neil21
@neil21.bsky.social
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Renewables SaaS PM by day, Urbanism by night. Scot in
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pinned post!
Building on the
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#bcpoli
, what further policy interventions might help
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develop more like the single lot redevelopment image, and less like the Land Assembly image?
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“The Black Knight Sir Keir Starmer might claim it is just a flesh wound to have suffered almost one quarter of his MPs and 5 of his ministers calling for him to depart and to have this echoed by all 11 Labour-affiliated trade unions. … 1/2
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A Reader of the FT
about 6 hours ago
A cold peace between the US and China is good enough—The goal right now may just be a “cold peace”. Rather than trying to engineer a breakthrough, this is a moment to prevent deterioration.
www.ft.com/content/63aa...
@jessicacweiss.bsky.social
@financialtimes.com
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A cold peace between the US and China is good enough
Rather than trying to engineer a grand bargain, this is a moment to prevent deterioration
https://www.ft.com/content/63aa35fe-91cf-45db-ba11-2d2e2b23b2a0
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Ciarán Cuffe
1 day ago
One rail trip across countries in Europe, one ticket, full passenger rights? Here’s hoping the EU’s proposal for rail reform makes it across the line.
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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findmypolitics.com
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Mikey Smith
1 day ago
Lordi singing Save All Your Kisses For Me has made my night.
#eurovision
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Michael Brake
1 day ago
Ah, es ist ein LORDI-Sticker im Lidl-Design
www.facebook.com/reel/1681473...
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James Ball
1 day ago
"Cos now you're in my head, my heart, my body parts" Good gosh Sweden, buy a boy a drink first. (This is a bop though).
#Eurovision
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Brendan Dawe
1 day ago
Senakw Whale
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
4 days ago
Shibuya crossing (early in the day so not too much ped traffic)… but definitely feels like a triumph of shoes over engines. Actually the whole city is like that. Less car traffic than Vancouver.
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
5 days ago
In the building we’re staying in the stairs, landings and elevator are all small - too small for real accessibility - but the layout is very simple
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
5 days ago
Fine grained small frontage urbanism. No min frontage req, no parking min, single stair.
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab
5 days ago
Full use of the space under the train deck
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Joe Lado
1 day ago
Incat Tasmania is building 3, 423 feet long, 1,500 passenger, fully electric ferries for Danish operator Molslinjen that can travel at 40 knots, & recharge in 30 minutes. They will be the largest electric ferries in Europe, preventing 132,000 tons of CO2 a year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF70...
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World’s Largest Electric Ferries Are Finally Coming
YouTube video by Foreseer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF70QLOyVjo
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Sai 🌸 🇪🇺
2 days ago
Probablement l'un des meilleur pub urbain ever
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Mark Chadbourn
2 days ago
Trump has definitely sold out Taiwan: “When you look at the odds, China is a very, very powerful, big country. That’s a very small island. “Think of it, it’s 59 miles away. We’re 9,500 miles away. That’s a little bit of a difficult problem. 1/2
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Interesting how the M25 curves roughly the same distance from the central city, as the edge of grey more-developed areas of Port Coquitlam, Surrey.
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Denis Agar (he/him)
1 day ago
A reminder that building more homes at SkyTrain stations has the same benefit as building new SkyTrain lines (ie. Increasing # of people near SkyTrain). One earns the government money, the other costs the government money. We should aggressively be doing both. I'm looking at you Nanaimo Station.
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Brendan Dawe
1 day ago
“Degrowth” is fundamentally unserious and I am not going pretend that it’s not
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Sally Duncan
1 day ago
This whole thing is so good 👏🏻 “Those who oppose new housing, or who look askance at denser development as somehow ideologically distasteful, are supporting a fundamentally anti-human, anti-growth policy, without even intending to.”
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Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada
1 day ago
Yes, we agree
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™
2 days ago
Torsten Wolber (German, b.1964) "Girl on Swing," 2025 Oil on masonite 50 x 60 cm
#art
#painting
#artist
#BlueSkyArt
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Tom Flood
1 day ago
Vancouver knows what's up. One of the first "the discussion" posters seen in the wild.
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Present & Correct
1 day ago
Budapest has over 4000 internal courtyards, Marchand Meffre documented many of them.
marchandmeffre.com/budapest
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“An articulated form that supports a pedestrian environment.”
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Google Streetview time travel four years forward
#newwest
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Sarah Primate
1 day ago
1916: Representatives of Great Britain and France secretly reach an accord, known as the Sykes-Picot Agreement, by which most of the Arab lands under the rule of the Ottoman Empire are to be divided into British and French spheres of influence with the conclusion of World War I.
