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Kwasi

@olu-gh.bsky.social
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🇬🇭 Physicist/Imaging Scientist living in the UK. Scientist, serial hobbyist(📚 📷 🚲 🥋)

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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 12h
Happy Birthday to the legendary MC. In his honor, here's the 10 minute Funk Flex freestyle that when you hit play, you think you're gonna turn it off after a couple minutes but then you end up watching the whole thing, just mesmerized: www.youtube.com/watch?v=prmQ...
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BLACK THOUGHT FREESTYLES ON FLEX | #FREESTYLE087
YouTube video by HOT 97
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 8h
Enterprise software companies had a short-lived run where they competed on usability and product-led growth which seems to be over. Now every SaaS app seems to be converging on the same UX monstrosity, complete with AI features of dubious value.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 12h
Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.
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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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Ste Currie @harrylime69.bsky.social · 10h
Hard to avoid the Hen weekends in Liverpool on a Saturday 📷 Olympus XA2 🎞 Fomapan 400 #olympusxa2 #fomapan400 #filmphotography #believeinfilm #streetphotography
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Kwasi @olu-gh.bsky.social · 11h
The sun is going down earlier, which means we are about to enter printing season! Where I try to both catch up on negatives I haven't printed in precious winters, and also print new negatives I made this year
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Andrew Bartram 🎞️ ✝️📷 @warboyssnapper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A tale of two cameras and the beginning of an obsession. #filmphotography #believeinfilm andrewbartram.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/h...
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Half Frame Obsession -#1
Half Frame photography and my love of the Pentax 17 and making darkroom prints from the stories they tell.
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Andrew Bartram 🎞️ ✝️📷 @warboyssnapper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is #SlowPhotography #Believeinfilm #Filmphotography
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'At least eight universities have announced industrial action for the coming year'. Edinburgh: 5 weeks, £140m cuts, 90 degree programmes, 1,800 potential job losses. Dundee, Essex, Exeter, Glasgow Caledonian, Heriot-Watt, Nottingham, Sussex and where next?
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UK Universities Set to Strike in ‘Last-Ditch Fight Over Existential Cuts’
'It is carnage'.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Scottish Funding Council reports that almost 50% of Scottish universities predict deficits for coming years. 10/18 Scottish HEIs reported 2024-25 deficits. 10 Forecast deficits for this year. 'Total sector cash is forecast to fall by 11 per cent in the next three years'. Dundee's stats are excluded.
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Scottish universities face enduring deficits – funding council
Worse is predicted in coming years, and hopes of an eventual reversal may be driven by excessive optimism about international enrolments, funding council warns
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's Black History Month in the uk! Schools, businesses etc this is your reminder to book Black authors and speakers IN OTHER MONTHS not just october.
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Jim Graves is apparently an invalid handle @jimgraves.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New Blog Post This week I talk about my September roll of Kentmere 400 shot with my Hanimex 35RAS for the Frugal Film Project at Bullstock. jimgravesphoto.blogspot.com/2026/09/frug... 📸 Hanimex 35RAS 🎞️ Kentmere 400 #kentmere400 #frugalfilmproject #filmisnotdead #filmphotography #believeinfilm
A black and white film photo of a woman dancing and enjoying herself at Bullstock, the fundraiser for The John Bull Chophouse, my favourite pub in Wigan.
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Sam Johnson @analoguelass.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Functional Boundaries - Working Landscape - Lake District Observations 📷Pentax 17 🎞️Ilford FP4 - DD-X #believeinfilm #lakedistrict #WWHFPD #landscape
A black and white half frame photograph of a wooden field gate defining the rural boundary of an agricultural landscape.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are so lucky that ChatGPT did not exist in 2020 or we'd all be dead
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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...
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Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France
I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…
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Stig @stigofthedump.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sun-Up on the Mersey 📷 Pentax 645n - 45mm f2.8 🎞️ Bergger Pancro 400 - Bellini Eco #BelieveInFilm #filmphotography
B&W photo made on a beach, with pools in the foreground and stone breakwaters to the rear. The rising sun is glistening off the water in the pools.
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Andrew Bartram 🎞️ ✝️📷 @warboyssnapper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The other half frame camera I had with me on @halfframephotoday.bsky.social London meet up was the Koroll 24 a medium format half frame camera. I need to work on the frame spacing a bit when lining the numbers up but lots of promise… #believeinfilm #filmphotography
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Estibaliz Gómez de Mariscal, PhD @gomez-mariscal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨I have open PhD positions in my new lab at #NIMSB🚀!! Deadline Oct-16 nimsb.unl.pt/join-us/ 🌟I'm looking for motivated candidates who are eager to join a highly multidisciplinary team and study the intracellular dynamics of cancer cell migration using advanced computational methods and microscopy👾
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Holga Pics @holgapics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ricoh FF3-AF camera. 1980/90s vintage. New to me. #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #lomo #ilfordphoto #ilfordfilm #ilfordfp4 #pointandshoot
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Sam Johnson @analoguelass.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Architectural Integration - Lake District Observations. 📷Pentax 17 🎞️Ilford FP4 developed with DDX #believeinfilm #lakedistrict #WWHFPD #landscape
A black and white half frame photograph of an old stone barn. It captures the physical point where the man-made slate roof blends with the tops of the fells in the background.
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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It would be absurd, but entirely fitting with the UK response so far, if Thomas ended up being prosecuted by the French authorities while the UK continues to look on meekly.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
15 years of brutal austerity + increasingly vile far right politics to secure the positions of parties enforcing it + world’s most poisonous media outlets = Years of fascist rioting with little or no government response
something has gone very, very wrong with the UK
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Hundreds of people are out in Gosport facing a police line.
