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Tom Newby

@tomnewby.co.uk

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Structural engineer. Emergency shelter specialist & ex-humanitarian aidworker. Interested in good people-centred design, equity & (climate) justice. Currently working on the unusual combination of social housing and stadiums in the UK.

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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · Oct 6

Built Environment starter pack, now with new accounts added, including @barnabascalder.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/KfrbNPF

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 18h

Many displaced Gazans (90% of the population) "will find fields of rubble where their homes once stood."

No, almost all of them will find rubble. 92% of residential buildings have been destroyed, 88% of commercial buildings. 62% of people have lost their property documentation, back to the Nakba

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 17h

📢 Breaking: The Foreign Press Association has renewed its call for immediate press access to Gaza. In a statement issued October 10, the FPA urged Israel to open the borders without delay. It reads in full:

“The FPA welcomes the agreement between the warring parties on a ceasefire in Gaza...

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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 18h

All of them are batshit crazy.

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 1d

The version that will get its plates into and out of a locked state on its own is here:

Tectonic Explorer

tectonic-explorer.concord.org

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 1d

Not as fun as the older version where you could not impose a force and subduction would self-initiate eventually, but still interesting....

Tectonic Explorer

tectonic-explorer.concord.org

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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 1d

Philippines rocked by damaging 7.6-magnitude earthquake

Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said authorities were assessing the situation on the ground and search and rescue efforts were being prepared

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 9d

Labour has a chance now to turn a corner and win support from people who want it to succeed. Or it can continue with this type of vicious populist filth and alienate everyone. It's your call guys.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 9d

So if I’ve grasped the galaxy-brained strategy here, it’s:
✅ Day 1: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 2: tell target voters their ideas are racist
✅ Day 3: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 10d

Another video of Cebu quake

Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 10d

Video of Cebu quake

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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 10d

Big Philippines earthquake

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 11d

This means that it is now Labour’s official position that Israel is committing genocide.

While at the same time, the Labour government continues to arm that genocide

Absolutely extraordinary!

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 11d

Brave man.

But look at the degrading farce Yvette Cooper has made of our police and our law.

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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 11d

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr

Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.

And you're cutting... the sleeper?

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts

Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 11d

‘His buildings were always ready for their closeup’: how Terry Farrell’s postmodern exuberance conquered the world

From the ziggurats of the MI6 HQ to TV-am’s eggcups and a Hong Kong tower that featured on a banknote, Farrell strived to make uplifting architecture

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 11d

‘Nonconformist’ architect of MI6 building Terry Farrell dies aged 87

Farrell was a key member of the hi-tech movement of the 1980s and 90s, with buildings including the TV-am studios and Embankment Place in London, and the Deep in Hull

www.theguardian.com

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Sb @xtasbe.bsky.social · 12d

It's not volunteering if it's compulsory

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12d

"Migrants will have to carry out community work or volunteering to qualify to permanently remain in the UK, according to the Home Secretary." [Telegraph]

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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 12d

Indeed.

Centre Pompidou southern facade with three large air vents designed like ships funnels.

Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 14d

Today we're having Canada for breakfast.

A tray of eggy bread slices waiting to be fried, with a bottle of Canadian Dark Maple Syrup alongside.

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Sarah @thebasementtan.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah, I've got a nemesis. It's those double blue underlines in Microsoft Word that want you to throw in commas with the precision of a drunk darts player who hits the bartender in the ass.

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CARE International UK @careintuk.bsky.social · 14d

Feeling overwhelmed by the #news? So are we.

But CARE is still working in dangerous places, like #Gaza. We are still delivering aid to #women and their families.

Please help us continue our work. Donate today: donate.careinternational.org.uk/-/XWTZAAEG

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 14d

Now OVER 1 Million…

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15d

"experts say"
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14d

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 14d

If this is their strategy, why are they trying so hard to look like Reform? Why would voters desperate to stop Reform want to vote for a party that is dressing up as Reform? I don’t get it.

It will not be a binary 'Labour vs Tory' election, the PM says. ("The Conservative Party is dead" he says explicitly).
Instead it will be a "battle for the soul of the country", with voting Labour the means to stop Nigel Farage becoming PM.
The strategy, even at this early stage, for how No 10 is expecting to frame the election is now emerging.
It looks likely voters will be told 'the only way to stop Reform is to vote Labour. The hope being whole swathes of voters not normally or currently backers of Labour will hold their nose and tick the red box.

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