Richard Baker

Sorry, I mistakenly gave the impression that I was replying directly to you. I'll delete the reply when you've had a chance to see this.

Hope it's Greta 🤞

Cambridge Botanic Garden pond watercolour

Cambridge Botanic Garden pond watercolour

Saffron Walden Swan Meadow pond, mixed media drawing

The Old Vicarage, Grantchester, pond with footbridge, watercolour and Indian ink

A selection of past work with the theme of "ponds"

That excludes the people who invented it such as Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee born in 1955

Is that the Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV, one that he aces so brilliantly?

Difficult to assess how much Shahed drones cost but it's got to be about $50,000 each. star-navi.net/BlogsGernato...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

Who would have guessed

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

The AI industry doesn't do anything for me. My favourite time of life was the 1970s when we didn't have computers or mobile phones. Think of the astonishing value created by people who studied art or literature in the last half century. AI is just a leech adding nothing, stealing everything.

AI: the "engineered collapse of belief in human creativity". It's a good way of putting it. Creative people (and I like to think I'm one of them) are still using traditional media such as paint and canvas. There is no beauty in AI images or authorship because it says nothing about the human heart.

his head?) Will the voters of Clacton continue loving him to the extent of re-electing someone who is mostly notable for being permanently absent from the constituency?

more as the next couple of years roll on. Will turquoise voters really see improvements in their lives? Will the hagiography supplied by the MSM continue? Will Farage under the scrutiny of an election campaign continue to look so enticing (to some of course and I wonder why every time he raises...

...social workers, railway staff (endless list). Trump (Farage's role model) is destroying everything he touches and there will be a messy reckoning quite soon. The turquoise councils have shown incompetence, inability to understand their role, fallings out, illegality. There will be so much...

I suppose he formed a government we'd just have to watch as the country goes down the pan. But who are these people being polled? Do they know any of his policies apart from deporting people en masse because of ethnicity? They like that one but may need to do without doctors, nurses, home helps...

If these children are unaccompanied this makes them vulnerable to extortion and harm. Trump would be responsible for this but he doesn't care.

They believe they can seize control of our city.

Washington, D.C., is currently experiencing a beautiful vibe and energy tonight.

Free DC ✊

His evil knows no bounds.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

I read ages ago that he found the name "Dalek" by glancing at his book case where he saw the spine of a reference book that had those letters on it with a hyphen. I remember their first appearance when I was 15. So evil!

Lively pastel drawing in the garden from two years ago.
#art #pastel #pleinair

They won't fix it in nine months because Ukraine will continue this very effective strategy. Make nine months last forever.

Ed Miliband's heart is in the right place and he's doing a good job as Energy Security Secretary so must be kept as a minister but maybe not the top job. Let's see how things go when lists of Starmer's achievements are increasingly compared to Farage's lists of nothing.

Amazing work Pam! Really beautiful.

Beautiful (and I know how to pronounce Happisburgh!)

Infinitely better than killing rhinos for their horns which are made up of exactly the same constituents.

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Maybe they can grow biofuels instead? (Oh, sorry, Trump wouldn't like that)

But he can't erase it. He just caused it to be more widely seen. The internet is for ever.

I bet Hegseth's cologne withers knotweed.

The VT-6 unit at the Yaroslavl Oil Refinery in Russia is on fire.

As he departs this world I wish him a moment of enlightenment where he sees himself as others see him.