Crowds of masked protesters are now confronting a police line to chants of "let them drown" sung by a child over a megaphone.
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Holga Pics @holgapics.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nothing like messing about in boats... Ricoh FF3-AF #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #lomo #ilfordfilm #ilfordphoto #ilfordfp4
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Niall McDiarmid @niallmcdiarmid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Piccadilly, London - Sept' 2026
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Worldwide half-frame photography day @halfframephotoday.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Meet the Photographer – Steve Starr half-frameday.com/2025/08/18/m...
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Andrew Bartram 🎞️ ✝️📷 @warboyssnapper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Shared this before but as I haven’t made any prints recently here it is again. One of my favourite ways of using half frame is to construct not always perfect panorama images over three frames. The Pentax 17 is of course perfect for this. Catlabs 320 onto Ilford MG Pearl.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
and so white nationalism must be a response to something, it can't be it is own ideological formation with its own history driven by people with their own agency
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
beyond bad faith part of what is happening here is that people who think this are basically incapable of thinking historically and see the political world as simply a set of actions and reactions.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am so tired of nasty, insular, smug gits playing PR stunts to prevent people finding safety. I say grant them independence and then see how they react to facing immigration restrictions when they want to do a big shop or work. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The action she’s taken is say ‘hey can you not, please?’
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Niall McDiarmid @niallmcdiarmid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Oxford Street, London - March 2024
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Paula Smith @paulasmith.co.uk · 15/09/2026
More from the Worldwide Half Frame Photography Day London Photowalk organised by @donkeyislandpress.co.uk 📷 OM Pen EEs 🎞️ Orwo UN54 100 ⚗️ Rodinal 1+50 9mins #believeinfilm #wwhfpd #halfframe #35mm
Black and white leaf detail of a palm tree in the sunshine.Black and white image of bicycle handlebars and bike seat chained to a lamp post. a woman cycles by a large open metal gate, peaking out on the wall behind is a mural of a woman's eye and cheek framed by flowers.  A curved corner of a brick wall. Right pointing arrows have been graffitied onto the corner bricks. There is a downpipe to the left and that is covered in graffiti marks.
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
UK is on track to install around 300,000 solar rooftops this year That'll break records and on its own add at least 1GW of solar to UK generation For scale, UK maximum demand is around 50GW www.businessgreen.com/news/4535700...
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'Unprecedented numbers': Solar industry on track to smash rooftop record
MCS tracker reveals number of small-scale solar installations completed this year has already surpassed long-standing 2011 record
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Worldwide half-frame photography day @halfframephotoday.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Meet the Photographer – Carlos Carreter half-frameday.com/2025/07/04/m...
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hard to shake the impression that the overriding sentiment in Tories and Labour to the Reform donations was envy rather than concern about our democratic system….
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The class allegiance across the political spectrum is why we can’t deal with the moral rot of race scientists and Nazis. These are their relatives, friends, classmates, neighbors, and peers. They have to normalize those values and conduct or else look in the mirror at themselves.
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The Pentaxian @the-pentaxian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This Pentax lens isn't particularly known for its bokeh rendering abilities, but I think this one turned out okay. 📷 Pentax K-70 🔘 Pentax 55-300mm APS-C #Photography #Art #Nature #ForestFriday #Bokeh #BloomScrolling #Landscape #Scape #EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotoOfTheDay #ColorADay #Pentax #P651
A color photo of a tree limb hanging down with a couple of white flowers and some berries at the end.  In the background there are other trees but are very blurred.
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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Amol Rajan rn
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Actually violent, for real racist, genuine extremists openly and properly threatening members of the public. And the same media outlets who spent three years screaming in terror at the protest grannies? Well, um, look
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 10/09/2026
This is worth a read because it eviscerates the narration of "AI solved complex mathematical problems, we can now retire mathematicians" that's currently being pushed by the AI companies. (and in general please remain sceptical of any claims to independent thinking or intent by LLMs)
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Arnaud Krebs @arnaudkr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
EMBL QBMM is back this year with an outstanding line-up! Plenty of talks will be selected from submitted abstracts, with emphasis on junior scientists and representation across diverse fields. The abstract deadline is the end of this week, so don’t miss out! www.embl.org/about/info/c...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🔴 NEW Reform UK Donations Overwhelmingly Have Overseas or Tax-Haven Ties By @mc00.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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Reform UK Donations Overwhelmingly Have Overseas or Tax-Haven Ties
Analysis of the latest Electoral Commission filings shows 87% of the £5.4m in donations newly-declared by Nigel Farage's party came from donors linked to offshore jurisdictions
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Caitie McCafferty @computingcaitie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I am looking for a lab manager for my group that I will be starting at the @fmiscience.bsky.social in February! We will use in situ structural biology to investigate dynamic ciliary processes. More info here —> bsky.app/profile/comp... #cilia #teamtomo #proteomics #protistsky
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Times columnist here making it very clear she thinks the street fascists are right, and presumably so do her editors and bosses, and the paper’s owners www.thetimes.com/article/f1a4...
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Protests at small boats reflect a broken system
After the claim that just 1% of asylum cases are genuine, an immigration overhaul is vital to placate growing public anger
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I followed the law, paid the migrant tax (that kept doubling every time I renewed my visa), and am still in the red. Everything I and my husband ever saved was repeatedly wiped out every two and a half years. These fees put every migrant worker that follows the law in precarity, likely in perpetuity
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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
When I first started making the argument MMA was a vector for right-wing politics (esp. in Western Hemisphere), I got fierce blowback at the suggestion. Now it's conventional wisdom repeated in the Financial Times.
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Niall McDiarmid @niallmcdiarmid.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Charing Cross Road, London - Sept' 2026
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