One New Year resolution for me is getting back into the Femmostroppo Reader habit. If you follow me on Twitter, you may have already seen these items of interest encountered 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!

Great post from Club Troppo on the question of whether you can survive on Aust unemployment benefits clubtroppo.com.au/2013/01/06/you…

— blue(@bluemilk) January 6, 2013

If a union did this, Libs would call for a Royal Commission.As it’s Gina, they will no doubt dismiss as red-tape…. abc.net.au/news/2013-01-0…

— Tim Lyons (@Picketer) January 5, 2013

Life on Manus Island: disease, heat. We are spending billions to do this to #refugeestheage.com.au/national/-2c8z…

— julianburnside (@JulianBurnside) January 5, 2013

Crime Is at its Lowest Level in 50 Years. A Simple Molecule May Be the Reason Why. bit.ly/W5B1W8

— Kevin Drum (@kdrum) January 3, 2013

Google concedes defeat in China censorship battlem.guardian.co.uk/technology/201… via @c0d3fr0sty

— Asher Wolf (@Asher_Wolf) January 5, 2013

“Social change does not happen because people ask nicely.” Ending sexism in hacker culture adainitiative.org/2013/01/ending…

— The Ada Initiative (@adainitiative) January 2, 2013

Martin Scorsese’s Film School: The 85 Films You Need To See To Know Anything About Filmfastcocreate.com/1679472/martin…

— Bora Zivkovic (@BoraZ) January 2, 2013

Hollywood’s 2012 box-office was best-ever ($10.8bn) despite their claim that piracy is killing the industry. torrentfreak.com/pirates-hollyw… @doctorow

— Peter Green (@PeterNGreen) December 31, 2012

I’m incredibly sad that I’m only hearing about Rita Levi-Montalcini after her death. tinyurl.com/bxx2t3m

— s.e. smith (@sesmithwrites) December 31, 2012

Umberto Eco: “I like lists for the same reason other people like football or pedophilia.” spon.de/acVKv #wtf #justpreferencessezeco

— Viv Smythe (@vivsmythe) December 31, 2012

Other people’s linkfests:

• The Lady Garden shares the link love: Sharing the love
• bluebec’s linkspams: The first linkspam of 2013
• Geek Feminism Linkspams: Auld Lang Linkspam (1 January 2013)
• Limited News weekly Long Reads collation: Weekend Long Reads
• Melissa’s Blogarounds at Shakesville: Friday Blogaround
• Feministing‘s What We Missed linkfest

Categories: linkfest

Tags: Read-ems