Kwasi
@olu-gh.bsky.social
🇬🇭 Physicist/Imaging Scientist living in the UK. Scientist, serial hobbyist(📚 📷 🚲 🥋)
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These days my #FilmPhotography spending money goes on chemicals and paper mostly - don’t mention photo books. Shout out to Firstcall Photographic for their decades of dedication to this analogue world .
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November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
These days my #FilmPhotography spending money goes on chemicals and paper mostly - don’t mention photo books. Shout out to Firstcall Photographic for their decades of dedication to this analogue world .
#believeinfilm
#believeinfilm
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Science lovers! Are you going to try and convince some child in your life that science is fun and worthwhile this Christmas? You could buy them one of dozens of commercially available "science kits" OR you could MAKE YOUR OWN to accompany a copy of "Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder":
Parents! Carers! Anyone thinking of buying a child a "science kit" for Christmas. For the same / less cost, buy a copy of "Recipes for Wonder" and put together a box of household "ingredients" which will let them do actual science and be a much more personal gift alomshaha.com/portfolio/mr...
November 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Science lovers! Are you going to try and convince some child in your life that science is fun and worthwhile this Christmas? You could buy them one of dozens of commercially available "science kits" OR you could MAKE YOUR OWN to accompany a copy of "Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder":
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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#filmphotography
#monochrome
#darkroom
Blackpool in November.
@ilfordphoto.com HP5+ pushed 2 stops. 50mm lens. Yellow Filter.
#filmphotography
#monochrome
#darkroom
Blackpool in November.
@ilfordphoto.com HP5+ pushed 2 stops. 50mm lens. Yellow Filter.
November 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
#believeinfilm
#filmphotography
#monochrome
#darkroom
Blackpool in November.
@ilfordphoto.com HP5+ pushed 2 stops. 50mm lens. Yellow Filter.
#filmphotography
#monochrome
#darkroom
Blackpool in November.
@ilfordphoto.com HP5+ pushed 2 stops. 50mm lens. Yellow Filter.
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Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
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Portraits of Pastry Chef Camari Mick in my studio last month.
Shot on my Hasselblad on #kodakgold and #HP5Plus.
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Shot on my Hasselblad on #kodakgold and #HP5Plus.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Portraits of Pastry Chef Camari Mick in my studio last month.
Shot on my Hasselblad on #kodakgold and #HP5Plus.
#believeinfilm 🎞️
Shot on my Hasselblad on #kodakgold and #HP5Plus.
#believeinfilm 🎞️
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today in photos (that I took last month)
keepers — Jamelle Bouie
Did a recent dump of everything I’ve taken on my Leica M10-D over the last few months. These five photos were the keepers from a day when I sent a lot of time just walking around town, either by mysel...
jamellebouie.net
November 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
today in photos (that I took last month)
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#believeinfilm
#filmphotography
#monochrome
#darkroom
Blackpool beach in November.
Bulk 135 HP5+. 50mm lens. Y Filter.
#filmphotography
#monochrome
#darkroom
Blackpool beach in November.
Bulk 135 HP5+. 50mm lens. Y Filter.
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#believeinfilm
#filmphotography
#monochrome
#darkroom
Blackpool beach in November.
Bulk 135 HP5+. 50mm lens. Y Filter.
#filmphotography
#monochrome
#darkroom
Blackpool beach in November.
Bulk 135 HP5+. 50mm lens. Y Filter.
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You could teach an entire suite of economics classes based solely on what’s happened at Twitter
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
You could teach an entire suite of economics classes based solely on what’s happened at Twitter
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It's not even like novelists earn shed loads of cash. Well done arseholes
New research by @mctd.bsky.social shows the impact of generative AI on authors in the UK. They found over a third of novelists report their income has already been negatively impacted by AI and 85% expect their future income will be negatively impacted.
www.mctd.ac.uk/impact-of-ge...
www.mctd.ac.uk/impact-of-ge...
Impact of Generative AI on the Novel
A report examining how literary creatives being affected by GenAI and what measures they want see implemented by the government to protect the UK’s literary scene.
www.mctd.ac.uk
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
It's not even like novelists earn shed loads of cash. Well done arseholes
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👑 Peter Bialobrzeski’s "Give My Regards to Elizabeth" was made in the early 1990s as he travelled through a UK marked by recession and sharp social contrasts. Capturing a national mood that, in the run up to the Autumn budget, still feels close today.
🔗 See more: sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...
