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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
www.field-journal.org/article/id/2...
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Friends, Check out the piece I wrote about plastic and buildings for Field Journal! . . . www.field-journal.org/article/id/2...
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Plastic: The Banal and the Interesting
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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Another documented success for NYC’s “Green New Deal” law, Local Law 97.🎉 ✅ lower energy bills ✅ less pollution ✅ good jobs Via energy efficiency. Here, a building in battery park city upgrades to heat pumps for hot water, finding space to do it using this tech: www.phcppros.com/articles/238...
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Veritus Heat Pump Water Heater Solves Space, Cost and Efficiency Challenges in New York Retrofit
The owner of a high-rise multifamily residential building in Battery Park, Manhattan, faced a pressing infrastructure decision: replace an aging, gas-fired domestic hot water (DHW) system that could n...
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Friends, check out the AWI's recent op-ed in The Architect's Newspaper! . . . : www.archpaper.com/2026/07/arch...
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Friends, De Graaf’s Dilemma: Architectural Workers International responds to Reinier de Graaf’s op-ed on globalization and the architecture profession . . . : www.archpaper.com/2026/07/arch...
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architectswtr.bsky.social @architectswtr.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Major blow for oil giant BP, whose shareholders have voted against scrapping climate reporting, and its resolution to replace in-person annual shareholder meetings with online-only events.
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BP board suffers triple climate rebellion from shareholders
More than 50% of voters at first AGM under new leadership oppose plans to scrap climate reporting
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Guys guys guys - is Andreas Malm ok? With all this oil and gas infra being destroyed has he suffered brain death from excessive blood flow to the groin? #EnergySky
How To Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Friends, check out my latest, published in AR magazine! www.architectural-review.com/essays/outra...
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Outrage: plastic (not) fantastic - The Architectural Review
Bold recycling claims deliberately distract from the disastrous ecological effects of plastic in buildings
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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America’s World War II “Nisei Brigade” Helped Save European Jews
The 442nd Infantry Regiment from World War II is most decorated unit in the history of the U.S. military history. In a racially segregated army, it was made up of approximately 4,500 Nisei, Japanese-A...
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Normalize the friendly footnote (Max Liboiron, Pollution is Colonialism)
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
robotsinarchitecture.org
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Association for Robots in Architecture – making robots accessible to the creative industry
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architectswtr.bsky.social @architectswtr.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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architectswtr.bsky.social @architectswtr.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
Wake up Babe, new #AIA Conference seminar just dropped . . . :
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
"Folding in Architecture" is what the industry does like a card table when confronted with moral decisions.
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
The clip-on, plug-in promise of #Archigram & the #Metabolists didn't degrade into the provisionality & disposability of #junkspace. It's been taken up by #MAGA. Witness its ability, a few years back, to whip up an armada of pleasure boats, or convoy of trucks. . .
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
[Wife:] Did you remember to [something I did not remember to do]?
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Burn it down. climateintegrity.org/uploads/medi...
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
*Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown* a crucial new book by Andres Malm and @wimcarton.bsky.social is a devastating takedown of mainstream climate policy. See my review here: #Climate #Overshoot publicseminar.org/2024/11/over...
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Petro-Capitalist Status Quo - Public Seminar
Martin Weiner reviews Andres Malm and Martin Weiner's new book, Overshoot, and discusses how the world has mostly thrown in the towel on enforcing global warming temperature thresholds.
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Tim Smedley @timsmedley.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
And there we have it, folks. Saudi Arabia, Russia & Kuwait successfully block plastic production curbs. “If we address plastic pollution, there should be no problem with producing plastics,” said Saudi delegate. “The problem is pollution itself, not plastics.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/c...
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Nations Fail to Reach an Agreement on Plastic Pollution
Talks on the world’s first treaty to tackle plastic pollution will continue in coming months, delegates said.
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Missed opp if you ask me. The #GSAPP installation should have been a Macy's parade balloon. "Look kids it's "NoDoze, the architecture school cloud!" #architecture www.arch.columbia.edu/news/cloud-p...
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Cloud Pavilion - Columbia GSAPP
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/11/2024
Okay, I have to do a thread on this pretty amazing article because it is just seriously chockers with eye-opening stats about 'direct air capture' - ie, sucking up air and trying to remove carbon dioxide from it news.mit.edu/2024/reality...
