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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 left-wing feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also very interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.