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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

2 years

"Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten (Ricardo Villalobos remix)"

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

2 years

mr blobby undertaking a psychogeographic drift through the liminal spaces of east london

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Douglas Murphy

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2 years

this list of subscribers to a strike fund in Todmorden, early C19th, reads like a bunch of twitter-left pseudonyms

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

22 days

The – I don't think I'm being hyperbolic here – evil that runs through the British press is so blatant, so unbelievably obvious, and yet you are so often made to feel like the boy pointing at the naked emperor for mentioning it

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I think about this Times cartoon from 2016 a lot; the sheer depravity of this, and all the production staff, editors and managers who nodded and smiled before they put it into the newspaper

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Douglas Murphy

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7 years

For once in my life I feel at one with the world

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Douglas Murphy

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2 years

Seeing the French result, and I wonder if anyone from the centre is now going to thank the left for bailing them out, for the millionth time

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

3 years

this has to be the most cynical bit of 'secured by design' I've ever seen, hypothetical disabled people used as fig leaves for hostile architecture

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

9 months

the thing is, call me a Keynesian, but things like this that are considered totally unaffordable are just as likely to be cost effective due to the emergency spending that they alleviate

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9 months

Corbyn on his first words if he'd have become prime minister: 'Today, rough sleeping [and] homelessness ends. There will be no more homeless people in this country. The state will provide. That was going to be my opening gambit.'

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Douglas Murphy

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1 year

I know I shouldn't be drawn into stuff like this but it's incredible how there's almost a formula: – comedian – private school – parents in same industry – 'centrist' – raging about the intolerant left – calling Corbyn a racist – used to do 'edgy' 'ironic' racist material

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Douglas Murphy

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5 months

@SzMarsupial sulky bats 💔

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

5 years

who can forget such innocent times

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

3 years

seen some more 'gifted kid burnout' chat and I've realised that what basically makes my skin crawl about it is the fact that it's acted out by people who really, genuinely, honestly, thought that they were special, and indeed superior

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

9 months

@joolsd fantastic use of "too bad"

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

1 year

she won Kensington & Chelsea (!!!) for Labour in 2017, then in 2019 was completely stitched up by a Tory who defected to the Lib Dems, split the vote, and then popped off back to Goldman Sachs, job done. It all stinks

Emma Dent Coad

@emmadentcoad

1 year

With huge regret. I have decided to resign from the Labour Party. I'm not leaving the party. The party has left me. Please RT. 👇👇👇👇

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2 years

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

4 years

there's something grimly fascinating about the way liberals will become so excited by outbreaks of charity and kindness, but are so nauseated by the idea that you systematise these processes for the good of all

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

3 years

I happen to know that the building in the upper image was by Colin St John Wilson, a fantastic architect of historic significance, and I couldn't care less which hedge fund pillock was responsible for wiping it out for more empty Kensington, does that make me evil or something

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

4 years

can't stop zoning out on Paul Rudolph's ridiculous take on the Breuer chair

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

1 year

there's a new architecture practice getting some praise for what seems to be their first project – a new build house and studio for themselves… it looks great, to be honest, well done, but my god it looks pricey

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

2 years

the head of planning at Westminster eventually resigned after it turned out he was taken out by developers for more meals than there were working days in the year

Pippa Crerar

@PippaCrerar

2 years

Labour taken Wandsworth - Margaret Thatcher’s favourite council - and is calling Westminster which has been Tory since its creation in 1964. Obvious symbolism for Tories of losing two flagship councils - but notable both were well run w/ low council tax & even that wasn’t enough

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

4 years

hi everyone, just to let you know: someone from a national radio programme called me this morning asking if I wanted to talk go on to talk about immigration, and it has taken me hours to realise they were trying to get a hold of Douglas Murray

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

9 months

are you fucking kidding me? Is that what P Schumacher looks like now?

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

4 years

Early yesterday morning we said goodbye to my father, Robert Murphy. I would like to say a few things about him here.