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November 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
👑 Peter Bialobrzeski’s "Give My Regards to Elizabeth" was made in the early 1990s as he travelled through a UK marked by recession and sharp social contrasts. Capturing a national mood that, in the run up to the Autumn budget, still feels close today.
🔗 See more: sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...
🔗 See more: sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...
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The Holga Week winners have now been announced - you can listen to the latest podcast to here @johnfar.com and my deliberations about the shortlisted pinhole category artists.
#believeinfilm #filmpjotography
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#believeinfilm #filmpjotography
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Show 15 - Holga Week Pinhole shortlist and winners
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November 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The Holga Week winners have now been announced - you can listen to the latest podcast to here @johnfar.com and my deliberations about the shortlisted pinhole category artists.
#believeinfilm #filmpjotography
open.spotify.com/episode/6ldV...
#believeinfilm #filmpjotography
open.spotify.com/episode/6ldV...
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How I feel about the whole Olivia Nuzzi story is that there are a lot of talented, ethical, underemployed or unemployed black and brown journalists right now who are ready to work.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
How I feel about the whole Olivia Nuzzi story is that there are a lot of talented, ethical, underemployed or unemployed black and brown journalists right now who are ready to work.
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I’m really surprised this isn’t bigger news. Just under 10 million people live in Tehran. Where can they go? Where else in Iran will have enough water? This will undoubtedly strain the country’s and the region’s politics, finances and governance capacity.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I’m really surprised this isn’t bigger news. Just under 10 million people live in Tehran. Where can they go? Where else in Iran will have enough water? This will undoubtedly strain the country’s and the region’s politics, finances and governance capacity.
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NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated.
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated.
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
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AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
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Block the weirdos. Block me if you think im a weirdo. We here voluntarily. No reason to voluntarily be annoyed.
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Block the weirdos. Block me if you think im a weirdo. We here voluntarily. No reason to voluntarily be annoyed.
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Good example of how an acronym can dehumanize consequences and mask what’s going on. Syntactically, “Diversity slayer,” “equity slayer,” or “inclusion slayer” sounds weird. They aren’t “slaying” these things; they’re promoting and supporting their opposites: segregation, unfairness, and exclusion.
November 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Good example of how an acronym can dehumanize consequences and mask what’s going on. Syntactically, “Diversity slayer,” “equity slayer,” or “inclusion slayer” sounds weird. They aren’t “slaying” these things; they’re promoting and supporting their opposites: segregation, unfairness, and exclusion.
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Know the difference.
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Know the difference.
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After another week of banging on about immigration, Keir Starmer's ratings fall to their lowest ever level.
At what point do Labour strategists start to think that maybe this isn't quite the winning strategy they believed?
At what point do Labour strategists start to think that maybe this isn't quite the winning strategy they believed?
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
After another week of banging on about immigration, Keir Starmer's ratings fall to their lowest ever level.
At what point do Labour strategists start to think that maybe this isn't quite the winning strategy they believed?
At what point do Labour strategists start to think that maybe this isn't quite the winning strategy they believed?
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The only explanation that fits with their course of conduct is that they are such exceptional reactionary psychos, so entirely self-obsessed and self-interested, that they would rather drive the bus into an oncoming train than admit they have been wrong about more or less anything.
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The only explanation that fits with their course of conduct is that they are such exceptional reactionary psychos, so entirely self-obsessed and self-interested, that they would rather drive the bus into an oncoming train than admit they have been wrong about more or less anything.
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The far right will be the dominant force on the right in Europe within the next 5-10 years. Most focus is still on how to prevent this but imho too many mistakes have been made that have created path dependencies. We need to focus more on what it means for our democracies when we reach this stage.
Strongly suspect that this is what will happen here in 28/9. Tories will replace Badenoch with a leader prepared to try it and Farage (as per 2019 but this time as the senior partner) will continue to deny he'll do a stand-down deal - right up until the point he does one.
French conservatives are inching towards a pact with Le Pen that could enable a far-right takeover of the country | Paul Taylor
In trying to woo Le Pen’s voters, Les Républicains risk destroying France’s Gaullist legacy and putting Paris on a collision course with the EU, says Paul Taylor of the European Policy Centre
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The far right will be the dominant force on the right in Europe within the next 5-10 years. Most focus is still on how to prevent this but imho too many mistakes have been made that have created path dependencies. We need to focus more on what it means for our democracies when we reach this stage.
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70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute
Objectives To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting Research institute ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale