Posts from April 2022

• 2022-04-01: 🐶 Photo post: I keep building up a backlog of cute pet photos I haven’t got around to posting yet 😄 Anyway, here’s one of …
• 2022-04-01: 🎬 Micro post: I watched the second Fantastic Beasts movie (Crimes of Grindelwald) tonight, because it was on free-to-air. I was so …
• 2022-04-02: 🖥 Link: “How proprietary social-medias are shaping the future of Pepper&Carrot” by David Revoy
• 2022-04-02: 🖥 Link: “How do kids conceive the internet?” by curlybracket
• 2022-04-02: 🐱 Photo post: I’ve seen people online jokingly refer to their cats as “trash kitty”, and while I have never before …
• 2022-04-04: 🍻 Alcohol Tolerance: Have an appointment at a hospital tomorrow to finally hear back about what, if anything, was found by the MRI of my …
• 2022-04-05: 🐱 Micro post: Currently on the train, where it’s required to wear a mask. Can’t help but marvel at Gidget’s talent …
• 2022-04-05: 🏥 Micro post: So, I had my hospital appointment! The MRI confirmed that what I have is focal nodular hyperplasia (external …
• 2022-04-06: ⛲️ The Value of Idleness: Here’s an interesting Twitter thread (external link) on how much time people in a range of small, …
• 2022-04-07: 🐱 Photo post: Mostly Gidget has just liked hiding on the very base level of this cat tower, so it’s good to see her …
• 2022-04-08: 🖥 Link: “Home Sweet Homepage” by Amy Wibowo
• 2022-04-09: 🎬 Micro post: This Indian movie RRR sounds pretty cool (see ABC review (external link)). It’s described as …a …
• 2022-04-09: 🐱 Photo post: Next door is about to be demolished for an apartment block, and today tradies were dismantling the roof and noisily …
• 2022-04-12: 🐱 Photo post: Surprisingly, considering how she responded to the roof tiles being removed, Gidget is being very brave about the actual …
• 2022-04-12: 💵 The Massaged Unemployment Rate: Actually so annoyed that the media (even the “impartial” ABC!) is playing along with the government’s …
• 2022-04-14: 💻 Site update: Over the last couple of days I’ve done a bit more site tinkering, and revamped my tag pages. Basically I wanted to …
• 2022-04-14: 🐱 Link: “Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives”
• 2022-04-14: 🛒 Micro post: Ah yes, my favourite day of the year to go to the supermarket: that day seemingly everyone freaks out that the …
• 2022-04-16: 🌃 It's Been a Busy Couple of Days!: On Thursday night, Viv and I caught the train into the city and met up with my sister to attend a show of the Comedy …
• 2022-04-19: 💻 Site update: I just can’t stop tinkering 🙈 It’s been quiet on the blog for a few days, but I’ve added a bunch more …
• 2022-04-20: 🚴 Link: “Clean Transport 101: Replace” by Simbera
• 2022-04-21: 🍱 Link: “Are plastic containers safe for our food?”
• 2022-04-21: 🇷🇺 Link: “Vladimir Putin’s rumoured purge over his disastrous war in Ukraine could show he fell into the ‘dictator trap’”
• 2022-04-21: 🌧 Micro post: We ordered a dehumidifier recently, and it was delivered yesterday. I’ve been genuinely surprised just how much …
• 2022-04-22: 🖥 Link: “Low Friction Introduction to Digital Privacy”
• 2022-04-23: 🔬 Link: “Twitter thread: ‘Today in my general relativity class I got to talk about my favorite SUPER WEIRD COSMOLOGY FACT…’” by Katie Mack @AstroKatie
• 2022-04-23: 💬 Link: “How Similar are the Ukrainian and Russian Languages?”
• 2022-04-23: 🐱 Photo post: Here’s Gidget spending a sunny afternoon in her cat bed! Not pictured: the dozens of times Gidget gave me a very …
• 2022-04-24: 📰 Link: “We Want Longer Weekends — but Not Longer Workdays”
• 2022-04-24: 🇮🇱 Link: “How an army refusal letter became the last stand of the Zionist left”
• 2022-04-24: 📰 Link: “A Four-Day Workweek Will Benefit Everyone, But Especially Women”
• 2022-04-24: 🇵🇸 Link: “Carpets, books, and jewelry: Why looting was central to the Nakba”
• 2022-04-25: 💵 Link: “‘Dole bludger’ narrative has always been destructive and that's why some people like using it”
• 2022-04-25: 🐶 Photo post: Gizmo came by for a visit last night (he dragged his humans along with him too, of course 🤣), and laid claim to my …
• 2022-04-26: 🖥 So Elon Musk Bought Twitter: Just before I went to bed last night, the news broke that notoriously obnoxious billionaire Elon Musk had clinched a …
• 2022-04-27: ❤️ Like of: “Just step sideways round this grubby world” by Leon Paternoster
• 2022-04-27: 🇨🇳 Link: “How China’s Labor Migrants Write Poetry in the Workshop of the World”
• 2022-04-27: 🖥 Link: “Fix the Internet By Writing Good Stuff and Being Nice to People” by Vicki Boykis
• 2022-04-27: 📰 Link: “The Left Has a Long, Proud Tradition of Opposing War”
• 2022-04-28: 🇮🇩 Link: “Suharto’s Old Guard Is Still Calling the Shots in Indonesia”
• 2022-04-28: 🐱 Photo post: Thought I’d share these couple of pictures of Gidget on my lap in the bed the other night. She’s a very good …
• 2022-04-29: 💵 Micro post: If you remember the rant I posted a couple of weeks ago about how bullshit official unemployment figures are, you might …
• 2022-04-30: 🪐 Link: “Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites Are Still Too Bright”
• 2022-04-30: 🖥 Link: “Mastodon’s Eugen Rochko Talks Decentralization, Blockchain, And Grifters”
• 2022-04-30: 🐱 Micro post: Today’s been a tiring day. Viv and I went to Kmart, cos I was thinking we needed a new mop, but you know how Kmart …

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.