Posts from December 2020

2020-12-01: 🍳 Cast-iron pans: my thoughts, five weeks on: I grew up in a household that used cheap, non-stick pans and replaced them when they stopped being non-stick enough to …
2020-12-01: 🍺 Micro post: Ever read Harry Potter and found yourself longing for the delicious-sounding beverage Butterbeer? Well have I got good …
2020-12-02: 🖥 Micro post: Yooooo, I just found out what Micro.blog’s “New Test Blog” function under “Edit Custom …
2020-12-02: 🐱 Photo post: Someone is very pleased with herself for stealing my spot on the couch while I was cooking dinner 😂
2020-12-02: 💻 Site update: My custom layout is live! Click through to my blog’s front page if you’d like to see. Converting the theme …
2020-12-03: 🖥 Micro post: I came across this interesting article today: How the Blog Broke the Web (external link). That’s not to say …
2020-12-04: 🐱 Photo post: Gidget likes to pretend she’s a wildcat in the savannah, hiding amidst the tall grass in pursuit of prey… (even …
2020-12-04: 🖥 Micro post: Today I started teaching myself how to use Hugo! The Quick Start guide on the official site is indeed a good quick …
2020-12-05: 📚 Micro post: I’ve started reading La pasión según Carmela by Marcos Aguinis! As far as I know, it’s a doomed love story …
2020-12-05: 🏝 Photo post: Today was a humid, overcast day, but the wind was fairly still and we enjoyed a scenic walk at the local dog beach!
2020-12-06: 🇪🇸 Micro post: Interesting article on Catalan nationalists joining the Esperanto movement (external link) early last century. …
2020-12-07: 💬 On Australia's Devaluing of Foreign Language Learning: Suffering from the pandemic and decades of government policy, many Australian universities are axing programs in …
2020-12-07: 🍱 Photo post: Tonight I cooked Colombian chicken and rice, using this recipe from Skinnytaste (external link). It says you can …
2020-12-07: 📚 Book review: The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab (★★★★)
2020-12-08: 🐶 Photo post: My paparazzi stunts woke Sleeping Beauty from his slumber 😉 Taken the other night, when I was visiting my folks.
2020-12-08: 🐱 Micro post: When I’m feeling unwell (like today), my cat likes to curl up on my lap and administer the “cuddle …
2020-12-09: 🖥 Algorithmic Discrimination: I came across an excellent (if disturbing) article today on the hidden algorithms that trap people in …
2020-12-10: 🖥 Moving My Journal from Notion to Standard Notes: Everyone likes the idea that when you put your data into an app, you’ll be able to get it out again easily. …
2020-12-11: 🐱 Photo post: Gidget spent a little time on the couch on me before resuming her adventures for the day. (She refuses to confirm or …
2020-12-11: 🖥 Truncating Only Posts With Titles on Micro.blog: When I first got started on Micro.blog, one thing I wasn’t satisfied with was that my long posts appeared in full …
2020-12-12: 🖥 Micro post: Today I’ve been metaphorically running around, changing the listed email address on my online accounts to one of …
2020-12-13: 🚊 Photo post: Waiting for a train.
2020-12-14: 🐱 Photo post: TENNIS BALL MUST DIE!!
2020-12-15: 🗒 Perfection Isn't Necessary, Just Try Your Best: Several years ago I had a friend who identified as a vegetarian, but every once in a while – when she’d had a bit …
2020-12-15: 💬 Micro post: I feel like this is an underappreciated fact: the American South is not the only place where people say y’all. My …
2020-12-16: 💬 Double Object Pronouns in English: When I was studying linguistics at uni, one constant refrain was that native speakers (not grammarians) are the arbiters …
2020-12-16: 🌏 Micro post: An eight-year-old blog post (external link) on many points of internationalisation developers screw up, including …
2020-12-17: 🐱 Photo post: Enjoying some morning sunbeams!
2020-12-17: 🖥 Micro post: For the next week, I’ll be giving the free trial of Inkl (external link) a go. It’s a news …
2020-12-18: 📚 Micro post: An interesting article here on the history of utopian science fiction: How Sci-Fi Shaped Socialism (external …
2020-12-18: 📚 Book review: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (★★★★)
2020-12-19: 🗒 Micro post: Every year I find Christmas shopping so stressful, but now that I’ve actually bought some nice things for the …
2020-12-20: 🐱 Photo post: She saw one of the cats from unit 2 walk up to the cat flap of unit 3. Straight away her body language was all …
2020-12-22: 📚 Book review: How to Adult by Anna Blackie (★★★½)
2020-12-23: 🗒 Micro post: Apparently there’s a water outage in my local area and it’s doing my head in. Gotta ration toilet trips. …
2020-12-23: 🐱 Photo post: Oh, that look of instant terror when a delivery man comes to the front porch… 🙀
2020-12-24: 📱 Upgrading My iPhone: After using my trusty old iPhone SE for 3½ years, yesterday I took the plunge and switched over to an iPhone 12 mini. …
2020-12-24: 🤖 Micro post: Great article on the cyberpunk genre, which emerged as a critique of technological development under neoliberal …
2020-12-25: 🎄 Photo post: Even though the weather was cold by Melbourne summer standards, Viv and I went on a walk last night to admire all the …
2020-12-26: 🎄 Photo post: Christmas was a busy day this year! We had lunch with (predominantly) my mum’s side of the family, and dinner with …
2020-12-28: 🐱 Photo post: Poor Gidget got quite distressed when we were out of the house nearly all day on Christmas and Boxing Day. Now …
2020-12-29: 🚺 Thoughts on Gender and (My) Pronouns: Recently I’ve been spending a little more time browsing Mastodon, and one of the things that’s caused me to …
2020-12-29: 💬 Three Quick Links: I found these through Mastodon and Twitter, and while each could have sustained a linkpost on its own, the fact that I …
2020-12-30: 🏝 Photo post: Haven’t had the chance to walk down to the nearby beach lately, but I might have to plan on changing that soon, …
2020-12-31: 🦠 Micro post: Yesterday Melbourne reported its first locally-acquired Covid-19 cases in two months. Today we found out the common …
2020-12-31: 🦠 Reflecting on 2020: It’s the last hour of 2020 now as I’m writing this, and it’d be far from an original comment to say …

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