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? (I missed a lot this week – very busy with family stuff) Leave your own interesting links or pithy observations in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!
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If you want to discriminate for religious reasons you can’t also accept taxpayers money and have tax exemptions as well. No you ain’t.
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Fiddling around with
@ALeighMP‘s long-run inequality data – inequality is nearly twice as high as it was in the 1970s pic.twitter.com/yt1MdQwf -
If you conflate “socialism” and “nazism” then not only do you understand neither but you probably don’t understand “conflate”.
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When I’m PM, you all have permission to mention my clothes in news reports. “He wore the floor-length brocade and carried the holy scepter.”
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Religious groups free to discriminate against pregnant women. Wrong, wrong. http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/-2ctsz.html …
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@scalzi cracks me up with these fundraiser stunts | Another Act of Whimsy: Choose Cory Doctorow’s Face! http://wp.me/p5Fv-5mK -
“Good journalists are troublemakers” | The Failed Estate: FEIJOA Awards, 2012 http://thefailedestate.blogspot.com/2013/01/feijoa-awards-2012.html …
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Wot! MT@JulianSimpson1: Some bizarre genius: Watch Neal Stephenson slice up fruit with swords on high-speed video http://io9.com/5975503/watch-neal-stephenson-slice-up-fruit-with-swords-on-high+speed-video …
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Margaret Cho knows her shit, y’all
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@shivtan: sex education nonexistent- where it exists it focuses on pure biological facts not on feelings, mutual respect,#respectnotrape -
Is it time for the internet to get the plumber in? by
@jjn1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/13/internet-needs-to-get-rebuilders-in … -
Call for Feminism 101 Links IV on the Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog
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A MUST READ! 28 Common Racist Attitudes & Behaviors: http://www.stcloudstate.edu/affirmativeaction/resources/insights/pdf/28ToolsChange.pdf …
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Shocking attitudes point to deep misogyny in Congo | Women Under Siege Project http://buff.ly/UBNrFg Absolutely heartbreaking.
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Gov says it’d charge Manning the same way if he’d leaked to NYT, so LA Times calls for dropping aiding the enemy charge http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-0113-manning-20130112,0,3161764.story …
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I am sick of people who’ve never read a romance or a YA novel casually dismissing the entire genres. Do some research, you tedious people.
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Single parents wrongly told to destroy their concession cards after moving to Newstart payments – Daniel Hurst http://bit.ly/10sEBmb
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What we cover when we cover politics http://andrewelder.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/what-we-cover-when-we-cover-politics.html … by
@awelder on a better way to report & analyse federal poltics#auspol#ausmedia
Other people’s linkfests:
- The Lady Garden shares the link love
- bluebec’s linkspams
- Geek Feminism Linkspams
- Limited News weekly Long Reads collation
- Melissa’s Blogarounds at Shakesville
- Feministing‘s What We Missed linkfest
Categories: linkfest
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