Tom Hannen

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Photo showing the label of Jacksons of Piccadilly – Sencha Green Tea with Mint which has been unavailable for YEARS
Photo of a Playdate games console running "Speccydate" the ZX Spectrum emulator, with a cassette copy of 'Daley Thompson's Decathlon' next to it
Octopus bar chart of electricity usage this week. Every day is £5-6 except today which is barely over the standing charge.
A stack of solar panels leaning against a fence in preparation for being put up on a roof tomorrow.
Screenshot from https://ko-fi.com/countbinface showing 22313 pledges received
Bar charts showing Count Binface's performance across several general election counts (somewhere between 0.1-1.0% of the vote in each).
Goodyear blimp flying right overhead in central London
Video of the Goodyear blimp flying over the Thames, London
An AI rendering of a Victorian-engineering inspired version of the Chinese-Swiss drop tower electricity storage system placed next to the Viking Wind farm in Shetland, one of the most curtailed sites in the UK.
An AI render of a gravity tower designed to look like a piece of Victorian engineering.
Photo of a McDonald’s restaurant being revamped. The signage has been removed revealing LED strips behind it. Corrugated sheet metal has been placed in front of the restaurant, with a poster declaring “We’re closed to level up”
A close up pixel view of the ghost enemy from Namco’s coin operated arcade game “Bubble Bobble”
Pencil sketched vision for a massive highway wind-power scheme
Terry Wogan on Blankety Blank holding a long thin mic
Famous photo of Steve Jobs sitting cross legged on a wooden floor
Muting knicks and NBA because there’s been quite enough of it already
A mechanical computer keyboard, dark palette with a red escape key and a delightful volume knob, and a full size proper cursor keyboard and number pad so I can use Blender without feeling like an animal
Star Trek Next Generation title card, except that 'Encounter at Farpoint' has been modified to read 'Encounter at Makerfield', the next significant by-election in the UK.
The Poem-1 device, displaying a poem about 15:04
An almost indestructible Pelicase, sitting upright waiting to be pulled along like a suitcase.
Spotify has a new monstrosity for an icon
Shackleton plane at the Gatwick Aviation museum. You can walk all the way through it
An actual ejector seat at the Gatwick Air Museum. On the seat is a small white sign with angry red letters in all caps: “WARNING DO NOT SIT ON EJECTOR SEAT”
Shot of sparx maths running on an iPad
Isao Tomita wearing some very cool 70s shades and sitting in front of the most enormous modular Moog you’ve ever seen
Jude Law holding a gun made out of bones
Taped up letter from 'Back To The Future'
Rebecca Paul MP’s extremely green coloured election leaflet. No blue at all, and no mention of the Conservative Party or Kemi Badenoch.
Image from the planning documents on Aberdeenshire councils website showing a proposed battery storage system.
Video of me asking "Alexa when does Artemis 2 launch?". Alexa replies "Artemis 2 launched on the 15th of February 2026"
No data returned by National Rail
Screen grab from Spotify showing some songs from the 20th century in a playlist “good music from the 1900s”. Cold Duck Time, Back in the USSR, Dear Prudence, and While my Guitar Gently Weeps’
A line from Premiere's transcription service reading 'while many people do use stocks and shares ISIS to invest for their retirement'
A screenshot from the 1990 Atari ST version of SimCity warning that: "MONSTER ATTACK - A large reptilian creature has been spotted in the water"
A video of busker in London playing a tuba. Every so often a large flame is emitted from the horn. Not AI.
The individual toilet cubicles, meanwhile, are shared with the clatter of Lucky Cat and tonight the lock on one of them is broken. A small thing, perhaps, but not when dinner for two can easily cost upwards of £750. Ramsay has made much of the Bishopsgate project costing £20mn and of him needing "balls of steel" to complete it; meanwhile, courtesy of a broken door, mine risk being on display.
Screengrab of one of the NYT front page videos showing the extremely high resolution for a crusty bit of agency footage that was probably 720p in the first place...
Dune poster, except that the text reads ‘’marginal spice pricing”
FrameIO - status screen - experiencing degraded performance
This video contains no speech - aerial and on the ground video clips showing property connected to Viktor Orban
A model of a UK mains socket on a strut beneath the Millennium Bridge in Central London UK
Then there are new channels like GB News. While BBC producers sit with stopwatches ensuring that political parties all get a fair say, GB News can do what it likes, thanks to the government's decision to shut down broadcast regulator Ofcom. That has allowed the channel to act as a daily booster for one political party. It is impossible to imagine that, had the Department of Culture and Ofcom not shut their doors in 2024, a "news" channel would have been allowed to have a political party leader as a regular host (indeed, had Labour not also abolished the Electoral Commission, it might have been interested in how a channel whose last set of accounts show it losing £33 million can afford to pay Farage more than £400,000 in less than two years).
A request to draw the infinite. And a nice extremely human reply The I ginate is not a shape that can be drawn by machine hands. It is the wonder in the soul. The beating heart. No wait. It's mario. Play mario
Great Western Railway advert stating “The railway belongs to the region it serves.”
Photo of an excellent Oxfam bookshop with curly wurly pink sign writing reading “Spring is the time of plans and projects”
Scene from Casablanca - the pickpocket