Posts from November 2020

2020-11-10: 💻 Hello World!: Greetings! My name’s Jessica, and I’m a twenty-something leftie from Melbourne. A couple of days ago, I …
2020-11-10: 🐱 Photo post: Staring down her enemy cat in the driveway…
2020-11-12: 💻 Site update: My big job today has been (and is) laboriously converting an old blog to static pages, so I can keep the content up …
2020-11-12: 💻 Site update: Honestly, much as it pains me that I’ve wasted my whole morning working on this, I think I’m going to give …
2020-11-12: 📚 Book review: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (★★★★★)
2020-11-13: 🇦🇺 Micro post: Last night I watched an item on this Sri Lankan family in Kempsey who are facing deportation because their father died. …
2020-11-13: 🐱 Photo post: Gidget likes to spend a lot of time hiding behind our neighbours' aircon exhaust fan. When she hears her humans around, …
2020-11-13: 🍱 Photo post: The misir wot I ate for dinner tonight! 😋 I basically follow this Spice Cravings recipe, but I use more tomato paste. …
2020-11-14: 🦠 Micro post: Today Victoria marked 15 straight days of no new Covid-19 cases. It’s taken a long, hard lockdown to get here, and …
2020-11-15: 🐶 Photo post: This sweet boy is one of the dogs of my brother-in-law and his wife… and also the father of my parents' dog! Patches …
2020-11-16: 🚊 Micro post: The Victorian govt’s announced funding for prelim work on Melbourne’s long-overdue loop line, along with the …
2020-11-16: 🐶 Photo post: Gizmo on my parents' armchair, caught between his need to rest and his need to guard his pig’s ear! 🤣
2020-11-17: 📚 Native Australian Crops: Earlier this year I read Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, which is a pretty interesting primer on Aboriginal ways of life …
2020-11-17: 🍱 Photo post: Tonight I cooked this Thai-style lemongrass and coconut soup. The link to the original recipe is long lost to me, but I …
2020-11-18: 🐱 Photo post: Always flattering when Gidget chooses to spend some time with me in the mornings, in between her patrols and snack …
2020-11-18: 🖥 Micro post: Upgraded my MacBook Air to Big Sur this afternoon! (I like to wait a few days for any glaring problems to be reported on …
2020-11-19: 🐝 Micro post: Just had the fright of my life hanging out laundry, when I realised A FREAKING WASP was walking all over me without a …
2020-11-19: 🖥 Micro post: Over the last couple of days I’ve read numerous discussions of the new M1 Macs, including this John Gruber article …
2020-11-19: 📚 Book review: Armistice by Lara Elena Donnelly (★★★½)
2020-11-20: 🍱 Photo post: Took advantage of the cooler weather today to whip up a batch of chicken stew in my pressure cooker. Packed full of …
2020-11-21: 📺 Killing Eve, S3: Last night Viv and I finally finished all the episodes out so far of Killing Eve (yes, we were sleeping on it for a …
2020-11-21: 🚊 Micro post: The Victorian government has decided on a route for the Melbourne Airport rail link. It’s going to run through the …
2020-11-21: 🐶 Photo post: Today we caught up with my partner’s niece and immediate family to celebrate her recent birthday! A certain dog …
2020-11-22: 🎮 Micro post: We played the family edition of Cards Against Humanity yesterday, and tbh I like it better than the …
2020-11-22: 📚 Book review: Más allá del invierno by Isabel Allende (★★)
2020-11-22: 🐶 Photo post: Gizmo, looking up attentively at one guest pre-thunderstorm and seeking shelter on the lap of his second guest …
2020-11-23: 👩🏻 Photo post: Twenty-four days now since Victoria’s last new Covid-19 case, and as of today we’re finally allowed outside …
2020-11-24: 🌏 Micro post: After a bewildering iCloud calendar reminder, today I learned that Norfolk Island, a remote Australian territory, …
2020-11-25: 🐱 Photo post: Love to have a lazy morning with my baby girl. Of course this was not that… she woke me up at 5:15, again at 6:55, and …
2020-11-25: 🖥 Two Weeks on Micro.blog, and Some Discussion of “Likes”: As of yesterday, I’ve now had this site on Micro.blog for two weeks. So far, I’ve really been enjoying the …
2020-11-27: 🦠 Interring My Grandma's Ashes: Yesterday, my family gathered at Box Hill Cemetery to inter my grandma’s ashes. The funeral itself was held back …
2020-11-28: 🌯 Photo post: Made these enchiladas for dinner last night 😋 Vivian keeps raving about them, and threatening to gobble up all the …
2020-11-28: 🖥 Micro post: After two and a half weeks running my own blog at this subdomain, I feel energised to start making a static site to go …
2020-11-29: 💻 Site update: Having worked hard over the past 24 hours, I can now link you to my static personal website! ☺️ As of right now the site …
2020-11-30: 🐱 Photo post: Gidget loves to soak up the sun’s warmth on our concrete porch.
2020-11-30: 📅 Micro post: Here’s an interesting map of what’s considered the first day of the week in different countries. FWIW I …
2020-11-30: 🥐 Micro post: Five years ago I decided to stop eating mammal meat, and while this has mostly been no hardship, one thing I have missed …

Jessica Smith is a left-wing feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also very interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.