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2022-11-01 :
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“Is It Time to Rethink the Rules of Fanfiction?” 2022-11-01 : ✴️ Status messages:
Started NaNoWriMo, walks interrupted by lousy weather, visited my family before Dad’s surgery tomorrow 2022-11-02 : 🏥 Micro post:
My dad went into hospital this morning to have surgery to remove his left kidney, because of a large tumour inside it … 2022-11-02 : ✴️ Status messages:
NaNoWriMo progress, visited Dad in hospital 2022-11-03 : ✴️ Status messages:
Drank tea at my folks’ house while trying to write for NaNoWriMo 2022-11-04 : ✴️ Status messages:
Visited Dad in hospital, set my now-scarcely-used Twitter account to private, wrote for NaNoWriMo 2022-11-05 : 🪶 Photo post:
Was about to go to the chemist just before when these three magpies mobbed me on the front porch, demanding walnuts 😂 … 2022-11-05 : 🐱 Photo post:
For this week’s Caturday, have a picture of my neighbour’s cat, Emma! When I went on a walk before, she was … 2022-11-05 : ✴️ Status messages:
Took public transport to visit Dad in hospital, strained eyes not wearing glasses, NaNoWriMo 2022-11-06 : ✴️ Status messages:
NaNoWriMo, visited Dad, then my mum 2022-11-07 : 🗒 Micro post:
Some people seem very all-or-nothing. Everything’s either the best thing ever, or the worst ever. Things have to … 2022-11-07 : 🐱 Photo post:
So how’s the writing been going today? Well. Every single time I’ve thought about starting, suddenly my view … 2022-11-07 : ✴️ Status messages:
Visited Dad 2022-11-08 : 🗒 Micro post:
Remember the first two days of NaNoWriMo, when I was like, “I’m gonna stay away from social media until I … 2022-11-08 : ✴️ Status messages:
Hayfever, trying Orion Browser, visited Dad, NaNoWriMo 2022-11-09 :
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“I’d like apologies for robodebt, but I really want Australia to abandon punitive welfare” 2022-11-09 : 🚊 Micro post:
The PTV app really makes it inordinately difficult to just go, “Hey. This stop where I’m standing right now? … 2022-11-09 : ✴️ Status messages:
Issues with Orion Browser, Dad on track to be discharged, NaNoWriMo 2022-11-10 :
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“The End of the Road to Serfdom” by Cory Doctorow 2022-11-10 :
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“There’s one big subject our leaders at Cop27 won’t touch: livestock farming” 2022-11-10 : ✴️ Status messages:
Dad home from hospital, underwhelming NaNoWriMo today but tomorrow I get to write a good part! 2022-11-11 : ✴️ Status messages:
Wrote 3,125 words in NaNoWriMo 2022-11-12 : 🐱 Photo post:
Iiiiit’s Caturday! For today’s post, here’s Gidget and my partner Viv together. She was having fun … 2022-11-12 :
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“The company that bulldozed this sacred Aboriginal site had a year to apologise. It didn't” 2022-11-12 : ❤️ Like of:
“Which projects are worth doing? How to evaluate creative ideas and decide whether to spend your time on them” by Tracy Durnell 2022-11-12 :
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“No more drinking water, little food: our island is a field of bones” 2022-11-12 :
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“Court orders threaten native timber logging in Victoria, industry says” 2022-11-12 : ✴️ Status messages:
Caught up to where I should be in NaNoWriMo! And browsed my downloaded Twitter archive. 2022-11-13 :
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“Leaked audio reveals Queensland police staff in racist conversations, joking about violence to black people and protestors” 2022-11-13 :
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“NSW police ‘Strike Force Guard III’ formed to silence threats to fossil fuel driven political order” 2022-11-13 : ✍🏻 NaNoWriMo, Day 13 :
Overall, I’ve had a tough NaNoWriMo so far. On top of real life making it difficult to find the time for the first … 2022-11-13 : 🐶 Photo post:
The last few times I’ve visited, Gizmo’s been resolutely determined NOT to let me capture his beautiful grin … 2022-11-14 :
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“Canada will soon allow medically assisted dying for mental illness. Has there been enough time to get it right?” 2022-11-14 :
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“Australia could free a third of its prisoners with little risk to community, new research finds” 2022-11-14 :
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“Wild boars in Palestine are being weaponized by Israeli colonialism” 2022-11-14 :
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“Boys handcuffed, held down by guards and sat on in dangerous youth detention ‘folding’ restraint” 2022-11-15 : ✍🏻 Micro post:
For all my worries in the last few days about how tough the writing was going to get once I reached the next part of my … 2022-11-15 : 🐱 Photo post:
