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James Dyson

@dysonsk3.bsky.social
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Architecture. Urbanism. Art. Environment. The North (of Europe and Britain). Cycling. Mountains.

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James Dyson @dysonsk3.bsky.social · 3h
Baroque-Rococo turns out to be easy to draw. 🧵
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James Dyson @dysonsk3.bsky.social · 23h
Two Red Vienna housing estates: Engelsplatz and Karl-Marx-Hof. Built with public baths, shops, cafes bars, surgeries, kindergartens, support centres, libraries, workshops, etc. But hmmm, try getting a coffee today - a small cafe is tucked inside a (privately run) squash club behind the KMH museum. 🧵
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is cool— apparently @adamtranter.bsky.social transformed a street parking space into a parklet (mini park/public space), but the municipality removed it because it wasn’t a mother vehicle. So he did this. Nice job. And dumb interpretation by city hall. Via Marco Te BrommelStroet on LinkedIn.
Pictures of a mini trucka-like vehicle with a little park/park bench on the flatbed in the back. So essentially a mini park on top of a vehicle.
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Horney's (on Main) Clinton, IN
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James Dyson @dysonsk3.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Current hand signalling to passing vehicles: 👍or✋= thank you for the time and space. 👉👉👉+🖕or✌️= up yours **hole, when's the last time you looked at the f*****g highway code?
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James Dyson @dysonsk3.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So used to seeing positive civic improvement before and after shots from @hackneycyclist.bsky.social @modacitylife.com @brenttoderian.bsky.social etc, so this one's a real shocker.
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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Very reassuring to learn that a blind man who drunk drove 150 miles to Scotland, without a licence or insurance, has been banned from driving for 12 months. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Blind Huddersfield man sentenced for 150-mile drive while drunk
Anthony Hall, 50, took his partner's car and drove at night from Huddersfield to near Carlisle.
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James Dyson @dysonsk3.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
To understand any town, it's a good idea to walk in/out in a straight line, taking in not just the centre but the burbs and transition/liminal space too.
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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#WindowsOnWednesday Cambridge #aofoto
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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Joy of Wall Furniture, Stapleford
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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James Dyson @dysonsk3.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Grasmere, Cumbria. Triple king post / queen post hybrids? #trussesonthursday
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
*Such* a simple and effective apartment plan!!! Four homes, with 2 stairs and 2 elevators. Each living space is dual aspect and spans the full width of the building, no corridors. Bedrooms in the next bay for privacy, with a mix of 2-and-3 beds Social housing in Spain!
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James Dyson @dysonsk3.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Saw this and looked around. Wondering why #bbcnews choose to believe whatever local councils tell them. BBC: "Do you allow pavement parking?" Stockport: "No." Also Stockport: 🧵
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WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A tourism poster for the world we now live in.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Urbanist Philomena Cunk. Some shop owners are terrified of bike lanes because they believe a person on a bicycle is physically incapable of holding currency. They assume that if you can't park a massive metal box right outside their door, the local economy will instantly collapse.
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Urban Cycling Institute @urbancyclinginstitute.org · 24/08/2026
🤯 A car-free car racing event? Sounds impossible! In the Netherlands last weekend, nearly all of the 110,000 fans attending the #Formula1 #GrandPrix arrived by bike or public transit. Cars were practically banned. Ironic to say this: but it's a masterclass in sustainable mega-event planning.
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James Dyson @dysonsk3.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
#sidedoorsunday Priests door, Brereton, Cheshire.
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James Dyson @dysonsk3.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Is Middlewich, #Cheshire, THE black hole of cycling? Crappy roads with cheap large aggregate tarmac, left hand side subsidence and multiple potholes, ever-expanding housing sprawl, boy racers in Audis, BMWs and white vans.
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Red building Ruleville, MS
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James Dyson @dysonsk3.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Random groups, The Magic of Thailand Festival, Platt Fields, Manchester.
