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Cake day: February 6th, 2026

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  • No, “AI” can’t “take a shitty photo I took myself with my phone and make it look professional”. It can maybe make it look less shit, to an untrained eye.

    Getting decent shots taken by someone who knows what they’re doing (regardless of gear, even) is absolutely not the same thing. And that’s before you get to all the environmental and ethics issues around it, so it certainly isn’t “free”.

    I mean, you do you, and if auto-tweaked snapshots serve your purpose, more power to you. But don’t think for a second that you’ve made a photographer superfluous. You weren’t her (or any photographer’s) target group to begin with.



  • There’s rooks, crows and jackdaws around here, and it gets pretty easy to tell them apart. Rooks are slightly bigger than crows and have a thicker, bigger beak (often with the lighter bit near the head). Jackdaws are slightly smaller than crows, and they have this silver-grey top and back of the head

    Anyway, I’m pretty sure I shot a took, here. I’ll see if I can confirm with a colleague, who is a massive birder, but I’m already pretty confident.

    Edit: my confidence was, alas, unfounded, my photo was of a carrion crow.