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

9 months

I may have a jaundiced view, but if your 'liberal democracies' have, for decades, just made life harder for anyone that isn't rich, then it's never quite surprising when people say "fuck it how could it be worse" and plonk a big X next to the insane guy's name

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

3 years

been looking at photos of the WTC interior

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

3 years

a slide from this afternoon's lecture

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

10 months

lol those were the days

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

1 year

it's nowhere near as bad as Linehan's trashing of his achievements, but Iannucci's public behaviour from 2015 on really felt like he was trying to scuttle the goodwill a lot of people had towards his work

Armando Iannucci

@Aiannucci

1 year

Good morning. Here’s my piece on Iraq war 20 years on.

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

2 years

oh boy, if an elderly Eastern European man tells you he fought against Stalin, maybe do your due diligence

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

4 years

this is a most perfect example of English bourgeois attitudes and behaviour

Sky News

@SkyNews

4 years

Hundreds of British tourists forced into quarantine at an upmarket ski resort due to fears about the new, more contagious variant of #COVID19 have fled under the cover of darkness, according to a report

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

6 years

wowowowowow it’s a job advert for Camden Council Architects Department from November 1974, early version of Branch Hill at the top, read it and weep

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

2 years

I made a model of the solid from the back of Dürer's Melancholy

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

1 year

RIP Peter Tábori

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

3 years

tell me how abolishing anonymity would have helped when this non-anonymous guy was rushing to defend the non-anonymous Mr Coren's having shat on my dead friend's grave

Matthew Stadlen

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3 years

Online anonymity should end.

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

3 years

This here's Witanhurst, the second largest house in London after Buckingham Palace, owned by Andrey Guryev, a Russian fertiliser magnate

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

3 years

ha… ha… ha… (Corbyn is actually there btw)

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

5 years

I'm not a hopeful person, but almost nothing would make me happier than Johnson's hubris rendering him even more of a failure PM than Cameron or May, forever to be our history's idiot prince

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

9 months

@tamars the thing that really got me learning about the Lillehammer affair was the way those involved said "none of this had anything to do with revenge" and the name of the action was "Operation Wrath of God" or similar

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

8 months

I've been reading a great book about bath architecture and boy them Romans really knew how to put a plan together

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

4 years

Robert Clark Murphy, 10.2.1944 – 15.8.2020

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

2 years

I went to Boris Johnsons's Horrible Ghost Town yesterday, it was like being in an unpopulated render

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

3 years

one thing I like about Lacaton & Vassal is the "are we/aren't we" game they play with aesthetics. For example; their entry to the RCA competition featured awful images directly exported from sketchup, which is a really good example of "provocatively bad"

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

4 years

"it's so weird and boring, but I'm obsessed" always cuts me right to the bone

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

7 years

this is what the UK lost when we chased Neave Brown out: a low-lying housing megastructure he designed in Eindhoven.

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

5 years

I don’t know why but i saw this painting and thought of Twitter

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

6 years

Well this was really quite something last night

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

4 years

also, back to exploited architecture graduates, but a big big issue is that the financial privilege that allows some young people to do years of interesting, appallingly remunerated work is still not discussed openly enough

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

3 years

this has been said so often but one of the things twitter has taught us, and it burns people to see it, it tears them up, is that underemployed depressed losers with humanities MAs often see the world with an intelligent clarity the well-established find impossible to achieve

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

4 months

I am by no means a particularly politically 'radical' person, in a wider context, but this tweet brings up a feeling I've had for quite a while now, which is that there's a lot of people in academia who talk a good game about being 'radical' but are clearly just making their way

Tom Slater

@tomslater42

4 months

There is no better illustration of the limits of liberalism than the fact that the author of this book has locked us all out of our campus and surrounded it with cops.

