Paul Clarke
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Looking back at 2025 – part one
As ever, Christmas Eve brings my first half of 2025’s photo highlights. They aren’t always my most popular, or even the most technically notable, but the ones that when I look back, meant the most. A ...
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Took my little compact camera for a Soho walk this afternoon. (Should probably do more of that.) It's worth about £200, and I love it because it operates manually with a very similar user interface to a pro camera. You don't have to spend a lot.
January 20, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Took my little compact camera for a Soho walk this afternoon. (Should probably do more of that.) It's worth about £200, and I love it because it operates manually with a very similar user interface to a pro camera. You don't have to spend a lot.
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Unless you buy my things I won’t have any money, says man
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Unless you buy my things I won’t have any money, says man
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I swear to god bbc news, if you ever introduce a BREAKING item again with the kind of gravity I personally would reserve for if we're getting a 3 min warning, or as another example god has died, and then it turns it to be "brooklyn beckham is still sulking," I swear to fucking god
January 19, 2026 at 7:54 PM
I swear to god bbc news, if you ever introduce a BREAKING item again with the kind of gravity I personally would reserve for if we're getting a 3 min warning, or as another example god has died, and then it turns it to be "brooklyn beckham is still sulking," I swear to fucking god
Didn't have Chagos on my Nutcase Bingo card, for sure
January 20, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Didn't have Chagos on my Nutcase Bingo card, for sure
hah - I never touch these, but you can bet I keep an eye on who does it, and who responds
Hi LinkedIn, I want to get more followers so I’m going to pretend I’ve a lucrative and exciting project for, idk, 20 freelancers of some variety!
I’m going to be entirely unspecific, please tag everyone who you know who’d be perfect below 👇
I’m going to be entirely unspecific, please tag everyone who you know who’d be perfect below 👇
January 19, 2026 at 2:32 PM
hah - I never touch these, but you can bet I keep an eye on who does it, and who responds
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"Jenrick" would be an excellent name for a Dickensian undertaker, all pallor and fawning, lurks a little too often around the coffins of the younger ladies
January 15, 2026 at 7:15 PM
"Jenrick" would be an excellent name for a Dickensian undertaker, all pallor and fawning, lurks a little too often around the coffins of the younger ladies
Highlight of the afternoon, walking past Ally Pally and spotting an elegant Jimmy White in bright blue suit and jet black hairdo, poking his face out the side doors for a fag
January 18, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Highlight of the afternoon, walking past Ally Pally and spotting an elegant Jimmy White in bright blue suit and jet black hairdo, poking his face out the side doors for a fag
When is a portrait an act of journalism, and when is it PR? pcpho.to/motherof
January 17, 2026 at 4:18 PM
When is a portrait an act of journalism, and when is it PR? pcpho.to/motherof
What I will say is that we are still, after 30 years I've been looking at this stuff, paralysed between the utility offered by unifying your 'identity' with the state, the fear that it might lead to terrible consequences, and the reality that it is too big and expensive a transition to manage.
January 17, 2026 at 3:52 PM
What I will say is that we are still, after 30 years I've been looking at this stuff, paralysed between the utility offered by unifying your 'identity' with the state, the fear that it might lead to terrible consequences, and the reality that it is too big and expensive a transition to manage.
"All I hear about is 'make government more like Amazon', 'make it all simply accessible in one place' blah blah blah." (from 2010) paulclarke.com/honestlyreal...
January 17, 2026 at 3:46 PM
"All I hear about is 'make government more like Amazon', 'make it all simply accessible in one place' blah blah blah." (from 2010) paulclarke.com/honestlyreal...
those FB people, long-ago beefed and muted, that you only remember when a birthday notification pops up, but you can't unfriend them on their birthday can you, I mean really, so the cycle of surprise and dismay is locked and assured
January 16, 2026 at 3:05 PM
those FB people, long-ago beefed and muted, that you only remember when a birthday notification pops up, but you can't unfriend them on their birthday can you, I mean really, so the cycle of surprise and dismay is locked and assured
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In tribute to Mark Longair: www.mysociety.org/2026/01/15/a...
January 15, 2026 at 4:30 PM
In tribute to Mark Longair: www.mysociety.org/2026/01/15/a...
Very saddened by the passing of Mark Longair. A decent, intelligent, thoughtful and hard-working force for a better civil society, and practical maker of tools to help that happen. And a lovely man. He'll be very missed.
January 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Very saddened by the passing of Mark Longair. A decent, intelligent, thoughtful and hard-working force for a better civil society, and practical maker of tools to help that happen. And a lovely man. He'll be very missed.
