If you follow me on Twitter, you may have already seen these. Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader or via twitter (please consider following some of the bloggers/tweeters). What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!
- RT @Colvinius: A US soldier dies every day and a half, [in the field] … Veterans kill themselves at a rate of one every 80 minutes. http://t.co/QFSD9b1c
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#accountability RT @boudledidge: Relevant Magazine, Hugo Schwyzer, and a thing called grace (trigger warning) http://t.co/L4g1iFl1 #fem2
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Susan Heath in @nytimes | Having An Abortion When No One Called Me a Slut – It wasn’t always like this http://t.co/7yf9x7qK
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RT @msmaddiep: On Doctor Who and women in refrigerators: http://t.co/9TAXju26 Why Amy Pond Must Live // by @tansyrr
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RT @ggreenwald: Good WPost article on how the FBI keeps creating Terror plots & then recruit/manipulates /entraps people to join them http://www.washingtonpost.com/world…
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RT @Skud: US kettle slowness, explained: RT @yoz My tweet about kettles inspired this fantastic short-but-packed post from @Alby: http://wordpress.MrReid.org/2012…
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RT @Quiara: THIS IS A DALEK WEDDING CAKE. A. DALEK. WEDDING. CAKE. http://t.co/6bpwFo3F
- RT @michaelidato: Ok. The Herald-Sun’s “Google did it” defence is slightly hilarious. A basic grasp of how the internet works would unravel that ..
- RT @wendyorr: Calling for kid friendly, tropical or island related recipes for Nim’s Island e-cookbook to raise funds for #IndigenousLF. Please retweet
- In defence of teenage girl sexuality: why does it terrify those who deny it exists? by @clementine_ford in @DailyLifeAU http://t.co/Q5DfuQrl
- RT @mrbenjaminlaw: Damn extraordinary story of a Tasmanian man—adopted out of India—who found his birth mother using Google Earth. Wow. http://t.co/ZaaaoOJr
- RT @listoperators: What is Old Book Smell? Science explains. http://t.co/CHnE9eT9
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Good news, ladies! Society has discovered another new thing that’s wrong with you (& need $$ to fix). Nice one Jezebel http://t.co/8amTdbW6
- RT @ProfessorFunk: American physicist publishes maths paper to prove he didn’t run a stop sign, gets off charge, wins at life – http://t.co/6lf0hkus
- Nice review, asks some good questions | The Voice Australia: A real singing competition in wolf’s clothing? http://t.co/CycnSSBq
- Two good articles on the free-range eggs regs shuffle: SMH http://t.co/7jNk3eZv ; The Hoopla by @tammois http://t.co/F9ATg00N
- Cathy Sherry SMH op-ed | Lesson for parents in public schools: don’t fall for hype re private necessarily being better http://t.co/c1dhjEBS
And a couple of thinky-thoughts with no linked articles:
- RT @DrRimmer: I do hope that the @ABCMediaWatch will be checking to see how media organisations deal with Big Tobacco press releases on #plainpacks
- RT @deltrimental: All our pollies seem to agree that stay-at-home parents are valued and important. Unless parents are single/poor. Then they’re just lazy.
- Me: #Centrelink just now to help son with some forms: they made people queue out the door when plenty of seats inside. Outrageous. #disability
Disclaimer/SotBO: a link here is not necessarily an endorsement of all opinions of the post author(s) either in the particular post or of their writing in general.
Categories: linkfest
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A bit of self-promotion from me: a response (sort of) to the F-word Pirates review that you linked last time: Pirates! In an Adventure with Gender!
I wrote Too Many for Sexual Assault Awareness Month (April in the US) [trigger warnings for sexual assault]. — “I’ve had “yes” pried out of me and my “no” ridiculed more times than I can count — and I don’t think my life is particularly abnormal in that respect.”