Randwick Council in Sydney has started construction a new pedestrian plaza on Waratah Avenue!

https://www.randwick.nsw.gov.au/about-us/news/news-items/2023/may/more-space-for-people-works-commence-on-waratah-avenue-plaza

#waratahavenue #randwick #publicspace #publiclife #betterstreets #urbanism #pedestrians

A quotation from Washington, Martha:

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I little thought, when the war was finished, that any circumstances could possibly have happened, which would call the General into public life again. I had anticipated that, from this moment, we should have been left to grow old, in solitude and tranquillity, together. That was, my dear madam, the first and dearest wis…
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/washington-martha/60208/

#quote #quotes #quotation #duty #publiclife

"What we can do is continue to live with love every day. To show gentleness and compassion to everyone, including ourselves. To reject their venom wholesale, and be wholly, independently who we’re meant to and want to be."

https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a43430966/gisele-senator-john-fetterman-essay/?fbclid=PAAaaC5IDSjJbKLq3AuPtmPwJBxrLCPLcGqKfejAYY_exRYxshW2j7DIE_OCU

#Politics #MentalHealth #OnlineHarassment #FamilySupport #GenderEquality #WomensRights #WomensEmpowerment #DepressionAwareness #MentalHealthAwareness #PublicLife #PoliticalAttacks #MediaCoverage #MentalWellbeing

Another typical sunny Sunday crowd at our cafe/bike hub in #CentennialPark.
A pair of lightweight cubic pavilions, elevated on a friendly verandah-ed base to lift them above potential floods, open to the park all around, buzzing with
#publiclife
#publicsydney

Some #wisdom, in an awkward moment in #Scotland, on #faith, #theology and #PublicLife from Alastair McIntosh
#religion #politics
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2023/02/21/political-theology-and-public-service/

"The unprecedented ruling marks a hugely damaging step for the future of public life in our cities. It suggests that the mere ability of others to look through your windows is enough to have those people banished, that space shut down, and the surrounding urban environment regulated so that nothing may impinge on your own personal bubble"
#TateModern #PublicLife #Planning #Cities #Inequality #Privacy

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/feb/01/london-tate-modern-privacy-ruling-cities-privacy-precedent?CMP=GTUK_email

#Misogyny etc makes it worse but really it's the way that social media makes public figures less remote and yet makes people as a whole more remote (less human).

Avatars don't bleed. A name on a screen is just a string of characters.

Yet if you take away anonymity you isolate and silence the most vulnerable as well as the most dangerous.

#socialmedia #politics #Ireland #femalepoliticians #publiclife https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/01/14/bch-tramp-whore-im-going-to-kill-you-women-politicians-reveal-abuse-plaguing-irish-politics/

#Misogyny etc makes it worse but really it's the way that social media makes public figures less remote and yet makes people more remote (less human). Avatars don't bleed. A name on a screen is just a string of characters. Yet if you take away anonymity you isolate and silence the most vulnerable as well as the most dangerous. #socialmedia #politics #Ireland #femalepoliticians #publiclife https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/01/14/bch-tramp-whore-im-going-to-kill-you-women-politicians-reveal-abuse-plaguing-irish-politics/

RT @BrentToderian
Christmas trees in Kyiv Ukraine’s grand central square, 2019, 2020, 2021 & 2022.

Heartbreaking.

HT @saint_rebel #christmas #Ukraine #Kyiv #war #warcrimes #PublicLife

RT @BrentToderian
Christmas trees in Kyiv Ukraine’s grand central square, 2019, 2020, 2021 & 2022.

Heartbreaking.

HT @saint_rebel #christmas #Ukraine #Kyiv #war #warcrimes #PublicLife

RT @BrentToderian@twitter.com

Christmas trees in Kyiv Ukraine’s grand central square, 2019, 2020, 2021 & 2022.

Heartbreaking.

HT @saint_rebel@twitter.com #christmas #Ukraine #Kyiv #war #warcrimes #PublicLife

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/1604755319502278656

Caroline Noakes says are 40 or so MPs that people (esp women and gay men) know not to accept a drink from or be alone with. So in other words, predatory behaviour is completely normal in Parliament and it’s up to potential victims to shield themselves from it. These MPs are dangerous menaces and should be exposed and prevented from taking any part in public life. It’s not the 1970s…. #bullying #publiclife