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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 4h

history repeats. first as tragedy, second as this is just fucking ridiculous at this point for goodness’ sake

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 4h

the original draft of my skeet was “babe wake up, 96th thesis just dropped”

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 4h

stalin: the pope? how many divisions does he have? this guy: the pope? how many local models does he run?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 28/09/2026

the farmer woman is going to end up on celebrity traitors isn't she

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 25/09/2026

once they uncorked the “but Liv/her dad/Huck/the president could also just kill them” genie, it wouldn’t go back in. a show fundamentally about dirty tricks and spin fell apart when the first silencer got screwed onto a gun (not quite,but what was at first a massive event horizon became a daily fix)

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 24/09/2026

one of the many Elon crimes is that on the other place in 2022 this would’ve got above respectable numbers

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 23/09/2026

ethical consumption is when a billionaire gets tuberculosis

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 23/09/2026

ethical consumption is when a billionaire gets tuberculosis

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 21/09/2026

Lehman brothers two days after my 18th has always struck me as on the nose writing

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 21/09/2026

what do you guys think will happen when the Queen dies

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 18/09/2026

that was the only bit of the movie that felt like the book. Brad Pitt going around meeting people and hearing stories like that would have been a really good adaptation, even (especially?) if it had been more new stories that weren’t actually the book’s ones

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 17/09/2026

Mark Carney? The central banker? Who’s governor-general, Mervyn King?

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 16/09/2026

this does sound like he’s struggling with excel “Hi Andy. None of Rachel’s macros work. Can we do a quick call?”

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 16/09/2026

Legion of Merit is a pretty good Medal of Honor/CoD stand-in “Operation Stranglehold: Berlin 1989” as an operation flashpoint clone in a world where the wall came down… but only briefly…

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 16/09/2026

Mud & Blood (Hearts of Iron but it’s WWI)

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Oh no, chums! The PM's asked me to tell him _in person_ about the state of Channel 4 - I'll have to be awake AT 2 PM!!" The Reader: "Nappy Nandy can't get out of this one--" LATER "Ha ha! I've stuck a picture of my face on Larry the Cat! More sleep for me!" PM: "Something smells FISHY here..."

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 13/09/2026

Secretary of State for Big Zs Coming Out Of My Head While I Wear An Old Timey Night Cap

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 11/09/2026

today, I am the age my mum was when I was born. it would therefore be impolite to tell you how old I am, so let’s just say there wasn’t a Berlin Wall but there was still a Soviet Union

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 05/09/2026

Whitechapel is the only station where the London Overground goes under the London Underground.

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 31/08/2026

astronaut meme but it’s “wait, it’s all class signifiers?”

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I say 'it me' and 'tag urself'. I look down on him." "I say 'picky bits' but not 'holibobs' or 'famalam'. I look up to him, but down on him." "Live, laugh, love. I know my place."

Cheese, Barker and Corbett in the class sketch.

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 29/08/2026

Two colleagues surprisingly reunite, years after one left their British government job.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 14/08/2026

[me, next to someone blasting music from their phone] ah well. I’m a live and let live type, so I’ll just put my own music on at the same volume, which will work well for both me and everyone else on this train, especially the people with sensory issues that this example is meant to protect

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 14/08/2026

the big (okay, one of many big) issues with “actually music out loud on trains is fine and you’re an ableist killjoy” as an argument is that… this isn’t true? for the simple reason that *only one person can play music out loud before nobody is meaningfully listening to music anymore*

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 08/08/2026

haven’t replied to you in the past (because I often agree with you) so I understand this will read like a drive-by, but: who is the government right now and from what Labour tradition do you think they, and their immediate predecessors, hail?

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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Public use of AI is doing weird, unpredictable and damaging things to the state. A dive into how Grok lawyering is upending the employment tribunals www.economist.com/britain/2026...

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 05/08/2026

I would say this but as someone who doesn’t listen to music radio, has an ad blocker and all shops/bars use Spotify playlists now… has it? not looking for a fight but I do think there’s a point there

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 03/08/2026

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"Being trans is sad Being trans is horrid." Shut up. Being trans is great. Look. I've got inner peace and a fucking scythe.

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 29/07/2026

I know what you’re getting at, but have seen UK street (or loud public transport) preachers who absolutely *were* doing the “the hatred is the point” stuff. I know this because of the bits of the bible they were choosing to talk about (you can guess).

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 29/07/2026

This isn’t just a gotcha. It’s a full-scale exposé.

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 27/07/2026

this is truly the biggest event in wrestling ever to happen in Montreal

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 27/07/2026

I said “I have my issues with cyclists” to someone the other day and they went “ah, are you a driver?” and I said “fuck off!”

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 26/07/2026

I have some books to recommend (jokes aside I run @sealionpress.co.uk and can point you at the ones that do get into “yes if the most chaotic barbarous state ran all of Europe, things would indeed be insane”)

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 25/07/2026

I swear it was you! I even remember thinking “this is very John”. but maybe I thought that because it was him…

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 25/07/2026

it never really stops - @mconcagh.bsky.social explaining to me during the last year that Guadalcanal impacted North Africa in a far more than just “holistic” way (IJN redeployments freed up Indian Ocean RN resources to directly impact the supply situation for Montgomery) blew my BA-in-History mind

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 24/07/2026

it’s not impossible that Theresa May is still majority leader at the 2022 general election

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 21/07/2026

i will add them to the short list of nations that don’t even pretend to be democratic in any way (DPRK is an example of the opposite). last I checked it was Brunei, Saudi, Holy See (although obviously they do elect their leader) and I think one other monarchy somewhere

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