Ben Fitton

'But it was not for the very last time. And it never would be.'

Two horses in a paddock. The horses are eating the same patch of grass, and because the shot is taken from the side, the photo gives the illusion that there are two horse bodies sharing one head. Lovely.

Two horses in a paddock. One in the background eating grass, one in the foreground looking at me, the photographer, and wishing I'd get lost.

Definitely whispering conspiratorially before I showed up. #photography #photooftheday

10 seconds is generous.

A hearse at the OK Diner. The coffin was probably empty. #photography #photooftheday #blackandwhite

A sleeping Calico cat, head resting over the edge of a blue sofa. An image suggestive of calm and quiet, the cat, in reality, is a monumental dickhead.

Pity the cat.
#photography

Cost of weight loss drug Mounjaro may rise significantly The recommended UK price will rise by up to 170%, although the impact on consumers could be more limited.

Ah, the old get-em-hooked then jack the price routine. Drug dealers do this to kids, so popular British drama tells me.
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"AI helped health professionals to better detect pre-cancerous growths in the colon, but when the assistance was removed, their ability to find tumors dropped by about 20% compared with rates before the tool was ever introduced."

Chat, is this bad

Perfectly abnormal. #photography #photooftheday

green wooden fishing huts with metal chimneys, standing in rows

green wooden fishing huts with metal chimneys, standing in rows, looking at them side on

green wooden fishing huts with metal chimneys, standing in rows. They're in the mid distance with long brown-yellow grass in the foreground

green wooden fishing huts with metal chimneys, standing in rows, the one closest to us is boarded up

Fishing huts at South Gare - taken November 2023.

#ThePhotoHour #Photography #Teesside

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Geese, let's face it, are total bastards. #photography #photooftheday

I've had a lovely time; it's been a pleasure to spend the rest of my life here #photography #photooftheday

Starkly lit fruit and veg stall in Bradford, taken at night.

Fruit and veg! Come get your slightly sinister fruit and veg here! #photography

AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes

'Artificial intelligence tools used by more than half of England’s councils are downplaying women’s physical and mental health issues and risk creating gender bias in care decisions, research [led by Sam Rickman, LSE] has found.' 1/2

A digger upon a mist-shrouded hilltop.

Didn't think I could feel sorry for a mechanical digger yet here we are. #photooftheday #photography

Helen Thomas Helen Thomas, author of As It Was and World Without End  Helen Thomas (née Noble) was born in 1877 in a small town between Liverpool and Manchester but was brought up in Wimbledon – her father was a r...

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Helen, I want to read more from Helen.

This completely sucks rim but until we come up with a better way to use two hundred litres of water, I don't have a problem with it.

Three cows looking menacingly into the camera, as if they know something I don't.

A greenhouse catching the light in an allotment.

An uprooted tree bent over a suburban hedge. The tree looks sad and drunk.

A pylon at the end of a country path. Connectivity is everywhere and you cannot escape.

The cows were good judges of character. #photography #photooftheday

'Do something that benefits me.' #photography #photooftheday

When OpenAI claims "PhD level model boosts", this just means that they trained their stuff on all our papers without asking or paying us, we all agree on that, right? Also, the bullshitting - when will it end?

Feel like Dad gleefully — hand-rubbingly gleefully — explaining how he's not paying the TV license any more while in the very next sentence bemoaning a lack of public health provision (she's only had two [free] physio sessions!) for his wife has really set the tone for my day.

Sick of having to choose between right- and left-wing billionaires. Both as bad as each other imo.

Bradford's new market feels both inevitable and out of place: late-80s Rumbelows high street mixes with an overly energetic midweight creative's deck.

Halloumi for £5.

'This is nice,' you say on the tour, before escaping to catch the city's hard angles in the sun. #photography #streetphotography

Create a desert and call it peace
Each grain of house, of bone, of teeth
From gentle distance, a natural formation
A glacial striation
And not the policy of human starvation
Create a desert and call it peace
Just know the grains that gather between your toes
are of house, of bone, of teeth
#poetry

Always awkward when they just stand there, tremoring like a spinning top just about to collapse its axis and chittering away to themselves in a language with a discerning lack of vowels. #photography #streetphotography

Heads up: @nkjemisin.bsky.social's THE FIFTH SEASON is on US sale for $3 today; I got 6 copies for random giveaway.

For decades you disagree and criticise and swear under and over your breath and then, quite by surprise, you see tiny arms and light catching the clavicle in a way that takes your breath and it all feels very undoable, and all you can do is end every call on 'Love you lots'.

An older lady in a red shirt and orange cardigan, her right hand on a glass of Sauvignon, and who's my mum and who kicks ass.

I've taken a few shots of my mum and in every one there's a strength and a fragility and a not-too-veiled desire to shove the camera up my unmentionable. #photography

Cardboard box on a rock in a garden that says free plums & propaganda. Inside the box are French plums and postcards by Marc Fischer that say Losers Attack Our Libraries, Fight for Librarians

Free plums and propaganda.