Posts from January 2023

2023-01-02: ✴️ Status messages: Watched ‘New Earth’ and ‘Tooth and Claw’
2023-01-04: 🇹🇼 Link: “Taiwanese Workers Have Shown Us How to Gain Ground in the Neoliberal Era”
2023-01-04: ✴️ Status messages: Thinking about, and outlining, my novel
2023-01-06: 💬 Link: “Lexical Sets for Actors”
2023-01-06: 🇺🇸 Link: “The Failure of Reconstruction Is to Blame for the Weakness of American Democracy”
2023-01-06: 🔍 Link: “The Last Wild Lions of Europe”
2023-01-07: 🔍 Link: “The science of why you have great ideas in the shower”
2023-01-07: 🇮🇱 Link: “Decoding Israeli ‘Extremism’”
2023-01-07: 🐱 Photo post: I know it’s been really quiet on this blog lately, and I haven’t done a Caturday post in like a month, so …
2023-01-09: 🐶 Photo post: Yesterday when we were taking Gizmo on his weekly beach walk, we encountered this ADORABLE puppy! It may have been …
2023-01-09: 💬 Link: “Do accents disappear?”
2023-01-09: 💬 Link: “Michael Cannings (@formosaphile): How many competing writing systems can one language have? …”
2023-01-09: 💬 Link: “Unearthing a Long Ignored African Writing System, One Researcher Finds African History, by Africans”
2023-01-11: 🐶 Photo post: Had a really productive writing day yesterday, and then we were charged with babysitting Viv’s nephew, which meant …
2023-01-11: ❤️ Like of: “The Year of the Personal Website” by Matthias Ott
2023-01-11: 🖥 Link: “Building a website like it’s 1999… in 2022” by Sophie Koonin
2023-01-11: ✴️ Status messages: Watched Doctor Who episode ‘The Age of Steel’
2023-01-12: 🇧🇷 Link: “What happened in Brazil was not a repeat of Jan 6 in the US”
2023-01-12: 📰 Link: “Iran Says Face Recognition Will ID Women Breaking Hijab Laws”
2023-01-12: 🇨🇳 Link: “Today’s Protests in China Have Been Years in the Making”
2023-01-12: 💨 Link: “Air pollution is much worse than we thought”
2023-01-12: ✴️ Status messages: Finished off a 5kg bag of rice I’ve been working through for months
2023-01-13: 📰 Link: “Intellectual property is theft” by Dominique Cyprès
2023-01-13: ✴️ Status messages: Went on a beach walk and watched the sun set
2023-01-14: ✴️ Status messages: Deleted Tweetbot off my phone, thinking about changing things in my novel
2023-01-16: ✴️ Status messages: Productive editing/outlining day with my novel
2023-01-17: 🔍 Link: “Rose Bailey (@Rose_On_Mars@dice.camp): I’m going to tell you the story of the man who solved a crime. …”
2023-01-18: ✴️ Status messages: Watched Doctor Who (‘The Impossible Planet’), added 600 words to my novel (which finished a scene!)
2023-01-19: 🍱 Micro post: Sometimes I go through phases where I’m really excited to cook different things and seek out new recipes to try, …
2023-01-19: ✴️ Status messages: Watched Doctor Who episode ‘The Satan Pit’
2023-01-20: ✴️ Status messages: Gidget was on my lap almost aaaaaall morning
2023-01-21: 🇬🇧 Link: “‘Dirty wee torturers’: Northern Irish man tells of British army abuse during Troubles”
2023-01-21: 🐱 Photo post: It’s Caturday! Here’s a pic of Gidget from earlier today, after she successfully convinced Viv to let her …
2023-01-21: ✴️ Status messages: Wrote a few hundred words, walked on the beach at sunset
2023-01-22: 💬 Link: “How the Discovery of a Unique Sign Language Reconnected a Linguist With Her Past”
2023-01-23: 🖥 Micro post: We’re having an unscheduled internet outage today. Every time I see posts about “internet of things” …
2023-01-28: 📺 Romance? In MY Doctor Who?!: Since the start of December, I’ve been doing a rewatch of post-2005 Doctor Who. Today, I watched the finale of …
2023-01-28: 🎬 Link: “Here’s Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It)”
2023-01-29: 🔬 Link: “An Oral History Of The Time Six Doctors Swallowed Lego Heads To See How Long They’d Take To Poo”
2023-01-29: 🐱 Photo post: I forgot about Caturday until the next day again 🙈 At any rate, here’s Gidget, incensed that the magpies are …
2023-01-29: 🇺🇸 Link: “Why Mickey Mouse’s 1998 copyright extension probably won’t happen again”

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.