Paul Clarke
@paulclarke.com
The people photographer, working with the world's most interesting humans, dogs and brands. A graceful and melodious ape. paulclarke.com (📷 Siobhan Hennessy). Fascinated by online identity and trust.
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Paul Clarke
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· Jul 21
Sometimes a photo can be said to be... painterly. With the right timing, and some help from the Royal Air Force, I think this one might be.
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@richardpope.org does a great job of showing that it's often senior leadership misunderstandings and desire for "big bang comms" that damage good work already in progress (this time on digital ID).
www.rpp.works/ways-of-doin...
www.rpp.works/ways-of-doin...
www.rpp.works
November 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
@richardpope.org does a great job of showing that it's often senior leadership misunderstandings and desire for "big bang comms" that damage good work already in progress (this time on digital ID).
www.rpp.works/ways-of-doin...
www.rpp.works/ways-of-doin...
You know that excruciating feeling when you've followed someone's writing for literally years. But then get in a lift with them and make happy chat without realising it's them. Apologies, @anildash.com - I joined the dots up a few minutes later. I blame hats. Hats are totally to blame here.
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
You know that excruciating feeling when you've followed someone's writing for literally years. But then get in a lift with them and make happy chat without realising it's them. Apologies, @anildash.com - I joined the dots up a few minutes later. I blame hats. Hats are totally to blame here.
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Sights, scenes, and the humans making #MozFest a unique gathering of people building and imagining a better technological future.
++ An amazing group picture from the elder series fashion show, curated by artist Malik Afegbua.
++ An amazing group picture from the elder series fashion show, curated by artist Malik Afegbua.
November 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Sights, scenes, and the humans making #MozFest a unique gathering of people building and imagining a better technological future.
++ An amazing group picture from the elder series fashion show, curated by artist Malik Afegbua.
++ An amazing group picture from the elder series fashion show, curated by artist Malik Afegbua.
Where's this from then? (@bevangelist.bsky.social you are definitely banned from this one)
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Where's this from then? (@bevangelist.bsky.social you are definitely banned from this one)
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Dear QuickBooks. You are my brainless accounting system. You are not my accountant or business adviser. I don't want or need your agents. I run the business.
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Dear QuickBooks. You are my brainless accounting system. You are not my accountant or business adviser. I don't want or need your agents. I run the business.
Contrary to all my intentions, I will let the sun go down on me. Tomorrow, most probably.
I have to admit that, much as I’d like to be, I’m not still standing.
I'm sorry to say that, contrary to my belief, I cannot fly.
November 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Contrary to all my intentions, I will let the sun go down on me. Tomorrow, most probably.
Thought experiment: how would you feel if someone posted a low-quality, and arguably unflattering, photo of you, clearly identified as being you, and then that photo immediately and indefinitely came top in internet searches on your name? Oh, without your consent, too.
November 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Thought experiment: how would you feel if someone posted a low-quality, and arguably unflattering, photo of you, clearly identified as being you, and then that photo immediately and indefinitely came top in internet searches on your name? Oh, without your consent, too.
In which I accept that my phone camera lens is now scratched beyond any reasonable use, and that Blackheath fireworks were worth the money after all. Very well organised event, good job everyone!
November 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
In which I accept that my phone camera lens is now scratched beyond any reasonable use, and that Blackheath fireworks were worth the money after all. Very well organised event, good job everyone!
There's a great deal of depth to this topic, which you won't find in this thread. I'll write something. Sigh. These are mostly pretty awful pics, and the reasons why that's the wiki norm are very interesting.
If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)
November 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
There's a great deal of depth to this topic, which you won't find in this thread. I'll write something. Sigh. These are mostly pretty awful pics, and the reasons why that's the wiki norm are very interesting.
Chelsea, 1 November. Barely a poppy to be seen. Fascinating.
November 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Chelsea, 1 November. Barely a poppy to be seen. Fascinating.
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It's sometimes hard to remember that public services can be delivered with pride and self confidence
November 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
It's sometimes hard to remember that public services can be delivered with pride and self confidence
I think there's some interesting depth on the diversity in pictures stuff, really there is. The distinction between a created 'reality', and interpretations we put on the actual reality (be that an event that happened, or the people who actually work in a company). I'm trying to write it properly.
