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Tom Pickard

@oddtwang.bsky.social

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PhD in NLP @ Sheffield | Tell me your favourite idioms! | Occasional crossword puzzles.

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Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

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Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A bag of potatoes, helpfully labelled "your go-to for any potato dish"

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Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Delight for the day: TiL that the Welsh for "See it. Say it. Sorted." is "Wedi sylwi. Wedi sôn. Wedi sortio."

Information display on a Transport for Wales train.
The last two lines are "Byddwn ni'n ei sortio. Wedi sylwi, Wedi Sôn, Wedi Sortio."

Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Does this mean the film comes from some sort of evil mastermind?

A screenshot of an advert for The Sheep Detectives, featuring a sheep's face and the words "From a director of Minions"

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Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Seth Milchick from the TV show Severance. The image is captioned "devour feculence".

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Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Turns out that decaff is a nice pale lilac colour. Who knew?

A square of the colour #DECAFF (in hexadecimal colour notation). It's a pale lilac / purple.

Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Galactus:

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Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Unusually casual reporting from the Guardian yesterday...

A Guardian headline: "Mistakenly released prisoner turns himself in". Below is a panel titled "An incredible self-own".

The "incredible self-own" panel is actually the paper asking for subscriptions, and not commentary on the headline.

Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

When you lose a letter from your Peugeot, you can get a Yu-Gi-Oh

Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Saw this in the reduced section of Tesco, didn't realise it was a hat for a minute and thought Funko we're taking a bold stance against Moldemort by putting out a trans Ron.

A Funko pop in its box on a shelf. It is labelled "Ron Weasley". The dangling parts of his hat look like he has long hair in bunches.

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Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

cash/card vs card/cash

Two self-checkout machines in a Sainsbury's Local. Each has a piece of A4 paper taped to it which look like they were printed on an office printer. The first says "Cash and card payments", the second "Card and cash payments".

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Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

This is definitely trapped or a mimic, right?

A photo of a mostly empty reduced to clear fridge in Tesco. A yellow bottle labelled "This Is Food" is producing an ominous aura.

Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Rammstein have certainly changed up their look this Industrienacht

A photo of four posters on a green wall, taken in Basel, Switzerland. The first has the URL industrienacht.com, and the other three are black-and-white photos of 3 feminine people with the text "Ramstein Optik" printed on them.

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Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A movie you've watched more than 6 times

Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

@retroid.bsky.social

Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source

The robot news presenters from the Galactic News Network, as featured in the videogame Master of Orion

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Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Someone's getting tips on how to prepare their Christmas dinner.

A photo taken in Wanstead Park. A pigeon is perched on a "Feeding the birds" sign, and appears to be reading it.

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Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Mike Jupp is the Daily Express given human flesh and sent to this earth to herald the End Times.

A jigsaw puzzle cover. Mike Jupp's "I Love Car Boot Sales", a busy cartoon filled with shit jokes, racist and sexist stereotypes and caricatures, etc.

Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

This "zen proverb" is printed on the puzzle itself, not just the box.

A jigsaw puzzle by "Mind Fulness". A photo of an alpine lake with reflected trees, overlaid with a "zen proverb" in a faux-calligraphy font; "Obstacles do not block the path. They are the path."

Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

In the grim darkness of the far future (of the year 2000), there is only door.

A murder mystery jigsaw puzzle titled "Murder in the Year 2000". The cover is a bad photo collage in which a man seems to be fleeing from a door.

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Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Every lady's dresser must be equipped with a spirit level.

A jigsaw puzzle cover. An old painting of three people at a table. They look unimpressed to be there. A woman on the left has a large, incredibly square hairdo.

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Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

This goose is a mood.

A jigsaw cover. A painting in which a traction engine is crashing into a haybarn causing chaos.

A close-up from the previous image. A goose is giving strong side -eye.

Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

... With A Fcidge

A tourist guidebook titled "Around Iceland"

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Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

This 11th-century Icelandic wood carving has been improved by the addition of a Shrek. @herring1967.bsky.social would be proud.

A section of a carved wooden panel from the National Museum of Iceland. A long-haired Jesus type appears to be berating a short, bald Shrek-looking person with prominent ears.

Tom Pickard @oddtwang.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The Doctor whispering into Rose Tyler's ear. Text in a green font similar to the Wicked poster reads "Defy Mavity"

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