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

I wonder how much LLM generated code will lock people into these outdated patterns. Feels like whenever I see vibecoded stuff the syntax is (apart from anything else) quite out of date

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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 · 06/08/2026

I like the way that Hayden Panettiere is seems to be subtly cos-playing as spider-man in that outfit

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

Indian and other cinema traditions have a much easier time with this kind of tonal shift. Nolan is, if nothing else, a rigorously realist 'western' film maker

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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 · 03/08/2026

Yes, "a family-friendly audiovisual spectacle, like an elaborate Fourth of July fireworks display" is a good thing!

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 03/08/2026

Read Emily Wilson's LRB piece so now have a further opinion (to wit Emily Wilson was right)

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

Went to see The Odyssey and so now HAVE OPINIONS

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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 · 31/07/2026

It's been 30+ years since i read the books but doesn't he form a band in one of them?

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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 · 23/07/2026

... the viking men and british women. I'm not having a go, I just thought it was an interesting example of the way we tend to ascribe transmission of what we might consider masculine/ viking characteristics to male descendants and vice-versa. I know this is the kind of thing i might easily do too

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 23/07/2026

sure. you can trace maternal lineage via mitochondrial DNA. That study doesn't make any claims about the sex of the descendants though only the original settlers. You said the women are descended from women and the men are descended from viking men. whereas all the people are descended from both ...

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 23/07/2026

surely men in iceland are also descended from women and women from men? (unless there's something really strange going on in iceland)

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 23/07/2026

My vague recollection of a book I read years ago is the original celtic population of gb got pushed out of what's now england over to wales, which is defended by a bunch of mountains if you're coming from the east so that's where the settlement stopped (as i say, very vague memories though so...)

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 18/07/2026

Just watched Backrooms (its fine). Feels like a film that will have tons of sequels which expand on the "lore" in profoundly stupid ways

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 18/07/2026

yeah, crazy that we thought th 1989 one was dark and serious batman when it came out (though i guess that might just have been 11yr old me)

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 18/07/2026

I asked my kids (14, 16) the same thing a while back they were unanimous that the best one was Lego Batman. tbh think they might be right.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 13/07/2026

Yeah, Le Guin was knocking them out the park right up to (and including) Lavinia. M John Harrison's recent work is IMO his best. Dickens? Eliot? All their best work is in the back half of their career.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 12/07/2026

Have never knowingly bought or used a Goodyear product (tyres?) but have had Ice Cube playing in my head since Wednesday so I guess advertising works? www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Uq...

youtube.com

Ice Cube - It Was A Good Day

YouTube video by IceCubeVEVO

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 11/07/2026

most of these are now lost having been taken down when a more level headed editor came on shift or simply buried in the archive. often regret not taking a copy when I left

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 11/07/2026

Many years ago, when I worked with the graphics team at the BBC news website, we had a folder on the shared drive call "shame" where we'd save all the most ridiculous graphics we'd been asked to make, things like visualizing how many bars of chocolate would weigh the same as a double-decker bus etc.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 10/07/2026

Given my previous experience with estate agents I'd hazard a guess at all of them

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 09/07/2026

Surprised to find myself voting for Lush here but Pet Shop Boys pick up my bonus

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 09/07/2026

Bad Ass! That wobbly bass line really deserves the best speakers but it works just fine recorded off the radio onto an old tape and played on a knackered car stereo

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 08/07/2026

I always forget the 13 has that lens flare on the cover. Such a strange choice, very "It's 1999 and I've just discovered the filters menu in photoshop" (i say this as someone who discovered the filters menu in photoshop in 1999)

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 30/06/2026

Need a hotel reservation for a week from the 14th of June? You better believe I'm booking it for the 14th of July! I get my wife to sit next to me when I'm doing any expensive transport/ accommodation booking for this very reason.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 30/06/2026

specific things that I make it work: very clear objective. players already familiar with tone and "lore". rules for switching characters mid stream when death (inevitably) comes knocking. Very sandboxy play within constrained environment. Simple rules.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 30/06/2026

Generally I'd really welcome more of this kind of thing. £35 for a couple of evenings entertainment for 4 or 5 people seems like a good deal and the lack of homework/ ongoing commitment for players makes it much easier to get to the table

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 30/06/2026

I got the new Alien RPG starter box a while back which is very like what you describe. I've run it a couple of times and both have been fantastic (albeit very different) experiences. Honestly I think it might be the best way to play the game, certainly feels truest to the fiction.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 30/06/2026

Playing table top games (boardgames and RPGs) probably nets out at about £30/40 a month for physical products but another £50+ for snacks and drinks whilst playing.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 29/06/2026

I went to Tintern Abbey a couple of years back and had no idea that's where they'd filmed the video until we got there and clocked it straight away. Weirdly it's not mentioned on any of the official signage.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 29/06/2026

My impression growing up as metal head in the 90s is that Sabbath and Led Zep were up approaching Beatles/ Stones levels of cultural heft in the states but I never heard them on the radio (exception: Tommy Vance's rock ghetto). Meanwhile New Order were getting to number one with a football song.

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Tom P (official visualizer) @tom.2x2.graphics · 29/06/2026

Sabbath (and metal in general) have always been much bigger outside the UK whereas I recon Manchester bands have tended to reinforce Manchester's distinct cultural identity with the UK

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

A lovely side effect of more electric cars will hopefully be fewer revving wankers

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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 · 26/06/2026

yes! with the right distribution someone could both in the 90% percentile and right on the mean

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