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Tom Whyman
@HealthUntoDeath
Philosopher. Email: [email protected]
Gateshead, Northumbria
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    Tom Whyman
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    Aug 26, 2022
    On Simpsons as language and ritual. Also the time Chris Bryant thought Tom Usher was threatening to have him beaten to death with hammers because he'd failed to understand a Sideshow Bob meme
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    FT Weekend Magazine
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    Aug 26, 2022
    ‘The Simpsons is not just a TV show. The Simpsons is a language.’ @HealthUntoDeath’s essay, out today on.ft.com/3e1bjb3
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    Tom Whyman
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    Jun 13, 2022
    GUY DESIGNING A UNIVERSITY WEBSITE: ok so obviously it should be as hard as possible to find out any information about the staff
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    Tom Whyman
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    Apr 5, 2020
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    Tom Whyman
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    Sep 19, 2022
    Apparently Studio Ghibli developed My Neighbour Totoro in parallel with Grave of the Fireflies. Imagine being on the Fireflies team and having to spend every work day staring directly into hell while your colleagues got to animate a cat bus.
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    Tom Whyman
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    Feb 26, 2025
    My five year-old son refers to me and him collectively as the 'Crazy Gang', and wants to have a son when he grows up so that the Crazy Gang can have a third member.
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    Tom Whyman
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    Nov 28, 2024
    A great quirk of our legal system is that no matter how horrific your crime is, you can get a vastly more lenient sentence if you happened to do it while driving a car
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    Sky News
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    Nov 26, 2024
    A teenager who filmed himself driving with his knees before crashing - paralysing a mother from the neck down - has been jailed for two years and two months Read more ⬇️ trib.al/RiBYqmh
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    Tom Whyman
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    Dec 6, 2022
    Executive jobs are so funny it's like their whole job is just to talk to other people about work some third person is maybe doing.
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    Leila Hormozi
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    Dec 2, 2022
    I'm 30 years old. And I run a $200M portfolio of businesses. This is my daily routine:
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    Tom Whyman
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    Feb 10, 2025
    Obviously Kendrick Lamar's music is deeply and irrevocably rooted in the African American experience, but equally he really is out there living every British man's dream (receiving widespread adulation for loudly and repeatedly calling a disliked acquaintance a paedophiile)
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    Tom Whyman
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    Feb 28, 2021
    Might stop saying 'the west' and start saying 'golf playing nations'
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    The Decolonial Atlas
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    Feb 27, 2021
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    Tom Whyman
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    Jan 24, 2024
    Can this country PLEASE stop trying to 'save money' by stopping its infrastructure from functioning
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    Guardian news
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    Jan 24, 2024
    Royal Mail could save £650m by switching to three-day-a week service, says Ofcom dlvr.it/T1p05R
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    Tom Whyman
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    Jun 2, 2025
    Someone has to write the book on how British politics is now almost entirely shaped by things Americans are saying online
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    Robin McKenna
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    Jun 2, 2025
    This should be quite easy as we don’t have any DEI in the UK.
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    Tom Whyman
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    Jul 7, 2023
    Fucking hell, Doom was killed by *NHS mismanagement*
    Leeds hospital trust apologises after rapper MF Doom Dumile Daniel Thompson died in its care
    From theguardian.com
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    Tom Whyman
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    Jul 10, 2024
    Just realised that Sunday will be the *second* time in his (4 year-old) life my son has watched the England football team compete in a major final. This is going to distort an entire generation's psychology.
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    Tom Whyman
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    Jun 26, 2024
    Funniest possible Euros outcome is we keep playing like this, keep winning every match on penalties, bring the trophy home, everyone feels terrible forever.
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