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• Media Circus: “trolling” panic swamps drug law reform debate

  By tigtog on 2012-09-13 • ( 8 )

  

  How unsurprising. As usual for media circus threads, please share your bouquets and brickbats for particular items in the mass media, or highlight cogent analysis elsewhere, on any current sociopolitical issue.

• WTF is Chris Brown thinking?

  By tigtog on 2012-09-12 • ( 7 )

  

  Chris Brown Tattoos An Image that looks like a Battered Woman On His Neck – of course he’s denying that it’s Rihanna or even a battered woman at all.

• Blogiversary! and hoydens carrying an axe!

  By tigtog on 2012-09-11 • ( 17 )

  

  Fortuitously, I was reorganising my images folder and came across this idea I had ages ago, and today I felt it was rather symbolic of the last 6 years of blogging.

• Femmostroppo Reader, September 10th 2012

  By tigtog on 2012-09-10 • ( 8 )

  

  Apologies for my long linkfest hiatus, and now back to your normal programming! Items of interest I’ve recently tweeted. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

• Doctor Who: S7 Ep2 – Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

  By tigtog on 2012-09-09 • ( 16 )

  

  Now I want a t-shirt that says “Move Away From The Pterodactyls”

• Quote of the week: Clinton’s speech was so good…

  By tigtog on 2012-09-07 • ( 2 )

  

  that Republican strategists are demanding to see his birth certificate too.

  A thread for discussing the USA election campaigns.

• Whimsy: teeny-weeny echidnas

  By tigtog on 2012-09-07 • ( 11 )

  

  For Mary. Please share links to anything that has recently surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you: think of these threads as a brain-bleach repository.

• The thing about intimidatory silencing tactics?

  By tigtog on 2012-09-05 • ( 24 )

  

  Sometimes they work out exactly as the malicious arseholes want them to, grinding people down until they feel the need to stop speaking out. But the technology that gives the bullies a megaphone to amplify their intimidation is a two-edged sword.

• Because we fail to notice that we fail to notice

  By tigtog on 2012-09-05

  

  A poem by R.D. Laing

• #dataretention is worthless #securitytheatre – how-to guides for Tor, VPN and https

  By tigtog on 2012-09-04 • ( 8 )

  

  To show how easy it is for any punk kid (or middle-aged feminist blogger) who just doesn’t want to play along with Roxon’s plans for an expanded surveillance culture, please do some googling on the search strings below.