September 2012 – Page 4 – Hoyden About Town

Femmostroppo Reader, September 10th 2012

By tigtog on 2012-09-10 • ( 8 )

Apologies for my long linkfest hiatus, and now back to your normal programming! Items of interest I’ve recently tweeted. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

The first thing we notice is what appears to be a museum exhibit showing a stegosaurus and two pterodactyls, then it registers that they're standing in a corridor next to a picture window through which we can see planet Earth and its Moon - then we notice that the Doctor is riding the stegosaurus.

Doctor Who: S7 Ep2 – Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

By tigtog on 2012-09-09 • ( 16 )

Now I want a t-shirt that says “Move Away From The Pterodactyls”

Otterday! And Open Thread.

By lauredhel on 2012-09-08 • ( 21 )

Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Books? News stories? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

Quote of the week: Clinton’s speech was so good…

By tigtog on 2012-09-07 • ( 2 )

that Republican strategists are demanding to see his birth certificate too.

A thread for discussing the USA election campaigns.

A close up shot of cupped pale-skinned human hands carefully cradling a small grey baby mammal with a long snout

Whimsy: teeny-weeny echidnas

By tigtog on 2012-09-07 • ( 11 )

For Mary. Please share links to anything that has recently surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you: think of these threads as a brain-bleach repository.

The 52nd Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!

By Chally on 2012-09-06

All the details on the latest edition, and how to submit to the next one!

a silver monkey bares its fangs aggressively

The thing about intimidatory silencing tactics?

By tigtog on 2012-09-05 • ( 24 )

Sometimes they work out exactly as the malicious arseholes want them to, grinding people down until they feel the need to stop speaking out. But the technology that gives the bullies a megaphone to amplify their intimidation is a two-edged sword.

Because we fail to notice that we fail to notice

By tigtog on 2012-09-05

A poem by R.D. Laing

#dataretention is worthless #securitytheatre – how-to guides for Tor, VPN and https

By tigtog on 2012-09-04 • ( 8 )

To show how easy it is for any punk kid (or middle-aged feminist blogger) who just doesn’t want to play along with Roxon’s plans for an expanded surveillance culture, please do some googling on the search strings below.