Yeah I know I should get a blog or something, but I'm not going to.

<UK Politics warning> I want to make a prediction here so I can point to later: As well as the intended target (Muslims), all this talk of "family voting" and sudden need to police the sanctity of the secret ballot is going to disenfranchise disabled people. 🧵 1/10

I don't know why exactly, but I can't stop watching this

I have a small number of the first printing of these postcards still available! I will hand write this and address it and send it to you anywhere in the world. Howzat? ko-fi.com/s/161a96c614

Can any of the #believeinfilm folks help Gregor out with this?

Not at all. Social media for me is for connection so I don't end up very isolated (no amount of money would change that as isolation is down to fatigue, not resources) - and creative connections are a *huge* part of that. Steady flow of inspiration and people to bounce thoughts and ideas off of.

Woke up this morning to email from a large diabetes forum I’d forgotten existed. They’re shutting down and splitting into two separate communities for Type 1 and Type 2, no mention of any provision at all for all the other types of diabetes 🤦‍♀️ What is this, 2010? Thought we were past that shit!

This short piece is about effort, belief, and what it’s like to live in a culture that insists improvement is always possible…even when your body says otherwise. kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/effort-wit... #Health #Scotland #UK #Writing #WritingCommunity #ChronicIllness #Reading #Books #Women

Putting together an international postcard for this month's #PostcardsFromAfar exchange An international standard letter is now £3.40, which is conveniently exactly the same as two first class stamps (I hope!) ...turns out one of the stamp books we found lying around is older than the other

Love a good niche museum! Anyway, do *not* eat the porridge 💣

You Attract What You Put Out*

Morning

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Frog Believes In You*

This thread reminds me of one of my regular rants: I keep seeing researchers trying to make robot/AI "companions" to provide company or emotional support to disabled people. I DON'T WANT A ROBOT TO BE MY FRIEND, I WANT IT TO CARRY MY SHIT FOR ME AND BECOME A SEAT WHEN I NEED TO SIT DOWN! 🤦‍♀️

My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜

This is now a highland cow stan account

Took the (borrowed) Bronica out today as I'm still experimenting with medium format. Don't expect to see the results any time soon, so here's one from a previous time I took it out to visit the (slightly punk) cows! Bronica SQ-B with Lomography colour 100 October 2024 #BelieveInFilm

Photos! Glorious sunny day today & I actually made it out to the park to take photos Met a lady doing the same with a wee Canon digital and enthused about cameras for a while, she's off to look into film (join us!) Today's will be a while so here's a similar vibe from last month #BelieveInFilm

Sitting in the Wellcome Collection cafe and @robinince.bsky.social was at the next table eating a muffin. To this day I regret not striking up a conversation

Behold the First Underwater Portrait in the History of Photography (Circa 1899)

The older I get, the better I understand the whole maiden-mother-crone thing, because past a certain age you do simply become the experienced witch.

GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN! Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵) Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!

Annual shout out to all the kids who were *always* the fecking narrator 🙄 I see you, my people!

Across our socials we see #fridayfavourites entries from the same fab photogs. Where are the rest of you #filmphotographers hiding? It's easy to get involved - share a shot on our flim, tag #fridayfavourites tell us which product you used Each week we pick 5 & share to ilfordphoto.com/magazine

Maybe not ever but a recent one: Man from Environmental Health dept, standing in our bathroom observing a leak from upstairs neighbour - "I like your inspection hatch" THANK YOU kind sir! 🏅😊 Dude knows his leak protections. Putting it in was my idea and literally nobody else has ever noticed

Today's lookbook:

Just been over at the Mitchell for Aye Write book festival - “debut author @kristiedegaris.bsky.social will be arriving slightly late due to chickens on the A9” Pleased to confirm that Kristie made it, she was great, and they weren’t kidding about the chickens 🐓 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hi! Would you like some of my lovely Christmas cards? I still have a small number of packs available and sending out a couple of times a week. You can find them here: ko-fi.com/s/1af2e209ad

My letterpress Christmas cards from @loreandordure.com have arrived and they're fabulous! There are proper old-school hand printed with letter blocks and a press, follow Kate for behind the scenes process ...and if you want some you can buy them here: ko-fi.com/s/1af2e209ad

New Brighton 📷 RSS 6x6F 🎞️ Kodak Ektar 100 #BelieveInFilm #filmphotography #pinhole

From ORTHO PLUS negatives to striking cyanotypes — see how Monika Danos created these beautiful Cyanotypes when illness forced her out of the darkroom. https://www.ilfordphoto.com/ortho-plus-and-cyanotypes/ @drmarsrover

Got my ticket! Come hear Kristie talking about her book in person

*slinks out of the shadows* Psssst, hey, hey you. You look like you need some film, buddy. Need a little hit of that emulsion, eh? *leans in conspiratorially* I just got some of that GOOD Ilford shit, that XP2. Mmhmm. It just…fell off the back of a truck. You interested?

Welp, this is new! Every so often I spend my accumulate Boots points to get 'free' film. Arrived like this, complete with security tag. Visions of some shifty bloke going round the pubs offering rolls of XP2 that fell off a shelf in Boots.

We have lots of student notebooks containing sketches on anatomy, diseases etc, however, this one is by far our favourite. It shows Joseph Lister, father of antiseptic surgery, disappearing through a trapdoor after his lecture in Glasgow in 1868. Now that's how to make an exit! #Museum30 #Sketchbook

I was at the hygienist today - she has a new chair because the old one exploded* Not entirely convinced by the shiny light above it as with the dark specs on you can clearly see the reflection of your own teeth being done 😬 (* I don't know. She did confirm nobody was in it at the time at least)

Good article here about Diane Keaton‘s photography, I had no idea! Also this quote is #goals. If somebody writes this about you after your death then you are doing it right www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

"Great first draft, Isla. Now if you could just take out every incidence of 'for fucksake' then I'll sign off on it and we'll put it up on the website."

I realise there is already a queue to buy a drink for the long-suffering local government official who wrote this. Please consider me part of that queue. (The weight of the sigh on "We do not apply admiralty law" alone could tear a hole in the fabric of the universe.)

Important update to the important notice

The moment when they fire up the organ and the choir is the moment your soul leaves your body. Absolutely sublime I didn’t get video but somebody else did! Thank you kind stranger 😊 #SigurRos at the Royal Albert Hall with the London Contemporary Orchestra, and Anna Lapwood on the organ, 30/9/25

It cost me every scrap of capacity I have, and today I am fully unable to leave the hotel room, but we made the trip to see Sigur Rós at the Royal Albert Hall 100% worth it and I don’t regret a thing 🥹 Out of body experience - I think I left a piece my soul on the ceiling of the Albert Hall

Bluesky, I have left the house and gone on an Adventure! Whoosh…✈️ We are in London this week

Caught Feathers McGraw attempting to break into the Kibble Palace earlier

If you enjoyed the world tram driving championships the other day then here’s another one for you:

The cognitive effects of ME mean that I don't generally read books (this surprises people as I definitely give off a "bookish" vibe!) but when your internet pal @kristiedegaris.bsky.social writes one it's time to make an exception so I sent my representative down to a Real Bookshop to buy me a copy🧵

I suppose I should get started with a post or two. I entertain myself mostly with photography but also with a bit of alternative process cyanotype and anthotypes. So here is photo shot with a Speed Graphic camera on film that expired in 1945