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Tom Page

@tompagenet.bsky.social
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I love cities, transport and photography. I work for Transport for London. Whatever I say here is personal.

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
From today in London. #OctoEclipse @octopus.energy
A partial eclipse with the sun at the top of the image
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Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Just 10 miles from the stage of the World Cup Final, hundreds of people are being held captive at Delaney Hall. This is the story of ICE brutality built off of the prison-industrial complex - and the fight against it.
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Hello, it's Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer
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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Dear me Google. You really do delight in making things worse. @killedbygoogle.com
Hi Tom,

We are writing to inform you that the option to back up photos and videos to Google Photos using Google Drive for desktop is being discontinued. To continue automatically backing up photos and videos from your computer, you can use 'Back up folders' in Google Photos.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
If you step back, it is truly extraordinary that so many people went to such great lengths and broke so many conventions and risked their political careers and the only outcome of all these efforts and risks was appointing a washed-up old spinner to an ambassadorial post
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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
How far @monzo.com have fallen. Once the disrupter, now telling you that you can have the full exciting experience by them selling your data to advertisers.
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We did it. We defeated Mandelbrot
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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
A warm welcome in freezing conditions at Hilly Fields parkrun this morning. Happy new year.
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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Hi, I asked some lovely developers for their favourite Christmas gaming memories. Please have a read and add your own in the comments section. Also, if you celebrate this season or not, all the very best wishes to you from the Guardian games team xx www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
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‘I plugged in Zelda and everything changed’: developers share their fondest Christmas gaming memories
From a family showdown on Guitar Hero III to the winter levels in Diddy Kong Racing, the designers of some of today’s top titles recall the gifts and moments that lit up their childhoods
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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
With the Redford news please do go and watch Sneakers. Few films in which he seems to be having more fun.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
That Melanie Phillips is a lunatic conspiracist bigot and racist is not remotely shocking. But the fact that the Times continues to employ her should be.
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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The response from Israel to the fairly meek Starmer plan on recognising Palestine if Israel sort of behaves shows just how fucking horrific the state of Israel has become. Apparently taking a stand against Israel starving an entire people is "rewarding Hamas". They are not our ally.
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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
With a authoritarian regime starving a people, the UK and US flew 250,000 flights in 1948-49 to air drop aid to Berlin, a city we had been at war with just three years earlier. Where the hell are we in Gaza, and why aren't we calling out the aggressor in the language we used against the Soviets.
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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
We should all denounce and be appalled by Israel, a country hell bent on genocide and without even the most basic shred of decency
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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Worksop Fish Bar
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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Rufford Abbey Country Park
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
This is the most incredible bit of writing I have read this year.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The top image: The Guardian, July 2016 The article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The bottom image: The Guardian, May 2025 The article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Top half of image: July 2016 Guardian article by Simon Jenkins titled: “ignore the prophets of doom: Brexit will be good for Britain”.  Bottom half of image: May 2026 Guardian article by Simon Jenkins titled “From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort”
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
This is what happens when you only view things through the lens of "political benefit" rather than actually improving people's lives. Scrapping the two child limit would lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty. That's the benefit!
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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
There's a lot for us to learn about LLMs. Claude 4's prompt guide notes that when you really want a good output it might help to encourage the model, and provides the example "Don't hold back. Give it your all." We don't really understand how they work, do we. docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/buil...
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Claude 4 prompt engineering best practices - Anthropic
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/05/2025
1 year on. Doesn't time fly.
Rishi Sunak walking into Downing Street. Soaked.
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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
You have to give him credit: Starmer is tough on Labour support *and* tough on the causes of Labour support.
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S Peter Davis @speterdavis.com · 16/05/2025
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ollie masters @olliemastersbskys.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
@jonnelledge.bsky.social ‘s newsletter is always worth reading, but this one in particular is very good
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
every now and again I remember that thirty years ago britain and france built the longest underwater tunnel in the world, still not beaten, and the thing that limits how many people we can shove through it is the tiny cellar underneath the train station that we use for security theatre
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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Great weekend of train testing completed, all moving us closer to introducing the new trains this year. Here's a photo of one from the depot this morning. They're amazing!
A new DLR train on a road in the depot at Beckton
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
"addicted to hiring cheap Labour" okay great looking forward to the white paper about reforming the funding of social care, and the tax rises necessary to pay for it
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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I'm sure that Labour talking "tough" on migration and making life more miserable for those who do jobs people in the UK don't want to do will result in more Labour votes because Reform will pack their bags and go home and not at all just take a more extreme position
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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I was in Ottawa last week. I love Canada; a fascinating, beautiful country which always comes across so friendly. Jean Chrétien addressed our meeting and spoke of optimism, resolve and hard work in the future. Looking forward to the results of today's election. 🇨🇦
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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Post a photo of a bus from your camera roll
97 bus in Ottawa headed for Hurdman
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Thomas Ableman @freewheeling.info · 25/04/2025
The Economist cover today is a huge photo of Farage labelled "The Man Britain Cannot Ignore". He's got here because we've not learned the lesson that the more we pander to him, the stronger he gets. Brexit has been an utter disaster but no one says so. So of course he looks like a winner.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 20/04/2025
"Gen AI is early 1900s spiritualism for digital moderns" prediction stays winning
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Israel murdered this beautiful soul. Remember Fatima Hassona. Watch and spread the film "Put your soul on your hand and walk". And never stop fighting the mass murdering death machine that is the Israeli state. She was 25.
Fatima Hassona with her camera
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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
"austerity for all except drivers"
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
i’m gonna hank myself
Donald J. Trump & @realDonaldTrump
GREAT JOB NUMBERS, FAR BETTER THAN EXPECTED. IT'S ALREADY WORKING. HANK TOUGH, WE CAN'T LOSE!!!
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
when people say this they imagine, like, artisanal carpentry or baking, not eight hours on the manufacturing line adjusting a thousand widgets because you're marginally cheaper than a machine
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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 02/04/2025
Serious mistake by the Economist here. Le pen herself called for a law to ban politicians convicted of embezzlement from public office.
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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social hey Andrew. The post at 0945 shows 25% for Reform both the areas with elections in May and those that are delayed. Text says "Reform UK were on course to do even better in the places where polling is not happening this year."
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
(3/3) With decades of Western policy consensus callously swept aside, European nations must now do everything within their power to preserve Ukraine’s sovereignty and repel Russia’s aggression.
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
(2/3) The UK government is doing its best to live up to this commitment, but the US is effectively siding with Russia in undermining it. Instead of seeing its sovereignty preserved, Ukraine is being pressured to accept a lopsided peace agreement without real guarantees.
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I'm twenty lens reviews in now and it's been great fun writing each of them; a mix of discipline to use the lenses (in ways that are appropriate to the lens in question), take photos of the lens and of course write the reviews. It's harder than I thought but a good experience.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Brexit has never looked quite so daft
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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Where the hell is Starmer as every other European leader shows they're unequivocally on the side of Ukraine?
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.
Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. The agony in his face…he looks overwhelmed with disbelief at the sheer cruelty.
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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Proud of Zelenskyy. A repulsive bully tried to extract something from a country at war offering no security in return. That's not something to agree to. He was right to turn it down.
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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
One of the great tragedies of the current takeover of the US is how weak the media institutions turn out to be.
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