Jessica @jayeless@toot.cat

Hello all! I'm Jessica, and I've joined this instance because a) it looks nice and b) I've been curious about the Glitch-Soc variant of Mastodon and wanted to join an instance that had it running :) My old/other account is @jayeless, which I'll probably keep around for more political content.

Here, I'll probably post on a range of topics, including technology (I'm interested in #smallweb and adjacent topics, like the #indieweb and #gemini), #languages and #linguistics, #books I read, the occasional thing about #gameing or other forms of entertainment, pictures of #cats and #dogs, life in general, and stuff about the city I live in (Melbourne, Australia). As well as English I speak Spanish, and I've also studied Catalan (I did an honours thesis in #history, on the Spanish Civil War in Catalonia). Gonna leave you with a couple of pics of me and my beloved cat Gidget ❤️

#introduction

Tonight I found Gidget rifling through the crap on my bedside table because she realised I keep hair ties there. She kept coming back to rummage through it some more each time I carried her away! So one of the hair ties is hers now. We’re playing fetch with it 🐱 (https://www.jayeless.net/2021/09/gidget-rifling.html)

If anyone else missed this piece in The Shovel, it's a good 'un: Gladys Daily Presser Cancelled After Poorly Received First Season

Gidget doesn’t seem to remember the time she was almost devoured whole by our old printer, so she decided that on top of the new one was the best place to keep me company today. After all, she’s not breaking my “no cats on the desk” rule when it’s the printer on the desk… (https://www.jayeless.net/2021/09/gidget-on-printer.html)

Blogged: Bringing Back App Indicators on elementary OS

Vivian told me he bet 50¢ on WA seceding from Australia… 🤦🏻‍♀️ What gets me, though, is that the amount he’d get if he won is just 87¢! Something that unlikely and those are the odds? 🤯

Now he’s trying to give me all kinds of further justifications for secession, like: If WA seceded, then the AFL would instantly achieve its ambition to preside over an international sport, because the West Australian teams would now be from a different country. I don’t think anybody’ll be employing him as a political strategist somehow…

Viv went and got his first dose of Covid-19 vaccine today! He had been somewhat “vaccine-hesitant”, but the news that unvaccinated people will not be allowed to go to cinemas, restaurants, etc. once we start reopening tipped the scales for him, to my immense relief. Once he’d made his decision (on the weekend), he just wanted a vaccine ASAP and didn’t mind which one, so he looked for AstraZeneca appointments and got one within a few days 😄 (original post)

Blogged: Is It a Wrap or a Flour Tortilla?

Gidget’s ayah (that’s Vivian’s mum) sent her this great new box, a worthy successor to her last box that I cut up and threw away months ago 😂 She thinks it makes a great perch from which to watch Cat TV. (original post)

I got the chance to try out the “Merlin Bird ID” app that Miraz mentioned yesterday when I took Gidget outside this morning. I thought that the bird squawking at us angrily was a wattlebird, and even with my dodgy silhouette picture the app confirmed my thinking: its best guess was “little wattlebird”! 😄 Cool stuff. (original post)