Posts from June 2022

• 2022-06-01: 🌧 Micro post: The weather for the past three days has been absolutely terribad, but this year at least I’ve outsmarted it: two …
• 2022-06-02: 🖥 Link: “It's Time to Bring Back the AIM Away Message”
• 2022-06-02: 👗 Thoughts on Clothing Longevity: A few days ago I saw this astounding Mastodon post (external link) which says that the average item of clothing …
• 2022-06-03: 🇨🇳 Link: “The faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps”
• 2022-06-03: ♻️ Link: “Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work”
• 2022-06-04: 🏝 Photo post: Viv got me to walk on the beach with him today, and I guess I feel good for having got the exercise, but MAN the weather …
• 2022-06-04: 💬 Link: “Lakota elders helped a white man preserve their language. Then he tried to sell it back to them.”
• 2022-06-04: 🚗 Link: “Car tyres produce vastly more particle pollution than exhausts, tests show”
• 2022-06-05: 🐶 Photo post: The weather today wasn’t any better than yesterday, but we rugged up well and took Gizmo on his regular beach …
• 2022-06-06: 💬 Micro post: After toying with the idea for a while, I made an additional Mastodon account to practise writing in (mostly, probably) …
• 2022-06-07: 🇿🇦 Link: “Ryanair Afrikaans test: South African fury over language quiz”
• 2022-06-07: 🌏 Link: “A huge Atlantic ocean current is slowing down. If it collapses, La Niña could become the norm for Australia”
• 2022-06-07: 🏭 Link: “Science Fiction is a Luddite Literature” by Cory Doctorow
• 2022-06-07: 🇮🇱 Link: “Israel’s peace camp is taking up bulldozers to fight the occupation”
• 2022-06-07: 📢 Link: “Across Latin America, the Feminist Movement Is in the Streets”
• 2022-06-07: 🌅 Photo post: The cold snap continues with no end in sight, but at least we got a pretty sunset tonight. My iPhone camera …
• 2022-06-08: 🇷🇺 Link: “Russian-language Ukrainian TV channel aims to topple Putin”
• 2022-06-08: 💵 Link: “Global hunger fight means no biofuel”
• 2022-06-08: 🇦🇺 Link: “In Australia’s Election, Rupert Murdoch Was a Surprise Loser”
• 2022-06-09: 🐱 Photo post: Food delivery service! 📦 Gidget loves to lick up those skerricks of milk that remain at the bottom of my cereal bowl …
• 2022-06-09: 🖥 Link: “I’ve locked myself out of my digital life” by Terence Eden
• 2022-06-10: 🐱 Photo post: Where is the cat? 🤔 🐈
• 2022-06-10: 😡 On Ido and Far-Right Subversion: So, I wanted to share a little experience I had on the Internet last weekend. As I’ve mentioned, I have an …
• 2022-06-11: 🍷 Micro post: Today we’re heading down to the Food and Wine Festival on the Mornington Peninsula. That’s where my uncle …
• 2022-06-11: 🐱 Photo post: Poor Gidget was pretty convinced that the reason we were busily getting ready this morning had to be that we were going …
• 2022-06-13: 🏘 Link: “Freezing indoors? That’s because Australian homes are closer to tents than insulated eco-buildings”
• 2022-06-14: 🇺🇸 Link: “Against Afro-Pessimism”
• 2022-06-14: 🖥 Micro post: What does it say about me that I use my meal planner app as my personal calendar? 🤔 It has a “notes” …
• 2022-06-15: 🇺🇸 Link: “Elephant in the Zoom: How Meltdowns Brought Progressive Groups to a Standstill”
• 2022-06-15: 🖥 Content Warnings: I saw a little discussion about content warnings (external link) on Micro.blog today, and it reminded me that I …
• 2022-06-15: 🇦🇺 Link: “Clarke and Dawe - The Energy Market Explained”
• 2022-06-15: 🌅 Link: “Tonga volcano ‘afterglow’ creates dazzling sunsets across New Zealand and Australia”
• 2022-06-15: 🇿🇦 Link: “Ryanair Afrikaans test: Why South Africa loves and loathes the language”
• 2022-06-17: 🇺🇸 On Homelessness, Crime and Drugs: So I read this article, How San Francisco Became a Failed City (external link). I was going to save it as a link …
• 2022-06-17: ❤️ Like of: “Would 1950s Living Standards Save Us?” by Björn Wärmedal
• 2022-06-17: 🇺🇸 Link: “I Should Be Able To Mute America”
• 2022-06-18: 🪶 Micro post: One of the magpies came by on her own and took a piece of walnut directly from my hand 😍
• 2022-06-18: 🐱 Photo post: Gidget saw the magpies 😾
• 2022-06-21: 🎬 Photo post: Last night I went, with Viv and my sister, to the Astor Theatre to see Full Metal Jacket. I actually liked it more than …
• 2022-06-21: ❤️ Like of: “Old-school blogging, retro computers, and decentralisation” by Andre Alves Garzia
• 2022-06-21: 🖥 Link: “Is Google Dying? Or Did the Web Grow Up?”
• 2022-06-22: 🎬 Link: “Abolish the Military-Entertainment Complex”
• 2022-06-23: ✈️ Link: “What would a flying-free world look like?”
• 2022-06-23: 🖥 Micro post: Viv and I went to JB Hi-Fi this evening to buy him a new 16" MacBook Pro 😛 He’s been soldiering on for almost …
• 2022-06-27: ❤️ Like of: “Link: Crossed Rails” by Leon Paternoster
• 2022-06-27: ✍🏻 Micro post: It’s been quiet on this blog for the last few days, and a large part of why is that I’ve been writing. Well, …
• 2022-06-29: ✍🏻 Link: “A solution to writer’s block: Transcribe yourself” by Austin Kleon
• 2022-06-29: 🇦🇺 Link: “How Australia’s version of Roe v Wade, a little-known court case, set a national precedent for reproductive rights”
• 2022-06-29: 🇨🇳 Link: “She Spent a Decade Writing Fake Russian History. Wikipedia Just Noticed.”

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.