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  1. Tabloids, Human Writers, and AI Summaries

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    Yesterday I read what some might think is good news. Tabloids in England are firing human writers because Google AI summaries are undercutting human reader traffic to their sites. To this I have two comments.

    Before every newspaper was pay-walled I would browse to The Guardian, the Independent, Le Monde, Le temps, Le Matin, and dozens of other newspapers. With time every one of them brought up a paywall and you might think “They’re right to, they deserve to be paid for the work they do but it’s worth remembering that for over a century, and during our lifetimes you could go to a newspaper stand or magazine shop and buy a newspaper and read all of the day’s stories, or you could buy a magazine and read all of the week’s or months articles. Now you’re expected to pay either for a single article, or per month, or per year.

    In essence we can pay to read a single story but what we’re paying would have bought a newspaper. The web browsing habit that we had, of going to a newspaper and reading articles, and paying through viewing ads is undercut by the paywall.

    It gets worse. We’re browsing the social web, and someone posts an article, we follow it, we accept cookies, and then they say, “oh, and now pay per month or per year” and you think “That’s devious”. You got a click, you got a reader, but you kicked them out within seconds, after you’ve stolen their data.

    With Google News we could browse headlines, click through, and read the article, and then go to another site. That article led to ad views, which led to long tail revenue, which led to income.

    If we see an article from The Times, of England, or Le Temps, or Le Monde, more often than not the article is pay-walled so we don’t click through anymore. Why would we click when we know that we’ll bounce?

    The second comment is that if an article is well written, then AI is redundant, because the first paragraph offers context, and the final paragraph offers the conclusion. Since these are quick and easy to read AI summaries are just doing what has already been done by a human, to begin with.

    The second part to this second comment is that the AI summaries are forced upon us, rather than requested. We search for something, and the first half screen is an AI summary which we skim read by accident. We don’t want that AI summary because we don’t know what the source was but we also don’t want that summary because of the inherent bias that an AI model might add. We know if a newspaper is Right Wing, Left Wing, neutral or other. With AI, in theory we don’t know the bias, but it might know what we think, and write the summary to line up with our prejudice and bias.

    By choosing not to have human writers, some tabloids are giving AI more power than it should have. Journalists study media ethics and law, deontology and more. They also have a moral compass and will fight to expose the truth when they can, and denounce wrong doing when they can.

    AI, as journalist just runs programmed, like Number Five from the film Short Circuit.

    Humans go out and seek information. Ai can’t do original research. If we rely on AI for local journalism, then there is a lot that AI will miss.

    One of the biggest frustrations I face, as a reader of news headlines, blogs and more is clickbait headlines. For a while I really liked looking for content on YouTube until I realised that every headline is clickbait. The same is true of news organisations. Back in the 2000s we’d read a headline, read the first paragraph and continue. Today we read the headline and the headline says “You’ll be astonished to learn that…” or “you’ll never guess why…” These headlines, instead of encouraging us to read an article, frustrate us, and encourage us to give up reading the news.

    For me, the best way to get people to click through, rather than converse with AI about the news, is return to the factual headline that provides people with information, and to stop hiding articles behind paywalls after they have accepted cookies.

    The less you invest in people, the less reason people will have for visiting specific “news” sites, if regional news is not covered.

    #AI #barriers #browsing #paywalls #readership #summaries #tabloids
  2. Question for those currently or recently resident in the UK or otherwise familiar with the UK media:

    - Do social media like Xitter exercise a similar influence on British public opinion to that of tabloids in the 70s, 80s, and 90s?

