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• Shows us your cats

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-07-27 • ( 1 )

  Image: Tacocat I highly recommend “Sexist Queers” by Bree McKenna over at the Stranger about the expectations placed on feminists by their own community and the sexism of music media: I’ve always wanted to write a review of a dude… Read More ›

• Mothers working, not the end of the world

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-07-27 • ( 2 )

  Conducted by researchers at University College London, it surveyed 19,000 British households to determine how parental employment affects a child’s behaviour throughout the first five years of life.

  The results will startle those who think that children benefit from having a stay-at-home mum. In fact, the paper indicates that maternal employment can often improve the chances of having well-adjusted kids.

• Farewell Margaret Olley

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-07-26 • ( 2 )

  Margaret Olley died today. She was 88 years old. One of Australia’s most distinguished painters and supporters of young and emerging artists, Olley was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1991. She spoke openly about her efforts to overcome both alcoholism and then later in life depression …

• Word of the Day: trypophobia?

  By tigtog on 2011-07-26 • ( 30 )

  

  – supposedly”an irrational fear of clustered holes”. Does this picture of a lotus pod (front page thumbnail pixellated) squick you at all?

  Lindsay Beyerstein explores what makes a phobia versus a non-phobic unpleasantness.

• Taking Responsibility For What People Say On Your Website

  By tigtog on 2011-07-26 • ( 9 )

  

  Without certain guidelines for acceptable content in comments the substantive arguments get buried in a flood of reactionary soundbites and frequently eliminationist rhetoric. This is not merely disturbing, it actively perpetuates partisan/ideological bias.

• Femmostroppo Reader July 25, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-07-26 • ( 1 )

  Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

• Methods of Rationality: completely made of win

  By tigtog on 2011-07-25 • ( 10 )

  

  Nerdcore squad, get thee to your Potterverse fan-fiction reading place!

• The blazing FAIL of a thousand suns

  By tigtog on 2011-07-24 • ( 9 )

  

  Google has suspended Skud’s google+ account.

• The Massacre in Norway

  By tigtog on 2011-07-24 • ( 7 )

  

  The shock and horror I’m feeling must be a pale shadow of what those in Norway are feeling. My thoughts are with them all.

• Sunday Soapbox – Shooters join with Fred Nile on Ethics Classes

  By Mindy on 2011-07-24 • ( 10 )

  

  NSW Shooters and Fishers Party throw their support behind Fred Nile on ethics classes.

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