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  • 12 Bar Bliss

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    It’s so much bloody fun.

  • The 72nd Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!

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    In blue on a white background, the DUFC logo: in a square with rounded corners, there is the female/feminine symbol; with the Southern Cross inside, above which it says 'Down Under' and below 'Feminists Carnival'.

    All the details on the latest edition and how to submit to the next one!

  • 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?

  • Lego is Refusing to Get the Message

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    2 Lego minifigs, one a girl from 'friends' one a boy from regular set.

    Someone at Lego has decided that they will make more money from parents who like gender segregation and stereotyping than those who loathe it.

  • Media Circus: #BringBackOurGirls Edition

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    Photo of Australian Parliament House (APH) in Canberra

    So who else thinks that if 200+ white schoolgirls had been kidnapped from a boarding school anywhere on the planet that the media would be making it not just a top story but the top story for weeks until their whereabouts was discovered? So why aren’t there regular updates about the 200+ kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls every single day?

    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?

  • Ambient/everyday discrimination

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    A three-way mutually reinforcing feedback cycle - Affect manifests as Prejudice and Ingroup Favouritism, Behaviour manifests as Discrimination, Cognition manifests as Stereotyping

    Some recommended reading from John Scalzi and Soraya Chemaly, and a few thoughts.

  • Somebody’s Having a Birthday

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    It’s Shakespeare! Today is Shakespeare’s 450th birthday. Probably. Nominally. Well, we know he was baptised on the 26th, and it was usual for that to happen about three days after the birth. Also he died on April 23rd, 52 years later, so it appeals to our sense of symmetry.

  • 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?

  • Open Lymond Chronicles Casting Thread

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    Quite a few people I know are fans of Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond Chronicles, centred upon a scapegrace Scots nobleman navigating the intrigues of the Tudor/Stewart/Suleiman era whose talents and flaws (and associated collateral damage body count) exceed those of Sherlock Holmes, Batman and Iron Man put together.