Posts from 2022

2022-01-01: 🇮🇹 Link: “Four-gender systems in Indo-European”
2022-01-02: 🏏 Link: “Book review – Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion”
2022-01-02: 🇫🇮 Link: “Witty title-less post about the Finnish formal pronoun”
2022-01-02: 🐶 Photo post: My folks weren’t able to come for their usual Sunday visit today, because my sister woke up with a sore throat. …
2022-01-03: 💉 Micro post: Yayyyy, I’ve managed to book my Covid vaccine booster shot for January 31! It seemed harder than it …
2022-01-05: 🇩🇰 Link: “Danish children struggle to learn their vowel-filled language – and this changes how adult Danes interact”
2022-01-05: 🦠 Link: “Are official COVID-19 case numbers now useless?”
2022-01-05: 💻 Site update: Published a bunch of new pages to my personal wiki today, most of them not truly new (they’d been in my Obsidian …
2022-01-06: 🏏 Micro post: One “sports history” tidbit that I quite like is the fact that cricket and ten-pin bowling ultimately derive …
2022-01-07: 🎹 Curly Quotes on Mac Keyboards: I’m seriously kind of bugged by the positions of the curly quotes symbols on the Mac keyboard. Their positions …
2022-01-07: 🎹 I configured Karabiner to better type curly quotes: As a follow-up to my last post, I can happily say that I fixed my Mac’s key combinations for curly quotes by …
2022-01-08: 🐱 Photo post: Yesterday evening, one of our neighbours’ cats, Ben, paid a visit to our front porch. Rolled around for a while and made …
2022-01-08: 💻 Site update: Did something I’ve been intending to do for a while, and added glightbox (external link) to this site so …
2022-01-12: 📉 Link: “Antiwork Reddit: Australians join ‘Great Resignation’ over Covid-19 rules”
2022-01-12: 🇵🇸 Link: “From Safsaf to Sydney: Palestinian resistance and the festival boycott”
2022-01-12: 🚴 Link: “3 in 4 people want to ride a bike but are put off by lack of safe lanes”
2022-01-12: 🦠 Link: “COVID supply chain crisis shows what's really at the heart of the economy — healthy humans”
2022-01-14: 🔍 Link: “Melbourne suburb names etymology”
2022-01-14: 🐱 Photo post: As cats tend to do, Gidget has found herself a new regular spot to frequent for a while… the base of her cat tower! She …
2022-01-14: 🦠 Link: “Right-wing politics is cancerous to democracy, society, and human life” by Greg Larsen
2022-01-17: 🔍 Link: “How bad are gas stoves? I ran some experiments to find out.”
2022-01-17: 🏙 Link: “Look around you. The way we live explains why we are increasingly polarized”
2022-01-17: 🇬🇧 Link: “BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen”
2022-01-17: 🎾 Thoughts on Novak Djokovic: So I woke up this morning to the news that, after 11 days of legal conflict and confusing news reports, male tennis no. …
2022-01-18: 🇬🇧 Link: “Revealed: UK Gov't Plans Publicity Blitz to Undermine Chat Privacy”
2022-01-18: 🗣 Reply: Thank you for reading! It hasn’t been the most straightforward story to follow even if you had been trying, but …
2022-01-19: 🖥 Wordle: I’m clearly a bit of a latecomer to Wordle (external link), but I found the website today 🙂 From my …
2022-01-21: 🏏 Link: “Is English cricket's class and race problem behind their dismal Ashes defeat?”
2022-01-21: 🚴 Link: “A love letter to the electric bike”
2022-01-22: 🏏 Micro post: Can I be real, it’s pretty disappointing that an entire Ashes game can be called off just because it rained for a …
2022-01-23: 🐱 Micro post: Why does my cat keep grabbing chunks of wet food out of her bowl, dumping them on the floor, then breaking them up and …
2022-01-23: 🔍 Link: “Animated Changes in Population 10000 BCE to Present”

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.