Notices by Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org), page 7
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 06:06:27 JST 
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Lol this is quite funny actually. I know it's bad but it's a musical so what do you expect
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 06:57:01 JST
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https://www.pidjin.net/2013/10/24/future-me/ -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 20:29:53 JST
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#auspol #deemingvpesutto
https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/01/goodbye-pesutto-you-wont-be-missed/
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Pesutto and his team of supporters found they could almost control the party room, after winning a vote to keep Moira Deeming out on December 20, but they couldn’t post anything on X without getting ‘ratioed’ by their own side.
It became clear after the Deeming v Pesutto judgment, that it wasn’t just John Pesutto that people didn’t like, but Pesutto came to represent a type of appeasement to progressive politics that has been failing to give voters an alternative to authoritarian left-wing governments around the world, governments that are violating classic liberal boundaries of citizens with cultural policy.
In Canada, the failure to provide checks and balances to uber-progressive Trudeau has led to shocking civil rights infractions. On the other hand, in the US, we are facing the second Trump term. Trump is the anti-Woke made flesh. Many of us welcome the change in the US, but fell like we are on an amusement park ride with our fingers imprinted into the safety rail.
The classic liberal model that is being proposed by the Liberal right in Australia, under Peter Dutton, is coming across as a more traditional alternative to the sometimes hysterical rhetoric of both the Woke and the anti-Woke. This more traditional Liberal approach will probably see the Liberal Party win government in Victoria and federally.
In the court of public opinion, Moira Deeming gained sympathy because she appealed to the actual centre of Australian society, people who are going to work and being asked by their employer who they are having sex with by Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) surveys. People who are being asked what their kid’s pronouns are on kindergarten sign-in sheets. People, who are women, who are losing their privacy and dignity in workplace bathroom facilities. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 20:13:27 JST
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@purusa
Where do balls come from when changing from female to male?
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 20:03:54 JST
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@taylan
Don't forget this one too
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 20:01:09 JST
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Missed this one from November. Will he do mastodon, I wonder?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/11/22/brendan-carr-fcc-trump-social-media-musk/
> The next head of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, is keen to “smash the censorship cartel,” he said Thursday, naming as his first priority stopping social media companies and the “narrative checkers” they engage from suppressing conservative viewpoints. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 19:49:19 JST
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Missed this one when it was published in August
> The class lines of rape
https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/08/the-class-lines-of-rape/
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If people will remember, a number of years ago a group of Lebanese boys and men went on a rape rampage through Sydney, the fact that half of them were named Mohammad or versions of that name, didn’t help community tensions about Muslims and mass migration.
Not once did it occur to me that people identifying the rapist as Lebanese, implicated my Lebanese husband or my Lebanese Muslim family in the crime. I remember feeling disappointed when I found out that the rapists were Lebanese, but in no way, on any level, in any corner of my mind, would it have occurred to me to silence the rape victims in identifying the ethnicity of their attackers or in talking about the culture and religion of their attackers as a contributing factor to the attack. The idea of suggesting such a thing, to save the reputation of Lebanese people, would never occur to me, because Lebanese are very obviously wonderful, hospitable and kind people.
In the feminist world, we talk about rape culture a lot. International cross-culture studies have found that more patriarchal cultures, and cultures that diminish the value of women, do have escalated incidences of sexual violence. The relationship between rape and culture and rape and certain interpretations of religions is well established. The connection between sex and rape is also real, but then there is no connection between race and rape. These concepts are so simple we could explain them to a child.
This is why when a prominent commentator read out a letter on radio referring to ‘Lebanese men’ as ‘vermin’ in 2005 I was disgusted. Tensions in Sydney continued to escalate and in 2005 there were riots in the Sydney beachside suburb of Cronulla between young white Australian men and Lebanese Australian men. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 12:59:01 JST
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Not the best alternative cabinet
https://x.com/PipoErgoSum/status/1876457723258343577
> Cindy McLeish, who was one of the five movers or the second motion to expel Moira Deeming, is Brad Battin's Shadow Minister for Women.
> Roma Britnell, another of the movers of the expulsion motion, is Brad Battin's Shadow Minister for Child Protection.
> #SpringSt #DeemingvPesutto -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 11:05:53 JST
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Orange man not a fan of free speech
> FIRE’s defense of pollster J. Ann Selzer against Donald Trump’s lawsuit is First Amendment 101
https://www.thefire.org/news/fires-defense-pollster-j-ann-selzer-against-donald-trumps-lawsuit-first-amendment-101
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It is hard to imagine a legal claim that violates basic First Amendment principles more thoroughly than does President-elect Donald Trump’s lawsuit against veteran Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer and The Des Moines Register.
His civil lawsuit arises from a poll published before the November 2024 election that predicted Vice President Kamala Harris in the lead in Iowa. It seeks damages and a court order to prevent the newspaper from publishing any future “deceptive polls” that might “poison the electorate.”
