Tim Robinson
@tim12rob.bsky.social
urbanist, recovering architect. child of the oil crisis, parent raising low carbon kids. Friding. all views my own. Auckland NZ via India, east Midlands and t'north.
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It shows how architecture evolved into the wrong direction in the background.
Dubai courtyard installation examines how "architecture evolved in the region": www.dezeen.com/2025/11/11/courtyard-installation-some-kind-of-practice-dubai-design-week/
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
It shows how architecture evolved into the wrong direction in the background.
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Just preaching my message of "wanting to do less more often" we all have our reasons.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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‘A row of coal miners' houses with no windows to the street’, Halifax, 1937 by Bill Brandt. Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
‘A row of coal miners' houses with no windows to the street’, Halifax, 1937 by Bill Brandt. Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
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I have been developing retail properties and groceries for 25 years. This week, an interview with me appeared in Germany's leading real estate newspaper, and it will be republished (🤞) next week in the leading business newspaper.
The topic: The bicycle is the future of downtown retail.
The topic: The bicycle is the future of downtown retail.
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 4:29 PM
I have been developing retail properties and groceries for 25 years. This week, an interview with me appeared in Germany's leading real estate newspaper, and it will be republished (🤞) next week in the leading business newspaper.
The topic: The bicycle is the future of downtown retail.
The topic: The bicycle is the future of downtown retail.
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My unpopular opinion: those of us advocating for non-car travel need to stop apologetically saying "I know not everybody can cycle!" Obviously not everyone can cycle, but that's also true of driving. I fear we're just giving our opponents' attack lines legitimacy by shouting them out for free
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
My unpopular opinion: those of us advocating for non-car travel need to stop apologetically saying "I know not everybody can cycle!" Obviously not everyone can cycle, but that's also true of driving. I fear we're just giving our opponents' attack lines legitimacy by shouting them out for free
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Cool to see a new local, independent supermarket popping up. The supermarket has a full produce department, butchery, bakery, fish cabinet, a hot cabinet with chickens, a cafe and using local products.
Independent supermarket Plenty Foods hopes to challenge duopoly in Upper Hutt
A last-minute database crash couldn't stall the opening of Plenty Foods in Brewtown.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Cool to see a new local, independent supermarket popping up. The supermarket has a full produce department, butchery, bakery, fish cabinet, a hot cabinet with chickens, a cafe and using local products.
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Kiss and Ride is not just an American thing, either -- here's the Swedish wayfinding for it.
November 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Kiss and Ride is not just an American thing, either -- here's the Swedish wayfinding for it.
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Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
August 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
Weekend bus lanes on Te Atatū Road please.
November 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Weekend bus lanes on Te Atatū Road please.
Great conversations today, lots of interest.
November 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Great conversations today, lots of interest.
Here until 11. Lots of early visitors already!
November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Here until 11. Lots of early visitors already!
Come talk to the team, find out more about Te Ara Hauāuru Northwest Busway as we head towards lodging consents. See you at Westgate library this morning if you want to be the first to see up to date plans, visuals. More events this week: createsend.com/t/t-66B52285...
Upcoming community information sessions
createsend.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Come talk to the team, find out more about Te Ara Hauāuru Northwest Busway as we head towards lodging consents. See you at Westgate library this morning if you want to be the first to see up to date plans, visuals. More events this week: createsend.com/t/t-66B52285...
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BIG NEWS! The BYD Atto 1 is now in New Zealand for $29,990.
If you want a zippy runabout there's no need to bother with clunky old Victorian-era petrol.
And allow me to address the THOUSANDS of trolls over the last 20 years who told me I was dumb and this would never happen:
"𝐈 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐨".
😘
If you want a zippy runabout there's no need to bother with clunky old Victorian-era petrol.
And allow me to address the THOUSANDS of trolls over the last 20 years who told me I was dumb and this would never happen:
"𝐈 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐨".
😘
November 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
BIG NEWS! The BYD Atto 1 is now in New Zealand for $29,990.
If you want a zippy runabout there's no need to bother with clunky old Victorian-era petrol.
And allow me to address the THOUSANDS of trolls over the last 20 years who told me I was dumb and this would never happen:
"𝐈 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐨".
😘
If you want a zippy runabout there's no need to bother with clunky old Victorian-era petrol.
And allow me to address the THOUSANDS of trolls over the last 20 years who told me I was dumb and this would never happen:
"𝐈 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐨".
😘
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BusinessDesk has a fantastic (and rare) for a data journalist in New Zealand. The Herald and BusinessDesk are separate publications, but whoever is in this role will work with me on projects like Budget day visualisations 1/2
careers.nzme.co.nz/jobs/6697721...
careers.nzme.co.nz/jobs/6697721...
Data Journalist - BusinessDesk - NZME
Join BusinessDesk as a Data Journalist—break market-moving stories, visualise insights, and set the global benchmark for data-driven reporting.
careers.nzme.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
BusinessDesk has a fantastic (and rare) for a data journalist in New Zealand. The Herald and BusinessDesk are separate publications, but whoever is in this role will work with me on projects like Budget day visualisations 1/2
careers.nzme.co.nz/jobs/6697721...
careers.nzme.co.nz/jobs/6697721...
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Using AI for research is a trip.
Ex: Gemini gives me 5 sources, the first 3 don't exist. I Google the titles (to double check they don't exist) & the Google AI summary gives me a complete explanation of the articles that don't exist including "their" key arguments & findings.
