Posts from August 2022

2022-08-01: ❤️ Like of: ““Creating Content”” by Chris Hannah
2022-08-01: 👩🏻‍🏫 Link: “I would prefer not to”
2022-08-02: 🖥 Link: “Every internet video (in 2003)”
2022-08-02: 👮 Link: “Blockade Australia climate activist can’t use encrypted apps, must let police access phone”
2022-08-02: 🇷🇺 Link: “A Russian Sociologist Explains Why Putin’s War Is Going Even Worse Than It Looks”
2022-08-03: 🐱 Micro post: That feeling of power you get when your cat has been nagging for food for three hours and you just go to the kitchen to …
2022-08-03: 🚊 Link: “Rewilding Cities” by Clive Thompson
2022-08-03: ❤️ Like of: “Do we really need private schools?” by Ben Werdmüller
2022-08-03: 🐱 Photo post: Today’s been a beautiful day weather-wise, sunny and 19°. I’ve been out soaking it up this afternoon, and …
2022-08-04: 📝 Micro post: Started a silly little CYOA story (it’s about my cat nagging me for food 😆) in Ido, using Twine, tonight. I made …
2022-08-05: 🗒 Quick Life Updates: Felt like I should follow up on some of the things I mentioned in posts last month and then just left hanging… My …
2022-08-05: 🛩 Link: “Private Jet Use Shows Why We Must Abolish Billionaires”
2022-08-05: 🎹 Keybuild: An (Almost) One-Year Update: Almost a year ago, I wrote about how I used the iOS app Keybuild to make my own keyboard layout (or implement Dvorak …
2022-08-06: 🇮🇱 Link: “Confession without consequence”
2022-08-06: 💵 Link: “What would be different about a socialist economy?”
2022-08-09: 🇵🇸 Link: “‘Blood, body parts, screams’: Gaza reels after Israeli strikes”
2022-08-09: 🥚 Link: “Backyard hens’ eggs contain 40 times more lead on average than shop eggs, research finds”
2022-08-09: 🐱 Photo post: When the weather was nice on the weekend we took Gidget for some outside time. She spent about 20 minutes on our …
2022-08-10: 🖥 Micro post: Thanks to @rcrackley (external link), today I received my invite to try out Arc Browser (external link)! …
2022-08-12: 🖥 Micro post: How are some websites just coded SO badly? I don’t understand. If I scroll through a long discussion on Discord, …
2022-08-13: 🔍 Link: “Ghost Markings: European Droughts Reveal Hunger Stones & Hidden Henges”
2022-08-14: 🐶 Link: “Farewell Fooey: Guardian of the ABC's PNG bureau, a friend to correspondents and an enemy of stray cats”
2022-08-14: 🎮 Link: “Cult of the Lamb’s Steam release is already exceeding expectations for this indie Australian game studio”
2022-08-15: 🖥 Duolingo Denied Me My Achievement: For a long time in Duolingo, I have coveted the “Finish #1 in the Diamond League” achievement. It seemed to …
2022-08-16: 🪑 Micro post: So excited to find out Officeworks has discovered human beings shorter than five-foot-ten exist, and now sells desks …
2022-08-17: 📷 Photo post: It was great being able to catch up for dinner yesterday with my childhood BFF, Urvi! It had been almost 20 years since …
2022-08-18: 🖥 Micro post: I gave it a solid eight days’ trial, but I’m closing Arc Browser and moving back to Vivaldi as my default …
2022-08-19: 🐱 My New Desk Setup: So this has taken up a lot of my energy the last couple of days: creating a new little “desk nook”! A few …
2022-08-23: 📷 Photo post: I know I’ve been quiet for a few days; we had a really busy weekend (one of Viv’s cousins got married! …
2022-08-25: 📚 Micro post: Our local library had been closed for renovations for a while, but it’s reopened now, so Viv and I went down to …
2022-08-27: ♿️ On Person-First Language: I saw an article and brief discussion today on the use of person-first (e.g. “people with disabilities”) vs …
2022-08-27: 🇿🇦 Link: “We Should Never Forget South Africa’s Marikana Massacre”
2022-08-29: 🐱 Photo post: I have a bit of a backlog of Gidget photos now, but rest assured, she’s doing well 😅 She LOVES my new office chair …
2022-08-30: 🇮🇱 Link: “The siege is only a symptom”

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.