Posts from November 2021

2021-11-02: 💬 Link: “‘The loss of language is the loss of heritage:’ the push to revive Taiwanese in Taiwan”
2021-11-02: 💬 Spelling English Phonetically: English spelling is notoriously inconsistent and difficult, at least to its own native speakers. Ages ago I saw a map of …
2021-11-04: 🏡 Micro post: Yesterday one of our neighbours (with prior warning to us) tore down our shared fence, but then it started raining, so …
2021-11-05: 🧑🏻‍🦽 Link: “The high cost of living in a disabling world”
2021-11-06: 🗣 Reply to: “@jayeless I found your post very interesting. I'm not sure a spelling change will get anywhere if the spelling adds new characters that aren't currently used in English…” by JayT
2021-11-08: 🏡 Busy Few Days: The last few days have been pretty busy, to the point that they haven’t left me a lot of time for posting, as you …
2021-11-10: 🖥 Micro post: It’s one year ago today that I decided to come back to blogging, and joined Micro.blog 😊 Honestly, it feels like …
2021-11-10: 🇸🇪 Link: “These Parents Built a School App. Then the City Called the Cops”
2021-11-11: 🐱 Photo post: This is Gidget’s “please don’t go to work, mummy” face. Been booked for the first time in …
2021-11-11: 🚊 Link: “‘What if we just gave up cars?’: Cop26 leaders urged to dream big”
2021-11-12: 🚊 Micro post: Ughhh, I HATE how lousy our bus service is. Yesterday, 10 minutes late (so I raced to the stop for nothing). Today, 2 …
2021-11-13: 📰 Link: “Make extreme wealth extinct: it’s the only way to avoid climate breakdown”
2021-11-13: 🎹 Link: “The curious case of the disappearing Polish S”
2021-11-13: 🍱 Link: “A Surprising Number of Kids in The US Think Hot Dogs Are Actually This”
2021-11-13: 🦠 On Vaccine Requirements: I saw this point made the other day, on the topic of vaccination requirements before people are allowed to go to …
2021-11-14: 🌧 Hot Weather People and Cold Weather People: One of the most fundamental divides in humanity is clearly the one between “hot weather people” and …
2021-11-16: 🐱 Photo post: 🐈 Nothing but srs business when you see a magpie out your window! 😾
2021-11-18: 🧬 AncestryDNA Kits: So the other day, Vivian told me he’d ordered these AncestryDNA kits. Two of them, one for each of us. The day …
2021-11-23: 😪 Micro post: Wish I had more to post about at the moment but I’m just so tired. Feels like every day I’m either working …
2021-11-28: 🚊 Photo post: This past week I had some work that took me to the southern part of the Frankston line, a section of which has just been …
2021-11-28: 💬 Link: “That Weirdo Announcer-Voice Accent: Where It Came From and Why It Went Away”
2021-11-29: 🐶 Photo post: We took Gizmo on his usual Sunday beach walk yesterday afternoon, where he had a blast enjoying the sunshine and …

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.