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

We took Gizmo on his usual Sunday beach walk yesterday afternoon, where he had a blast enjoying the sunshine and befriending other little dogs 😊

This past week I had some work that took me to the southern part of the Frankston line, a section of which has just been grade-separated (lowering the railway line below road level so cars don't have to wait at level crossings). I took some pictures of the newly rebuilt Bonbeach Station (and a shot of the view towards the beach from there, just because 😊). (full post)

Wish I had more to post about at the moment but I’m just so tired. Feels like every day I’m either working and working, or busy doing yard work (or other chores) 😪 All the recent rain has made my mission to fix up the yard really slow going. Gradually getting there, I guess.

🐈 Nothing but srs business when you see a magpie out your window! 😾 (https://www.jayeless.net/2021/11/gidget-sees-magpies.html)

This is Gidget’s “please don’t go to work, mummy” face. Been booked for the first time in months, today and tomorrow. So heartbreaking to leave her home alone though 😭 (https://www.jayeless.net/2021/11/this-is-gidgets-please-dont-go-look.html)

Yesterday one of our neighbours (with prior warning to us) tore down our shared fence, but then it started raining, so their guy didn’t put up the rep­lace­ment fence until this morning. It’s now up… and it’s probably the tallest fence I’ve ever seen that isn’t like, the Berlin Wall or something.

I’m thinking it could be nice to set up some trellises right in front of it and plant some climbing plants (I do really like jasmine…) to soften the look of it a bit. (original post)