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This Cultural Life - Joel Meyerowitz - BBC Sounds

American photographer Joel Meyerowitz reveals his formative cultural influences.

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Expect records to be broken? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympi...

River that is home to 500 crocodiles chosen to host 2032 Olympic rowing and canoe events

A river that is home to about 500 saltwater crocodiles is given the OK to host Olympic and Paralympic rowing and canoeing events at the 2032 Brisbane Games.

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First time an orange man has called for a united Ireland?

Free speech isn’t rich criminals buying so much of it that yours and mine is swamped. Time for caps on political spending as well as donations.

Hoping to get Bayeux Tapestry tickets, but will it impress as much as the Codex Amiatinus which I saw in 2019 on its first time back in Britain since 716. The early complete bible had been in a N Italian abbey and was only recognised in the late C19 as a Jarrow bible that had been sent to the Pope.

Thanks to the wonder of AI, my journey into photography in the 1990s - "the Beardy Tapestry"

My highlight

Arriving at Bank Quay station sticks in my mind too, more for the smell and less for the view fellow Culchether @rjpartington.bsky.social comments on. But it wasn't only the soap - if the wind was in the right direction Warrington smelled of beer from Greenalls.

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Culcheth's never been in the news so much www.theguardian.com/news/video/2...

Culcheth's never been in the news so much www.theguardian.com/news/video/2...

What does Andy Burnham's home town think of him as PM? – video

In the Warrington suburb of Culcheth, people are hopeful about what one of their own can achieve as the first northern prime minister in half a century. The Guardian's Richard Partington, who also gre...

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Got to hand it to how Badenoch handled today's Tory leadership reshuffle.

If you can get past the Corpspeak, some important pointe here research.adobe.com/news/world-p... "people are about as accurate as a coin toss when it comes to detecting generated images.". Provenance information - metadata - needs to flow with the photo.

This World Photography Day, Adobe Research Maps How Trust Travels with a Photo

On World Photography Day, Adobe Researchers are contributing technologies that give people the information they need to understand where an image comes from, how it’s been changed, and whether its his...

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Was this one of the guy’s funerals, in one of the cars? A sort of Middlesbrough version of Vikings sending their chief to Valhalla - Parmohalla? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The charge says "aggravated by reason of having a terrorist connection". How about "mitigated by political motivation" or just "explained"? It's such a slippery slope when non-violent criminal damage is so casually treated as "terrorism". www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’

Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti

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BOLTON: It’s very curious that John Ratcliffe arrived in Moscow in U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane. It’s painted gray. It’s a big plane. Normally, if you want to go quietly somewhere, you get on a little Air Force Gulfstream painted white with just numbers on the tail.

So, last night a train journey this morning was priced at £36. This morning? It's magically £55 for same seat on the same almost-certainly-empty train. What is the point? All that happens is the train is definitely empty, and the rail company gets no revenue at all.

This looks interesting projectionsnyc.com/911/?src=day1 25 years ago I watched in the office near the Tower of London. Took ages to reach a friend in Boston who was always flying to NY, and I avoided the train home. The bus seemed an unlikely target - until it had to cross Tower Bridge, that is.

A Ragged Victorian reads a Chartist pamphlet unaware that the photographer's namesake owned Beardsworth's Repository, Birmingham's biggest horse and tack dealer of the period and hosted Chartist rallies in the city. No relation - but if they ever make "Who Do You Think You Are Not?"

At my local Sainsburys, a "terrifying glimpse of the future," www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sainsbury's branch pauses AI cameras use after shopper ejected

Matt Arnold says he was asked to leave the store after being wrongly flagged as a shoplifter.

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Sometimes you're asked for your thoughts on something "new" and they trot out the exhausted "designed by photographers for photographers" cliché... And I always wonder who the F do you think photo editing software is for, pig farmers? Oh, the wonders of AI (artificial insemination, of course)

Maybe Jason Arday had questions to answer, I've no idea, but I can't help thinking that the papers' sudden interest in Cambridge academia was only because he was black. A lynch mob?

Alarmed so much by the alarm that within seconds I'd closed the laptop and muted the TV, one of which seemed to stop it. Or maybe it had been a car alarm? Took a few minutes to realise it was the phone.

Hard to pick a favourite - maybe all the B&W's? www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Sailors, shadows and a dog in a dress: heroes of the street – in pictures

From dazzling shifts in perspective to astounding tricks using shade, reflections and rain, these winning images from the Pure Street Photography awards all capture ‘marvellous moments of fleeting ser...

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social Wouldn't it be great PR for Global to release @sangitamyska.bsky.social's NDA? I enjoy(ed) listening to you and her, and I switch off the second I hear her dreary replacement. Whatever the truth of the matter, let in the light. What's left to lose?

And wasn't that a cracker? I must walk past that place every time I'm in Edinburgh, thinking only of the view and not giving a moment's thought to the street. Next time...

David Olusoga@davidolusoga.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The new series of A House Through Time - on at 9pm tonight - on BBC Two.

In nearby Camberwell, it's so hot that my favourite mural comes to life. Still photo in #lightroom sent to #firefly video generation.

Down on the tube trains at midnight (or when the last train ran) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘I wanted to capture the range of British culture at the time’: the photographer who documented late nights on the 90s London tube

In the 1990s, the photographer captured punks, partiers and late-night lovers on the underground. His images show city life before smartphones – when people still had to rush to make the final train

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No queue to get into the National Maritime Museum - this was for the eclipse sunglasses in their shop.

We all know it's the Tories' failure to manage prison capacity that forces the Burnham government to release some prisoners early. Murder is one of its criteria to deny early release. But would the prison system collapse if one criterion was a conviction for any violence against police?

Missing jigsaw piece: the (former) Nazi now runs a popular satirical website where Badenoch is treated as some sort of cross between Boudicca & Margaret Thatcher while Labour & even Reform are constantly mocked. So this whole sorry mess is just another symptom of her being terminally online.

James O’Brien@mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Another glorious vindication of Kemi Badenoch’s impeccable political judgment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ah, that bloke in the news was behind those weird Crewkerne Gazette posts I kept seeing. Kinda weird of Badenoch to fight on that hill.