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Tom Abba

@tomabba.studio
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Professor of Narrative Technologies and Pervasive Media Studio Resident. Artist, writer and publisher. Opinions are all my own. Usually making something.

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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 9h
this, and your day is more complete:
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 29/09/2026
I intened to spend a decent portion of my morning figuring out the narrative consequences and pre-episode causality of ███ ████████ ███████ ██ ██████ ████ ███ ███ █████ the Devil's Sound.
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Ritesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wow www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ihu...
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We Built a Chinese Typewriter...
YouTube video by HTX Studio
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.com · 25/09/2026
Someone made a free, first-person walkthrough of the house on Ash Tree Lane from HOUSE OF LEAVES. It's as haunting as you'd hope it would be... pazificateur69.github.io/ash-tree-lane/
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Ash Tree Lane
An unofficial retelling of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves, in new words, for the web.
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 18/09/2026
Anyone want to see where I work? superspl.at/scene/d8d4b9a4 (with huge thanks to Scanomatic Labs!)
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Tom Abba Studio - SuperSplat
Tom Abba Studio A 3D Gaussian Splat capture of Tom Abba’s studio space in Bristol, captured using the XGRIDS PortalCam. This scan is part of my ongoing exp...
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m just saying Billie Joe MacAllister should’ve survived that jump.
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Immersive Arts UK @immersiveartsuk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We have some big and exciting news! 📣 We've secured over £8.5m to continue supporting UK artists working with immersive technologies until 2030. Further details, including funding opportunities, will be shared in the New Year. Read the announcement: immersivearts.uk/news/8-5m-second-phase-funding/
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 07/09/2026
I don't think we had cameras back then.. (ZX81. In 1981. God, I'm old)
Wikipedia's photograph of a Sinclair ZX81
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Patrick Barb @patrickbarb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Something incredibly calming about watching this...
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Immersive Arts UK @immersiveartsuk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Who’s joining us in Llandudno this September? 🥳 From Wed 9- Fri 11 Sept The Big Thing is bringing more than 70 workshops, performances and networking events to North Wales, all inspired by this year's theme, Play's the Thing. immersivearts.uk/events/the-big-thing
A group of diverse individuals standing in a room, each holding a smartphone and engaged in conversation.
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 02/09/2026
Noted without comment.
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 28/08/2026
Amen.
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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Coming in eight days. Sign up for the free page and newsletter here www.patreon.com/cw/DavidBarn... Books! Comics! Interviews! My favourite shops! Nepo Corner! Tales from the Longbox! Random but entertaining shit!
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 23/08/2026
Brief foray on Vinted. Someone tell @benpester.bsky.social that his secret is out…
A copy of Ben Pester’s novel The Expansion Project, categorised as non-fiction.
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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How I Spent My Summer Holidays, or, My Complete Failure to Write an Actual Sodding Review of China Miéville’s New Novel THE ROUSE (with thanks to Rob, Roger, Deb and Cameron - and China)
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Revenance Event
China Miéville returns to fiction with a secret history of late-twentieth-century Britain.
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Simon Coates @simonjcoates.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The only reason I can think of as to why there are fewer than 50,000 signatures here is that people haven't seen it yet. — Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now — goodlawproject.org/petition/jas...
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It’s really worth reading this thread to understand what Jason Arday was like as a person. I’m so very sorry for his family and friends.
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 14/08/2026
This was a lynching. And you can quote me on that.
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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'm sorry... 'Prof Gone'? They made a man's sacking the main news story for weeks as the country went on fire, which might have contributed to his death and 'Prof Gone'? This is the same clique that wept & wailed for a week when we dared mention their dinner party pal was a wife beating nonce.
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 14/08/2026
And @theguardian.com have a case to answer, as do the Telegraph, @dailymail.co.uk and every outlet that decided this was worth clicks. Inhuman.
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 14/08/2026
@catvincent.bsky.social - as a (former, but you never really go away) Bristol resident, did you catch this yesterday: www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Pero's Bridge shuts after major malfunction
Video shows the Bristol landmark Pero's Bridge slamming shut during testing.
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 14/08/2026
This is the antidote to everything else you might read today:
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Blue Rose Archive @bluerosearchive.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We built Lynchverse, a research archive for David Lynch’s films. Analysis, symbolism, soundtracks and recurring ideas, organized film by film. Still growing, so feedback is very welcome. #DavidLynch @markfrost.bsky.social #TwinPeaks #InlandEmpire #LostHighway #MulhollandDrive lynchverse.com
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Lynchverse | David Lynch Films, Analysis and Archives
Explore David Lynch's films through scene-by-scene readings, character studies, symbolism, sound, production histories, and sourced archival research.
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Holly Casio @hollycasio.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Here a compilation of stupid things library consultants have said to me in solidarity with library pals at Lambeth Libraries where genius consultants has decided that a qualified head of library service post isn't really essential.
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 04/08/2026
Rain 10/10 Bristol
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 02/08/2026
Stunning evening. (cc @markfrost.bsky.social)
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It's the last day of our WBN 2026 exhibition. Which means – the call for World Book Night 2027 – Our Rivers and Seas is open! please read and respond to a text or book about rivers, seas, lakes or marine life. Deadline 2 March 2027. Download the full brief at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/news/#wbn27
The cover of Rachel Carson’s book The Sea Around Us (1952 edition) with illustrations of sea creatures and sailing ships on a marine, light teal colour background.Interior pages of Rachel Carson’s book The Sea Around Us (1952 edition). The page on the right shows a chart with an underwater sea mount in the Gulf of Alaska 'it rises 9600 feet from the ocean floor and is 857 fathoms below the surface'.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
London, 1968, and it is NOT Quatermass and the Pit.
Giant 'Thing' Haunts Irish Workers In London Tunnel.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.
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George Walkley @georgewalkley.com · 22/07/2026
Except—the quoted text in the headline is a paraphrase, not a quote from the research, and the 6% seems to relate to a particular, specific usage rather than AI in general. The Creative Access research is useful, but this headline and framing doesn't help. Details: www.linkedin.com/posts/george...
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Publishing has 'lowest uptake of AI across creative industries', according to new report | George Walkley
The Bookseller's morning newsletter caught my attention with an eye-catching headline, suggesting that publishing has the 'lowest uptake of AI across creative industries', according to new research fr...
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 21/07/2026
Seconded. Not that anyone listens to me. But Jamie knows his stuff.
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 21/07/2026
good god @paultremblay.bsky.social Dead But Dreaming of Eletric Sheep is an astonishing novel. (Nobody's laughing now..)
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al mac @almac.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Sorry but £45 a year off energy bills makes no meaningful difference Unpegging the price of electricity from that of wholesale gas (£120/MWh whereas wind is £15/MWh) would make a meaningful difference.
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 15/07/2026
One for @georgewalkley.com and hazy recollections of workplaces past..
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 10/07/2026
This is film journalism. Beautiful work.
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 10/07/2026
ICYMI, at @popheist.com I took a look at Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces, David Lynch's feature-length collection of fully canonical deleted/extended scenes from Fire Walk With Me. It plants the seeds for much of Season 3, but even some Twin Peaks fans don't know it exists.
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'Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces' Recap
The emergence of "Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces" was our first real sign that it might, indeed, be happening again.
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 10/07/2026
A CLOUD JUST COVERED THE BALL OF HEAT IN THE SKY
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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This is also true of Humanities journals and those of us who publish in them.
Screenshot from Twitter, I guess? I saw it on Facebook. 

