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Urban Institute @urbaninstitute.bsky.social · 10h

🧵: Census data help communities identify needs, track change, and target effective policy solutions. They also power Urban tools on affordability, debt, mobility, and financial well-being. Explore Urban's data tools and research ➡️ urbn.is/4ASHrn2 #2030Census #Census2030 #CensusData

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Confederation of Co-operative Housing @coophousinguk.bsky.social · 12h

🎉 Congratulations to Sanford Housing Co-op on being recognised as a Cooperative Cultural Heritage Site! Since the 1970s, Sanford has shown what co-op housing can achieve through collective ownership, self-management and community. #CooperativeHeritage #Coophousing

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Sanford Housing Co-operative - Cooperative Cultural Heritage

Sanford Housing Co-operative in south-east London grew from 1960s student and housing activism into a purpose-designed model of self-managed cooperative housing.

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Tom Grey @tomgrey.bsky.social · 14h

EU regional and local leaders adopt 'Mullingar Declaration - A Future worth staying for'...“The right to stay is about giving people a real choice about where and how they build their future" www.gov.ie/en/departmen... See also @westmeathexaminer.bsky.social www.westmeathexaminer.ie/2026/10/07/w...

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EU regional and local leaders adopt Mullingar Declaration at midlands meeting of Committee of the Regions

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 15h

The better approach is to create the conditions for cycling first: build demand; then invest in high-end infrastructure where the numbers justify. Not every street needs a protected lane, and sometimes the most important intervention is just a street where cars have been slowed, filtered or removed.

A cycling priority street in the Netherlands where drivers are guests and cyclists are the main users.

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Habitat for Humanity Ireland @habitatireland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People around the world are making trade-offs every day to afford a safe, secure home. Here in Ireland, 35% of respondents agree that their housing situation is one of the biggest sources of stress in their lives. Read the full #HomeAtWhatCost research report: www.habitatireland.org/homeatwhatcost

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Habitat for Humanity Ireland @habitatireland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On World Habitat Day Habitat for Humanity has launched “Home at What Cost?”, new global research which draws on nationally representative surveys conducted in 22 countries and the views of more than 30,000 people. You can read the full research report here: www.habitatireland.org/homeatwhatcost

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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Apartments in Basel, by EMI Architekten Large family homes, with three or four bedrooms. As there’s no central corridor each living space is dual aspect, so gets plenty of light and ventilation And it’s a low carbon timber structure too. Build like this everywhere!

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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

More on the architects’ website buttress.net/projects/wil...

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"But the handicapped need cars!" No, what they need are options in mobility. The tech exists to enable their freedom of independent mobility, but almost always what is lacking is the enabling infrastructure. Bike lanes and quality sidewalks serve everyone.

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I visited Holland during the summer to report on their approach to food, energy & #climate, filling pieces for the Irish Times & Business Post. My latest report, for @thejournal.ie looks at a unique experiment combining urban living & sustainable food production. www.thejournal.ie/readme/john-...

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What if city living also meant you could grow your own food? One Dutch community has it sussed

The Dutch experiment at Oosterwold offers a radically different model of urban living. John Gibbons visited the residents to see how it’s done.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Updated Google Maps (2023, left & 2026, right) imagery from Gaza portray utter devastation wrought on a once-teeming society. With civilian death toll far beyond 100,000, Israeli genocide on Gaza is one of best-documented war crimes in history, yet Ireland is Israel's 2nd biggest trade partner.

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EU Environment and Climate @euenvironmentandclimate.ec.europa.eu · 01/10/2026

🥁 The Call for Climate Pact Ambassadors 2026 is OPEN! Are you taking climate action in your community? Join 1,000+ changemakers across the EU and help inspire even more action. 🌿 📅 Apply from 1–31 October 2026 climate-pact.europa.eu/get-involved... #EUClimatePact #MyWorldOurPlanet

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Tom Grey @tomgrey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As soaring rents and house prices across Europe feed into the political discourse, campaigners believe they have a rare opportunity to force housing to the top of the agenda www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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How Europe’s housing crisis is fuelling a new movement

As soaring rents and house prices across Europe feed into the political discourse, campaigners believe they have a rare opportunity to force housing to the top of the agenda

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Tom Grey @tomgrey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Care, Health, and Housing Crisis, Experiences, and Answers Editor: Lidia Katia C. Manzo bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook-o...

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Care, Health, and Housing

"Care, Health, and Housing" published on 28 Sep 2026 by Policy Press.

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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“We have to sit and listen as men worth unfathomable sums speculate about whether our species will survive their companies’ initial public offerings. We definitely weren’t designed to cope with all this.” 🎯

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 28/09/2026

i did a little Climate Week postmortem on data centers: co2 emissions are far & away the most alarming part of the buildout. but there hasn't been much of a reckoning beyond climate spaces kind of wondering when it'll enter the larger convo, if at all, and what that may look like

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The Data Center Backlash Should Also Be a Climate Reckoning. It Isn’t Yet

Climate groups are latching onto the data center opposition movement, but it remains to be seen if they can get people to care about the facilities’ impact on the atmosphere.

