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JamHig
@jamhig.bsky.social
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I am a photographer, director and documentary filmmaker.
Urban Gardener. Conservationist
Plants. Nature. Community.
Was https://x.com/jamhig at the other place. https://vimeo.com/jameshiggins
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davidbflower.bsky.social
This morning's Partial Solar Eclipse. 1049UT 29 March 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
The Sun slightly covered by the Moon with clouds in foreground.
March 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
jamhig.bsky.social
Explains a lot. They were bonkers to let the cameras in to defend the indefensible. A real shitshow despite the attempted PR spin....

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Thames Water: Inside the Crisis - Series 1: Episode 1
With exclusive access inside Thames Water, this is the story of Britain’s most beleaguered water company as it battles for survival.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
jamhig.bsky.social
It’s up to us all to continue to share #MakeItFair & #PayTheCreator for a sustainable creative future:
directors-uk.bsky.social Directors UK @directors-uk.bsky.social · Feb 25
AI is here, and directors need protection for their copyright and transparency around how their work is being used.

We’re calling on directors and artists across the industry to write to their MP, and ask them to protect creative talent.

Find out more here: newsmediauk.org/make-it-fair/
Make it fair. The letters "AI" are highlighted.
February 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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holdernesseu.bsky.social
Freelance Mar25: Copyright wins a wave of support

www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2503ai.html
Copyright wins a wave of support
strange bedfellows - and supplementary weirdness
www.londonfreelance.org
February 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
jamhig.bsky.social
Short & sweet. The @theguardian.com board (should) send their apologies for their shoddy Observer behaviour. See you on the other side Jay. (@financialtimes.com)
jayrayner1.bsky.social Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · Feb 20
I have three reviews to go for the Obs but today, after 180 of them, is my last column for OFM. So I thought I’d summarise my searing advice from the last 15 years: the wisdom, the provocations and the occasional stupidities. Enjoy. Or grind your teeth. Your call

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...
This is my final OFM column. Here’s what I’ve learned about buffets, ‘clean eating’ and what not to serve food on | Jay Rayner
Much has changed in the food world but there are a few truths that still hold
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
jamhig.bsky.social
Nice Herr
February 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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electionmaps.uk
Foreign Leader Favourability Ratings amongst British Voters:

🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Favourable: 64%
Unfavourable: 16%
NET: +48%

🇺🇸 Donald Trump
Favourable: 22%
Unfavourable: 73%
NET: -51%

🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin
Favourable: 4%
Unfavourable: 89%
NET: -85%

Via @YouGov, 16-17 Feb.
February 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
jamhig.bsky.social
Here @henrydimbleby.bsky.social explains how the new land use framework could be brilliantly transformative for England. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
That new land use policy that the Tories call ‘national suicide’? It’s urgent, essential – and their idea | Henry Dimbleby
No, it isn’t a leftwing plot, it’s a proposal I authored for the Conservatives in 2021. And it could be brilliantly transformative for England, says Henry Dimbleby, managing partner of Bramble Partner...
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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pilitaclark.bsky.social
The gap between climate risk and response has never been wider than it is today on.ft.com/3COob0Y
The great climate disconnect
[FREE TO READ] New attempts to prolong the fossil fuel era have come at precisely the wrong time
on.ft.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
jamhig.bsky.social
Fellow creators and creatives. You have until 25th Feb to write to your MP & tell the government that handing unchecked power to AI corporates will destroy many livehoods without creating any of the growth you desperately crave….
February 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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alcs.co.uk
Baroness Kidron likens the Government proposals requiring creators to opt their works out of AI training to "a corner shop from which you can steal, unless they post a message saying you must not."

www.thebookseller.com/comment/a-cr...
A crossroads for copyright
The government’s consultation on AI is economically and strategically disastrous, and we must fight back.
www.thebookseller.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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chrisbaraniuk.com
What a chart. Source: energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/s...
waiterich.bsky.social Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · Feb 4
An acre of land can power a car to go 13,000 miles per year using biofuel (corn ethanol), or 900,000 miles per year using solar.
February 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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directors-uk.bsky.social
Published today, @filmtvcharity.bsky.social 2024 Looking Glass Report shows that mental health in film, TV, and cinema is getting worse - despite some positive shifts in working culture.​ This is our response to the findings.

