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Derek Gray

@derekgray.bsky.social
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Never let the perfect be enemy of the good, especially in photography.

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Derek Gray @derekgray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@theguardian.com I contribute to you more than I need in a monthly sub because we have to counter the billionaire press. But with that sub comes expectations of fairness and relevance. Freedom of the press is just that, we don't have the bandwidth for these kind of prejudices.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue. The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This year has been brutal, and like most people you probably want to do more about climate change. But what, and how? Great news – I’ve written just the book for you! It’s called What One Person Can Do and it’s a clear and simple how-to guide, a roadmap to help you make influential changes...
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 25/09/2026
Why did it take Michael O’Leary 10 days to cop on that his comments on rape were wrong?
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Why did it take Michael O’Leary 10 days to cop on that his comments on rape were wrong?
For further education, he should read Nikita Hand’s memoir, Not the Perfect Victim
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Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thanks to everyone.. so far this fundraiser has almost doubled. I'm gonna keep pushing 🙏 to all the #osint folks out there (there are many of you on here!) please take a look
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
I am contacting Talon Air to let them know about the decision.
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Derek Gray @derekgray.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@guygavrielkay.bsky.social Have to admit I can't remember if I read Tigana, and probably won't know for a few hundred pages. This is for my Dead Library where I'm trying to recreate what I had 30+ years ago including the right EU edition and cover. This is the original Penguin from 1990.
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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please support this fundraiser for Eoghan Sweeney's family. Eoghan was a pioneer in early digital journalism and gave back to many so generously and inspired so many journalists in their careers, including mine! Donate if you can, but please do share if you can't.
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 23/09/2026
A restored history of Jewish anti-Zionism — and the loss it cannot repair Benjamin Moser's new book recovers a tradition of dissenters who paid a price for opposing Palestinian dispossession, even as they could not prevent it. By Yahia Lababidi www.972mag.com/jewish-anti-...
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A restored history of Jewish anti-Zionism — and the loss it cannot repair
Benjamin Moser's new book recovers a tradition of dissenters who paid a price for opposing Palestinian dispossession, even as they could not prevent it.
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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
explaining to cam skattebo that he won’t be able to play with jaxson anymore using the same hand signals they used to tell koko the gorilla her cat died
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Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A huge thank you for all the generous donations thus far - please do reskeet too. 🙏
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New polling from the National Youth Council of Ireland: - 68% of 18–24-year-olds are considering emigrating - 71% believe they'd have a better quality of life outside Ireland - 83% support stronger government regulation of AI - 89% agree the housing crisis disproportionately affects young people
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RED C: 7 in 10 young adults considering leaving Ireland for a better quality of life - National Youth Council of Ireland
RED C: 7 in 10 young adults considering leaving Ireland for a better quality of life - National Youth Council of Ireland Young people are responding to unaffordable housing, the rising cost of everyda...
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Film photography seems to be undergoing a bit of a revival, especially in younger people. If you are going to use film for your black and white photography then filters are essential. Here is a brief guide. www.ilfordphoto.com/colour-filte...
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Using colour filters for black and white photography
Colour filters can control how the colours in a scene are reproduced as greys in black and white photography. Find out about their different effects here.
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Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ok Bluesky it's rare I ask for help. But this time I need huge help from the #osint community and #speirgorm #speirghorm, and everyone who follows me. I have a goal to raise up to €100,000 for a long time friend and colleague who is going to leave us.
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Derek Gray @derekgray.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You've all seen The Big Short fight? You know the bit when they talk about CDO'S and then CDO squared? Yeah, we're in that territory now as we head u to the end game as #AI becomes a busted flush. Gift article giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Big Tech uses guarantees to keep $300bn of AI exposure off balance sheets
Wall Street finds new way to turn tech giants’ credit strength into cheaper funding for AI build-out
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When I founded Storyful, I sat down with @patrickfreyne.bsky.social to talk about my hopes for democratic technology. Many years later, we sat down again to chat about my book, The Last Good Day on the Internet. A welcome moment for reflection on what went wrong and what we can make right:
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This will become a book and a touring exhibition. It will be a searing indictment of the legacies of both Thatcher and Blair who casually abandoned the social contract with working class people in post-industrial towns.
