John Logan

‘Mystic Mountain’ captured by Hubble in the Carina Nebula

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

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To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte It was hard for me to quit Elon Musk’s poisoned platform, but I urge others to do the same, especially in light of Grok’s imagery of women and children, says journalist Marie Le Conte

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Photo of a mural depicting three dinosaurs, wearing running shoes and red neck kerchiefs.

Run!

Tram No. 21, Manchester, painting by Arthur Delaney (1927-87). #NorthernArt

Greens.

A Cricket Match, 1938, painting by L.S. Lowry. Scene in Salford.

My place or yours? - Flags and the far right from someone who looks different to you By Alex Andreou

I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home.

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Liverpool to Manchester railway, world's first inter-city passenger service. opened on this day 1830. Tragedy struck when politician William Huskisson stepped down on to the parallel track and was hit by a locomotive. Taken to nearest place on the line, Eccles, but died later that day.

Apple rolls out the Brit to say “ aluminium”.

Channelling Jony.

RMT will launch rolling strike action over pay, conditions and broken agreements on London Underground Tube union RMT, today announced rolling strike action across the network beginning on Friday 5th September for seven days, with different grades taking industrial action at differing times.

RMT says pay, fatigue management, extreme shift patterns, and a reduction in working week, among other things.

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A photo oof a Macintosh SE on a Macintosh Table, a wooden stylised kind of 80s looking table, with a glass vase of blue purple (irises?), external drive, mousepad and a pen & writing folder next to it, and an actual clock. to the lower left is a cabinet attached to the inside of the desk with books, probably real manuals, standing up in it. The whole scene is in front of a stonewashed denim looking photographic backdrop.

This is as far as computing should have ever been allowed to get.

Zack Polanski tells voters there is no ‘time to wait around’ for Corbyn party New leader urges left-leaning voters to ‘join the Green Party right now’.

People are struggling.

Our NHS is collapsing.

Reform are organising.

There’s no time to waste.

Join @greenparty.org.uk Now.

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Time to go on a space odyssey.

Enjoy.

#scifi #scifiart

Photos. Music. Books. My whole media world is Apple. Trying to manage photos from an Android device would be annoying. (Not impossible, just annoying.)

Messages. Being able to message with family from anywhere without worrying about SMS or WhatsApp is worth it.

There’s an obvious way to challenge Nigel Farage. But Keir Starmer won’t do it | Rafael Behr Labour’s reluctance to name Brexit as the cause of so many problems hasn’t stopped Reform’s rise. It’s time to try the truth, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

There’s an obvious way to challenge Nigel Farage. But Keir Starmer won’t do it | Rafael Behr

L.S. Lowry walking through the back streets of Salford, August 1957. In the background are Oldfield Road Dwellings.

Milltown, painting by Manchester-born Geoffrey Key, b.1941. #NorthernArt

Jackpot.

This episode is an eye-opening review of the UK’s defence capability. Improvements needed, urgently.

Fact Check: Picture of man detained in immigration raid was altered to say 'Latinos for Trump' A photo from 2018 showing a man being led away by agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was altered to include a t-shirt message of support for President Donald Trump.

This photo was altered.

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Midnight Mass: Nothing has changed. Everything has changed. Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · S2, E59 Bonus · 38m

NEW: Nothing has changed. Everything has changed.

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🐟 @sturdyalex.bsky.social's rarely-told fish truths.

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“Starmer needs to start governing. Labour need to stop triangulating and start running the country. They are wasting the term they were given, worrying about a second one. They can do a lot of good, if they stop being terrified of losing power in 2029 and start using the power they have in 2025.”

An image of a foggy bluebell woodland with a luminous green beech tree spreading its branches. © Damian Ward 2018

I am the Resurrection, Oxfordshire 2018.

I fought I would share an old bluebell image, as there are a few going around at the moment.

#photography
#monochrome
#blackandwhite
#woodland
#landscapephotography

A fiery sunset of oranges, reds, yellows, pinks and purples explode across the western sky, silhouetting Milbank Tower, The London Eye, Conquest Tower and the ITV headquarters with the Shell Center, Charing Cross and in the far distance the spire of St.Martins in the Field.

Cinematic Sunsets are my vibe.

#Photography #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #DayInMyLife #London #Sunsets #smArtist

“Fish and chips”

Labour plan for £2bn in Whitehall cuts will hit frontline services, union warns ‘You can’t cut your way to growth,’ says PCS head as Reeves confirms move to cut administrative costs by 15% by 2030

all austerity has done is made living in the uk worse for everyone who isn't sitting on a fortune. for the love of god please raise my taxes

A picture of an iPhone on a wooden bench. The iPhone appears to be styled after a Power Macintosh G3 or G4, and the user interface looks a little bit too much late 1990s.

The new iPhone 9.2.2.

A dark escalator descends toward a tube platform

Down the rabbit hole.

#Photography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #London #ShootTheUnderground #DayInMyLife