A plug for developer Thorsten Lemke who’s been developing GraphicConverter app for Mac for 30yrs. This tool from Lemkesoft has helped #photojournalist & photographers convert & fix images that otherwise would be unusable. Amazing support and product! Lemkesoft.de

Some great reports coming out of #Ukraine frontline locations from Caolan Robertson @caolanrob.bsky.social featuring the important work done by @harriest.bsky.social and the team at @1team1fight.bsky.social well worth watching and supporting. youtu.be/6_RQwxlYIWc?...

Like other professional #photojournalists & video #journalists we think it’s vital that the public believe the news we shoot & know when we post a picture that it’s real & not AI. We agree with photojournalist Neil Turner that a #realphoto tag is a great idea wp.me/pH2yx-2Cc

In the fight back against #AI generated content confusing people. Professional photographers and photojournalists are hoping real photographers start using the hashtag #realphoto to show that images are genuine photographs taken by a camera camera 📷 and not digitally generated 🙂

Press Association (PA): “#BreakingNews The BBC has apologised for “serious flaws” in the making of a Gaza documentary and said it has no plans to broadcast it again in its current form or return it to iPlayer, a spokesperson for the corporation said.”

Just bought some really impressive accessories from Scotty Makes Stuff for our DJI Pocket 3 camera. We are impressed with the innovative sturdy 3D printed pro-cases & other bits. The prices are very reasonable. Our order arrived in 2 days with free UK shipping. Great stuff 🤗 uk.scottymakesstuff.com

“Apple Weakens iCloud Security Following UK Govt Requests” From 15:00hrs today Apple has disabled the option for customers in the UK to activate iCloud Advanced Data Protection (ADP), which provides end-to-end encryption for users iCloud data. open.substack.com/pub/newspics...

The final question from Victoria Derbyshire winding up the last 15 seconds of this #BBCNewsnight interview with Sebastian Gorka makes listening to minutes of him waffling slightly tolerable. She is a true professional. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

Journalist with accent asks a question about #India. #Trump: “I can’t understand a word he’s saying… It’s… It’s the accent…” 🙄

If you don’t have a local library card, it should be your New Year’s resolution to get one. It’s an easy resolution to keep and you’ll actually use it, trust me.

i don’t understand how, psychologically, a person gets to a place where they interpret sign language as some kind of attack or imposition on their life. like, what the fuck is wrong with you?

One of my favourite things in headlines are where you can see the muscle memory of legal training being applied to animals, buildings, train lines.

It’s hard to draw any other conclusion than that Israel is killing local Gaza journalists that reveal images of the genocide that is being committed. This video journalist they killed yesterday was one of those who captured footage of people burning in Nuseirat refugee camp after Israel’s attack.

When does this madness end?!

I hope that 2025 will bring peace and calm across the world. If we think of the most vulnerable people in society and treat everyone with kindness and respect, friends and strangers alike, then perhaps this year will be a kinder and gentler one. Love to you all 🤗 (Picture Henry Ren - Unsplash)

Staff at a hospital in northern Gaza say the building has been surrounded by Israeli forces and they are being ordered to evacuate along with all patients, after reports of a nearby airstrike that the local health ministry said killed about 50 people

A rare actual good news story: bees – both honey bees and wild bees – seem to be doing better in the UK. Bee-friendly planting, less pesticide use and an uptick in beekeeping are all having results 🐝 🎉 inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Over 150,000 people have signed our petition for a proper ban on hunting and a ban on ‘trail hunting’. Are you one of them? 🦊 protectthewild.org.uk/our-campaign...

I have always loved public libraries, but having young children has exponentially increased my gratitude and sense of indebtedness to them. Our local library is such a huge part of our lives. The books, the programming, the very intentionally curated kids’ section. It’s all such a gift.

No Alexa! I said show me a Boxing Day hunt!

Telegraph (Fraser Nelson) "Our immigrant population has almost doubled while our crime rate has halved....we seem to have attracted immigrants who, by and large, are prone to integrate and strengthen the social fabric." archive.ph/ryMuH

“£100m spent in England on failed efforts to block children’s Send support. Councils win just 1.2% of tribunals…” By Richard Adams at The Guardian #TomorrowsPapersToday @richada.bsky.social @guardiannews.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Right now, foxes are being chased to exhaustion and torn apart by hounds—all in the name of ‘tradition.’ Boxing Day remains the biggest day of the year for the fox hunting community. Please RT to raise awareness and follow us to help end this cruelty for good.

