philbixby.bsky.social
@philbixby.bsky.social
Architect and Passivhaus Designer in York, UK with a passion for sustainable & community-based projects, half of myfutureyork.org & part of yoco.uk. Makes B&W photos on film, rides bikes for pleasure & utility, and leans to the political left.
The way through the sky
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
December 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The way through the sky
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
Nice place you got there
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
December 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Nice place you got there
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
Your pre-festive-season reminder that the festive season goes on longer than you think! YoCo's virtual visit to Istanbul to learn what makes it a life-sized city & share thinking with like minds on the last Monday of the month (indeed the year) - info and free booking at www.yoco.uk/events/the-l...
December 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Your pre-festive-season reminder that the festive season goes on longer than you think! YoCo's virtual visit to Istanbul to learn what makes it a life-sized city & share thinking with like minds on the last Monday of the month (indeed the year) - info and free booking at www.yoco.uk/events/the-l...
Still waters make us
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
December 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Still waters make us
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
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beautiful and inspiring, thank you Tom
grab a tissue people
grab a tissue people
December 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
beautiful and inspiring, thank you Tom
grab a tissue people
grab a tissue people
Between the sky and me
Looking up in York station
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
Looking up in York station
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
December 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Between the sky and me
Looking up in York station
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
Looking up in York station
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon F4
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
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LAST ORDERS PLEASE!
You’ve got until Wednesday 17 December to order small prints, cards, wrap and slipmats for Christmas delivery.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
You’ve got until Wednesday 17 December to order small prints, cards, wrap and slipmats for Christmas delivery.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
LAST ORDERS PLEASE!
You’ve got until Wednesday 17 December to order small prints, cards, wrap and slipmats for Christmas delivery.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
You’ve got until Wednesday 17 December to order small prints, cards, wrap and slipmats for Christmas delivery.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
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A new exhibition directs our attention back to what is always the most important part of any urban landscape: the people who inhabit it.
What's the most important part of any urban landscape? The people who inhabit it
www.bigissue.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
A new exhibition directs our attention back to what is always the most important part of any urban landscape: the people who inhabit it.
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RIP
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
RIP
Someone has wrongly assembled our cat
December 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Someone has wrongly assembled our cat
Another photobook, this time gathering together the B&W film photographs from the bits of my cycling holiday when I wasn't on the bike! At 24 pages and about three and a half metres long, it's an easier print job than the 7m+ Marginal. It'll be on sale at next year's #yorkopenstudios
December 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Another photobook, this time gathering together the B&W film photographs from the bits of my cycling holiday when I wasn't on the bike! At 24 pages and about three and a half metres long, it's an easier print job than the 7m+ Marginal. It'll be on sale at next year's #yorkopenstudios
Head into the New Year with hope in your heart thanks to YoCo's next Screenings & Discussions event on Zoom! 7:00pm-9:00pm on Monday 29th December - come with us online to Istanbul & share thoughts on what we can learn about making our own cities more life-sized. Free booking via www.yoco.uk/events
December 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Head into the New Year with hope in your heart thanks to YoCo's next Screenings & Discussions event on Zoom! 7:00pm-9:00pm on Monday 29th December - come with us online to Istanbul & share thoughts on what we can learn about making our own cities more life-sized. Free booking via www.yoco.uk/events
A day trip to Bradford with @singfoodie.bsky.social for the Turner show and the wonder of winter sunshine
November 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A day trip to Bradford with @singfoodie.bsky.social for the Turner show and the wonder of winter sunshine
A brilliant www.yoco.uk housing group meeting today and many thanks to www.yorkinrecovery.org.uk for a lovely meeting venue, conveniently located. Very different now to when it was the empty shell of Lendal substation back in 2007, when York Bike Rescue project took on its transformation!
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A brilliant www.yoco.uk housing group meeting today and many thanks to www.yorkinrecovery.org.uk for a lovely meeting venue, conveniently located. Very different now to when it was the empty shell of Lendal substation back in 2007, when York Bike Rescue project took on its transformation!
