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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 30/09/2026

I have since spent a long time watching bollard videos

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 28/09/2026

doesn’t that mean fell over face first?

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sir John Curtice lays down the numbers at the Demos fringe while Polly Curtis and Chris Curtis look on - a Curtice/Curtis full house

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Can’t believe how excited I am for The Satan Pit. I’ve watched these episodes so many times, but the re-edit just sounds like too good of an opportunity to miss.

Poster for Doctor Who: The Satan Pit, an extended cut of the two parter from 2006. Poster features Rose, an Ood, and the Tenth Doctor and spooky writing.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

One of the contestants on Sewing Bee has just said "I'm going to stop doing this because it's just going to stress me out". I did not know this was an option for anything ever. A revelation.

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 14/09/2026

The web version of Word is the bane of my life

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 10/09/2026

In Amsterdam for work for a few days — can anyone recommend any good places for coffee?

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Friends fear he’s stress eating cheese

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 09/09/2026

I’m almost annoyed at how smooth this animation is

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 09/09/2026

The high stools in these Apple labs look so uncomfortable

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 04/09/2026

crikey Silo is very very good

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 30/08/2026

I think the world needs a Rebecca Black/Rina Sawayama collab. I think that would fix things.

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 28/08/2026

Surely this is all just a ploy to regain the “highest grossing film of all time” title after Titanic did a re-release to take the spot back from Endgame

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 25/08/2026

WhatsApp has added an awful new “restyle with AI” option whenever you add a video or photo 🫠 Make the slop stop

Screenshot of WhatsApp with a button saying “restyle with AI”. The background image is of flowers.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sometimes, when someone dies, what helps me is thinking about how wonderful it is that they were even alive in the first place. Dolly was the closest you could get to an American saint. We all loved her.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I never need to see another genAI image for a think tank report that somehow juxtaposes the Union Jack with some kind of smokey "industrial" imagery

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The loss of search structure is devastating for knowledge retrieval. I teach basic lit searching and it's always felt like a really core transferable skill for students to know boolean operators and "exact phrase searching" and now google, microsoft etc have just killed it to force us to use slopAI.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Listen, I can't stop you using AI. I couldn't even stop you using sample libraries. But unless you record a horn section for your record, you won't have a horn section on your record. Me and Sam Ewens can fix that for you.

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 20/08/2026

just in case you didn’t see, this is an alpha

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 16/08/2026

Oh good, sorry he went through that though! If you’re London-based, Will Norman (@willnorman.co.uk) is the cycling commissioner. Caroline Russell (@carolinerussell.bsky.social) is also good on these issues, she’s a London-wide AM.

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 15/08/2026

Oh that’s good! I try to do those things but still kinda struggle

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 15/08/2026

Any particular recommendations? I feel like I’m so much more active than I used to be, but also at my (near) heaviest

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 15/08/2026

There’s something really off-putting about the AI generated website aesthetic

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 15/08/2026

This means rain is on the way, right? Right?

Grey, stormy clouds over gardens and houses in north London

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I wish media outlets would describe Nathan Cofnas as a racist rather than a "self-defined race realist" which doesn't mean anything to most people. His writing meets any definition of racism however narrowly and cautiously drawn.

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 14/08/2026

Quite literally at Bao! I think it might just be the King’s Cross location though

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s @carbdiem.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

there's a difference between holding someone accountable and then straight up bullying and harassment and i don't think people realise that

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 14/08/2026

oh it kinda does not my finest photo but it was *excellent*

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 14/08/2026

Jerry they even do chip butty bao here

A bao filled with chips, crispy potato bits, and ketchup

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

⚠️ Severe Alert Issued by the UK Government Chip butties absolutely count as vegetables

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I have seen some people get a bit gloomy about the fact that Bluesky is losing some numbers, but I think chasing reach and network effects is probably where social media went wrong in the first place

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 13/08/2026

this was such a well-run workshop and an honour to take part in — highly recommend reading the report!

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Hanne Stegeman @hannems.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Earlier this summer an amazing group of experts on Image Based Abuse joined me for a workshop on research priorities at the University of Exeter. We spent the day discussing the ways in which academic research can more productively contribute to the fight against IBSA: hdl.handle.net/10779/exe.33...

Report cover, reading: Research against IBSA: a collective research agenda

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 10/08/2026

can’t wait for it to be over

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 10/08/2026

I don’t know but I’ll ask him and see what he thinks @jcsalterego.bsky.social is this why you got “verified”

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 10/08/2026

House of the Dragon finale was *excellent* Hoping for a bit less Harrenhal in the final season, though…

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Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk · 08/08/2026

ah yes, the sequel to Nolan’s Odyssey — Marks and Spencer’s “Pantheon”

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