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Laura Harding

@lhsyd.bsky.social
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Draws…writes…knits…imbibes tea…thinks about architecture and urbanism…sighs a lot… Please do not replicate or copy my content onto any other platforms. (The beautiful flowers are Brack)

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Gerard Driehuis @gdriehuis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Do you change your starting word after this?!
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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The type of compact, urbane, more affordable & amenable #sydneyapartmentbuilding that aren’t being built currently. Clarion by SJB architects in Alexandria side street Whereas current gross planning/political bias prioritising forests of towers in every suburb, or sprawl to a distant horizon - Fail
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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The big questions about Super’n in Australia - so rarely asked - are its lack of any social purpose. Imagine if a % had to be invested in genuine public /affordable housing, rather than speculative office buildings, shopping malls, mining, roads. Imagine the benefits www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
smh.com.au
Is Australia saving too much for retirement?
With contributions set at 12 per cent, people will, on average, have more cash income per year in their retirement than they did during their working life.
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“He is so excited by the racism, he has overlooked the economics.”
thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Angus Taylor’s redeeming feature
The most redeeming of Angus Taylor’s features is that he is unlikely ever to become prime minister. He is a management consultant all the way down, insufficiently serious about the problems in front o...
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I love the breadth of the Good Design awards. Design contributes so much more to our economy, society and culture than extractive industries. Design matters!
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
…and NSW must account for a significant proportion of ‘Other’…?
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Australia 2026 June quarter housing commencements - Houses 31707, Other 19141 June quarter housing completions - Houses 27039, Other 19018 As ‘other’ is medium and high density - why is this so?
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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: A landmark ruling in the High Court has found planning authorities are required to consider local climate change effects when approving fossil fuel projects. (1/4) #auspol #climate www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Breaking: High Court rules in favour of climate in Hunter Valley coal mine case
Australia's High Court rules in favour of a Hunter Valley community group in a landmark climate ruling that could redraw how fossil fuel projects are approved in Australia.
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Excellent graffiti. “Landlord is not a job”
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Did the big storm clear the sky to send the bogongs on their way? Had dozens sheltering in my balcony last night…now all gone…
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You deserve one! They always poke around in my mouth with the instruments of death and then proclaim.’…tsk tsk your gums are bleeding!’…while I think - stop poking them!
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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There were about 16,000 heat-related deaths in Germany last summer, about double the mortality during the first Covid wave in early 2020. Extreme heat needs to be treated as an ongoing public health emergency.
insideclimatenews.org
Mass Heat Wave Deaths in Europe Show Climate Extremes Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts - Inside Climate News
As preparedness lags, many regions around the world could be overwhelmed by rising temperatures, climate experts warn.
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Treasurer’s churlish, ‘…we should be focusing on One Nation’ response to Shoebridge’s remarks about Labor will be filed under… 🤔 ‘time to take your own advice’
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“AI can generate a cartoon in seconds - it just can’t get fired for one. But trying to get fired for one is the entire job.”
crikey.com.au
We cartoonists are a dying breed. It's a canary in the coalmine for a dysfunctional democracy
As New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield writes, staff cartoonists used to be the only ones in the building paid to point at the building. Everyone else eventually answers to the owner, but they answe...
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hard to imagine there are any slow news days any more…utter drivel on the landing page of our city’s so-called broadsheet….
Stories on today’s SMH landing page  -what to buy in the Amazon sale and how to clean your oven…
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 28/09/2026
Just saw someone zoom by on a Solar powered recumbent e-bike, clearly homemade. I barely got a photo before he was away. Just commuting to work in Chippenham I think? Legend.
Industrial estate with a small grainy cyclist turning the corner, laying back on a recumbent bike, and two flexible solar panels making a roof over the top.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Sydney Morning Herald with its finger on the pulse of the nation. Won’t anybody think of the Geoffries?
SMH: Geoffrey's au pair was meant to arrive three weeks ago.
He's still waiting.
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So, so happy to see the bogongs back! Have missed seeing them. I remember huge groups clustered on buildings as a child…
Image of a bogong moth
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“At the same time as Albanese says he supports coordinated principles for AI, he is considering an opt-out copyright system that would sell out Australia’s creative material. He is doing so in the hope of luring AI companies to Australia to train their slavering models.”
thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Misaligned model activity
Sam Altman is the son of a dermatologist and a real estate broker, which is why he makes your skin crawl. Three years ago, he was sacked as chief executive of OpenAI. The board had concluded he was no...
