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  • Quicklink Of The Day #1: Transgender Day of Remembrance

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    Assigned Male on Tumblr posted about what’s important to remember not just on the official day.

  • Media Circus: No More Knights And Dames Edition

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    Photo of Australian Parliament House (APH) in Canberra

    Although isn’t it lovely that we do at least now have a Queen of the Sport of Kings? Kudelka nails the much more important announcement that this week’s distractions have successfully pushed off the media cycle’s agenda.

    What’s piqued your media interests lately?

  • Abbott-Watch #libspill, get your popcorn

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    a red/white/blue poster done in the style of the Barack Obama "Audacity of Hope" posters. The image is of Tony Abbott, and in block letters underneath, it says "NOPE"

    A thread to share anything especially entertaining or infuriating regarding tonight’s Liberal party leadership ballot.

  • Media Circus: Politicians Of Conviction edition

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    Photograph of Westminster Palace, home of the UK Parliament, taken at dusk from across the river Thames.

    Veteran left-wing MP Jeremy Corbyn, a strong anti-austerity activist, has been elected leader of the Labour Party by a landslide.

    Meanwhile, the Australian Labor Party is still led by Bill Shorten.

    What’s piqued your media interests lately?

  • Media Circus: The Mysteries of Brewing edition

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    So this week most of the mass media is purporting to believe that it is possible to produce alchohol from brewers yeast extract.

    What’s piqued your media interests lately?

  • Media Circus: #ISupportAdamGoodes edition

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    Photo of Australian Parliament House (APH) in Canberra

    Feeling so much rage right now against the troglodytes showing their arses all over the internet and mass media this week.

    What’s piqued your media interests lately?

  • Having some Dorothy Parker moments

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    Sean Connery starring in the movie Zardoz. He is wearing some sort of orange nappy/bandolier with thigh-high black boots.

    Yes, I am ploughing my way through the Hugo 2014 nominated works, why do you ask?

  • Media Circus: Tracking Abbott’s Wreckage edition

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    Photo of Australian Parliament House (APH) in Canberra

    Link of the day: as of 29 June 2015, 457 seperate referenced items of Abbott’s Wreckage –

    What media story has caught your attention lately?

  • Rainbows everywhere

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    As I compose this post, the WordPress admin toolbar at the top of the page has a rainbow background. On social media, corporations have reworked their logos in rainbow hues. Over in the USA, rainbow flags are waving all over the place as same-sex couples rock up to courthouses and get married following SCOTUS ruling that state government bans on same-sex marriage violated constitutional guarantees granted by the 14th Amendment for all citizens to equal rights and protections under the law.

  • Otterday! And Open Thread

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    Otter Tracks on the Snow-Covered Ice The otters had walked up the Water of Girvan, at the place where they usually swim, leaving their distinctive tracks on the snow-covered ice. Otter tracks show 5-toed marks, with a clear "heel" behind the pad. I also saw fox tracks on the ice.

    This open thread is brought to you by otter tracks on snow-covered ice. 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?