Linking Flickr images look bad on Retina screens?

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I've been browsing a lot of pictures on this forum recently via a retina macbook pro, and noticed that every picture that is embedded via a Flickr image-link looks very very low resolution.

At first I was wondering "why can't anyone focus properly!?" Then I tried to link one of my own images (to demonstrate the sharpness of a lens I was trying to sell) and noticed it looked blurry and nasty.

If you view the image on flickr, it seems fine on its own page (which shows exif, comments etc.), but when viewing all sizes (for example medium/600px/large/1024px or whatever it is) they are very low res.

Is there any way around this? It's a shame to see that the hard work people have gone to in taking and editing images being shown in low-res.
 
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