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On Monday Nationals MP Alison Penfold introduce this private bill to federal parliament in an attempt to reshape the Sex Discrimination Act to target trans people while claiming not to target trans people

It is worth noting that this bill is being pushed by the National party, one of Australia's main right-wing parties. The party currently in power is the Labour party, our biggest left-wing/centrist party. The party pushing for this bill does not have the votes needed to pass it, and thus either needs to convince centrists to agree with them or are doing this to curry favour for the next election or some other goal.

When it comes to the bill itself, they are defining anything relating to one's sex in terms of the sex binary in a way which excludes intersex people in many ways. They also are changing the definition of sexual attraction, and the main change this makes is an exclusion of non-binary people in attraction. However, it is also worded so a trans woman lesbian is considered straight, and their definition also doesn't properly include asexual people. Those wording issues are already present in the original law, however.

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we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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I wasn't going to engage but I was pushed over the edge by reading this in the comments: "If the person cared they would make something using clip art and gradients that shows passion."

This gig was pretty hectic & I don’t really remember most of it 😅 HYMMNN, a noise rock band from Ngunnawal-Ngambri Country (no longer around sadly, though their guitarist Lynden is now up to some cool stuff as a solo act!) invited Xandra along to play this show. From memory they were originally just gonna have two acts (UBOA & HYMMNN) but that didn’t seem like much of a night out and Xandra was kinda burnt out, so she roped Nova in for a BODY PILLOW set and me as an opener. All three of us were going through some stuff with our physical health at the time, so Xandra and I both passed out during our sets. If memory serves (which it scarcely does for this night, considering the chaos around it) I resampled a live recording Nova took of my set for some of the cutups noise sections on Excoriating Dawn.

Bonus photo of my set (I think taken by Xandra?)

Poison

Laughter (mean)

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