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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 21/09/2026

Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banks - FT video produced by me, written by @chriscook.news & @chassnews.bsky.social FT story (1st 300 clicks free): as.ft.com/r/c4fd2c08-5...

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 21/09/2026

Saw on the pavement this morning. Old photos are so weirdly poignant. Who were they? Why was it by the side of a main road? Did someone throw it out of a car on purpose or drop it by mistake?

A man and a woman in a colour photo found on the pavement. The photo is faded and torn. From the hairstyles it looks to be 1960s to 70s

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 12/08/2026

Not even a partial eclipse in Turkey but lovely clear skies by the sea #prayingforperseids

iPhone 13 Pro photo of clear sky showing The Plough. 10 second long exposure tweaked for contrast & brigthnesss afterwards

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 12/08/2026

This is excellent. By @pilitaclark.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/dee39712-2...

The same goes for the idea that net zero is like, say, highway beautification: nice to have if you can afford it, but otherwise easily deferred. No. The longer we wait to reach net zero, the higher the eventual peak temperature will be, and the worse the associated damage. Warming is now
nearly 1.4C above pre-industrial levels. Imagine summers when it gets closer to
2C. And please don't say your country's net zero efforts are pointless when it only accounts for a few per cent of global emissions. This buck-passing claim is made in dozens of countries, even though
their combined emissions exceed China's.

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 11/08/2026

Every aspect of British Telecom and UK telephone exchanges. scattered across the land, falling to pieces, charming, ancient, from another era

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 05/08/2026

Typo in the first paragraph too

Screen grab of the top of the BBC story. It reads: “ German police are investigating an object suspected of carrying an explosive device, which was found near a runway near Ukrainian places at Leipzig/Halle Airport on Wednesday
night.”

Should be “Ukrainian planes”

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 31/07/2026

Sitting calmly on a train through Greece as everyone’s phone is beeping Emergency Alerts

Emergency alert in Greek and English warning of wildfires

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 25/07/2026

So much of this reminds me of the dire warnings from Internet Service Providers that BBC iPlayer would destroy the internet. Eg from 2009: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technol...

Screenshot of BBC News story from 2008:

BBC and ISPs clash over iPlayer
By Jane Wakefield
Technology reporter, BBC News website

A row about who should pay for extra network costs incurred by the iPlayer has broken out between internet service providers (ISPs) and the BBC.
ISPs say the on-demand TV service is putting strain on their networks, which need to be upgraded to cope.
Ashley Highfield, head of future media and technology at the corporation, has said he believes the cost of network upgrades should be carried by ISPs.
Simon Gunter, from ISP Tiscali, said the BBC should contribute to the cost.
He said the BBC did not understand the issues involved.
'Bit odd'
The popular iPlayer service lets users download or stream programmes to a PC.
In its first three months more than 42m programmes have been accessed via the catch-up TV service.
According to figures from regulator Ofcom it will cost ISPs in the region of £830m to pay for the extra capacity needed to allow for services like the iPlayer.
Mr Gunter is leading the call for the BBC to help pay for the rising costs.
"The question is about whether we invest in extra capacity or go to the consumer and ask them to pay a BBC tax," he said.

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 24/07/2026

Over time the shadowy figure slowly moves towards the camera... #Mezzotint

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 21/07/2026

This was the best green tea

Photo showing the label of Jacksons of Piccadilly – Sencha Green Tea with Mint which has been unavailable for YEARS

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 20/07/2026

If you want to test your Playdate's keys to destruction, you can now run the ZX Spectrum version of 'Daley Thompson's Decathlon' on a Spectrum emulator for the Playdate adam3i.itch.io/speccydate

Photo of a Playdate games console running "Speccydate" the ZX Spectrum emulator, with a cassette copy of 'Daley Thompson's Decathlon' next to it

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 10/07/2026

Guess who got solar panels installed today☀️

Octopus bar chart of electricity usage this week. Every day is £5-6 except today which is barely over the standing charge.

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 09/07/2026

Adding 15 more panels to this chart tomorrow 🤞

A stack of solar panels leaning against a fence in preparation for being put up on a roof tomorrow.

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 09/07/2026

Binface's Ko-fi page has 22,313 pledges, so at a minimum of £3 per pledge that's £66,939 before deductions. The most recent capture on The Wayback Machine showed 589 pledges on May 8th 2024. Unclear how much came from an offshore crypto account in Thailand... ko-fi.com/countbinface

Screenshot from https://ko-fi.com/countbinface showing 22313 pledges received

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 09/07/2026

Binface in bar charts By @martinstabe.ft.com From as.ft.com/r/10b7b21a-6...

