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…

merci les sauveteurs secouristes

super bien coffee & shop

En rade de bibliothèque municipale pour cause de vacances scolaires, j’ai atterri au café Super Bien. On a le droit d’y travailler avec un ordinateur si le lieu est suffisamment vide. La déco est un peu moins plate que dans d’autres cafés modernes, le lieu se spécialisant dans les boissons japonaises. Et surtout, le thé…

Mon Best of de 2024

2024 a été l’année de plein de belles choses. Je vous fais donc un best of culturel, suivi d’un tout petit best of de mes expériences vécues ! Best of : lectures J’ai trop de choses à dire pour les intégrer ici, donc j’ai un article séparé pour elles. https://alexsirac.com/mes-lectures-de-2024/ Best of : sources d’actualité…

my religion

My religion, should anyone be interested, can be reduced to a simple question: What is the most generous thing one can do in this case? If that question doesn’t apply, I have another: What would my grandfather think about this? None of which relieves me of the compulsion to cross myself in my hour of…

Evil Author Day : mes brouillons abandonnés, my abandoned drafts

Sara a parlé d’Evil Author Day l’an dernier et je me suis gardé l’idée bien au chaud depuis. Le concept : le 15 février, on balance nos idées et brouillons en public sans la moindre intention de les finir. Si quelqu’un veut reprendre les infos et idées, n’hésitez surtout pas : de mon côté, si…