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Posts from March 2021
2021-03-01 : 🐱 Photo post:
🐈 My parents and sister paid me their usual Sunday visit yesterday, and for once, Gidget came out and accepted pets from … 2021-03-01 :
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“To expand women's prisons is idiotic and inhumane. We should phase them out” by Sonia Sodha 2021-03-01 :
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“Education Should Be About Building Democratic Citizens, Not Compliant Workers” 2021-03-01 :
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“Finland Had a Patent-Free COVID-19 Vaccine Nine Months Ago — But Still Went With Big Pharma” 2021-03-01 :
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“Roughly 3,000 Words on Yes Minister Pilot Edits” by John Hoare 2021-03-01 :
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“The invention of ‘heterosexuality’” by Brandon Ambrosino 2021-03-01 : 🐱 Photo post:
The #mbfeb (external link) challenge continues for an extra few days! Here’s a selfie I took with the one I … 2021-03-02 :
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“The Utopian Promise of Self-Checkout Machines” 2021-03-02 :
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“Ten years since the great Arab revolutions” 2021-03-02 : 🐱 Photo post:
A demolition is taking place nearby, loud enough to completely dominate the ambient noise here for three business days. … 2021-03-02 :
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“The Anti-Colonial Revolt Was Key to Lenin’s Vision of Revolution” 2021-03-02 : 🇦🇺 Micro post:
Ahh, can you tell WA is holding an election in 11 days? Their premier is now talking about keeping up border … 2021-03-02 :
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“The road to electric is filled with tiny cars” 2021-03-02 : 📚 Book review:
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton (★½)2021-03-03 : 🇦🇺 Micro post:
So a Rio Tinto chairman and a board director are to resign after the company willfully destroyed 46,000-year-old … 2021-03-03 : 🍾 Photo post:
Last night we went to my parents’ place to celebrate a big occasion with them: their thirtieth wedding … 2021-03-03 : 💬 Micro post:
Have you ever wondered where the English word “net” came from, and how it expanded to uses in … 2021-03-04 :
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“Placing the Proud Boys on Canada’s Terrorism List Is a Threat to the Left” 2021-03-05 : ✍🏻 Micro post:
So for the first time in maybe six weeks, I cracked open Scrivener and made some great progress rewriting my novel 😅 … 2021-03-05 :
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“The JNF is no innocent charity” 2021-03-05 : 📺 Micro post:
Sometimes I feel like the only millennial who hasn’t just mainlined every episode of The Simpsons. I mean, sure … 2021-03-05 :
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“Liberals Should Stop Trying to Save the GOP. Republicans Don’t Want to Be Saved.” 2021-03-05 : 🐶 Photo post:
My folks and sister are going away for the long weekend, so they’ve dropped Gizmo off to have his own little … 2021-03-06 : 🐶 Photo post:
Gizmo has seemed a bit subdued today, especially after Gidget hissed at him when he just wanted to play (twice), but he … 2021-03-06 :
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“HERE IS THE ARTICLE YOU CAN SEND TO PEOPLE WHEN THEY SAY “BUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES WITH CRYPTOART WILL BE SOLVED SOON, RIGHT?”” by everest pipkin 2021-03-06 :
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“Why jobseeker is stuck ‘in the early 90s’ and leaving Australians behind” 2021-03-07 :
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“Cracks emerged in digital contact tracing system days before five-day lockdown” 2021-03-07 : 📚 Book review:
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin (★★★)2021-03-07 : 🐱 Photo post:
Gizmo has met the third cat in his life who didn’t immediately hate him! Timmka here was full of curiosity, … 2021-03-09 :
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“The Fight for Free Time Is a Feminist Issue” 2021-03-10 : 🗒 Micro post:
I’ve been posting a lot less the last few days, and honestly I’ve just been so tired. I had a single day of … 2021-03-11 : 📰 On Women's Work Under Capitalism :
The thing that’s prompted me to write this post is the interesting Jacobin article, Second-Wave Feminism’s … 2021-03-11 : ❤️ Like of:
“What matters” by Ben Werdmüller 2021-03-11 : 🚀 Micro post:
Here’s a neat article on the predictions science fiction makes about technology (external link). I remember … 2021-03-11 :
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“Why I built LibreLingo” by Daniel Kantor 2021-03-11 : 🌶 Micro post:
In honour of a batch of dhal I made tonight and accidentally made spicier than I intended (but still just within my … 2021-03-12 : 📚 Book review:
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (★★)2021-03-12 :
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“SDA Facts - Retail and Fast Food Workers Union” 2021-03-12 : 🇦🇺 Micro post:
