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
· Dec 22
Why I've begun to carry a dictaphone on a daily basis and why this is not just mad hipster shit but an important tool in reclaiming attention spans from Big Tech.
Thanks to @parismarx.com for his "anti big tech christmas guide" which I think is what got me started
open.substack.com/pub/fairplay...
Thanks to @parismarx.com for his "anti big tech christmas guide" which I think is what got me started
open.substack.com/pub/fairplay...
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Whenever I open a screw-neck bottle of wine I hold it close to me and twist it hard so the crack sounds like I'm a top spy breaking the neck of a security guard.
January 31, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Whenever I open a screw-neck bottle of wine I hold it close to me and twist it hard so the crack sounds like I'm a top spy breaking the neck of a security guard.
Thanks to stickers it seems my pockets are accidentally full of unofficial but kind of official @achewood-official.bsky.social merch.
January 30, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Thanks to stickers it seems my pockets are accidentally full of unofficial but kind of official @achewood-official.bsky.social merch.
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And I said, let grief
be a fallen Leith
at the dawning of the day.
be a fallen Leith
at the dawning of the day.
January 21, 2026 at 4:09 PM
And I said, let grief
be a fallen Leith
at the dawning of the day.
be a fallen Leith
at the dawning of the day.
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To break up the doom and chaos, here's an interview with the woman who designed London's newest public space about how it came together, the difficulties of reclaiming three acres from the Thames, and what to look out for on the Bazalgette Embankment. www.londoncentric.media/i/185186036/...
London's newest public space
Plus: Will someone rid London of these troublesome trees, London Standard to merge with the Independent, Lime bikes could have legally-mandated minimum safety and maintenance standards.
www.londoncentric.media
January 21, 2026 at 2:41 PM
To break up the doom and chaos, here's an interview with the woman who designed London's newest public space about how it came together, the difficulties of reclaiming three acres from the Thames, and what to look out for on the Bazalgette Embankment. www.londoncentric.media/i/185186036/...
Loved this bit in latest @londoncentric.media
January 21, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Loved this bit in latest @londoncentric.media
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Delete Spotify
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 16, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Delete Spotify
I put in loads of effort in my application for a very promising work related scheme, I got in! The email arrived yesterday saying I had to reply by 6pm TODAY! I didn't even get home til 7pm, I'm absolutely gutted. If they don't make an exception, my career may well be over.
January 16, 2026 at 7:39 PM
I put in loads of effort in my application for a very promising work related scheme, I got in! The email arrived yesterday saying I had to reply by 6pm TODAY! I didn't even get home til 7pm, I'm absolutely gutted. If they don't make an exception, my career may well be over.
I've had this brilliantly forboding monochrome picture of Towyn Beach in North Wales as a desktop background for a few years now. By photographer Michael Bennett as seen here www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
January 16, 2026 at 7:35 PM
I've had this brilliantly forboding monochrome picture of Towyn Beach in North Wales as a desktop background for a few years now. By photographer Michael Bennett as seen here www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
I'm not a selfish goon!" - Simon Pegg in Hippies (1999)
January 8, 2026 at 2:17 PM
I'm not a selfish goon!" - Simon Pegg in Hippies (1999)
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Misread these creme eggs (3rd January too early for easter eggs btw) as saying "WHITE EGG - SAME GOD" and was momentarily stopped in my tracks.
January 3, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Misread these creme eggs (3rd January too early for easter eggs btw) as saying "WHITE EGG - SAME GOD" and was momentarily stopped in my tracks.
Due to my epic procrastination skills I still have this book Radical Technologies by Adam Greenfield. Completely unread on my shelf. Published 2017. Smartphones, algorithms, bitcoin. But the glossary does not even have an entry for the term "AI." That's how new this whole thing is. #popthatbubble
December 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Due to my epic procrastination skills I still have this book Radical Technologies by Adam Greenfield. Completely unread on my shelf. Published 2017. Smartphones, algorithms, bitcoin. But the glossary does not even have an entry for the term "AI." That's how new this whole thing is. #popthatbubble
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Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.
December 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.
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Twenty years ago spent great effort in rescuing a loved one from a cult. Social services and the courts were involved. I see how society has become brainwashed by social media. The similarities are stark except there will be no one to rescue us.
December 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Twenty years ago spent great effort in rescuing a loved one from a cult. Social services and the courts were involved. I see how society has become brainwashed by social media. The similarities are stark except there will be no one to rescue us.
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The only mountain most people who wear North Face see is when they eat a Toblerone.
December 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The only mountain most people who wear North Face see is when they eat a Toblerone.
Spending Christmas day ill!
December 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Spending Christmas day ill!
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six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO
December 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO
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I am declaring war on 82% of bluesky with this
October 29, 2024 at 1:15 AM
I am declaring war on 82% of bluesky with this
Four years ago I was recovering from surgery and the shock of losing my dream job, sitting in the Cube Houses in Rotterdam reading @thefence.bsky.social . The COVID-edition hotel breakfast was some very weird processed foods in a paper bag.
December 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Four years ago I was recovering from surgery and the shock of losing my dream job, sitting in the Cube Houses in Rotterdam reading @thefence.bsky.social . The COVID-edition hotel breakfast was some very weird processed foods in a paper bag.
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remember, the holiday season primer is context dependent! if you have cool lib parents you can treat yellow and maybe even orange as blue. if you've got psycho evangelical parents seek supplemental material that covers Tulsa King and Yellowstone
December 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
remember, the holiday season primer is context dependent! if you have cool lib parents you can treat yellow and maybe even orange as blue. if you've got psycho evangelical parents seek supplemental material that covers Tulsa King and Yellowstone
Let's make it 1,000,001 tonight (@ing my mam n dad)
Wake Up Dead Man has now joined the Letterboxd One Million Watched Club 🕵️♂️
December 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Let's make it 1,000,001 tonight (@ing my mam n dad)
Why I've begun to carry a dictaphone on a daily basis and why this is not just mad hipster shit but an important tool in reclaiming attention spans from Big Tech.
Thanks to @parismarx.com for his "anti big tech christmas guide" which I think is what got me started
open.substack.com/pub/fairplay...
Thanks to @parismarx.com for his "anti big tech christmas guide" which I think is what got me started
open.substack.com/pub/fairplay...
December 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Why I've begun to carry a dictaphone on a daily basis and why this is not just mad hipster shit but an important tool in reclaiming attention spans from Big Tech.
Thanks to @parismarx.com for his "anti big tech christmas guide" which I think is what got me started
open.substack.com/pub/fairplay...
Thanks to @parismarx.com for his "anti big tech christmas guide" which I think is what got me started
open.substack.com/pub/fairplay...
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FFS, just go ahead and ban ALL the best people, why don't you.
December 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
FFS, just go ahead and ban ALL the best people, why don't you.
*eyes being prized open* I LOVE THE NATIONAL CYCLE NETWORK I LOVE THE NATIONAL CYCLE NETWORK
December 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
*eyes being prized open* I LOVE THE NATIONAL CYCLE NETWORK I LOVE THE NATIONAL CYCLE NETWORK
Enjoying this MAMMOTH sitcom.
December 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Enjoying this MAMMOTH sitcom.