Constantly whelmed
@architectgp.bsky.social
Architect + CPHD, now working in Sustainability. 🏃🏻♂️🚴♂️🏉⚽️ Multiple cats & kids. Born at 326 ppm so I got to see David Bowie, James Brown, Stevie Wonder and Prince live.
Pinned
*sits upright in bed* ‘CARBON OFFSETS ARE THE MODERN-DAY EQUIVALENT OF PLENARY INDULGENCES!’ 🤯
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November 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
This drives me mad.
I love architecture exhibition text. It really helps the general public understand things.
November 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This drives me mad.
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It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
This works for climate action too.
Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
November 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM
This works for climate action too.
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“Intensive dairying is only wildly profitable as long as the sector is allowed a free ride to produce massive pollution impacts.”
John Gibbons doesn’t mince his words, giving an honest appraisal of the environmental outcomes of dairy.
@thinkorswim.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
John Gibbons doesn’t mince his words, giving an honest appraisal of the environmental outcomes of dairy.
@thinkorswim.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
John Gibbons: Saying nuclear power is better for the environment than solar is ludicrous
The idea that intensive dairy farming is some kind of pastoral idyll with no impact on the environment has been allowed to take hold to the point that serious people are now suggesting nuclear reactor...
www.irishexaminer.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“Intensive dairying is only wildly profitable as long as the sector is allowed a free ride to produce massive pollution impacts.”
John Gibbons doesn’t mince his words, giving an honest appraisal of the environmental outcomes of dairy.
@thinkorswim.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
John Gibbons doesn’t mince his words, giving an honest appraisal of the environmental outcomes of dairy.
@thinkorswim.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Wow he’s good. What an orator.
November 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Wow he’s good. What an orator.
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Zohran Mamdani: "So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Zohran Mamdani: "So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."
*brushes shoulders in Portuguese-*
November 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
*brushes shoulders in Portuguese-*
November 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM
“Its name might be something highly fanciful, like Silky Goldenhooves, or more mundane, like Gary. Either way, we would be advising the patient to invest in a sturdy pair of headphones.” 🤣
Clinicians will be able to identify female autism in mere seconds by posing one simple question: “Do you have, or have you ever had, an imaginary horse?”
New autism assessment criteria for girls to just ask about imaginary horse
Researchers have developed a new assessment tool designed to detect autism in girls and women, correcting decades of gender imbalance in the diagnostic process, it has been announced. Clinicians…
thedailytism.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
“Its name might be something highly fanciful, like Silky Goldenhooves, or more mundane, like Gary. Either way, we would be advising the patient to invest in a sturdy pair of headphones.” 🤣
Stayed up until 2am (bottom of the 5th, or maybe top - I’m just throwing out random words rn) watching Game 7 of the MLB World Series because of all the chatter on here. Never watched baseball before, kinda get it now.
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Stayed up until 2am (bottom of the 5th, or maybe top - I’m just throwing out random words rn) watching Game 7 of the MLB World Series because of all the chatter on here. Never watched baseball before, kinda get it now.
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The replies to this are absolutely glorious.
What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done? I don’t mean “cheating on your partner” stupid, I mean stupid stupid. Like, once, I had this bubble bath which smelled absolutely delicious, so I took a big glug of it. That kind of stupid. (It did not taste delicious.)
November 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
The replies to this are absolutely glorious.
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
Genius 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
When that blind student you’ve been stalking makes a clay bust of what she THINKS you look like…HELLO?!
youtu.be/mHONNcZbwDY?...
youtu.be/mHONNcZbwDY?...
October 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Genius 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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The music cuts off awkwardly before the end, but this is an incredible NYC Halloween costume compilation.
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The music cuts off awkwardly before the end, but this is an incredible NYC Halloween costume compilation.
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Yeah, OK it's an 80m tall timber TRÆ,
but look at the facade,
it's #circular reused metal roofing.
lendager.com/project/trae/
but look at the facade,
it's #circular reused metal roofing.
lendager.com/project/trae/
November 6, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Yeah, OK it's an 80m tall timber TRÆ,
but look at the facade,
it's #circular reused metal roofing.
lendager.com/project/trae/
but look at the facade,
it's #circular reused metal roofing.
lendager.com/project/trae/
‘When your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT’s the problem.’
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
(I’m so stealing that line. And probably the buckets too.)
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
(I’m so stealing that line. And probably the buckets too.)
If you take the time to read the whole Gates memo (which I did), the bulk of the content was mostly solid and encouraging. Really!
It was the FRAME that was off--very off, from the first line.
And when your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT'S the problem.
It was the FRAME that was off--very off, from the first line.
And when your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT'S the problem.
October 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
‘When your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT’s the problem.’
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
(I’m so stealing that line. And probably the buckets too.)
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
(I’m so stealing that line. And probably the buckets too.)
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i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
September 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
‘There were no good-faith criticisms of (Catherine Connolly)’
“What is it about the smelly and ungrateful electorate that makes them think that we don’t like them?”
An absolute pleasure to chat with @tupped.bsky.social and @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social on the latest #EchoChamberPod
Full Episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/patron...
An absolute pleasure to chat with @tupped.bsky.social and @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social on the latest #EchoChamberPod
Full Episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/patron...
October 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
‘There were no good-faith criticisms of (Catherine Connolly)’
‘I don't think that 65-70% of the Irish electorate now agree with her every position. I do think they decided she was the right person for this job.’ #Aras25
New Gist, In which I explain exactly what kind of idiot I have recently been.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-no-...
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-no-...
October 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
‘I don't think that 65-70% of the Irish electorate now agree with her every position. I do think they decided she was the right person for this job.’ #Aras25
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“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
October 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
What’s the best one liner in movie history?
October 26, 2025 at 7:32 AM
What’s the best one liner in movie history?
Oh Jesus
Sexy Phillip Sutcliffe Snr
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Sexy Phillip Sutcliffe Snr
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"Sexy UMass football"
Oh no
Oh no
sexy cube
October 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Oh Jesus
Sexy Phillip Sutcliffe Snr
🤦♂️
Sexy Phillip Sutcliffe Snr
🤦♂️
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