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• Belated Friday Hoyden: Goodbye, voice of my childhood

  By tigtog on 2009-09-19 • ( 1 )

  I grew up as a folkie. Lots of people in our bushwalking club were also folkies, so we had serious singing around the campfire as well as going along to many ceilidhs and festivals. The voice of Mary Travers was one of our icons.

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-19 • ( 21 )

  Today’s otter is via law_keven on flickr. 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? Reading a great… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – September 18, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-09-18 • ( 7 )

  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. Teen birth rates highest in most religious states – “Seriously, does this surprise ANYONE?” When You… Read More ›

• Securing your WordPress blogs

  By tigtog on 2009-09-18 • ( 4 )

  As many of you may have already noticed, Feministe has been having some DDOS problems. Lauren and I have been working on them, and here’s a few suggestions for other people on self-hosted WordPress blogs (if you are on a wordpress.com free blog service you are fully protected and don’t need to know any of this):

• Thursday Cheezburger: Virtue #3, Justice

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-17 • ( 8 )

  Post your own favourite Justice-themed Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.

• Quick Hit – Feminism ur doin it rong, with a hint of teh patriarchy doesn’t exist

  By Mindy on 2009-09-17 • ( 6 )

  Read all about it Apologies for the lack of discussion, I just don’t have the energy today.

• Marvel Fail: rape culture apologism from writer, where the hell were the editors?

  By tigtog on 2009-09-17 • ( 6 )

  Storyline summary: villain named Chameleon takes Peter Parker’s shape and has sex with his roommate Michelle Gonzalez, who thinks he is Parker. Subsequent events show that the incident is being played for laughs with the oh so hilarious misunderstandings afterwards between Parker and roommate as she morphs immediately into a super-possessive clingy and bossy girlfriend from Nightmareland.

• More language nitpicking

  By tigtog on 2009-09-17 • ( 11 )

  I’ve decided that from now on I will refer to “unauthorised immigrants” rather than be complicit in the framing of these people as “illegal”. There is a huge difference between unauthorised activities and illegal activities,

• Aww – Clyde the Cat

  By tigtog on 2009-09-17 • ( 4 )

  The moral of Clyde’s story – microchip your pets.

• Macro meme of the week: Kanye interrupts

  By tigtog on 2009-09-16 • ( 20 )

  There are ridiculous numbers of macros around referencing Kanye West’s bizarre rudeness this week:

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