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• Femmostroppo Reader February 10, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-02-10 • ( 14 )

  Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.

• Thursday Cheezburger – Luv

  By tigtog on 2011-02-10 • ( 2 )

  Today’s theme is: Luv It’s make Hallmark a fortune Valentine’s Day soon.

  Post your own favourite in-theme Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.

• Abbott-Watch: macho moments more important than basic consideration

  By tigtog on 2011-02-09 • ( 16 )

  Paraphrasing a comment I just made at LP: The “shit happens” comment is revealing despite being a media “gotcha” beatup, and what it reveals isn’t pretty.

• Gratuitous Google doodle blogging

  By tigtog on 2011-02-08

  It’s to honour Jules Verne. Interactive steampunk ahoy!

• Quicklink: newswithnipples on Mark Latham’s sexism

  By tigtog on 2011-02-07 • ( 9 )

  She wrote all about it, which means I don’t have to!

• Yet another Dickwolves post

  By tigtog on 2011-02-05 • ( 69 )

  [TW: rape culture] Don’t know about it yet? You’re lucky. Here’s a timeline. Geek Feminism and Shakesville have multiple posts on how Penny Arcade fucked up not so much with just(!) an insensitive rape joke in their webcomic, but with their mockingly dismissive responses (and how that played into their fans’ responses) to people’s objections to that webcomic.

• Victorian storms & floods

  By tigtog on 2011-02-05 • ( 9 )

  Check in, if you’ve got power! Watch out for those tricksy flash floods, and when do we get a week free of natural disaster dangers please?

• What will it take for Hosni Mubarak to go already?

  By tigtog on 2011-02-04 • ( 1 )

  Hundreds have already been killed and the violence is escalating. Let your people get on with it without you and your mates. You are not needed.

• Insensitive arseholes alert: not enough tragedy for their taste

  By tigtog on 2011-02-03 • ( 2 )

  Via Possum at Pollytics, I have been made aware that Caroline Overington and other people who work for the Oz’s Media Diary think that problems with devastating cyclones and killer heatwaves have been given too much attention, presumably since not enough people have died from them.

• Femmostroppo Reader February 3, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-02-03 • ( 4 )

  Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. I deliberately didn’t link to lots of coverage of Australian natural disasters or the Egyptian uprisings, because there’s just so much to sort through. What else did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.