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• Cleaver time!

  By tigtog on 2013-02-11 • ( 4 )

  

  Because pumpkin soup.

• Femmostroppo Reader 2013-02-08

  By tigtog on 2013-02-08

  

  Items of interest encountered recently. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

• Quicklink: Language, as a tool, is never neutral

  By tigtog on 2013-02-06

  Language is a weapon used to make ‘others’ of people in poverty.

• Femmostroppo Reader 2013-02-04

  By tigtog on 2013-02-04 • ( 4 )

  

  Items of interest encountered recently. What did I miss? (I missed a lot this week again – still very busy with family stuff) Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

• Nugget of Awesome: You Need To Get Off My Foot

  By tigtog on 2013-01-30 • ( 18 )

  

  If you step on my foot, you need to get off my foot.

  If you step on my foot without meaning to, you need to get off my foot.

  If you step on my foot without realizing it, you need to get off my foot.

• Media Circus: Election Announcement Edition

  By tigtog on 2013-01-30 • ( 32 )

  

  A Federal election in September, violence in Egypt and Syria, Obama proposes immigration reforms and appoints John Kerry his new Secretary of State, deaths and damage are being tallied in Tasmanian/Victorian fires and Queensland floods. What has piqued your sociopolitical media interests lately? Please share your bouquets and brickbats.

• Virtual Travelling: Snowy Park Benches

  By tigtog on 2013-01-30 • ( 5 )

  This bench is in Vienna. Do you have a favourite bench?

• Laurie Penny on online misogyny

  By tigtog on 2013-01-29 • ( 4 )

  

  Regular readers already know how much we’ve written here over the years on cyberbullies and their enraged cries about their Free Speech rights being breached whenever somebody declines to publish their bile – bile which absolutely nobody is preventing them from publishing on a blog of their own.

  Disingenuous doesn’t begin to cover the hypocrisy of the Women Need To STFU brigade.

• Femmostroppo Reader 2013-01-28

  By tigtog on 2013-01-28 • ( 2 )

  

  Items of interest encountered recently. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

• In case you hadn’t noticed that HaT was missing in action for a while today?

  By tigtog on 2013-01-25 • ( 2 )

  

  Well, that hurts.