Wednesday, June 10, 2026

It Was Never So


This image comes from a 120 year old picture postcard of Halifax, and it is about as fake as any modern AI generated concoction. The colours have been painted in with all the skill of an arthritic canary, and the figures appear to have been randomly stuck on with haste as well as paste. Such images frame our view of the past as a time of clean streets, pretty colours, and blue skies. Beware - it was never so.
 


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