Notices by Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org), page 18
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 05:19:19 JST 
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I didn't read past the "nonpartisan reading list" in the news, and of course there was more to it.
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> The charades of Australia’s literati
https://szegounplugged.substack.com/p/the-charades-of-australias-literati
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Or: a long good-bye to my writer friends
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As to the 90 writers, including my former friends and colleagues who signed on to the must-read campaign: whether consciously or otherwise (and I fear I know the answer) they’re part of a movement that seeks not open debate and reconciliation in the Middle East but a linguistic stitch-up — Israel is a “settler-colonial” regime, the Gaza war is a “genocide” and so on — designed to foreclose open debate and reconciliation.
In this, they’re guilty of a crime against literature; the deployment of cowardly weasel words. If they truly believe that justice demands the world’s sole Jewish state be somehow dismantled and replaced with an Arab-majority state from the river to the sea they should say so explicitly, and argue their case in the court of public opinion. If they believe that justice demands their literary spaces be cleansed of Zionists such as myself — after all, if Israel is illegitimate then surely its supporters deserve to be at least sidelined? — again, they should say so explicitly.
Instead, they peddle ethno-nationalist propaganda and call it “nuance.” -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 22:50:38 JST
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In March 2022, during her Senate confirmation hearing, Justice Jackson was asked by Senator Marsha Blackburn—a Tennessee Republican—to define the word “woman.”
Justice Jackson: “I can’t.”
Senator Blackburn: “You can’t?”
Senator Jackson: “Not in this context. I’m not a biologist.” -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 22:50:35 JST
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Rebirth of sex
https://www.genderclinicnews.com/p/rebirth-of-sex
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In the Tennessee case, Mr Strangio’s pitch to the judges relied on the unambiguous binary of biological sex. Suddenly, sex as a category was no longer nuanced or complicated—it was taken for granted as a bedrock biological reality. Why? Because there is legal precedent for arguing that a law discriminating on the basis of sex demands “heightened scrutiny” by the judges. And heightened scrutiny means it’s more likely that the courts will strike down such a law for infringing the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment. Framing Tennessee’s law as discriminating on the basis of nebulous trans identity did not offer this forensic advantage.
This litigation aside, of course, the mission of modern trans activism is to establish “gender identity” as a protected characteristic while dissolving biological sex with waffle.
Mr Strangio’s social media history includes the following choice declarations—
“There is no single biological trait that equates to one’s biological sex.”
“That there are typical notions of embodied maleness and femaleness does not mean there is a coherent binary thing called biological sex.”
“Girls who are trans are not males, not biological males, do not have male bodies—just stop.”
In court on Wednesday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a liberal, seemed especially receptive to the idea that Tennessee’s gender medicine ban discriminates by sex. She offered the hypothetical example of someone “biologically male” who can lawfully be given testosterone to deepen his voice, as opposed to a trans-identified girl prevented from using testosterone for the same purpose. On this view, it is the girl’s female sex that triggers Tennessee’s ban.
Throughout the day’s hearing, Justice Jackson made eight references to biological sex, with not a hint of uncertainty about this as a binary concept. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 11:02:53 JST
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@LuvGreenTea2019
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 10:22:10 JST
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Mark the date
#auspol #DeemingvPesutto
> Justice O’Callaghan will deliver judgment at 10.15am on Thursday, 12 December 2024 in Melbourne.
> The judgment delivery will be livestreamed via the Court’s YouTube channel.
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 10:12:48 JST
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Makes a case for banning kids from fecebook
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 07:52:25 JST
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@ninapaley
Forgot to ask - do you get notified by say the election authority when people write in your name in the presidential election? -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 21:30:51 JST
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On the "Moderate Transsexual" Question
https://corinnacohn.substack.com/p/on-the-moderate-transsexual-question
> Exposing the Illusions of Moderation in the Gender Debate -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 16:42:25 JST
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Raygun: The Musical cancelled after Olympian issues legal threat
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/comedy/raygun-the-musical-cancelled-after-olympian-issues-legal-threat-20241207-p5kwlb.html
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But comedian Steph Broadbridge canned Saturday’s performance after Gunn’s lawyers sent several letters to the show’s promoter, iD Comedy Club, asking them to cancel the show and not use the name “Raygun” or the athlete’s now famous “kangaroo dance”, as both were Gunn’s intellectual property.
