iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 13/08/2026

They are lovely. Hard to photograph mind, this was the best I could do.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 12/08/2026

My view of the eclipse…

A photo of a shadow cast by a tree showing lots of overlapping crescent shadows on a brick wall

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 12/08/2026

Namibia is a very photogenic, very beautiful country.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 18/01/2026

Found this spoon amongst mum’s stuff. It’s for fried eggs. It’s brilliant, someone should start making them again!

A photograph of large silver spoon. The handle is about as long as a serving spoon, the bowl bit is circular but with the left side cut off so that it is flat on that side. The design means you can easily ladle oil over the egg or lift it out of the frying pan.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 21/11/2025

Switch to a hybrid closed loop yesterday. It appears to be rather good at managing my blood glucose #t1d

Screenshot of an iPhone showing my blood glucose readings since midnight. The data is presented as a line graph, the line is flat, with very small variations around ca. 5 mmol/L. There is a large number at the top showing my current blood glucose which reads 4.3 mmol/L.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 13/11/2025

Not this one I hope. Although it odd gluten free.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 17/10/2025

What will they do now‽

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 17/07/2025

I realise this makes me sound like an old man shouting at the clouds but why would you do this? Why not repaint the whole thing?

20 in a circle painted on the road. The middle has been repainted, top and bottom left unpainted and very worn.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 25/06/2025

That’s a big caterpillar; and it’s only Wednesday! 🐛

Photo of large caterpillar on a tree next to my hand. The caterpillar is hairy and about 2 inches long.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 15/06/2025

Of all the words, the US use of the word ‘yard’ causes me the greatest cultural dissonance. I hear yard, I visualise this sort of thing…

A yard in the UK is an area with a hard surface, typically surrounded by buildings and often commercial in nature.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 21/05/2025

BBC News now requires viewers to register / be signed in to watch streams. Requiring this for entertainment is one thing, entirely another for the national broadcaster to require this for news. Why should it be ok to track my views?

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 01/05/2025

I’ll be honest this doesn’t do much for my concentration and mental wellbeing.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 29/04/2025

The chatter about Google’s decision to shutter Nest thermostats in Europe reminds me of Frank Duffy’s sheering layers concept. Google is forcing a change to a layer at a faster than expected rate.

Shearing layers of change. Because of the different rates of change of its components a building is always tearing itself apart.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 27/04/2025

That’s some awful kerning

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 15/04/2025

Cats aren’t always so adorable…

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 30/03/2025

At the other extreme, Hunter Thompson’s daily routine…

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 15/03/2025

The Brompton is so thoughtfully designed, my favourite example: the mud guard catches the water and muck from the wheel while it’s folded, protecting the floor.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 07/03/2025

A goose perched in a tree…

A photo of an Egyptian Goose perched in an oak tree.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 23/02/2025

All if this. And for those non-diabetics who use continuous glucose monitors to see which foods ‘spike their Blood Glucose’. What you think is a spike isn’t a spike, this is a spike…

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 08/02/2025

Look who’s moved into our house!

Photo of a puppy, a brindle Welsh Cardigan. The photo is of the puppy walking across grey paving with a red terracotta pot behind.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 23/01/2025

If you're interested in how to think about digital transformation, 'The Brompton - Engineering for Change.' is one of the best books I've read on the subject. This might seem odd, given that software is hardly mentioned in the book, but I suspect that's why. www.brompton.com/p/795/the-br...

Photo of a book - the cover has the words 'The Brompton' running vertically down the left side (white text on red); the right shows three illustrations of a brompton in different stages of fold. Below the illustrations is the subtitle 'Engineering for Change' and below that the names of the two authors: 'Will Butler-Adams and Dan Davies'.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 05/01/2025

Anyway it appears that once upon a time this particular Ait was known as ‘The Ravens Arse’. At least that’s what the cartographer labelled it on this map. 3/3

Section of an old map. The centre of the map is the River Thames, in the Thames is an island labelled ’The Ravens Arse’ (the s is a long s sometimes known as a long f).

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 22/12/2024

Hang on… are the things we call sausage rolls in the UK known as pigs in blanket in the US? If so is a sausage wrapped in bacon a thing in the US?

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 12/12/2024

When you wake up, check your blood glucose and correct a high and rapidly rising BG only to find it was a sensor error and your BG is crashing 😬 #t1d

Graph of my blood glucose shows a reading of 9.1 mmol/L and rising rapidly. Below a graph with green dots (readings) scattered around the trend line. One dot is an outlier 3mmol/L about the graph.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 24/11/2024

Huh! So jelly babies have names.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 23/11/2024

My new @effinbirds.com 2025 calendar has just arrived.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 21/11/2024

Oh yeah, so this happened last night. It could have been worse, I had already eaten 65g carbs. #t1d

Screenshot of my CGM, date: Thu, 21 Nov at 02:49. Blood Glucose 2.0 mil/L

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 20/10/2024

Stupid endocrine system. Look what happened when I woke up this morning (no food). #t1d

Graph showing my blood glucose. The units are in mmol/L; the x axis starts at 5am and end ends at 10am; the y-axis 5.5-24. In large red numbers at the top of the image the reading is 20.7 horizontal arrow (recent blood glucose reading and trend line) the graph starts in the green (6mmol/L) and rises rapidly from 7am peaking at 21mmol/L at 9am.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 17/10/2024

I have so many thoughts about this, none of them good. www.livingmuseum.app/explore?arti... But this is funny.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 10/10/2024

As a diabetic eating in America is challenging… order a pork chop and veg… get a boat load of sugar…

Graph of my blood glucose showing flat line until right side when it rises sharply; 8.1mmol/L and rising rapidly.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 28/09/2024

If one should be needed, here is #proofofcat

Cat on a wooden bench looking at something good (out of shot)

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 20/09/2024

Happy diaversary to me! That’s 5 years of spoofing my pancreas. This was how I felt one year in: medium.com/@derivadow/o... FWIW, I’m still rubbish at it, it’s still a horrible stressful disease. Stupid body.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 14/09/2024

I reckon you would love the trains in Japan. The Shinkansen is amazing (esp the engineering) but so are all the narrow gauge trains.

Photograph of a Shinkansen/ bullet train.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 02/09/2024

T1D is rubbish, rubbish I tell you.

A graph of my blood sugar over the last two weeks. Dark line shows mean BG wavers around 10 mmol/L day time; 12 mmol/L at night 25 percentile yellow and 75 percentile grey.

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Tom Scott @tomscott.name · 02/09/2024

Japan is an amazing country and staggeringly photogenic.

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