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Tom Carmony @tomcarmony.com · 10/08/2026

Working on my Urban Farming merit badge. This was last week’s haul.

Last week’s harvest of tomatoes and cucumbers from our garden.

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Tom Carmony @tomcarmony.com · 10/08/2026

Wasn't expecting this guy to make an appearance in my family tree... 😬

A screenshot of part of my family tree on Ancestry.com, showing that Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England and one of the most hated men in Irish history, is my 10th great grandfather.

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Tom Carmony @tomcarmony.com · 30/04/2025

I feel like @anildash.com really sums up corporate AI-use mandates so well: www.anildash.com/2025/04/19/a...

"AI is really good for helping you if you're bad at something, or at least below average. But it's probably not the right tool if you're great at something. So why would these CEOs be saying, almost all using the exact same phrasing, that everyone at their companies should be using these tools? Do the think their employees are all bad at their jobs?"

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Tom Carmony @tomcarmony.com · 29/04/2025

This is a worthwhile read for anyone exhausted from the endless tail-chasing of personal brand-building and marketing themselves constantly across social media: www.chrbutler.com/you-can-be-a...

"The next time you use something that works so well you barely notice it, remember that somewhere, a designer solved a problem so thoroughly that both the problem and its solution became invisible. That designer might not be famous, might not have thousands of followers, might not be invited to speak at conferences — but they’ve achieved something remarkable: greatness through invisibility."

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Tom Carmony @tomcarmony.com · 29/03/2025

I don't care if you're a Democratic candidate (even a progressive one) if your strategy is to just bombard my inbox. I never signed up for these, and it JUST. KEEPS. COMING. Seriously @gayforcongress.bsky.social treat supporters with a modicum of respect, because it's just turning people off.

A cropped screenshot of my Gmail spam folder, showing a cluster of panicked, spam fundraising emails from Florida House candidate Democratic Gay Valimont.

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Tom Carmony @tomcarmony.com · 28/03/2025

It's encouraging to see iStock explicitly noting that search results (at least in this case) do not include any AI-generated content. Finding decent royalty free stock photos and illustrations that you can be confident aren't AI-generated is a pain in the ass.

A screenshot of a card that appears in the grid of search results at istockphoto.com, stating that "Our creative library is free of AI-generated content"

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Tom Carmony @tomcarmony.com · 28/03/2025

Finally, you can check out a bunch of my product design work from the past decade on my portfolio site, which I just updated with fresh case studies for a couple of really cool projects I was a part of over the last year - Treasury and Bindings. Check it out! tomcarmony.com

Example screenshots of Treasury, a collaborative investing app that partners with financial influencers to build and educate communities of new investors, helping them understand investing basics and setting them up for long-term growth and success.

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Tom Carmony @tomcarmony.com · 01/03/2025

Today's NYTimes Opinion round-up was the (long overdue) last straw for me. Cancelled and adding the savings to bump both my @propublica.org and @theguardian.com support.

A cropped screenshot from a NY Times Opinion piece where a roundtable of writers rated the Trump administration's dismantling of DEI efforts as a "positive impact", and anti-trans changes as "less consequential".

A screenshot of my subscription cancelling confirmation email from the New York Times. Good riddance.

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Tom Carmony @tomcarmony.com · 22/01/2025

Not only that, but we’re also launching a SWEET (see what I did there?) new Patreon integration in the coming weeks. It allows users to preview (and join!) your Patreon right from Bindings! Believe me, it’s all kinds of hotness. Hit us up @sweetdotdev.bsky.social if you want to beta test that one!

The new Patreon integration coming soon to Bindings.app

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Tom Carmony @tomcarmony.com · 22/01/2025

Lots more fun and excitement with the @sweetdotdev.bsky.social crew, as we’re mid-way through Sweet Week, with daily drops and announcements. Today it’s a bundle of new features for Bindings, our marketing platform for comic creators. #comics #comicbooks #webtoon

A graphic showing new actions for Bindings, a comic marketing app. These include the ability to promote your final order cutoff, release date, and share a tree of links.

This is a graphic showing an example of the new “embed video” feature in Bindings.app

An example of the new Patreon integration coming soon to Bindings.app

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Tom Carmony @tomcarmony.com · 03/01/2025

Not holding my breath on this one

A poster on a street in Seattle, claiming that “only communism can stop Trump”

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Tom Carmony @tomcarmony.com · 13/12/2024

I've seen plenty of comparisons here about Will Ospreay's questionable new haircut, but no one nailed it quite like my kid: "Did he ask for the DiCaprio Titanic haircut?" #aew #aewdynamite #wrestlesky

A side-by-side comparison of AEW wrestler Will Ospreay's new haircut with Leonardo DiCaprio's look in the 90s film Titanic.

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Tom Carmony @tomcarmony.com · 23/11/2024

Okay, committing my #AEWFullGear wrestling 🤼 predictions to the public record ahead of tonight’s show. Also predicting a @mariahmay.bsky.social turn on Mina!

A graphic of the lineup for All Elite Wrestling’s Full Gear PPV event.

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Tom Carmony @tomcarmony.com · 19/11/2024

A Bluesky account definitely worth a follow. Lots of cool vintage Marvel cover art. #comics bsky.app/profile/halo...

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Tom Carmony @tomcarmony.com · 16/11/2024

And last but certainly not least (don’t tell him he’s last or he’ll kill me), the ornery middle child, our wheaten terrier Guster Gustav.

A wheaten terrier lays on a couch, contemplating life.

A wheaten terrier awkwardly contorted on a couch, giving the stink eye to the camera.

A wheaten terrier laying on the lawn, guarding his stick.

A close-up portrait of a wheaten terrier sits outside, panting with his tongue out.

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Tom Carmony @tomcarmony.com · 16/11/2024

Gotta share Phineas’s big brother Stewart Nenninger, the elder statesman of our pack. #OES #OldEnglishSheepdogs

Stewie the sheepdog keeping watch over the neighborhood from his perch at the living room window.

A fluffy Old English Sheepdog stands in the sun in a family’s backyard.

A sheepdog sitting in a kitchen begging for snacks.

A clean-shaven Old English Sheepdog flops around scratching his back on a hardwood floor.

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Tom Carmony @tomcarmony.com · 16/11/2024

I don’t think I’d really feel settled in here until posting pupper pics, so here we go. A little Phineas the Sheepdog to end another cruddy week on a good note!

An Old English Sheepdog sits on a couch, staring into the distance.

Phineas the Old English Sheepdog sits in our living room, most likely barking at nothing.

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Tom Carmony @tomcarmony.com · 11/11/2024

If you see this post a concert photo you took.

Blake Schwarzenbach of Jawbreaker, live at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland, Oregon (August 2018).

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