering is this favourite font of AI image generators has a name. If not, I'd like to suggest "Hodgepodge."
December 2, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Wondering is this favourite font of AI image generators has a name. If not, I'd like to suggest "Hodgepodge."
Exeter city centre was buzzing today.
November 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Exeter city centre was buzzing today.
Someone needs to do this to demonstrate the scale of compute and natural resources needed for gen AI models. Although Mark Z did help a bit by posting this video...
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Someone needs to do this to demonstrate the scale of compute and natural resources needed for gen AI models. Although Mark Z did help a bit by posting this video...
Why were journalists guessing URLs? They must have been tipped off. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Why were journalists guessing URLs? They must have been tipped off. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
They also offer free parking for a medieval fair that already attracts thousands of visitors every year. They had the right idea 100 years ago...
November 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
They also offer free parking for a medieval fair that already attracts thousands of visitors every year. They had the right idea 100 years ago...
Reminds me of this. Great Remembrance Eve watching.
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Reminds me of this. Great Remembrance Eve watching.
👀 Seven vehicles a day on average driving more than 100mph on this (60 mph limit) stretch of road where 4 people have died in collisions since 2024. www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/w/improving-...
November 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
👀 Seven vehicles a day on average driving more than 100mph on this (60 mph limit) stretch of road where 4 people have died in collisions since 2024. www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/w/improving-...
There's still a massive bomb crater on Lenthay Common, just outside Sherborne. It fills with water every winter. I read that they attacked Sherborne because they became disoriented and thought it was Yeovil, as both towns had a railway taking a similar route to the south.
October 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
There's still a massive bomb crater on Lenthay Common, just outside Sherborne. It fills with water every winter. I read that they attacked Sherborne because they became disoriented and thought it was Yeovil, as both towns had a railway taking a similar route to the south.
Are you trying to say the cars don't enhance this vista?
August 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Are you trying to say the cars don't enhance this vista?
This advert on my train highlights the lack of investment in our railways.
The train I'm on was introduced on this line in 1993...
The train I'm on was introduced on this line in 1993...
August 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This advert on my train highlights the lack of investment in our railways.
The train I'm on was introduced on this line in 1993...
The train I'm on was introduced on this line in 1993...
Exeter is such a nice place to visit. Thriving high street, quirky shops and cafes, the cathedral, great quayside area, random chapels and old buildings amongst modern architecture... and loads of people riding cargo bikes.
July 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Exeter is such a nice place to visit. Thriving high street, quirky shops and cafes, the cathedral, great quayside area, random chapels and old buildings amongst modern architecture... and loads of people riding cargo bikes.
In former days, Google Search would have given me the answer I needed in an instant.
Now with AI Overviews it has to show has "clever" it is.
Now with AI Overviews it has to show has "clever" it is.
July 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
In former days, Google Search would have given me the answer I needed in an instant.
Now with AI Overviews it has to show has "clever" it is.
Now with AI Overviews it has to show has "clever" it is.
Here's a good example at my local Sainsbury's. Cycle racks hidden around the side, behind some benches, on a camber, on a footway with no dropped kerb nearby.
July 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Here's a good example at my local Sainsbury's. Cycle racks hidden around the side, behind some benches, on a camber, on a footway with no dropped kerb nearby.
Kids in bed. Run to the pub.
June 13, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Kids in bed. Run to the pub.
We took ours camping last year. Granted, the tent was tiny.
June 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We took ours camping last year. Granted, the tent was tiny.
Another training run with sign spotting for @showmeasign.online in the bag. Bit wet.
June 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Another training run with sign spotting for @showmeasign.online in the bag. Bit wet.
Google's losing the plot. Researching parasorb cones for tooth extraction and these are the "people also ask" suggestions.
June 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Google's losing the plot. Researching parasorb cones for tooth extraction and these are the "people also ask" suggestions.
Just remembered I took this for you a couple of weeks back.
May 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Just remembered I took this for you a couple of weeks back.
This headline is wrong on so many levels, especially as forensics showed the driver (not the car) would have seen the cyclist from at least 200 meters away.
May 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This headline is wrong on so many levels, especially as forensics showed the driver (not the car) would have seen the cyclist from at least 200 meters away.
This reminds me of the Bargate in Southampton. It was part of the city walls but the walls and surrounding buildings were demolished for road widening. Now it's pedestrianised anyway.
May 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This reminds me of the Bargate in Southampton. It was part of the city walls but the walls and surrounding buildings were demolished for road widening. Now it's pedestrianised anyway.
Peak apple blossom season.
May 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Peak apple blossom season.
We've got bike parking at our doctor's but I recently discovered it's not bolted down!
May 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We've got bike parking at our doctor's but I recently discovered it's not bolted down!