June 2012

• Actually, EC President Barroso did NOT “slap down”/”slam” Gillard
• Quick Hit: Again! Again! That horse can’t be dead.
• Solstice Whimsy: Giant Bouncy Stonehenge
• Conflicted
• Talent is not enough
• Rape Culture Observation: grooming victims *looks* like being “a good person”
• Shakespeare and the Bechdel Test
• Signal Boost: Kickstarter for documentary on violation of workers’ rights in strip clubs
• Juneteenth
• Understatement OTD: “One of the things we will be looking at urgently is the communications team”
• About Joan’s choice
• Sunday Singalong: Dolly Parton
• Some useful things you might teach your children in our rape culture
• Otterday! And Open Thread.
• Hey guess what?
• Lingerie Football League: The Undakkening
• Perth Stormageddon Thread redux
• Internet Misogyny Datapoint: the hatefest aimed at Anita Sarkeesian
• This week in Streisand Effecting: funnyjunk.com hires a lawyer who doesn’t understand SEO to sue theoatmeal.com
• Just when you think you have it right
• “Special thanks to all the trolls for their tireless efforts x”
• Otterday! And Open Thread.
• Friday SteamPunk Fun: Steam Powered Giraffe
• Weekly Whimsy: Hedgehog Bath Time
• Food for thought: if rapists just can’t control their urges…
• Why I will go easy on the ‘save yourself’ rhetoric with my daughter
• Next transit of Venus will be in 2117, so you might want to catch this one
• Media Circus: new polling lows, media asks why nobody likes either side?
• Sunday writer: Jennifer Egan
• Marking twenty years since the Mabo decision
• The “Skeptics Don’t Need No Stinking Anti-Harassment Policies” Saga continues
• Tell me again how women are their own worst enemy
• Slump/Hiatus
• Otterday! And Open Thread.
• Signal Boost: How to run an accessible feminist event

May 2012

• This is just too hilarious.
• Terminal Eye Roll again
• Run away run away!
• To Save Some Species, Zoos Must Let Others Die
• What Jadehawk said
• Sunday Singalong: Patti Smith
• Q: is it possible for a party to “not accept a vote” cast in its favour by any MP in House? A: No
• Otterday! And Open Thread.
• Skeptical speakers behaving badly, anti-harassment policies and yammering yahoos
• A poster appearing around Brisbane
• Media Circus: still all about Craig Thomson?
• George Tierney Jr of Greenville SC aka @geotie2323 can’t get taken “off Google”, decides to go down in flames
• Weekly Whimsy: Ten Thousand Paper planes
• Just got beeped by driver behind me for giving way to a cyclist
• Refugees in indefinite detention on security grounds – secret criteria applied to secret evidence