Grantwrangler in the north of England. Erstwhile evolutionary/systemsy/bioinformaticsy biologist. Retrocomputing, photography, hardware shenanigans. Some political opinionating. I am happy to make silver gelatin prints of any of my own photos that I post on here, just ask if interested.
Welcome to #Manchester @pluralistic, we rolled out a lovely sunset for you yesterday
Don't forget there are still a few tickets to see Cory in conversation with me at Waterstones on deansgate today.
https://www.waterstones.com/events/in-conversation-with-cory-doctorow/manchester-deansgate
Poland, film Kodak Trix, 120, Bronica.
The photo was taken in Swinoujscie in the old military fortress, the so-called Western Fort, which is today a military museum.
#photo #photography #photoart #bw #filmsnotdead #blackandwhite #filmphotography #mediumformat #monochrome #believeinfilm
Omg Led By Donkeys tracked down Michelle Mone's yacht berthed in non Brexit territory south of Barcelona and snuck up and with huge decals renamed it...
"Pandemic Profiteer"
šš If you don't follow Led By Donkeys anywhere, you're missing key boots on the ground work to chase those that should be held accountable.
My day is made.
Find them. Follow them. And if you can, support them.
https://www.ledbydonkeys.org/
Guten Morgen vom Alexanderplatz!
@tapasinthesun thank you!
Playing in the darkroom again, and always reminded that the more I know, the more I realize the less I really know ! This felt like a success! #believeInFilm #analogforever #FilmIsNotDead.
@suzannepedersen is that the beautiful bobbly texture of wet glossy FB paper?
Spare a thought for the essay mills, now they face an existential threat from Chat GPT.
In the Peak District. 6x4.5 FP4 in ID11 1:1 #photomontag #photography #FilmPhotography #BlackAndWhite #AnalogPhotography
A new release for the MIDI to Music 4000 converter firmware. https://github.com/drdpj/MidiKeyboardBluePill/releases - People (not me!) have been fiddling with these to maximum old-synth effect... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBKouowSHc4
@Dr_Aust_PhD Welcome to Mastodon!
I hope you like it here. You might find this tool helpful for finding people you followed on The Other Place
Good blog post on the cause of failures of old #Rifa capacitors. Doesn't change the fact you should change them on-sight, but it's interesting to see why they fail. (spoiler: the plastic case cracks and lets moisture in)
#retrocomputing #electronics #ElectronicsRepair
https://shaunmerrigan.info/electronics/rifa-safety-capacitor-failures/
Tonight I decided to add candy eyes to our chocolate-dipped strawberries, only to learn that when it comes to desserts there is a very, very fine line between āwhimsicalā and ācursedā
If you havenāt already, please follow @auschwitzmuseum. They show the faces and stories behind the monstrous tragedy. It is both heartbreaking and necessary.