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Downside: There is no plan and no courage. No attempt to sort the tax system. No strategy for the economy, like the one @johnspringford.bsky.social suggests here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk. Even good policies, like mansion tax, simply fiddle for pennies instead of properly reforming property tax.
Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Downside: There is no plan and no courage. No attempt to sort the tax system. No strategy for the economy, like the one @johnspringford.bsky.social suggests here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk. Even good policies, like mansion tax, simply fiddle for pennies instead of properly reforming property tax.
Yesterday evening we visited Hamilton, Canada, with www.yoco.uk plus @colville-andersen.com plus some Hamilton residents (thanks to extensive family networks!). *Really* good discussion, reflecting on York - and I've blogged it at www.yoco.uk/blog/the-lif...
November 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Yesterday evening we visited Hamilton, Canada, with www.yoco.uk plus @colville-andersen.com plus some Hamilton residents (thanks to extensive family networks!). *Really* good discussion, reflecting on York - and I've blogged it at www.yoco.uk/blog/the-lif...
Firmly in thermal image camera weather now, so here's the cat enjoying the underfloor heating
November 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Firmly in thermal image camera weather now, so here's the cat enjoying the underfloor heating
Final reminder for YoCo's next Screenings & Discussions event on Zoom! 7:00pm-9:00pm next Monday 24th Nov - join us online to visit Hamilton in Canada & share thoughts about what we can learn about making our own cities more life-sized. Free booking via YoCo's website at www.yoco.uk/events
November 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Final reminder for YoCo's next Screenings & Discussions event on Zoom! 7:00pm-9:00pm next Monday 24th Nov - join us online to visit Hamilton in Canada & share thoughts about what we can learn about making our own cities more life-sized. Free booking via YoCo's website at www.yoco.uk/events
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Of all the people you could defame, I wouldn’t pick a judge
Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Of all the people you could defame, I wouldn’t pick a judge
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Easy as 1 - 2 - 3
A timelapse of construction of 12 terraced houses in Denmark made from @ecococon.bsky.social prefab straw panels
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnu8...
A timelapse of construction of 12 terraced houses in Denmark made from @ecococon.bsky.social prefab straw panels
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnu8...
12 boliger på 1 minut og 38 sekunder
YouTube video by Boligbyggeri fra 4 til 1 planet
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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"Britain has failed to base its economic strategy on what it’s good at - tradeable services, science and tech, universities, niches in advanced manufacturing.
And since Brexit, it has been actively undermining its economic model, which is founded on openness to trade, ideas and people."
And since Brexit, it has been actively undermining its economic model, which is founded on openness to trade, ideas and people."
New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"Britain has failed to base its economic strategy on what it’s good at - tradeable services, science and tech, universities, niches in advanced manufacturing.
And since Brexit, it has been actively undermining its economic model, which is founded on openness to trade, ideas and people."
And since Brexit, it has been actively undermining its economic model, which is founded on openness to trade, ideas and people."
Say what you like about a wet weekend but by heck it's an opportunity to get stuff done - it's been solid printing / cutting / folding here, meaning I now have a (very limited) stock of Marginal, my photobook. Better work out how to sell it or there'll be a lot left for next year's #yorkopenstudios
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Say what you like about a wet weekend but by heck it's an opportunity to get stuff done - it's been solid printing / cutting / folding here, meaning I now have a (very limited) stock of Marginal, my photobook. Better work out how to sell it or there'll be a lot left for next year's #yorkopenstudios
It's the system, stupid - there isn't the capacity to enable the new neighbourhoods we need, but easier to blame the newts and promise to "rip up red tape" (whichever political colour you are, apparently). At last some serious questions from within -
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:46 AM
It's the system, stupid - there isn't the capacity to enable the new neighbourhoods we need, but easier to blame the newts and promise to "rip up red tape" (whichever political colour you are, apparently). At last some serious questions from within -
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
A gift for the next romantic
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
November 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
A gift for the next romantic
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
Too much to take in at once
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Too much to take in at once
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto
B&W photography on film
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400
#believeinfilm
#fridayfavourites
#ilfordphoto