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Posts from January 2022
2022-01-01 :
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“Four-gender systems in Indo-European” 2022-01-02 :
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“Book review – Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion” 2022-01-02 :
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“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 :
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“Danish children struggle to learn their vowel-filled language – and this changes how adult Danes interact” 2022-01-05 :
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“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 :
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“Antiwork Reddit: Australians join ‘Great Resignation’ over Covid-19 rules” 2022-01-12 :
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“From Safsaf to Sydney: Palestinian resistance and the festival boycott” 2022-01-12 :
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“3 in 4 people want to ride a bike but are put off by lack of safe lanes” 2022-01-12 :
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“COVID supply chain crisis shows what's really at the heart of the economy — healthy humans” 2022-01-14 :
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“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 :
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“Right-wing politics is cancerous to democracy, society, and human life” by Greg Larsen 2022-01-17 :
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“How bad are gas stoves? I ran some experiments to find out.” 2022-01-17 :
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“Look around you. The way we live explains why we are increasingly polarized” 2022-01-17 :
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“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 :
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“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 :
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“Is English cricket's class and race problem behind their dismal Ashes defeat?” 2022-01-21 :
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“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 :
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“Animated Changes in Population 10000 BCE to Present” 2022-01-24 : ☕️ Micro post:
Our kettle broke the other day (it must have a crack that I can’t see because it started leaking water … 2022-01-24 : 🐶 Photo post:
The last couple of times Gizmo has visited, he hasn’t really wanted to hang out in the living room with us like … 2022-01-25 : 🐱 Photo post:
Was strangely unable to find Gidget earlier today, until I noticed her back feet poking out from the base layer of the … 2022-01-26 :
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“Aboriginal Tent Embassy — ‘the guys who woke up Australia’ — marks its 50th anniversary” 2022-01-27 : 🚘 Micro post:
Almost got whacked by a psycho in a car on my way to the shops today because he decided to floor it down an ultra-quiet … 2022-01-28 :
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“Searching for Susy Thunder” 2022-01-28 : 🧬 We Got Our DNA Results Back! :
A couple of months ago, I wrote about how Vivian had ordered these AncestryDNA kits, along with some thoughts on how … 2022-01-30 : 🐶 Photo post:
Gizmo seemed to feel like this teddy bear was a nice thing to cuddle up to last night ❤️ 2022-01-30 :
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“Latin as She is Spoke: How Classicists Tricked Themselves, and the Real Issue with Mary Beard’s Latin” by A.Z. Foreman 2022-01-30 : 🐶 Photo post:
This is Daisy; we got to see him today when we visited Viv’s brother’s and sister-in-law’s place! … 2022-01-31 : 💉 Micro post:
Well, I’m home after getting my booster shot! The pharmacy was really efficient and pleasant and I’m glad I …
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.