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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 4h

🏙️✨ The City of Today is a Dying Thing

Join us for a public lecture by @desfitzgerald.bsky.social (@ucc.ie ), exploring how cities, health + the environment intertwine — and what “green urbanism” really means.

📅 Mon 3 Nov | 🕔5–7pm
📍 @york.ac.uk
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The City of Today is a Dying Thing - Des Fitzgerald

Join YESI's Environment and Health theme for a talk by Des Fitzgerald about his book 'The City of Today is a Dying Thing

www.york.ac.uk

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 5h

Do people genuinely not know that much of the UK left (including TU leadership) supported brexit on the basis of decades-old opposition to the broadly 'open-market' orientation of central EU institutions/actors? It seems weirdly parochial to be surprised by this. #Aras25

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 19h

My son, who has improbably confused the words "massage" and "moustache," tonight came up behind me, gently placed his hands on my shoulders, and said quite seriously, "would you like a moustache?"

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 23h

My method is simply not to cite him. Fuck that guy!

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 23h

Lol. Many such cases one fears.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

A thing that I find increasingly insane as I age is the casual, approving citation of committed NSDAP members in texts that otherwise understand themselves as committed to (even productive of) some notion of justice.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Houses in Leitrim unoccupied since the famine. 150k minus the grant.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

This is, genuinely, my one actual beef with the show.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Lol

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

😬😬

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

I like the show Cheap Irish Homes but man, they should just be honest and call it "Houses in Roscommon and Leitrim" #speirgorm

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

Style
Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 2d

It's actually great we get an annual reminder that economics is - by some distance - the neediest discipline in the academy.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 4d

Oh yeah, that's definitely worse.

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 4d

Not saying they're spoiled necessarily, but my 5yo just asked if they had "gubbeen chorizo" in the pizza place.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 5d

😂

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 5d

Incredible to have a grand total of four posts on twitter and two of them are "I won the nobel prize" and "also fuck victor orban."

A screenshot of all four twitter posts of László Krasznahorkai. One is in Hungarian. One expresses happiness. One thanks but insists on opposition to Victor Orban and one announces receipt of the Nobel prize for literature.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 6d

(also just incredibly weird to hold this event in Berlin, where mentioning the contemporary world's most obviously hellish urban space will get you beaten up by the local fascist cops)

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 6d

"The City as Environmental Hell" is a pretty good epitaph for the deeply counter-urban & revanchist affect that animates so much of the urban political ecology lit. berlinergazette.de/projects/kin...

Kin City · Reimagining Urban Space within Ecological Limits · October 17-19 · ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics

Conference · Artistic Interventions · Workshops with Debora Darabi, Pepe Dayaw, Sandra Huning, Constanza Mendoza, Cata von Noxen, Svjetlana Nedimović, Claudia Núñez, Sara Petrolova, Model Y. Schrottki...

berlinergazette.de

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 7d

I've seen it (not fully complete) in the flesh and it is no more impressive.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 7d

Like, obviously Oxford is an awful institution and can do whatever it wants, but there's something grotesque about yoking what the humanities 'can do' to the infrastructural whims of an obscenely wealthy one-time Trump appointee. Maybe the humanities can do better than this actually??

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 7d

Lol it shows what a £200m gift from the Blackstone group can do.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/oxfords...

Oxford’s largest-ever project ‘shows what the humanities can do’

New building which brings together disciplines for the first time will also open its doors to the public to engage with big questions facing the world

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 7d

It does - thanks!

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 8d

TuneIn appears to have killed BBC radio in Ireland which means I might make it to 8am without hearing two British people have an unexpectedly transphobic conversation.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 8d

Guys I think the UK might be done

Text from an article by Renewal. It reads "Remember that guy who put little flags in dog poos? This is the essence of Mr Blobby Patriotism. A grudging but somewhat uplifting patriotism that is housed in the smallest actions of our fellow citizens."

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