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Tom Woodhead

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Writer, mastering engineer, will soon sing again in ¡Forward, Russia! I master records for a living, I'm really good at it: www.hippocraticmastering.com

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Francis Bacon @francisbacon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
After the life mask of William Blake www.wikiart.org/en/francis-bacon/af…
After the life mask of William Blake
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.
A neon light art piece of Samuel Beckett's famous quote "I can't go on. I'll go on" but spaced - it would seem inadvertently- so that it reads "I can't goon. I'll goon".
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¡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’.
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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HOW TO DRAW A PYRAMID A zig. Now one zag. Gaze now on Giza! #palindrome
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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hearing 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
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@harrysword.bsky.social
A photo of Marco Pierre White with a microphone, and the quote:

'They interview Heston [Blumenthal] and they interview Jamie Oliver and then they come to me. So they tell me it is going to be the four of us and four shows. | say no to it. And they said, 'Why?' It's very simple. Heston worked hard for his three stars, Gordon [Ramsay] worked hard for his three stars and I worked hard for my three stars. How many stars has Jamie won?'
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¡Forward, Russia! @forwardrussia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For the evening crowd:
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What the hell happened in the 20s and 30s?
The google ngram view for the phrase 'answers on a postcard' showing a steep rise from 1980, peaking in 1996, and sloping off to a vestigial plateau since about 2010.

But there is also a huge spike, coming down to almost nothing, from about 1920-1930.
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This 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
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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
you'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"
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Accidentally ordered two copies of 'The Lady in the Lake' by Raymond Chandler. Is this what is meant by 'executive dysfunction?'
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¡Forward, Russia! @forwardrussia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Should have probably but a big fucking picture so people don't scroll past, shouldn't I
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¡Forward, Russia! @forwardrussia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Read more, and the complete history of Thirteen/Fourteen, within: tomwoodhead.substack.com/p/too-excited-
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wrote some more stuff
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¡Forward, Russia! @forwardrussia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And it’s out!
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¡Forward, Russia! @forwardrussia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fourteen!!! 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
The ¡! logo, white/light blue on dark blue, and the words 'Single - Fourteen'
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Great to see Aesop (620-564 BC) display the same open, welcoming posture that got me where I am today (in regular intense pain)
My man, Aesop, with a hunched posture and a little cock and balls (?!) directly underneath his weird chest
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george 💿 @deejaygeejaygee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great ad
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What can we learn from this?
A graph showing that the words 'toolbox' and 'toolkit' have almost identical usage over time, both steadily growing from the 1980s onwards
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just realised there's nothing technically *stopping* me (other than wanting to remain in my marriage) from installing a urinal directly next to my bed
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Love the fact that whether my mortgage goes up or not is decided by petrol prices, despite never having had a single driving lesson
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Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
This is my vote for the most classic 9/11 tweet
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The emblem Max Gradel has chosen for his academy is the one of the funniest things I've ever seen
A badge that looks almost exactly like the Leeds United badge - same colours and basic design, except it says 'MUFC' on it
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¡Forward, Russia! @forwardrussia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A Fearless Guide to Communication: announcing the tracklisting of our rarities compilation
A photo of the tracklisting (printed in replies)
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
*Overhearing someone talking about me, panicking and forgetting the idiom* 😝 ‘My ears are bleeding…’
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¡Forward, Russia! @forwardrussia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A load of pieces of paper, with '¡!' on the front, joined by treasury tags.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Across 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.
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Why office workers are turning against AI
Whether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power.
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Today 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
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wolverine looking at Beren’s quote
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
MOGWAI - COME ON DIE YOUNG [1999]
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Pretty amazing piece from 2019 www.vice.com/en/article/a...
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An Oral History of Tim Curry’s Escape to the One Place Uncorrupted by Capitalism
How an unforgettable performance in Red Alert 3 became legend.
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A demon with a speech bubble.
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Matthias Grünewald @mgrunewald.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Crucifixion Altarpiece (detail) www.wikiart.org/en/matthias-grunewa…
Crucifixion Altarpiece (detail)
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It's fine. They cloned Dolly years ago.
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It 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
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Oh yeah, the headache that makes you wrong about Gundam
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mesut-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!
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Colin @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.
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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Vent d'est Jean Gaumy
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Fuck you, Zack Polanski!
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Screenshot of the opening of the wikipedia page for Mao’s Hundred Flowers CampaignScreenshot of that Aussie politician, smilingScreenshot of ‘End of the campaign and subsequent crackdown’ portion of the wiki pageThat Aussie politician frowning
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A factual and measured article. One glance at the reaction on Twitter has sent me into a depression no amount of taurine could flush away
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RRRMMM @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!
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Perfectly fine to criticise Emily Wilson or anyone else, but you lose all credibility when you imply you have any understanding of Ancient Greek
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Marge Simpson losing her mind
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Yeah, I've been fucking about; what of it?
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE ODYSSEY
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Books 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
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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
If 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
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