Paul van Oppen

[Paul van Oppen @Uppyn]

@Focusscience1 Jaren in Shanghai gewoond: vaak 4 tot 6 dagen boven de 40C. Warm, maar je past je aan.
Regelmatig in zuidoost Azië geweest. Meestal boven de 34 graden. Gewoon de hele dag buiten.
Woon nu in Sydney waar we ook niet vreemd zijn van lange hete zomerperiodes. Je past je aan.

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@michelportier80 @wierdduk Australië ligt een paar maanden vooruit op de UK wat betreft toegang tot media onder 16.
De ‘compliance’ na een paar maanden is ronduit slecht te noemen na initiële bemoedigende account afsluiting voor onder 16.

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@kimdrink @ChrisHupkes https://t.co/UfU9Er6k8c

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@kimdrink @ChrisHupkes Boek de pylon climb ipv de bridge climb. Niet eng en ook prachtig uitzicht! Vanaf 27 April weer open.

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@DefiantLs The Expanse

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@preta_6 D, definitely

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@historyrock_

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@TrueSlazac

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@Matt_Camenzuli NordVPN is good and affordable.

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@Zamire_Willems @wierdduk In Australië: 12 scharreleieren bij Woolworths zijn $6.6. Dat is 30 Eurocent. Bij de Appie: 6 scharreleieren voor €2.39. Dat is 40 Eurocent. Ja, Nederland is duur!

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@ChrisMartzWX +46C (115F) in Sydney Australia (a couple of years ago) and -26C (-15F) in the Netherlands (in the 1980s)

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@GallyonvVessem Schiphol is mijn minst favoriete luchthaven. Het is zo duidelijk dat ze niet om hun klanten geven. Zoal je al aangeeft: duur eten en dan ook nog van middelmatige kwaliteit.
Vergelijk eens met Singapore, Hong Kong of Istanbul airports.

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@wierdduk @telegraaf Alle ouders en leerlingen: massaal ‘Michiel de Ruyter’ voorstellen!

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@wierdduk @telegraaf Zag je deze posts?
https://t.co/OeoLymTj3L

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

Yesterday, notorious Jew-hater Francesca Albanese was interviewed on Norwegian TV.

Highlights in this 🧵.

It is quite satisfying to see someone confront her for once.

The first question?

"Francesca, are you an antisemite?"

Notice how she can't just say "no"?

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@wierdduk 7 jaar gedaan met zoon in ‘representative soccer’ in Sydney. Om 5:30 uit bed om een wedstrijd 2.5 uur verderop te spelen met de 12 jarige. Ook koud want voetbal is hier een wintersport.

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@wierdduk @ewaldeng @sypwynia @AndreasKinnegi1 @Jossedevoogd @lyd20211 @JacoKleynhans @Repelsteeltje21 @demo_demo_nl @sybillaclaus @DonArturito @ReneCuperus @RHoogland @RVeelo @martinsommer3 @TheodorHolman @marijn_poels Wellicht een goed moment om er nog eens een passend citaat van Roger Scruton erbij te halen.

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@wierdduk Heb zojuist op je fantastische podcast gestemd Wierd. Mijn wekelijkse dosis rationeel Nederland iedere vrijdagochtend in Sydney.

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@ronInBendigo Always teach your children to drive a manual. The world is larger than Australia and overseas they may not always be able to get an automatic car.
They would not even be able to drive the car out of the garage 😂

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@historyrock_ Genesis: Supper’s Ready at 23 minutes and never boring!

https://t.co/JtNlTUNDm0

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

Thank you to @SexMattersOrg for asking @JuliaGillard if sex matters.

See, it’s Gillard’s amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act that removed the definition of “woman” & added “gender identity”, muddling the whole thing & allowing men who claim to be women to interpret the act to their advantage.

The amendments took effect in 2013 but it’s not like the act has been working for the past 11 years. With the help of the Australian Human Rights Commission, many people & businesses have been intimidated into accepting men as women. I say “intimidated” because it is intimidating to receive an Australian Human Rights Commission complaint on the basis of alleged “gender identity discrimination” (under the Sex Discrimination Act… yes, none of it makes any sense) and have to either do everything the AHRC says or fight a lengthy & expensive Federal Court battle.

The AHRC wanted me to pay the man who made the complaint against me $20,000, attend “sex & gender education”, allow him onto a female only platform & allow all men who claim to be women onto a female only platform. I said no. Not just because I want the platform to remain female only but because I am a woman & I reserve the right to say NO to men when they trespass my boundaries. So I said NO to the AHRC.

What resulted has been an almost 3 year long battle. It started when I was 15 weeks pregnant. My daughter will be turning 3 when the appeal to the first Federal Court decision is heard in appeal to the Full Federal Court (3 judges). She will be 4 years old if/when it goes to the High Court. But I want her to grow up in a country where she has rights, including the right to say NO to a man in a dress. What mother would ever stop fighting for her daughter?

In the Tickle v Giggle decision, the judge said that “indirect discrimination” occurred “on the basis of gender identity”. It didn’t. He was blocked from the app on the basis of sex - and his sex is male. A simple DNA test would prove that. My eyes clearly saw it. The judge, with the help of the AHRC’s absurd interpretation of the law & reality, said that “sex is changeable”. It isn’t. Sex is immutable.

However, Gillard’s amendments along with state-based changes to birth certificate legislation that allows men to edit their BC to the opposite of their biological sex has created the concept of “legal sex”. Legal sex is gender identity aka gender ideology. It obliterates women’s rights to say NO to men if that man declares himself to be a woman. And that leads to verdicts of “indirect discrimination on the basis of gender identity”, despite not knowing or caring that he has a gender identity. Sex matters.

This law has to change, and it will, in part because of Giggle v Tickle & everyone who supports the case, but also because of the hard work of every woman who is speaking up and saying NO to this absurd situation.

We’re saying what Julia Gillard should have said in 2013.

While she (evidently) can’t answer the question, I know that sex matters to Julia Gillard. I know this because she basked in being Australia’s first woman Prime Minister and has dined out on the fact for almost 10 years. Without the reality of sex, her achievement becomes obsolete. With what she did with her achievement, her legacy has become devastating.

I have a lot of respect for people who admit they got something wrong. It happens. We’re all only human (and humans don’t change sex). I hope Julia Gillard takes the opportunity to admit it some time.

In the meantime, women around Australia (and the world) will continue to do the work to ensure that we can say NO to men who claim to be women.

Sex matters. Gender identity does not.

https://t.co/LdTgu50vvc