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Tom Newby

@tomnewby.co.uk

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Structural engineer. Emergency shelter specialist & ex-humanitarian aidworker. Interested in good people-centred design, equity & (climate) justice. Currently working on the unusual combination of social housing and stadiums in the UK.

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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · Oct 6

Built Environment starter pack, now with new accounts added, including @barnabascalder.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/KfrbNPF

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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 1d

This is so depressing.

Why can't they just decide to pay to build proper, state-owned, council housing?

It's capital investment so can be paid for from borrowing; it'll pay for itself anyway in saving longer term housing costs; and it'll stimulate the economy really effectively.

A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty

Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 1d

I think I need a visit to Liverpool for this exhibition...

From glorified sheds to sleek sci-fi palaces: how architecture put the zing into football grounds

A new exhibition in Liverpool tells the story of the stadium, from churning tribal terraces to hyper-modern wedding-cake-like structures with retractable pitches. And let’s hear it for the world’s fir...

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 2d

And for students looking for a year-in-industry:

Buro Happold - Industrial Placement - Structural Engineering

careershub.burohappold.com

Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 2d

I'm recruiting graduates and year-in-industry students to my team.

It's a wonderful team of around 90 structural engineers and technicians in London, and we need brilliant, passionate young engineers to join us.

If you are one, or know one, please take a look!

Buro Happold - Graduate Structural Engineer

careershub.burohappold.com

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Brendan Paddy @bjpaddy.bsky.social · 2d

Your semi-regular reminder that restricting humanitarian aid to civilian populations is a war crime
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Hamas agrees to return four deceased hostages tonight as Israel says it will halve aid deliveries to Gaza over release of bodies – live

Hamas tells mediators it plans to transfer bodies of four deceased hostages at 10pm local time

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 2d

Spot the difference on today's bbc news

BBC headline reading:

Minister 'appalled' women banned from Muslim run

BBC headline reading:

Tommy Robinson police stop unlawful, court hears

Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 2d

Still from a video via a colleague showing someone stepping on a fragment of asbestos roofing sheet in Gaza.

The rubble which makes up so much of Gaza will be riddled with asbestos and other hazards which will continue to kill people.

Still from a video showing someone stepping in a fragment of asbestos corrugated roofing sheet.

Releasing and inhaling asbestos dust can be deadly.

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James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 4d

For thousands of years we’ve been building with trabeated stone. For thousands of years it’s been chewed at, chased to abstraction. Repeatedly exhumed and revived, even after Roman concrete, even after Gothic vaults, after Rundbogenstil and Candela’s shells. Keeps coming back from the dead.

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ruins of the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion. Doric columns carrying stone lintels against a blue sky; photo mine

15 Clerkenwell Close, London, by Groupwork Architects, @amintaha. building with gridded exoskeleton of stone columns and lintels, variously saw-cut or quarry-faced; photo mine

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 6d

Many displaced Gazans (90% of the population) "will find fields of rubble where their homes once stood."

No, almost all of them will find rubble. 92% of residential buildings have been destroyed, 88% of commercial buildings. 62% of people have lost their property documentation, back to the Nakba

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 6d

📢 Breaking: The Foreign Press Association has renewed its call for immediate press access to Gaza. In a statement issued October 10, the FPA urged Israel to open the borders without delay. It reads in full:

“The FPA welcomes the agreement between the warring parties on a ceasefire in Gaza...

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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 6d

All of them are batshit crazy.

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 6d

The version that will get its plates into and out of a locked state on its own is here:

Tectonic Explorer

tectonic-explorer.concord.org

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 6d

Not as fun as the older version where you could not impose a force and subduction would self-initiate eventually, but still interesting....

Tectonic Explorer

tectonic-explorer.concord.org

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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 6d

Philippines rocked by damaging 7.6-magnitude earthquake

Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said authorities were assessing the situation on the ground and search and rescue efforts were being prepared

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14d

Labour has a chance now to turn a corner and win support from people who want it to succeed. Or it can continue with this type of vicious populist filth and alienate everyone. It's your call guys.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 15d

So if I’ve grasped the galaxy-brained strategy here, it’s:
✅ Day 1: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 2: tell target voters their ideas are racist
✅ Day 3: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 15d

Another video of Cebu quake

Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 15d

Video of Cebu quake

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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 15d

Big Philippines earthquake

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 16d

This means that it is now Labour’s official position that Israel is committing genocide.

While at the same time, the Labour government continues to arm that genocide

Absolutely extraordinary!

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 16d

Brave man.

But look at the degrading farce Yvette Cooper has made of our police and our law.

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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 17d

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr

Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.

And you're cutting... the sleeper?

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts

Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 17d

‘His buildings were always ready for their closeup’: how Terry Farrell’s postmodern exuberance conquered the world

From the ziggurats of the MI6 HQ to TV-am’s eggcups and a Hong Kong tower that featured on a banknote, Farrell strived to make uplifting architecture

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 17d

‘Nonconformist’ architect of MI6 building Terry Farrell dies aged 87

Farrell was a key member of the hi-tech movement of the 1980s and 90s, with buildings including the TV-am studios and Embankment Place in London, and the Deep in Hull

www.theguardian.com

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Sb @xtasbe.bsky.social · 18d

It's not volunteering if it's compulsory

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 18d

"Migrants will have to carry out community work or volunteering to qualify to permanently remain in the UK, according to the Home Secretary." [Telegraph]

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