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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 06/08/2026

I really wanted a Burner but was too small so was given a Striker instead which was like riding a lump of lead

A yellow childrens bike, vaguely BMXish with blue wheels and mudguards

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 05/08/2026

More websites should start by telling me how well i did something a few weeks back.

Screen shot which declares: "You mowed this lawn in 49 moves. The most efficient path is just 49 moves. You were 100.0% efficient."

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 01/08/2026

Only took me 8 years and 3 copies of Into The Breach but I finally got all the medals. I got close on Steam a few years back but then a cloud saving issue wiped my progress.

Into the Breach screen grabs of the Global & Squad goals. Got them all.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 24/07/2026

10/10 All new shops should just adapt the old shop's signage like this

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 26/06/2026

Always enjoy seeing this little carved out sight line in this otherwise normal building

A photo of a london side street including a brick building where the bricks in one wall have been arranged in a concave shape so it doesn't block the view to (and from) a big round window in the neighbouring church

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 21/06/2026

💯Make it like Syril's relationship with his mother in Andor

Syril and his mother "enjoying" a meal together (a bowl of cereal with blue milk)

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 17/06/2026

In Cannes: Cannes: Stars, Scripts and Screens you have to make one of the three types of film (action, scf-fi, romcom) using the raw materials of people, computer chips, and beer via the medium of parties, golf and telephone conversations.

Photos of pages from the Cannes instruction booklet illustrating the process for converting people, computer chips and beer into movie magic.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 15/06/2026

Missy Elliot, resident of Royal Leamington Spa apparently

A photo of hand holding a CD case and a freepost envelope with the address "Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott, 3 Alveston Place, Leamington Spa etc."

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 11/06/2026

I have ~800 CDs and was in a similar position of never listening to them, when it came time to move I took the decision to get rid of all the cases, keeping the booklets, and pack them into these two CD storage crates. They now live in the kitchen along with a CD player and get loads of use

two stacked metal flight case looking boxes (40x70cm, actually plastic) sitting on a wooden floor in front of a glass door being over-hung by a slightly unwell looking leaf

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 23/05/2026

Enjoying this new game but "ginnel" is definitely a word (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginnel)

a grid of letters connected by lines, also a frog. I've drawn a line showing the word ginnel

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 21/05/2026

46.7/50. Rebuilding my self esteem after a disasterous NYT Connections puzzle dialed.gg?c=Z89RUC

a screen grab of some colours i remembered

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 21/05/2026

Yeah, complete crashout for me. Blue and purple fine (though purple still pretty uscentric) , yellow and green basically impossible. Pretty much the opposite of the official difficulty rating

screen grab of the NYT official difficulty assesment for the connections puzzle: yellow = straight forward, green, blue purple = tricky

my result grid: solid purple, then solid blue then 4 lines of randomly messing around with yellow and green

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 07/05/2026

A David Attenborough boardgame: Zoo Quest (1959)

A small game box the cover of which bears a picture of David Attenborough pasted on to an illustration of foliage and animals peeking out from behind a big yellow scrolly shape with the bright red bold text "ZOO QUEST - by arrangement with the BBC"

The box sits on a big green board bearing the same image (the back of the game board)

The box is opend revealing two decks of cards (green and red) backed with foliage patterns. A stack of paper money issued by "ZOO QUEST BANK" and "RULES for playing the game of ZOO QUEST" there's also an incredibly yellowed wax paper back containing some coloured game components

The board is open. It's a big colourfuly illustrated map of Africa showing geographical features and the location of various African and ocean dwelling animals (also a swamp dragon)

some a hand of game cards the uppermost card reads at the top "Questing? Illness forces yout to return to base for treatment before resuming quest. Keep this card until you reach base" and then upside down at the bottom of the card "Charter plane hazard. Weather report good for all areas. Happy landings!"

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 23/04/2026

Once again Paul Ford's framing fits perfectly www.ftrain.com/wwic

A screenshot of tsome text: "But the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It’s its own thing. And like other media it has a question that it answers better than any other. That question is:

Why wasn’t I consulted?"

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 21/04/2026

Love this idea: Graft the share and company mechanics from 18XX games onto the chassis of Settlers of Catan. Does it work? I hope to find out this weekend.

A hand holding cheaply printed booklet black and white booklet. The cover reads "18 CTN Expansion/ Extension for popular game By Cardner and Alex Babakitis" and shows a bunch of Settlers Of Catan components, some hand drawn share certificates, and a lasercut sheep

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 02/04/2026

You'll have a great April, don't worry about it!

An illustration of a BLT sandwich where the bread is replaced by quadrant charts. Captioned as follows
"Fig. 9: The BLT Theory of Visualization Consumption,
depicting the
interplay between visualization and reader. The sandwich consists of a visualization literacy tomato, engagement lettuce, and persuasion bacon, sandwiched between the foundational concept of information receptivity."

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 28/03/2026

Worth it to avoid the MadCatz controller

Cheap, annoying, blobby MadCatz PS1 controller

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 28/03/2026

His head is nearly 3ft high! his body over 5ft wide!

screen grab of the youtube thumbnail - jensen buck, mugshot in front of a height scale. The image has been edited to show hidden values on the scale which are out of shot these imply Buck's body has very unusual proportions.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 23/03/2026

This is my /that-kind-thing/ of section of the book shelf. I happily recommend any of them but I think those on the right of the shot are maybe closer to the kind of thing you're looking for.

