◈ Ophelia Exodus ◈

Saturday night on the Princess Bridge ✌🏼

girl not the apophatic darkness beyond all understanding 😭

Hate crime laws may have unintended consequences – including chilling free speech The new laws, which allow ‘hate’ groups to be banned, could also potentially affect people wanting to make legitimate criticisms of a foreign government.

Amy Remeikis' analysis should be read alongside the legal analysis by Anne Twomey in The Conversation:

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Why we’re all the losers from the hate speech fracas The biggest losers in the political brinkmanship Anthony Albanese and Labor lured Sussan Ley and the Liberals into with the hate group legislation no one wanted, is as always the public.

"Unlike the bill, which is chock full of so many potential unintended consequences the IPA was warning against it, the consequences for Ley were as obvious as the split in the Coalition."

@amyremeikis.bsky.social on how we are the losers of this stupid, stupid game.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

The Attorney General can’t rule out that accurately describing Israel as committing genocide could land you in jail for 15 years.

I keep thinking about how Frances Perkins, maybe the most transformational cabinet secretary in modern history, witnessed the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in her youth, and the things the people on the ground in Minneapolis may live to do.

so far feeling extremely Cheers

you might be overstating the gang's coolness but sure!

omg the gang's all here! 💗

key thing for me is the Palestinian accounts that as far as I can tell are still not here

I have my own compressed air supply (for now)

blitzed previous posts I was using this site as a decoy social media app for Israeli border security in case they checked my phone (which they didn't -- months of carefully cultivated ethical Catholic progressive-apart-from-Palestine posts for nothing). hoping this isn't its most apt use still!

still squatting here in the event that twitter truly becomes uninhabitable (although for now imo it persists as a fortified post-apocalyptic bunker society, siloed but with as yet functional communication conduits) 💀🌼