@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social very large screen on piersfield terrace is flashing/flickering and could be dangerous to/trigger some passersby.

Breaking News: The EPA moved to stop requiring polluters to report their emissions of greenhouse gases. The proposal would end a key tool the government uses to track carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that are driving climate change.

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. The Washington Post has just published every single known name. A seminal moment.

RIP Bob Wilson

Republicans re-designate gas as ‘green’ to allow fossil fuel firms to compete for clean energy funding. All forms of reality and shame replaced by the ‘right-wing thrill and sense of exhilaration’ (Butler) attained by the ability to be openly dishonest and irrational.

And they won’t ever be held to account for the immense violence (hunger; sickness) caused by it.

The new Senate bill doesn’t just gut renewables. It includes massive giveaways to the fossil fuel industry. It exempts oil and gas drillers from paying corporate taxes. It gives coal companies a tax credit for burning more coal. It uses your tax dollars to subsidize climate destruction.

“This thing called killing innocent people – it's been normalized. We were constantly told there are no noncombatants in Gaza, and apparently that message sank in among the troops." “No one stops to ask why dozens of civilians looking for food are being killed every day.” archive.ph/3LjoW

Children in Gaza dying of thirst after trucks carrying water blocked - UNICEF

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

Trump’s attacks on Iran were based on vibes, not new intel, two administration officials tell Rolling Stone. “There is no intel,” one of the sources says. “The intelligence assessments have not really changed.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Millions of acres worth of public land would be put up for sale in the Senate version of Trump’s big, ugly bill. It’s a massive privatization of a public good that everyone gets to enjoy – all to finance tax cuts that predominantly flow to the super-rich.

Judith Butler: “Ok, there are two genders: fascists and anti-fascists.” Brilliant. Via @avaitsopoulou.bsky.social

In a few short weeks, the Supreme Court may very well find in favor of a man who is suing to stop PrEP coverage for millions because he objects to theoretical possibility that someone he employs could one day access PrEP via insurance, and this "encourages and facilitates homosexual behavior."

14,000 babies are at risk of dying in the next 48 hours in Gaza if aid doesn’t reach them, warns Tom Fletcher, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs – a figure he called “utterly chilling.” 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/x26ghx

David Farrier‘s new book, Nature‘s Genius: Evolution‘s Lessons for a Changing Planet, sounds amazing. I am also really pleased to have my work on exaptive design featured in the second chapter (The Living City), and to share his pages with so many other friends and collaborators. Highly recommended!

This is very good actionable advice for non-transphobes in the UK (I think all I can do is give $ so I will):

This looks brilliant!

“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.” ― Toni Morrison

Congratulations to the brilliant Mari Helland, whose work—developed in the MArch programme at ESALA, in the ‘Architecture as Support Structure’ studio run by @sepikar.bsky.social and Naomi De Barr—was just awarded the RSA New Contemporaries Medal for Architecture!

Decent people thank Ukraine.

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

The National Park Service is misremembering #Stonewall. We're here to help correct their mistakes! All of the original content for the Stonewall National Monument has been republished at realstonewall.com #trans #queer #LGBWithTheT #translivesmatter

Every day we fall a little deeper into end-of-humanity levels of obscenity. Let’s not normalise racism, homophobia, transphobia, and the lack of any decency or nuance. This is not who we are.

Mind boggling how the interest of pesticides manufacturers—a single company, in this case—are prioritised over people and land. Agricultural fumigants that are poisonous, toxic, and carcinogenic should simply be banned. Imagining ‘safe’ levels and thresholds of use/absorption is ecocidal and racist.

You can currently get my book Ecologies of Inception: Design Potentials on a Warming Planet on the Routledge site with a 25% discount.

Last week, I caught-up with Lionel Devlieger and found out about this amazing retrospective of Rotor’s work, which includes an installation with films by Bêka & Lemoine. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to see it, but anyone living close to Brussels definitely should!!

Good article by Duncan Baker-Brown. Any involvement in the NEOM projects (responsible for thousands of deaths and displacements) is simply unjustifiable from an ethical standpoint.

Wonderful to have this short essay on dispositions, affordances, and the ability to be otherwise on the @berlinergazette.bsky.social, available for free and in both English and German. Thanks Krystian for the invitation!

What might a conceptual and methodological design toolkit look like that addresses the durational + anthropocenic materiality of the 21C, radically prioritizing practices of maintenance, reuse, care + co-option? @simoneferracina.bsky.social explores this question. berlinergazette.de/dispositions...

grateful for the invitation by @placesjournal.bsky.social to contribute to their field notes on repair. emilio distretti and I tried to offer a starting point from which to think what repair means in the ongoing afterlife of genocide placesjournal.org/article/fiel...

Welcome to BlueSky to the wonderful Moa Carlsson @moacarlsson.bsky.social!

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

My article ‘Yet’ for Vesper: Journal of Architecture, Arts & Theory is now available in open access. In it, I briefly discuss the semantic fluctuations of the adverb ‘yet’ in relation to dispositions, the built environment, repurposing, the difference between use and utilisation, and pollution.

A few useful starter packs on architecture/landscape architecture/built environment:

Congratulation to Sonakshi Pandit, whose Radical Harvest project “Eco-Socialist Rituals across the Water of Leith” at ESALA has been shortlisted for the RIAS Rowand Anderson Silver Medal for Best Fifth Year student!

Excited to see my essay about opacity—and what architects can learn from the work of Édouard Glissant—published, in English and Italian, as part of the “Thinking Like a Mountain” project by @GAMeCBergamo . pensarecomeunamontagna.gamec.it/en/reclaimin...

Excited to see my essay about opacity—and what architects can learn from the work of Édouard Glissant—published, in English and Italian, as part of the “Thinking Like a Mountain” project by @GAMeCBergamo . pensarecomeunamontagna.gamec.it/en/reclaimin...

Humbling and exciting to win—with an MArch studio on earth construction, care, and reuse at ESALA; and with live-build projects for social enterprises and charities across the city—the Edinburgh University Students’ Association Teaching Award for Outstanding Course!

On the back of the ICJ ruling—utter madness.

The Zero Waste Center designed by Hiroshi Nakamura in Kamikatsu, Japan, was already one of my favorite projects, but reading about how sophisticated the associated waste-sorting practices are makes it even better.

“The risk, as ever, is that what starts off shocking soon enough becomes the new normal…When ‘tough economic times’ hit, it is remarkable how quickly the unthinkable becomes permissible. At least when it is happening to other people.”

“The world should be ashamed”

First bout with Covid. Playing the gracious host.

I am reminded of what @maxliboiron.bsky.social and Josh Lepawsky call ‘scalar mismatches’, and of their definition of scale as ‘relationships that matter.’ So many environmental and political struggles seem to be about the protection and perpetuation of scalar mismatches over lives and futures.