Photo of a bookshelf...
Anna Quin - The unmapped country
Diane Williams - Fine,Fine,Fine,Fine,Fine
Will Eaves - Murmur
Emergency - Daisy Hildyard
Sum - David Eagleman
Alice Oswald - Dart
Alice Oswald - Memorial
Kalpa Imperial - Angelica Grodischer (translated by Le Guin)
I Hate The Internet - Jarett Kobek
Soft and Cuddly - Jarett Kobek

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 16/03/2026

[search your camera roll for hell] An iconic 90s text

A photo of a page from Gand Royal issue 2. Titled Ancient History of The Mullet. THe sentence in question which has the word "hell" highlighted:
"Important men like Charlemaigne (742-814 A.D.) said to hell with this noise and grew their hair as long as they liked, as did the dreaded Visigoths, Vikings and other "Mullitia" who held feral sway over this importunate era."

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 11/03/2026

To roughly quantify this I recently did some testing on the CB archive. Most of the 2025 links that don't work are twitter because the testing script wasn't logged in, but I consider links to twitter unreliable at the best of times so... (Exx-usually means a DNS error)

Split bar chart showing nearly 40% of links from content made in 2011 are giving some kind of error. Falling to less than 10% of links from 2025

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 03/02/2026

Had a bit of time to work on this over the last couple of days. More or less works from a layout point of view though I'm going to shift the borders of La Habana province (as I've noticed they do on the original board) as things a re bit tight even if I scale up the map a bit.

4 low toner A4 printouts taped together t make a map of Cuba. There are some board game pieces on top.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 21/01/2026

I don't think there's anything wrong with the original board. It's fine. My aim was to 1. make it feel a bit more like an artefact of the time, like a real map, and 2. decrease the visual noise and increase the contrast between the board and the player components

The original Cuba Libre board set up and ready to play

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 21/01/2026

One of my plans for the year is to try my hand at graphic-design for boardgames etc. so I've been working on redesigning/ reskinning some of the games on my shelf. The last couple of weeks I've been rethinking the map for Cuba Libre (still very much in progress)

A map of Cuba with various boxes and flow charts superimposed

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 20/01/2026

If you want to feel slightly unsettled/ like there's something wrong with your eyes our local upholsterers have just the chair for you!

A shop window featuring a chair covered in a. material that looks weirdly out of focus, it's not a nice feeling.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 20/01/2026

A really neat site looking at mode share in differences across cities, it doesn't really try to assess how good a transport system is other than implicitly (by usage) but you can see the same pattern of US cities being terrible for both public transport and active travel vis.csh.ac.at/citiesmoving/

A set of ternary plots the main take away is that North American cities don't use cars much more than other global cities

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 19/01/2026

I will never stop mourning Geeta on Willesden Lane. Vijay's about 50m up the road get all the attention and a shout out in a Zadie Smith book (NW). But Geeta was for the real heads; 20 years later I still haven't had a better masala dosa.

An advertising flyer with a montage of dingy looking photos, an 01 phone number and 70s style "Indian" font

screens shot from Hardens website :
This threadbare South Indian café, in Kilburn, is "a lovely family-run business", say fans, with "authentic home-made dishes" , impeccably
"helpful" service, and
"extraordinarily low" prices; some meals, however, have seemed uncharacteristically "ordinary" of late; BYO.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 14/11/2025

Those areas are wildly different sizes. A & B are tiny compared with G & D

The first of a series of 3 orthographic projection maps showing how apparently equal areas drawn on a mercator projection map are infact totally different

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 14/11/2025

Love this Sarah Evans painting, the light is perfect, reminds me of the village where i grew up. sarahevanswelshartist.com

Painting, "Moonlight over Rhossili". a patchwork of snowy fields running down to the sea with a scattering of buildings in the middle distance all viewed from a hill.

A photo of Llwyngwril in the 80s. a patchwork of snowy fields running down to the sea with a scattering of buildings in the middle distance all viewed from a hill. Also some children with sledges in the nearest field

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 31/10/2025

re Jose Saramago and dogs: This is from Ursula Le Guin's review of his last novel (I've read enough of his books now to be able to confirm that this simple ranking system is correct esp if as Le Guin suggests you count elephants as dogs) www.theguardian.com/books/2010/j...

In the last phrase of this eloquent sentence, Saramago doesn't say fellow-men, but fellow-creatures. To him "man" is not the sole subject of human interest, in whom all value and meaning inheres, but a member of a large household. Saramago's reminder to us that we aren't the be-all and end-all of creation is, usually, a dog. I developed a simple ranking system for his fiction: the books with a dog are better than the ones with no dog; the more important the dog, the better the book.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 06/10/2025

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of working on a freelance project working with a guy who had this as his linkedin bio...

a linked in bio screen-grabbed:
"Automation sniper. Ops Slayer. Occasional pitch roaster. No Mercy.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 29/09/2025

Luckily I caught the postman before he'd totally shredded the packaging as he forced the new issue of @wyrdscience.bsky.social through our slightly too small letterbox

Photo of my hand holding the latest issue of Wyrd Science magazine. The cover is a neon coloured illustration of a couple of space fantasy adventurers, swords and ray-guns at the ready, exploring a cave/ dungeon/ space hulk type environment. Naturally there are also skulls.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 12/09/2025

Batteries got really good and solar power got cheap.

a chart showing battery cost falling sharply whilst energy density rises steeply

A chart showing that solar power is now cheaper than fossil fuels from a position of being about 2x as expensive a decade ago

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 05/09/2025

Lol, no. Also, interesting choice to illustrate this piece with a picture of a traffic clogged Parisan roundabout.

A series of 6 heatmaps showing how paris has drastically reduced airpollution over the last 20 years espescially dramatic fall between 2017 and 2024 largely achieved by taking cars of the roads

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