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Welcome

Welcome to my blog.

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About

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Name Tom
Role Head of Technology @ Biorelate
Purpose Portfolio & Blog: A personal website in the old tradition — a corner of the web I build and maintain.
Location Bristol, UK
Education PhD: Complexity Science, MRes: Applied Mathematics, MSci: Physics
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Pizza

Aspiring amateur pizzaiolo. I've been working on perfecting my Neapolitan-style pizza at home, experimenting with dough hydration, flour types, and oven setups.

Current Favourite Recipe (per ball)

  • 153g flour
  • 92g water
  • 5g salt

Preferred Ingredients

Photos

Pizza Pizza
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Reading

Books on my list to read in 2026:

  • Solvej Balle — On the Calculation of Volume I
  • Solvej Balle — On the Calculation of Volume II
  • Solvej Balle — On the Calculation of Volume III
  • Jean Baudrillard — The Transparency of Evil
  • Alain de Botton — The Art of Travel
  • Susan Casey — The Underworld
  • Philip K. Dick — A Maze of Death
  • John Fowles — The Magus
  • Philippa Gregory — The Virgin's Lover
  • Brian Herbert (with Kevin J. Anderson) — Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
  • William James — The Varieties of Religious Experience
  • Bill Joiner (with Stephen Josephs) — Leadership Agility
  • David Runciman — The Handover
  • William Strunk Jr. (with E. B. White) — The Elements of Style
  • Jeff Sutherland — Scrum

Blog Posts

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Cycling

I like cycling and tinkering with bikes. Currently have a Planet-X Pro Carbon road bike, with bikepacking kit to equip as a tourer, and an old Gary Fisher hardtail that I'm currently running as a singlespeed, rigid pub bike.

Photos

Planet-X Pro Carbon road bike Gary Fisher hardtail singlespeed

Favourite Bike Webpages

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Media Diet 2025

Films at the Cinema

  • Nosferatu
  • Mickey 17
  • Warfare
  • Sinners
  • Thunderbolts *
  • The Phoenician Scheme
  • Jurassic World Rebirth
  • One Battle After Another
  • Deliver Me From Nowhere
  • Frankenstein
  • Running Man
  • Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man

Films on TV

  • Kneecap
  • I Saw The TV Glow
  • Love Lies Bleeding
  • Meet Me in the Bathroom
  • Grand Theft Hamlet
  • Dream Scenario
  • Wolves
  • The Running Man
  • Something About Mary
  • The Big Lebowski
  • The Long Goodbye
  • Friendship
  • Good Fortune

TV Shows

  • Alien: Earth
  • Physical Asia

Theatre

  • Henry V @ Church of the Knights Templar

Gigs

  • Lael Neale @ Louisiana
  • Idles @ Queens Square
  • Magnetic Fields @ Beacon
  • Handel's Messiah @ Beacon