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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I am as bound to you as the soft suffused salt crystals are to the paper of your portrait. #BelieveInFilm

A stand of silver birches at the ends of a wood in soft light.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I love this era of Mercedes design. The Pontons in particular have a simplicity of line that I love.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Feeling quite spiffy in my new to me Mac today.

Me or the bottom half of me with dark boots black trousers maroon jumper and a gree. Mac

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Should add the head of talent acquisition started this by showing me my role in her chart as one grade higher and agreed with me it seemed like I should be. I can hardly bear to hope but I am done with being quiet about this and I'm quite angry.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Major transformation project and have been called critical in a number of ways on this. My friend also raised this issue subtly with the director of her whole department who knows there is a disparity (and who is constantly being told how useful I am to his people). What are my chances here?

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So. I need to vent about work. It has come to light someone I have the same job title as and (I believe) has equal responsibilities is a higher grade than me. I raised this with my manager (in parallel with a lot of other stuff about needing to see progression as I am heavily involved in a

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The definition of middle class for these jobs is really upper class. You need some source of independent wealth to cope with long periods of working for free. They just want us to call it middle class because they don't have titles but it conceals their domination of every sector of public life.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As someone who was once in a vaguely cultural/ historical discipline it's so disheartening isn't it? Damaging too because I know exactly the only sort of person who now has a job in most of the cultural sector. Museums are terrible for this.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Life is very stressful at the moment but the process of pointing my telescope at some illuminated gas. Taking hundreds of photos. Printing the results in negative then using another ball of hot gas to fix an image in Cyanide is rather satisfying.

A cyanotype of the Western veil nebula. Described as the witches broom is is vaguely broom shaped with a large bright!star (62 Cygni) in the top 2/3ds

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I seem to have a habit of buying cars which are truly awful on that stretch. Annoying since I live pretty close and am on it much more than I would like.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This may just be a phone snap but I really like it.

A black and white image of artichoke/ cardoon seed heads. One in the foreground and several othera out of focus in the background

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's the former. Definitely 😁 No fault on anyone who ends up getting the small dopamine hit from the magic dopamine dispenser.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm working up to a cyanotype process for my astro images. I love astrophotography but it is the last refuge of pixel peeping and the digital processing side is not fun (plus my DSO friendly scope is relatively modest). So lo-fi it is. This is the eastern veil nebula.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The very fact their plant to replace me is train 4 people seems like a pretty good sign I am undervalued.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

can ask me to do it out of the goodness of my heart. They are good at this (the company not my boss) but if I am truly that critical then I have leverage right. Plus training people to replace me without a promotion also feels rather dangerous no?

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Meeting with my boss next week. My job has changed wildly this year. I have been told I am critical and need to transfer knowledge to enable me to work on another major project. I am nervous because I think that I need to ask for a promotion if I am going to do this and I expect they will think they

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can only speak to Hold Still but it's the best photographic memoir I have read. And I am a huge Sally Mann fan (should read the other one really).

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My friend. My wonderful, wonderful friend who made me feel worth something again. That feeling of worth is rubbing up against some very upsetting news re a very unfair (and secret) org structure I have just discovered by accident. And I feel worthless again.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I very much feel like we don't allow ourselves to feel negative emotions any more. We suppress we salve them with cute videos and things to help us sleep. I do not wish to sleep the sleep of the kitten. I am suffused with rage and grief and I don't want to not feel that.

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Grant Bulloch @bulloch.photography · 26/09/2026

Revisiting a trip to Colonsay over the next few posts, and the wonderful textures and patterns along its coastline. #photography #landscapephotography #photographers

Rock, showing through the sand on the beach

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am relived they can't record though. I was half expecting it to be a new influencer thing!

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I try to block out ads as much as possible so I only became aware these existed on a recent trip abroad where they were on billboards. I can't quite get my head around why anyone apart from dentist would want to image their mouth.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Western Veil nebula. A supernova remnant. This was about 3.5hrs. over several nights. It's both beautiful and right now I can image it from my house (as opposed to going to my local park).

A long thin nebula of cyan and red. The remnant of a large supernova. There is a bright star at the centre of the image..

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How is it possible for Gillian Anderson to get more awesome every single time I hear her speak? The woman is amazing in so many ways.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Out for the best but things are new scary and expensive at the moment. At least I finally feel able to have good friends after years of isolating myself...I feel more self actualized and confident. Just with things would calm down a bit.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This year has just been one of constant churn. Not all bad. We are doing up the house but also work is finally changing hopefully for the better and very full on. Factors have conspired to destroy most of the last few years of gardening. So I am sad about that and stressed. Hoping it will all turn

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Very nice indeed! I love that colou.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Here is a properly processed version. Man I thought LF was hard. Astro image processing is stretching my skills at the moment but enjoying it.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In all seriousness. I use my Nettar when I am away because it was cheap (very cheap) and small but in some ways it has the best lens. I'm not sure if I even prefer it to the one on my Flex.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I really should call this piece 'Why do I ever use any other camera but my Zeiss Nettar' #BelieveInFilm

An old tree trunk. Worn and losing bark. A third is jagged and with holes and in the light. The rest is in shadow

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Quick and dirty process of a 55 minute stack of Andromeda. Ok I am addicted now. Plan is to process this properly and make it into a cyanotype.

Andromeda galaxy against a star field with M110 above it

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The trouble when someone sees you and encourages you to think more or yourself than you do... is when the inevitable disappointment of why you were so demoralized in the first place hits you it is far worse because you are no longer numb to it.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's pictures! Foma 100 seeming not caring about 1CT and 2 regular scans (thanks to NATS meaning I had to go through Budapest airport twice). #BelieveInFilm

A roll of film with some developed negatives on it.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Thus far with the Dune films I have not cared one bit about the plot. I just enjoy looking them.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Recruitment processes are disgustingly annoying vectors of potential Identity theft. I should not have to create an account with a company just so they can tell me they don't want to employ me.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thanks to both the airspace schmozz yesterday and a weird inconsistency at security my film has been zapped 3 times in Hungary. Oh well glad I took a lot of Polaroid!

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Well this is fun. One 3lextra dar in Budapest (airport) awaits. I'd quite like that to be in a hotel if possible.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Good luck back at work today!

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

PanF is a favourite of mine too...Despite the general weather here. I've never managed to get RPX to behave for men though. I can't control the contrast (and I love a bit of Chiaroscuro)

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