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Tom Whyman

@tomwhyman.bsky.social
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Failing philosopher. Adorno, philosophy of parenthood, whatever else I'm passingly interested in right now.

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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just realised I have a book out today www.bloomsbury.com/uk/humanism-...
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Humanism and the Anthropocene
In response to the rise of anti-humanist thought, Tom Whyman proposes a new defence of humanism for the Anthropocene and the age of AI. We live in an age where…
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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
damn, son!
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You haven't read Tom's brilliant Infinitely Full of Hope yet? Wow, that's kind of messed up. Not cool bro. You've changed.
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just realised I have a book out today www.bloomsbury.com/uk/humanism-...
bloomsbury.com
Humanism and the Anthropocene
In response to the rise of anti-humanist thought, Tom Whyman proposes a new defence of humanism for the Anthropocene and the age of AI. We live in an age where…
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I have a book available to pre-order and wrote something about it here: open.substack.com/pub/thesimps...
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Humanism and the Anthropocene
They're calling it the Adornoian-Midgleyan-Marxian philosophy hit of the year.
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Mike Kalvas @mkalvas.com · 17/05/2026
There are a lot of good books that I’ve enjoyed over the years, but Infinitely Full of Hope by @tomwhyman.bsky.social and No Straight Road Takes You There by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social are the two books I’ve **needed** to read to meet the times we live in. I cannot recommend them enough.
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
If I know anything about football, I know that Xabi Alonso is going to win the Champions League as Liverpool manager this season.
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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The philosopher's primal urge to intellectually humiliate those in positions of authority, be put on trial for it, and make such an ass of yourself during the trial to be sentenced to death
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Real heads know the 'worst PM' debate is actually between Cameron and Thatcher.
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Wow! It's good that AI is going to unlock massive productivity gains and unleash the fourth industrial revolution, or else we'd really be in trouble.
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
"I'll take accountability if this technology the main purpose of which is to outsource accountability fails to do the magic things I'm promising it can"
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Do these people not realise that social media only actually works if users have reason to believe it's, you know, real.
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
"Yeah the wedding was alright, best man was a bit weird though. Went into a sort of reverie after eating a bit of the pudding. Ended up giving this speech... wasn't really about the groom to be honest. Mostly about some dresses he remembered seeing age 10. Lasted five hours."
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
If Starmer wants to 'go for growth', he needs to build on the success of ABBA Voyage to make the UK the world's number one destination for holographic shows of old musical acts
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
5 year-old: I'm almost a teacher. "Really?" 5 year-old: Yeah... I already know almost all the things.
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Yesterday Iggy did something that I can only describe as 'enacting America's foreign policy on his sister'. Making a big show of hiding the TV remote in the belief that she was going to put Bluey on instead of his show: a desire that she had displayed no evidence of, until he started to police it.
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Possible new 'most American thing I've ever seen': a drop-down 'suffix' box on a form.
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
It's always the academic fields you least suspect www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Been sleeping on the fact that next year I will reach the same age that the notoriously late developer GWF Hegel was when he published the Phenomenology of Spirit. Life almost over.
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Truly incredible how effective 'modelling' behaviour to your kids can be. Last night older one absolutely furious at his younger sister due to disagreement over the TV. At his age I'd have immediately walloped my younger sibling, but all he could think to do was threaten her with a time out.
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
What I suppose I really want to see is Elon Musk just being constantly there following Donald Trump around for his whole presidency, locked together and increasingly resenting each other like Divney and the narrator in the early parts of The Third Policeman.
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Appointing the least suitable person possible to each and every high office of state like tee hee hee
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Just found out Adorno has an imdb page www.imdb.com/name/nm24173...
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Theodor W. Adorno | Actor, Writer
Known for: Eine Literaturverfilmung, The Indomitable Leni Peickert
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Powerpoint glitch created this cool rare Stalin if anyone else wants to use it
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Listening to the excellent Blowback podcast atm and becoming obsessed with this guy. Constantly playing 3D chess with everyone including himself, resigning the throne in favour of his own father to boost his power... imagine being his political opponent en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norodom...
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Norodom Sihanouk - Wikipedia
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Tom Whyman @tomwhyman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Big problem with switching to a new platform is that I had a fair amount of followers on twitter because I used to have a lot of thoughts I felt compelled to voice, whereas now, with age, my brain has become as smooth and stoical as a pebble.
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