So it’s 9:45 on a Friday night… my partner gets a call from an unknown number… it’s a recording urging him … 2021-03-13 : 🏘 Micro post:
It is truly awful that a town can have a homelessness crisis while 30% of properties there lie vacant (external … 2021-03-13 : 🐱 Photo post:
Gidget is loving her $350 new box! The printer that came in it was just a little freebie for the humans; we all know the … 2021-03-13 : 📚 Book review:
La pasión según Carmela by Marcos Aguinis (★★★★)2021-03-13 :
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“The children of gods: how power works in Australia” 2021-03-13 : 🗣 Bookmark of:
“LeftValues Results” 2021-03-14 : 🧙🏻♀️ Micro post:
For any other Harry Potter fans, I thought I’d share the best Hogwarts Sorting Hat quiz (external link) … 2021-03-15 :
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“How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation” 2021-03-15 :
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“Phyllis Papps and Francesca Curtis came out on national TV in 1970. Their actions changed Australia forever” 2021-03-16 : 💬 Micro post:
I came across this interesting video on YouTube, WIKITONGUES: Jack speaking Ladino (external link). If … 2021-03-16 :
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“If Australia’s Unions Don’t Organize Unemployed Workers, They’re Digging Their Own Graves” 2021-03-17 : 🖥 Linux on M1 Macs :
So, when the first M1 Macs were released last year they were quickly recognised as some seriously impressive computers, … 2021-03-18 : 🐱 Photo post:
It’s turning out to be a busy week with lots of work, which is good in one way ($$$) but is keeping me away from … 2021-03-18 : 📚 Book review:
The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin (★★★★)2021-03-20 : 🗒 Micro post:
It’s Saturday at last (and my dad’s birthday, in fact – we’re going over later to celebrate with him) … 2021-03-20 :
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“Basics: Access, or the Wall Around Your Life” by Jarrett Walker 2021-03-21 : 🐶 Photo post:
Got to catch up with this little guy last night. While Gizmo was excited to see us, he was also very concerned about the … 2021-03-21 : 🖥 Micro post:
Today I found out that if you use the “Responsive Design” mode in your web browser’s developer tools, … 2021-03-22 :
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“The Myth of the Barter Economy” 2021-03-22 : 🦠 Why I'm Anxious to Get My Covid Vaccine :
Here in Australia we’re very behind the target our own government set for vaccinating the whole population, so I … 2021-03-22 :
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“The Australian-born children the government wants to deport because they have a disability” 2021-03-23 : 🇫🇷 Micro post:
Thinking back to my 12-year-old self today, and how I didn’t understand why we needed to spend like 10 weeks in a … 2021-03-24 :
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“Australian politics should be as diverse as its people” 2021-03-24 :
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“Amazon is a disaster for workers. Nomadland glosses over that” 2021-03-24 : 💻 Site update:
Years ago I used to be active on Q&A site Quora (external link). These days I can’t really be bothered … 2021-03-24 : 💬 Why aren't words pronounced the way they're spelt? :
Some time ago on Q&A website Quora, I answered a question about why English words aren’t pronounced the way … 2021-03-24 :
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“The rising threat of eco-fascism: Far right co-opting environmentalism to justify anti-immigration and anti-Semitic views” 2021-03-25 : 🏝 Photo post:
Here we’re only at the very tail end of the weather system that’s brought floods to the eastern seaboard, … 2021-03-26 : 🐱 Photo post:
Gidget was very unimpressed to see me packing my things to head out this morning… very much like, “What do you … 2021-03-27 : 🦠 Micro post:
Reading up on the Melbourne Comedy Festival’s COVID-Safe plan (external link) because Viv, Emma and I are … 2021-03-27 : 🩲 Period Panties :
If you, like me, are cursed with a monthly cycle, you might well have heard of period panties. The principle behind them … 2021-03-27 : 🚋 Micro post:
I kinda thought trams had to stop at the CBD stops but the one we were trying to catch sailed right on through without … 2021-03-28 : 👩🏻 Photo post:
Viv and I really enjoyed seeing “For a Good Time Call (external link)” at the MICF yesterday! (My … 2021-03-30 : 🐱 Photo post:
It’s starting to feel like working is all I ever do… and Gidget’s also seemed pretty miffed at not having … 2021-03-31 : 🚌 Micro post:
This morning I found PTV’s bus live tracking seemed to be based on the bus timetable instead of its actual location?! … 2021-03-31 : 🎬 On the 1979 Sydney Luna Park Fire :
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve appreciated the ABC’s Exposed documentary series on the 1979 Luna Park … 2021-03-31 : 📚 Book review:
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (★★★★)
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.
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.