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V interesting watching tensions emerge on Australia’s right even before Dutton potentially becomes PM. On Ukraine and hate speech laws there’s a fracturing between normie Libs and seemingly younger, MAGA-inspired groups.

Before and after of central Paris street, cars have been replaced with people.

Think about all the things that can fit when we just stop surrendering most of our urban space to cars.

Urban life can fit.

Before & after street pedestrianization of Rue Rambuteau in Paris. HT to @emmanuelspv.bsky.social

“I’m creatively drained but I’ll turn it around in early 2025”

Early 2025:

Professors will be like:

- This is the worst student essay i've ever read: 71%
- This is the best student essay i've ever read: 81%

Take your mind off your terrible 1st draft by writing terrible 2nd, 3rd, and 4th drafts

9:00am: type paragraph
10:00am: emails
4:00pm: delete paragraph

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

When you see a woman receiving death threats and harrasement simply for sharing her achievement of earning a Ph.D., you have to wonder if we truly progressed as a society.

Picture is of the Melbourne city skyline across a lake. The picture was taken at night with the skyline illuminated by the lights of the buildings. These lights also illuminate across the lake, showing vibrant stretches of rippled colours.

Took a photo of my Melbourne when I was out walking with my bf.

While the day was a burning nightmare, the evening was really pleasant. Surprisingly peaceful considering how many people and cars were around.

As we approach the final sitting week of our Federal Parliament, housing is the most important issue for so many people in this country.
With this in mind, Labor will spend this time trying to make sure that 15 year olds can’t use Instagram.

Help-seeking behaviours in people with alcohol, other drug, and gambling concerns.

I could live the rest of my life happily eating pasta, pizza, rice, chicken, and potato.

One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.

Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control

Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.

SMH: Lidia Thorpe faces Senate censure over King Charles protest

“This motion shows where the major parties priorities lie. They don’t stand with First Peoples in this country. They stand against justice for our people, preferring instead to defend a foreign king, rather than listen to the truth,” she said in a statement. Standing up in the Senate, Foreign Minister Penny Wong moved for the censure of Thorpe and also the separate censure of United Australia senator Ralph Babet for posting racist and homophobic slurs.

Equating Thorpe’s principled protest with Babet’s hate speech is calculated and racist. In their crude attempt to silence First Nation truth telling, the ALP demonstrates the hollowness of their stated commitment to Voice, let alone Treaty

Fastest follow of my life

Agree 💯

Will also quickly add that I’m a PhD student in Melbourne, Australia. 🇦🇺

I’m doing research on help-seeking behaviours in people who use helplines for alcohol, other drugs, smoking, and gambling concerns. I’m just about to hit my 6th month of my PhD. Would love to connect with people who do research on behaviour, help-seeking, addiction, and helplines.

A painting of Guilia Tofana, pouring an unidentified liquid that appears implied to be poison into a chalice

"Your body, MY choice."

Cool, bro. Same.

I think this is probably the best that people can offer. Unfortunately when people develop an identity around a figure like Trump; facts, reason and truth don’t matter anymore. They want to be ‘winners’ and they want to rub it in the faces of people who they see as losers.

Picture is of Ethel Cain with text saying “If you voted for Trump, I hope that peace never finds you. Instead, I hope clarity strikes you someday like a clap of lightning and you have to live the rest of your life with the knowledge and guilt of what you’ve done and who you are as a person”.

The US election results are really grim. With Republicans controlling the house, senate, supreme court, and presidency, there are some frightening possibilities for Americans and the rest of the world. My thoughts are with those who tried to resist. We all have to make sense of these awful results.

I’ll be doing that for the first time next week. 😬

Depends on your environment. I’ve read a lot about students really suffering and I feel awful for them. It’s hard to imagine a career in academia without support from colleagues. The people I work with in Melbourne are amazing, I always feel supported. A collaborative environment is a must IMO.

I think I would have appreciated this response when I was looking for a PhD program hahaha.

This is the second time I’ve caught myself reading about Bruce Willis instead of my PhD research matter. I don’t even know how I got here 😂