    #UKPolitics #UKMedia #SocialMedia #Tabloids

    grunge.com/1139419/the-disturb

  3. #Trump #DonaldTrump #Greenland #USA #EU #UnitedStates #Annexation #UK #President #America #Denmark #Danish #Politics #USPoll #News #Metro #Mirror #Newspapers #Republican #Maga #Media #Newspaper #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Mirror #Metro #Tabloids #English
    It’s always fascinating to see how news stories are reported internationally, so for anyone who’s interested, I’ve attached a couple of tomorrow’s tabloids from here in the UK…

  4. 𝗧𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗶𝗱𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗻 '𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗼𝗲𝘀𝘁' 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗸𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼

    Journalisten die schreven voor de Britse uitgever Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) hebben "levens verwoest" door nieuws te maken van informatie die ze op illegale wijze in handen kregen. Dat stelde advocaat David Sherborne maandag in zijn openingswoorden in de rechtszaak tegen de uitgever...

    rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/55564

    #Tabloids #levens #illegaal

  5. LOL the UK tabloids finally got wind of the ship with radioactive containers. (serious situation, but it's not a floating Chernobyl)

    #tabloids #radiation

  6. CW: Not just the bad people - but what the 'good' are not doing - so let's talk (me and you, add more people as we go?)...

    @ScottLucas I'm not sure how to say this, but if you're willing to talk to me then we could set a small example to others and figure some of this out.

    I appreciate this is long...
    But just skimming at first lines of arrowed posts ( ➡️ ) should be enough. The numbered arrowed posts are main points directly numbered below (thanks for trying):

    1➡️ The fact that I've tried with people says a lot about my experience (my whole life trying).

    Way before any type of famous personality on TV or internet (as the new TV internet watching everyone on youtube) I was trying literally like that was my job as a human along side anything I was doing .but also ended up ditching seeing it's falseness or misaligned foundations.

    2➡️ And it means that I feel I can say something based on that #experience as a I had time to re-look each point AND after watching 1000's (my computer can count what I've saved) I think I can give you the specific material to match whatever I'm saying so it's not just "what I am saying" as emotionally encrypted stuff... even though #trust is obviously what we need in life anyway and to allow for imperfect reply.
    But importantly the #sense or #belief (in anything) doesn't seem to be there - which is my main point of all this. No believe, no trust, nothing will make us all bad, imperfect, terrorists that can't learn (and we don't want to teach them or be better in ourselves). And that leaves what we have now as name calling / letting media brand others like poking others with their footage... burning everyone.

    3➡️ Another main point is ANYONE wherever I've been, parents, friends, years on #fediverse (as my account shows trying) proves talking to people is IMPOSSIBLE - like near-0 apart from :oh that's nice". Beyond the first one or two DM's - then nothing.
    Even those that say "oh but I prefer in person" don't actually do it on asking / seeing / watching. NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
    Actually just not 'good' as a definition and could be "labelled" (without looking down on everyone) as #IRRESPONSIBLE.

    Now it's easy to 'blame' online for people being worried to communicate but even about what they love to do it's only aesthetics / less challenging stuff.
    Almost STILL in the playing online games / fiddling with #Tech phase of adolescent life... (not writing off all #Techies but #communication and #human #focus is tough with these types which I think many are as #Playstation #generation 🎮 :playstation: :linux: ).

    Just endless playing eventually leads into the mess too left by those companies while adult people are playing #Army #FPS games #Counterstrike and thir kids too...

    Better the tech world was about the ability help people communicate but that's not enough to get them to actually communicate about important things in a better non-combative way.

    Can we help the world communicate intentions and manage their time 'a bit' better by playing a newer game of "relativity" and "reationships" to real world?

    We've already achieved now in tech - not much more needed with all sorts of media and chat possible... now need to actually do human improvement work online and practice humanism, even with the Tech / Techies / Adult kids!

    In my whole life I've been trying with a long list or 'everyone' and IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME EXCUSES OR SILENCE.

    ➡️ And it's not something that will magically change as it needs to 'build' or 'grow' AS PEOPLE! (literally grow sense).

    Developing people, not just #technology!

    ❓ ➡️ So without #antagonism or support of any big celeb - do you want to continue talking about it? ❓ ⬅️

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    PLEASE REPLY.

    Otherwise it's the same CONSISTENT PROBLEM JUST PEOPLE ARE SO FULL OF EXCUSES (not planning time to talk, shying away) to the extent they leave it all to get to shit, almost like driving a car every day and see the repairs needed and even obviously half-broken wheel, only to say "hmm not now, later" constantly AND never planning to talk or think about repair.

