Tom 😶

@npc-tom.fr

322 Followers 934 Following

Local dummy and an NPC, just hanging around, talking about stuff :) Posts in English and Polish. Contrary to "popular" belief, not French lol (pfp by me; original character belongs to @mryes.bsky.social)

Edited image showing two mad individuals: one is labeled "Artists", the other is labeled with the Gemini and ChatGPT logos. "Artists" shout "I FUCKING HATE YOU AND AI", while the Gemini and ChatGPT user shouts back "I FUCKING HATE YOU"
"Sorry to interrupt your scrolling, but you might be using mobile data instead of wi-fi. Make sure you're connected to your home network."
Cropped screenshot of a Discord activity modal. Listening to Spotify: Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up. Listening to YouTube Music: Linkin Park - Given Up.
Screenshot of the @kanyewest profile, showing the account no longer exists.
DeepSeek R1's chain of thought mid-generation, saying just "Okay"
Screenshot from the Spotify desktop app, showing a playlist named "CUM", created by Tom.
"You are not immune to propaganda, but neither am I. I am only pointing this out so we can keep being vigilant about what we consume and not hand-waive any criticism. I think this is ultimately a group effort and we should be less dismissive and more didactic about this."
Wireless mouse held in a hand, with the battery cover off, showing a Duracell-branded Not for Retail Sale AA battery inside.
My Twitter profile, showing birthday balloons strewn about on the page.
Guardian partially embedded in a red brick wall, staring out into a city skyline.
ClearSky result for the npc-tom.fr account, showing it's being blocked by 11 users.
A can of energy drink. Most of the can is marked "wow, this is pretty tasty", with about the bottom eighth marked as "I think I'm free from my mental illness"
Discord updater window. "Downloading update 7 of 16"
Tom Scott looking at the viewer, with a caption that reads "I know, and it's also a complete pain in the ass!"
Cropped screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation: "Can you list some former councilors of Shire of Hepburn, Australia for me?" ChatGPT responded with "The Shire of Hepburn, located in Victoria, Australia, has experienced several changes in its council composition over the years. As of December 2024, the current councillors are: Don Henderson (Mayor) Lesley Hewitt (Deputy Mayor)", with ChatGPT's response being cut off at Brian Hood with an "I'm unable to produce a response" error.
Cropped screenshot from a Discord profile modal: Listening to Spotify Ching Cheng Hanji - Lofi Remix Peng Lexer
In the foreground: Tom Scott holding a balancing pole, looking focused and determined. In the background: Guardian falling off the tightrope.
Weather alert written in Polish: "Wind alert" "Strong wind alert"
William Osman, Tom Scott and TheBackyardScientist sitting in lawn chairs, in a green room. All three are wearing red t-shirts, William and Tom both also wearing jeans, with Kevin wearing khaki trousers.
Cropped screenshot of a Grok conversation. The user asked "Who is Elon Musk?", to which Grok replied with "penis", after having supposedly consulted 15 posts and 15 websites.
Message from the Carl-bot Discord bot (nicknamed "tutel"): "you have no power here. you cannot stop me, mete mortal."
Photo of a computer screen, showing a partial list of installed apps. The mouse pointer is hovering over the app called "Get Help"
Cropped still from a Panenkoek2012 video titled "Every Goomba Glitch in Super Mario 64", showing two Goombas touching while facing each other, and a caption on the left which says "(C) Object", talking about Goomba's interactions with other objects, in this case another Goomba.
Cropped screenshot from the Bluesky web app, showing a follow count of 207 followers for my account
Screenshot of the Discord updater window, showing a Discord logo spinner mid-animation, a caption and an almost fully filled progress bar. The caption reads "Downloading update 15 of 16"
"That's not the right answer; your answer is too high. Curiously, it's the right answer for someone else; you might be logged in to the wrong account or just unlucky. In any case, you need to be using your puzzle input. If you're stuck, make sure you're using the full input data; there are also some general tips on the about page, or you can ask for hints on the subreddit. Please wait one minute before trying again. [Return to Day 2]"
Handle change box, with the handle saying "@the two diacritics in "pełna nazwa" ("full name" in English) were missed. it's supposed to say "pełną nazwą", making the entire string say "Twoją pełną nazwą będzie @[your name here.bsky.social]".bsky.social"
Reply sorting settings, showing everything but the "Hot replies first" option translated to Polish
Source engine logo and wordmark, the wordmark modified to say "sauce"
My Bluesky profile, with all of the UI translated to Polish
Discord updater window. The text says "Downloading update 3 of 16". The progress bar below is a little bit below halfway filled.
Screenshot of the Discord updater window. The text says "Downloading update 15 of 16". The progress bar below is almost entirely filled except for the very end.
The G-Man model from an early version of Half-Life 2, casually standing in a dimly lit room, close to the player/camera.
Netscape browser screenshot, showing a new tab opened with the title of "New Tab by AOL". There's a prompt from the browser itself, saying "Did you mean to change this page? This page was changed by the 'Search and New Tab by AOL' extension", offering two choices: "Change it back" and "Keep it". A second prompt from the new tab itself is visible, saying "We don't want to lose you! We just met! Click on 'Keep changes' to continue with AOL's gorgeous new tab experience."
Still from the Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary, showing G-Man's model in a dark gray suit, white shirt and a red tie.
Cropped screenshot of a ChatGPT session. The user prompted "Can you summarize the following link for me?", providing the The Cutting Room Floor link to the Talking Angela swear words list page, to which GPT-4o responded by talking about music generating AIs
Cropped screenshot from ChatGPT. User prompted with "Can you summarize the following link for me?", having provided the link to The Cutting Room Floor page on the swear words list contained in the Talking Angela app. GPT-4o responded by searching the web for "latest research on breakthrough infections COVID-19 2024".
Example text in Polish (mainly tongue twisters), showing the language setting in a post affects the offset of the character count indicator circle.
Screenshot of the Bluesky app's post composer on Android, showing the character counter circle indicator being offset by the button used to add a new post to a thread, obscuring some of it.
Bluesky thread composer, showing the very thread you're reading right now.
The X logo, slowly sliding to the right to reveal a stylized GAYSEX logo, set to the THX sound.
The "I voted" sticker, with the text changed to an excerpt from the lyrics to the song "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" by Cutting Crew, saying: "I I just died in your arms tonight It must've been some kind of kiss I should've walked away"
Snippet of JavaScript code used to send the quoted post. The createdAt timestamp is hardcoded to be January 17th, 2003, 12:05AM GMT+1.
Picture of Eminem standing against a plain white backdrop with a blurry image of Sputnik edited in, captioned "Woe, Sputnik be unto ye"
WORLD H-1
Tiny excerpt of a response from Claude 3.5 Sonnet, saying "Ballmer Vista: Temporarily buggy and vulnerable"
Cropped screenshot of the Bluesky profile for @npc-tom.fr, showing 100 followers
A light orange, pudgy car standing up on its hind legs, wearing a black witch's hat, a black collar with a bell on it and holding a stick acting as the "staff".
Guardian sitting in a chair, wearing glasses and a black baseball cap which says "Somebody KICK me in the BALLS", holding a white mug.
screenshot from a DNS propagation check tool, showing that the domain npc-tom.fr is resolvable everywhere except Mexico.
A bug with Bluesky: a recent post of mine is both available and "not found", for some reason.
H+
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,407,001, Tom 😶 ‪@npc-tom.fr‬, joined on Oct 8, 2023"