Wikipedia photos: below the surface of something you see every day lurk some fascinating issues.
It's where the ideology of "but if this is a public fact/figure, then we are entitled to a picture" bumps hard into "but images are artworks/scarce assets: intellectual property with a tangible value".
It's where the ideology of "but if this is a public fact/figure, then we are entitled to a picture" bumps hard into "but images are artworks/scarce assets: intellectual property with a tangible value".
January 15, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Wikipedia photos: below the surface of something you see every day lurk some fascinating issues.
It's where the ideology of "but if this is a public fact/figure, then we are entitled to a picture" bumps hard into "but images are artworks/scarce assets: intellectual property with a tangible value".
It's where the ideology of "but if this is a public fact/figure, then we are entitled to a picture" bumps hard into "but images are artworks/scarce assets: intellectual property with a tangible value".
"I've become *that* guy". The court of Poe is in session.
Every line in this piece is so pitch-perfect I'm half-wondering if it's a brilliant pisstake of the Terminally Online. amycharlottekean.substack.com/p/are-you-to...
Are you too scared to talk to your family about Gaza?
Two thirds of people won't discuss social issues with their friends and family, and I'm not surprised.
amycharlottekean.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:23 AM
"I've become *that* guy". The court of Poe is in session.
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Fire was approx here maps.app.goo.gl/Mruwv9YVr7JY...
Wouldn’t plan to be using the curvy bit of the Windrush line tomorrow morning.
Wouldn’t plan to be using the curvy bit of the Windrush line tomorrow morning.
maps.app.goo.gl
January 13, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Fire was approx here maps.app.goo.gl/Mruwv9YVr7JY...
Wouldn’t plan to be using the curvy bit of the Windrush line tomorrow morning.
Wouldn’t plan to be using the curvy bit of the Windrush line tomorrow morning.
Genuine loathing for Onestream broadband. I've quit, but the calls and messages are constant: please please have us back. And yet, if you want to speak to them about anything else... *this* is *why* you get dumped as a service provider, lads
January 13, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Genuine loathing for Onestream broadband. I've quit, but the calls and messages are constant: please please have us back. And yet, if you want to speak to them about anything else... *this* is *why* you get dumped as a service provider, lads
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What we in Britain call The Edmonds Trajectory
So, Scott Adams is gone. Through cautionary example, he showed me a valuable lesson: If you can't be grateful, don't be ungrateful or it will weigh on you like a stone.
Guy had a 30 yr newspaper run, got rich and famous, had a 2 season TV show, yet spent his life complaining that he deserved more.
Guy had a 30 yr newspaper run, got rich and famous, had a 2 season TV show, yet spent his life complaining that he deserved more.
January 13, 2026 at 6:09 PM
What we in Britain call The Edmonds Trajectory
Bars (not even fancy ones) in London that want a tip on the card machine [for over-the-bar service]? When did that wild idea begin?
January 13, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Bars (not even fancy ones) in London that want a tip on the card machine [for over-the-bar service]? When did that wild idea begin?
Fascinating how the ubiquitous reliance on LLMs has become the third scissor issue sawing its way through friend and industry groups
January 12, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Fascinating how the ubiquitous reliance on LLMs has become the third scissor issue sawing its way through friend and industry groups
Finally decided to track down where all the moths were coming from. Oh.
January 11, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Finally decided to track down where all the moths were coming from. Oh.
WE NEED THE BEEF SATNAV
You know when someone quote tweets something and it says [blocked] and you wonder what the beef is? Well there's enough stuff in the 'view source' to work it out and I just coded a shit bookmarklet to jump to that post, simply coz I SO wanted to know what the beef was.
I will never publish this.
I will never publish this.
January 9, 2026 at 5:37 PM
WE NEED THE BEEF SATNAV
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You know when someone quote tweets something and it says [blocked] and you wonder what the beef is? Well there's enough stuff in the 'view source' to work it out and I just coded a shit bookmarklet to jump to that post, simply coz I SO wanted to know what the beef was.
I will never publish this.
I will never publish this.
January 9, 2026 at 5:30 PM
You know when someone quote tweets something and it says [blocked] and you wonder what the beef is? Well there's enough stuff in the 'view source' to work it out and I just coded a shit bookmarklet to jump to that post, simply coz I SO wanted to know what the beef was.
I will never publish this.
I will never publish this.
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Feels very smol bean government to brief about how everything gets in your way and not be able to say "Every department and minister off the CSAM website by 5pm".
January 9, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Feels very smol bean government to brief about how everything gets in your way and not be able to say "Every department and minister off the CSAM website by 5pm".