Read the full report here: filmtvcharity.org.uk/research-imp...
Graphic reads: Poor mental health has for too long been accepted as the price that has to be paid to get TV programmes and films made. The findings of this report are not surprising, but they are horrific. With 30% of respondees reporting having thoughts of taking their own lives in the past 12 months, how is it not the single most important priority for this industry to improve the conditions that feed poor mental health? This survey shows that when employers use the best practice in the FTVC Whole Picture Toolkit, there are demonstrably better outcomes for the mental health of the workers on those productions. This proves that mentally healthy productions are truly within the employers' power to control.
February 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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guyshrubsole.bsky.social
3/ Delighted to see the Govt's Land Use consultation state that "land ownership in England is highly concentrated", and proposes opening up the Land Registry by "making more data free to access" & "increase transparency of land and property data". Yes!
January 31, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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guyshrubsole.bsky.social
2/ Land use consultation reiterates govt's commitment to meeting 30x30 (protecting 30% of England's land for nature by 2030) - we are well off-track meeting this

So consultation asks what new policies are needed, particularly about giving new powers & funds to National Parks & National Landscapes:
January 31, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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guyshrubsole.bsky.social
Been reading through the Government's new Land Use Consultation. Here's the juiciest bits I've seen so far!

An excellent, bold proposal to spare 9% of England's least-productive land for nature & carbon - restoring peat bogs & regenerating woods - & changes to ag land use over a further 10% /1
January 31, 2025 at 11:36 AM
jamhig.bsky.social
The @thetimes.com and @inews.co.uk
both offering articles supporting the shoddy fire sale of Britain's oldest Sunday paper @savetheobs.bsky.social by @theguardian.com board.
The first seems inaccurate, the second *unbalanced* at best.
I'm sure it's a coincidence....
savetheobs.bsky.social Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · Jan 23
While we’re at it, the I paper is also leaving standards at the door. The writer of this comment piece fails to declare that (a) James Harding gave her job as editor of the Today programme and (b) her husband is partner at Brunswick PR - a biz partner of Tortoise Media. 🙄 inews.co.uk/opinion/obse...
The Observer sale is good news - time to embrace the future
Journalists are bad at change, and mostly terrible at business
inews.co.uk
January 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
jamhig.bsky.social
The @thetimes.com and @inews.co.uk
both offering articles supporting the shoddy fire sale of Britain's oldest Sunday paper @savetheobs.bsky.social by @theguardian.com board.
The first seems inaccurate, the second *unbalanced* at best:
savetheobs.bsky.social Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · Jan 23
Wow. This article claiming journalists ‘voted through the sale of the Observer’ is completely inaccurate. Simply untrue. The journalists voted for a mitigation package giving better terms. The deal was signed before Christmas against the wishes of G&O journalists.🧵
www.thetimes.com/article/0108...
Guardian journalists vote for sale of Observer to Tortoise Media
Members of the National Union of Journalists back deal to sell Sunday newspaper after management concessions
www.thetimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
jamhig.bsky.social
This spoilt the good vs evil/team player slant to the faithfuls in #TheTraitors Just an incentive to be greedy at the end now!
caitlinlogan.bsky.social Caitlin @caitlinlogan.bsky.social · Jan 24
The thing I don’t like about #TheTraitors players not finding out who is/isn’t a traitor in the finale banishments is that it very much lends itself to a 2-person “end game” because the suspicion will always be there. I feel this gives faithfuls a good cover for simply wanting more of the money.
January 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
jamhig.bsky.social
Has anyone got Fergal Sharkey’s number? He’s late for his @bsky.app transfer! #ThamesWater seem very close to going under & if the government don’t pull their finger out we will all be bailing out the sewage merchants.
January 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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rspb.bsky.social
The big weekend has arrived! 🐦

What would you add to the #BigGardenBirdwatch starter pack...
A collage-style image titled "Big Garden Birdwatch Starter Pack," featuring various humorous and relatable items associated with birdwatching. Items include a cabbage-shaped teapot with a plate of chocolate biscuits, a black cap with a bird logo, pink binoculars, and a T-shirt that says "Pigeon Appreciator" with an image of pigeons. There's also a text conversation with messages like "Big Garden Birdwatch 👀" and a search bar with the query "can robins hear my thoughts???" A set of bird identification cards, a notebook, and framed photos of Big Bird and David Attenborough complete the pack.
January 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
jamhig.bsky.social
Rupert’s not normal:
arusbridger.bsky.social Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · Jan 23
Rupert Murdoch has now spent around £2bn in keeping the truth about the way his news organisations operate out of the courts in the UK and US. Please don’t shrug and say it’s normal. It’s not. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
January 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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bylinetimes.bsky.social
Full statement by Lord Watson and Prince Harry outside the court today
January 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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bylinetimes.bsky.social
Here’s the full apology by Murdoch’s NGN to the Duke of Sussex Prince Harry and Lord Tom Watson read out in court
January 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
jamhig.bsky.social
Despite ‪the shoddy behaviour of the @washingtonpost.com I don't think the talented @anntelnaes.bsky.social needs to worry about work offers. An update:
January 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM