At the London Leica gallery, it's the last few days of Joel Meyerowitz's London pics with their EV1 - ends on the 6th.

@rogerprotz.bsky.social Reading your Camra article on Jennings's revival, you mention they originated in Lorton. Well, the old brewery was split into the pink cottages here - Corner, Nutshell and Yan Yak (one oak in Cumbrian, I think). A little local detail to mull over with a Snecklifter!

In Photoshop beta - using Generative Fill which can now call Google's "Nano Banana" AI model. All I did was select the pic and type "Make this look like a sunny day and add deep blue skies and fluffy clouds". The blue isn't great, but after 33 years using Photoshop, I can fix that the old way...

The origins of Photoshop are rather sweet www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqf6...

Exhilarating - the #RAF #RedArrows day two at #Eastbourne #Airbourne #Airshow

@bakerpictures.bsky.social Red Rebel Brigade, which is what I think I said

Not wanting to wait till the road's cleared, it's a quick walk to a junction and a different bus. 100m later a Tesla whacks into the side (probably not vice versa). Walked the rest of the way. 2/2

So after the taxi hit the Lime bike (or vice versa) this morning.... The bus home is due in a minute, until a car is let through a line of traffic to turn right and there's a big clunk as it collides with a motorcyclist (or vice versa). 1/2

“I wasn’t looking” Says me, who heard a noise ahead and looked u to see the Lime biker rider falling to the ground. “You weren’t looking” Says the Lime bike rider to the taxi driver who’d just turned left. As does the taxi driver to the Lime bike rider. Me, I’d happily blame both.

ChatGPT: Make this photo look like a Vorticist painting by CRW Nevinson.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... A few times on my bus home yesterday, I noticed what must be this train stopped in an odd spot. But aren't folk ingenious?

McCullin, cheerful as ever open.spotify.com/episode/1IPn...

Hm, Freedom Pass Passion…

A glass of a good red while leafing through his Amazonia to mark the passing of Salgado. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

I was wondering why no Spitfires were in Monday's flypast, but one landed along Farringdon Road over the weekend and was hidden in the Deloittes car park before being wheeled up Ludgate Hill before dawn. ;)

Puggery?

If you know, you know

First time I tune into Moose TV (sat at from-Ikea desk on from-Ikea seat) and two not-from_Ikea moose are posing for me www.svtplay.se/video/8PBnMx...

I was hooked simply by the idea of a soap opera scriptwriter who got paid by the kilo, in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. RIP Mario Vargas Llosa.

A cappuccino in Bar Italia accompanied by the sound of Louis Prima, per favore!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Yep, was a bit surprised I needed the asthma inhaler a bit last night. Canary in a coalmine?

Of all the days to pop by to see again the great @joelmeyerowitz.bsky.social show at Tate Modern

£24 for the show today? I'm sure the site said £18 yesterday. Really don't like being treated like that + that £6 is almost as much as the thing I had in mind to buy!

Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog). This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

My cartoon from the current edition of Private Eye Magazine.

Someone somewhere set up a knitting machine to produce this! #slavaukraini

Wanker, opposite Downing Street

Dogs know best. #slavaukraini

This is lovely. I often think of her WIll You Love Me Tomorrow when I come home pleased with a photograph - it's the line "Is this a lasting treasure, Or just a moment's pleasure?" ;)

Sad to see Roberta Flack's died, exquisite singer of two of the most-played tunes at Beardy Towers, in the Beardymobile and on the Beardyphone too www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqW-... and www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE_-... .

Perfect.

The Air Alert map of warnings of Russian air attacks on Ukraine just now, as #Putin is supposedly talking peace with #Trump

Not sure Going Underground was the best choice for Radio 4’s Today report on the sad death of The Jam’s Rick Buckler - even if it is my favourite. RIP

Have written about JD Vance’s Munich speech. In what may prove to be the biggest week for European security since 1991, it’s time Europe listened to what Trump and his Vice President are telling us. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Years ago, I had a small role rescuing a business British Air Ferries whose owner liked firing people on the spot - before learning that they didn't work for him. From Southend airport to Washington DC, with kids picking their noses in the Oval Office, is this USA 2025? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

@lewisgoodall.com is far too kind on @lbc.co.uk about last night’s bizarre Oval Office show - right next to Trump, Musk’s kid was greedily picking his nose.

Seen Sky TV's current ads for their Mussolini series? Is it really striking the right balance between promoting their show and glamorizing him?

Just Googled "Huntingdon Witch Trials"and the first result was this on the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... - pics from 2019

Threw a recent picture at Adobe Firefly's AI video generation and said "make white horse jump out of frame".... While I do like or am amused by the result, can you ever get more creative buzz from typing a few carefully-chosen words into an AI prompt than from typing a search term into Google?

Someone in these Waterloo streets likes their old Citroens (3 more parked in the street) and Morris Minors (counted 2 more).

Happy #RedSquirrelAppreciationDay !

I remember watching this, not knowing who she was - simply marvellous.

Happy 50th anniversary to Blood on the Tracks.

Please make a Lightroom preset to make my photos look like Don McCullin's.... On the bright side, I guess it means folk won't ask such silly questions in person or in forums.

Do we disagree with ChatGPT?

Hey AI, what kind of Lightroom adjustments would give the photo a certain look? fstoppers.com/artificial-i... Autocorrect on steroids?

GOP members complaining about reduction of military standards while using a chart that misspells the word military!

Why, you may well ask, does Napoleon crossing the Alps get to be so prominently displayed in this west London pub? It's all because it's in an elegant square designed in the 19th century by a Frenchman and, being French he was - falsely or profitably - rumoured to be related to the Emperor.