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  • Can you offer emergency animal foster care in Brisbane area?

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    Several RSPCA animal shelters are flooded or about to be. I’m donating, since I’m too far away to foster.

    Please only call RSPCA QLD hotlines if you have an animal emergency.

    Email offers of help or donate through the website.

  • Femmostroppo Reader January 10, 2011

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    Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. Lots of reaction to the Arizona shootings. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.

  • How I minimise the online abuse I receive

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    a winged monkey sculpture crouched against a chimney stack

    So here is an assortment of technical tips & tricks whereby bloggers can cut down the volume and the repetition coming from this cyberbullying cadre of keyboard jockeys, making the harassment little more than a tiny hiss of background noise instead of an overwhelming flood of spite.

  • BFTP: Friday Hoyden – Eleanor of Aquitaine

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    Another Summer Slowdown blast from the past post from the archives.. A long time e-friend in 2006 welcomed the arrival of his second daughter, to be known as Eleanor.

    I love that name, as Eleanor of Aquitaine (at various times Prince of Aquitaine as ruling Duchess, Queen of France, Queen of England, Queen Mother and Regent of England) is my favourite historical hoyden. EofA is, indeed, how I judge the quality of any encyclopaedia I encounter.

  • BFTP: How To Be A Bitch

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    This is not a repost exactly, as I am revisiting more than one previously published post in response to yet another comment left over at FF101 about How Feminism Killed Chivalry, So Enjoy Lifting Those Heavy Parcels Ladies, Because It Serves You Right. This is a favourite trope amongst the antifeminists, about how feminists will be sorry Real Soon Now because they’re saving themselves for real feminine women, who know how to be properly grateful when a man makes a big display of how nice he’s being right now when he could be being really nasty instead, but he isn’t being nasty right now, because he’s just Such A Nice Guy especially just for you.

  • As if the floodwaters weren’t enough

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    Queenslanders are having to watch out for poisonous snakes who also want a safe spot on high ground.

  • Femmostroppo Reader January 6, 2011

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    Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. Please leave your own interesting links in comments.

  • BFTP: So, how does one tell the axe-murderers from the con-artists?

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    This repost is part of our Summer Slowdown program of revisiting the blog archives, and was originally published in February 2006. I’m including this not because it’s anything special as a piece of writing, but because of how times seem to have changed so quickly over the last few years regarding meatspace meetups of cyberbuddies – I don’t think anyone hardly bats an eye any more.

  • Quote of the Day: Store Wars

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    I wonder if Mr Harvey thought through the consequences of highlighting to his customers on every news site just how much better deals are online.

  • Train Nerds Alert

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    The UK’s National Railway Museum has a free download on its website – a train simulator where one can drive The Flying Scotsman.