Posts from April 2021

• 2021-04-01: ❤️ Like of: “Guilt-Tripped by a Chalkboard Sign” by Cheri
• 2021-04-01: 🇺🇸 Link: “The Three Factions of the American Left” by Ross Barkan
• 2021-04-01: 💬 The Evolution of Canadian, Australian and NZ Englishes: On Quora, I once answered a question about why Australian and NZ English sound more like “British English” …
• 2021-04-02: 🗒 Micro post: Good Friday today – start of a long weekend for Viv, and the school holidays for me! We’ve been blessed with …
• 2021-04-02: 🏝 Photo post: Today Viv and I went on an extended beach walk to soak up this late summery spell. And the beach was definitely the …
• 2021-04-02: 🖥 Using Taxonomies to Create Monthly Archives in Hugo: By default, Hugo doesn’t create date-based archive pages for you. And while it’s relatively straightforward …
• 2021-04-03: 🏟 Micro post: Whoo, just got home from a walk and saw that the Swans have unexpectedly beaten the reigning premiers Richmond (and …
• 2021-04-03: 🍃 Photo post: To further enjoy the perfect weather this weekend, Viv and I made it out to Sherbrooke Forest and did a 2¼ hour walk …
• 2021-04-03: ⏰ Melbourne Time: Tonight we set our clocks back to return to standard time, and as such here’s a discovery I made through Twitter: …
• 2021-04-03: 🔍 Link: “Why Easter is called Easter, and other little-known facts about the holiday”
• 2021-04-04: 🍱 Photo post: Today for lunch I cooked something new: dal makhani, based on this recipe with some cheeky simplifications (like, …
• 2021-04-05: 💻 Category-Specific RSS Feeds: Tonight I did something I’ve been meaning to do for a while – created a page outlining the RSS feeds for this site …
• 2021-04-06: 📰 Link: “How cultural comedy is making us laugh louder”
• 2021-04-06: ❤️ Like of: “On the eve of immunity, 10 reflections” by Ben Werdmüller
• 2021-04-07: 💬 Why I Still Find Spanish Imperatives Hard: I started learning Spanish over 11 years ago and I’m not too bad at it now, but I have to admit but one of the …
• 2021-04-07: 🐶 Photo post: We got to see this little guy a couple of times over the Easter long weekend! Despite Gizmo’s best efforts, he …
• 2021-04-07: 📚 Book review: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (★★½)
• 2021-04-07: 🦠 Link: “‘Just a simple fact’: Australia raises stake in vaccine war with Europe”
• 2021-04-07: 🖥 Link: “How Facebook will benefit from its massive breach” by Cory Doctorow
• 2021-04-08: 🐱 Micro post: Had to run out a couple of hours ago when I heard a cat fight happening outside. Not sure who she was fighting, but I …
• 2021-04-09: 🐱 Micro post: Thanks for all the sympathy re: Gidget yesterday! Today she’s still limping when she walks, and mostly just …
• 2021-04-09: ❤️ Like of: “The real cancel culture” by Cory Doctorow
• 2021-04-09: ❤️ Like of: “How Working From Home Saved Me” by Alan Marsden
• 2021-04-09: 🐱 Micro post: We’ve been to the vet! The good news is that there’s been no really bad news, although the vet wasn’t …
• 2021-04-09: 🦠 AstraZeneca, blood clots and Australia: Australia has followed the lead of a few European countries in curtailing the rollout of AstraZeneca vaccines, due to …
• 2021-04-10: 🐱 Photo post: Some even better news from yesterday: Gidget is back to walking around normally and insisting on going on her regular …
• 2021-04-10: 🇺🇸 Link: “MLK Was a Radical Who Hated Not Only Racial Subordination But Class Exploitation”
• 2021-04-10: 🎮 Link: “Text Adventures: How Twine remade gaming”
• 2021-04-10: ❄️ Micro post: The first wintry blast of the year has well and truly hit Melbourne. Today and tomorrow have maxima of around 15°C, but …
• 2021-04-11: 💵 Link: “If Australia was more democratic, would its economic policies be better?”
