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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

First time an orange man has called for a united Ireland?

John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Free speech isn’t rich criminals buying so much of it that yours and mine is swamped. Time for caps on political spending as well as donations.

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hoping to get Bayeux Tapestry tickets, but will it impress as much as the Codex Amiatinus which I saw in 2019 on its first time back in Britain since 716. The early complete bible had been in a N Italian abbey and was only recognised in the late C19 as a Jarrow bible that had been sent to the Pope.

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Thanks to the wonder of AI, my journey into photography in the 1990s - "the Beardy Tapestry"

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Arriving at Bank Quay station sticks in my mind too, more for the smell and less for the view fellow Culchether @rjpartington.bsky.social comments on. But it wasn't only the soap - if the wind was in the right direction Warrington smelled of beer from Greenalls.

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Got to hand it to how Badenoch handled today's Tory leadership reshuffle.

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If you can get past the Corpspeak, some important pointe here research.adobe.com/news/world-p... "people are about as accurate as a coin toss when it comes to detecting generated images.". Provenance information - metadata - needs to flow with the photo.

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This World Photography Day, Adobe Research Maps How Trust Travels with a Photo

On World Photography Day, Adobe Researchers are contributing technologies that give people the information they need to understand where an image comes from, how it’s been changed, and whether its his...

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Was this one of the guy’s funerals, in one of the cars? A sort of Middlesbrough version of Vikings sending their chief to Valhalla - Parmohalla? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The charge says "aggravated by reason of having a terrorist connection". How about "mitigated by political motivation" or just "explained"? It's such a slippery slope when non-violent criminal damage is so casually treated as "terrorism". www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’

Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

BOLTON: It’s very curious that John Ratcliffe arrived in Moscow in U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane. It’s painted gray. It’s a big plane. Normally, if you want to go quietly somewhere, you get on a little Air Force Gulfstream painted white with just numbers on the tail.

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So, last night a train journey this morning was priced at £36. This morning? It's magically £55 for same seat on the same almost-certainly-empty train. What is the point? All that happens is the train is definitely empty, and the rail company gets no revenue at all.

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This looks interesting projectionsnyc.com/911/?src=day1 25 years ago I watched in the office near the Tower of London. Took ages to reach a friend in Boston who was always flying to NY, and I avoided the train home. The bus seemed an unlikely target - until it had to cross Tower Bridge, that is.

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Welcome to Projections | Projecting Photographers

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A Ragged Victorian reads a Chartist pamphlet unaware that the photographer's namesake owned Beardsworth's Repository, Birmingham's biggest horse and tack dealer of the period and hosted Chartist rallies in the city. No relation - but if they ever make "Who Do You Think You Are Not?"

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John Beardsworth with his racehorse Birmingham, 1830 St Leger winner (Tate Gallery).

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Sometimes you're asked for your thoughts on something "new" and they trot out the exhausted "designed by photographers for photographers" cliché... And I always wonder who the F do you think photo editing software is for, pig farmers? Oh, the wonders of AI (artificial insemination, of course)

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Maybe Jason Arday had questions to answer, I've no idea, but I can't help thinking that the papers' sudden interest in Cambridge academia was only because he was black. A lynch mob?

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Alarmed so much by the alarm that within seconds I'd closed the laptop and muted the TV, one of which seemed to stop it. Or maybe it had been a car alarm? Took a few minutes to realise it was the phone.

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Wouldn't it be great PR for Global to release @sangitamyska.bsky.social's NDA? I enjoy(ed) listening to you and her, and I switch off the second I hear her dreary replacement. Whatever the truth of the matter, let in the light. What's left to lose?

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

And wasn't that a cracker? I must walk past that place every time I'm in Edinburgh, thinking only of the view and not giving a moment's thought to the street. Next time...

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In nearby Camberwell, it's so hot that my favourite mural comes to life. Still photo in #lightroom sent to #firefly video generation.

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

No queue to get into the National Maritime Museum - this was for the eclipse sunglasses in their shop.

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

We all know it's the Tories' failure to manage prison capacity that forces the Burnham government to release some prisoners early. Murder is one of its criteria to deny early release. But would the prison system collapse if one criterion was a conviction for any violence against police?

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Missing jigsaw piece: the (former) Nazi now runs a popular satirical website where Badenoch is treated as some sort of cross between Boudicca & Margaret Thatcher while Labour & even Reform are constantly mocked. So this whole sorry mess is just another symptom of her being terminally online.

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Ah, that bloke in the news was behind those weird Crewkerne Gazette posts I kept seeing. Kinda weird of Badenoch to fight on that hill.

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Julieanne's crystal-clear demo of Adobe Camera Raw's new cropping with generative expand (AI-powered) and the point of the new render DNG command youtu.be/WCuCMSQ6QxE?... For the times when you don't get the crop right in camera, of course.

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7 New Camera Raw Features & Updates You Might Have Missed (v18.5)

YouTube video by Julieanne Kost

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

How much police time has been wasted arresting old folks under terrorism charges when they’ve been silently and peacefully expressing support for Palestine Action? The law is an ass.

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Menswear angle on Burnham’s style - read thread x.com/dieworkwear/... Tastes more sophisticated than when he (may have) bought our blue Metro

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Culchethism? Partly avoiding Northern clichés... Not Cunk-Northern. Manchester’s mayor but not Manc, not Gallagher-sounding, not United or 115er. Merseyside roots but not Scouse, not Carragher-sounding, not LFC, yet respect re Hillsborough. Lots of Nots = hard to pigeonhole/ignore him down South?

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

@rjpartington.bsky.social Enjoyed all the detail in the Culcheth article - I think Andy bought my Mum's old car (Metro) in the early 1990s. Leigh, Golborne etc saw the village as posh, sure, but for us it was aspirational? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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I grew up near Andy Burnham. This is what shaped the UK’s new PM

In the Warrington suburb of Culcheth, people are hopeful about what one of their own can achieve as the first northern PM in half a century

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

If the World Cup has been effing disappointing for England, what a way to end it with Jude Bellingham's imperious winner.

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Who would ever have thought that someone from Culcheth would be on the verge of becoming PM?

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Is there any honest use for cryptocurrency other than evading taxation and covering one's criminal activity?

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This w/e some 17th century re-enactor friends are in the French government's July 4th 250th anniversary celebration at Versailles. But should it be as much a moment of reflection? After all, who's got the mad king now? Quoted piece is from Jonathan Freedland www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

OTOH a fave United memory is the Charity Shield v Newcastle the season after Keegan's "love it" rant. Gave em a 4-0 kicking, alternating "cheer up Kevin Keegan / Alan Shearer" songs, and the mother of all thunder and lightning storms over old Wembley. Win or lose 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, go out to thunder and lightning?

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

And now the Mexico game is at 1am? What's the betting that thunderstorms hit the area and they do decide to put back kick off?

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

So the football is moving to 7pm because of "storms". More like ad revenue? As the song goes, only "Mexicans and Englishmen go out in the midday sun".

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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻 @johnbeardsworth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Fascinating, if you like this kind of thing, and brings back university-time memories of evenings debating such issues at bases in East Anglia. My studies included 1900s military procurement, a bottomless and often murky pit then as now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nhQ...

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Former CIA Director David Petraeus: The Future of War Is Already Here

YouTube video by The Cipher Brief

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