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Richard Renaldi: Billions Served - LENSCRATCH Diving into the global environment of fast-food chains, Richard Renaldi makes up a delicate survey of both a socio-economic reality and an American cultural hallmark. When I was a child growing up in ...

Diving into the global environment of fast-food chains, Richard Renaldi makes up a delicate survey of both a socio-economic reality and an American cultural hallmark. lenscratch.com/2025/12/rich...

“computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills”

tech won’t save us

Incredible book, if you haven’t seen it. I think about the “technologically precocious boy” all the time.

this is a good excuse to post my all time favorite Star Trek meme

Good-bye, Martin Parr. Last May we were waiting, and waiting, for supper and had a laugh or two, which was typical for him. One of the lights of photography has gone out. it was probably a flashgun.

The 2nd Shitty Camera Challenge Holiday Fundraiser is live!

Get a Blind Box with one of 47 possible cameras & all the profits go to The Trevor Project!

www.ebay.com/itm/26750357...

Limit 1 per household

#ShittyCameraChallenge

Photo of a lineup of 6 cookies that mostly look like green blobs! But are actually a topographic model!

Different view of green glazed cookies. You really have to squint to make them look like much.

A Google earth view of the large rocky outcrop that is the landscape the cookies are modeling.

Adventures in nerdy baking.

3d printed cookie mold made from huge drone-derived 3d model of an archaeological landscape!

Sugar cookies with green glaze to mimic vegetation!

It only works if I explain it, but still a fun party trick!?? 😅🤦‍♂️

Scale is ~1:26,000! 😅

#Baking #Archaeology #3dPrinting

A BnW image taken from a higher viewpoint of people (shoppers) scuttling around a sort of crossroads in a shopping centre / mall. There are lit, metallic Xmas trees and shop fronts toward the top of frame.

#believeinfilm
#filmphotography
#monochrome
#darkroom
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Liverpool, as evening started; finding images as the daylight receded.

B&W photo of a museum built in the classical style. Clouds threatening rain are above and around it.

World Museum Liverpool
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📷 Nikon F6 - 24/85mm Zoom
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400 - D23
#BelieveInFilm #filmphotography

B&W photo of a city Christmas tree made of steel beams and baubles. The perspective is looking up to the sky, with tall office buildings flanking the view up to the sky.

In the Bleak Mid-Old Hall Street
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📷 Nikon F6 - 24/85mm Zoom
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400 - D23
#BelieveInFilm #filmphotography

🎄 Looking back at Blackpool Illuminations, 1972.

Giant Santa, smiling lollies, kids around a blazing bonfire, clowns, and dragons on the prom. Where lights meet folk art.

👀 See more: sidegallery.co.uk/visual-cu...

This is an excellent long read. I agree with the final paragraph “We’ve lost … understanding. We’ve replaced planning with market mechanisms, strategy with initiatives, and long-term thinking with political cycles.” Depressing, if you let it get to you.

Here’s the link to watch History Reclaimed’s right wing moral, logical and historical arguments being scrutinised. It’s uncomfortable viewing in places as Biggar’s put on the spot.

The truth about the British Empire: Mehdi Hasan & Nigel Bi... youtu.be/SZvkTmNQSy4?... via @YouTube

never more tempted to abuse my platform than when someone sends me some insanely racist comment using their official, government name email address.

Through its knee-jerk attack on a prominent Black woman, I wonder whether the Mail has found a deeper truth.

How many, through reading the Mail, became so toxic their children and grandchildren no longer enjoy seeing them? How many readers are asking themselves 'will this be me?'

The final concertina/accordion test build - now time for full production!

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

The differences have been shrinking for a while

A black and white image of some winter branches hanging over a lake. © Damian Ward 2025.

Lakeside Branches, Hertfordshire 2025.

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#blackandwhite

Is this the same Kuenssberg that went so hard on Labour’s antisemitism crisis now ignoring the accusations about Farage? I’m so shocked!

I realise I'm old, because watching Lawrence Of Arabia on your phone sounds hellish

visenyaism: Had to ban the phrase "tricky dick" from my classroom during watergate lesson because saying the word dick in front of 30 fifteen year olds is like lighting a bomb and throwing it through the doorway but now they're just calling him Richard the Treacherous like they're all medieval peasants. gonna lose it. visenyaism: an image that shows the man pulling the date meme with the woman saying "Richard the Treacherous has attempted usurpation and must be stopped at all costs" with the calendar date showing it ripped from 1972 to reveal the actual date of June 1483.

NYTimes

Today is a dark day for American science and biomedicine. My comments in @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

“Vivid” from the @photozinecoll.bsky.social arrived today.
So into colour photography these days (only because I now make RA4 prints) so lovely to see others work in print. All to a great cause as well.
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*Shocked face*

A display for Dia de los Muertos. Taken with Ilford HP5+ pushed to 800. It is a ceramic decorated skull that is surrounded by candles, pictures and a plate.

A portrait of a fellow film walker taken on Ilford FP4+. The subject is wearing a zip down sweatshirt. She is looking directly at the camera. The bokeh creates a mix of light and shadow behind her.

An abandoned car sits encircled by other abandoned cars as the forest stands behind them. Taken on HP5+ pushed to 800.

An abandoned Plymouth with pine needles and leaves sits partially in the sun. There is an old truck in the background. The back of the car is covered in shade. Taken on HP5+ pushed to 800.

Answering the call for @ilfordphoto.com's #fridayfavourites. HP5+ pushed to 800 pictures are the ceramic skull (Zeiss 50mm) and cars (Zeiss 24mm) with Maxxum 7. Portrait is FP4+ on Hasselblad H1 with 100mm 2.2.

Just got my film back from a month in #Brazil and I’m seriously questioning why I came home.

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The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist

A supposedly grassroots anti-migrant movement led by 'ordinary' women, which is backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and is regularly invited onto news channels to promote their views, is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist

bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...

A BnW image of a dark, glass-fronted building, with chromed / steel framed glass doors central. A woman walks left to right along the pavement outside. There are some muted reflections of a stone building in the glass.

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#filmphotography
#monochrome
#darkroom
#MerseyMeetUp
Another from the recent photowalk in Liverpool.
HP5+ at ISO 800. 85mm lens.