Chris Routledge
@chrisroutledge.bsky.social
Writer, photographer, cyanotypist. Undergoing cosmic rearrangement. https://chrisroutledge.pictures
Wow, this is quite something.
I posted a new image on the web site.
www.craigpindell.com/Craig%20Pind...
This one has some history!
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This one has some history!
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Wow, this is quite something.
Because I am an idiot I decided to photograph all the (visible from the street) Georgian doorways of Liverpool's Rodney Street with a 60 year-old Olympus FT camera. Turns out the half frame format of the camera goes well with the shape of the doors. #believeinfilm #shootfilmbenice
November 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Because I am an idiot I decided to photograph all the (visible from the street) Georgian doorways of Liverpool's Rodney Street with a 60 year-old Olympus FT camera. Turns out the half frame format of the camera goes well with the shape of the doors. #believeinfilm #shootfilmbenice
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The Pellicle Essential Guide to Pub Ettiquette!
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
The Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette — Pellicle
It was the writer and politician Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) who famously said, “ Change your hearts or you will lose your inns and you will deserve to have lost them. But when you have lost your inns ...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The Pellicle Essential Guide to Pub Ettiquette!
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
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What's it like to return to your home town years after leaving?
This poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't finds that nothing's changed. But then everything's changed too...
This poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't finds that nothing's changed. But then everything's changed too...
November 2, 2025 at 11:13 AM
What's it like to return to your home town years after leaving?
This poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't finds that nothing's changed. But then everything's changed too...
This poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't finds that nothing's changed. But then everything's changed too...
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Hello! My CEO Roscoe and I are giving away TWO signed copies of my novel 1983 to two randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. You also get a free postcard of this illustration of Roscoe by my mum.
It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…
It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…
November 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Hello! My CEO Roscoe and I are giving away TWO signed copies of my novel 1983 to two randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. You also get a free postcard of this illustration of Roscoe by my mum.
It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…
It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…
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I was kind of hoping this might happen. Am I a bad person?
November 2, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I was kind of hoping this might happen. Am I a bad person?
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In the cemetery on All Hallows’ Eve.
October 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
In the cemetery on All Hallows’ Eve.
Just got back from a very wet, very dark, solitary walk over the fell while listening to Patricia Routledge reading Wuthering Heights. The words "Let me in!" have never sounded so scary as when stumbling around in a bog in the dark and rain.
October 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Just got back from a very wet, very dark, solitary walk over the fell while listening to Patricia Routledge reading Wuthering Heights. The words "Let me in!" have never sounded so scary as when stumbling around in a bog in the dark and rain.
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“This is a machine with ingrained biases, which produces convincing-looking answers. To train that machine, stolen data has been used, people have been exploited, & enormous amounts of energy have been required. For me, that’s unacceptable.”
—Wim Vanderbauwhede
—Wim Vanderbauwhede
I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
@apache.be you rule 🖤
@apache.be you rule 🖤
October 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
“This is a machine with ingrained biases, which produces convincing-looking answers. To train that machine, stolen data has been used, people have been exploited, & enormous amounts of energy have been required. For me, that’s unacceptable.”
—Wim Vanderbauwhede
—Wim Vanderbauwhede
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Let’s hear it for some wonky Widelux.
My purty city. Lomo 800. Might need a click, because… pano. #believeinfilm
My purty city. Lomo 800. Might need a click, because… pano. #believeinfilm
October 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Let’s hear it for some wonky Widelux.
My purty city. Lomo 800. Might need a click, because… pano. #believeinfilm
My purty city. Lomo 800. Might need a click, because… pano. #believeinfilm
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I made tiny proof prints yesterday! It’s been a while. T-Max 400, expanded development with HC-110. #pinhole negative.
Classic #cyanotype
#BelieveInFilm
Classic #cyanotype
#BelieveInFilm
October 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I made tiny proof prints yesterday! It’s been a while. T-Max 400, expanded development with HC-110. #pinhole negative.
Classic #cyanotype
#BelieveInFilm
Classic #cyanotype
#BelieveInFilm
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Toxteth: The Harlem of Europe opens tomorrow at the Victoria Gallery & Museum! 🎵 Striking portraits by Ean Flanders celebrate Black musicians from L8.
📍 Free, from 11 Oct, Tues–Sat, 10am–5pm
Discover Toxteth's music legacy 👇
https://orlo.uk/NCZ4M
#BlackBritishMusic
📍 Free, from 11 Oct, Tues–Sat, 10am–5pm
Discover Toxteth's music legacy 👇
https://orlo.uk/NCZ4M
#BlackBritishMusic
October 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Toxteth: The Harlem of Europe opens tomorrow at the Victoria Gallery & Museum! 🎵 Striking portraits by Ean Flanders celebrate Black musicians from L8.
