Welcome to the "disabled people shouldn't have nice things" era of heartless, irrational appeasement. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

...it was just a happy coincidence.

Cost of living crisis hits the FT as @pickardje.bsky.social forced to take 2nd job with Getty Images

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

This is now outside the paywall, please do read and share

"google images" is not an acceptable credit for anything.

It's at times like this that I find comfort in the words of Millicent Martin m.youtube.com/watch?v=y5BU...

Sumo stars goofing about at tourist locations seems a more fun way to celebrate England than any number of flags.

Think we’ve crossed a pretty major threshold – and a very bad one – if a journalist working in the lobby for a major newspaper group can tweet like this without professional consequences.

"Taking a break from x to prioritise my mental health" is artful gaslighting.

Two days to go and a few tickets remaining - fabulous photography and Aber's a gorgeous place to be: www.theeyefestival.com

I'll be talking about photographs like these at the Eye International Photography Festival in Aberystwyth at 10am on Sunday 19th October. It's happening in a cinema with a fab, big screen, in a stunning part of the world - tickets at www.theeyefestival.com/2024-ticket-... - come and say hello!

ABC has been barred from attending Trump’s press conference near London this week after a clash between the Australian broadcaster’s Americas editor, John Lyons, and the president in Washington DC over his business dealings

What a country.

Not disregarding Sunder's point re numbers, but I'd like to express appreciation for James Glossop's well made photograph, that leads the story @jamesglossop.bsky.social

Run. Run far, run fast.

Social media platforms should be regulated as other publishers who distribute people's work.

Grok is now creating AI video deepfakes of celebrities such as Taylor Swift that include nonconsensual nude depictions. Worse, the user doesn't even have to specifically ask for it, they can just click the "spicy" option and Grok will simply produce videos with nudity. Video from @theverge.com.

Bigotry in a clinical setting can be fatal if you have the wrong colour skin. I've met victims' families. See Furness General, Nottingham etc.

How lazy, desperate & self-absorbed do you need to be to nick a photograph of a man crying at his cousin's funeral for your Facebook page's crappy, clout-chasing pub meme? Here's the image source: www.michaelwyke.com/index/I0000p...

What a fabulous tribute to Britain's music, social and documentary cultures. Art with value, created by real people doing real things, enjoyed by the world, does more for Britain's wealth and wellbeing than all the thieving AI & social media tax dodgers we seem so desperate to enable 🪣🎩+🇮🇹+📸+🐝

I am ready to help, I was born to do this job.

Unbound stole our money. Unbound stole our money. Unbound stole our money.

Last week I broke my wrist and my spine falling from my stepladder. One of the ladder's legs just buckled inwards and I fell to the ground /1

Postman doesn't like being called "lovely". "I'm a straight man, call me postie".

The British automotive industry contributes £22bn to the UK economy. The creative industries contribute £124bn. Fucksake. Stop AI copyright theft.

The Pollen Count

Good to see Mariah Carey getting that asbestos sorted.

Merry Equinox from Manchester.

"This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle..."

This from @bristolpost.co.uk - implying a living person is dead for clicks - Reaches a new low.

Image celebrity clickbaiting someone’s death. Take a good look at yourselves.

Rail replacement meme.

Mrs Duffy.

For a fake Chinese rubber plant.

Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment

It's OK for GMP to hire an ex Salford Advertiser photographer as a police photographer but not for Leicestershire Police to hire an ex Leicester Mercury photographer as a call handler www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some amazing photography won this last year.

Authenticated by Jamie Trevor-Ropey.

The 4k HDMI splitter Britain needs.

@transportforlondon.bsky.social stop being such a bunch of tubes, give Matthew a licence & a bunch of flowers.

I agree, AI should fuck off. Annoying that the source polar bear image illustrating the abuse is, itself, a composite of two different photographs.

Delighted by "Puccini sent Toscanini a panettone".

Raju Bhatt of Bhatt Murphy was brilliant in helping me defend against South Yorkshire Police here. I would have been lost without him.

Journalistic freedom must be respected. If journalists handover their materials to the police, trust in journalists will be diminished and important stories won’t get told. I’m delighted we @goodlawproject.bsky.social were able to support Joel Goodman @pixel8foto.bsky.social and win this case!

Am really grateful that these guys stepped up to help me. It meant I could fight this on the principle and not my ability to pay.

South Yorkshire Police wanted a Court to order me to hand them my photographs from August's riots. But they hadn't even reviewed their own evidence before coming for my photos. They were in the wrong and it's over. My full statement of facts is here: joelgoodman.net/2024/12/18/s...

Mother held for five days incommunicado in filthy cell and denied a lawyer for two days after daughter allegedly protested against arms sales to Israel bit.ly/3D3C6zI her devices and jewellery have still not been returned - in Britain. She calls it abuse of Terrorism Act

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