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Tom Dewar

@tomdewar.dev
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Data science since before it was trendy. Ex-NHS, ex-civil servant. Wants you to use evidence to make better decisions. Formally @tomdewar_ on the old bird site. More frequently lurking on Mastodon as @tomdewar@mas.to

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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 23m
Does this count as a sort of reverse fat shaming?
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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 5h
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h
"Super Intelligence."
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 21h
His arse and his elbow
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 29/09/2026
Or they could pivot back to selling fruit juice (this goes thorough my head every time I see there name) youtu.be/txzA0GWCDPs
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(1985-1990) Kia Ora Drink Adverts Compilation
YouTube video by Cerealmad
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 29/09/2026
I hope you turned off your portable wind generator immediately afterwards, with a little innocent whistle and eyes to the sky
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 28/09/2026
Be warned. You may hit some issues with some distros in conjunction with Nvidia GPU (I did). Ones I’ve heard that are more likely to play nicely with Nvidia with no tinkering: Pop!_OS, Bazitte. (They all can work though.)
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 28/09/2026
If you’ve got a spare SSD/HDD slot in your machine, I’d recommend using that over USB, though the latter would work. I have my home desktop configured as dual boot Windows / Fedora, with a sep 1Tb SSD for Linux. But can get away with small drive, 128-256Gb, esp. if only testing. RAM will be no issue
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 28/09/2026
Amazing what you can get through Uber Eats these days
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 28/09/2026
* gets popcorn * Oh this thread gonna be good
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 27/09/2026
Thanks for the tip. Can’t justify the spendy at the moment, but something I’ll keep in mind when that changes. Do you use / know of any Alexa-style voice interface that isn’t big tech / doesn’t send everything it hears to someone else’s server?
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 27/09/2026
Ooh, I had not come across this before. Looks good. (I am currently in your “completely insane” category.)
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A story in alt text.
Inciting incident: A large confused orange spaniel discovers the love of his life, a tabby cat, asleep on a pile of blankets, on a bed. Dramatic tension: The spaniel looms affectionately over the cat, who has just opened bright green eyesCrisis/resolution: the spaniel immediately remembers the cat is the scariest creature he knows and il fiche le camp tout suite. All the cat has done is raise his head and Disapprove.Fin: The cat, with ears set to reverse disapproval, relishes his solitude.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I could quote pretty much this entire article by @mjrobbins.com on the bizarre psychology of the AI apocalypse freaks, but you should just read it instead. Such a relief to see someone express my feelings so eloquently. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@longwall26
Confident in my ability to properly tennis, I take the court. I smile at my opponent. Serena does not return the gesture. She'd be prettier if she did, I think. She serves. The ball passes cleanly through my skull, killing me instantly

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One in eight men (12%) say they could win a point in a game of tennis against 23 time grand slam winner Serena Williams
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 27/09/2026
So, truth is stranger _and cheaper_ than fiction
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 26/09/2026
I vote second. Lovely shot(s)
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BorderBadger @borderbadger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Scotland, you are truly magnificent!
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 25/09/2026
This is a great idea
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 24/09/2026
You will not be sorry. The goodness line continue to go up 📈
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asura @asura.dev · 24/09/2026
I wish more people would address this as an executive problem. No logging, no moderation, no observability, ... Palworld has more security. For decades people (like me) could cause entire outages in entire regions. Jail or fired if I did. In most of these scenarios, some mechanism should stop me.
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just seen Danny Tommo referred to as "Captain Thugwash" and seriously, that's excellent work.
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Amy Poehler's Perfect Chef's Kiss
ALT: Amy Poehler's Perfect Chef's Kiss
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 24/09/2026
Yeah, I saw that headline and thought “well, no point reading the rest of your manifesto, since it’s clearly been penned in some fantasy land”
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 24/09/2026
Can’t cartwheel but I would love a suit the I could* do a spin hook kick in. *admittedly unlikely I would ever _need_ to, but nice to have as an option ;)
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Jiemba Sands: Double Kick Spin Kick
Alt: Jiemba Sands: Double Kick Spin Kick
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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
At last. NONE of the suits I currently own allow me to do this…
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 24/09/2026
Good
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 23/09/2026
Omg these are amazing (I have a mug which was a gift from @dlibris.bsky.social @aeriefaerie.bsky.social, it's so lovely and tentacly)
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 23/09/2026
As someone who majored in applied maths (essentially algorithm design) and computer vision (essentially "teach a computer to interpret a picture like a human but better"), yeah, all of this. On top of everything else LLMs are making the "AI" research field poorer
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 23/09/2026
Pet animal implies the existence of other pets that are not animals. Maybe she also has pet plants, pet furniture, pet rocks etc.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just as well those committing wrongs against the RNLI are not holding placards supporting a proscribed organisation, else they would really be in trouble.
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Dianne Bancroft @diannebancroft.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is a helpful thread bsky.app/profile/asho...
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 22/09/2026
Never forgiven for ‘Allo ‘Allo
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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 22/09/2026
Rhubarb is a weed. It was not meant to be eaten by anything with fewer than four legs.
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 22/09/2026
Great article. Has anyone done an economic analysis of the opportunity cost, by which I mean how much these fees have deprived UK businesses of custom? Simplistically, if someone has to find £5k to pay an immigration fee that’s £5k they don’t have to spend in the local economy.
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Will keep boringly saying this (no disrespect to OP): it's not a health surcharge. It's not hypothecated to the NHS; you can't choose not to pay it and thereby eschew healthcare. You could equally call it an education or roads surcharge. It's using the NHS's sanctified status to rip off immigrants.
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 21/09/2026
Oh yes. You should get her to provide a recommendation quote for the back cover too.
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 21/09/2026
Unfortunately, yes. *** This message brought to you by our sponsor, KB Publications. Preorder your copy of The Feckless Arsehole Theory of Management, by Kate Bevan, today. ***
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 20/09/2026
Quite. Nobody’s built a pig farm on an airship either. Who will be the first?!
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Mandeville was cavendish_maid 📎 🇺🇦 @mandeville24.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Personally I couldn’t give a rats arse what this man says about the UK as he doesn’t live here - he left because he didn’t want to pay any tax and because he part owns Man Utd! Billionaire Man United owner says he has lost confidence in the UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 18/09/2026
Can’t be a banana republic if you ain’t got no bananas
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Smart Thinking Meme
Alt: Smart Thinking Meme
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 18/09/2026
One to tickle you, @davidallengreen.bsky.social
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 18/09/2026
New definition of "taking the piss" just dropped
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Richard K Morgan @quellist1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Have long believed that there should be mandatory ten year sentencing for anyone who assaults an emergency worker - paramedics, hospital staff, firemen, you name it - in the course of their duties. You can obviously put these guys on the same list.
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Tom Dewar @tomdewar.dev · 18/09/2026
Good customer service is such a rarity these days it’s like a breath of fresh air. Relatedly, I can highly recommend Zen Internet for your ISP needs (in the UK).
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