Gareth Beyers

I like frisbee & bicycles, aesthetics & accents.
Desk job = international development and diplomacy

[Ambassador Clare Walsh 🇦🇺 🇺🇳 @AustraliaUN_GVA]

Australia 🇦🇺 welcomes the opportunity to participate in the Universal Periodic Review process before the UN Human Rights Council. Tune into Australia's Universal Periodic Review appearance: https://t.co/UyDFMcJqSY
@UN_HRC #UPR37

[Sam Guthrie @samguthrie91]

The US Capitol hasn't been breached since 1814.

The last time a President lost control of the White House was in 1829. When Jackson's inauguration party descended into a drunken riot: he left through a window and went to another party.

[Sammy J @sammyjcomedian]

It’s down to the wire in the nation that stops a race.

Thanks for watching this year! See you in 2021.

[Prof Gemma Carey, PhD MMedSci @gemcarey]

Anyone else realise afresh every few weeks they won’t see their overseas family for years?

[Scott Bryan @scottygb]

ABSOLUTE SCENES ON THE BBC NEWS CHANNEL

[Emmanuel Acho @EmmanuelAcho]

Dear white people,
For days you’ve asked me what you can do to help. I’ve finally found an answer.

Let your guard down and listen.

[Gareth Beyers @MrBeyers]

@michaelaplein No idea but it's very pretty!

[Gareth Beyers @MrBeyers]

@amyvhaddad @RobSturrock @james_trezise @ausgenderequal @TraversMcLeod @ptmitchell @SquigglyRick @GMegalogenis @timsout @JohnFalzon @yatespj @JoshMilthorpe @JoshCeramidas Thanks for the heads-up Amy and sorry to miss the deadline. Too much working and not enough social media checking obvs. If it you get to resubmit, please put my name down.

[Gareth Beyers @MrBeyers]

@MelanieTait @DiRollePR +1 for BSB.

[Gareth Beyers @MrBeyers]

@British_Airways hi there - I'd like to get a refund instead of a travel voucher, as its unlikely i'll be able to use the travel voucher (i booked my travel in nov2020) This option was not avaliable online, and i can't call from Australia. Please can you assist me. Thanks.

[Dr Aisha Ahmad @ProfAishaAhmad]

Academic peeps: I've lived through many disasters. Here is my advice on "productivity". First, play the long game. Your peers who are trying to work as normal right now are going to burn out fast. They're doomed. Make a plan with a longer vision. /1

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

❤️❤️❤️ To beat #Covid19, listen to this Italian grandma.

[Max Roser @MaxCRoser]

1/ Many of you ask me why I take the COVID-19 outbreak so seriously.

Current numbers of cases and deaths are *not* why.

👇 A thread on why I’m worried and what I do personally in this situation.

[Jo Pradela @jojomaia]

Nine out of 10 people found to be biased against women... well, f&$@ https://t.co/tBpzlSWwKx

[@timinclimate.bsky.social @timinclimate]

Those of us who have been in this emissions reduction game for a while will remember playing whack-a-mole with climate deniers who were armed with graphs cherry-picked to show a pause in warming since 1998.

We saw this being credulously reported over and over for years.

[@timinclimate.bsky.social @timinclimate]

@BigA19711971 I'm coming around to actually just caring about fossil fuel consumption ('Is it zero yet? Try harder.')

Targets of any kind are just a political tool which invite resting on your laurels. At the end of the day, every Mt of CO2 re-introduced into the biosphere is doing harm.

[Chenjerai.bsky.social @catchatweetdown]

Thanks Jim! And I would add that despite the imperialist framers efforts to wipe out Indigenous people and sovereignty but many of those governments exist in some form today.

[Brandon Jack @brandonjack33]

My piece in the @smh today.
Will be donating every cent I am paid for this towards those affected by the devastation.
https://t.co/8o3pM4La5b

[Ashlee Betteridge @ashbetteridge]

My sister just made the point that if Australia were a smaller country, like the size of a European one for example, climate refugees from these fires would be crossing national borders to try to reach safety. That is the scale of this disaster.

[Adrian Herring @AdrianHerring]

Lake Burley Griffin this morning. #canberrasmoke