Michael

Live not by lies - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

[Michael @r_m1chael]

This reporter fails to recognise the contradiction between gay and gender identity conversion therapy. They are opposites. This bill is about the latter. This bill is about making gay people straight through surgery. Opponents will be criminalised.

https://t.co/tFuUbWlD5z

[Michael @r_m1chael]

@LouiseElliotM @BarnsGreg https://t.co/vTty8X4SpM

[Michael @r_m1chael]

@LouiseElliotM @BarnsGreg Karl Popper's "The paradox of tolerance" and Herbert Marcus's "Repressive(Liberating)Tolerance" are in play here.
This lawyer is on Marcus's side, so it seems.

[Michael @r_m1chael]

@zoecabina ... in a pet sematary

https://t.co/6GwSBrHOVe

[Michael @r_m1chael]

@Noirchick1 Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[Michael @r_m1chael]

@ellis_sculpt @GadSaad Excellent version read by Donald Sutherland too

[Michael @r_m1chael]

@RoisinMichaux It's destined to be an iconic symbol of defiance

[Michael @r_m1chael]

@For_Film_Fans Aussie snooker and billiards champ Eddie Charlton as opponent

[Timothy Cootes @timothycootes]

Matt Chun has posted a celebratory photo archive of the October 7 pogrom, while the “pro-Palestine” movement is hosting events in Sydney and Melbourne. The Australian Left is overrun with antisemitic psychopaths. You can’t hate them enough.

[Michael @r_m1chael]

@timothycootes I do think our security services should be rounding up all the Oz domestic Oct 7 2023 Hamas supporters starting with those who celebrated on the steps of the Opera House in the days later before Israel even responded.

[Michael @r_m1chael]

@zoecabina There may be a more benign explanation. Jana Wendt used the term "Aussie wally" in a speech at the Walkley Awards to describe the editorial decisions made to favour Aussies in peril over the actual event happening overseas. It's an editorial decision that assumes we are insular

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

Some days more than others I just want to fall apart & cry at the state of “what is a woman” being something anyone is afraid to answer honestly and simply.

The entire reason why there is hesitation to answer honestly and simply (adult human female, no men) is because men who claim to be women (and their friends) will try to destroy the life of anyone - but especially actual women - who answer in a way they deem unacceptable, aka accurately.

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

‘Angela Merkel was the true extremist of our age’. @matthewsyed

“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.”
Karl Popper

https://t.co/vq1tDHzBRO

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Behold the triumph and joy of books: bibliophiles and readers across the world can celebrate this delightful moment....
An old Syrian man who had escaped the vile Assads and their Human Slaughterhouse state returns from exile after their downfall to uncover and recover his hidden library.
He takes an axe to the wall and out of the dust and plaster emerges.... his books, treasures of freedom, totems of openmindedness everywhere....

@abdalhadea

[Rachael Wong @RachaelWongAus]

🏏🏳️‍⚧️ Cricket Australia’s new transgender policy gives the game away.

🔴 It has lowered the testosterone limit for biologically male trans or non-binary players to 2.5 nmol/L, which must be maintained for two years, to compete in elite female cricket.

🔴 It also automatically allows biologically female non-binary players to compete in either male or female elite cricket – while requiring those who are biologically male to obtain expert-panel approval before competing in female cricket.

Yet @CricketAus has reportedly confirmed that Anaya Bangar – a former Mumbai Under-19 male cricketer seeking to resume an elite career in Australia – meets the revised eligibility criteria.

Lowering testosterone does not eliminate all the physical advantages acquired through male puberty, including advantages in strength, muscle mass, power and skeletal structure.

🔴 Cricket Australia’s own rules recognise that sex matters and that male participation raises serious questions of fairness. Yet it still refuses to draw the obvious line.

Women’s cricket should be for women. Cricket Australia cannot acknowledge the sex difference while continuing to sacrifice female fairness for male inclusion.

🗞️ Read more in the @australian: https://t.co/cOx4K0y7x7

📣 Tell our leaders to protect women’s sport: https://t.co/dEX7Gxx9f5

#SaveWomensSports #Auspol

[Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls @UNSRVAW]

I very much regret this decision by the High Court. The ball is firmly in the Parliament of #Australia’s court to correct this historic injustice and affront to the rights of women and girls.

[Michael @r_m1chael]

@Dr_TheHistories The AI graphic here is off the charts ludicrous. 3000m and light filtered wreck divers? This pic is slop and I suspect most of your written content is too

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“The High Court has refused Giggle app founder Sall Grover special leave to appeal the case brought against her by transwoman Roxanne Tickle, meaning that without new legislation, Australian law is now set in stone: men can become women, and sex is not purely biological.”

👇

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Let me introduce you to Aida Rostami, another hero from my country, Iran.

She was 36 years old. A general physician.

During January arising in 2026,, while the streets of Iran were filled with injured protesters, Aida chose to do help them. She was a doctor. Her job was to save lives.

Quietly and anonymously, she traveled to homes in western Tehran,l, to provide medical care to protesters who were afraid to go to hospitals because they feared arrest, torture, or worse.

On December 12, 2022, Aida left her home of one of the injured protesters to get medical supplies. She never came back.

The next day, her family was called to a police station and told that Aida had died in a car accident.

But when her family saw her body, they saw something very different.

Her hands were broken. The right side of her face was crushed. Her nose was shattered. Her left eye had been severely injured. There were bruises across her body.

Her family questioned the official story. And then the story changed.

First, they said it was a car accident. Later, authorities claimed she had fallen from a pedestrian bridge.

Her family continued to reject the official accounts.

And later, her brother released an audio recording that shed light on the pressure security forces had placed on the family. They took her life.

Aida was not carrying weapons, she was carrying medical supplies. She was treating wounded people.

I have a question:

How many people outside Iran know the name of Aida Rostami?

How many doctors around the world know the story of a physician who risked everything to treat injured protesters when hospitals were no longer safe?

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

The irony of accusing me of lacking nuance when you have deliberately stripped the nuance from what I have said: the mainstreaming of gender identity was done via porn.

If you check a dictionary, you will find that "cause" and "mainstreaming" mean different things.

Men didn't read Judith Butler and decide they wanted to masturbate to themselves in lingerie.

Your attitude is pure projection: you have a clear bias against what you perceive as feminism, and in turn, accuse me of bias and reductionism because you don't, or won't, understand the nuance of what I'm saying.

[Michael @r_m1chael]

@Noirchick1 https://t.co/QPSzF4ErVK