My town is awesome, but it sucks
Why is Sydney awesome? Because the next time I’m in strife, I might be rescued by ninjas. Why does Sydney suck? A TV news station has taken it upon itself to out a senior politician who had broken no parliamentary codes of conduct in his private pursuits. NSW Premier Kristina Keneally says she has accepted [...]
Friday Hoyden: Claudia Alexander
I saw this marvelously enthused woman on my television last night as one of the experts on the Voyage to the Planets series, talking about her time as project manager at JPL for the final stage of the Galileo space probe’s extended mission in the orbit of Jupiter, where additional orbits gathered information particularly about [...]
Shame Shell – we all sip from this glass
While Shell toasts $9.8billion profits, people of the Niger delta are having to drink polluted water.
Reminder: Sydney Hoyden and Geek Feminism picnic, Sunday 30th May
Update 30th May: given the recent rain and the forecast, we’re pushing ahead with a wet weather plan. We are meeting at James Squire Brewhouse at 12:30pm for lunch. This regardless of the reasonably good weather this morning. Still James Squire. Original post: Time to get a reminder up in case Hoydens neglected to diary-fy [...]
Thursday Cheezburger: All Fired Up
Today: All Fired Up. Post your own favourite in-theme Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct link to an image only – that is, no URLs with .jpg, .png, .gif (etc) on the end. This makes our admin [...]
Femmostroppo Reader – May 18, 2010
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Abbott’s not a risk to anyone but the Liberals – “It’s perhaps understandable that when Labor might be wondering what abandoning all their principles under Rudd is actually getting them, that [...]
5 young white men “of good character” beat Aboriginal man to death
five young men in the Northern Territory – Scott Doody, Timothy Hird, Joshua Spears, Anton Kloeden, and Glen Swain – who after a drinking spree drove along the Todd River creek-bed deliberately terrorising sleeping aboriginals camping there, and who then beat one of those terrorised people, a young man named Kwementyaye Ryder, to death after he threw a bottle at their car
Are you a sex addict, or merely a dirty slut?
As a “sex addict”, you can obviously get away with a lot more than some girl who is merely a slutty slut, and enhance your fame and reputation as a wild playboy at the same time. And if you’re a popular male comedian checking into rehab for your Sex Addiction, then you are suffering from a Condition and deserve sympathy, unlike the disgusting hoydens who are destroying Western civilisation with their wanton behaviour.
Femmostroppo Reader – May 16, 2010
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Children are people too – “I do not understand why my children, and any other children, are treated with suspicion. Not all the time, by any means. Not everywhere, by any [...]
Otterday! And Open Thread.
This dear sweet whiskered otter comes via The Daily Otter. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like [...]
Kelly Vincent’s maiden speech: Dignity 4 Disability not a “single-issue party”
Kelly Vincent has now taken her place in the South Australian parliament. The House scrambled to provide accessibility, with a newly constructed desk and ramps. The House itself now has a different geography due to the presence of one person. May there be many more! This from her maiden speech impressed me, and will need [...]
Friday Hoyden: Annie Lennox
I can’t remember when I wasn’t a fan of Annie Lennox. That glorious voice and the amazing style of her costumes and performances, that sense of gracious absurdity, fierce compassion and joyous gravitas. She has always stood out.
Massaging circulation figures?
I was surprised to see a friend toting a Murdoch tabloid around in her car, and learned that it had come free with her earlier emergency drive-through caffeine+muffin hit from a McDonald’s. It seems that everybody gets one now when they order a meal. Does this sort of giveaway get counted in the “official” circulation [...]
Femmostroppo Reader – May 13, 2010
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Roman Polanski can remain silent no more. Anybody got a gag? – “What makes me sick to my stomach is that Polanski’s talking about his unserved sentence for a crime he [...]
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