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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
George MacDonald sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/macdon... died on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Jim Lamb, D Bedford, Maria L Kirk and EH Shepard):
A cover for George MacDonald's "Lilith" (1982)A cover for George MacDonald's "At the Back of the North Wind" (1944)An interior illustration for George MacDonald's "At the Back of the North Wind" (1909)A cover for George MacDonald's "At the Back of the North Wind" (artwork first used in a 1956 edition, though this is later one)
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026
I love this slide. I really don't think the geopolitical implications of the clean energy transition have sunk in for most people.
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have a short letter in today’s Irish Times on the status of the West Bank. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
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West Bank is occupied, not disputed, territory
The International Court of Justice held in July 2024 that Israel’s presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is unlawful
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone know a Gavin Eamon who landed in Dublin today? He seems to have taken my bag and left his behind
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Derek Gray @derekgray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Clouded Yellow near Sérignan, France. #butterfly #photography #mft
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Derek Gray @derekgray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I finally discovered how to capture Barn Swallows after 267 shots. It's 267 shots. #bird #photography
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Derek Gray @derekgray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Greylag Geese for #birdoftheday #photography #bird #mft
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is tomorrow 🇮🇪
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Derek Gray @derekgray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is entirely right. If we want to prepare for the cataclysmic consequences of a slowdown of the AMOC, you'd put your early warning systems in now. Gift article giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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We need an observatory for the cooling north Atlantic
The UK should convene a coalition of concerned states if rising emissions lead to the collapse of the Amoc that brings warm water to northern regions
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Derek Gray @derekgray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.rte.ie/news/ireland... Critically important that the individual responsible for this is caught.
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Michael Healy-Rae injured after assault in Dublin
Independent TD Michael Healy-Rae is recovering in hospital after he was assaulted while driving in Dublin this afternoon.
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Derek Gray @derekgray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sunlover in sand. Valras Plage. #photography #france Not my own work.
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Seriously, what's a little beastiality among friends?"
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Derek Gray @derekgray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#birdylonglegs you say? Yes, I think we have that covered. #birdoftheday #bird #photography #mft
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La vida en viñetas @lavidaenvinetas.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social
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Derek Gray @derekgray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#Twosday is it? #birds #photography Great Giant Very Big Egrets
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Irish Women's Rugby Supporters Club @irishwomens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Zero tolerance, not quiet acceptance
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We are currently putting together a bid to Arts Council England for this one and drawing up a shortlist of which towns will be included. This will be a collaborative project so we will be looking for allies in each town to help make it happen.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Banned: Macklemore's powerful statement deserves reading. www.instagram.com/p/DdRdsy0m2H...
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Derek Gray @derekgray.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A bunch of Greater #Flamingos flew by for a photo shoot so I obliged. #bird #photography #mft #nnature
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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Clearly what the James Bond films got wrong was that there are in fact many tech utopian fascists simultaneously trying to take over the world.
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If an Irish newspaper doesn’t run a “Senior Orangeman Calls For A United Ireland” headline, then the newspapers are dead.
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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
But go on champs, go vote in the Senate on whether you want to end the Iran war or not. Meanwhile, as the classic legend of agency says, someone else will have a deciding vote on when and how it all ends and so it happens, they are exactly in the Middle East.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 60th anniversary to the brilliant universe of Star Trek, and all who made it possible. Live long and prosper. 🖖
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.
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Fred Logue @fplogue.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Back in the day, long before I ever met the man and got to know him, I emailed Frank McDonald asking him why Destruction of Dublin was out of print and he replied ...
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Derek Gray @derekgray.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
You don't need to read the #FT leaves or the entrails of a cat (not recommended) to see the converging forces that will make this recession the worst in human history. Gift article on the aligning of reinsurance giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Insurers pile on risk as payouts fall to lowest level in 20 years
Industry braces for downturn as influx of capital into property and casualty insurance pushes down premiums
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Nigel's swimming trunks have burst twice.
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Derek Gray @derekgray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The lights are on but no one's home
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/09/2026
Let me say as loudly as I can to all the Europeans on here who have been rightly appalled watching the Trump regime’s third-country removals: Your government has been watching, too, and they like what they see.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Channel 4 investigation into secret foreign funding of polling for Reform is explosive. JL Partners are cooked IMO. The Times and Telegraph will be livid with Reform over it. And Farage will almost certainly face police, Standards and/or EC investigations over it. youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?...
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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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