Tristan Colgate-McFarlane

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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/
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GitHubhttps://github.com/tcolgate
@Moaske the most important thing to remember is... put all your hashtags on a single line on its own, at the end of the post. That way they'll appear under the photo with a "more"... button to expand the list.
@Moaske I use BelieveInFilm on most thing. LargeFormat and HalfFrameClub when relevant (the former, while not super active, is very engaged for question and chat). Then I use camera, film and developer specific tags.

I confused myself and accidentally ran nearly 2k extra today. Funniest thing is that I did it at the higher end of my usual pace.

#running

Absolutely brilliant stuff from Morten Morland

#UKpol

Remains one of favourite lines in cinema. Not sure why, but I think it's a "zero fat joke" (from Best In Show)
@Aaron_Davis short of a major political outrage (the press loves manufacturing a scandal, so you never know), we're not changing govt for another 3 years
Who knows though!? They tried it on Rayner , and lordy does the press like to harass a woman, so if she gets in we can expect every over due library book of her youth to make the front page of the Torygraph. Burnham and Streeting likewise.
Ultimately I'm just a scared beardy old git that is up for change, but not chaos.
@PabloMartini We are shocked to discover that Johnny Foreigner can educate their children and actually do the r&d for the thing you outsourced while we sit around and forget everything while paying others.
Shocker, productivity go down when you stop producing things, and pretending the service sector counts is an accounting scam that doesn't last long.
@PabloMartini right! I grew up watching Tomorrow's World. Towards the end there were always bits on UK renewables. I vaguely recall several big news items about that IoW site. Then I blinked and it was all gone.
It feels like we massively undervalued the reciprocal relationship of on shore manufacturing and r&d, let alone the jobs that came with it. It's as if you can really only do r&d for industries you off shores for about a decade.
@ChrisMayLA6 @SusiArnott it should be, but we *had* a green energy sector. We were quite big on building turbines and researching tidal etc. in the 80s and 90s
Once it came down to actually manufacturing things we just sort of seemed to give up. Apparently we just want financial services that employ a few thousand people.
@ChrisMayLA6 @SusiArnott the foundations of our modern university sector were built on thriving industries that needed that research. Industries we've sold off.
What is left is essentially education tourism. Great for wealthy foreign student (for now), but not doing much for the domestic students that leave and enter markets that don't need them.
There's no appetite for reindustrialisation, so stagnation seems inevitable?