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Peter Hill

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a plain walking-around citizen of Sydney, an architect

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arseblog @arseblog.com · 29/09/2026
www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727... This is incredible. £900m. Almost a billion that we know about, between 2010 and 2018 (if it stopped right there). The scale of it is enormous.
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Premier League Statement: Manchester City FC
An independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember when we thought investors might mobilize in ways sufficient to protect the world from climate change
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From the introduction to the Hookland Tourist Board I=SEE STRANGE HOOKLAND book:
REMEMBER:

Don’t go out by yourself at night. Many things in this book are thought to be imaginary, but being out by yourself in the dark can still be dangerous – even if you don’t encounter the Danebury Grim. 

If you see something that scares you, tell a parent or a trusted adult such as a teacher. In extreme cases where you can’t find an adult you can trust, you could even tell a police officer.

Don’t provoke Faeries of any type. You would not like people shouting your name, poking you in your bed with a stick or throwing stones in your bath, so don’t do it to Faeries. No-one likes ill-behaved children, least of all the Elves of Hookland.

Don’t signal for UFOs with torches. It is not only a waste of batteries, it can be misinterpreted by the emergency services. Besides, we can’t promise that all UFOs are friendly or interpret your signal as a positive message.

Show some respect for the graves of the dead. If you were buried in the ground you wouldn’t appreciate another child dancing on your grave or trying to dig it up would you?

Remember to take extra care when looking for things around water – both by the sea and along rivers and pools. Even if he is imaginary, the King-Under-the-Sea should be shown some deference and Stay Belows not encouraged to grab at you when dangling your legs or trailing your hands in cool, apparently calm water.

Imaginary things can’t hurt you unless you believe in them with all your heart and then they are really quite dangerous.
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arseblog @arseblog.com · 26/09/2026
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Rui Pinto has done football a service
Morning all. There’s only one place to start this morning, and that’s with the story that Man City have been found guilty on all but one of the 115 charges that have been pending for so long. First, what a scoop it is from David Ornstein. 🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all […] The post Rui Pinto has done football a service appeared first on Arseblog ... an Arsenal blog.
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Abdohassan @abdohassan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mamdani on this massive $131M DoorDash wage theft settlement “If you keep trying to rip off New Yorkers we’d be happy to make history again” No one goes harder than this dude I swear to god
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/09/2026
One grim conclusion I take from every Climate Week I've attended is that the core old-school "climate communicators" have not updated their priors or their approach in decades, despite everything that's happened, and still, on a deep fundamental level, do not understand conservatives.
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Billy Carpenter @billycarpy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thinking even of this summer, and the Elliot Anderson fee's impact on every single deal to follow. It's hard to fathom how much this has altered everything.
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Peter Hill @peterkhill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Certainly a problem in the streets we build in Sydney, but also new streets in Paris and elsewhere - streets without street-life open.substack.com/pub/thefrenc...
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New French Districts, Missing Street Life
Frontage competition, investor returns and facade design explain why new neighbourhoods struggle to match the street life of old disricts.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I abominate all honorable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever. It is quite as much as I can do
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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Tracy @wacket.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 23/09/2026
Today is the 17-year anniversary of when we woke up here in Sydney, and it felt like we were on Mars. The 2009 Sydney Dust Storm was unlike anything this many people had ever experienced. It was so eerie and confusing. The entire sky was orange! 📸 T. Wimborne / Reuters / D. Payne / Getty Images
Sydney Harbour Bridge with small palm trees in front. Red light and dust envelope everything.The Sydney Opera House during the dust storm with red light enveloping the skyA monorail train passes over people walking across a bridge during the dust stormThe famous face of Luna Park theme park, enveloped in red light and dust
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Very probably the best photo I've ever taken of a 16th Century dovecote with a cow standing in front of it, surrounded by buttercups, looking like she has just dropped a debut album she is thoroughly proud of.
A cow, standing in front of the dovecote in Bruton, Somerset, about a month ago. Lovely town. Beautiful architecture. Had a chat with a really nice lady from an old farming family after I took this. Sadly quite a few stuck-up down-from-London snotbags live there these days and houses cost a fortune as a result.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is a great insight from a young woman in Canberra on housing and time and multiculturalism www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
The woman who feels priced out of spare time

Rosie* is in her 30s and lives in Canberra. She captured the point vividly.