Trying to punish newspapers for supposedly “false” reports is not a new phenomenon. Backlash to the Sedition Act of 1798, in which Congress criminalized “false” criticism of some politicians, laid the foundation of First Amendment doctrine. This lawsuit is just a new name for the same theory long rejected under the First Amendment.
Trump’s lawsuit, brought under an Iowa law against “consumer fraud,” violates long-standing constitutional principles. It’s also entirely meritless under the Iowa law.
Enlisting the courts to settle political grudges is directly at odds with the First Amendment’s protection for political speech.
The lawsuit is the very definition of a “SLAPP” suit — a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. Such tactical claims are filed purely for the purpose of imposing punishing litigation costs on perceived opponents, not because they have any merit or stand any chance of success. In other words, the lawsuit is the punishment. And it’s part of a worrying trend of activists and officials using consumer fraud lawsuits to target political speech they don’t like.
FIRE opposes SLAPP suits and is representing Selzer in order to vindicate her — and your — First Amendment rights. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 06:52:34 JST
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Small Data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDr6_cMtfdA
> man touches grass // credits song: "Small Bytes" by Asher King-Abramson (full song here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/extras-small-mp3-119475367) // unlock ... -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 20:56:13 JST
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@Chronic-Yonic
Didn't know Drew's hair could get more ridiculous yet here we are -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 20:53:12 JST
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@mittimithai
wow you are not kidding
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/06/americas/justin-trudeau-set-to-resign-canadian-prime-minister-intl/index.html -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 20:50:48 JST
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@Rogue_Koala43
I would have voted no if I could -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 18:02:57 JST
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 10:12:14 JST
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 06:35:10 JST
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Marginalised much
#Melbourne
> "He Got Away With It" : Trans Activist Sentenced To Just Five Months "Good Behavior" After Leaving Woman Permanently Disabled - Reduxx
https://reduxx.info/he-got-away-with-it-trans-activist-sentenced-to-just-five-months-good-behavior-after-leaving-woman-permanently-disabled/
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A trans activist has been given an astoundingly light sentence after brutally assaulting a woman over her apparent disagreement with gender ideology.
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In February, Ruby supplied Reduxx with the police statement she signed and witnessed with a Constable about her ordeal. In the statement, she named Sarah Cadzow, a male who identifies as a “woman,” as her assailant.
She also speculated that their mutual band contact had alerted Cadzow to her views on gender ideology at the Punks Pub Crawl, and that he had body-checked her in retaliation.
Despite having provided Melbourne Police with two witness statements as well as the identity of her attacker, it took them 4 months to lay charges against Cadzow. The attack occurred in September of 2022, and Cadzow was finally charged in January of 2023.
On the delay in laying charges, Ruby told Reduxx that she observed a definite “tone shift” when police learned her assailant was transgender. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 12:41:31 JST
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A disappointing move by qldlnp
#auspol
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 20:18:06 JST
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Yeah good on the Biden administration doing this. Of all countries I've stayed only in America do customers have no choice but get charged by banks for insufficient funds on a debit card, be it resulting in an overdraft or decline of transactions. It's a ripoff. In Australia one could easily opt out so that insufficient funds result in a declined transaction without any penalty.
> Tired of overdraft fees? A new Biden administration rule would cap them.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/12/12/biden-administration-cap-bank-overdraft-fees/76929731007/
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Bank overdraft fees, pricey penalties charged to customers who overdraw their accounts, face a $5 cap under new rules released by federal regulators.
The cap on bank overdrafts continues a campaign against “junk fees” in the waning days of the Biden administration, targeting everything from credit card late fees to hidden charges on concert tickets.
Banks that don’t want to cap their overdraft fees have two other options, according to a final rule released by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday.
They can charge a fee equal to what it actually costs them to cover overdrafts. Or, they can treat an overdraft as a loan, giving customers a choice on whether to open a line of “overdraft credit.”
The rule applies to banks with more than $10 billion in assets. It takes effect in October 2025, assuming it survives any legal challenge from the banking industry. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 19:34:32 JST
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Yeah and Melbourne is one of the coolest (as in temperature) cities in Australia. The public transport infrastructure is so bad that it is funny sometimes.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/melbourne-braces-for-blistering-38-degree-heat-in-scorching-hot-first-weekend-of-2025/news-story/543f121e61967c59b1d5f49308967c4c
> Commuters demand station upgrades after Southern Cross screens crash in Melbourne heat
> Melbourne commuters fear critical screens at Southern Cross Station — known to fade to black when temperatures hit the mid 30s — will once again falter as scorching heat looms. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 13:58:02 JST
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Not sure that's a winning platform
#auspol
Via https://x.com/Valley_Insights/status/1875035264525173219
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