Edward Thompson

Yeah it's alright. I mean if I really wanted a bigger following for my YouTube channel I'd be interviewing other YouTubers but I just refuse to do that. Hey man, I'm sure it's just one of those things because I've done this for three years now that I've ruminated on it.

Its a courtesy thing. I re-share a post if someone shares my photos or books. That took them 30 seconds to do. I spend hours making a video about someones work and they can't press a button? lol I have a plan going forward though!

I do a little feature on the show about 'photographers that I love'.

They never get many views, I do them for the love.

It takes about 3-4 hours to record and edit the 5 minute video.

Only one photographer so far has bothered to share the video on their social media... and he was American.

Ha I know right! It seemed to be the be safer option than putting it out on YouTube to avoid the trolls. I'm running out of options ;)

The Far-Right Photographers They have arrived, the Kingdom is united.

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it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

I was going to cut to a clip of the Reservoir Dogs "Madonna speech" but I didn't want to risk the channel strike for copyright.

"How many Dicks is that?"

"A lot"

One of my fave writers John Higgs has a book on Leary. I need to read it. He's a fantastic writer. Loved his KLF book and William Blake book too.

YouTube video by Pictures On My Mind How Photography Changes Your Reality (Reality Tunnels)

The pretend camera review at the start is going to trip up a few camera geeks... But don't worry! I soon start talking about renegade Scottish psychiatrists and Phillip K Dick!

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Elon Musk’s Grok AI is used to digitally undress images of women and children The degrading pictures are being posted to X despite the platform pledging to suspend people who generate them Degrading images of children and women with their clothes digitally removed by Grok AI continue to be shared on Elon Musk’s X, despite the platform’s commitment to suspend users who generate them. After days of concern over use of the chatbot to alter photographs to create sexualised pictures of real women and children stripped to their underwear without their consent, the UK’s communication’s watchdog, Ofcom, said on Monday that it had made “urgent contact with X and xAI to understand what steps they have taken to comply with their legal duties to protect users in the UK”. Ofcom added that it would assess whether an investigation is necessary based on the company’s response. Continue reading...

Elon Musk’s Grok AI is used to digitally undress images of women and children

There's hope for you yet doctor

This was many years ago! I will have to wait a few more years before they are old enough to truly watch it!

Todays photos of the Wassail by the River Thames.

I've no photo agency representation anymore, they all went bust, so this is an exclusive ;)

It's tough shooting events like this with two 6 year olds on my own. But I got what I needed for my Quest and the girls ended up in the procession too!?!

Why are right-wing grifters all like Batman villains?

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YouTube video by Squid Inc "Bad Karma" line from The Burbs

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Sorry to read all this, but don't worry, they'll reap what they sow in the end.

Yunghi Grant Photojournalist Yunghi Kim

4/ Thirty thousand in total grants — $3,000 to each of Ten photojournalists 
Read about the winners yunghikim.wordpress.com 

As every year, I wish we could award more. We have seen great work. I thank all those who took the time to submit. We had 150 submissions from 40 countries.

Merry Christmas 🎁⛄

Yeah, but it's well old now. I was just riffing the minute after I first heard about it.

Yeah, I made a video about it a year ago when they first announced it. I'm getting a lot of people who watched the doc laying into Nick Ut in my comments! ha!

In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.

Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.

While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn.

That's how privatisation 'works'.

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Today I get to play Heroquest with my six-year-old daughters!!

‘Lonely, terrifying and scary’: 70% of students in UK university halls feel isolated, poll shows Students blame reliance on phones plus pressure of accommodation costs for lack of social life

Part of this falls at the feet of the NUS. 25 years ago, we students in the NUS used to organise parties in campus all the time. Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's etc Most NUS groups on campus now do nothing.

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I'm not sure what happened to the Head of School at the last university I worked at but they obviously had a complete breakdown because they're now doing stand-up comedy. Their hook seems to be all about 'trauma', which is funny considering how many people they traumatized.

YouTube video by Pictures On My Mind How do you sell your photographs?

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Happy Birthday @mredthompson.bsky.social

Thank you!!!!

It's a tricky thing because the makers of the documentary decided that if the person to be interviewed wouldn't sign an nda then they simply didn't interview them. I'll try and bring myself to watch it.