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  • ObTrollWrangling: On Deserving New Chances

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    The problem with Paul’s activities is him presenting that persona as having had fictional abuse problems that he knows are common shared histories amongst the group of women he is contacting, and asking those people for advice as if he is a real life troubled young woman. Anyone who doesn’t see that this is creepy as fuck needs to spend a great deal of thinking time on the matter.

  • Latest from WikiLeaks: Collateral Murder

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    The so-called weapons that the gunship soldiers thought they saw were all in fact cameras. They shot to death a group of people walking down the street, and then slaughtered people with children coming to help the wounded, just because some of them had cameras.

  • Virtual Traveling: Stourhead, Wiltshire

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    Stourhead is an absolutely stunning landscape garden set in a river valley in Wiltshire which has been artfully dammed and diverted to make for a lovely meandering promenade with plenty of spots for sculptures and architectural follies to be scattered – it was one of the first gardens to be created according to the principles of the English Landscape Movement. There are also more rambling woodland walks full of enormous rhododendrons and other flowering shrubs amongst the trees.

  • Femmostroppo Reader – April 5, 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. Feminist Intersection: Contemporary feminism isn't necessarily anti-racist | Bitch Magazine – “Now I’ve got to give… Read More ›

  • Endangered Sunday: Bilbies

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    Kids around Australia know the bilby because of a successful program begun over 10 years ago to encourage people to give chocolate bilbies to kids at Easter instead of chocolate bunnies

  • Perfect, just perfect

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    A school and the community around them made a peaceful counter-protest to the Westboro Baptist Church’s demonstration against the school for actively promoting not just tolerance but loving acceptance of people who have attributes outside the narrow lines of what Fred Phelps deems acceptable.

  • Femmostroppo Reader – April 3, 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. Breaking: Victorian women liked sex! – “As with a restrictive corset worn for far too long,… Read More ›

  • Otterday! And Open Thread.

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    Today’s Otterday is hosted by an April First Loch Ness Otter, courtesy of Beg Bits, a wildlife tour operator in Mull. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening… Read More ›

  • Dragon trailer doesn’t do it justice

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    How To Train Your Dragon is the best family entertainment film since Monsters Inc– pure feel-good escapism.

  • It’s Carnival time! Submit your posts now.

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    The Twenty-Third Edition (can you believe it?) of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is fast approaching! The deadline for submissions is the 2nd of April – tomorrow – so get your posts in now. This 23rd edition will be hosted… Read More ›