Gunn applied to trademark the name “Raygun” in August. The application remains under examination, however, the government agency that issues trademarks published an “adverse report” in October functionally knocking back the claim.
However, Gunn does have a trademark on a silhouette image of her performing the kangaroo dance, which was accepted on November 15 and is awaiting publication. This trademark was filed on September 25, the day Broadbridge first promoted her musical on Instagram. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 05:51:29 JST
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Interesting photos of melbourne
> The Age photos of the week, December 7, 2024
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/the-age-photos-of-the-week-december-7-2024-20241130-p5kuth.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national_victoria
> The week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 20:32:35 JST
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 20:25:42 JST
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A Massive Database of Evidence, Compiled by a Historian, Documents Israel's War Crimes in Gaza - Israel News - Haaretz.com
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-12-05/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/massive-database-of-evidence-compiled-by-a-historian-details-israels-war-crimes-in-gaza/00000193-979b-d408-a7d3-bfdbf1410000
https://archive.is/LIEG8
https://witnessing-the-gaza-war.com/
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 19:46:28 JST
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Unherd culture war profiteering
https://shop.unherd.com/products/battle-maps
So we have a map, and cards from @ninapaley, what's missing is rules for a board game -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 19:01:44 JST
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Peak reddit
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 14:03:19 JST
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Monsters
https://bevjacksonauth.substack.com/p/monsters
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Can you imagine the unspeakable viciousness of those who target a small, vulnerable group in society – kids who are distressed about their bodies and need medical care? Can you imagine anything more barbaric than enacting legislation to prevent those children, who are suffering and tortured by suicidal thoughts, from accessing the healthcare they need? Forcing their desperate families to consider relocating out of state? These are clearly evil bigots, driven by reactionary adherence to stereotypes of what girls or boys ought to be. They are far right religious extremists and other diehard MAGA flag-wavers who hate the progress we have been making on equality in our society and want to reverse it.
That is more or less the message you get if you watch or listen to an MSNBC show covering the Supreme Court hearing on December 4th to decide whether Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children is constitutional. Known as the Skrmetti case, after the name of Tennessee’s Attorney-General. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:32:46 JST
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Republican senators launch inquiry into unpublished NIH study on puberty blockers for trans youth
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5027047-nih-study-puberty-blockers-letter/
> Six Republican senators in a letter to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Monica Bertagnolli said they are “concerned about the transparency” of studies funded by the NIH, the federal age… -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 12:05:16 JST
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Challenging a regress pride flag in a council meeting
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 08:37:32 JST
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https://x.com/angijones/status/1865171889813098870
> Sean Mulcahy, @Greens executive member, @VictorianLabor advisor, Latrobe graduate, porn lobby employee, and the person responsible for erasing safeguarding under the ruse of “inclusion” in Local Government here in Victoria, (via his org Rainbow Local Government) was Challenor’s personal and political advisor at this time. You can’t tell me he didn’t know (at least about the nappy fetish) Mulcahy slithered back in to the country when Challenor was exposed and immediately took up a position as a government advisor with the support of @ShingvWorld and individuals at @ABCaustralia who use the national broadcaster to target local councillors who dissent.
DOESNT ANYONE in @Greens @VictorianLabor @ABCaustralia DO BACKGROUND CHECKS?
Why hasn’t the media exposed his nefarious connections so local governments can make an informed decisions about the motives behind his lobbying the advisory service he is offering?
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 08:08:21 JST
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Based 15yo
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 08:04:36 JST
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LockedIn being silly
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