How do “tragic accidents” happen? By consistently choosing cars over people.

These aren’t accidents.

They’re the inevitable results of our choices.

Part of Tom Flood’s campaign to use car company marketing techniques against them.

People over cars.

Stop closure of the ONLY Master of Community Psychology in AUS chng.it/zhf6dtNT via @ChangeAUS

'If you come to our rallies to make anti-semitic statements...you're not welcome and you will never be welcome'

Palestinian rally organiser Fahad Ali speaks to 6 News about what happened at the Sydney Opera House: youtube.com/watch?v=rE8QiC…

#6NewsAU | 6newsau.com

From subscription traps to deceptive patterns, businesses are exploiting a gap in our consumer laws in a race to the bottom in dodginess – and consumers are paying the price. Sign the petition to make unfair business practices illegal: choice.com.au/MakeUnfairIlle…

“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.” - Richard Feynman

A very common problem, at least throughout the Anglophone world ...

Those who think Victoria pulling out of the Commonwealth Games will cause Australia “reputational damage” internationally should consider what would occur if a No vote gets up on the Voice.

Very interesting

fuck off about people w/ theater degrees. You’re not smarter than a person w/ a theater degree just cause you say so. People w/ theater degrees work in theater but also have all kinds of jobs - some even become doctors or lawyers or whatever STEM shit you think is superior.

Share this with Year 10-12 ♀️s (+ parents) in your networks: Girls in Physics Breakfast at Monash Science July 21

Ft Karen Livesey @uni_Newcastle the 2023 @Ausphysics Women in Physics Lecturer and #SuperstarsofSTEM

vicphysics.org/events/girls/g…

A ‘don’t know’ or ‘I want more’ vote in this year’s #VoicetoParliament referendum could determine its fate, just as it did in the 1999 Referendum on the Republic.
Learn how in this 5-min read by The Hon Dr Barry Jones FAHA: humanities.org.au/news/the-voice…

Great letter from 44 University of Oxford academics condemning Oxford SU who oppose “free inquiry and the disinterested pursuit of the truth by means of reasoned argument” at Oxford Union. Astonishing it needs to be said, really. Signatories include nigel biggar & Richard Dawkins.

'My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.'
- Søren Kierkegaard (born #onthisday )

Just because you can write really long tweets does not mean you should.

Please also read Dr Roche's piece, which does everything mine does and more in about half the space. Missed this article when I was researching mine - it's brilliant - relieving to see someone similarly freaked out by the book and its reception. thechinastory.org/australia-is-n…

‘The Power of Language’: 5 ways multilingual brains work differently | Euronews euronews.com/culture/2023/0…

History says, don’t hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.

#GFA25

This has become a battle of wits Senator. And, as you appear to be unarmed, it would be unfair of me to continue.

“Since Musk took over he has set about dismantling everything that made Twitter valuable — making it his mission to drive out expertise, scare away celebrities, bully reporters and — on the flip side — reward the bad actors, spammers and sycophants …” techcrunch.com/2023/03/28/twi…

I know poetry can do things for people outside the education system so for #WorldPoetryDay2023 I'm sharing a poem made with someone who came to a Leeds Irish Health and Homes workshop on a topic that really bothered him. He liked it and was proud it got into our anthology 'The Trojan Donkey'.