Matt Thorne
@riskdiversity.bsky.social
Social Psychology of Risk, Father, Husband, Author, Traveller, Critical Friend, Australian.
Helping save people from harm, helping others tackle risk and being occupied with safety, does NOT automatically deem something moral. It is what accompanies such activity that makes something either morally or ethically ‘good’.
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The Morality of Safety
There seems a naïve belief in the safety industry, that if one is in this industry, one is automatically...
safetyrisk.net
September 17, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Helping save people from harm, helping others tackle risk and being occupied with safety, does NOT automatically deem something moral. It is what accompanies such activity that makes something either morally or ethically ‘good’.
safetyrisk.net/the-morality...
safetyrisk.net/the-morality...
So often we see these safety conferences, presentations and marketing propaganda and the only outcome is entertainment. After being entertained with slick stories, everyone returns to traditional safety systems having for heard slogans dressed up as intelligence.
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The Binary Seduction in Safety
I have written about the binary attraction before: https://safetyrisk.net/?s=Binary and yet so often it continues to be the attraction...
safetyrisk.net
September 17, 2026 at 3:17 AM
So often we see these safety conferences, presentations and marketing propaganda and the only outcome is entertainment. After being entertained with slick stories, everyone returns to traditional safety systems having for heard slogans dressed up as intelligence.
safetyrisk.net/the-binary-s...
safetyrisk.net/the-binary-s...
In SPoR, we understand these ‘drives’, ‘energies’, ‘dispositions’ and ‘orientations’ as decision making. In enactive thinking we understand that all life by mind-body-environment enact into being.
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What Can Bees Teach Us About Risk?
When we think about the forces and energies of life, we see how all animals make decisions for preservation,...
safetyrisk.net
September 2, 2026 at 9:32 PM
In SPoR, we understand these ‘drives’, ‘energies’, ‘dispositions’ and ‘orientations’ as decision making. In enactive thinking we understand that all life by mind-body-environment enact into being.
safetyrisk.net/what-can-bee...
safetyrisk.net/what-can-bee...
Cognitive Dissonance often starts with just an uncomfortable feeling, a disturbance or a questioning. At the beginning, the implications of this challenge are not always apparent.
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August 19, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Cognitive Dissonance often starts with just an uncomfortable feeling, a disturbance or a questioning. At the beginning, the implications of this challenge are not always apparent.
vimeo.com/1218783163?f...
vimeo.com/1218783163?f...
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I picked up almost as much from the library as I did from school—real history, not that polished nonsense we were fed!
August 1, 2026 at 8:36 PM
I picked up almost as much from the library as I did from school—real history, not that polished nonsense we were fed!
I just signed @australiainstitute.org.au's petition: Tax the gas industry its fair share! Will you join me? nb.australiainstitute.org.au/gas_export_t...
✍️ PETITION: Tax the gas industry its fair share
Tax the gas industry its fair share!
Australia Institute research shows a 25% tax on gas exports could solve the gas crisis – and raise $17 billion every year at the same time.
✍️ Add your name now...
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February 25, 2026 at 10:06 AM
I just signed @australiainstitute.org.au's petition: Tax the gas industry its fair share! Will you join me? nb.australiainstitute.org.au/gas_export_t...
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A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
![Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:udzkh2jubo3w6ei42ftanhhj/bafkreic3fp5yp3asvebljrnnzovrw5a5nljp57bgxoyzh6z33m3qczpn4u)
February 3, 2026 at 8:45 PM
A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
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Jeff Bezos, sycophantic ass-lick extraordinaire spent $75 million producing this piece of shit...while undercutting his workers...Support Unions not Corporate Compliance to Fascism,
January 30, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Jeff Bezos, sycophantic ass-lick extraordinaire spent $75 million producing this piece of shit...while undercutting his workers...Support Unions not Corporate Compliance to Fascism,
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This coming Monday, remember.
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#AusPol
#IndigenousIncarceration
#ChildIncarceration
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#AusPol
#IndigenousIncarceration
#ChildIncarceration
'No One Should Call This Place Home' | Always Was Tonight
YouTube video by ABC Indigenous
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January 23, 2026 at 12:40 AM
This coming Monday, remember.
youtu.be/c3Z6X2h4eLw?...
#AusPol
#IndigenousIncarceration
#ChildIncarceration
youtu.be/c3Z6X2h4eLw?...
