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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 5h

This is so horrifically wrong. The correct term is "S.I."

Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 13h

It's not artificial. ChatGPT was born naturally and raised by organic farmers. Claude sprouted out of the bark of a willow tree. Gemini was discovered growing on a cave wall in near-total darkness. Grok hatched from an abandoned egg found in swampland in Florida.

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 13h

I really like the bit of his speech where he uncompromisingly denounced the racists who go around attacking immigrants, police officers, lifeboat volunteers and the rule of law. I mean, OK, technically that bit of the speech didn't actually exist, but we mustn't get hung up on philosophical niceties

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 14h

Interesting that the poll question makes the same misunderstanding of the new policy that I made when I heard Burnham announce it: not getting the third element, as stated by Alex here. Think this one's going to be quite hard to communicate.

Post from @alexclegg.bsky.social today: "Basically, the State Pension will rise by the highest of 2.5%, inflation, or what it needs to to maintain its proportion of average earnings from the start date."

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 17h

Well I think we should all thank Donald Trump for this bold initiative to increase the global supply of petrol

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 21h

TBH I think to most people the words "I have a theory" come across as "I have a somewhat unusual idea that isn't really supported by any facts" #burnham

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22h

I literally do not understand what he just said about pensions. Rise in line with the greater of prices or 2.5%, but also stay in line with earnings? Did I miss something? #burnham

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22h

The thing about not standing behind a lectern is that it obliges you to constantly decide what to do with your hands #burnham

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22h

DON'T YOU DARE TELL ME TO STOP DOOMSCROLLING #burnham

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 23h

OK, keep the triple lock, but make it an actual literal triple lock, and pensioners have to pick the three locks in order to access the money

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 23h

Scientists at CERN have finally succeeded in separating the art from the artist, by placing the pair in an artificially induced vacuum and then bombarding them with hyper-accelerated takes

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love the way that people say "scrap the triple lock" as if it has a clear meaning. Scrap it and... replace it with what? An earnings link? An inflation link? A permanent freeze? A small bag of turnips?

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Part 2 good as well. Loved the post-credits scene where Jean Monnet sidles up to Robert Schuman in a bar and says "Je puttez togethre une teame"

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I need to do the washing up but I'm really tired so maybe if I just leave it till tomorrow then a rogue AI might destroy the world overnight and I won't have to

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

tbh his announcements are often a mystery even after he's made them

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Orange Order: Sapindales Orange Family: Rutaceae Orange Genus: Citrus Orange Species: Sinensis

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

OK, now let's do Wordsworth: I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of fucking daffodils

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of the cygnets got properly up in the air #NewRiverBirds (Sorry for lack of sound, there was someone standing next to me talking quite loudly and inanely)

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I, sir, am also a gentleman of fucking Verona

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and to-fucking-morrow

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Finally, a leader with the courage to stand up and say that social care needs to be sorted out, and it needs to be sorted out later

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sky over Cambridge was doing sterling work yesterday

Skyline over a building site with a couple of cranes. Lots of small fluffy clouds fill the sky, and in the distance is a bigger solid mass of cloud through which the deep yellow of a sunset shines. When I saw this my reaction was "It's the foundry where they make the clouds!"

Sunset over buildings and a park with a big old Victorian lamp-post. The sun is mostly obscured by a load of dappled cloud but the orange colour shines through, with striations of light where it's coming through breaks in the clouds.

Full moon behind thin scattered cloud, next to a big tree with mostly green leaves and a few orange.

A smiley face drawn in the clear blue sky by a skywriter. It's a couple of minutes old, and the gentle wind has slightly distorted it.

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

School friend's birthday do yesterday 7pm: OK, I'd better pace my drinking, I'm not used to big pub events any more 9pm: Hey, everything's going really well! 10.30pm: WTF last orders already?!? What is wrong with society? 2am: Please... my brain... he is very sick

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*brings a 17-point draft peace treaty to a gunfight*

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Nit Nurse With Wound @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

please. My wets.

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pretty much agree. I like it, it's very well made, but darkness isn't a substitute for depth. And none of the characters are very interesting, with the exception of Mike (and even he only really develops in BCS)

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I will be reserving judgement until I have seen every TV show of the 21st century

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Apparently it's on everyone's lips

Headline: "Why the Dutch have a new word for labia"

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony.

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I pride myself on being approachable, like a bear trap.

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When another boy has a triumphal arch

Trump, Xi and two other guys walking outside. Trump is pointing intently at something and Xi is minimally pretending to be interested. One of the other guys is clearly the interpreter and the other other guy is carrying a bag and just wishing this would be over.

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We all know that "This supermarket trolley has a mind of its own" means "The people who made it didn't realise how badly it can go wrong", but with AI the metaphor seems more compelling

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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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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/09/2026

see now this, this is time-honoured british piss-taking

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ah, the Conservative party, they sure do love an opportunity to spend taxpayers' money building new administrative systems for government to micromanage people's lives

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bespoke: Danny Tommo martyred by accidentally stabbing himself while fighting off the RNLI people who are trying to save him from drowning after his crappy little boat sinks again

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just rereading Braverman's article on Englishness from last year, presumably because I hate myself and I want to suffer. WTF is this gibberish? English culture absorbed and adapted to the arrival of... the Romans???

"Englishness has never been static or simple. From the arrival of the Romans to the waves of Saxons, Vikings, and Normans, English culture has always absorbed and adapted."

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm not going to call your bluff but I might dm it

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Being English" in practice amounts to being accepted as English by other English people. And because different people have different criteria for acceptance - birthplace, cultural habits, skin colour, ancestry (which usually means skin colour) - it's always going to be a bit of a woolly concept.

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There's plenty in here that I wouldn't agree with, and I oppose his politics generally, but if you can bear 11 minutes of Jacob Rees-Mogg, it contains a decent *conservative* argument against the far-right ethnic/genetic view of Englishness www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCVC...

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The English are a mongrel people, not an Aryan master race

YouTube video by Jacob Rees-Mogg

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The really weird thing is that they had actually crucified Patrick Troughton there three days earlier

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way." "Could we just not do it at all?" "No, I've got to—" "Because I reckon that would be even easier." "Well, I'm—well yeah, I suppose that's true, but—" "Great, that's settled then! Not doing it at all!" "Um... I guess... ok..." "Pub?" "Pub."

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Feels like one of those wretched wannabe novelists whose terrible manuscripts keep getting rejected by Mills & Boon

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mr Robson tossed an egg to a kid ten rows back and yelled "catch!" Kid caught it on instinct even as his face turned to horror. Hard-boiled, of course.

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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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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

they should study him in a lab. I don’t think I could write this badly on purpose. still, glad this has higher billing than coverage of last night’s far right escalation

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lads I think "Olde English" probably isn't a mis-spelling of the pre-Norman language that faded long before Shakespeare; it's a cutesy way of conveying "thou art" and "walketh" and all that to a general public audience who may not be sure what "Early Modern English" means. Maybe chill?

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Today programme's 6.40ish report was thin, but not as amorally negligent as some BBC coverage of this kind of thing. It did include "Danny Tommo goes live, he livestreamed himself slashing a rescue boat with a rescuer in it" and "protesters who decided to start assaulting police officers".

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