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Wed, 29/11/2023 - 01:31

When I was in my early twenties, I seriously considered murdering someone. He had given my best friend genital herpes, which many health practitioners then believed was the agent responsible for causing cervical cancer in women. (It wasn’t.) Back in the 1970s, though, I believed that, by infecting my friend, he might have set in motion a process that would someday kill her. That he was an arrogant jerk made it that much easier for me to contemplate murdering him. But there was a larger context to my private dream of revenge. My anger was also fed by a growing awareness that so many of us were just then acquiring of the history of systematic patriarchal threats to, and constraints... Read more

Source: Is It Time (Once Again) for Nonviolent Rebellion? appeared first on TomDispatch.com.

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Wed, 29/11/2023 - 00:02

Designers can either become drivers of business within their organizations, or they can create the businesses they want to drive. We’re entering an era of design entrepreneurship, in which some designers are realizing that they’re not just a designer employed by a business; they’re creative business people whose skill set is design. —The State of […]

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Wed, 29/11/2023 - 00:01

Polar Vest
This down-filled vest is super soft and is guaranteed to keep kids warm and toasty. Your tween will flat-out refuse to wear it for no apparent reason other than “I just don’t like it,” even though it comes in what used to be her favorite color but apparently isn’t anymore.

Mountain Fleece Pants
These fleece-lined pants will keep the chill away on cold days. Unfortunately, your tween boy will opt for shorts even when it’s thirty degrees with a “real feel” temperature of twenty-four degrees.

Cozy Scarf
You might as well take your money and set it on fire because scarves are “cringe.”

Guns N’ Roses T-shirt
Your tween will wear this T-shirt but will not discuss Appetite for Destruction with you and will not entertain the idea that people who wear band shirts without listening to the actual bands are “posers.”

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Wed, 29/11/2023 - 00:00

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For the first time ever, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency’s longtime columnist Rowdy Geirsson has translated his extensive archival research of anonymously recorded, authentic Norse lore into English. This new scholarly edition of The Impudent Edda comes with extensive footnotes and photos and offers readers a highly accessible yet deeply poetic rendition of fun and classic tales ranging from Odin’s unprovoked murder of an ancient witch, to Freyja’s voluntary experiment as a prostitute among lecherous dwarves, to Thor’s drunken and petty act of larceny on the eve of Ragnarök, the final world-shattering battle of the gods.

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Tue, 28/11/2023 - 13:08

NSW Home Support Services (HSS) are hosting a Christmas Lunch for the Coffs Harbour aged community on Wednesday 29 November, with local seniors invited to attend. “Bringing people together is such an important part of human life and we want to help the people of the Coffs community to feel connected and be part of...

The post Aged community invited to Home Support Services’ Christmas Lunch appeared first on News Of The Area.

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Tue, 28/11/2023 - 12:57

A FACT-FILLED fifteen-minute workshop on how to use the iNaturalist app is being offered by the Friends of the Botanic Garden’s fauna team and Coffs by Nature program as the Great Southern BioBlitz (GSB) weekend gets into full swing. The workshops take place on Saturday 25 November between 9am and 1pm at the North Coast...

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Tue, 28/11/2023 - 12:55

AN intergenerational music-making program running in Toormina is generating a heartwarming outcome for oldies and youngsters alike. Toormina’s The Link venue has joined forces with Stephanie Sims from Uko Ono to bring together seniors from Marian Grove and young people from Mary Help of Christians school to collaborate and make music. Advertise with News of...

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Tue, 28/11/2023 - 12:50

CAUTION should be taken when entering the Boambee Creek Estuary area, according to Southern Cross University’s Professor Kirsten Benkendorff. “In particular, stay out of the dead mangrove areas where you can see pools of black mud,” she told News Of The Area. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business....

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