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    OK AGAIN NO NEED READ MORE IF YOU CAN'T -

    Appreciate it's long and cups of tea... but try quick reply and then adding as you. Don't mind if you delete and re-draft later... I'm forgiving.
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    But just skimming at first lines of arrowed posts ( ➡️ ) should be enough. The numbered arrowed posts are main points directly numbered below (thanks for trying):

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    No reply means it will not get better like this AND ALMOST SHOULDN'T !
    Shirkers (not you but those that almost professionally doing it or blaming their #workaholism) and #silent people also build the nothing (or less than nothing while others dig into us.)

    #Workaholic work is not work when their is no balance in their life (or participating in others like my life claiming people to be #independent when they rely on State Banks Supermarkets mainly and even that is going to shit)

    ❓ ➡️I saw somewhere SILENCE IS VIOLENCE and not I believe it - not just in the emotional context of #war or to force people to think like me - it just is when it gets to that level turning away from truth to that extent and leaving the door open / seeing bad people and do near-0 about it. That's almost as bad as those that know they do bad AND announce it (whether they do it or not but at least say their intentions). #SILENCEISVIOLENCE

    ➡️ So that is the problem and what we can do... by accepting I and others have said to our parents, professors, laid it out, explained the underlying evil / work of banks and state funding #war etc etc and not getting anything back - so we have to accept #DIY (again with proof of work not just racist claims or fear only) and help each other OUT OF IT NOTHINGNESS or #EVIL / bad intentions currently under-pinning life and even as our platform for living as part of their pyramid (you and me included ad why people often won't talk - so more anonymous talk is important for that to collect all the points / balance better / prepare answers).

    Even when my parents or others agreed about banks etc - they have not wanted to continue to do anything or slowly integrate telling themselves more or tell their children how the whole 'system' is to #cheat them, #devalue them / #inflate costs and make their future more expensive which drives everyone crazy (ier)... not just the crazy I could see happening / underpinning what parents thought was ok to grow people up on (intensive us of energy / gas from #Russia or whichever Super-Power you can't trust, not accepting bad loops at home or at work etc etc). If you look at the chickens and living conditions - it's much the same - even without pushing anyone to be vegetarian bit more. But #animalcruelty is not much different now to our model of packed places treading on top of each other.

    ➡️ I think the public you might point to has realised that accepting to talk to ANYONE that can actually talk and present facts is "better" (in some way better than nothing) because getting 0 or even -100% from #State and #Banks are not making the minimums for life AT ALL.

    So some speakers at least JUST START PEOPLE OFF on the ladder of some understanding and decent media and THIS was my main point of writing - at least they reply, can point to real things, see the towns becoming all the same monotony / dominated blandness lacking our individuality (and even take overs of various kind from cultures also they don't understand and worship different things on top of that).

    Not that people know their own bibles or bloody trails of conquest - but still the blandness regardless would be reason enough for all of us to be so depressed and hating each other instead of possibly another bible.

    The logical and debate where a person can decide for themselves - that is the best bet we have and can achieve it - almost like the time they spend already but better. I can help with this - and think this post and others will improve that.

    In order to #unite anything they need to unit themselves as individuals. And right now I see a bunch of kids in adult bodies almost which I can't label anything other than very unfinished.

    #Humanity and #Humanism is broke down because you (personal / plural) didn't want to do ANYTHING or even accept and continue with people like me that have PLENTY OF TIME to do the work for you and get you going in whatever you want, knowing I still I won't hate you at the end. I mean what else as safe?

