Posts from March 2022

• 2022-03-02: 🐱 Photo post: Recent photo of a disgruntled cat. Featuring a sleepy Vivian up there in the top-left corner 😉 I think Gidget was cranky …
• 2022-03-03: 💬 Evolution of English Accents: I watched a couple of interesting YouTube videos last night: this one, dem­on­stra­ting how London accents have evolved …
• 2022-03-05: 🏏 Micro post: Hope I don’t come across like a total asshole in this post but with the death of Shane Warne announced today, I …
• 2022-03-07: 🐶 Photo post: Yesterday afternoon Gizmo had just about the best beach walk of his life. Not only did he meet another dog… who …
• 2022-03-10: 🍂 Micro post: Over the last couple of days, it’s really dawned on me that summer is over, and autumn is here. Two days ago was …
• 2022-03-10: 📱 Micro post: Porting my mobile phone over to a new network today, assuming it all goes smoothly. Since the demise of Virgin Mobile …
• 2022-03-11: 🐶 Photo post: My folks are going away for the long weekend, so we’ve got Gizmo staying with us until Monday! He’s been a …
• 2022-03-12: 🐶 Our Day With Gizmo: It’s been a surprisingly busy and tiring day considering Gizmo isn’t really too hard to look after. …
• 2022-03-14: 🐶 Photo post: Gizmo’s clearly watched too much of those cyclone preparedness videos that used to be on TV when I was a kid, …
• 2022-03-18: 💬 Micro post: Seems I haven’t been posting much in recent days! We returned Gizmo home on Monday (he seemed excited to be back …
• 2022-03-19: 🦠 Indecision: A ‘Post-Pandemic’ Story: As I’ve mentioned in the past, pre-pandemic Viv and I had a tradition of seeing the Swans-Bombers game every year, …
• 2022-03-20: 🔍 Link: “Never on a Sunday: Western Australia’s long history of banning fun”
• 2022-03-20: 🇺🇸 Link: “The Red Scare Scarred the Left — But Couldn’t Kill It”
• 2022-03-20: 🇦🇺 Link: “To Rebuild a Universal Welfare State, We Need to Scrap Means-Testing”
• 2022-03-20: 🏛 Link: “Freedom Isn’t Free” by Wendy Liu
• 2022-03-21: 🚊 Micro post: Came across this infographic on Twitter (external link) and I really appreciated it. For all that, e.g. the …
• 2022-03-23: 🎮 Link: “Inside the Fight to Save Video Game History”
• 2022-03-23: 🇦🇺 Link: “The Greens’ liveable income guarantee is a serious idea the major parties won’t touch – yet”
• 2022-03-24: 🐱 Photo post: Morning snuggles with the baby cat ❤️
• 2022-03-24: 🇦🇺 Link: “Sales of anti-Scott Morrison bin stickers surge after Liberal council threatens rubbish services”
• 2022-03-25: 🏟 Photo post: This was one wild thing to witness! Can’t help but think there’s good safety reasons why it’s not …
• 2022-03-26: 🪶 Micro post: This is the magpies this morning, between bouts of gathering in my yard to wail at the top of their little avian lungs: …
• 2022-03-26: 🍃 Photo post: Vivian and I made it back to Sherbrooke Forest today for a 2½ hour hike 😊 The weather was perfect, and the scenery was …
• 2022-03-27: 💬 Link: “Why We Use “lol” So Much”
• 2022-03-28: 🐱 Photo post: We had to buy a new vacuum cleaner. Still boxed, but Gidget already doesn’t seem too sure about it 😂
• 2022-03-30: 📡 Link: “Interoperability Should Be Simple” by Greg Morris
• 2022-03-31: 💬 Rambling on Hugo’s Multilingual Mode: A couple of days ago I started experimenting with Hugo’s multilingual mode (external link). Basically, 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.