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Crime Against Nature Kids book about same sex and other "unnatural" relationships in nature. Not sue it works as a kids book but still interesting! Couldn't get it to download though.
When Depression is Contagious Captain Awkward post about how to draw boundaries and look after your own emotional well being when in a relationship with a depressed person.
Say hello to The Old Republic's gay planet All the same sex content in Bioware's Star Wars: The Old Republic MMMORPG is on one planet. Uh huh.
AMAZINGLY OFFENSIVE: On Stephen Hawking, Vader and Being More Machine Than Human Inspired me to make a More machine than man shirt because screw you, self obsessed technophiles.
Why I play violent video games Not the same reasons as me, but still an interesting read from another woman who likes violent video games (and no, not despite the violence)
The secret life of them: What it takes to shift class in Australia Quite different to my experience as an upwardly mobile child of downwardly mobile ex-middle class white people, but that's what you'd expect.
the positive side of socialism
Health Panics in Historical Perspective
“Oh, You Sexy Geek!”: “Geek Girls” and the Problem of Self-Objectification
I've been reading through Pervocracy, I particularly liked
Using my vagina about the validity of having unsexy sex if that's genuinely what you want.
From a different POV, You Need Help: Let's Talk About (Having More) Sex
Conservatives can be persuaded to care more about the environment, study finds
Multiple Sclerosis, Kepral’s Syndrome, and Why I’m Glad Thane Dies The importance of illness narratives with no magical cure.
When Depression is Contagious Captain Awkward post about how to draw boundaries and look after your own emotional well being when in a relationship with a depressed person.
Say hello to The Old Republic's gay planet All the same sex content in Bioware's Star Wars: The Old Republic MMMORPG is on one planet. Uh huh.
AMAZINGLY OFFENSIVE: On Stephen Hawking, Vader and Being More Machine Than Human Inspired me to make a More machine than man shirt because screw you, self obsessed technophiles.
Why I play violent video games Not the same reasons as me, but still an interesting read from another woman who likes violent video games (and no, not despite the violence)
The secret life of them: What it takes to shift class in Australia Quite different to my experience as an upwardly mobile child of downwardly mobile ex-middle class white people, but that's what you'd expect.
the positive side of socialism
Health Panics in Historical Perspective
“Oh, You Sexy Geek!”: “Geek Girls” and the Problem of Self-Objectification
I've been reading through Pervocracy, I particularly liked
Using my vagina about the validity of having unsexy sex if that's genuinely what you want.
From a different POV, You Need Help: Let's Talk About (Having More) Sex
Conservatives can be persuaded to care more about the environment, study finds
Multiple Sclerosis, Kepral’s Syndrome, and Why I’m Glad Thane Dies The importance of illness narratives with no magical cure.
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Barred CHOGM protestor 'not a threat' The Queen is visiting, better lock up the environmentalists! On the plus side even commercial FM radio news was talking about it.
Rio Tinto accused over Bougainville 'genocide'
Housos: a tv show making fun of disabled people living in public housing. As a disabled person who grew up in public housing around a lot of disabled people my response was nostalgia coated in a heavy layer of "Fuck you"(*). Here's the first episode of Housos, I only got three minutes in, maybe it suddenly becomes SUPER AMAZING after that but somehow I doubt it.
(*)Given that my childhood involved a lot of people swearing and resentment towards middle class(**) wankers who thought they were better than us I guess it's appropriate.
(**)I tried to look up about the guy who made this, but once I hit "He won the Tropfest award…although he had submitted the film under the pseudonym Laura Feinstein in order to appeal to the sensitivities of the judges" I decided I'd hit my loathing limit for the day.
Rio Tinto accused over Bougainville 'genocide'
Housos: a tv show making fun of disabled people living in public housing. As a disabled person who grew up in public housing around a lot of disabled people my response was nostalgia coated in a heavy layer of "Fuck you"(*). Here's the first episode of Housos, I only got three minutes in, maybe it suddenly becomes SUPER AMAZING after that but somehow I doubt it.
(*)Given that my childhood involved a lot of people swearing and resentment towards middle class(**) wankers who thought they were better than us I guess it's appropriate.
(**)I tried to look up about the guy who made this, but once I hit "He won the Tropfest award…although he had submitted the film under the pseudonym Laura Feinstein in order to appeal to the sensitivities of the judges" I decided I'd hit my loathing limit for the day.
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1) OMG Australian internet filtering ARGH ARGH
2) OMG Copenhagen, and global warming in general, ARGH ARGH
Any time I think about either of these topics I just get all ARGH and nothing coherent comes out. But yes. Argh.
This is a serious problem with me and climate change(*). I flip between not thinking about it and FREAKING OUT, neither of which leads anywhere very productive. I do force myself to read the posts that come up on my flist and do what I can to be less wasteful etc based on the knowledge I've managed to glean in bursts between thinking "What can I do about this?" and "ARGH can't think about this any more". But still :(
(*)The internet filter is bad, but might not happen and if it does is still very unlikely to lead directly to the end of civilisation as we know it.
