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Pro Photographer... Coal Mining Geologist… Sometimes even in that order… ⚽️ Middlesbrough FC, 🏉 Leigh Leopards and ⚾️ Los Angeles Dodgers… If you disagree with me please just move on… 📍Middlesbrough, UK, Europe. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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L i s t e r (David) @dlisterphoto.bsky.social · Jan 16
In case some of you have forgotten… or maybe never knew… I used to make pictures like this for a living… This was back in 2012, on a Friday afternoon in the Olympic Stadium, Munich… A place remembered by me for “that” World Cup Final… was a treat to visit the place…
Bruno Spengler driving the BMW M4 DTM car in the Olympic Stadium, Munich in 2012.
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L i s t e r (David) @dlisterphoto.bsky.social · 4h
So… yes… it was a total non story… why then was it first spread and the flames fanned..?
Bbc headlines
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L i s t e r (David) @dlisterphoto.bsky.social · 4h
The other two thirds are the ghosts 👻
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L i s t e r (David) @dlisterphoto.bsky.social · 5h
I often wonder if folk have the right licences… TV etc… Not… maybe they got an unpaid parking ticket..? …

What a joke this country is to moralise over this… There’s nothing there…

let they without sin cast the first stone… as they say…

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
'New information' about Rachel Reeves' rental arrangement received by PM and ethics adviser
No 10 says:
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L i s t e r (David) @dlisterphoto.bsky.social · 11h
It’s the old “garbage in = garbage out” thing… if there wasn’t the complete rubbish out there it’d not get scraped & added into the overall result… In face-to-face meeting, people who use AI to “advise” are generally not good at being cross questioned… AI is not I anyway. It’s just
supercomputing.
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L i s t e r (David) @dlisterphoto.bsky.social · 12h
People in the vehicle behind you at a junction who honk their horns at you because you didn’t go for the micro minuscule do-or-die gap between juggernauts that they think you should have risked your life to go for so as to stop holding them up just one second longer… (Just makes me dawdle more, TBH)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d
Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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L i s t e r (David) @dlisterphoto.bsky.social · 12h
AI is heading for the buffers…

I’ve tested some AI on my specialist field… First time I review a tech doc that has been obviously “assisted” by AI is going to be fun… let alone when we get into Court in a Civil Procedure when something has gone wrong because of AI advice being, err, wrong…
gralefrit.bsky.social Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 13h
Despite the headline it’s not George RR Martin personally going for them cos he’s rich and famous. It’s all of us.

The test case used his work, but it’s about the plain-as-day issue that ANY generative AI ignores and infringes copyright, by passing off.

That’s a win for basic law.
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 18h
Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright

• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied
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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 3d
Mr. Creed told me what great faction there is at Court; and above all, what is whispered, that young Crofts is lawful son to the King, the King being married to his mother. How true this is, God knows; but I believe the Duke of York will not be fooled in this of three crowns.
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Chris Jones @chrisjonesgeek.bsky.social · 1d
“Hiya chick”

Smoggie Queens repp’d at New Broadcasting House 🥰
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 2d
Seasonal reminder, Pumpkins make Hedgehogs sick, so don't leave any out where they can reach them.
A Pumpkin placed on a bucket out of reach of Hedgehogs
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L i s t e r (David) @dlisterphoto.bsky.social · 2d
Kershaw’s out in the 12th 🥰
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L i s t e r (David) @dlisterphoto.bsky.social · 2d
Seemed like it last night (spoiler alert if last night’s game is on later today)
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L i s t e r (David) @dlisterphoto.bsky.social · 2d
Kershaw in the 12th… 🥰🥰🥰… Man should be in the Hall of Fame already, let alone when he gets nominated… plus Freeman’s walk off homer… 2 more wins… c’mon… #dodgers #la #ladodgers #ukbaseball

www.mlb.com/news/takeawa...
5 takeaways from an epic Game 3 and a first look at Game 4
LOS ANGELES -- Freddie Freeman hit a walk-off home run in the 18th inning, and the Dodgers won an all-time classic in Game 3 of the World Series on Monday night. Here’s some instant reaction from Dodg...
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 3d
Farage: epic grifter
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · Sep 4
🔥🔥🔥 Here's Emily Maitlis crucifying Farage for both breaking the UK and stabbing it in the back.
#FascistFarage
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L i s t e r (David) @dlisterphoto.bsky.social · 3d
This would be due to the increase in numbers post Brexit, right..?? After we lost access to the EU agreements on return of Asylum seekers then we became a nett recipient (as I understand it)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Home Office 'squandered billions' on asylum accommodation, MPs say
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Andy McDonald MP @andymcdonaldmp.bsky.social · 8d
We need a full, independent investigation into Teesworks.

My column for North East Bylines is here - northeastbylines.co.uk/region/teess...
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L i s t e r (David) @dlisterphoto.bsky.social · 4d
Good summary as far as I can see… Appreciate some will disagree…

Like PPE etc, the problem, more widely, seems to be who looks over those spending public (our) money and how effectively is that spending being regulated/controlled…?

Devolvement is not deregulation.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
privateeyenews.bsky.social Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 8d
Read all about one of our most regular 'characters' in our 8-page Teesside Special only in the current issue of Private Eye... ON SHELVES NOW!
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L i s t e r (David) @dlisterphoto.bsky.social · 5d
As for imperial/metric, you’re right… buy petrol in litres… measure its consumption in mpg… easy, right… 🤪
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L i s t e r (David) @dlisterphoto.bsky.social · 5d
I think in the shaft there, I6F was ~450 metres… but the workings will have gone deeper down dip, no doubt… they took deeper seams there, also… some of the old imperial units were great… chains… for instance… the old maps and plans were in imperial with newer ones in metric… you had to be bi-unit
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L i s t e r (David) @dlisterphoto.bsky.social · 5d
Randomly reminded of this series and how they got many period details down nicely yet the telephones in the UK had an american ring, rather than the distinctive “ring ring” that would be correct… i thought it totally weird that you’d use period cars yet get this wrong.

www.imdb.com/title/tt7598...
The Little Drummer Girl (TV Mini Series 2018) ⭐ 7.4 | Drama, Thriller
57m | TV-MA
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L i s t e r (David) @dlisterphoto.bsky.social · 5d
Good article here… I certainly have no idea what this gov is seeking to accomplish… short or long term… it has no character, sense of purpose, direction… no clear intention… it’s like we are stuck in the ultimate micro-managed quagmire…
stephenkb.bsky.social Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5d
My column in the @ftweekend.com: Keir Starmer is in trouble because he has not been serious about governing, and the best way for him to turn things around is for him to become serious:
Starmer needs to get serious about governing — and quick
The prime minister has to change or his party will seek a change of its own
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L i s t e r (David) @dlisterphoto.bsky.social · 5d
Flipping heck, just looked at the latest scores… Coventry City are on fire this year, aren’t they…

Come on Boro. We can keep this pace up. #boro #utb
a cartoon character says " watching coventry city "
Alt: a cartoon character says " watching coventry city "
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L i s t e r (David) @dlisterphoto.bsky.social · 5d
Just to say… As a Coal Mining Geologist who spent close to 30 years in and around the Lancs coalfield, “800 yards down at Ince Six Feet” resonates… Ince 6 Feet being one of the last seams worked at Parkside, which was the last pit in Lancs… as I am sure you know already @warringtonruncorn.com
Part of cover of album “public works and utilities” by “warrington runcorn new town development plan”
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L i s t e r (David) @dlisterphoto.bsky.social · 5d
Agreed. It’ll be on my rotation for a while now. 🙂
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