📍 Free, from 11 Oct, Tues–Sat, 10am–5pm
Discover Toxteth's music legacy 👇
https://orlo.uk/NCZ4M
#BlackBritishMusic
📍 Free, from 11 Oct, Tues–Sat, 10am–5pm
Discover Toxteth's music legacy 👇
https://orlo.uk/NCZ4M
#BlackBritishMusic
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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If anyone has people in their network who work in charities which deal specifically with issues of rural poverty I’d be grateful for any connections. Not rural homelessness, although I appreciate there’s a crossover. Scoping out a possible follow on to Outsiders focused on this subject.
October 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
If anyone has people in their network who work in charities which deal specifically with issues of rural poverty I’d be grateful for any connections. Not rural homelessness, although I appreciate there’s a crossover. Scoping out a possible follow on to Outsiders focused on this subject.
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To mark its anniversary, we approached the Leeds-based theatre company Slung Low, with Harrison’s encouragement, about organising a live reading in Holbeck Cemetery, the place that inspired ‘v.’
On Sunday 12 October, we invite you to experience ‘v.’ with us:
www.slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi...
On Sunday 12 October, we invite you to experience ‘v.’ with us:
www.slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi...
September 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
To mark its anniversary, we approached the Leeds-based theatre company Slung Low, with Harrison’s encouragement, about organising a live reading in Holbeck Cemetery, the place that inspired ‘v.’
On Sunday 12 October, we invite you to experience ‘v.’ with us:
www.slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi...
On Sunday 12 October, we invite you to experience ‘v.’ with us:
www.slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi...
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Lyme disease is a *massive* and largely unseen problem, especially in areas where deer or feral goats are prevalent.
Please, nature lovers: be tick-aware at all times.
Please, nature lovers: be tick-aware at all times.
This is the story of my daughter Milly and Lyme Disease. There was no rash, no "summer flu", NHS blood tests negative. And she's been ill for a quarter of her life.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Thank you @lymediseaseuk.bsky.social & @lymeresourcecentre.bsky.social for raising UK awareness.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Thank you @lymediseaseuk.bsky.social & @lymeresourcecentre.bsky.social for raising UK awareness.
As my daughter got sicker and sicker, our quest for answers dragged on. How did we all miss the bacteria taking over her body?
I write about nature, but when Milly got sick with a mystery illness, it never occurred to me that a long-forgotten tick bite could be the cause
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September 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Lyme disease is a *massive* and largely unseen problem, especially in areas where deer or feral goats are prevalent.
Please, nature lovers: be tick-aware at all times.
Please, nature lovers: be tick-aware at all times.
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Fungi fun this month at Restoring Hardknott Forest and Nature Rich Miterdale.
@leedsleaf.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social @wildhaweswater.bsky.social
@leedsleaf.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social @wildhaweswater.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Fungi fun this month at Restoring Hardknott Forest and Nature Rich Miterdale.
@leedsleaf.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social @wildhaweswater.bsky.social
@leedsleaf.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social @wildhaweswater.bsky.social
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There's a smaller one top of Blundell St (Baltic)
September 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
There's a smaller one top of Blundell St (Baltic)
After that giant eye I've been reminded that I have a history with advertising and Liverpool. This is from 2015, when half of Lime Street (in the reflection) was for sale and due for demolition. #Liverpool
September 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
After that giant eye I've been reminded that I have a history with advertising and Liverpool. This is from 2015, when half of Lime Street (in the reflection) was for sale and due for demolition. #Liverpool
Photographed earlier tin the summer, this reminded me very much of the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg in The Great Gatsby, only in this case the giant, staring eye welcomes travellers from the train at Lime Street Station. I think it's a cosmetics ad. #Liverpool #BelieveInFilm
September 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Photographed earlier tin the summer, this reminded me very much of the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg in The Great Gatsby, only in this case the giant, staring eye welcomes travellers from the train at Lime Street Station. I think it's a cosmetics ad. #Liverpool #BelieveInFilm
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When best intentions are forgot, and time worn care neglects. The weeds always remember. 9/11 memorial. Padua. #BelieveInFilm #Polaroid
September 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
When best intentions are forgot, and time worn care neglects. The weeds always remember. 9/11 memorial. Padua. #BelieveInFilm #Polaroid
The vintage excavators were moving earth around at the Threlkeld Mining Museum last weekend, and the Lake District fells were quite a setting.
September 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The vintage excavators were moving earth around at the Threlkeld Mining Museum last weekend, and the Lake District fells were quite a setting.
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AND I ONLY AM ESCAPED ALONE TO TELL THEE
September 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
AND I ONLY AM ESCAPED ALONE TO TELL THEE
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'Beautiful moment' as replica of Locomotion No 1 crosses oldest bridge on 200th anniversary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Beautiful moment' as S&DR200 replica crosses Skerne Bridge
Locomotion No 1 is travelling from Shildon to Stockton for a railway's 200th anniversary.
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September 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
'Beautiful moment' as replica of Locomotion No 1 crosses oldest bridge on 200th anniversary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...