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The people photographer, working with the world's most interesting humans, dogs and brands. A graceful and melodious ape. paulclarke.com (📷 Siobhan Hennessy). Bizarrely fascinated by online identity and trust.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 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.

Five aircraft from the Royal Air Force display team, The Red Arrows, in formation towards the centre of the frame. The whole sky around them is a mess of red white and blue vapour trails from the earlier parts of their routine.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 1h

looks pretty good to me

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Documentally @documental.ly · 14h

Morning!

A dog nose is visible and shot sniffing a fly agaric mushroom

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 15h

Badenoch wants to eliminate ‘rip off degrees’ like English. The usual philistine crap that a degree is just about work. The mission to create the stupidest nation on earth. And counterproductive. Young people will work for years. They’ll retrain endlessly. A degree can help them learn how to learn

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 16h

I'm talking about bicycle thefts, the point under discussion. The bike is there, or it isn't. When this happened to my motorbike earlier in the year it took under one minute for me and my neighbour with a camera to find the point of disappearance in an 8 hour window.

Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 1d

Also see my other reply. There *is* some weird requirement here, I think, it just wasn't explored by the interviewer

Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 1d

But that's not what he said

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 1d

IIRC there's some weird legislative requirement being adhered to here, but the interviewer really missed some obvious probing to draw it out

Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 1d

This is a @jamesrball.com point, but this lunatic on the radio is saying it takes ten hours of CCTV watching to find the point at which a crime happened. Could someone show him (the copper, not James) it's possible to move to different points, and what "binary search" means? #r4today

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 2d

this one did me in: 15 years ago in the The Strand

Two young men, one wearing a sleeping bag, playing chess on the pavement: Strand, London. A third man is watching intently.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 2d

Text description: Brick Lane, east London. In the foreground a chess master has a three-board set-up. He is sitting in a worn, bright red, upholstered office chair, and is wearing a dark beret and smoking a fat cigar. A diverse group of onlookers are watching a challenger in smart coat and cap.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 2d

This is lovely and would also cause the average American progressive's head to melt.

Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 2d

One of my favourite London street scenes. There's a lot going on here.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 2d

One of my favourite London street scenes. There's a lot going on here.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 3d

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 3d

Great post. You should all read it. Especially if you thought the Patricia Routledge 'life thoughts' piece was cute. shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10...

You did no fact checking, and I must scream

I'm neither a journalist nor a professional fact checker but, the thing is, it's has never been easier to check basic facts. Yeah, sure, there's a world of misinformation out there, but it doesn't tak...

shkspr.mobi

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 3d

Oh lord

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Trubs @trubshaw.bsky.social · 5d

Pink smoke over Lambeth Palace. 36% of the General Synod faint over their All Bran. Queen Camilla smirks and lights a fag. A leviathan is seen in the Thames.

*Shania voice* "Let's go gurls..." www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...

Dame Sarah Mullally becomes first woman Archbishop of Canterbury in Church of England's history

Mullally, 63, has served as Bishop of London for more than seven years and is a former nurse.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 4d

oh it still exists, and used to be fairly dependable mid-price, mid-quality, but seems to have gone to complete shit

Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 4d

Wagamama has gone, hasn't it? Totally lost it.

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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 5d

It’s also beyond insane that the Independent are quoting ChatGPT slop from a completely random blog that went viral, including factual errors about her life, and pretending that Routledge wrote it.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 5d

Dame Patricia Routledge’s poignant last message on ageing and finding herself

‘Let these years ahead be your treasure years,’ said actor in a moving reflection on her life

www.independent.co.uk

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 5d

God I knew this shit would resurface

Terence Eden @edent.tel · 5d

This isn't true.

Patricia Routledge was 60, not 50 when she did keeping up appearances.

She also hadn't done Shakespeare on stage recently.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrici...

Oh, and 17 February 2024 - her 95th birthday - wasn't a Monday, it was a Saturday.

Stopping misinformation starts with you!

Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 5d

It's entirely undermined any confidence I had in you

Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 6d

One way or another

Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 6d

An excellent dinner companion tonight: conversation across a huge range of interests and domains, and (after a quick peek at Wikipedia) the fact that "...is a skydiver who has completed nearly 1,500 jumps" didn't even crop up once. Which I think is the coolest I've seen someone be in a long time.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 6d

How many red flags?

Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 6d

Hmmm. This is old, but probably not much changed. A possible example of the thing I wrote about recently in relation to identity: designing from a view of comfortable compliance, not the actual reality?

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