    We must integrate life into our daily life AND work (eventually don't go without a plan) to change the current "I'm too busy" excuses (covering the other excuses of will-power / lack of how) towards "I / we're working on it or going to do that / are just waiting for a few more"

    and then "slowly but surely" all balances any existing extreme out. All of it,

    ➡️ Thinking state is going to give you time, give you chance to solve things it's creating badly, thinking it will show people hope is by-design wrong and shooting for the moon wasting time,

    ➡️ Instead digging and trying to grow something is a chance and practice worth doing (new generations are forgetting this) so talking to people grows them despite the "old world" style of mentality / ego /authority that exist in almost everyone / everywhere which I hope to bring out naturally and iron out nicely with them seeing it once laid out #nicely....

    So the numbered points are what I wanted to make say in existing people who are by default non-existent / nearly non-humans in terms of daily tweaking / repair of life / practising / making it better in just themselves... and then those further away I've been looking at all my life (all of youtube, documentaries etc) can show that those how to #speak SO THEN we have *some* logic will 'win' together *even if* they don't want to solve the world

    Right now the rest can't even sort it out on a individual level or together coherently. MANY times with even the best, if I talk to them long enough they can't admit (despite agreeing) or get to the Hitler sounding responses, get too personal as competition, or can't resolve things as "it was deliberate and I just hav eto clear it up" - they can't accept.

    They can say as answer "oh but I have to eat, banks are ok, it's not my job.... etc..." without reducing their spend or spending on the bad things supermakets - they want it all - even the bad - unless you bring the child that made the garment right there in front of them instead of sewing and keeping old things... "Na throw it" (throw life away basically).

    I have all the excuses written down lol.... so I'm not surprised.

    I appreciate this is long...
    But even skimming or looking at first lines of arrowed posts ( ➡️ ) should be enough.

    ➡️ Bad people win by default of people not doing good. And even some do nothing and slam EVERY SINGLE PERSON for trying. I can attest to that.

    It's not what the bad people do only, it's what the good don't do.

    And by "good" I mean the level of good we are not at currently in thinking talking more though some have it online as more of a complete / improved person as much as they can.

    ❓ SO WHAT AM I ASKING ❓

    ➡️ The forever work is probably me and you talking... forever about it.

    Until others can come out of their self-restrictions and adjust / forgive / get up to speed with EVERYTHING. We do it and then snowball... we see all these #famous people do it but we without big #political agendas.

    Calling people names is not enough not to beleive parts of what the saying clearly happening to all of our towns and streets (just the blandness / poor investments / tyranny).

    Now with people relying on #State and #Banks as the default we can say NO THAT IS 100% ROAD TO HELL. pROVEN.

    Mainstream media / youtube are also skewing things (getting better and sometimes worse) BUT I, you and others have enough examples to pick and chose and fall into #shitshow piss-takes of it all. Not evolve into hating it all and then it's rug pulls (usually #financially / from #taxes #paying themselves for the 'help' or any solution back paying just the admin to do little more than nothing).

    ➡️ We simply have to do the homework and trust people like you and me IF they can do proof of work (like the video timepoints referring to what was really said and exact #racist words... not daily mail / sun #newspaper #tabloids which then pay these individuals in court after false rape charges and a whole shit of alleged / label calling shenanigans). It's a #shitshow all round - if you're willing to do the life-long-work slowly then you're reply anything. All people are being jailed for nothing as tweets or standing up for themselves (not only the usual suspects or groups) so we know something is up trying to hide what we know now. STATE AND BANKS DON'T CARE!!! Sorry we just have to eat that betrayal and see most of work was diverted in $HIT.

    ➡️ But believing in a fellow human being is actually all but gone so I see that as first things to 'grow' and build - as all the hating (evident from the other hashtags) are NOT the way to build.

    If people put all that hating energy and time into building themselves and others (even writing crap to me) they would get a lot further but they don't want the challenge or to be challenged. So hating it is and playing into the worse of all these the #State and #Bank part of the #cruelest people underpinning all this and #cruelty as a #system.

    I believe I can literally fix 'it' because I have made time and can do it - and everyone can do something (once they find it in themselves or let others push them to do 'something' and let all our goodness come to surface knowing from this point it takes a while to reach positives / clear out every single negative point together and make it easier for others.)

    Enough said. Please reply.
    Anything for now. but continue...

