Thomas Newton

@thomasnewton2323

Writer, campinologist, liar. He/him/his.

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Thomas Newton@thomasnewton2323· 4d

How I'll post if Bluesky dies

Stańczyk by Jan Matejko. A late middle ages jester sits despondently at a desk strewn with crumpled notes and parchment.

Thomas Newton@thomasnewton2323· 8d

A TfL time display board at Whitechapel Overground station, stating that the next train to New Cross will arrive in 117 minutes. Clearly the result of some kind of technical fault, or is it?! It's hard to distinguish between features and bugs these days.

Thomas Newton@thomasnewton2323· 13d

Mr. Burns wearing an obviously fake moustache as his equally unconvincing alias, 'Mr. Snrub'.

Thomas Newton@thomasnewton2323· Jul 17

The Sickos meme — where a depraved-looking figure looks in at something unfolding through a window and declares 'Yes... Ha ha ha, YES!' — but the figure is replaced by Disney's anthropomorphic fox Robin Hood, who instead says 'Yes... Ha ha. Oo-de-LALLY!'

Thomas Newton@thomasnewton2323· Jul 13

RIP Sam Neill. My favourite film with him in is In The Mouth of Madness. It's arguably lost some of its power now we're no longer in the 'video nasties' era, but I have a lot of fondness for it.

Sam Neill as John Trent in In The Mouth of Madness. Sam Neill is sitting alone in a cinema with a bucket of popcorn, and a hysterical, glazed expression on his face.

Thomas Newton@thomasnewton2323· Jul 4

I'm pretty ambivalent about football and don't find countryism funny, but I am prepared to make exceptions.

A football World Cup variation on Interrupting Crow, a four panel meme.

1. A cute bird with an Uncle Sam hat sings to itself on the branch of a tree.

'Woo, July 4th!' sings the American bird.

2. The cute bird starts to sing 'Independence Day' but its speech bubble is cut off by the speech bubble of a louder, off-panel voice, shouting: 'IT'S COMING!'

3. A zoomed out version of the first panel. A horrible crow with an English flag superimposed on its body looms in the foreground.

The crow shouts: 'FOOTBALL'S COMING HOME! IT'S COMING HOME! IT'S COMING HOME!'

4. A close up of the cute American bird, looking disgruntled.

Off-panel crow shouting: 'IT'S COMING! FOOTBALL'S COMING HOME!'

Thomas Newton@thomasnewton2323· Jun 30

Every hometown's got an ominous megastructure, what's yours?

A photograph of Stonehenge, UK, with the setting sun bursting ominously on the horizon, like the yolk of some foul egg of quite terrifying proportions.

Thomas Newton@thomasnewton2323· Jun 29

Brad Fiedel didn't make a mistake when writing The Terminator main theme, unintentionally creating not just an all-time great movie theme, but also an all-time great in a time signature he himself wasn't aware of until years later, just so you could tell me AI was "inevitable"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, from The Terminator poster. Arnie's holding a pistol, wearing sunglasses, and sporting a leather jacket, fingerless leather riding mitts, standing against a black background with red beams of light illuminating him. The letters 'CSM-101', also in red, are superimposed on the right lens of his sunglasses, signifying that he is not a human, but a cybernetic killing machine, from da fewt-chaaa.

Thomas Newton@thomasnewton2323· Jun 25

The aircon discourse reminded me to look up solar panel install costs, which are on avg. £6k according to the Energy Saving Trust. Meanwhile, last month 12.4% of the UK's energy was generated via PVs, which take up around 0.1% of landmass. Subsidise 👏 This 👏 Now 👏 www.neso.energy/energy-101/g...

A graph from the NESO showing what percentage of electricity used by the UK in May 2026 was generated by which resource: Gas, 22.6%. Wind, 24.7%. Nuclear, 10.9%. Biomass, 7.2%. Solar, 12.4%. Imports, 18.7%. Hydro, 1.3%. Storage, 2.3%.

