Notices by Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org), page 11
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 16:46:51 JST 
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@taylan
Why don't you think
fn (i) => i * i
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 06:58:36 JST
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Christmas message by Australian then deputy prime minister in 2019
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 06:53:20 JST
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 20:30:07 JST
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 20:14:47 JST
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Christmas in Australia - SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvr0YNJwE0c
> Hugh Jackman explains the differences between the holidays in America and Australia, such as how his dad (Will Ferrell) would always have to fight the Christ... -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 20:11:50 JST
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 17:58:58 JST
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Are they gonna take a day off tomorrow -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 17:30:43 JST
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A Week in the War on Women: Monday 16th December - Sunday 22nd December
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/a-week-in-the-war-on-women-monday-493
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We have written previously about Pierre John Parsons, a 47-year-old trans-identified male sex offender who lives in Dunedin, New Zealand. In 1995, then aged eighteen, Parsons attacked a 12-year-old girl in a toilet at a sports centre. He tied a rope around her neck and dragged the unconscious child down a corridor and into a changing room where he stripped off her clothes. (According to The New Zealand Herald, he stole the girl’s clothing for ‘cross-dressing purposes’.) Parsons then took the naked twelve-year old girl into another room where he raped her.
In 2003 he was released from prison on parole but was subject to an extended supervision order (ESO), a court order which is used to closely monitor and manage the long-term risk posed by sex offenders living among the general community. Two years later Parsons was back inside after he was caught keeping pictures of children in his room at the supervised housing facility where he was living. In 2006, a decade-long ESO was imposed upon him and has remained in place following various reviews and extensions.
Over the next ten years Parsons breached his ESO numerous times. He twice approached a 15-year-old girl, hoping to abuse her. On the first occasion, the girl was wearing her school uniform. On the second occasion, Parsons gave the girl a note which contained a phone number and a request for her to buy underwear. He also invited a prostitute to the housing facility at which he was living. In 2020 he was returned to prison for nine months following the discovery of ‘vile and degrading’ images and videos of child sexual abuse on his electronic devices. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 16:35:44 JST
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‘Gutless’: War of words breaks out over remote voting in Liberal showdown
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/gutless-war-of-words-breaks-out-over-remote-voting-in-liberal-showdown-20241224-p5l0id.html
> John Pesutto’s decision to allow remote voting in Friday’s leadership spill has put him – and his opponents – in the line of fire.
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 11:07:38 JST
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"Mitochondria will be free" -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 10:09:37 JST
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The 14 knives on the back are a nice touch -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 09:10:44 JST
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Visiting a news corpse site (e.g. The Australian) using a text-based browser like lynx:
"You might have been detected and blocked as a crawler bot!"
Changing user-agent to spoof GoogleBot and try again: *works
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 06:44:12 JST
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Why no mention of negative gearing?
#auspol
> Get your housing in order: IMF warns government and Coalition
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/get-your-housing-in-order-imf-warns-government-and-coalition-20241223-p5l0cr.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_politics_federal
> Across all metrics, Australian housing is among the most expensive in the world and the International Monetary Fund says nothing short of major reform will change that.
