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  • In memoriam

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    R.I.P. Darcy Freeman, age four.

    May your brothers and mother somehow find a path to healing. My heart also goes out to the witnesses and healthcare and police staff involved.

    Trigger warnings for horrific family violence. Link

  • Thursday Cheezburger

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    now that she knew the meaning of her dreams Fluffy was unable to sleep. cat with dream interpretation bookmore animals

    Runner-up: I’m Melting!

  • It’s nearly Carnival time!

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    The Ninth Edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is fast approaching! The deadline for submissions is the end of the month, so get your posts in before midnight Saturday.

  • Obamamedia rant du jour

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    Holy baby-flavoured doughnuts on a stick, I am so over the mass media.

    Everywhere I’ve looked for the past week, there has been some special snowflake shaking his head slowly, tut-tutting, and blathering on about how they’re the only person on the planet to whom it has occurred that Obama isn’t actually the Messiah, Lord and Saviour of us all, come on a glitter-drenched unicorn to spew rainbows from his navel

  • Wednesday Linkfest

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    Crazy Meezer has the “Top 100 Australian Women’s Blogs“. You might find some new reading there.

  • On ambient intimacy and assistive devices

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    I was having a discussion about ambient intimacy in a couple of elsewheres, where I tried (and possibly failed) to say that what is so reviled by opinion editors and other meatsnobs can be useful in all sorts of ways.

    I like the little slices of life on my friends’ livejournals, however trivial, because I just can’t access this sort chatter in my meatspace. Yes, I want to know how

  • Australia Day: “Speak English!”

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    It’s Australia Day again, so I’m recycling my favourite anecdote from a few years ago.

    We had decided to spend a warm Australia Day picnicking on the shores of Lake Monger with friends. Plenty of other people had decided the same thing, and it was a convivial atmosphere. The black swans were noodling around in the background, there plenty of kids playing on the grass, families were chatting with each other

  • Australian of the Year 2009 finalists

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    We haven’t talked about the Australian of the Year nominations here yet. What struck me immediately with the 2009 field is that this time around, only two of them are (as far as I know) white men.

    Note, however, that none (again, as far as I know; I’m open to correction on this) are women of colour. For this year’s Australian of the Year, you can be an indigenous or immigrant person of colour, or a woman; but not both.

  • Otterday, and Open Thread

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    This river otter was pictured on TrekNature New Zealand. Isn’t it beautiful?

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    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 book? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

  • Tip of the hat, Wag of the finger: IKEA Perth

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    My Tip o’ the hat goes to: The greeter at IKEA Osborne Park in Perth, when I walked in there for the first time this week.