"Housing gets covered as deposits, rates, supply. Living it, the real cost is time. You work the hours the housing demands, in the suburb the housing pushed you to, and what gets sacrificed is the ability to sit down with the people around you.

"Multiculturalism worked in this country when people had time to spend with people unlike themselves. Not policy time — ordinary time. Backyards, front steps, sport, the shops, someone's kitchen. That's how a stranger stops being a category and becomes a neighbour.

"We have spent 30 years pricing that time out of people's lives and now we're surprised that cohesion is fraying and asking what went wrong with our values.

"When people are exhausted and stretched and never in the same room, difference stops being interesting and starts being threatening. That's not a failure of tolerance. It's a failure of time. That's what I'd want people in power to understand."
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Who’s next?
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Russell Curtis @russellcurtis.co.uk · 20/09/2026
I've delved into the distressing statistics around the human and financial cost of homelessness in England. It's grim. apps.curtography.uk/ta/
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England's Homelessness Bill
What homelessness and temporary accommodation cost every council in England, and what they have left to pay for it. 296 housing authorities, 2020-21 to 2025-26.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Wide shot of the BRITISH MUSEUM. There are suggestions of fascism around the streets - tanks, barricades, an Orwellian 'Big Brother'-style poster on a wall. A voice of a TOUR GUIDE emanates from the museum:

TOUR GUIDE:
So the Tapestry tells acrucial chapter of our nation's history...

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[Cut to interior of museum. A long Bayeaux-style TAPESTRY is on display, and the Tour Guide is speaking to a tour group]

TOUR GUIDE [smiling]:
How modern fascist Britain was created. 

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TOUR GUIDE:
The Tapestry begins here with the 2008 Crash, then austerity, then the AI Crash...

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TOUR GUIDE:
...and by the end of the room it's just full-on fash. 

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CHILD IN TOUR GROUP [gesturing to the tapestry]:
What's this middle bit?

TOUR GUIDE:
This is the 2026 Battle of Legitimate Concerns 

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TOUR GUIDE:
[show a reporter standing next to the Dover protests]
Here's the media saying the government have got to do something about the legitimate concerns...

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CHILD:
...About the failure of capitalism?

TOUR GUIDE:
No about brown people on boats

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CHILD:
[pointing at boats crossing the sea on the tapestry]
Are these boats the mega-dinghies?

TOUR GUIDE:
Not all of them

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[we see one of the boats  is a giant yacht]
TOUR GUIDE:
That one's a superyacht,
carrying money from the American fascists to the British ones.

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TOUR GUIDE:
You see really it's as much a story of convergence as it is of conflict.

[An alarm sounds in the museum]
DING DING DING DING 

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TOUR GUIDE:
Ok, tour over everyone 

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TOUR GUIDE:
It's time for the Two Minute Hate!

[They all leave the museum]

