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This is not photoshopped. Checking if you're still not getting my notifications. Few and far between these days, but this is pretty funny. https://stephensimac.substack.com/p/bobby-in-the-new-age?utm_source=publication-search

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Have already commented there. The photos have been put through photoshop but whether that means that they’ve been ‘photoshopped’ is another matter (ie totally manipulated).

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Apr 24Liked by Richard Seager

Maybe we are looking at Louis's photo editing work.

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Home alone...

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I am still of the opinion that 'Kate' was added in later. The original photo didn't have her in there.

Timestamps can be easily manipulated.

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Is that barrow they used to bury her?

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Kate has been outed and now admits, ‘I do occasionally experiment with editing’.

Scrutinisers have noticed this appears somewhat more than ‘occasionally’

The question is: why the need to present perfection?

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Apr 24Liked by Richard Seager

I have a tea towel that looks just like Kate's jersey.

Just wrapped some scones in it and annoyed that I have to think of Kate all the time.

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Swap the scones for Anzac biscuits today. I assume you have up since dawn.

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Apr 25Liked by Richard Seager

Had to be scones for lunch as bakery closed for ANZAC.

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But she’s nice. Always smiling.

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She comes with too much back and front story.

I like her just fine but she is exhausting with the latest business.

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I agree, the latest business is not good.

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Apr 24·edited Apr 24Author

No need for perfection. But it does make one wonder how much manipulation is happening if every photo they’ve released is manipulated first. And the odd thing about the above photo is that the metadata indicates that it was manipulated between when it was taken and when it was released (about 24 hours after) but most likely in a different timezone and that timezone being +3 from Greenwich Mean time, probably Turkey rather than Moscow.

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So what is their motivation ?

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Apr 24·edited Apr 24Author

I don’t have an explanation for how the person on that website, probably Turkish or at least based in Turkey (could be Russia), got hold of the photo before it was released.

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I mean one thing that they could have done is changed their time on their computer to bring that date about but personally I feel that’s not very likely.

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Apr 24Liked by Richard Seager

It is more than likely this could be connected to time required for more photoshop ‘editing’. Things don’t always seem as they appear.

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The +3 is probably not something that anyone would have added in. Also it doesn’t show on “show info” so would have been missed I figure. Clearly the person who edited it is in Russia or Turkey or somewhere else that is +3 hours on GMT.

Maybe Kate is in Antalya.

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Apr 24Liked by Richard Seager

Could be code for *Help*.

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Odd indeed!

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