Tom Evans

Still overthinking internet bios.

[Tom Evans @acatcalledfrank]

Want to learn to swear in ten different languages? Then today’s your lucky day.

I’m thrilled to announce &$!#% — an interactive data visualisation that explores swearing, insults and taboo-breaking language from cultures around the globe.

https://t.co/rZyjL3wn4w

[Tom Evans @acatcalledfrank]

@thomasforth The rusting skip 🥰

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

man: i wish to publish

reviewer 2: your paper is no good

man: i'll do anything to improve

reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini

man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini

[Tom Evans @acatcalledfrank]

BBC News describing Kemi Badenoch as "sassy" and "feisty" 🙄

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

Beautifully clear demonstration of the very high cost of HS2, amid unusually easy terrain and with proven technology. https://t.co/cDNY9Ad7EN

[Tom Evans @acatcalledfrank]

Slightly concerned that the last tweet in this thread is going to be “And that’s how we accidentally opened a portal to a dimension of hungry eighth-dimensional parasites. Good luck surviving 2026 everyone!”

[Jonathan Gorard @getjonwithit]

@stephen_wolfram Moreover, in between the barren wastelands and the known fields of mathematics, there seemed to be thousands of other "alien" axiom systems: mathematical systems just as rich as topology or set theory, with just as many non-trivial theorems, but which did not correspond... (5/15)

[James O'Malley @Psythor]

The Snowman and Father Christmas take place in the same universe. In Father Christmas, Jim and Hilda Bloggs from When the Wind Blows are shown in the pub.

This therefore suggests that, canonically speaking, the real ending of The Snowman is a massive nuclear war.

[Tom Evans @acatcalledfrank]

🤔

[Tom Evans @acatcalledfrank]

I raise you this bridge in Waterloo

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Hat's off to this Architect for this railing shadow.

[Tom Evans @acatcalledfrank]

Well, that’s annoying(ly predictable). They’ve been repeatedly planning, delaying and cancelling trams since I moved to Leeds 25 years ago, and probably before that. I dread to think how much money has been pissed away on the various consultations.

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

And there it is. Embargo is finished. Yorkshire Post press publish first. But I have my suspicions there's quite a lot more to this story than what they're reporting. https://t.co/MOcYqoCT9c

[Tom Evans @acatcalledfrank]

“Are they booing?”

“I think they’re saying boo-ze tax”

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves is considering increasing alcohol duty by 3.6% in the Budget

[@LBC]

[Tom Evans @acatcalledfrank]

ChatGPT knows

[Alan Levinovitz @AlanLevinovitz]

Remarkable essay on violence by @MoustacheClubUS in @the_point_mag. Read the first paragraph and see if you can stop:

https://t.co/ZHJrmKyvo0

[Stephen Daisley @JournoStephen]

He kneaded the dough.

[Tom Evans @acatcalledfrank]

It’s funny — I think if you asked me to solve a problem you’d get a very different answer to asking me to solve a problem in the way *I think I* would solve it.

I probably have a hugely incomplete picture of how I actually think so trying to predict my own process won’t work.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

This is a fascinating speculative reflection on the nature of LLMs that will resonate with anyone who actually uses AI a lot. I don’t believe it all, but there are lots of really good ideas (and, more importantly, interesting questions) that it brings up. https://t.co/hEd7PXl7Zy

[The Cat From Greece @acatfromgreece]

Good morning everyone, as we celebrate the anniversary of history’s least successful scene guard.

Please take a moment to remember the night duty legionaries about to go into a ‘no sella, no buccellatum’ meeting with their centurion.

[Scott Wortley @Scott_Wortley]

magnificent story.
Enjoy the forename, stay for the middle name.
https://t.co/Ge6waL3kwL

[Tom Evans @acatcalledfrank]

@keithfrankish

[Tom Evans @acatcalledfrank]

@LynneEast @OctopusEnergy Haha, you'd think so, but it's a lot worse. The AI told me that it "understood how this could be confusing" in an incredibly patronising reply. My complaint email has also disappeared without a trace. It's a shoddy cost-cutting measure that's not fit for purpose.

[Tom Evans @acatcalledfrank]

I'm being pestered by a debt collection agency on behalf of @OctopusEnergy for an adress I've never lived at, and Octopus' support email is handled by an inept AI that can't understand that I'm not a customer and I would like to burn down the modern world please

[Tom Evans @acatcalledfrank]

Thanks Technogym AI Coach, really glad your data centre consumed a day’s worth of electricity to supply this unique and personalised pearl of wisdom