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Peter @phughes1836.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Peter @phughes1836.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
All that chamfering is based on carts and cart wheels
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Peter @phughes1836.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Chunky
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Peter @phughes1836.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Too late for the US, but also, sadly, for Australia. We are overrun with the monsters!
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Peter @phughes1836.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I’d suggest a nationwide road user charge. It would become progressively cheaper per kilometre travelled to discourage shorter trips. It would also be more expensive for inner cities and at peak hour to discourage congestion. Use in out suburban and country areas would be cheaper to be fairer.
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Peter @phughes1836.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
We may not have much control over this transition either. And, yeah, who knows where it will lead. I think it interacts powerfully with individualism and our belief that we should have what we want.
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Peter @phughes1836.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I wouldn’t say that, I think the guy is right. We don’t get to decide if we are text/print society, it just happens, with all the benefits he describes, but with some losses in the transition from oral culture (which we can not now ever understand).
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Peter @phughes1836.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Yes, though I thing Walter Ong discussed the value of oral culture and it’s inability to survive in a literate world.
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Peter @phughes1836.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
It’s a problem the US has successfully exported to this country (Australia) with the same lame logic
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Peter @phughes1836.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This is pretty sad! Though at speed your average EV isn’t really quieter than a petrol car.
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Peter @phughes1836.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
We can stop AUKUS! getup.to/L8WqOCECgWAS1
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Review and Walk Away From AUKUS!
Donald Trump wants AUKUS to serve his “America First” agenda. We know what that means: Australia Last. I just joined thousands demanding we walk away from this $368 billion nuclear deal. Raise your ha...
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Peter @phughes1836.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I saw this the other day. Surely this is an encouragement to aggression? Today I also saw a RAM with the front badge reconfigured to read “WAR”. And the, of course, the nasty BLACK WIDOW” badge. Should we be encouraging this culture of violence and aggression?
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Peter @phughes1836.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
If cars are cheaper to run, people are going to drive them more. EVs are going to make traffic worse and do nothing to mitigate the other bad effects of motorised traffic, such as the health impacts of sedentary lifestyles and road accidents, congestion, suburban sprawl and particulate pollution.
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Peter @phughes1836.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Rapacious sport scumbags like the AFL make a mockery of taxpayers — just look at the Tassie stadium chaos www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/11/a...
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Rapacious sport scumbags like the AFL make a mockery of taxpayers — just look at the Tassie stadium chaos
For decades, Big Sport has teamed up with the major political parties to gouge taxpayers. But for once, the rort has blown up in the face of the Tasmanian government.
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