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Posts from July 2021
2021-07-01 :
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“The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination”
2021-07-02 :
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“scolding water – John Wells’s phonetic blog”
2021-07-02 : 🗒 Micro post:
Somehow I blinked today and 9 hours passed, and all I have to show for it is new personal wiki pages on Australian …
2021-07-02 : 🔬 Micro post:
In other news, apparently there’s a malady called Christmas eye (external link) that occurs near …
2021-07-03 : 🐱 Micro post:
I don’t think Gidget understands that me putting her on a leash and going out with her are actually preconditions …
2021-07-04 : 📺 Rake and Its Depiction of Women :
The other night, Viv and I finished watching Rake (IMDB link (external link)). If you’re not familiar, …
2021-07-06 :
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“Twitter considers letting you limit tweets to ‘trusted friends’”
2021-07-06 : 🖥 Micro post:
For the past few days, I’ve been taking a break from Twitter. In recent weeks it had been irritating me more than …
2021-07-07 :
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“Self-publishing” by Cory Doctorow
2021-07-07 :
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“Psychologists Explain Your Phone Anxiety (and How to Get Over It)”
2021-07-09 : 😩 Micro post:
I’ve felt pretty stressed the last couple of days. I got results back from a follow-up blood test, which I had to …
2021-07-10 : 📷 Photo post:
Went on a pretty long afternoon walk today, just laps of a nearby park, soaking up that rare winter sun. The playground …
2021-07-12 : 📚 Do Men Avoid Books by Women? :
I read an interesting discussion on Reddit (external link) yesterday morning. It started with an …
2021-07-13 : 🇿🇦 Micro post:
The riots in South Africa (external link) are coming pretty close to where some of Vivian’s family live …
2021-07-14 : 🪶 Micro post:
Wow, who’d ever need to clean their own gutters when you have currawongs around to do the job? I just saw a group …
2021-07-14 : ❤️ Like of:
“New suburbs, poor service” by Daniel Bowen
2021-07-14 : 🦠 Micro post:
This (external link) makes me think that Victoria is shortly to go back into lockdown… again. Eight new cases and …
2021-07-15 : 🦠 Micro post:
For some reason they had Jeroen Weimar give a whole press conference where he didn’t announce any lockdowns, and …
2021-07-16 : ❤️ Like of:
“Monsal trail.” by Paul Robert Lloyd
2021-07-18 :
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“What My DNA Says About India’s History – The Diplomat”
2021-07-20 : 🏥 Micro post:
So I had one ultrasound today, the other to do tomorrow. The hospital was pretty efficient and the technician was nice …
2021-07-21 : 🦠 Micro post:
According to the ABC, some guy in Perth tied sheets together and threw them out the window to escape from his hotel …
2021-07-21 :
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“Police in Latin America are turning activists’ phones against them”
2021-07-22 : 🗣 Reply: @lmika (external link) I can completely relate to this. I think there are numerous issues that I’d like to …
2021-07-22 : 🐱 Photo post:
It’s like The Birds around my place today. Currawongs everywhere, digging through our gutters for soft weeds to …
2021-07-23 :
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“Cockatoos in Sydney learning from each other to bin-dive for food, study finds”
2021-07-23 :
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“Dirty Feed – Northern Star” by John Hoare
2021-07-23 :
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“Nobody Wants to Be a Serf Anymore”
2021-07-24 : 🏟 The Tokyo Olympics Begin :
I stayed up ’til 1am last night watching the Olympics Opening Ceremony in Tokyo. I don’t think I’ve …
2021-07-25 :
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“Why self hosting is important” by Solène
2021-07-25 :
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“Hall of infamy: Alexander Lukashenko | New Internationalist”
2021-07-25 :
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“A bunch of mayors wanted better trains, so they won Brisbane the 2032 Olympics”
2021-07-26 :
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“Six Months After the Capitol Riots, We Still Won’t Admit Why So Many People Believe the Big Lie”
2021-07-26 :
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“The Day the Good Internet Died”
2021-07-26 :
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“Plans of four G20 states are threat to global climate pledge, warn scientists”
2021-07-26 :
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“Right-Wing Operation Condor Murderers Should Be in Jail”
2021-07-26 :
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“The colonial idea that built the Palestinian Authority”
2021-07-26 : 🇦🇺 Privacy and the 2021 Census :
In just over two weeks, it’ll be Census night in Australia – that time every five years when every household is …
2021-07-26 :
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“Trust and Terror” by Omar Sakr
2021-07-26 :
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“The Jessica Simulation: Love and loss in the age of A.I.”
2021-07-27 :
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“The dark side of TikTok's algorithm”
2021-07-27 :
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“Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need”
2021-07-27 : 🗒 Micro post:
Had a telephone appointment with my GP this morning to discuss the results of last week’s ultrasounds. Each of …
2021-07-28 :
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“The Many Faces of Regime Change in Cuba”
2021-07-28 :
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“Paradox of Choice” by Pete Moore
2021-07-28 :
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“Australia makes world-class mess of its vaccine rollout”
2021-07-28 : 🏟 My Preferred Olympic Winner Order :
Watching the Olympics this morning, I think I’ve decided the order in which I like to see countries win events. …
2021-07-28 :
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“This is no ordinary spying. Our most intimate selves are now exposed”
2021-07-29 : 🐱 Photo post:
Chillin’ with Gidget this afternoon. A new pair of runners I’d ordered arrived in the mail (see top left of …
2021-07-30 : 🖥 Micro post:
OK, I have to share this because it makes me crack up every time I go back to it. You might remember a while back that …
2021-07-31 :
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“Climate change: What we can learn from our reaction to AstraZeneca”
2021-07-31 :
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“What should socialists say about China?”
2021-07-31 :
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“On resisting surveillance capitalism and why it's important” by Mike Harley
2021-07-31 :
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“Juanita Nielsen's suspected murder brought Arthur King back to Kings Cross after his terrifying ordeal”
2021-07-31 : 🏝 Photo post:
Today we walked all the way from our local beach to Red Bluff. To actually get across to the south side of the cliff, …
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.