Thomas Newton@thomasnewton2323· Jun 25

A nonsensical graph from the satirical TV show Brass Eye. A 3 axis bar graph titled 'Man vs Animal evil continuum paradox'. The axes are labelled: 'Number of animals abused', 'What makes people cruel' and 'Intelligence of either party'. Seven bars are plotted in the field, each one topped with the head of a fox.

Thomas Newton@thomasnewton2323· May 18

SNL UK has been great, especially Weekend Update, but I don't understand why they decided to flood Belgium

Paddy Young and Emma Sidi on SNL UK's Weekend Update newsdesk in front of an outline map of Europe, which inexplicably excludes Belgium.

Thomas Newton@thomasnewton2323· Jun 29

Hats off to the chap working off of a Cudy router with a Lyca SIM powered by a 12V battery pack on the train. Apparently necessary to stop to stop the signal from dropping every time there's handover between two cell towers — now *that's* dedication.

Photo of someone working on a laptop on a Penzance-bound GWR train, connected to the Internet via a full-sized Cudy router, presumably a P5, powered by a portable battery.

Thomas Newton@thomasnewton2323· Dec 28

Company peddling a defective, resource-intensive service that nobody wants or needs addicted to handouts shocker.

Mark Lester as Oliver Twist, holding an empty bowl in the famous 'Please, Sir, I want some more' scene.

Thomas Newton@thomasnewton2323· Dec 27

Looks like this might actually be happening 🤞 www.instagram.com/p/DEAVrPGpye...

"davenavarro REISSUE! In 1994 @ericaveryinsta and I released a very little known album produced by @ronnie.s.champagne called Deconstruction. This was right after the first end of Jane's. It was never really promoted and definitely had NO singles. It quickly went away and ultimately went out of print.

"The album was very experimental and followed no rules and really had no structured songs. Eric sang and played bass, I was on guitar and did a few back up vocals and Michael Murphy from Lions and Ghosts played drums. We never did a live show but the exploration sonically was freeing and inspired. Now, all these years later this album has been added to some streaming outlets. I think that some of the magic between Eric and I musically is most definitely evident on this project. I'd say it's more cinematic and soundscapey than traditional song oriented. Perhaps that's why it was a tough listen for some. Having revisited it after all these years I believe this record contains some of my favorite recorded playing and interplay between E's bass and my guitar. I am very happy this has been rereleased and is available for streaming. If you care to, give it a listen. (Special appearances from Gibby Haynes of @butthole_surfers_fans and @pinky_turzo)

"ericaveryinsta:

Some good dedicated folks are working at getting this out on vinyl too."

Thomas Newton@thomasnewton2323· Nov 19

Cosplay kulak Clarkson caught out

An image of Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge, from S1E1 of I'm Alan Partridge. This is the scene with David Schneider's character when Alan learns that the BBC won't give him a second series.

Thomas Newton@thomasnewton2323· Nov 18

'No one cared who I was until I put on the Mask III by Jakob Rowlinson'

Thomas Newton@thomasnewton2323· Aug 26

I was reminded of Karen McLean's melted chattel houses, specifically one that resembles a body bag, and remembered that these are made of sugar, specifically, Tate & Lyle sugar:

An image from Karen McLean's White Shadows: Presence and Resistance series — a model of a chattel house made of melted sugar.

Thomas Newton@thomasnewton2323· Aug 26

I enjoyed that I felt like the monster from the Star Trek episode 'Skin of Evil', or the No Face from Spirited Away.

The monster Armus from the Star Trek The Next Generation episode 'Skin of Evil', a humanoid figure composed of a black, tar-like substance.

The monster No Face from Spirited Away, a figure cloaked in a long black robe wearing a white mask with red markings around the eyes.

Thomas Newton@thomasnewton2323· Aug 26

I sat inside a large black cloth bag ('Bag Piece') for a couple of minutes, and enjoyed the fact that I was cut off from the rest of the world. A selfie I took while taking part in Bag Piece:

An unilluminated selfie taken while sat inside a thick black fabric bag — the image is entirely blank.

Thomas Newton@thomasnewton2323· Aug 26

'Painting to be Stepped On' is now to be attributed thus: Ono, Newton (1961/2024)