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An astonishing and depressing fact from the 🥄 “The Treasury estimate…says, Australia is adopting AI quickly, being among the world’s leading adopters of the AI assistant Claude, with usage six times greater than its share of population suggests.” @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Haven’t been on instagram for yonkers…but just found myself lost in a farrier hoof maintenance video. Since when were these a thing?!
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is utterly shameful. Honestly - how can we let this happen?
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Someone needs to pay for that stadium
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy Wrensday Wednesday! A male white-winged fairywren at the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden. #wrensday
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Maybe the RBA and the government should be focusing on the ‘company profit-price spiral’ 🤷
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Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yikes.
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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x
The Pope at his crazy as fuck 40th birthday party wearing a tiny sea captain hat, holding a tiny ice cream surrounded by THREE sad looking balloons. He's wearing a blue jacket and jeans with a brown belt and he's got a navy polo shirt on.
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 21/09/2026
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Almost missed it!!
youtu.be
Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
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Bruno Tonelli @brunotonelli.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"So the new tower is a tour de force, an immediate landmark that will be one of London’s architectural sights. The fact that it also offers a credible vision of the future makes it truly remarkable", writes @rowanmoore.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/arch...
observer.co.uk
This wobbly-looking high-rise Stonehenge is the future
Built from three-tonne slabs of load-bearing rock, a new London apartment block makes a dramatic case for a greener alternative to concrete, balancing scale and sophistication with sheer chutzpah
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You’re right - no home should be without two!!
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No home should be without one!
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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Some of Sydney’s towers & spires - can you identify them? Which is the oldest, & trick question, which is the most recent? (Hint c2000). From the upcoming new edition of our book #publicsydney - pre order now
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Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects @hillthalisaup.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Exemplary work of urban architecture, by #ealestrelease architects. On parallelogram shaped corner site, this mixed use building is lively, shaded, environmentally responsible (even blackwater recycling) & urbane, holding the street & lane alignments on all sides. Type of building we need 1000’s of
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good to see this finally get coverage in my old paper. This is the same mob who campaigned against me, but it wasn’t sufficiently newsworthy then.
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The audacity of this man, who poured petrol on the toxic dumpster fire that is this so-called debate, to call for calm? Australia, awaits his apology.
Photograph of John Howard beneath headline “Started to go off the rails: John Howard calls for calm in toxic immigration debate”
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“We want to make sure that abortion rights … we want to stop it. We want to make sure that same-sex – I’m sorry, abortion – is stopped.”
— Mike Newman
The NSW One Nation leader shares his views on abortion, which he later clarified he only wanted to restrict. Ironically, it’s almost unheard of for a One Nation MP to go full term.
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Guests…
thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Guildenstern’s suspense
In the first scene of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the titular characters pass their time flipping coins in a place without any visible character. That is the scenic description.
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hope Bob Katter’s doing the commentary…!!
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Should make for some speedy times…
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
theconversation.com/more-than-2-...
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More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research
Genetic, archaeological and environmental evidence suggest the Indigenous population fell by more than 90% in the 70 years after the British invaded.
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🐕‍🦺 - One hooman and six horses couldn't drag me away.. 🐶😅 #dogs #notmoving
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In any ‘civilised’ country comments such as these would be career ending…
abc.net.au
Hanson apologises if she caused offence by Indigenous Australian remarks
Addressing widespread condemnation, the One Nation leader clarified what she meant by referring to Indigenous Australians as "primitive".
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hope that Dr Peggy Dwyer SC has her feet up and enjoying a beverage this evening…quite the day at the office…
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A friend of mine son’s gave this to his dad
Card that says‘it’s your birthday but I ain’t spending any time on it because in the meantime every three months a person is torb to pieces by a crocodile in Queensland
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There's a very good series on BBC4 this evening; "The Australian Wars". It's shocking but IMO is (or should be) required viewing. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
bbc.co.uk
The Australian Wars - Series 1: Episode 1
Sydney was the first frontier war battleground. No treaty between European occupying forces and the First Nations people meant conflict, and the first recorded massacre followed.
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