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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 · 10h
this, and your day is more complete:
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 29/09/2026
text swirling through water, as if it is alive, reading "Deep in the woods, all trees look familiar, all paths have already been walked"
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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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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 28/09/2026
Let me know if it’s vanished! (And not a problem!)
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 28/09/2026
(to wit, ignore my email..)
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Ritesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wow www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ihu...
youtube.com
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 · 23/09/2026
Before the Russians moved in…
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 20/09/2026
I’d be delighted to help
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 20/09/2026
That’ll be @lukejerram.bsky.social’s Gaia, if I’m not mistaken… (Tom, meet Luke. Via Tom)
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 20/09/2026
Well that is a cliffhanger. Also, it’s not me. Although I’d be happy to advise.
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 18/09/2026
the first two are astonishingly good - and thankyou for shouting about them. (You then got me excited for book 3, which we don't get in the UK until December..)
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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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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 17/09/2026
Beautiful! (right - need to order your book now..)
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 16/09/2026
Not a thing. Except that it’s apparently not out until October. In the UK anyway. US mileage may vary.
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 16/09/2026
shouts out to @charlottecrofts.bsky.social
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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 · 04/09/2026
Thanks Pete! (most of that book will make its way into the final 'thing'. it did get my thoughts into order too!)
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 04/09/2026
that should be tattooed on the eyelids of every immersive designer.. (maybe not tattooed)
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 04/09/2026
It’s set now (whenever now actually is), and there’s a book, and a narrator and a single reader. And your phone. It includes Operation Crested Ice, 23 minutes of April 26th 1986, the end of the world, and I made a trailer for it a year ago, to get my thoughts in order. tomabba.studio/shop/none-of...
A blank page with a single line of text: None of this happened the way you thought it would.A collaged cover of a book. The only text implores ‘open the book’.Double page spread with a collaged image on the left, and reversed text on the right.
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 04/09/2026
(does not admit that he's been working on an immersive 'sequel/continuation' to Mountains of Madness for three and a half years)
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 02/09/2026
ok. Not disappointed. :)
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 02/09/2026
I'm watching this feed, and am very excited. I feel the weight of crushing disappoinment looming in about 5 minutes though
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 02/09/2026
Noted without comment.
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 01/09/2026
Cooper Cooper Cooper
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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
No words. At least, no words that are fit for broadcast.
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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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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 22/08/2026
Goodnight Hookland. Goodnight Arthur. They’re very real, you know.
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 22/08/2026
Thanks Adam. Back to it then (had put 3 down, largely out of ‘there are only so many hours in life’, but that adroit commentary has me back in..).
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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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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 19/08/2026
59 minutes! (that's the length of a UWE meeting, and more fruitful)
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 19/08/2026
I realise it's a stupid thing, but it irritates me so much. Low level snark every few days.
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 19/08/2026
it's more joyful when your employer has set it to every 3 days...
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 18/08/2026
(I can recommend making homemade pasta as a non-alcoholic alternative)
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 18/08/2026
Peaty single malts?
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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 17/08/2026
if it's any comfort, then Nora's (3½) most serious comeback is '_and you are NOT invited to my party_' whenever she's done with us.
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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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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 14/08/2026
That’s not how to spell institutional and systemic racism.
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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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