Jessica Smith
@jayeless.net
A socialist with interests in linguistics, history, society, technology, story-telling and game design. Based in Melbourne, Australia.
I found myself with enough time to write a blog post about what I got up to in 2025: www.jayeless.net/blog/2025-in...
2025 in Review - Jayeless.net
It’s been a big year for me, and one that hasn’t left a lot of time for blogging, so I thought I’d write a post during this brief period of quiet on the last day of the year about how my year has gone...
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January 2, 2026 at 7:30 AM
I found myself with enough time to write a blog post about what I got up to in 2025: www.jayeless.net/blog/2025-in...
I also read Becky Chambers' "The Galaxy, and the Ground Within" (last of the Wayfarers series). My review ended up sounding pretty negative, but I liked it well enough to rate it three stars… I'm just increasingly sure that this "hopepunk" genre is not for me
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‘The Galaxy, and the Ground Within’ by Becky Chambers - Jayeless.net
Three travellers from diverse alien backgrounds get stuck together at an interstellar truck stop.
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January 2, 2026 at 7:27 AM
I also read Becky Chambers' "The Galaxy, and the Ground Within" (last of the Wayfarers series). My review ended up sounding pretty negative, but I liked it well enough to rate it three stars… I'm just increasingly sure that this "hopepunk" genre is not for me
www.jayeless.net/book-reviews...
www.jayeless.net/book-reviews...
I read Shannon Chakraborty's "The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi", a swashbuckling adventure novel with a forty-something retired pirate turned mother for a protagonist. Set in the mediaeval Indian Ocean and drawing on Arabic mythology for its fantastical elements.
www.jayeless.net/book-reviews...
www.jayeless.net/book-reviews...
January 2, 2026 at 7:25 AM
I read Shannon Chakraborty's "The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi", a swashbuckling adventure novel with a forty-something retired pirate turned mother for a protagonist. Set in the mediaeval Indian Ocean and drawing on Arabic mythology for its fantastical elements.
www.jayeless.net/book-reviews...
www.jayeless.net/book-reviews...
I was able to complete and 100% the cozy game "Tiny Bookshop", which was a great little game and I wrote a review of it on Backloggd: backloggd.com/u/jayeless/r...
jayeless's review of Tiny Bookshop | Backloggd
This was a lovely game. You run a second-hand book stall out of a wagon, you're in a small coastal town where you get to know several of the local personalities, and it's all very chill and relaxing. ...
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January 2, 2026 at 7:16 AM
I was able to complete and 100% the cozy game "Tiny Bookshop", which was a great little game and I wrote a review of it on Backloggd: backloggd.com/u/jayeless/r...
This is why the Victorian government will never come into the 21st century by introducing payments directly by bank card
Without me having to replace three mykis in a month, the entire public transport budget will fall apart
Without me having to replace three mykis in a month, the entire public transport budget will fall apart
April 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This is why the Victorian government will never come into the 21st century by introducing payments directly by bank card
Without me having to replace three mykis in a month, the entire public transport budget will fall apart
Without me having to replace three mykis in a month, the entire public transport budget will fall apart
YOU'LL NEVER BELIEVE IT
Congratulations PTV for extracting yet another $6 out of me I guess!!
Congratulations PTV for extracting yet another $6 out of me I guess!!
April 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
YOU'LL NEVER BELIEVE IT
Congratulations PTV for extracting yet another $6 out of me I guess!!
Congratulations PTV for extracting yet another $6 out of me I guess!!