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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 19h

"Egypt: Influencing British Design" at the Soane museum, where these images of the Warwick Road Homebase superstore, built in 1988 and long demolished, are on show.

A Homebase superstore done out like an Egyptian temple

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Rory Hyde @roryhyde.bsky.social · 2d

Bang on stuff here, with some hard questions for designers and educators on what to do now

Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 4d

on.ft.com/46M9mXI Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world. Free to Read.

Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world

Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away

on.ft.com

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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 2d

The day stared back at me as if waiting for me to tell it what to do.

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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 3d

“I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction.” ~ Virginia Woolf

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Rory Hyde @roryhyde.bsky.social · 4d

So great, love Mike, will have to get up to Sydney!

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 5d

Pump it up.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Two frames. Both show couple outside building with AUCTION sign looking at brochure. Frame 1: Person one says, “It’s perfect, but we’ll never be able to afford it.” Person two says, “But the govt’s first homebuyers’ assistance scheme means we only need a 5% deposit…” Frame 2: person one says, “The same 5% the price went up since the last time we said we’d never be able to afford it?”

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Rory Hyde @roryhyde.bsky.social · 6d

Glorious

Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 6d

Not a bad location for a public library. Salamanca's main library, is located in the Casa de las Conchas (House of Shells) built between 1493 and 1517 by Rodrigo Arias de Maldonado, a knight of the Order of Santiago de Compostela and a professor in the University of Salamanca.

Exterior shot showing shell motif on walls

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Rory Hyde @roryhyde.bsky.social · 7d

I lived on Farmer’s Union Iced Coffee as a student and it still tastes like PhD stress

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Rory Hyde @roryhyde.bsky.social · 8d

'[Farrell was] striving to make architecture more communicative and uplifting at a time when modernism seemed to have finally run its course.' – Cath Slessor

Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 8d

Remembering Terry Farrell: ‘Britain’s most charismatic exponent of Postmodernism’

www.architectsjournal.co.uk

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Rory Hyde @roryhyde.bsky.social · 9d

'Bauhaus the design movement or the band?'

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 18d

“university leaders … must act to help us collectively turn back the tide of garbage software, which fuels harmful tropes (e.g. so-called lazy students) and false frames (e.g. so-called efficiency or inevitability) to obtain market penetration and increase technological dependency”

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

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Rory Hyde @roryhyde.bsky.social · 10d

One for all the supply supply supply yimby and abundance bros.

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Rory Hyde @roryhyde.bsky.social · 10d

‘While we shall be judged for a year or two by the _number_ of houses we build … we shall be judged in ten years’ time by the _type_ of houses we build.’ - Nye Bevan, 1944, quoted by @municipaldreams.bsky.social

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 13d

Megasheds the size of 12 football pitches, surrounded by barbed wire and flashing lights, that make lots of noise and potentially disrupt local energy supply while creating a handful of jobs are not going to be a source of local renewal - all that Nvidia money isn't going to show up on high streets

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 18d

‘Eno’s exchanges in 1995 with friends such as Kevin Kelly (Wired, the Whole Earth Review) and Stewart Brand (the Whole Earth Catalogue, the WELL) now feel a little quaint, like a coffee house claque in 18th-century Vienna.’

Ian Penman on becoming Enosceptic: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ian Penman · Infinite Wibble: Brian v. Eno

At a time when most conversation about the arts remained stuck in an Oxbridge common room, Eno was a one-man laboratory...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Rory Hyde @roryhyde.bsky.social · 20d

Gah, so good

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Dan HIll @cityofsound.bsky.social · 22d

“If we leave it up to the market, you would have only offices, furnished tourist rentals and second homes — a Paris without Parisians, a Paris for the rich” (Indeed. Look at Anglosphere capitals. Amusing to watch the FT try to get its head around this pretty excellent policy) on.ft.com/4nxze08

The left’s radical plan to fix housing in Paris

Authorities are using an arsenal of interventionist tools to make city homes affordable. Critics call it an attack on property rights

on.ft.com

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Corey Bradshaw @conservbytes.bsky.social · Nov 17

The cliché house (by @KarlreMarks)

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 21d

I love London so much. So much.

Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?

Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 21d

In London, hate will never win.

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Rory Hyde @roryhyde.bsky.social · 22d

“Approving new fossil fuel exports is destroying the future. It isn’t just a betrayal of our Pacific neighbors, it is a betrayal of all Australians, putting the profits of foreign-owned fossil fuel corporations ahead of our wellbeing, security and prosperity.”

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 23d

Just three days after approving an extension of one of the largest fossil fuel export projects in the world, the North West Shelf, the National Climate Risk Assessment reveals the devastating consequences facing Australia. #auspol

Media release:

Devastating climate risk assessment shows fossil fuel exports must end

Just three days after approving an extension of one of the largest fossil fuel export projects in the world, the North West Shelf, the National Climate Risk Assessment reveals the devastating conseque...

australiainstitute.org.au

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Rory Hyde @roryhyde.bsky.social · 25d

He makes oblivion sound like a nice holiday :)

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Rory Hyde @roryhyde.bsky.social · 29d

So great

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 29d

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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Christine Milne @christinemilne.bsky.social · Sep 6

To what extent does preventing progressive economic change fuel the far right? Looks like we’ll find out in Aust as Albo has no intention of driving wealth redistribution, or taxing the big miners, polluters, property developers or gambling interests. Failing to address inequality is major error.

Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · Aug 15

Decades of socioeconomic deprivation while billionaires stole all the wealth has made people desperate for major change and vulnerable to right wing populist messaging that gives them an easy scapegoat to blame. Centrist parties that prevent progressive economic change share much of the blame.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Aug 15

This is unfathomable. Far-right populist parties are top of the polls in Germany, the United Kingdom and France simultaneously for the first time. It’s not too late to change this
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/far...

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Sep 4

“A substantial rise in supply could probably only unwind a small fraction of the huge rise in house prices … This suggests that politicians’ primary focus on supply may be fundamentally misdirected.”

Is the argument high house prices are solely due to supply finally falling apart?

Making British homes affordable again

Politicians have long blamed a housing shortage for soaring prices, but it is tax reform that can make the market less dysfunctional

www.ft.com

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Rory Hyde @roryhyde.bsky.social · Sep 2

“A first, obvious step would be for our security agencies to classify Nazis and Sovereign Citizens as terrorist movements.”

Crikey @crikey.com.au · Sep 2

Opinion | A woman on taklback radio said she was going to the rally for her grandchildren — as a generational duty, an act of love. Fear can feel like love when you clutch it hard enough, @mrdtjames.bsky.social‬ writes.

Attack on Camp Sovereignty: How ordinary fears are giving cover to extraordinary hate

www.crikey.com.au

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