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• Durban: a modest agreement

  By tigtog on 2011-12-12

  Delegates agreed to start work next year on a new legally binding treaty to cut greenhouse gases to be decided by 2015 and to come into force by 2020.

• Sydney Summery Femmosphere Meetup: Sunday December 18 in Manly, come one, come all

  By Mary on 2011-12-12 • ( 17 )

  

  There will be a Hoyden and Femmosphere meetup in Manly on Sunday December 18 at 11:00am. See you there!

• Quicklink: maybe you have to squint to see it clearly

  By tigtog on 2011-12-11

  

  “Each star marks a US military base, but just so we’re all clear: Iran is threatening us; we’re not threatening them.”

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2011-12-10 • ( 21 )

  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? […] Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• Sponsor me to support the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia

  By Chally on 2011-12-08 • ( 8 )

  

  I’m raising funds (here’s my sponsorship page) for the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia, and tackling negative perceptions of femininity at the same time.

• Thursday Internet Tradition: Linguist Llama

  By Mary on 2011-12-08 • ( 3 )

  

  Hoydens are aware of all Internet traditions! But we share our hard-won cultural knowledge! This week, we introduce you to the tradition of the Linguist Llama.

• Quicklink: Court orders woman to pay alimony to convicted spousal rapist

  By tigtog on 2011-12-08 • ( 2 )

  

  Unfuckingbelievable.

• The Humbling of a Pretty Girl

  By Chally on 2011-12-07 • ( 3 )

  

  To say that the outlets reporting on this think of it as a shock or a misfortune, feel really bad for Ms Scruggs, and are inappropriately sexing it up, misses the main point. There are loads of bigger stories to care about, on economies, wars, and disease. The point is that they are latching on to the most popular plot in the world: the humbling of the pretty girl.

• Interested in women in open tech and culture? AdaCamp Melbourne wants you!

  By Mary on 2011-12-07 • ( 4 )

  

  My non-profit organisation, the Ada Initiative, wants to go full steam ahead into 2012, and we’re holding an AdaCamp event in Melbourne to kick off the year!

  AdaCamp will be a one day “unconference” (that is, it will have free-form sessions scheduled by participants) focussed on furthering women’s work in open technology and culture. It will be held on Saturday January 14 in Melbourne, some travel funding is available.

• Whoydensday: Doctor Who on Boxing Day in Oz

  By tigtog on 2011-12-07 • ( 20 )

  

  Auntie has now confirmed that once again they are fast-tracking from the UK for a screening date of December 26 at 7:30pm.

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