Reposted by Tom WoodheadFrancis Bacon @francisbacon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026After the life mask of William Blake www.wikiart.org/en/francis-bacon/af… 0183
Reposted by Tom WoodheadThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort. 10270911628
Reposted by Tom Woodhead¡Forward, Russia! @forwardrussia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026'This is Fourteen' Recorded live at Amsterdam Paradiso, October 2005. Stream the studio version from the Give Me A Wall sessions now, download via Bandcamp or buy as part of our rarities compilation ‘A Fearless Guide To Communication’. 162
Reposted by Tom WoodheadAnthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026HOW TO DRAW A PYRAMID A zig. Now one zag. Gaze now on Giza! #palindrome 07120
Reposted by Tom WoodheadDaniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Hearing a lot about scam emails pretending to be from publishers. Be careful out there. No one in the publishing industry would ever willingly answer an email 0212
Reposted by Tom Woodhead¡Forward, Russia! @forwardrussia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026For the evening crowd: 032
Reposted by Tom Woodheadweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't. 63106972531
Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This photo triggers an intense Proustian Rush in me, as it was on the wall of my high school music classroom the entire 7 years I attended the school 092
Reposted by Tom Woodheadmaundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026you've got to assume an ethics expert is troubled almost all the time. although it would be pretty cool not to be. "the blasé ethicist" 642336
Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Accidentally ordered two copies of 'The Lady in the Lake' by Raymond Chandler. Is this what is meant by 'executive dysfunction?' 110
Reposted by Tom Woodhead¡Forward, Russia! @forwardrussia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Should have probably but a big fucking picture so people don't scroll past, shouldn't I 151
Reposted by Tom Woodhead¡Forward, Russia! @forwardrussia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Read more, and the complete history of Thirteen/Fourteen, within: tomwoodhead.substack.com/p/too-excited-tomwoodhead.substack.com 142
Reposted by Tom Woodhead¡Forward, Russia! @forwardrussia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Fourteen!!! On DSPs / streaming from midnight Wednesday 23rd September (don't ask me whether that means tonight or Wednesday, because I ¡Don't Know! Follow ¡Forward, Russia! on your favourite streaming service to hear it first 183
Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Great to see Aesop (620-564 BC) display the same open, welcoming posture that got me where I am today (in regular intense pain) 120
Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Just realised there's nothing technically *stopping* me (other than wanting to remain in my marriage) from installing a urinal directly next to my bed 120
Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Love the fact that whether my mortgage goes up or not is decided by petrol prices, despite never having had a single driving lesson 130
Reposted by Tom WoodheadRandom Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 11/09/2024This is my vote for the most classic 9/11 tweet 5744130
Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The emblem Max Gradel has chosen for his academy is the one of the funniest things I've ever seen 360
Reposted by Tom Woodhead¡Forward, Russia! @forwardrussia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A Fearless Guide to Communication: announcing the tracklisting of our rarities compilation 161
Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 11/09/2026*Overhearing someone talking about me, panicking and forgetting the idiom* 😝 ‘My ears are bleeding…’ 010
Reposted by Tom WoodheadBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Across the US, workers are souring on AI. The tech industry has insisted that AI would make workers’ lives easier and more productive, that the more people understood and used AI, the more they would like it. Something closer to the opposite has happened.bloodinthemachine.comWhy office workers are turning against AIWhether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power. 201549454
Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Today my 13-year-old son told me he doesn’t want his Phoenix (comic) subscription anymore – he’s had it since his was 7 – and it was the most upset I’ve ever got about a ’he’s getting older’ milestone. Like proper crying my eyes out (away from him, obviously), lol 140
Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Pretty amazing piece from 2019 www.vice.com/en/article/a...vice.comAn Oral History of Tim Curry’s Escape to the One Place Uncorrupted by CapitalismHow an unforgettable performance in Red Alert 3 became legend. 010
Reposted by Tom WoodheadMatthias Grünewald @mgrunewald.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Crucifixion Altarpiece (detail) www.wikiart.org/en/matthias-grunewa… 001
Reposted by Tom WoodheadSridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026It's fine. They cloned Dolly years ago. 635226
Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 24/08/2026It took me 4 months to get paid £65 by Sony Music Spain earlier this year. I suppose you have to cut a certain amount of slack to these little companies just struggling to get by 050
Reposted by Tom WoodheadUSER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Oh yeah, the headache that makes you wrong about Gundam 1731181196
Reposted by Tom Woodheadmesut-ausil.bsky.social @mesut-ausil.bsky.social · 20/08/2026[Jonah doing stand up] and then there was Covid. Remember Covid ? Yep. This guy remembers Covid. I spent a lot of time inside during Covid. Yeah. Inside a whale! 767370
Reposted by Tom WoodheadColin @colin-fraser.net · 18/08/2026“That’s what makes my writing mine” yes, exactly. That’s the exact reason that watermark detection will report that your text does not originate from Claude. 1506
Reposted by Tom WoodheadLaurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Vent d'est Jean Gaumy 1446
Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 06/08/2026A factual and measured article. One glance at the reaction on Twitter has sent me into a depression no amount of taurine could flush away 1201
Reposted by Tom WoodheadRRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 28/07/2026[movie trailer voice] They fuck you up... ...your mum and dad *Country scene, dark, tent in foreground collapses* "DAD!"* They may not mean to but they do *Family arguing as they walk on a cliff path* This year, exclusively in IMAX, they'll add some extra just for you... This! Be! The! Film! 58117
Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Perfectly fine to criticise Emily Wilson or anyone else, but you lose all credibility when you imply you have any understanding of Ancient Greek 120
Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Books I'll yammer on about to anyone who'll listen: Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban Landscape With Landscape - Gerald Murnane Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages - Manuel Puig The Endless Summer - Madame Nielsen 1982, Janine - Alasdair Gray The Cook - Wayne McCauley 020
Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 21/07/2026If you put in a certain sequence of commands on the FROG lighting desk in the Cockpit while it was booting up you could play Frogger on it. Better than being shouted at by Hugh Cornwell 150