Felix Yates @felixpy

Designing cities. materialcultu.re London via NY & Edinburgh Joined August 2009

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Samuel Hughes @SCP_Hughes

22 hours ago

London is currently paralysed by transport strikes, at enormous cost to the British economy, as yet more rents are extracted from the people of London. Since 2023, TfL has actually had the power to require continued minumum service (40% of normal sevices) during strikes. Similar…

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Alex Chalmers @chalmermagne

5 days ago

new from me for @WorksInProgMag: how France achieved the world’s fastest nuclear buildout I tell the story of how France defied the global backlash against nuclear power by aligning local incentives, embracing standardisation and abandoning a failed domestic design. 🧵

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Tommy Vietor @TVietor08

3 weeks ago

This is evil. Even the most incompetent military on the planet would instantly realize this little girl isn't a combatant. So why was she murdered? Who murdered her? We will never know because this happens day after day after day and the IDF doesn't care about accountability.

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Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

4 weeks ago

Still think about this every time I hear someone romanticizing the pre-industrial era

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Sam Glover @sam_atis

4 weeks ago

Free speech in this country is in a dire state, we need first amendment-like protections to stop this getting worse than it already is.

Metropolitan Police @metpoliceuk

a month ago

Free speech in this country is in a dire state, we need first amendment-like protections to stop this getting worse than it already is.

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Mike Bird @Birdyword

a month ago

The latest update in the clash between Beijing against the British planning system. A contest between a state-dominated morass of officialdom and bureaucracy that throttles human freedom at every turn, and on the other side it's the Chinese government.

Demetri @Dimi

a month ago

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Assal Rad @AssalRad

a month ago

BBC’s Jeremy Bowen: Israelis don’t want us to film outside the window at the devastation in Gaza…communities in the north of Gaza are flat, there’s nothing left…Israel will not allow reporters, like myself, to enter Gaza to report the story and they don’t want us to see it

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Mike Bird @Birdyword

2 months ago

Affordable housing requirements are like a gateway drug for left-NIMBYISM. You think you're just having a quick puff on the "we need more units at X% below market rate" pipe, but soon after you're injecting "supply can't solve the housing crisis" directly into your eyeballs.

Sam Bowman @s8mb

2 months ago

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Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc

2 months ago

Usually when I see someone saying something awful is capitalism they are describing something that 1) is genuinely awful 2) is a consequence of material scarcity and 3) has gotten much much less bad under capitalism

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Tom Copley @tomcopley

2 months ago

This is brilliant news. As well as the boost for tennis, these plans will open up land that was previously a private golf club for public access and enjoyment. theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul…

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Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok

2 months ago

The zero-sum trap: the more people believe that wealth, status, and well-being are zero-sum, the more they back policies that make the world zero-sum. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

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ianVisits @ianvisits

2 months ago

A private golf course will close and a public park with lakeside walks will double in size. And people objected. theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul…

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Labour YIMBY @yimbylabour

2 months ago

Labour Yimby are disappointed by the Government’s decision to concede to the Nimby lobby on the planning reforms this country so desperately needs. For the first time the Labour Government is backing the blockers, not the builders. 1/

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Ben Southwood @bswud

2 months ago

Until 1970, the UK was the world's top producer of nuclear energy. Until 1978 we were the second-biggest producer. Today we have fallen behind Sweden, India, and even Spain. New plants are going to be both slow, and the most expensive the world has ever seen.

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Sam Bowman @s8mb

2 months ago

Nice one. Environmental impact assessments should just not exist - we’ve only had them since 1988 and they’re a big part of why it’s become so hard to build things since then. Ditto the Habitats Regs. We need to hit the reset button on all this obstructionist crap.

Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho

2 months ago

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Adam Ozimek @ModeledBehavior

2 months ago

Strong overlap of zero sum thinking and villainizing. Whether its billionaires or immigrants, I reject the idea that the real blocker of greater progress is that some group is "taking" from "us"

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim

2 months ago

Israel has high quality cameras for their targeting and they know where food is distributed. They knew these 13 children were lined up for food. This massacre — just by itself — would be remembered for decades if not more if it happened to American children.

Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha

2 months ago

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Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho

2 months ago

This is a poverty mindset. We should have so much cheap, abundant energy that everyone can afford to cool their home.

Politics UK @PolitlcsUK

2 months ago

This is a poverty mindset. We should have so much cheap, abundant energy that everyone can afford to cool their home.

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Sam Glover @sam_atis

2 months ago

Thirty people a day are arrested in the UK for things they post online! And that's double the number in 2017. Things will keep getting worse unless we push hard to change the law and introduce new protections.

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Sam Glover @sam_atis

2 months ago

Both sides now using our stupid and outdated speech laws to try to get the other side arrested/imprisoned. The UK's restrictive speech laws are terrible, and bad faith actors can take advantage of them to intimidate satirists/activists/whoever. We can change this!