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> “A comprehensive policy package is essential to tackle Australia’s housing affordability crisis, focusing on increasing the construction workforce, relaxing zoning regulations, advancing initiatives to boost new housing supply, and re-evaluating property taxes and stamp duty,” it said. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 05:58:51 JST
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@rebelnews
Merry Grav-Mass! -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 20:28:56 JST
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Affidavit by Moira Deeming's husband is a good read
https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/121440/Affidavit-of-Andrew-Deeming-27-May-2024.pdf -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 18:44:20 JST
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More recently, Bluesky users with major followings reveled in the prospect of violence against Jesse Singal, a center-left journalist who has ended up in progressive crosshairs because of his reporting about detransitioners and involvement in other heated debates regarding trans issues. Some consisted in crude death threats: “I think Jesse Singal should be beat to death in the streets,” one wrote. But a surprising number explicitly justified calls for violence as being necessary to defend themselves against the ways in which he supposedly put them at risk. “Jesse Singal and assorted grifters want us dead so i similarly want him dead,” another user wrote.1
Though they blatantly violated Bluesky’s restrictive community guidelines, the platform hardly took action against such accounts. It even failed to ban users who shared what they believed to be Singal’s private address or made especially graphic threats against him. Evidently, the people making decisions for the kinder, gentler platform don’t mind actual death threats—as long as they are directed against those who, in their judgment, have it coming to them. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 18:44:16 JST
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"Blue MAGA" is a brilliant term
> The Cruelty Is the Point
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-cruelty-is-the-point
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When Bluesky launched, I hoped that it would succeed. But the platform has quickly shown that it is hard for any social network to deliver on its promise of being the place for a kinder or gentler discourse. At its best, Bluesky has become a giant progressive echo chamber, with Blue MAGA accounts freely sharing “misinformation” such as the notion that the vote count in the 2024 election was fraudulent because millions of Democratic votes inexplicably went missing. At its worst, it openly revels in violence—so long as that violence can make a claim, however tenuous, to defend or avenge righteous victims.
In accordance with the platform’s policy of moderating content much more aggressively than X has done under Musk, Bluesky’s moderators have been quick to act when users flout the site’s ideological consensus. In the last weeks, both small accounts with few followers and well-known writers with an established audience have seemingly been banned for such trivial “infractions” as suggesting that the Democratic Party leaving X would be a counterproductive form of “purity politics.” And yet, it was on Bluesky that prominent journalists—including, but not limited to, the infamous Taylor Lorenz—openly rejoiced in the murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. As long as progressives perceive the victim of a crime to be morally evil, the moderators on Bluesky appear to believe that threatening violence against them is justifiable. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 08:24:20 JST
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Not yet. He proposed a Jan 15 meeting to readmit her, as well as introduce a code of conduct (sus) for the parliamentary wing of the party -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 08:06:20 JST
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Victorian Liberal Party: John Pesutto faces leadership spill on Friday
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/pesutto-calls-another-party-room-vote-on-deeming-s-re-admission-20241222-p5l07l.html
#auspol #DeemingVPesutto
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John Pesutto’s days as Liberal leader appear numbered after five shadow cabinet ministers forced a party room meeting on Friday to decide his fate.
The opposition leader had made a last-ditch effort on Sunday to save his job by making a shock concession and agreeing to readmit exiled MP and defamation foe Moira Deeming to the party.
However, his challengers say it’s too little, too late, with the push to oust him culminating with a letter – signed by key Pesutto ally James Newbury – calling a meeting on Friday where a spill will be pushed. The meeting later this week will include a vote over Deeming’s membership. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 06:09:30 JST
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The Riddle of Luigi Mangione
https://www.gurwinder.blog/p/the-riddle-of-luigi-mangione
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But while thousands reacted with laughter emojis to Thompson’s murder, and with love-heart emojis to his alleged murderer, I was sickened. Vigilantism is always wrong. If you celebrate someone gunning down a defenceless person in the street, then you advocate for a world in which this is an acceptable thing for anyone to do. You in fact advocate for a world in which a stranger can decide that you’re also a bad person, and gun you down in the street. In such a world, I promise you, your health insurance would cost much more.
The murder would’ve been shocking even if I didn’t know the murderer. But when Luigi was revealed as the suspect, everything became surreal. My mind raced back to our chat, searching for clues he could’ve done this. The only thing that stuck out was when Luigi briefly mentioned healthcare in the US was expensive, and said we Britons were lucky to have a socialized National Health Service. But even this statement, by itself, gave no indication Luigi was capable of what he was being accused of.
When someone is found to have committed murder, friends and relatives will usually say things like “I can’t believe it, he seemed like such a nice guy.” I instinctively said the same thing about Luigi. But as the shock faded and my wits returned, I ceased to be surprised. I’ve long known that people who are capable of great kindness also tend to be capable of great cruelty, because both extremes are often animated by the same crazed impulsivity. It’s why many of the people celebrating the murder are those who self-identify as “compassionate” leftists. And it’s why most of history’s greatest evils were committed by people who thought they were doing good.
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