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Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air
An MIT Energy Initiative study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” and therefore may not bring abo...
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
In Fight Club, Tyler Durden makes his living selling luxury soaps made from adipose he steals from liposuction clinics. His clients & the liposuction clinic's clients are the same. "Literally," he says, he "sells them back their own fat asses." In the #circular_economy . . .
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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The US no longer supports capping plastic production in UN treaty
Environmental advocates understand the announcement as a reversal, calling it “absolutely devastating.”
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Moe, K. (2014). Insulating Modernism: Isolated and Non-isolated Thermodynamics in Architecture. Germany: Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Crucial reporting by Ever Osorio: Mexico’s First Woman President Inherits a Crisis of Femicide publicseminar.org/2024/11/mexi... via @PublicSeminar
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Mexico’s First Woman President Inherits a Crisis of Femicide - Public Seminar
Ever Osorio analyzes Claudia Sheinbaum's historic victory as Mexico’s first woman president amid a femicide crisis, and the challenges that remain in tackling gender violence.
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
via Michael Roberts blog 5/12/17: #Marx #Capital_Volume_3
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
via Michael Roberts blog 5/12/17:
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Andres Malm and Wim Carton's crucial new book, Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown is a devastating takedown of mainstream climate policy. See my review here: #Climate #Overshoot publicseminar.org/2024/11/over...
publicseminar.org
Petro-Capitalist Status Quo - Public Seminar
Martin Weiner reviews Andres Malm and Martin Weiner's new book, Overshoot, and discusses how the world has mostly thrown in the towel on enforcing global warming temperature thresholds.
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Andres Malm and Wim Carton's crucial new book, Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown is a devastating takedown of mainstream climate policy. See my review here: #Climate #Overshoot publicseminar.org/2024/11/overshoot…
publicseminar.org
Petro-Capitalist Status Quo - Public Seminar
Martin Weiner reviews Andres Malm and Martin Weiner's new...
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Andres Malm and Wim Carton's crucial new book, *Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown,* is a devastating takedown of mainstream climate policy. I wrote a short review here: #climate #overshoot publicseminar.org/2024/11/overshoot…
publicseminar.org
Petro-Capitalist Status Quo - Public Seminar
Martin Weiner reviews Andres Malm and Martin Weiner's new...
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Dear Friends, Check out my review of Andres Malm and Wim Carton's devastating new book, Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown #Climate #Overshoot publicseminar.org/2024/11/over...
publicseminar.org
Petro-Capitalist Status Quo - Public Seminar
Martin Weiner reviews Andres Malm and Martin Weiner's new book, Overshoot, and discusses how the world has mostly thrown in the towel on enforcing global warming temperature thresholds.
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
". . . to hunt with my cats in the morning, fish with my cats in the afternoon, pet my cats in the evening, talk to my cats after dinner, just as I have a mind to. . ."
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Best use of Twitter ever: @LegoLostAtSea
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
AI input:  "Buckminster Fuller"  Results: Buttmonster Filler Buttfister Fleshfellow Blacklister Buttlicker Flockmaster Flash
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Walter Benjamin: "Fascism attempts to organize the newly proletarianized masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. . . .
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
#Sequestration is #plastic's strategy to reign for 1,000 years camouflaged as "engineered" #wood.
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Convinced yet that electoral politics won't save you? #labor_organizing
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
Another classic banger from @ytheory1 . . . " www.e-flux.com/architecture/positio…
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Positions - Douglas Spencer - Architecture After California
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
Great stuff @jamestaite.bsky.social !
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
NYC Comptroller Lander Proposes Excluding Future Private Markets Investments in Midstream and Downstream Fossil Fuel Infrastructure by the New York City Retirement Systems : Office of the New York City Comptroller Brad Lander...
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
Could you say that: In #postindustrial economies, #construction is to #labor as #fossil_fuels is to nature? I.e., each remains the singular dominant mode of #extraction in its domain.) Am I way off?
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Outraged by bourgie capitulation to #petro-plastics industry? You should be.
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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Best description of tectonics. Luke Jones in Non-Extractive Architecture, p.124:
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