Too many posts I meant to share 😬

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I'm going to have to get better about sharing content over here more regularly if it's something I intend to do (which it is, at least for the moment). At any rate, here's some of the selected highlights of things I've posted on Micro.blog in the last couple of weeks.

I posted briefly about the government announcing a route for the Melbourne airport rail link, including the thought that their proposed fare would not be very tempting for airport workers.

I published a review of Más allá del invierno (In the Midst of Winter) by Isabel Allende. I thought the book was "just OK", basically.

Now finally a meaty, lengthy post – I talked about my experience of my first two weeks on Micro.blog, including how I felt about them not supporting "likes". Dreamwidth got a mention, as another platform that doesn't support likes, and therefore forces people to use their actual words to express their appreciation for things. (Honestly, in the week since I made this post, I think I've been even more persuaded that making people comment instead of clicking a like button is a good thing. There's just so much more human connection bound up in words than there is in a "So-and-so liked this.")

I made another lengthy post about interring my Grandma's ashes, after she died in September and Covid-19 restrictions meant even the funeral was severely limited and we put off the ashes a couple of months. Honestly, while I completely understand why we needed the lockdown and am reaping the benefits (with the rest of the state) now, not being allowed to visit my grandma in her final months and then all the hassle about the funeral still really stings.

This was a short link post but it generated some discussion – about the first day of the week in different countries.

A couple of days ago I wrote a long post about my thoughts on cast-iron cookware after five weeks of use – after I was persuaded to replace an old worn-out non-stick pan with cast iron by an Adam Ragusea video. I'm not a cast-iron evangelist now but overall I think I made a good choice. Click the link for my (very, very) detailed explanation.

…and that's about it, for posts I'll call out individually! But you might also just want to have a quick scroll through my pet photos, my food photos, my "today I learned" microposts, or this "site updates" category (this latter one only if you're interested in why someone would make a personal, static homepage and a blog or how the two could be integrated together).

Like last time, if you have any thoughts you'd like to share on any of these entries, feel free to just comment here (Micro.blog accepts Webmentions for comments, but those are hard to send if you don't already have a setup geared to send Webmentions, which you'd probably know if you did). No pressure, though.