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

2 years

If Dick o' Jos's wife duzzant give over burning the Reports, Old Thunderbolt Clogs will tell about her wareing half a crown of a Sunday Bustle

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

2 years

Britain in 2023

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

1 year

years of creating work skewering just how venal, vacuous and stupid the parliamentary system was, and then when there was even a slim chance to change it, it was all "bring back the people I spent years calling cunts, I don't like this"

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

4 years

RIP Enzo Mari, you big ol' communist xxx

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

3 years

have you noticed how, just a year later, Corbyn is getting brought on TV to give opinions etc as if he isn't actually the genocidal freak he was supposed to be? Who was it was saying that it wouldn't be long before he became an elder statesman after all…

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

2 years

all that horseshoe theory and the reality is that we are endlessly taken for mugs because we *actually* hate the baddies

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

7 years

hi

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

5 years

When I wrote a book about him I was far too polite, but Johnson really is the epitome of all that’s disgusting about Britishness

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

2 years

I canvassed in the pissing rain for these pricks

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

4 years

on this day in 2016 I found this weed growing, underneath a lamp, about 15 meters underground in Archway station.

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

5 years

The other day I was with some students, many of them about 19-20 years old, and some were very surprised to hear that just over a decade ago there weren't rough sleepers everywhere

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

3 years

and who can forget the 1996 project where they were asked to redesign a small town square and they just said "you know what, it's fine, don't change it"

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

4 years

is there any field whose academic wing is so filled with people who hate the subject as architecture?

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

4 years

I mean you have to laugh, the tories have literally, actually, genuinely just cancelled Christmas, and they'll no doubt still be on 41% in the new year

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

1 year

@tom_usher_ "see the thing about britain yeah"

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

3 years

I always feel the need to make caveats about how Scotland is really not quite as progressive as it wants to be perceived, but c'mon, look at this, this is amazing

Bryan Simpson

@BrySim88

3 years

Hundreds of local residents now surrounding @ukhomeoffice enforcement van with two neighbours still inside with no food or water for 3 hours.

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Douglas Murphy

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3 years

I am absolutely spinning out on this Jo Taillieu project, presumably dating from the dvvt years, it's a horrible psychedelic mess and I think I might love it

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

7 years

who's a terrorist sympathiser now

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

2 months

jesus WEPT look at how hard this guy is being marketed to us

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

5 years

an absolutely incredible interview with @emmadentcoad about Kensington, councils land-banking, Grenfell and the total ignorance about how construction works. How stupidly rare it is to see an MP who knows just what they're talking about

Defend Emma Dent Coad

The Observer might want rid of Emma Dent Coad - but we don't. In a new interview, we speak to the Kensington MP about housing, her constituency and the campaign of lies run against her by the Lib...

tribunemag.co.uk

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

3 years

the point is, for all the bluster, Russian money and influence is deeply embedded in the UK, and maybe our government could look closer to home for ways to influence the behaviour of that particular kleptocracy

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

3 years

Bit of a change for me, as today is my first day at @KU_Arch_Land , where I am joining as Senior Lecturer in Architecture.

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

2 years

this Euan Blair stuff is really painful to even think about – an almost perfect example of 21st century corporate brain, really believing they're doing "good" as they go on spitting acid onto the structure of society

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

7 months

I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how there could be a legitimate war-aims reason to set off that amount of explosives in an area that is already secure enough to place those explosives…

Younis Tirawi | يونس

@ytirawi

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🧵Israeli soldiers on their Facebook pages are sharing videos showing the blowing up of entire residential neighborhoods, properties, and firing from within schools they utilize as military bases. 1. From Khan Younis. 70 buildings straight!

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Douglas Murphy

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6 years

To be honest, even if Labour were indeed 100% "yeehaw brexit wooooo" which they clearly are not, even the promise of this change in ecological attitude WOULD BE ENOUGH TO DESERVE YOUR VOTE

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

1 year

ideology (n): what the other lot have

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

1 year

This isn't commentary from a guest, this is Sky News's political correspondent. #Ridge

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

4 years

just learned that, um, in 1978 Richard Rogers designed this house for Steve Martin… yes, THAT Steve Martin

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

7 years

how about that for a section eh

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

3 years

Here's @ollywainwright kicking off what really deserves to be an avalanche of praise for Apparata's housing block in Barking, it's an incredible achievement.

