From the introduction to the Hookland Tourist Board I=SEE STRANGE HOOKLAND book:

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

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.

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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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

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.

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.

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...

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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I abominate all honorable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever. It is quite as much as I can do

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

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

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.

This is a great insight from a young woman in Canberra on housing and time and multiculturalism www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

Who’s next?

Jorge Liboreiro@jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · last wk.

The Trump administration is preparing to sanction the ICC as a whole and cut it off from everyday financial transactions, insurance providers and IT services and products, which would leave the court unable to operate, Reuters reports.

I've delved into the distressing statistics around the human and financial cost of homelessness in England. It's grim. apps.curtography.uk/ta/

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.

Dear journalists and commentators next time you breathlessly repeat the PR from AI companies claiming their technology has human traits just remember this picture

Karlin Lillington@klillington.bsky.social · last wk.

Not ‘adding to rogue incidents’. 🙄Adding to evidence that companies won’t or can’t adequately secure their experimentation with AI and that this is systemic in Big Tech and Big AI

"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

#Election Day in Russia.

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

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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Intense jubilation. (#OTD in 1944. Eindhoven, the first major city to be liberated during operation #MarketGarden. #WW2 #HISTORY)

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...

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.

Annie Dillard / from Mornings Like This: Found Poems

Annie Dillard / from Mornings Like This: Found Poems

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)

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

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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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.