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Posts from August 2021
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“Writing’s Common Thread” by Jake LaCaze 2021-08-01 :
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“Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture?” 2021-08-01 : 🐱 Photo post:
This morning, Gidget actually led us to her harness and started prodding it and indicating—she’s coming to accept … 2021-08-02 : 🖥 Micro post:
Love to be doing some mandatory training module for work and then at slide 59 of 69 my internet temporarily goes down … 2021-08-04 : 📝 Git for Writing :
In recent days, I’ve been making good progress on the novel I’ve been working on, off and on, for years. … 2021-08-05 : ❤️ Like of:
“It’s All Just Water” by Cheri Baker 2021-08-05 :
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“Pandemic Shoppers Are a Nightmare to Service Workers” 2021-08-05 :
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“British diver Tom Daley knits dog jumper and cosy for Olympic Games gold medal” 2021-08-05 :
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“Laying the foundations for our Jewish liberation” 2021-08-05 : 🦠 Micro post:
Whaaaat. I feel like going from “zero cases” to “week-long lockdown” in under 24 hours has to be … 2021-08-06 :
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“Australians who live overseas now unable to leave country if they return for visit” 2021-08-07 :
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“Ethel Rosenberg was convicted of espionage and executed in 1953. But did she really deserve to die?” 2021-08-07 :
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“A world without mining” 2021-08-08 :
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“Afghan refugee may lose permanent residency in Australia – for supplying identity document” 2021-08-08 : 💉 Micro post:
I read on Twitter that HotDoc (external link) now lets you search specifically for clinics that are willing to … 2021-08-09 :
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“Olympic cities can become multi-billion-dollar graveyards for white elephants after the Games” 2021-08-09 :
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“Apple is trying to redefine what it means to violate your privacy. We must not let it.” by Aral Balkan 2021-08-10 :
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“I’m a Luddite. You should be one too” 2021-08-10 : 💻 Site update:
On the off-chance you noticed a couple of hours’ downtime earlier today, that’ll be because I moved this site’s hosting … 2021-08-11 : 💻 Site update:
Uhh, well here’s a little Vercel quirk to be aware of: its default build command for Hugo repositories builds all … 2021-08-11 : 🐱 Photo post:
Gidget’s trying to show me she’s super trustworthy and won’t jump any fences by going out on her leash … 2021-08-11 :
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“A terrifying vision of South Africa’s future” 2021-08-12 : 🖥 Some Thoughts on Dark Mode :
As different platforms have implemented built-in “dark mode” functionality over recent years, it’s … 2021-08-14 : 💻 A Quick Tour of My New Theme :
So, this is not the ground-up overhaul I mentioned wanting to do in yesterday’s entry. (If it was, there … 2021-08-14 : 🐱 Photo post:
Vivian passed some sad news on to me this morning. He crossed paths with the owner of this sweet boy Timmka, who we used … 2021-08-15 : ❤️ Like of:
“I had quite the hills are alive vibe even while shooting this picture.” by Pratik 2021-08-15 :
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“Building Melbourne's Useful Network Part 101: Suburban connection points - the secret to useful & versatile trains?” by Peter Parker 2021-08-16 :
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“New Study Finds We Probably Can’t Take Credit For The Diversity of Dogs’ Coats” 2021-08-16 : 🇦🇫 Micro post:
There’s a lot that could be said about the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, but one that gets me is just how many … 2021-08-16 :
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“At the brink of a new world system: imperialism, race and caste” 2021-08-16 :
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“Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China” 2021-08-16 : 💉 Micro post:
Back home again after officially receiving my first Covid-19 vaccine dose! I was pleasantly surprised when I got there … 2021-08-17 : 💉 Micro post:
About 20 hours on from my first dose, and so far the only side effects I’ve had have been a) I felt tired last … 2021-08-17 : 💻 Nord Dark Syntax Highlighting for Hugo :
I said the other day that I would figure out how to customise the syntax highlighting for the Nord … 2021-08-17 :
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“Juanita Nielsen’s suspected killer Eddie Trigg confessed the murder to an undercover agent inside jail” 2021-08-18 : 🖥 CSS Hyphenation :
Since I made the switch to a narrower main column and larger text, I’d been feeling like the “jagged right … 2021-08-18 : 🐱 Photo post:
Busted this ruthless carnivore chomping away at a helpless feathery creature earlier today… 🐈 2021-08-19 :
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“The media frames the climate crisis as hopeless – but that’s because they’re hiding the solutions” 2021-08-20 :
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“How South African apartheid was ended” 2021-08-21 :
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“Recently Discovered Dinosaur ‘Mummy’ Is So Well-Preserved It Even Has The Skin And Guts Intact” 2021-08-21 : 🖥 Micro post:
Thanks to the great influence of the Micro.blog community, I’ve now installed and am playing around with … 2021-08-22 : 🏝 Photo post:
It’s still technically 10 days until spring but you wouldn’t know it from today’s weather: radiant … 2021-08-22 :
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“Cold war breaks out between soup kitchen communists and department chief over ‘conflict of interest’ claim” 2021-08-22 :
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“The Debris Shovellers” by Ben Jenkins 2021-08-22 : 🐱 Photo post:
Poor Gidget got her head stuck in this bag when she was trying to investigate Vivian’s new glasses 🤣 Viv took a … 2021-08-23 : 💻 Site update:
It’s been bugging me for a while that Vercel is generating incorrect “last modified” datetimes for my … 2021-08-23 : 🖥 Automatically Mark External Links in Hugo :
Here’s something I have achieved today: I got my site to display an “external link” SVG icon at the … 2021-08-24 : 🖥 My First Few Days With Obsidian :
I’ve only barely scratched the surface of what it can be made to do with plug-in extensions, but so far I’m … 2021-08-25 : 🛬 Micro post:
The furthest I’ve travelled north, south, east and west from where I live in Melbourne:
North: Edinburgh, Scotland … 2021-08-26 :
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“How I Experience Web Today” 2021-08-26 : 🎹 The Dvorak Left-Hand Keyboard Layout :
As you may or may not know, I was born with a disability that gives me only limited use of my right hand. As such, I do … 2021-08-27 : 🎹 Using the Dvorak LH Keyboard on iOS :
Remember a couple of weeks ago, when I said sometimes I get an idea in my head and just cannot let it go? Well, my post … 2021-08-27 : 🐱 Photo post:
Gidget seemed to approve of my selection of Cat TV video for her today… there were lots of squirrels (and birds) eating … 2021-08-29 : 🐱 Photo post:
Gidget was concerned last night that I might’ve forgotten where the cat food was kept… it was surely this, and not … 2021-08-29 :
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“Vacant Nuance in the Vacant Housing Debate” by Darrell Owens 2021-08-30 :
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“‘I was on a list to be terminated’ – Sue Dobson, the spy who helped to end apartheid”
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.