Gidget is very happy I “remembered” how to turn the heater on today! 😆 (In reality, we’ve just had … 2022-11-15 :
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“Cairns family facing deportation after son is diagnosed with autism” 2022-11-16 : 🐱 Micro post:
Guess whose cat just decided to knock something off the chest of drawers next to my desk straight into my cup of tea, … 2022-11-17 :
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“Home Affairs department ‘accidentally’ sent letters telling asylum seekers to leave Australia, minister says” 2022-11-17 : 💬 Micro post:
One neat thing I’ve noticed as I’ve worked at learning to read Shavian is how my experience has mirrored … 2022-11-18 :
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“Electric vehicle shift alone will not solve urban transport woes, says Portuguese minister” 2022-11-18 : ✍🏻 Micro post:
As far as NaNoWriMo goes, I had a few above-par productive days, and then a couple of below-par days. Yesterday I ran … 2022-11-19 : 🐱 Photo post:
Vivian bought Gidget a bowtie. It just clips on to a collar, or Gidget’s harness when she’s wearing that. … 2022-11-19 : ✴️ Status messages:
Only wrote 500ish words for NaNoWriMo, then went to bed early with a headache 2022-11-20 : ✍🏻 Micro post:
I meant to get something like this up a little earlier in the month, so you’d have some idea of what my NaNoWriMo … 2022-11-20 :
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“Staying warm: What does an unheated room do to your body?” 2022-11-20 : ✴️ Status messages:
Back on track in NaNoWriMo! (Again!) 2022-11-20 :
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“Freedom and Creative Vitality in a Market Society: Ursula K. Le Guin on Saving Books from Profiteering and Commodification” 2022-11-21 :
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“Why women aren’t from Venus, and men aren’t from Mars” 2022-11-21 : 🖥 On Mastodon and Algorithms :
As you’re quite likely aware, there’s currently a massive explosion going on in the number of active … 2022-11-21 : ✴️ Status messages:
Horrible weather 2022-11-22 :
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“There Is No “Migrant Crisis”” 2022-11-23 : 🍱 Micro post:
Experimented today by cooking a “chicken” quesadilla with “chicken free strips” (textured wheat & soy protein). End … 2022-11-23 :
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“Joe Hill Was Killed For Singing Labor’s Song” 2022-11-24 : 🐱 Photo post:
Gidget’s not usually the “resolute thief” kind of cat but apparently when it’s OAT YOGHURT, … 2022-11-24 :
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“That siren-imitating lyrebird at Taronga Zoo? He lost his song culture – and absorbed some of ours” 2022-11-24 :
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“It’s Not Antisemitic to Oppose Israel’s Apartheid Rule Over the Palestinians” 2022-11-24 : 🗒 Micro post:
So I just had to get a blood test done (for very mundane, routine reasons) and I almost fuckin’ FAINTED 😫 I knew … 2022-11-25 :
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“Thanksgiving thoughts” by Chris Arnade 2022-11-25 :
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“Actually, You Shouldn’t Offer Help in Someone Else’s Kitchen” 2022-11-25 : ✍🏻 Micro post:
I don’t think I’ve ever had a NaNoWriMo before where I’ve hewed so closely to the exact word target … 2022-11-25 : ✴️ Status messages:
Rain even though the forecast said 0% chance of rain 2022-11-26 : 🇦🇺 Micro post:
Well, Viv and I have voted in the Victorian state election. In the upper house I voted BTL, with the Victorian … 2022-11-26 : 🐱 Photo post:
How is anyone supposed to resist when she looks as cute as this?! The answer is… you’re not meant to 🙂 Happy … 2022-11-26 : ✴️ Status messages:
Wrote my NaNoWriMo daily quota 2022-11-27 :
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“The push and pull of cheating at university: ‘No one knows what cheating is any more’” 2022-11-27 : 🗒 Micro post:
After my bad experience a few days ago, today I’m getting recurring “shocks” in my arm, running down … 2022-11-29 : ✍🏻 Micro post:
Had a pretty bad NaNoWriMo day yesterday, and given how late it is in the month that means I now need to write 4.5k … 2022-11-30 :
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“‘Y’all,’ that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream – and it’s about time” 2022-11-30 :
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“Lashon Hara – Director’s Cut HD Remaster” by Shel 2022-11-30 :
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“The Spectacular Life of Octavia Butler” 2022-11-30 : ✍🏻 Micro post:
I really need things to be intrinsically rewarding, or else I leave them to the last second I possibly can. So …
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.