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“Don’t Lie To Me About Web 2.0” 2022-07-01 : 🖥 On Cohost and Interoperable Social Media :
Spent a chunk of this morning reading about a new social media site that I guess has launched in some kind of public … 2022-07-03 : 🐶 Photo post:
Busy, bittersweet weekend this one is turning out to be. Yesterday, we and a bunch of my dad’s family worked on … 2022-07-04 : ❤️ Like of:
“My American thought experiment” by Ben Werdmüller 2022-07-04 :
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“Police failed to adequately investigate deaths of four Indigenous women, former officer says” 2022-07-06 :
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“Get Ready For the Forever Plague” 2022-07-07 : 😷 Micro post:
Up till now, this has been Vivian and I defiantly avoiding Covid:
Super Mario Maker 2 video where Mario somehow manages … 2022-07-08 :
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“‘I don’t want to live in a society where people are kidnapped from their homes’: the neighbours fighting immigration raids” 2022-07-08 : 🚊 Car-Centric Ableism :
I originally posted a version of this post as a comment on Mastodon (external link) but I thought I might as well … 2022-07-09 :
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“Women’s business” 2022-07-10 : 🦠 Micro post:
Apparently my younger sister’s tested positive for Covid, so she won’t be able to fly back from the UK on … 2022-07-11 : 💬 On (and In) the Shavian Alphabet :
NB: I wrote this post first in Shavian, then transliterated it back into the Roman alphabet. Both versions are presented … 2022-07-11 :
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“Six great moments in Jewish working-class history” 2022-07-12 :
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“‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ Author Wanted for Questioning in Murder” 2022-07-12 : 🐱 Photo post:
Still feeling crummy from my apparently-a-cold (in fact, if anything it’s getting worse 🙁) but Gidget is doing her … 2022-07-13 :
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“When the cosplaying dolphins met the cosplaying French philosophers” by Matt Webb 2022-07-13 :
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“Half of Australian managers have never hired a person with disability, survey shows” 2022-07-13 :
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“Video Games Are for Everyone—And That Should Include Disabled People” 2022-07-14 : ❤️ Like of:
“Naturally enforced digital detox” by Mike Crittenden 2022-07-15 : 🏘 Micro post:
The complete failure of Australia’s housing stock to be appropriate for living in during winter is in the news … 2022-07-15 :
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“Mindfulness in schools does not improve mental health, study finds” 2022-07-17 : 🐶 Photo post:
My parents have gone to Bendigo for a couple of days, so Gizmo is staying with us! Originally the plan had been that my … 2022-07-18 :
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“A million-word novel got censored before it was even shared. Now Chinese users want answers.” 2022-07-19 : 🐱 Photo post:
We’re due to return Gizmo home later this afternoon. Gidget hasn’t been able to resist bullying Gizmo a … 2022-07-23 :
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“Two decades of Alzheimer’s research may be based on deliberate fraud that has cost millions of lives” 2022-07-23 : ☔️ The Winter Blues :
Seasonal depression has been kicking my butt lately. And by “lately”, I mean the last two months, I guess, … 2022-07-24 : 🖥 Micro post:
I keep ending up with SO MANY open tabs because I’ll be like, “I want to read this article/comment on … 2022-07-25 :
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“Novelists Still Don’t Know How To Talk About The Internet” 2022-07-26 :
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“What I Mean When I Say ‘Ban Cars’” 2022-07-26 :
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“Should class snobbery be banned?” 2022-07-27 : 🐱 Photo post:
Just a quick selection of Gidget photos from one recent morning! 😸 As far as her vet-ordered diet is going, good news: … 2022-07-27 :
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“Sunset of the social network” 2022-07-28 : ❤️ Like of:
“We Don’t Do That Here” by Aja Hammerley 2022-07-28 : 🎮 On Interactive Fiction and Language-Learning :
Last week, I spent a few hours going down the rabbit-hole that is experimenting with interactive fiction. This is a … 2022-07-29 :
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“Fifty-year mortgages that you pass on to your children – the new plan to boost home ownership” 2022-07-30 : 🐱 Photo post:
Gidget was OUTRAGED to see this total stranger tabby cat taking a jaunty walk through her yard! The other cat was VERY … 2022-07-30 :
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“Bonfire’s latest trick shows Google+ circles came a decade early” by Doug Belshaw 2022-07-31 :
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“Melbourne’s Fitzroy hides a past as a hub for the Aboriginal civil rights movement”
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.