‘A wake up call to the industry’: the artist homes blazing a trail for affordable UK housing

Filled with light and designed around community living, A House for Artists in east London is designed to soften the impact of gentrification

www.theguardian.com

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Douglas Murphy

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10 months

@lukeakehurst every time I see your contributions I wonder how it feels to be so unashamedly evil in the most snivelling, cowardly way, you seem to really enjoy it.

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Douglas Murphy

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3 years

it's funny 'cause it's true

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

3 years

today I finally got hold of perhaps the single greatest Penguin cover design

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Douglas Murphy

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3 years

If my own brother was known to have been a spy cop, with all that entails, I'd maybe wind my neck in on this subject…

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

5 years

I wrote a book about Boris Johnson, and if studying him teaches you anything it's that you wouldn't even trust him to call you a cab – vote him out, please!

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

4 years

sometimes it's quite satisfying to see global "visionary" architecture collide head first with our 'Design and Build' construction industry

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Not sure where to start with this. Dog’s breakfast perhaps.

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

7 years

one for the true heads

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

2 years

sorry for the positivity but this is just an amazing story

Gold coin proves 'fake' Roman emperor was real

The coin bearing the name of Sponsian was considered apocryphal and had been locked away in a museum cupboard.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

7 years

Interesting that "save 'brutalism'" is often a case of "don't kick thousands of poor people out of the city" while "save 'pomo'" is often "don't put a Pret in the lobby"

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Douglas Murphy

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1 year

have I completely lost it? It's textbook projection, isn't it?

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

4 years

i've got a lot on my plate at the moment, but the planning news is really making me catch my breath. Absolute yahoo behaviour, claiming the thing is broken then smashing it further, dinners and donations, half-wits, crooks and spivs, it's just odious

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

5 years

this floor plan is unbelievably depressing – nobody should be forced to live like this, and nobody should be allowed to offer homes like this. A proud Tory policy, this office-resi thing, remember…

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

2 years

I found this a useful encapsulation of the reasons why academics are striking

Britain’s universities are being destroyed

OPINION: Marketisation has left university staff on precarious contracts and students paying more for less

www.opendemocracy.net

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

5 years

been said a lot today but re: "the Lib Dems need someone they can get behind, this can't be corbyn" etc. THE LIB DEMS GOT BEHIND CAMERON FOR FIVE YEARS

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

3 years

more AI experiments, this time architectural. I present to you: Durham Cathedral, as is…

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

6 years

I really can’t believe how often I see “what happened to us after the wonderful olympics?” takes. The two years before saw economic chaos, austerity, huge protests, riots and deadly police violence, etc, do these people honestly think those were the good times?

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

3 years

we should set up a crowdfunder for this sad child

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Douglas Murphy

@entschwindet

3 years

really, hats off to whoever made this photoshop, it's perfect

So I Says to Mabel...

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Douglas Murphy

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5 years

I see the discourse has moved from "they criticise capitalism but yet they have an iPhone, gotcha" all the way to "they criticise capitalism so they must hate jews" which is clearly a) stupid, b) incredibly reckless and c) pretty much anti-semitic in and of itself

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Douglas Murphy

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4 years

There’s a lot more I could say, and perhaps I will do so somewhere at some point, but I just wanted to share my respect for – and I say this despite him being my father – one of the kindest, most selfless and considerate people I’ve ever met.

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Douglas Murphy

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5 years

for a man whose only mission in life was to be where he is now, and whose self belief is impermeable, to completely and utterly shank it into the stands would be so joyful I could live off the satisfaction for years

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Douglas Murphy

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3 years

in case you wanted a short version of my position on architectural academia in general, this is from my latest thing in @tribunemagazine

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Douglas Murphy

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2 years

they never ever learn a lesson do they

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