April 2025 in review / Récap d’avril 2025

I’m on holidays right now (yay!), so I’ve pre-written most of this monthly update before leaving last week and am keeping it shorter than usual. I’ll catch up in the May edition! What I’ve read / Texte 📚 Books / Livres Knew that during my holidays I wouldn’t be able to read on paper, so…

March 2025 in review / Récap de mars 2025

I am now 31 years old, and the proud owner of a gravel bike and of more equipment than my fitness levels justify. Life is good. What I’ve read / Texte 📚 Books / Livres (Only the ones I liked, as usual.) In English Fiction The Books of Ambha, Tasha Suri, Mughal empire-inspired fantasy with…

Faites ces quatre choses immédiatement

Cet article est une traduction de I want you to do these four things right now, écrit par Ben Werdmuller sous licence CC-BY-NC-SA ; Ben est le « je » qu’on retrouve dans l’article. Je vais vous donner quatre choses à faire. Ça ne prendra pas bien longtemps, alors faites-le tout de suite. Commençons par…

Soutenir la littérature trans sans les GAFAM

Cet article est une traduction de Trans Literature Doesn’t Require Big Tech to Organize, publié avec la permission de Bethany qui l’a écrit et publié sur The Transfeminine Review ; Bethany est le « je » qu’on retrouve dans l’article. Les liens mènent vers des pages en anglais ; si un lien mène vers une…

re:colored taxis

In reply to we misread the great gatsby (lavender taxis were expensive somehow) by Maya. it’s a real thing! each company has a color, and each company has a specific price and set of standards. when i studied in shanghai (not a century ago), we were told to avoid dark red taxis (bad service) and…

Likes https://alphabeticalzurich.ch/. I really, really want to do …

Likes https://alphabeticalzurich.ch/. I really, really want to do this for Grenoble some day. It’s so cool! See also: Likes https://piaille.fr/@monparisalphabetique.

Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell’s 1984, by Sandra Newman

Julia Worthing is a mechanic, working in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. It’s 1984, and Britain (now called Airstrip One) has long been absorbed into the larger trans-Atlantic nation of Oceania. Oceania has been at war for as long as anyone can remember, and is ruled by an ultra-totalitarian Party, whose leader…

overinformation cleanup

I have been overwhelmed recently, so I followed some of Tracy’s practices: Removed my RSS Reader from my phone’s home screen (but not from the app menu, for now) Unsubscribed from all large news sources and signed up for their weekly newsletter instead (wherever possible, I will receive the newsletter in my RSS Reader). That’s…

February 2025 in review / Récap de février 2025

It’s been a nice month, with everything going well, and I’m in a good mood! What I’ve read / Texte 📚 Books / Livres In English Fiction The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy was high-quality fantasy, in which a teenager decides to take her best friend’s place and become a witch. The problem is, she’s…

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