Bar charts showing Count Binface's performance across several general election counts (somewhere between 0.1-1.0% of the vote in each).

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 08/07/2026

Goodyear blimp over London!

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 07/07/2026

I can't see anyone having an issue with this...

An AI rendering of a Victorian-engineering inspired version of the Chinese-Swiss drop tower electricity storage system placed next to the Viking Wind farm in Shetland, one of the most curtailed sites in the UK.

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 07/07/2026

Design it like this and put one near each of the most curtailed wind turbines in the UK.

An AI render of a gravity tower designed to look like a piece of Victorian engineering.

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 26/06/2026

Reddit has a solution, you just need some duct tape, a car, and a reallly long tube

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 26/06/2026

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 20/06/2026

The ghost that eats you if you don’t hurry up at the end of Bubble Bobble

A close up pixel view of the ghost enemy from Namco’s coin operated arcade game “Bubble Bobble”

Some terrifying set of stars from a space telescope

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 19/06/2026

Burnham’s website builder name

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 16/06/2026

Excellent article on the birth of the US wind turbine industry, including this paleofuture pencil sketch spectrum.ieee.org/william-hero...

Pencil sketched vision for a massive highway wind-power scheme

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 06/06/2026

Steve Jobs sitting in the reflection

Famous photo of Steve Jobs sitting cross legged on a wooden floor

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 04/06/2026

Is this the one that’s like rounders or netball? No idea but I’m delighted you’re all going to bed later

Muting knicks and NBA because there’s been quite enough of it already

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 03/06/2026

I'm now the proud owner of a Keychron V6 Max, which I believe may be the entry-level drug of choice... www.ft.com/content/6bfd...

A mechanical computer keyboard, dark palette with a red escape key and a delightful volume knob, and a full size proper cursor keyboard and number pad so I can use Blender without feeling like an animal

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 29/05/2026

How China is breaking apart a people and its culture. Repression against the Uyghurs has entered a new phase By the brilliant @alisonkilling.bsky.social Front page @financialtimes.com video by me Read it now - first 300 clicks are free: as.ft.com/r/4fe10b46-c...

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 21/05/2026

That making-of Star Guitar video is spectacular! (also I'm now the proud owner of a Poem-1, so my kitchen is filled with slightly awful time poems, but the notes feature is much loved)

The Poem-1 device, displaying a poem about 15:04

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 18/05/2026

Pelicase. Unbreakable, waterproof, lifetime guarantee. (I have not done this, but have used them on video shoots and they are almost indestructible. I'm convinced they are actually the correct answer if you can convince your travelling companions that they are acceptable).

An almost indestructible Pelicase, sitting upright waiting to be pulled along like a suitcase.

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 16/05/2026

Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once - the demographic landslide defining our era - by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com free article link: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 15/05/2026

I for one am seriously tempted to just listen to mp3s in Jellyfin

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 15/05/2026

Wtf is this glitter monstrosity doing in my launcher Spotify

Spotify has a new monstrosity for an icon

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 12/05/2026

Aside from the silly post, the photo is from the Gatwick Aviation museum, which is highly recommended. Their Shackleton tour is amazing. www.gamc.org.uk/visit

Shackleton plane at the Gatwick Aviation museum. You can walk all the way through it

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 05/05/2026

When Sparx Maths asks my daughter to repeat a times table, she now mutters “TT Rockstars was so much better” over and over

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 17/04/2026

He’s not, we’re just inside Existenz. Don’t eat the gun

Jude Law holding a gun made out of bones

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 12/04/2026

Share your greenest Conservative MP leaflets… (Rebecca Paul has voted consistently against environmental issues)

Rebecca Paul MP’s extremely green coloured election leaflet. No blue at all, and no mention of the Conservative Party or Kemi Badenoch.

Screenshot of Rebecca Paul’s voting record on Environmental Issues from https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/26466/rebecca_paul/reigate/votes#environment

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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 11/04/2026

Articles like this should link directly to the planning docs. The planning docs should be directly viewable in a web browser. Then you’d see exactly what is proposed. Some batteries behind some trees. upa.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/online-appli...

Image from the planning documents on Aberdeenshire councils website showing a proposed battery storage system.

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