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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 8d

In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world's largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the peak of summer.

New Meta Data Center Needs Twice as Much Energy as New Orleans

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana requiring more than twice as much electricity as New Orleans.

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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 11d

A throwback - crossing time and space from the New York City East Village to the Japanese high street.

Apparently this is now a t-shirt and urbanism account.

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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 14d

Even from an American Exceptionalism point of view, it's so sad to expend so much effort, blood, sweat, warfare, imperialism, espionage, etc. over more than two centuries for global domination only to be reduced to this.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 16d

Recognizing Palestine. Recognizing genocide in Palestine. Ok, so are you going to stop it? Are you going to intervene? To withdraw your material support at the very least? Otherwise it’s just words.

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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 19d

I'm wearing an ode to public transportation. Hiroden in Hiroshima.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 20d

Bernie Sanders says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, becoming the first sitting U.S. senator to do so after nearly two years of Israel's brutal assault on the Palestinian territory that has killed tens of thousands of people.

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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 22d

UN independent commission: Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. "...Genocidal intent was the only reasonable inference." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says

The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

www.bbc.com

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Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago @multipliciudad.bsky.social · 23d

"What is radical planning history?"

The final version of this piece is out in the latest Planning Perspectives (free access). It calls for alternative critical epistemologies in planning history. Really looking forward to the conversations this might spark!

Check it out here: t.ly/m8Erb

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 24d

Huntington Beach, CA - Members of Patriot Front, and several explicitly Neo-Nazi active clubs marching through Huntington Beach right now. Led by “Culture War Criminal” Ryan Sanchez, they are mostly being received warmly by a Charlie Mirk memorial demonstration at Huntington Beach Pier.

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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 27d

I come here for the symbolism, the politics, and the concrete.

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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 27d

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, designed by Kenzo Tange and completed in 1955 #japan #urbanlandscape

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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · Sep 6

Moon over the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima earlier this evening #japan #urbanlandscape

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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · Sep 6

Skate park, bike parking, bus station, Saturday evening in Hiroshima #japan #urbanlandscape

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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · Sep 6

Skate park, bike parking, bus station, Saturday evening in Hiroshima #japan #urbanlandscape

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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · Sep 6

Moon over the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima earlier this evening #japan #urbanlandscape

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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · Aug 23

It is unbearable that the world lets this happen on our watch. Shame. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/w...

Gaza City and Surrounding Areas Are Officially Under Famine, Monitors Say

www.nytimes.com

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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · Aug 21

Jewish colleagues at UCLA say no to Trump's $1 billion demand. www.latimes.com/california/s...

UCLA's Jewish community unites against Trump's $1-billion demand: 'Misguided and punitive'

UCLA's Jewish faculty united around a letter conveying anger over a potential $1-billion settlement between the university and the Trump administration over alleged campus antisemitism.

www.latimes.com

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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · Aug 17

Zohran and a Casio on the cover of Time. I love it.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Aug 15

It's a surreal experience to find myself on the cover of Time Magazine but it's truly a reflection of what we have built together over these past ten months.

Read the story: time.com/7308924/zohr...

...and sign up to canvass: zohranfornyc.com/canvasslaunch

The cover of Time Magazine. Zohran fixes his tie and looks into the camera. The headline reads, "The Meaning of Zohran Mamdani."

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · Aug 15

Jacob Lawrence, The railroad stations were at times so over-packed with people leaving that special guards had to be called in to keep order, 1940-41 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134655

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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · Aug 14

New article! "Planet at the End of the City: How Climate Changes the Nature of Urban Theory." Is the city good or bad for climate? You'd think we'd know! I dive into critical urban theory in a time of planetary boundaries and global environmental change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PLANET AT THE END OF THE CITY: How Climate Changes the Nature of Urban Theory

Is the city good or bad for climate? You would think we would know. Stories abound in newspaper op-eds, policymaker commentaries and climate reports about the presumed environmental benefits of citie...

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namhenderson @namhenderson.bsky.social · Aug 14

re: #climateurbanism et al.

Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · Aug 14

New article! "Planet at the End of the City: How Climate Changes the Nature of Urban Theory." Is the city good or bad for climate? You'd think we'd know! I dive into critical urban theory in a time of planetary boundaries and global environmental change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PLANET AT THE END OF THE CITY: How Climate Changes the Nature of Urban Theory

Is the city good or bad for climate? You would think we would know. Stories abound in newspaper op-eds, policymaker commentaries and climate reports about the presumed environmental benefits of citie...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 11

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.

#JournalismIsNotACrime

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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · Aug 14

New article! "Planet at the End of the City: How Climate Changes the Nature of Urban Theory." Is the city good or bad for climate? You'd think we'd know! I dive into critical urban theory in a time of planetary boundaries and global environmental change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PLANET AT THE END OF THE CITY: How Climate Changes the Nature of Urban Theory

Is the city good or bad for climate? You would think we would know. Stories abound in newspaper op-eds, policymaker commentaries and climate reports about the presumed environmental benefits of citie...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 10

Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif killed in Israeli attack in Gaza City

Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · Aug 11

The five brave Palestinian journalists whom Israel targeted and killed today (left-right):
-Anas al-Sharif (correspondent)
-Mohammed Qreiqeh (correspondent) -Ibrahim Zaher (camera operator)
-Muhammad Al-Khalidi (photojournalist)
-Mohammed Noufal (camera operator)
-Moamen Aliwa (camera operator)

a young man holds a young boy and girl in front of rubble

a young man in glasses wearing a protective vest with the word press on it leans against a car

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