• 2021-04-13: 🧅 Caramelised Onions: Last night I made caramelised onions for the first time ever, prompted I guess by this article about how time-consuming …
• 2021-04-13: 🌦 Photo post: A couple of days ago now, but our regular Sunday walk on the beach took place in the vicious cold and got hit by icy …
• 2021-04-14: 📚 Book review: The Sleep Room by F.R. Tallis (★★★★)
• 2021-04-15: 🎮 Micro post: Recently I found, and started playing, Melvor Idle. I’d been looking for a game I could play mindlessly while …
• 2021-04-15: 🏙 Melbourne's Property Development Crisis: Like many people, I think, I have an instinctive contempt for property developers. It’s not that I object to new …
• 2021-04-15: 🏟 Micro post: Can I be real, it’s really confusing that the Swans and GWS are apparently facing off in the VFL on the same day …
• 2021-04-16: 🎮 Micro post: Hello all, I have made an incredible discovery! Someone has ported the game of my childhood, Extreme Tux Racer, to …
• 2021-04-17: ❤️ Like of: “Ethical anti-design, or designing products that people can't get addicted to.”
• 2021-04-18: ❤️ Like of: “The Affordable Game” by Patrick Rhone
• 2021-04-19: 🎬 Judas and the Black Messiah: Yesterday Viv and I went and saw Judas and the Black Messiah, at long last. It’s about the Black Panthers’ Fred …
• 2021-04-19: 🏟 Link: “Is Aussie rules booming at rugby’s expense?”
• 2021-04-19: ❤️ Like of: “Heading back to Australia in times of Coronavirus” by Ash Kyd
• 2021-04-19: ⭐️ Link: “How to Self-Publish a Book in 10 Steps” by David Gaughran
• 2021-04-19: 🖥 Micro post: Had a weird experience today. I had to call Medicare to check on the progress of something that really should’ve …
• 2021-04-20: 🐱 Photo post: Holidays are over, so time to psych myself up for early starts again (yuck). Waking up before dawn is always tough, and …
• 2021-04-20: 🏟 Link: “The European Super League Is the Inevitable Conclusion of Football Capitalism”
• 2021-04-22: 👮 Micro post: This is an important article for Australians who are outraged by US police murders of Black Americans, but are either …
• 2021-04-22: ❤️ Like of: “Marginalia 19: Four day weekend” by Hugh Rundle
• 2021-04-22: ❤️ Like of: ““Modern” web design antipatterns” by fluffy
• 2021-04-23: 👮 Link: “More than 5,500 people get NSW police record after strip searches which found nothing illegal”
• 2021-04-23: 🗒 Micro post: It’s not the vaccine on everyone’s mind (cos I’m still not eligible for that one 😠) but I did have a …
• 2021-04-25: 🎉 Reviewing Victoria's Public Holidays: For those who are unaware, today (Sunday, 25 April) is the public holiday of Anzac Day, which commemorates a campaign …
• 2021-04-26: 🖥 Micro post: For a while I’ve been itching to try the Glitch-Soc variant of Mastodon, which has some improvements over the …
• 2021-04-26: 🐱 Photo post: I realised it had been a few days since Gidget had last made use of her $350 box, so I figured she didn’t want it …
• 2021-04-27: 🗒 Micro post: Had a routine blood test this morning that I had to fast for… let me tell you, I’m enjoying my coffee now …
• 2021-04-27: ❤️ Like of: “Our Politics at Work” by Jason Becker
• 2021-04-27: 📱 Updating My Hugo Blog From My Phone: It is a truth universally acknowledged that an individual in possession of a Hugo blog must feel compelled to make loads …
• 2021-04-27: 🇵🇸 Link: “Israel is committing the crime of apartheid, rights watchdog says”
• 2021-04-27: 🦠 Link: “India needs our vaccines”
• 2021-04-29: 🖥 Link: “136 facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to landscape painting or nude modelling” by Baldur Bjarnason
• 2021-04-29: 🏘 Link: “Just 1.2 per cent of rental properties in Australia are affordable for minimum wage earners, analysis finds”
• 2021-04-29: 🐱 Photo post: Now this has been a common sight on recent mornings! You couldn’t ask for a sweeter or cuter cuddlebug ❤️ Maybe …
• 2021-04-30: 🏝 Photo post: It’s been many weeks since we’ve had a day as warm as 24°, but today Melbourne finally delivered! I had a …

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.