November 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I think there's some interesting depth on the diversity in pictures stuff, really there is. The distinction between a created 'reality', and interpretations we put on the actual reality (be that an event that happened, or the people who actually work in a company). I'm trying to write it properly.
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No, the point of adverts is to be accurate! They are an unflinching mirror on the world around us, where families primarily bond over a shared love of condiments, cars only ever drive on that one bendy Italian mountain road, and women menstruate clear blue liquid.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
No, the point of adverts is to be accurate! They are an unflinching mirror on the world around us, where families primarily bond over a shared love of condiments, cars only ever drive on that one bendy Italian mountain road, and women menstruate clear blue liquid.
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Lol - not saying that Graham Platner dude laid out his defence on fesshole three years ago but maybe?
x.com/fesshole/sta...
x.com/fesshole/sta...
October 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Lol - not saying that Graham Platner dude laid out his defence on fesshole three years ago but maybe?
x.com/fesshole/sta...
x.com/fesshole/sta...
I just added a bench to openbenches.org - add one yourself - it's very easy, and strangely satisfying (and clever design means things like location tagging and plaque recognition just...work). Hats off, as ever, to @edent.tel and @summerbeth.bsky.social
OpenBenches Welcome!
openbenches.org
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I just added a bench to openbenches.org - add one yourself - it's very easy, and strangely satisfying (and clever design means things like location tagging and plaque recognition just...work). Hats off, as ever, to @edent.tel and @summerbeth.bsky.social
"We want to give everyone a single identity reference, so we can join this stuff up once and for all"
This speaks very clearly to the problem of automating highly consequential decisions - take out proper checks, verifications and 'human in the loop' and this is the kind of thing you invite in. The Data Act means more of these things can be automated without human oversight 🥺
October 31, 2025 at 9:17 AM
"We want to give everyone a single identity reference, so we can join this stuff up once and for all"
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Happy Birthday, The Devil x
October 31, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Happy Birthday, The Devil x
This Friday, you should follow @franticplanet.bsky.social - he's both cleverer and funnier than he looks
October 31, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This Friday, you should follow @franticplanet.bsky.social - he's both cleverer and funnier than he looks
For no particular reason, I'm reminded of this photo I took a few years back. It got posted on the official royal Insta. "She's visiting her brother!" was a common comment...
October 31, 2025 at 9:01 AM
For no particular reason, I'm reminded of this photo I took a few years back. It got posted on the official royal Insta. "She's visiting her brother!" was a common comment...
Cleaner comes on a Friday: the bathroom becomes not mine for 2 hrs, first thing. So I have to set an alarm to ensure I can carry out my Functions, thwarting her bog-blocking.
October 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Cleaner comes on a Friday: the bathroom becomes not mine for 2 hrs, first thing. So I have to set an alarm to ensure I can carry out my Functions, thwarting her bog-blocking.
Ah yes - how is that "deterministic state" working out then?
UK woman who booked Oslo flight but did not fly loses child benefit ‘because she emigrated’
UK woman who booked Oslo flight but did not fly loses child benefit ‘because she emigrated’
Exclusive: HMRC told Lisa Morris-Almond there was no record of her return to UK, but she did not take the trip
A woman who booked a flight from London to Oslo but never checked in or travelled has had her child benefit stopped by the UK government. Tax authorities told her their records showed she had emigrated.
Lisa Morris-Almond is one of thousands of people who have had their child benefit frozen as part of a botched crackdown on benefit fraud. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Ah yes - how is that "deterministic state" working out then?
From 10 years ago, when I briefly cosplayed @jamesomalley.co.uk (badly) on airport runway decisions
October 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
From 10 years ago, when I briefly cosplayed @jamesomalley.co.uk (badly) on airport runway decisions
Only geo-nerds and @suw.bsky.social (not necessarily an exclusive classification) will get the significance of this, but I'm currently in the middle of Argleton
October 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Only geo-nerds and @suw.bsky.social (not necessarily an exclusive classification) will get the significance of this, but I'm currently in the middle of Argleton
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