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  • Endangered Sunday: Golden Lion Tamarin

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    The Golden Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia, Portuguese: Mico-leão Dourado) also known as Golden Marmoset, is a small New World monkey of the family Cebidae. Native to the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil, the Golden Lion Tamarin is an endangered species and among the rarest animals in the world, with an estimated wild population of “no more than 1,000 individuals” and a captive population maintained at approximately 490 individuals.

  • Carnival time- and the deadline is TODAY!

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    The Twenty-Fourth Edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is fast approaching! The deadline for submissions is the 2nd of May – that’s today – so get your posts in right now. This 24th edition will be hosted by Frankie… Read More ›

  • Femmostroppo Reader – May 1, 2010

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    Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. So Sexy Too Soon – “Diane Levin and Jean Kilbourne explore the role of gendered and… Read More ›

  • BADD: A Thousand Words

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    My Blogging Against Disablism Day post is just an image from a doctor’s office, taken by me a few days ago.

  • Blogging Against Disablism Day

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    It’s today! Diary of A Goldfish is listing BADD 2010 posts as they are submittted there. There are some categories set up to spark ideas if you want to write your own BADD post. Previous BADD posts from HaT: 2009… Read More ›

  • Otterday! And Open Thread.

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    Today’s Otterday chat thread is hosted by an otter from The Daily Squee. 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… Read More ›

  • Watch this.

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    vid on youtube [sorry about lack of embedding, can’t seem to get it to work today – fixed ~tt] Then read this. Of course there is still a long way to go before we see anything other than a young… Read More ›

  • #nocleanfeed – Aust Govt delays introducing net filter legislation

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    From the Oz A spokeswoman for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said yesterday the legislation would not be introduced next month’s or the June sittings of parliament. With parliament not sitting again until the last week of August, the laws are… Read More ›

  • Thursday Cheezburger: Classic Tracks

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    And today’s LOLcat theme is… Classic Tracks. Post your own favourite in-theme LOLcat here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct link to an image… Read More ›

  • Those who do not know their history etc etc

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    – how the Tea Party movement is either deliberately misusing or seriously misunderstanding history, why that allows nonsense to spread unchecked, and why the trend of de-emphasising of history should be of concern to all sides of politics.