2) OMG Copenhagen, and global warming in general, ARGH ARGH
Any time I think about either of these topics I just get all ARGH and nothing coherent comes out. But yes. Argh.
This is a serious problem with me and climate change(*). I flip between not thinking about it and FREAKING OUT, neither of which leads anywhere very productive. I do force myself to read the posts that come up on my flist and do what I can to be less wasteful etc based on the knowledge I've managed to glean in bursts between thinking "What can I do about this?" and "ARGH can't think about this any more". But still :(
(*)The internet filter is bad, but might not happen and if it does is still very unlikely to lead directly to the end of civilisation as we know it.
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Snipped from an email forward I got from my brother. Normally I wouldn't turn an email into a post but it's hardly private :)
Your Conservation Council is being silenced while Western Australia's environment laws are being undone, our pristine Kimberley coast is under threat, and dangerous uranium mines are fast-tracked in WA
I urgently need your help to stop this attack on our environment. Please do not delay in taking the following actions:
1) Make a donation to the Conservation Council;
2) Forward this email to your friends and ask other concerned people you know to become a supporter of the Conservation Council.
3) Write an email to the Premier or your local newspaper outlining your concerns;
I appreciate any assistance you can give.
Your personal assistance is needed at this critical time for the Western Australian environment and the future of your Conservation Council. As a person who cares about our environment, you will surely be as outraged as I am by what I tell you below.
At the same time, it appears that there is an effort to undermine and silence the Conservation Council through dramatic reductions in the State Government funding we have received for over 20 years. We are concerned this may be a calculated attempt to prevent us from speaking out against irresponsible decisions and government policies.
I have recently received some very disturbing information contained in leaked documents that have been exposed in Parliament and in the media.Plans are being made behind closed doors to dismantle Western Australia's environmental protection laws, to fast-track the expansion of polluting industries, and remove the right of the community to challenge and oppose unacceptable developments.
We have already lost three key staff - our Water Policy Officer, our Sustainable Agriculture Officer and our Minerals and Mining Officer. These losses represent a huge blow to your Conservation Council, seriously reducing our ability to develop and advocate strategies to protect the environment in WA.
( Read more... )
Your Conservation Council is being silenced while Western Australia's environment laws are being undone, our pristine Kimberley coast is under threat, and dangerous uranium mines are fast-tracked in WA
I urgently need your help to stop this attack on our environment. Please do not delay in taking the following actions:
1) Make a donation to the Conservation Council;
2) Forward this email to your friends and ask other concerned people you know to become a supporter of the Conservation Council.
3) Write an email to the Premier or your local newspaper outlining your concerns;
I appreciate any assistance you can give.
Your personal assistance is needed at this critical time for the Western Australian environment and the future of your Conservation Council. As a person who cares about our environment, you will surely be as outraged as I am by what I tell you below.
At the same time, it appears that there is an effort to undermine and silence the Conservation Council through dramatic reductions in the State Government funding we have received for over 20 years. We are concerned this may be a calculated attempt to prevent us from speaking out against irresponsible decisions and government policies.
I have recently received some very disturbing information contained in leaked documents that have been exposed in Parliament and in the media.Plans are being made behind closed doors to dismantle Western Australia's environmental protection laws, to fast-track the expansion of polluting industries, and remove the right of the community to challenge and oppose unacceptable developments.
We have already lost three key staff - our Water Policy Officer, our Sustainable Agriculture Officer and our Minerals and Mining Officer. These losses represent a huge blow to your Conservation Council, seriously reducing our ability to develop and advocate strategies to protect the environment in WA.
( Read more... )
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I came across two links yesterday which I think work nicely together:
Atlas Sulked, about Ayn Rand following rich people who've decided to protest the new "socilaism" (hah!) of America by taking their vital, superior, money generating selves out of the system by becoming self sufficient hermits
and
Another Green World: Lifestyle Television’s Environmental Turn, on the way environmentalism has been commodified by commercial tv into an individual, consumerist act
I'm not sure I'm quite able to articulate the moral I draw from this. Maybe that "evironmentalism" isn't a homogenous thing: the same behaviours can be done for different motives (helping society or hurting it), and you can pursue the same goals in different ways (individual changes and spending lots of money, or large-scale projects like public transport and power plants, etc) Anyway, I thought they were interesting.
Am definitely not saying that all environmentalism is capitalist and/or bad :)
Atlas Sulked, about Ayn Rand following rich people who've decided to protest the new "socilaism" (hah!) of America by taking their vital, superior, money generating selves out of the system by becoming self sufficient hermits
and
Another Green World: Lifestyle Television’s Environmental Turn, on the way environmentalism has been commodified by commercial tv into an individual, consumerist act
I'm not sure I'm quite able to articulate the moral I draw from this. Maybe that "evironmentalism" isn't a homogenous thing: the same behaviours can be done for different motives (helping society or hurting it), and you can pursue the same goals in different ways (individual changes and spending lots of money, or large-scale projects like public transport and power plants, etc) Anyway, I thought they were interesting.
Am definitely not saying that all environmentalism is capitalist and/or bad :)
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