[ends]
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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I keep seeing articles about men worrying they won't pass on their genes, and I don't understand why the media won't tell the plain truth: as a man hoping to sire children, the most important thing to do is artfully assemble a bower and surround it with a collection of startlingly blue objects.
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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Dear journalists and commentators next time you breathlessly repeat the PR from AI companies claiming their technology has human traits just remember this picture
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 19/09/2026
"In the mid-80s I remember going to see the German Art in the 20th Century exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. It featured artists like Max Ernst, Otto Dix, Emil Nolde, and it had the same excitement for me as a gig." James F. Johnston of Gallon Drunk on Painting buff.ly/DWFM6Gu
Headshot of James F. Johnston of Gallon Drunk.
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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#Election Day in Russia.
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Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New Column: All this time we've been worrying whether democracy would survive Trump. Still a worry. But now we also have to wonder whether capitalism survives his petty lunacy. newrepublic.com/post/215582/... via @newrepublic.com
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Democracy May Survive Trump, but It Looks Like Capitalism Might Not
The “businessman” with “private sector” experience is exactly the person who might bring not only the American but the global economy to its knees.
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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Intense jubilation. (#OTD in 1944. Eindhoven, the first major city to be liberated during operation #MarketGarden. #WW2 #HISTORY)
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If somehow you’ve never heard from and learned about Jan Gehl, WATCH this very small taste of his unique career, and his singular contribution to public spaces in particular. Reading “Life Between Buildings” when I was young literally changed the course of my career. share.google/razqbJ0n7T0g...
Jan Gehl on the Copenhagen Stroget pedestrian street.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One thing we can never do enough is celebrate our heroes while they’re still with us. Today’s the 90th birthday of the great urbanist Jan Gehl, who started as a hero to me and became a mentor & friend. I’m proud to have been asked to contribute to his celebration messages today. Happy birthday, Jan.
One of many times I’ve gotten the chance to spend time with Jan Gehl, talking as much about life as about cities and urbanism. He’s one of the greatest urbanists who’ve ever lived, but he’s also a kind man and a gracious friend. #UrbanistShoutOut
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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Annie Dillard / from Mornings Like This: Found Poems
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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Annie Dillard / from Mornings Like This: Found Poems
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Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
So long as that woman from the Rijksmuseum in painted quiet and concentration keeps pouring milk day after day from the pitcher to the bowl the World hasn’t earned the world’s end. ~Wisława Szymborska (trans. Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak)
[The Milkmaid (detail) by Johannes Vermeer]
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 18/09/2026
Pauline Hanson’s comments about Maryanne Albanese have been treated as another political controversy. The deeper question is what happens when cruelty and grievance become a route to attention and power, Kos Samaras writes. #auspol #OneNation #Politics
pearlsandirritations.com
Age usually changes what matters. Pauline Hanson has spent 30 years rewarded for grievance
Emotional priorities often change as people grow older. Pauline Hanson’s latest remarks raise a more troubling question about what happens when grievance is repeatedly rewarded instead.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The city dog market. Don't you wish that you were there? I mean, what could be a better way to spend this day? As painted by Abraham Hondius in 1677.
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If Israel can be in Eurovision, they should let Palestine in. Then Palestine could get Sheeran to write a song for them. He could call it Where's All The Fucking Support Gone Suddenly.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A personal story about that phrase “young men of fighting age” applied to asylum seekers. As many of you know I took in a young Ukrainian woman under the Homes for Ukraine scheme. As part of that process, soon after she arrived we were visited by the local authority rep and a Fire Brigade rep.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On short lifespans
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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
 Lent et douloureux. #Music Erik Satie, Trois Gymnopédies (published in Paris starting in 1888) #Piano youtu.be/FyUNbrgLezI?...
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wulftec @wulftec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is
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Peter Hill @peterkhill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Empire of Grift
Making the world safe for corruption
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Incredibly composed study of the Maritime Pine, 1580s, by Jacques le Moyne de Morgues, whose day is today.
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Peter Hill @peterkhill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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When the world stops looking at Nepal
On what Nepal can do with the world’s attention following the Bhotekoshi flood
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Make-up covered the cuts for the wedding day but everyone was shook up.
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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This made me smile, attached to an ordinary cast iron drainpipe on a house in Durham. #TinyJoys
A cast iron drain pipe going down the side of a white-painted house.  A crest of red feathers and a bright orange beak made from something solid have been attached around it.  It looks remarkably like "Feathers McGraw", the evil criminal penguin from The Wrong Trousers.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
just take a look at this pig ok
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm late to post this but this from @squigglyrick.bsky.social is well worth your time rick-morton.ghost.io/deliver-us-l...
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Deliver Us, Lord, From Ridicule
On Friday, Defence deputy secretary Celia Perkins began her evidence before a senate inquiry into asset sales by the department and Australian military with an embarrassing manoeuvre. 'In closing, I ...
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Karl @iblewoutmyflipflop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Toyota Hilux commercial
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
housos
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026
Honestly, "big-name studios can't agree on the premise of the Muppet Show" sounds like the premise of the Muppet Show
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO
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Peter Hill @peterkhill.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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How France Keeps its Small Shops
Commercial lease law, rent indexing and planning rules explain the retail mix other countries are losing
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