Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 3hEnjoyed Alan Davies on the latest Tuesday Club podcast describing Manchester City as the climate change of the premier league - just an inexorable graph showing more points and more trophies every season, while destroying everything around it 120
Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 8hQuite nice to go a webinar about academic teaching where they responded to the ubiquity of generative AI by using it it as an opportunity to fundamentally re-think how they did assessment, rather than either ignoring it or encouraging students to use it 210
Reposted by TomGaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 10hsuch a good eg of why political argument matters - polling previously showed over 60% support for keeping triple lock. Argue to unlock it *for something people also want* & numbers can change. (Obv can change back again if someone makes a good argument against, but either way, politics=argument) 1924861
Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Handy list of Cable Street anniversary events coming up this weekendclaptoncfc.co.ukCable Street 90 events in East London including the Old Spotted Dog Ground - Clapton Community FCThere are a huge amount of events taking place over the next few weeks to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street and we'll try to list them here 025
Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Started using a standing desk today, and horrified to report that I feel better for it and procrastinated less 130
Reposted by TomMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.' 29694
Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026South Eastern trains be like: “the accessible carriage is at the FRONT or the REAR of this TWELVE carriage train” five seconds before it pulls into the platform, which makes commuting with my bike always exciting 120
Reposted by TomAidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping" 29787154
Reposted by TomLauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"Does your process knowledge, all that non-digitized stuff that doesn’t show up in training data that you learned from living as a human being in the messy sticky fuzzy-edged physical world, tell you something different from what the AI “analysis” is telling you?" 1125
Reposted by Tomyaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 26/09/2026victorian exploration missions be like hi yes hello i am admiral johnifer von planningfailure, meet my ships the HMS sinkable and the HMS hellfire, stocked to the brim with the best leaded goulash cans money can buy 1119236
Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I wouldn’t mind trying to fix people’s AI-written documents at work if they didn’t get so pissy when I do 100
Reposted by TomTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fundamentally, the median voter has had a tax cut since 2010 and the result is that nothing works. 1145294
Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I don’t know many things, but I do know that everyone involved in neutering the Environment Agency should be shamed for it forevertheguardian.com‘The eels were climbing out of the water to die’: why did every fish in this idyllic lake perish overnight?Furnace Brook in East Sussex was home to carp, tench, bream, roach and trout – and 15 trailer-loads had to be buried. The mystery led to a neighbouring farm, and a story of waste, pollution and dirty ... 130
Reposted by TomKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We've done it. Every meme on the internet now has its genuine real-world counterpart. 67912
Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Huhmirror.co.ukMan City guilty on 114 of 115 charges as club prepare appeal against verdictManchester City were charged with breaking the Premier League's financial rules from 2009 to 2018, and two years on from the hearing, we finally have an outcome 100
Reposted by TomDr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Braverman can identify how she likes, but “English is an ethnicity” is not, to my mind, true, and it’s going to take us to some dark places very quickly. 2922537
Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Can tell I have a work task I’m avoiding, because I just found myself going into a research hole about a Blackpool grime scene beef from ten years ago 350
Reposted by TomTuring Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Transport politics is so good because all of it is basically "it is a stupidly inefficient use of space and fuel to let every city dweller have a personal tank" versus "no it isn't" 17219
Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Kind of fascinated by how Taylor Sheridan from writing Sicario to doing endless guff like the Yellowstone franchise 100
Reposted by TomTom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble 331460372
Reposted by TomTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The Oxenham Arms pub in South Zeal, Devon, boasts the unusual distinction of having been constructed around two prehistoric standing stones. If you’re lucky and visit at the right time of day, as I did, you might also see the smaller of the two being recharged with sacred energy by the sun. 19565104
Reposted by TomBart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Back of the envelope calculations: 3600 years of research time went into the collective application process. The research will fund 3200 years of research. We are 400 research years poorer as a result of this. 1/2 316386
Reposted by TomGef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Me to myself while I'm giving myself my tenth present of the day 413719
Reposted by TomKateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026New Susannah Clarke! Fans of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and Piranesi - this may be news to you, it was to me. 57736
Reposted by Tom𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙪𝙧 𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙡 @introspectre.online · 03/01/2026just spent about 20 minutes trying to track down this video on Instagram 81109278
Reposted by TomThe Old Spotted Dog Ground @oldspotteddog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Old Spotted Dog Ground from the air 🗓️ 13/09/26 📸 @tombowles.bsky.social 2166
Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Stuck in the eternal queue for Charli XCX tickets, wish me luck 100
Reposted by Tomthierry ennui @alexeptable.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Imagine working for the gambling industry and thinking “no, this isn’t quite evil enough” 2258
Reposted by Tom𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026i wonder if something about the politics of the last 15 years might have driven people to distrust or think the british state does not care about them 310923
Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Man, has anyone shown their arse as much as the effective altruists? Within 15-20 years they’ve gone from being apparently well-meaning but a bit misguided, to seemingly backing causes that have cancelled vast amounts of global aid and are now busy accelerating climate change 111
Reposted by TomFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal." 1521267286
Reposted by TomThe 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. 9768031544
Reposted by Tomjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US 3053821099
Reposted by TomDr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I completely understand people saying “why is the media giving Piddington so much attention?”, but I do think this clip is worth watching. 36016
Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Finally seen Facebook nostalgia slop for cybergoth. The cycle is complete 210
Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Managed to type “Thanks, Ant” in a work context without shortening it to thisyoutu.beTHANTSYouTube video by JB 130
Reposted by TomDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Some aspects of other worlds are disorientingly alien, some disorientingly familiar. Laws of nature work the same everywhere (this is Mars, if not obvious) 0539
Reposted by TomCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026the things that Brighton university management has decided it simply… no longer recognises? it also no longer recognises UCU or Unison? again: how is this legal!!!! 416270
Reposted by TomThe Jeremy! (stuck in among the zinnias) @tjeremy.com · 14/09/2026Hi yes hello Geeb is here to let you know that the week has been canceled and everyone can report to Friday! 🥳🥳 #cats #catpics #catsky #catsofbluesky #blackcats 45112
Reposted by TomAndrás Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Bus Lane Works is probably not a click worthy title, but it has the benefit of being true 210811
Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Discovered that the best way to get your steps in is to go LARPing or house hunting - each consistently 17-18k a day it turns out 010
Reposted by TomJack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 12/09/2026The post isn't even internally consistent. If the UK "is taxing itself to death", and if Laffer is right that "taxes can become so punitive they reduce revenues", then why would lowering taxes require you to cut spending? 1620753
Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Okay so the British Museum is very fancy and everything but does it have a pocket potato 2234
Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Weird Proustian rush when you get a bus that takes you past all the places you worked in your 20s. Not bad necessarily, just glad I don’t work at them any more 000