#AusPol
#IndigenousIncarceration
#ChildIncarceration
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I think this is a very good idea at this stage. A review of perceived #political ‘privilege’ by #politicians, their staff and #wealthy #lobbies is much needed. #auspol
January 14, 2026 at 12:02 AM
I think this is a very good idea at this stage. A review of perceived #political ‘privilege’ by #politicians, their staff and #wealthy #lobbies is much needed. #auspol
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January 13, 2026 at 9:47 PM
#auspol #disgusted
What a sad and sorry affair this has become, where debate and discussion could move the debate to a sensible area, the Government has abandoned AWW rather than admit they were wrong.
Sheer bloody mindlessness.
What a sad and sorry affair this has become, where debate and discussion could move the debate to a sensible area, the Government has abandoned AWW rather than admit they were wrong.
Sheer bloody mindlessness.
January 13, 2026 at 4:11 AM
#auspol #disgusted
What a sad and sorry affair this has become, where debate and discussion could move the debate to a sensible area, the Government has abandoned AWW rather than admit they were wrong.
Sheer bloody mindlessness.
What a sad and sorry affair this has become, where debate and discussion could move the debate to a sensible area, the Government has abandoned AWW rather than admit they were wrong.
Sheer bloody mindlessness.
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$100,000 would cover an American doctor briefly asking, “So what brings you in today?” before referring the patient to a specialist who is not covered by their insurance.
Read more:
theshovel.com.au/2026/01/12/t...
Read more:
theshovel.com.au/2026/01/12/t...
January 12, 2026 at 3:18 AM
$100,000 would cover an American doctor briefly asking, “So what brings you in today?” before referring the patient to a specialist who is not covered by their insurance.
Read more:
theshovel.com.au/2026/01/12/t...
Read more:
theshovel.com.au/2026/01/12/t...
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#auspol I have been yelling about this for YEARS! every nation must have digital sovereignty for critical systems. It is entirely achievable in Australia. We have the talent it just requires the political will.
Please read this. The UK political & media establishment is asleep at the wheel.
We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally
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We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
January 12, 2026 at 2:55 AM
#auspol I have been yelling about this for YEARS! every nation must have digital sovereignty for critical systems. It is entirely achievable in Australia. We have the talent it just requires the political will.
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Obviously not as upsetting as, say, a cartoon but horrific nonetheless.
An estimated 35,000 people in Gaza, including both children and adults, have suffered partial or complete hearing loss as a result of bombings during the two-year conflict, according to a report by Le Monde citing a survey from a local non-profit organization.
January 11, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Obviously not as upsetting as, say, a cartoon but horrific nonetheless.
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In 2024 you all combined to write and complain about the NACC's Robodebt non-investigation
Over 1000 people complained
It's time to make yourself heard again
Take 30 secs or 30 mins to write to the Adelaide Festival board about their actions
Voice your complaint
Be heard
Share this far & wide
Over 1000 people complained
It's time to make yourself heard again
Take 30 secs or 30 mins to write to the Adelaide Festival board about their actions
Voice your complaint
Be heard
Share this far & wide
January 11, 2026 at 8:30 AM
In 2024 you all combined to write and complain about the NACC's Robodebt non-investigation
Over 1000 people complained
It's time to make yourself heard again
Take 30 secs or 30 mins to write to the Adelaide Festival board about their actions
Voice your complaint
Be heard
Share this far & wide
Over 1000 people complained
It's time to make yourself heard again
Take 30 secs or 30 mins to write to the Adelaide Festival board about their actions
Voice your complaint
Be heard
Share this far & wide
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Instead of posting on social media, use your power, use your voice as an Australian citizen
If the pro-Israel lobby can get organised and complain and write letters, then so can you
Write to anyone & everyone at the Adelaide Festival and voice your complaint
And - get everyone else involved too
If the pro-Israel lobby can get organised and complain and write letters, then so can you
Write to anyone & everyone at the Adelaide Festival and voice your complaint
And - get everyone else involved too
January 11, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Instead of posting on social media, use your power, use your voice as an Australian citizen
If the pro-Israel lobby can get organised and complain and write letters, then so can you
Write to anyone & everyone at the Adelaide Festival and voice your complaint
And - get everyone else involved too
If the pro-Israel lobby can get organised and complain and write letters, then so can you
Write to anyone & everyone at the Adelaide Festival and voice your complaint
And - get everyone else involved too
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Instead of highlighting "a" single voice, a more illuminating headline might focus on why 55 literary and journalistic luminaries felt it necessary to withdraw from Adelaide Writers' Week and how Mali's mini-Minns antics trashed the reputation of one of his state's best assets.
January 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Instead of highlighting "a" single voice, a more illuminating headline might focus on why 55 literary and journalistic luminaries felt it necessary to withdraw from Adelaide Writers' Week and how Mali's mini-Minns antics trashed the reputation of one of his state's best assets.
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Starting to see a lot of red
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 AM
Starting to see a lot of red