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Sarah Primate
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1770: At Versailles, Louis, the French dauphin, marries Marie Antoinette, the daughter of Austrian Empress Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I.
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Sarah Primate
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1966: The Beach Boys released their masterwork, Pet Sounds, a bittersweet pastiche of songs recalling the pangs of unrequited love and other coming-of-age trials.
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Sarah Primate
1 day ago
Today in History: May 16th 1943: Nazi troops crushed the month-long Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in which Polish Jews and partisan fighters resisted deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp. More than 40,000 Jews were killed or deported during the uprising.
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Reuters Legal
2 days ago
U.S. power company NextEra Energy is in talks to combine with rival Dominion Energy in a tie-up that would create a roughly $400 billion utility giant, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing sources.
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NextEra, Dominion in talks over tie-up to create $400 billion US utility giant, FT reports
U.S. power company NextEra Energy is in talks to combine with rival Dominion Energy in a tie-up that would create a roughly $400 billion utility giant, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing sources.
https://reut.rs/4tyYmGl
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Jeebus
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Makes sense (cure for high prices is high prices) but I hadn’t realised we were in a soft insurance market now
www.insurancebusinessmag.com/ca/news/cata...
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Canadian insurers eye CAT season as key test for soft market – Marsh’s Major
Canada's insurance market is flush with capital and pricing is falling, but a single bad wildfire or flood could change everything
https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/ca/news/catastrophe/canadian-insurers-eye-cat-season-as-key-test-for-soft-market--marshs-major-575130.aspx
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Amanda Hu
2 days ago
As we prepare to huff wildfire smoke for another summer, I am not finding this new pipeline to be any consolation.
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Out of the ashes of Ki Sushi ...
#newwest
about 2 months ago
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Share your view of the proposals for Simcoe and Toronto Place Parks
www.beheardnewwest.ca/en-CA/projec...
#newwest
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647 W Melrose Street, Chicago (2014 vs 2018)
maps.app.goo.gl/uoeLejM6pCfL...
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Current Affairs
8 days ago
Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...
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The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-banal-horror-of-jimmy-fallon
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Current Affairs
7 days ago
Fallon is the court jester of the Anthropocene, a figure who invites us to watch celebrities play parlor games on stage while the air outside the studio begins to smell of tear gas and smoke.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...
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The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-banal-horror-of-jimmy-fallon
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Leo Spalteholz
2 days ago
Does zoning give us fewer homes and thus higher prices? Yes, beyond a shadow of a doubt. And you don’t even need an economics background to know that’s true. Look at the skyline of any Canadian city to see the power of these artificial constraints
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Big Iron
13 days ago
Mr Mayor, you simply must avoid the "it's not just [x]" em dash construction
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
6 days ago
Eve Fairbanks: “The tell for AI isn’t rhythm, wording, or fact errors. It’s that problems with *all these elements* exist equally & at once.”
archive.ph/rPLjp
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The Tyee
over 1 year ago
[email protected]
: I read Richard Powers’ new novel “Playground” earlier in the fall, prior to the U.S. election. That period, less than a month ago, already feels like another world. Nothing is more distant than the recent past, someone once said.
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Richard Powers Is the Writer We Need Now | The Tyee
The Pulitzer-winning author offers a ray of hope in a dark time.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/11/18/Richard-Powers-Writer-We-Need-Now/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale)
2 days ago
Rainy Norway Spring. Walk around all morning and read all afternoon.
#arendal
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Denis Agar (he/him)
3 days ago
What an absolute gift from
@chittimarco.bsky.social
Go read it now:
tpa.transitcosts.com/journey/speed
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David Roberts
3 days ago
Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.
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The world is installing grid batteries at a blistering pace
A total of 112 gigawatts of batteries were deployed around the world in 2025 — 10 times the amount added just four years prior.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/world-installing-grid-batteries
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Lawrence Culver
3 days ago
“There is so little snow in the Rocky Mountains that this spring and summer, the runoff reaching Lake Powell, the nation’s second largest reservoir, is expected to be just 13% of average, the lowest on record.”
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Turtle Boy
4 days ago
You know, as a solidly "ban the pervert glasses" guy I'm happy to say I hadn't considered their usefulness as accessibility tools, and this thread convinced me. "Regulate the pervert glasses" is much less emotionally satisfying, but making things easier for blind people is a worthwhile tradeoff
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Bob Beatty
4 days ago
Okay, many thanks to Sarah for opening my eyes on this issue. "Regulate the helpful glasses so that perverts cannot use their capabilities for nefarious ends" isn't as catchy a slogan but it surely is true
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