I’m going to write to Lisa Nandy, not that I think she’ll do anything.
The Rebellion! zine is now with the printer and we are waiting to see the first proofs. It will be around 52 pages with 48 photos from the Rebellion! project on protest, including three of my winning photos from Portrait of Britain.
Well this was a real eye-opener. Great people on the picket line and some shocking stories about their treatment. The government should intervene and get this dispute resolved as it’s clear the management are incapable of sorting it themselves or are unwilling to.
I've thought this all along. If they'd started by saying that advances in machine learning will help us cure cancer that would have been fine. Instead they monetarised it by encouraging people to annoy the hell out of everyone else by putting human cartoonists out of their jobs with AI slop.
Me neither. It was a very special place and best remembered as it was.
*Probably the best thing about it is that, although you can feel your own brain corroding, you don't have to actually learn Shakespeare. #AI #brainfry #TinyShakespeare
That’s my optimistic prediction for today.
In the long run all that the large scale adoption of gen AI will achieve is creative stagnation. The same work just stirred around in a homogeneous soup of AI recycling. But by then the brains of the users of AI will have atrophied so they’ll be too stupid to realise it.
As you use AI to simplify easy yet mundane tasks, like writing emails, you get increasingly dependent on it.
You get lazy, less skilled, use your brain less, and (you may not want to hear this) get stupider as a result.
Don’t let them take away your ability to think. Stop using it. Now.
The congestion charge for these should be £100 a day.
Once we are happy with the proofs then we’ll go ahead with printing the first edition and make it available to order from our website. You’ll also be able to buy copies from the exhibition venues.
The Rebellion! zine is now with the printer and we are waiting to see the first proofs. It will be around 52 pages with 48 photos from the Rebellion! project on protest, including three of my winning photos from Portrait of Britain.
Wallsend in 1963 by Colin Jones. If you are a young photographer who is just starting out remember to photograph the ordinary things in life and photograph them well. Eventually time will make those photos extraordinary.
#Photography
My filter for all these non-story, cultcha-driven, deflecting fluff pieces is thicker than a space shuttles thermal protection system! 🚀🔥
(Sometimes I look to see who is barking loudest about them, join the dots and see what story they are steering us away from…and there’s the news story)
Struggling to think of anything I care less about than what pictures appear on a bank note.
“It’s our heritage. That’s what we’re fighting for. That means more to me than anything else"
Striking workers speak from picket line at the National Coal Mining Museum for England: - World Socialist Web Site
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Solidarity! UNISON National Coal Mining Museum workers on strike for fair pay since Aug 2025. Please donate to keep the striking workers fed & supported on the picket line “It’s not just a workplace; it’s our history & our legacy.”
national-coal-mining-museum-pay-up.raiselysite.com?utm_source=o...
Yesterday, Jeffrey Epstein's former account testified, under oath, that the Epstein Estate paid a settlement to one of the women accusing Donald Trump of raping her as a minor, AFTER Epstein had died.
This would end any other President instantly. But the press doesn't care.
Birdsong sonata
Playing across morning’s stage
Feathered melodies
Early stroll. A forest of green bins. The sky is the moon’s changing room. My right eye is blinking leaking. Two escaped dogs bark a duet at me. Maybe that upside-down pot is forcing rhubarb.
A Canadian journalist documents a group of white nationalists who’ve been meeting at a gym in Montréal, unbeknownst to the owner of the business.
What happens after the story comes out? thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/a...
The Cut, Waterloo - 2016
Saw I Swear yesterday and it’s the best film I’ve seen in years. An emotional rollercoaster.
Hadn’t spotted that one. Thanks!
Sofa Session.
Martin Parr talks with Ian McDonald about his work.
Including his Redcar Blast Furnace images @marcdavenant.bsky.social 😉
martinparrfoundation.org/sofasessions...
I will be at the National Coal Mining Museum tomorrow to document the strike for the Rebellion! exhibition and later this month will be photographing the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign at Orgreave. Nobody should be crossing the picket line at @ncmme.bsky.social - visiting prolongs the strike.
I was transfixed too. Strongly recommend to all.
Fleeing from an abusive relationship, Alexandra & her three young children had nowhere safe to stay.
That's when she approached a local women’s refuge, who offered them temporary accommodation & applied to St Martin’s Charity for an emergency grant, which allowed her to secure a safe place to live.
It’s wonderful and so important
