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Tom Hale

@tommyhale.bsky.social
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journalist, content monger / does interesting stuff @IFLScience.com / I like history and science / black cats / constantly drawing

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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Interesting editor's note in News from Science: an article has been deleted after "determining the author was impersonating the identity of an established science journalist." Ai agent?
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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The Bad Ancient team's interview with @iflscience.com is live! Inspired by the Odyssey film, it focuses on the question of the Sea Peoples and 'collapsing civilisations'. Also, it is the first time we have ever been called a 'ragtag team' and I like it. We should put that in a bio somewhere!
iflscience.com
Were The Mysterious “Sea Peoples” Lurking Throughout Nolan's The Odyssey Real? We Asked The Experts
Historians and archaeologists have mixed feelings about the spectre haunting Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster.
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 28/07/2026
this summer's cultural cross over we've all been waiting for jimothy x bayeux
A picture of a piece is hand embroidery of jimothy the raccoon in the style of the bayeux tapestry.
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
great to see the left and the right coming together like this
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Pivot to video, but this time it will work out, promise.
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
it didn't need to go this hard
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
South Korea won, Mexico peso
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Are these "hydration breaks" so they can squeeze in 3 minutes of pharmaceutical ads in the US?
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The system eats itself: AI trained on AI-generated content, produced by models that were themselves trained on AI-generated content, until the original signal of real human data is lost entirely arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493
arxiv.org
The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget
Stable Diffusion revolutionised image creation from descriptive text. GPT-2, GPT-3(.5) and GPT-4 demonstrated astonishing performance across a variety of language tasks. ChatGPT introduced such langua...
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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Zoom in at your own peril #FoxOfTheDay
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Science Diagrams That Look Like Shitposts
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Invaluable insight in this ai overview
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
All dystopian visions of the future failed to predict the emergence of biography-slop about Glenys Kinnock written by AI, available in paperback.
amazon.co.uk
Biography Of Glenys kinnock:: The Comprehensive Story Of The Life Behind The Political Legend. (The Cory Miller Biography and Memoir Series.)
Biography Of Glenys kinnock: The Comprehensive Story Of The Life Behind The Political Legend. (The Cory Miller Biography and Memoir Series.) eBook : Miller, Cory: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 14/04/2026
This is the strange afterlife of a whale in the icy Southern Ocean. www.iflscience.com/scientists-f...
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Watching the Anthony Bourdain episode where he meets Asia Argento
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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Matching daddy-daughter leather trenchcoats - an interesting addition to the Authoritarian Chic lookbook. Photo released by the state North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)
A photo released by the official North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (R) gesturing while his daughter Kim Ju Ae looks on during a military parade to celebrate the ninth congress of the ruling Workers' Party at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, 25 February 2026 (issued 26 February 2026). Both are wearing black leather trenchcoats. The event marked the conclusion of the week-long Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in Pyongyang.
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The Yankification of British culture continues www.newsbeep.com/384362/
newsbeep.com
ITV to show adverts during Six Nations scrum breaks - News Beep
ITV will show adverts during play in its Six Nations coverage, in a landmark moment for television broadcasts of sport in the UK.
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
"Topographische Anatomie des Menschen" (1937, 1941) is the most beautiful and unethical medical book ever made. Created by Eduard Pernkopf, an ardent Nazi, many of its detailed illustrations were modeled on the bodies of executed political prisoners.
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Interesting one from the Epstein Files: "some random photos of scientists on JE's island" www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Someone get Adam Curtis on the phone
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Lil ivory sculpture of a polar bear found on Igloolik Island, dating to the 1st-6th century CE. It was made by the Dorset Culture, who disappeared ~500 years ago, around the time the Thule people (ancestors of the modern Inuit) arrived from the west.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”
nature.com
Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023 - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Guy who has the coriander soap gene but enjoys the taste
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Michael Greshko @michaelgreshko.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Many thanks to @tommyhale.bsky.social for a nice story about my Voynich Manuscript paper in @iflscience.com: www.iflscience.com/is-this-how-... The open-access paper can be read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
iflscience.com
Is This How The Voynich Manuscript Was Made? A New Cipher Offers Fascinating Clues
It remains the “most mysterious manuscript in the world.”
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Tom Davidson @tomdavidson92.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I think Alex Karp is dangerous and a walking pile of Dark Triad personality traits, but I have to admit he is my favourite evil techbro overlord.
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Invisible hand of the free market update
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
"Mansion tax bad," says man clearly sitting in big mansion
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
You strike me as the kind of person to eat dinner at 6 pm
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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ISS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
🧵 FAQ: Q: What even is this? This account tracks the live level of the urine tank on the International Space Station. Q: So it's, like, real? Live? Right now? Yes.
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I always see this graph going around. Is it genuine and from a real study? Is the ultra-high-T genius mega chad real? I hope so, but assume not.
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Sentient Halloween decoration
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Francis Bacon @francisbacon.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Head III www.wikiart.org/en/francis-bacon/he…
Head III
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Meta AI just doesn't work
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Clown without make-up. Oil paint on cardboard. Painting by me, last weekend.
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
But we'll still get paid like it's a 5-day workweek, right?..... Right??
fortune.com
Zoom’s CEO agrees with Bill Gates, Jensen Huang, and Jamie Dimon: A 3-day workweek is coming soon thanks to AI | Fortune
Zoom leader Eric Yuan admits that the technology will erase some human jobs—but those who keep their jobs will enjoy fewer working days.
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
British people:
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Does anyone have any clue where this video is from? Is it even real?
reddit.com
From the Damnthatsinteresting community on Reddit: Sperm Whale Surfacing w/ Giant Squid in its Mouth
Explore this post and more from the Damnthatsinteresting community
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Ha what happened to Threads?
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 11/09/2025
With 229 Pairs, This Beautiful Animal Has The Highest Number Of Chromosomes Of Any Animal www.iflscience.com/with-229-pai...
iflscience.com
With 458, This Beautiful Animal Has The Highest Number Of Chromosomes Of Any Animal
It could make or break the species' future.
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 10/09/2025
Adorable New Species Of Snailfish Filmed 3,268 Meters Below The Sea, And There's A Video www.iflscience.com/adorable-new...
iflscience.com
Scientists Have Filmed A New Species Of Snailfish, And We’re Having A Hard Time Believing It’s Not A Pokémon
Three new species of snailfish show there's still plenty of mystery surrounding the deep sea.
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A man on Facebook described Banksy as a "woke lefty" after being tricked by an edited version of his latest mural.
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I'm convinced the world is going through a long process of enshittification. Every service, system, and institution seems to be getting steadily worse in quality (social media, shrinkflation chocolate bars, adverts, banal Netflix shows, AI slop, restaurants, public spaces, hospitals, transport...
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Like a crystal ball, targeted advertising from Temu gives you a mysterious insight into who the algorithms believe you truly are
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Kids use ai to do homework🔄teachers use ai to mark homework
bbc.co.uk
Teachers can use AI to save time on marking, new guidance says
For the first time teachers in England are receiving guidelines on how they should and shouldn't use AI.
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Tom Hale @tommyhale.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Why did the late 80s/early 90s have so much weird puppet shit? The Dark Crystal, Gremlins, Labyrinth, ALF, Harry and the Hendersons, Dinosaurs, Spitting Image, Rose & Jim. All insane to today's eye.
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