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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 14h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 3d

Alan Ramsay…from 1988. So much of our contemporary dilemma…latent in a paragraph from a quarter of a century ago…

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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 4d

Wonderful! I saw a butterfly in the street last week and it stopped me in my tracks. I haven’t seen one just idling about the street in the longest time!

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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 4d

$819 a week to rent an 18sqm studio through Scape near campus, or $400 to rent in the Regiment where this student is living. The student experience in Sydney appears to be one of high cost exploitation.

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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 4d

“The rent is favourable compared to Scape properties nearby, he says, but warned any new housing should not be run by a private provider…noting the building was intensely hot in summer, some kitchen appliances did not work, and the water temperature in the showers was temperamental.”

‘Can’t afford Sydney’: The uni with a problem (and a plan that might fix it)

Sydney University ranks worst in NSW for student experience. Can this plan fix it?

www.smh.com.au

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Carl_Greywolf @carl-greywolf.bsky.social · 4d

The unprecedented use of unprecedented, especially in news reports where 2 seconds of research would find it is definitely not without precedent.

Looking at you BBC news. 👀

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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 5d

I particularly love that the sign starts with what you are ALLOWED to do. So many voluminous lists of things you can’t do now the first experience in too many parks!

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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 5d

Here for the next 12 months I believe! So great!

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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 5d

Me too - it’s brilliant!

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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 5d

Mike Hewson’s The Key is Under the Mat - occupying the Tank at AGNSW for the next year - water, play, steam, sauna, bbq…in the gallery…

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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 6d

The crazy, joyous world of Mike Hewson …The Key is Under the Mat #AGNSW

Recycled pavers and found rocks and pebbles making hidden creatures

Slippers and towels outside the steam punk ham man

Chemical tubs repurposed as ceiling lights

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 6d

Cats by Shou Xin

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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 7d

‘The housing revolution that both the planet and its inhabitants urgently require will not be provided by the private sector,’ writes Eleanor Beaumont on social housing in Barcelona by Urbanitree; the tallest timber building in Spain.1/

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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 9d

Urban tree canopy has never been more important - for shade, microclimate, biodiversity, character & beauty.
All cities need massive urban greening initiatives - cut the asphalt & space lost to cars, plant the streets!

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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 10d

A provocation at a lecture last week - to think about how to be more aware of Country. You don’t necessarily need to head bush! A walk in my fairly dense, inner urban area reveals an extraordinary urban family…tallowwoods, lacebarks and melaleucas. Streets are for trees…they will keep us alive.

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 11d

#FOI requests granted in full have plummeted under @albomp.bsky.social.

His response? Introduce a Bill into Parliament that substantially expands the information officials can withhold from you. How’s that for transparency? #auspol

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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 12d

Let's keep a vast chunk of society in poverty as a deliberate means of managing the economy, and meanwhile compound this by sacking checkout staff while making checkouts less secure, and then puzzle long and hard about why people are nicking food.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Workers face brazen shoplifters and the wrath of ‘Kens and Karens’ as retail crime surges in Victoria

Theft from retail stores rises 27.6% year-on-year as staff ‘screamed at, sworn at, spat on or shoved’ and even stabbed

www.theguardian.com

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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 12d

I’m a strong supporter of the Pattern Book…but describing it as a $1 solution for the housing crisis is wildly disingenuous. You still need to document them, price them and build them.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 12d

Australia has a $1 solution for the global housing crisis: a pattern book of architecturally designed homes

The NSW Housing Pattern Book is part of a broader push to densify cities without resorting to high-rise towers – and it has struck a chord well beyond Australia An Australian government faced with a housing crisis has launched an inexpensive, quick-fix plan that has caught the attention of countries around the world. For just one Australian dollar anyone can download a set of architect-designed housing templates, which in New South Wales – Australia’s most populous state and its most expensive – have already been preapproved by the state government for fast-track development. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 12d

How quickly we forget - it’s almost as if Covid never happened | Labor’s CDC lacks budget and vision Monique Ryan via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Labor’s CDC lacks budget and vision

Never before has Australia more needed a full-service, independent Centre for Disease Control, able to address the rising challenges of disease, both infectious and non-communicable. Medical experts f...

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 14d

The mercurial, animated, peripatetic architect Timothy Hill, now at #partnershill, delivering a brilliant @institute_architects_aus 2025 Gold Medal speech in Sydney.
So much great work, explained architecturally, with lots of asides & overdue areas for reform of practice & urban culture

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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 16d

Happy dog in bike backpack!
Way to go

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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 15d

Thank goodness there are still irreverent, brilliant, passionate, makers and thinkers in architecture. Particularly chuffed when they are recognised. Tim Hill - AIA Gold Medallist 2025.

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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 15d

It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away.

And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 16d

It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 15d

A lot of people worked for years to expose the scandal of Robodebt. But the big lie of ‘mutual obligation’ is still official policy in Australia. Until we treat people seeking help with respect, this stuff will continue

Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 15d

Ok. #PeoplevsRobodebt is on national TV

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Katherine Lu @katlu.bsky.social · 16d

Great talk, and so interesting to know that he comes from a background of documentary photography - makes so much sense

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