Majestic and free—this is how foxes should be, not hunted for sport. 🦊✨

#photojournalist Joel Goodman followed ethical media practice refusing to hand over pics of the Rotherham riots without a court order. Police have now admitted they didn’t have grounds for threatening to apply for one. Media must be impartial. @pixel8foto.bsky.social joelgoodman.net/2024/12/18/s...

Following investigations by Verify Syria into the identity of the prisoner #CNN found in a cell on their prison tour, Clarissa Ward has just posted the following on X. “We can confirm the real identity of the man from our story last Wednesday as Salama Mohammed Salama” www.cnn.com/2024/12/16/m...

🇵🇸/🔹 — NEW | Israeli media: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls for stricter censorship on negotiations with Hamas.

Breaking: Israel announces the closure of its embassy in Ireland.

The absolutely brilliant @sangitamyska.bsky.social is now on BlueSky. Do give her a follow

‪We don’t know who’s footage @Channel4News used for their harrowing report on the Israel’s bombing of #Nuseirat but below are some of the video #journalists in #Gaza who shot most of footage seen online and who have been credited elsewhere.‬ It’s important their work is recognised. 1/12

Foxes are incredible creatures—playful, intelligent, and vital to our ecosystems. They deserve to thrive in the wild, free from fear and cruelty. 🦊 Killing them for sport is barbaric and senseless. Let’s protect their joy and beauty.

Israeli occupation forces continue to demolish residential buildings in the #Rafah Governorate in the southern #Gaza Strip. #Palestine

7 Palestinians were killed yesterday evening, and others were injured by an Israeli airstrike targeting the home of the Khalifa family in the #Nuseirat refugee camp in the central #Gaza Strip. #Palestine

It has been quite the year, so as a distraction from all that here are my WTF TV news moments from 2024 ✨

“Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iraq condemn Israel's 'dangerous' land grab in Syria” by @aljazeera.com main article photo: Matias Delacroix/AP Photo apple.news/AESwHyDlDTyS...

The movement, which extended into and beyond a previously demilitarised buffer zone, was condemned 'in the strongest possible terms' by Egypt, which said it amounted to the 'occupation of Syrian land' and a 'severe breach' of a 1974 armistice deal. ft.com/content/5690c07a-9841-4339-b6ca-b3e98b241f1c

McFadden on Israel bombing Syria: its "making sure its position in the Golan is secure" "thats supported by the UK?" McFadden "We will always support Israels right to defend itself & make itself secure" Except the Golan heights are part of Syria.

🚨 IOF airstrikes continue on various parts of Syria, with extensive bombing on Latakia, Tartous, Daraa and the Damascus countryside for the last five hours, targeting government buildings, alleged weapons depots, and research and scientific facilities.

In Syria Israel bombed Qalamoun, army bases, weapons depots in Daraa, air base nr Sweida, 90th Brigade nr border, air defense systems, missile depots & labs, Rep Guard barracks, Fourth Division nr Mount Qasioun, Research & defense labs & airport in Damascus. src Al-Araby Al-Jadeed (auto-translated)

“The Israel Air Force carried out a series of targeted strikes in Syria… on the al-Mazzeh military base in Damascus & Khalkhala… and in rural areas of Daraa…targets included weapon depots, air defense batteries & missile manufacturing facilities.” Src: i24News www.i24news.tv/en/news/midd...

Anyone in the UK who is in a Community Fibre area there are special offers for #BlackFriday incl Synchronous 1Gbit Fibre to Premises for £26 for two years and ⚡️3Gbit for £39 for two years. We have also found their customer service excellent 🙂 (they didn’t ask us to say this) communityfibre.co.uk

⚡️ Urgent #Nablus correspondent, #Gaza: Quadcopter aircraft are flying intensively over the northern side of Al-Shati camp in the #Gaza Strip

⚡️ Targeting by warplanes east of Khan Younis now

We are always adding new people our Bylines Network starter packs so well worth keep checking as more and more of us join. We welcome our new Bylines Network MD @benjitoon.bsky.social who has just joined BlueSky

We looked into the surprise rebel attack in Aleppo, Syria: how it happened and what the videos tell us. OSINT work by @allegragoodwin.bsky.social @isaacyeephoto.bsky.social @averyschmitz.bsky.social + filming by Alex Platt + editing by Oscar Featherstone www.cnn.com/2024/12/02/w...