  7. Does all this seem fair to you? Does it seem in the interests of the Country, or the in the interests of the Elite who want to keep government out of the hands of anybody who didn't go to the RIGHT schools.

    The classism in this country is so ingrained people don't see it, they just tug their forelocks and go where-ever the Right Wing press tells them....

    James O'Brien went to the RIGHT schools.

    #UKPress #Journalism #AngelaRayner #Labour #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Tabloids #Classism #Misogyny

  8. It's the end of an era as celebrity tabloids and lifestyle magazines In Touch, Life & Style, Closer and First for Women will cease publication at the end of June, with their entire staffs laid off.

    #InTouch #LifeAndStyle #Closer #FirstForWomen #Magazines #Tabloids #Entertainment

  9. #NewsCorp [#NewsCorpse] no longer has the power to sway voters.

    In 2022 NewsCorp #tabloids went all out with copy that read like political advertising – in particular attacking #MoniqueRyan & other #Teal candidates. Yet look at the results & again this time round, in the contest just ended.

    Too much listening to & engagement with #SkyNews #AfterDark, & the #Marksons & #Credlins of the world, is a reason why the Libs are so manifestly out of touch. #auspol #ausvotes

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  10. #Truth This guy is spot on! White House website uses blogs and websites co funded by fucker #Carlson & #Tabloids as its sources for it's lies.

    PANICKED White House destroys ...

  11. 📽️🎬 Oh, Hollywood drama! A director claims to have been beaten and detained, but don't worry, folks—activist groups and #tabloids are on the case! Who knew #filmmaking came with a side of international espionage? 🙄💥
    hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m #HollywoodDrama #Activism #InternationalEspionage #DramaAlert #HackerNews #ngated

  12. "JFK Filmed His Own Death!" 😳😅😁

    This headline is giving maga conspiracy theory energy. I used to ask if people were really this gullible. Not anymore.🙄

    #tabloids #JFK #ConspiracyTheories #ConspiracyTheory #news #rag #NewsRag #dumb #TheGlobe #ignorance #lol #funny #Kennedy #propaganda

  13. Can we have more like this please?

    Research collective reveal ties between extreme right wing movements in Denmark and a major right-wing tabloid.

    This is "BT" the rabble-oriented yellow-press version of pretend-respectable Berlingske Tidende.

    Source in Danish.

    redox.dk/nyheder/ikke-bare-bor

    #fightFascism #tabloids #rightwingExtremists
    #rightwingers

  14. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘂𝘁 𝗞𝗵𝗹𝗼é 𝗞𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝗸𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃é-𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲 𝗮𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗶𝗱𝘀

    In een interview met 'Bustle', een Amerikaans online magazine dat zich richt op jonge vrouwen, is Khloé Kardashian (40) openhartig over een heftige periode. De realityster worstelde met angsten en besprak die met haar therapeut, die Khloés zielenroerselen vervolgens deelde met...

    rtl.nl/boulevard/entertainment

    #KhloéKardashian #therapeut #tabloids

  15. "A drugs company first trademarked the word "tabloid" in 1884. A portmanteau of “tablet” and “alkaloid”, denoted drugs in tablet form but quickly assumed a broader meaning: “anything compressed or concentrated for easy assimilation”. That also describes what has come to be known as tabloid journalism: brief sentences, punchy (and often incendiary) headlines, short articles, famous subjects."

    economist.com/culture/2024/09/

    #TheEconomist #tabloids

  16. Hey, it's happening this evening, Nov 21. Please join us at Goldsmiths, University of London Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies and our author, senior lecturer Terry Kirby & Ian Burrell to discuss how #tabloids changed #journalism, politics, society, culture...the very world we live in. Reception to follow. All are welcome. Details 👇🏽 gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=15211

  17. Join us...what's not to like? At Goldsmiths, University of London, we'll be talking #tabloids, #journalism #society #culture. Everyone welcome. Nov 21 from 5.30 pm. Details below & here: gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=15211

