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• Soggy here, innit?

  By tigtog on 2022-03-07 • ( 2 )

  

  In Sydney right now anyway. How about where you are, everybody? I hope all hoydens and hoyden-adjacent folks are safe and sound during the latest manifestations of the climate emergency. In other news I am definitely still masking up when… Read More ›

• In memoriam: Diana Rigg

  By tigtog on 2020-09-11 • ( 1 )

  

  Sad news to wake up to this morning.

• Otterday and Open Thread

  By tigtog on 2019-10-19 • ( 2 )

  

  I have awoken with the urge to blog for the first time in many moons and offer you this otter doing a backflip at Capron Park Zoo in Massachusetts.

• Elections #AusPol 2019 Thread

  By tigtog on 2019-03-15 • ( 3 )

  

  Hello, it’s been a while! I expect many may need to vent, although more substantive contributions are always welcome!

  Since I wrote this on Friday morning, the Christchurch terror attacks have made informed voting more critical than ever.

• ATO scammer time of the year again for Aussies

  By tigtog on 2017-09-19

  

  Just got a robocall from an “ATO officer” reciting a phone number that I was supposed to call or suffer dire legal consequence. I guffawed.

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By tigtog on 2017-09-17 • ( 5 )

  

  Hello! I had a sudden urge to revisit our rusty weekend Open Thread tradition. This one is hosted by an otter eating a carrot. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

• Missing Cassini already

  By tigtog on 2017-09-17

  

  Farewell, Cassini – the Little Spacecraft That Could.

• Abortion will remain in the NSW Crimes Act

  By tigtog on 2017-05-12 • ( 1 )

  

  Yesterday a bill to decriminalise abortion was voted down in New South Wales Parliament.

• Wonder Woman movie marketing machine tied up in knots

  By tigtog on 2017-04-30 • ( 8 )

  

  …and not in a knowing nod to the cognoscenti way. Shana O’Neill on SyfyWire wonders Where is the Wonder Woman movie advertising?

• Vale John Clarke #PutOutYourGumboots

  By tigtog on 2017-04-11 • ( 3 )

  

  Two nations have lost a great satirist, a terrific writer, and by all accounts a delightful human being generally.