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Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · 17d

I think what's being said is "if we get rid of the coloured folks, we won't see who the racists are, so all will be good in the world".
Is there another planet I can go live on please? This one is full of ignorant people.

Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · 17d

Nail. Hit. Head.

Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · 17d

No surprise there. History lessons are not there to teach actual historical happenings, they're there to prop up the hierarchy. A story must be told and it must serve those in power.

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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 29d

EXCLUSIVE: England’s farms are being fertilised with a cocktail of toxic landfill juice + sewage sludge.

750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms

Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent

www.theguardian.com

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Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Sep 10

At this point in time. Yes. Yes it is.

Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Sep 10

Some more portraits made in a care home at the height of the Covid 19 pandemic.
#portraits #photography #documentary

Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Sep 9

Had a little revisit to some work from a few years back, these were part of a series of portraits of masked care home workers during the covid 19 pandemic.
#portrait #documentary

Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Sep 9

Guess he feels there's some accusations coming his way. Buffoon.

Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Sep 9

I'm not sure if he's nuts or I've gone crazy. Or maybe I'm going to wake up soon and all will be normal.
Please, let me wake up soon.

Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Sep 7

We'll end up with a world even more full of boring homogenised crap. Corporate greyness every where.

Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Sep 7

Kind of worries me really. Tech oligarchs making stuff without relyung on real people.
And beyond that grasp of power, goes the lack of emotion we'll end up with in films. We already see CGI overused & making the feel of a film poor, but to strip out all humanity from acting, not really for that.

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Photojournalism News @pjournalismnews.bsky.social · Sep 2

PBS NEWS: Photojournalist documents arrests outside of immigration hearings www.pbs.org/newshour/sho... @pbsnews.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #photography

Photojournalist documents arrests outside of immigration hearings

As part of President Trump's deportation push, officials have conducted arrests outside courtrooms as people show up for hearings with immigration judges. The detentions have led to sometimes dramatic...

www.pbs.org

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · Sep 1

I'm not sure about the source of this quote, but it sounds about right.

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Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Aug 28

That is a pretty insane number. And people continue to blame the poor and disadvantaged for the ills of the country.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 27

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Aug 23

Stunning place, so lucky to have such beautiful conditions to sail in.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · Aug 21

fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you

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Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Jul 28

You had me at respectable.

Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Jul 23

Indeed. They all got where they're going already 😀

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Alastair Humphreys @alastairhumphreys.bsky.social · Jul 22

The Hudson Bay Girls: Canoeing 1,900km Through the Heart of Canada

The Hudson Bay Girls: Canoeing 1,900km Through the Heart of Canada » Explorersweb

An all-female team is more than a month into a self-supported 1,900km kayaking expedition from Grand Portage on Lake Superior to York Factory on Hudson Bay.

explorersweb.com

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Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Jul 20

It's great following you Andy, so many artists brought to light by your work.

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Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Jul 20

I still look towards the tree as I pass, sometimes I'll pause a moment. To remember someone I never knew.
This unremarkable tree reminds me to take a moment, to see that people are there if we look, if we invite them in.

Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Jul 20

How to break that cycle, to move the boys away from it. To give them a chance.
He hadn't spoken of his troubles to J.
No clue it was coming, left wondering why. Wondering if only..?...

Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Jul 20

He spoke of his best friend who had been gone a year to the day.
Dan had for some reason chosen this unremarkable tree, and had made it remarkable.
He spoke of how Dan had lost his father the same way, and had now left two young sons behind. Generational trauma – that worried J....

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Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Jul 20

I watched his gentleness for some time. After he stood with a glance to the sky, we spoke for a while. He spoke about his hopes for the future, how the park was a nicer place to be in the midst of a pandemic. How he likes to take pictures at work, from the vantage of a cherry picker....

Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Jul 20

It isn't an exotic species. It just sits quietly by the clock on the roundabout being unnoticed.
Back in in 2020 I met J. He was sat quietly by this tree.
He had just laid a flower at its roots, he struggled to light a candle.
Quietly, he shed a tear, only on the inside....

Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Jul 20

J Central Park Plymouth.

There is a tree in the park.

Nothing remarkable really.

It isn't a remarkable tree. You wouldn't pick it for anything. It's not the biggest, it's not very pretty, quite ordinary actually. You wouldn't choose it to build a chair or table, not even for fire wood....

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Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Jul 19

Morning sun on the west side of our alley.
Soon, after 8 years of wandering along this alley we're heading to pastures new. I thought it would be good to take a look at what we leave. Each portal to a different life hidden behind. Each tells its own little story.

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Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Jul 19

Beautiful still life, especially if it is lifting you and others.

Guy Robertson @guyrobertson.bsky.social · Jul 19

In regards to scientific literature the pay walls that are the journals are often an issue to the writers as well. It comes from the old elite system that science is only for the well to do, and not the lay person. The journal system was designed to keep the classes apart.