Tristan Colgate-McFarlane

@tmcfarlane@toot.community
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IT worker (Unix, k8s, Go), but here for art (cartoon, poltiical cartoons, animation, photography).
Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/colgatemcf/
Bloghttps://tcolgate.github.io/
Photographyhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/t_mcfarlane/
GitHubhttps://github.com/tcolgate

An interesting (and terrifying) example of our current and future "media" landscape. It wasn't enough to make information free, we killed the concept of information completely. There is only slop.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq5qqq6gv6yt?post=asset%3A4a6f240f-9557-4b80-870f-262b6debbc60#post

BBC Verify: How a fake news website spread misinformation after Bondi Beach shooting

Latest updates from the BBC's specialists in fact-checking, verifying video and tackling disinformation.

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The annual Private Eye wrap up is always hilarious (in a very British sort of way). The bit about complaints against the BBC from an, ahem... "prominent right wing foreign power" is particularly funny.

https://youtu.be/AQ5Xxj2EwGQ?t=642

Private Eye - The Year In Review 2025

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My J Lane dry plates are currently in Memphis, TN. I can't help but think they are going to be terribly disappointed when they finally arrive in Lewisham.

Trying to keep some #TLRTuesday momentum, this from my #MinoltaAutocord .

#BelieveInFilm

Meet the World’s Largest Instant Camera | Polaroid 20x24

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That Trump guy is a repugnant being.

Street conversation

🧻 FOMA Fomatone MG 131 8x10 in Moersch SE5
🎞️ Kodak Tmax 400 (exp. 2012) in HC-110 1+31
📷 Minox 35ML

#BelieveInFillm
#FilmPhotography
#LithPrint
#DarkRoomPrint
#35mm
#streetPhotography

Posted by someone replying to my glass plate article. Someone's experience with old film packs. Some really lovely photos in luded

https://worldofdecay.blogspot.com/2020/09/testing-gaf-vesapan-45-film-packs-in.html

#BelieveInFilm

Testing GAF Vesapan 4×5" Film Packs in Mississippi: Useful Early 20th Century Film Technology

Looking for other people here who're interested in analog "alt process" photography (especially Kallitype & salt prints in general) and who are also making their own prints. There used to be a few more such people in my TL, but they all seem to have vanished or stopped posting in the past year, and generally it feels there's precious little interest in this topic on Mastodon... (I too have a feeling, either my own photography went drastically downhill over the past 3-4 months or people in my circles are just less and less interested in it, or maybe don't get to see it all... Hello self-doubt! 😩)

Anyhow, if you are interested in these topics, please like or boost so I can follow back! Much appreciated! It's very hard to find peers in such niche topics whilst on a tiny single user instance...

Ps. Also, if not Mastodon, any other communities/forums you might be able to recommend?

#Photography #AltProcess #BlackAndWhite #SaltPrint #PlatinumPrint #GoldPrint #Kallitype #Darkroom #PLPT

Dear Google,
GMail is now solely a medium for storing invoices and getting package tracking links.
It doesn't need AI, and I don't need a walk through of new features. Ever.