Matthew Stevens

• @uniofadelaide Researcher
• pro Nak Muay/Kickboxer
• ex @GLORY_WS
• ex @karatecombat
• Working in addiction medicine and public health

prinarily Bluesky now

[Matthew Stevens @mattystevz]

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[Matthew Stevens @mattystevz]

A more pragmatic commentary on the social media ban.

Beyond the debate: toward pragmatic evaluation of Australia's social media age restrictions - The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific

https://t.co/P0eETM4VEH

[Cricketopia @CricketopiaCom]

“When I woke up on Boxing Day and picked up the paper, it read: I’ve been to a psychiatrist, I’ve been playing the man, not the ball.”

Shane Warne about Cullinan & his rivalry, which he won every time.

#Throwback

[Daniel @VoteLewko]

Hi @AlboMP. Jewish Australian here.

Don't you dare claim your "Hate Speech" laws are helping me or my Jewish community.

Don't you dare.

You've given people 2 days to respond to a sham 'public consultation'.

You had 2 years to respond to violent speech at the Sydney Opera House, violent speech on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, violent speech on CBD streets weekly, violent speech at universities... You didn't. You did bugger all for 2 years. Oh, except recognise 'Palestine' and import thousands of potential Jew-haters from Gaza.

It took you 4 weeks of dodging a Royal Commission when it should have taken you 4 seconds to call for one.

Don't you dare use the memory of dead Jews at Bondi to try and pretend you're solving a problem. You helped create the problem. You've had two years to say something and you didn't. Yet now you want to prevent the rest of us from saying things.

Well for the next day or so while it's legal, let me say this:
Violent Islam is the problem. Not guns, not memes, and not random dickheads with an old tattoo they've forgotten about.

You plan to exempt religious texts from your laws in any case. So I won't be able to say "Violent Islamist Imams need to be jailed and deported" but they will be able to say this:

"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him".

They'll be able to say it in the mosque and in the street. Why? Because it is a religious text (and so happens to appear in the Hamas Charter). And we know all too well exactly where that ends.

People getting murdered. Every single time. Always starting with Jews.

Meanwhile the cops will be arresting people like me for posting truth bombs to social media. Just as they arrest the Jewish guy with the Israeli flag at the demo but not the hundreds of people calling for Jews' death.

You are guaranteeing we follow the UK in their footsteps - a disaster - when we should be running, not walking, the opposite way.

Shame on you. Shame on you for what you've done to this country. A country the Jewish people migrated to in order to escape antisemitism. Now they are packing their bags.

Eventually as ordinary people get swept up by your new laws, or lose their beloved hobby, who do you think they'll blame? Jews! Jews will cop it, after you claim you spoke with representatives of the Jewish Community and this is what we wanted.

Well as someone with more social media followers than any Australian Jewish organisation (except @AustralianJA ) you didn't speak to me. Or anyone I know.

You did nothing for two years. Nothing. Yet now you want to ram a pile of legislation as thick as your arm on 2 days notice so you can announce you've solved the problem.

As Ronald Reagan said in 1986: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I’m from the government and I’m here to help." and you sir are no Ronald Reagan.

And don't bother throwing shekels at the Jewish Community thinking it will buy you some gratitude or silence. We shouldn't have to spend millions of dollars of our money or other taxpayers' to build giant walls and steel doors around our buildings while you leave the door of the entire country wide open for extremists.

How many Gaza visas has Tony Burke cancelled? How many?

We know the answer. Because given the choice between the Qantas Chairman's Lounge membership or our security and the future of this entire nation, you lot will always choose the one with the cocktail on arrival.

While the rest of us are being murdered.

-Daniel Lewkovitz

[Matthew Stevens @mattystevz]

@16bitnostalgia Banjo-Kazooie for sure

[Dr. Nick Coatsworth @nick_coatsworth]

Howard’s criticism shows the moment is slipping away from Albanese https://t.co/S6TEE04V4w

[Anthony Khallouf @ausvstheagenda]

Andrew Hastie says Australia must urgently review its immigration policy after allowing “radical militant Islamists” into the country, pointing to Sajid Akram’s arrival on a student visa and arguing migration should favour those who support Australia as a Judeo Christian nation.

[LeeKuanYewRespecter @LeeRespecter]

This is leadership. While other leaders have issued facile, cliché riddled statements or repeated tired shibboleths about not letting hate divide us, Tony Abbott is able to clearly articulate the issue. Islamic extremism is incompatible with liberal democracy and Australian society.

[Matthew Stevens @mattystevz]

For the final time ...

[Casey Handmer @CJHandmer]

Brb renaming everything in my house critical and/or strategic.

Critical things are things I have poor sourcing for and use irresponsibly, are at risk of running out at a bad time. My critical chocolate. My critical corn chips.

Strategic things are things I seem to have too much of, but won't stop acquiring so need to manufacture an excuse to keep around. My strategic supply of metallic cubes, meteorites, strange notebooks, WW2 biographies, antique calculators, additional children, etc.

[Addiction Journal @AddictionJrnl]

Red Box, Green Box: Psychometric evaluation of a self-report behavioral frequency measurement approach for behavioral addictions research @mattystevz https://t.co/RQ9lwf24Io

[Matthew Stevens @mattystevz]

Speaking of which. Check this one out.

https://t.co/6qxMa1B625

[Matthew Stevens @mattystevz]

New book chapter published examining the history of problem gaming: https://t.co/XzNw59f9op

NB: references "epidemiology of gaming," which we pushed back given disease implications, but editors set chapter titles before content was written.

[AC @dahliax07]

Maddison, I will cry.

[Matthew Stevens @mattystevz]

@tehTrunk @Flav_Bateman Did you boys think it was a mere coincidence that Levy brought Neville into Harry Kane's former box, sat him down and then poo poo'd every suggestion he had? Subtle power play move there and Neville was oblivious to the whole thing.

[Matthew Stevens @mattystevz]

Advancing cognitive behaviour therapy for gaming disorder: A call for collaborative action - Radunz - Addiction - Wiley Online Library https://t.co/lfxtXVQzoq

[Alex 𝓕𝓪𝓷 @xAlexTHFC]

A new generational edit drops every hour at this point

[Matthew Stevens @mattystevz]

COYS COYS COYS!

[Matthew Stevens @mattystevz]

First fight locked in for 2025.

MTL Main Event on the Gold Coast, Saturday March 8

Tickets & Live Stream available via https://t.co/MJjg2kx6Nq

[Matthew Stevens @mattystevz]

Latest article published in @BioMedCentral #CAPMH

We assessed the psychometric performance of the youth ASSIST and a range of other screening tools for alcohol and other substance use among a sample of Spanish male youth detainees.

Open Access here:
https://t.co/7h5k78jcdz