Crazy-making.
Ex: Gemini gives me 5 sources, the first 3 don't exist. I Google the titles (to double check they don't exist) & the Google AI summary gives me a complete explanation of the articles that don't exist including "their" key arguments & findings.
Crazy-making.
November 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Using AI for research is a trip.
Ex: Gemini gives me 5 sources, the first 3 don't exist. I Google the titles (to double check they don't exist) & the Google AI summary gives me a complete explanation of the articles that don't exist including "their" key arguments & findings.
Crazy-making.
Ex: Gemini gives me 5 sources, the first 3 don't exist. I Google the titles (to double check they don't exist) & the Google AI summary gives me a complete explanation of the articles that don't exist including "their" key arguments & findings.
Crazy-making.
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3 November 2025 saw two new NZ electricity records set: highest daily utility solar power generation (1.6 GWh, enough to make 50 million cups of tea), and the last day of an unprecedented 25-day run of zero coal power.
There will be a lot more records like this to come.
There will be a lot more records like this to come.
November 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
3 November 2025 saw two new NZ electricity records set: highest daily utility solar power generation (1.6 GWh, enough to make 50 million cups of tea), and the last day of an unprecedented 25-day run of zero coal power.
There will be a lot more records like this to come.
There will be a lot more records like this to come.
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Good morning to you all. Sunny day here in Tokyo, after yesterday's torrential rain. Moodboard made for tomorrow's shoot & sent to client. Images from yesterday's shoot uploaded for client. Off out to run some errands. Then trying to spend time with family.
Have a great day.
Pic details in ALT.
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Have a great day.
Pic details in ALT.
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November 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Good morning to you all. Sunny day here in Tokyo, after yesterday's torrential rain. Moodboard made for tomorrow's shoot & sent to client. Images from yesterday's shoot uploaded for client. Off out to run some errands. Then trying to spend time with family.
Have a great day.
Pic details in ALT.
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Have a great day.
Pic details in ALT.
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Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.
Interesting Google experience. Search reported an error; "could not answer query" or similar. I use the search suffix (udm=14) that forces Web results, excluding AI answers. As soon as I typed in DuckDuckGo (no .com ending) Google relinquished and fulfilled search.
October 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Interesting Google experience. Search reported an error; "could not answer query" or similar. I use the search suffix (udm=14) that forces Web results, excluding AI answers. As soon as I typed in DuckDuckGo (no .com ending) Google relinquished and fulfilled search.
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Post Office
What Cheer, IA
What Cheer, IA
October 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Post Office
What Cheer, IA
What Cheer, IA
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I have posted a substack update about the cob job of plug in hybrid petrol cars.
If you can't be bothered to read it, I mean who has time these days, you can listen to me read it for you.
llewellyn.substack.com/p/hybrid-sch...
If you can't be bothered to read it, I mean who has time these days, you can listen to me read it for you.
llewellyn.substack.com/p/hybrid-sch...
Hybrid Schmybrid Audio Version
The coming scandal about yet another fossil/automotive con job.
llewellyn.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I have posted a substack update about the cob job of plug in hybrid petrol cars.
If you can't be bothered to read it, I mean who has time these days, you can listen to me read it for you.
llewellyn.substack.com/p/hybrid-sch...
If you can't be bothered to read it, I mean who has time these days, you can listen to me read it for you.
llewellyn.substack.com/p/hybrid-sch...
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There are options to make the CLT glue biobased (you want to double check the definition):
derix.de/en/sustainab...
And also biobased fire retardants:
www.wki.fraunhofer.de/en/research-...
derix.de/en/sustainab...
And also biobased fire retardants:
www.wki.fraunhofer.de/en/research-...
Bio-based flame retardants for the fire protection of cross-laminated timber in buildings and other applications
Research innovation for timber construction could increase the utilization of renewable raw materials in the construction industry.
www.wki.fraunhofer.de
October 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
There are options to make the CLT glue biobased (you want to double check the definition):
derix.de/en/sustainab...
And also biobased fire retardants:
www.wki.fraunhofer.de/en/research-...
derix.de/en/sustainab...
And also biobased fire retardants:
www.wki.fraunhofer.de/en/research-...
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Carbon capture for power stations specifically is just as subject to the overall dynamics of CCS: it never materialises like it's expected to.
Here's a new chart for ya: each blue line is what *should* have happened based on each report's planned state dates.
Black line: what happened
Here's a new chart for ya: each blue line is what *should* have happened based on each report's planned state dates.
Black line: what happened
October 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Carbon capture for power stations specifically is just as subject to the overall dynamics of CCS: it never materialises like it's expected to.
Here's a new chart for ya: each blue line is what *should* have happened based on each report's planned state dates.
Black line: what happened
Here's a new chart for ya: each blue line is what *should* have happened based on each report's planned state dates.
Black line: what happened
How about it, Watercare? Parnell calling
Did you know there is a commemorative manhole cover in Whitechapel celebrating the defeat of the 2017 fatberg?
To find it: head west out of the station along the north side of the High Street, it's by the pedestrian crossing in-line with the far end of the hospital opposite.
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To find it: head west out of the station along the north side of the High Street, it's by the pedestrian crossing in-line with the far end of the hospital opposite.
w3w bond/fame/agents
October 28, 2025 at 7:11 AM
How about it, Watercare? Parnell calling