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Urban Cycling Institute @urbancyclinginstitute.org · 29/09/2026

[𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛]: the alarming growth of private cars in height, width, length and weight at the expense of public space, the environment and overall safety.

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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to use AI agents.. ..there is no reasonable interface that I can imagine that would translate those skills in a culturally competent way — and it’s all cultural — for people to make that leap”

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Maurice Lange @mauricelange.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We've updated our density data tool, which now compares British cities with their French and Japanese peers based on proximity to rail stations and distance from city centre. Link to explainer blog and the tool in comment below 👇

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Boudicca of Suburbia @boudicca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He moved country because he doesn’t like LTNs? And they say young people snowflakes 🙄

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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

AI is melting the planet while they tell #NYClimateWeek it's a cure. Dont fall for it. Nvidias emissions are up 725% to fuel the AI bubble. AIgreenwashing.org

Ice sculpture of the planet with "AI is melting the planet" and logos for Meta, Google, anthropic, openai, nvidia and Microsoft logos with flames

Later shot of a more melted version of the Ice sculpture of the planet with "AI is melting the planet" and logos for Meta, Google, anthropic, openai, nvidia and Microsoft logos with flames

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Benedict Cumberbatch presents How to Live on Earth. “Living on Mars would be horrible. Let’s try to live on Earth.”

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How to Live on Earth | Feature Documentary | Presented by Benedict Cumberbatch

YouTube video by Open Planet

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What’s changed? The platforms. The billionaires in charge have altered the rules & their enforcement of their rules to enable this army of a mannequins to run rampant online. Poisoning the discourse and making good faith engagement impossible. Because that’s what they want.

Technofascism: Al, Big Tech, and the new authoritarianism
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In fact, for this army of mannequins and their dummy owners, to be Black and to be Irish is the greatest affront and standing refutation of their abject racism.
And so, our Minister for Justice has acted to protect their feelings by delaying, obstructing and trying to dissuade people of all shades from obtaining the citizenship we are so blessedly lucky they still want.
In response, those of us who are the actual voters can only say clearly, at every turn and in every available outlet, that a healthy, welcoming and self-assured Ireland is one that has more Black Irish people and far fewer dogs listening to His Master's Voice.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

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The Brussels Times @brusselstimes.com · 20/09/2026

A majority of Brussels residents would like to see more car-free days introduced in the capital, with one in four supporting at least 12 such days a year.

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Seven in ten Brussels residents want more car-free days

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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"In the UK, London’s ultra-low emission zone was accompanied by an improvement in children’s lung health & fewer children w clinically impaired lung. function. The New York study adds to the growing bsky.app/profile/lean...

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 17/09/2026

Check out the QTs – just falling over themselves to applaud him for this idiocy (which isn’t his administration’s initiative or even the city’s, it’s some ineffective altruism nonprofit’s). He’s got a mandate to do whatever he wants. So what does he want to do?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A macho culture of performative selfishness might start on the roads, through racing, rolling coal, ever bigger SUVs ... But it doesn't end there. If we want to live in a decent country which values human life, we need to change this culture. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot

In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or consicence. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“It requires certain safeguards, it requires certain data practices, certain hygiene, cybersecurity practices, protections, access control... those things I just named are apparently an afterthought to many people building the technology.”

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AI threats and risk are changing how we see the technology—what does that mean for IT pros?

“The capabilities of these systems have been on an upward swing,” professor says.

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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 17/09/2026

Unhealthy perception in culture wars.

YOU MUST PAY ATTENTION TO ALL THINGS
Human perception generally works best when ignoring anything which isn't usable. Paying attention to everything is painfully draining.
YOU MUST HAVE A SET OPINION ON ALL THINGS
Having an opinion is part of being sentient. A person in a place/time with a past. Yet, like perceiving everything, there is a strain in holding opinions over time.
YOUR OPINION MUST BE CLEARLY BINARY
ON ALL THINGS
Binary opinions are a clarity trap that are exploited to make people be in one group or another. The blurriness of reality enables conversations not fights.

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I just finished reading my sister @naomiaklein.bsky.social’s extraordinary new book (co-authored with the brilliant @astra.bsky.social), and available as of today. Must read! Once again, making sense of the chaotic present and offering a path to sanity.

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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For anyone who thinks the planning system is the main bottleneck slowing up housing delivery, here's Mick Mulhern, head of housing at Dublin City Council, saying, as I understand it, that only about 50% of projects with planning permission get built.

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Tom Grey @tomgrey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Flourishing Neighborhoods is a collaborative platform dedicated to strengthening communities by focusing on neighborhoods—the place where social challenges concentrate and where lasting solutions must take root. www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?u...

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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Labor, Liberal, National, and One Nation would do well to understand this too:

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