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scissor cut paper @dummypublic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
data center Renaissance
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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James Dyson @dysonsk3.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Wondering why everyone doesn't spend their evenings on The Ultimate Manhole Covers Site? Marvellous. manhole.co.il/default.asp (Spotted one not on their map) #infrastructure #look-down #needham
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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Occasional Antoni Tapiesno is a piece of Street Furniture in Cambridge (The Joy) #aofoto
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Independent Order of Odd Fellows Wentworth, SD
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James Dyson @dysonsk3.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Wondering why #hmgov introduced this rule? No promotion, anecdotally police know nothing about it, drivers don't know or don't care, and it's trumped by the design of our highways.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Urbanist Philomena Cunk. We love our cars so much that we bulldoze perfectly good buildings just to make flat, grey fields where our cars can sleep during the day. We spend eight hours inside a building making money, just so we can afford the metal box waiting for us in the grey field outside.
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
No door Hayti, SD
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
50 green groups write to Andy Burnham demanding he be clear that climate change is the cause of the current extreme heat crisis. Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of the Earth and others say "the British public deserves leadership that speaks honestly about the nature of the challenges the country faces"
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Ian R. Pearsall @ianrpearsall.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
'ParchedLands III - The Farm' Marks on Maps Oil : Oil pastel www.ianrpearsall.co.uk/post/terra
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Haywain 2026
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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Everyday Beauty at Broadgate, Liverpool Street #aofoto
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James Dyson @dysonsk3.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Nice to see disabled parking bays near the, er, entrance, oh. #fellowship
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Five storey kindergarten in Munich designed by Kere Architecture and HK Architects Built predominantly from timber. I especially love the timber slides that connect floors!
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James Dyson @dysonsk3.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Road closed, pavement open, so where should we put the sign?
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
11 social housing apartments in Majorca Spain Gotta love those mint green shutters and terracotta floor tiles! By Oliveras Boix Arquitectes and Cati Mestre
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#VoteBinface www.theguardian.com/food/2026/au...
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‘A 99 with a Flake? That will be £7, please’: what’s behind the surge in ice-cream van prices?
From the cost of milk and chocolate to diesel and electricity, every part of producing the summer treat has been hit by the climate crisis and other shocks
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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Yes I acknowledge it makes sense in context but “I need my car to meet criminals” is now my favourite basis for an attempted exceptional hardship plea. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Best-selling crime author Lynda La Plante has been disqualified from driving for six months, despite tearfully telling the court a ban would end her writing career.
The 83-year-old author and screenwriter told Lavender Hill Magistrates' Court she needed her car to meet criminals and sources for research into her next works of fiction.
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Dr. Serge Zaka @sergezaka.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Les valeurs de température de juin-juillet sont tellement hors normes qu'elles nous obligent à revoir l'échelle de nos graphiques. Les chiffres sont tout simplement sidérants. 1/4
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Sobering to see in one chart how June temperature records have been broken this year in so many European countries www.ft.com/content/5f06...
June temperature records tumble across
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Bippus Plumbing Co. Bippus, IN
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Publicity drawing for Forton services on the M6 near Lancaster, 1963.
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The same street in Levenshulme, Manchester, one hundred years apart. The private motor vehicle is an invasive species, which gradually crowds out and suffocates the rich social life of our cities. When cars don’t dominate the streets, life flourishes.
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James Dyson @dysonsk3.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"Readymicks" concrete suppliers, Longport, a lively distraction from the distressing state of Top Bridge Works across the Trent+Mersey Canal. #urbansketching
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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Jodrell Bank is an internationally important asset, and its loss would be devastating There is a choice to be made, and it represents the first big test of Andy Burnham's premiership open.substack.com/pub/thefootb...
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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
#TinShedTuesday Bar Hill #aofoto
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James Dyson @dysonsk3.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Return to Ancoats. Ex-Central Retail Park, site of Manchester Digital Campus, aka No10 North. It was all going so well until I spilt water over it. Hoping @andyburnham.bsky.social has more luck.
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James Dyson @dysonsk3.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Derbyshire double #2CVendredi
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