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  • Otterday! And Open Thread.

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    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?

  • Friday Hoyden: Camila Vallejo

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    Camila Vallejo, despite being twenty-three, an age at which I thought being organised and active meant getting friends to come with me to a gig instead of going on my own, is the most prominent activist in the Chilean movement to force the government to enact free public education for all, right up to tertiary level.

  • Meme of the day: tealdeer

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    Love it. Apparently it’s been around for quite a while, which is why the animated gif exists, but I only read it for the first time today.

  • Quakers Hill nursing home fire

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    Aerial view of Sydney harbour and surrounds from the north

    Anyone concerned about family members at the Quakers Hill Nursing Home can call 1800 227 228 for information.

    From latest bulletins it seems a fire alarm sounded at about 5am and despite fast firefighting response (6 minutes according to the radio) the fire had become massive. As of the 8:30am bulletins police are advising that 9 people have died and that 20 more people are being treated for burns injuries.

  • Rape Culture Datapoint

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    Joe Paterno knowingly looked the other way when he could have gone to the police to get justice for raped children. Thousands of people are defending him.

  • Dear Kindle Cloud Reader

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    Please to be fixing footnotes. It is utterly unacceptable to attempt reading Pratchett without them.

  • Small (Environmental) Economies

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    I think that most of us here probably waste far more than we need to (I certainly do), but at the same time, most of us probably have our own little small personal economies to reduce waste, and it strikes me that sharing these with each other could be useful.

  • The expulsion of #occupywallstreet

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    …acting on Mayor Bloomberg’s instructions the NYPD waited until the city was asleep to expel the #occupy protestors from Zucotti Park.

  • Word

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    A wide-eyed owl with open beak. Image is captioned "O RLY?"

    Feministe’s Caperton points out that a helpful chap’s effort to introduce women to a term he thought they might not have ever heard before could perhaps have been a bit better directed elsewhere.

  • Quicklink: Gloria Steinem interview

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    Gloria Steinem has been an outspoken figure on behalf of women’s rights and the pro-choice movement for half a century.