Anyway, its a social media response to a question by one Louie who asks "What's something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?" 

The answer comes from one Dr. Holly Witterman and reads: "That $35 that scientific journals charge you to read a paper goes 100% to the publisher, 0% to the authors. If you just email us to ask for our papers, we are allowed to send them to you for free, and we will be genuinely delighted to do so".
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Baudrillard spinning in his grave so fast he torpedoes out of the hillside and remains airborne, lasers shooting out of his eyes with such force earth is cleanly cut in two
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 02/07/2026
okay - I have some news. There's a very carefully constructed LinkedIn post (you'll see how carefully if you open it) here: www.linkedin.com/posts/tom-ab... However this isn't LinkedIn, so you get the version Jeni told me I should write:
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Some news. Again. Starting 31st July, I’m promoted to Professor of Narrative Technologies¹ at the University of the West of England. It’s been a while coming, and a lot of people deserve a nod of…...
Some news. Again. Starting 31st July, I’m promoted to Professor of Narrative Technologies¹ at the University of the West of England. It’s been a while coming, and a lot of people deserve a nod of ...
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George Walkley @georgewalkley.com · 16/06/2026
@hbr.org has a new piece on how AI companies should pay fair rates for content, suggesting that the answer is a Hollywood-style profit share: hbr.org/2026/06/how-.... 🤨 I've written a response comparing this with "Hollywood accounting": www.georgewalkley.com/AI-and-Holly...
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How AI Companies Can Pay Fair Rates for the Content They Need
Frontier AI models are trained on the accumulated digital output of humanity, which AI companies acquired essentially for free. This is a problem for both AI companies and content creators. For AI com...
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“I’ve read several of Harrison’s novels: not once have I fully understood what was happening, but I keep rushing back for more.” Me on M John Harrison’s The End of Everything, a book that speaks to our time of repeated crises, when disaster follows disaster until something seems permanently broken.
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The end of the world (in dry, witty prose)
Post-apocalyptic beachcombers, alien invaders and weird jokes — you don’t have to fully understand M John Harrison’s The End of Everything to enjoy it
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 12/06/2026
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 06/06/2026
In an exclusive extract from his new book, The End of Everything, the Warwickshire-born SF visionary pictures the apocalypse, as seen from the shores of Kent Coastal Time: New Fiction by #MJohnHarrison buff.ly/4FDnRjm
M. John Harrison - The End of Everything cover. Black background with the author's name in white, a blurb quote from China Mieville and a line saying 'Prize-winning author of The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again' in pale blue. Underneath those three lines, the title, which bleeds into a photograph of a man standing alone at the shoreline on a beach, is spelled out ion the light blue of clouds.
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 04/06/2026
well obviously...
Screengrab from a google search for 'Widow's Bay. Prompt text reads "Did you mean: the next martha's vineyard and definitely not cursed"
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 04/06/2026
and now we just have Reform. "Hundreds of millions of years ago, England and Wales were home to the biggest scorpion in the world"
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Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Signups are open for Strandfall, an orienteering larp inspired by Stalker and Death Stranding! Set five years after a mysterious disaster unleashes deadly storms, players join a risky expedition to deploy "spatial computers" and put humanity back on its feet. Edinburgh / September 5th / *Free*
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Strandfall is now open for sign ups
Sign up to our orienteering-style larp inspired by Stalker and Death Stranding.
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