  18. Join us at Goldsmiths, University of London Department of Media, Communications & Cultural Studies and our author, senior lecturer Terry Kirby & media writer Ian Burrell, to discuss how #tabloids changed #journalism, politics, society, culture...the very world we live in. Thurs, Nov 21. Reception to follow. Details 👇🏽
    gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=15211

  19. 19th century wild man tabloid newspaper reports turned in modern tabloid Bigfoot stories. #bigfoot #tabloids #wildman youtu.be/m5fKdH9Mpv0?si=j4-LBv

  20. PSA: the Epoch Times is a far-right tabloid posing as news. Apparently they're sending it to people without consent because one showed up at my house. I think they're doing it to manipulate voters.

    #EpochTimes #FarRight #tabloids #2024Election #US #TheEpochTimes

  21. During the '90s, I cut up Tabloids, glued the headlines to poster board, and made personal post cards to send to friends. #crafts #artsandcrafts #postcards #usmail #tabloids #tabloidheadlines #greetings

  22. In the Summer of 1990. I cut up several tabloids and pasted articles on poster board to make personalized post cards to send to friends. #crafts #artsandcrafts #postcards #tabloids #artprojects #postalservice #elmersglue

  23. I made postcards during the 1990s, by pasting headlines from tabloids on poster board, and mailing them to friends. #postcards #tabloids #1990s #nationalenquirer #weeklyworldnews #newsoftheworld

  24. I utterly fail to see how a BBC commentator cheating on his wife has anything whatever to do with his employer.

    It is of relevance to his wife but for the rest of us, to quote Walz "mind your own damned business."

    Busybodies abound in England. Prurience is a national sickness.

    #tabloids #outrageporn

  25. This "news" is circulating pretty much in the ponds of the Daily Fail and other yellow journalism, and that of the NCR and other hard theistic outlets.
    And in suspicious timing, they've also almost simultaneously "broken" "news" of David Rolfe's supposed Shroud-based conversion.
    youtube.com/watch?v=XHgqkP-Nws

    #ShroudOfTurin #Jesus #relics #Catholic #Christianity #research #retracted #tabloids #hereWeGoAgain

  26. We need to normalize calling the #opinions section of any #newspaper "tabloids".

    If someone posts the latest political opinion from a big paper, they should get a dozen replies asking them incredulously why they're reading the #tabloids.

    If you share an opinion piece, society should treat you like you just announced that you watch TMZ.

  27. Anne Applebaum: Readers Don’t Trust Dirty Tricks: What worked for British #tabloids won’t work for The Washington Post.

    "Facing a newsroom revolt, Winnett on Friday resigned from the Post editorship. Back in London, some of his British colleagues rallied to his defense in an amusingly partisan manner. The #Murdoch-owned Times wrote an article about Winnett that made a glancing reference to the money-for-data and other ethics stories that had roiled the Post newsroom, focusing instead on a claim that the “staff revolt” against Winnett had begun when he “pointed out errors in the newspaper’s coverage of the war in Gaza.” In The Sunday Times, Gerard Baker, a former editor of The Wall Street Journal, dismissed the “sanctimonious” Post reporters and called the newspaper “a reliable mouthpiece for left-wing, woke, progressive ideology”—language that could just as easily have been used by Sean Hannity."

    #williamlewis #washingtonpost
    theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

  28. Good morning. 🕊️🕊️🕊️

    6 June 2024

    I'm continuously amazed at what some things are that some people find reasonable. For example, when I was at work a couple of years ago, I found a copy of the tabloid Enquirer on a table, and I picked it up and made a joke by holding it up and saying, "here's the real news while laughing," because tabloids generally are outrageous. Well, my boss, an otherwise smart guy took offense. That is when I realized that he probably brought in into the office. My thoughts were "oh my god, he can't possible think that tabloid is a dependable news source." In that way, people are like books in that you can't tell a book by its cover. You can never tell what lurks underneath that distinguished exterior.

    "People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to." - Jerry Seinfeld

    #photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #birdphotography #morning #tabloids #pigeons #doves #RockPigeons

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