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• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-26 • ( 23 )

  Today’s otter is courtesy of wildlife guides Shetland Otters. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading… Read More ›

• I have nothing to add …

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-26 • ( 3 )

  …except “Oh, for fuck’s sake.”

• Dear World: Look up “Satire” in the Dictionary

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-24 • ( 3 )

  Dear world: Stop mis-using ‘satire’. Satire is a genre that ridicules human wrongdoing, with the ultimate goal being to expose institutional oppression and effect social change. Putting ignorance on display, then panicking, backpedalling and calling it “satire” isn’t hip or… Read More ›

• “This never happened in my day; I blame the internet”

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-21 • ( 14 )

  [cut for sexual assault triggers]

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-19 • ( 21 )

  Today’s otter is via law_keven on flickr. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a great… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Virtue #3, Justice

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-17 • ( 8 )

  Post your own favourite Justice-themed Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.

• “How Can Feminist Mums Avoid Being Humourless Childhood-Ruiners?”

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-16 • ( 37 )

  At The Dawn Chorus, Mel Campbell asks “How Can Feminist Mums Avoid Being Humourless Childhood-Ruiners?” (Without, it seems, a hint of satire): Are you going to be the kind of humourless, daggy mum who interferes in everything that’s cool and… Read More ›

• SUCCESS! Breastfeeding discrimination law likely to change in WA

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-15 • ( 4 )

  Remember the Perth rally against breastfeeding discrimination back in April? Mandy Crabtree was ejected from a cafe for requesting to breastfeed her baby, and the Premier responded to public outcry by saying that women should breastfeed in a “discreet, modern… Read More ›

• Franchising the Womb: Selling Fetal Imaging

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-13 • ( 10 )

  A sampling of Australian recreational obstetric ultrasound advertising: A Peek of U at Serenity Spa, Wollongong: At our Spa location the Mum to be can enjoy a luxurious pedicure or spend most of the day being pampered, completing the day… Read More ›

• Australovenator!

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-13

  I love it that dinosaur paleontology makes the six o’clock news! The remains of ‘Banjo’, Australovenator wintonensis, were found near Winton in Queensland. Sie was a half-tonne carnivorous theropod, bigger (and “more terrifying”, says a paleontologist) than the velociraptor. Two… Read More ›