This #InternationalWomensDay is all about the @PayGapApp bot and all the tweets it’s causing companies to delete once they get called out 🔥 pic.twitter.com/taiPu78BeA
- Dr Kirstie Wright (@rocksandwiggles) March 8, 2022

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Evacuation at the railway station in Kharkiv.

Photo: Elena Fateeva pic.twitter.com/Aq5bBVKv76
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You may have seen quotes or snippets of this, but the whole thing is worth watching.

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So I have been on holiday (one of the reasons for not posting much), so I merely bring you a random observation, since whilst away Darcy thought it might be nice to try a new show. It was a French show called 'The Very Secret Service' and was on Netflix.

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Why Do So Many Judges Cite Jane Austen in Legal Decisions?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen quotes and references are constantly showing up in court

(Radio) Britain's first transgender headteacherClaire Birkenshaw recounts what happened the first day she came to the boys' secondary school she worked at in Hull, northern ( Read more... )

Mostly I've just been dumping them all in a draft in gmail named 'wimmin'. But I thought it was a shame that they should stay there, so here is the mother of all link posts. A lot about #MeToo and Aziz Ansari and... Just wimmin's stuff generally.

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Stop asking me ‘what about men?’
Essential reading (although not good for your blood pressure...)

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GRRM: Melantha, Done Right At Last

The Guardian: 'Women are better writers than men': novelist John Boyne sets the record straight
Male authors are always pronouncing their own brilliance - or boasting about not reading books by women. So, after a lifetime of writing and attending literary festivals, John Boyne would like to get something off his ( Read more... )

TIME Person of the Year: The Silence Breakers

(Sidebar: Is Taylor Swift a “Silence Breaker”? The case for and against her place on Time’s cover.)

Hillary Clinton meets Mary Beard: ‘I would love to have told Trump: “Back off, you creep”’ (DELIGHTFUL!)

MoJ scraps legal aid restrictions for victims of domestic violence

Why Men Aren’t Funny

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This is amazing. Follow the link, the threads are golden. Like, crying with laughter:

“I am sorry for all the times I stabbed men, just a little, in my previous workplace. After years of counseling, I stopped stabbing men.”
- Kate Harding (@KateHarding) October 28, 2017

And from Vox:

The double life of the “respectable” men who harass women
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