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  • Quote Of The Day: Think Of All The Supervillains

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    I love the Bad Chart Thursday posts on Skepchick, which mock various exercises in unjustifed extrapolation from datasets compromised by unacknowledged confounding factors or otherwise lacking rigor. This quote comes from the latest:

  • Quick Hit: Beautiful portraits

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    Huffpost has an article up on a series of portraits done by Chloe Aftel of agender teens. The photography is stunning and the teens themselves are lovely. Chloe has captured that fragility of teens without stripping them of their determination… Read More ›

  • Signal Boosting: Mass Closure of Women’s Refuges in NSW

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    40 years of women’s rights will be undone in June 2014 when many of Sydney’s specialist women’s refuges are forced to close. Under the NSW Government’s new tenders, women-only services were not allowed to tender for women-only services.

  • Media Circus: Trollumnist Steals The Limelight Edition

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    Photo of Australian Parliament House (APH) in Canberra

    Rhymes with jolt.

    What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

  • 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? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

  • Friday Hoyden: Maya Angelou

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    B&W of Maya Angelou as a young woman, in traditional African dress.

    Maya Angelou is one of the great figures of literature, and of humanity, of the modern age. Her death on Wednesday will be a sorrow to many, but also a prompt to stop and think about her outsized contribution to the total of both the justice and the beauty that exists in our world.

  • Nugget of Awesome: Sex And Love Aren’t Earned

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    [Content Note for linked material: Isla Vista mass murders, misogyny, gun culture]
    What I think would be helpful for a lot of men to understand (women too probably) is that sex and love aren’t earned. Can’t be earned. They are a matter of grace from the other person. And, because they can’t be earned, whether you are getting sex or love is not a reliable signifier of your value as a human being and aren’t a metric by which one person should be compared to another.

  • Ever had a sneaking suspicion you might be in a Jane Austen novel?

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    Do you ever wonder if you are living in a novel?

  • Happy 100th, Galactic Suburbia!

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    Cake decorated with a rocket ship and aliens

    Australian speculative fiction podcast Galactic Suburbia has just celebrated their 100th episode. I… found a picture of a cake! On the Internet!

  • 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? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?