January 2025 in review / Récap de janvier 2025

January 2025 includes a big win, which is that since Zuckerberg’s a little shit and US big tech is somehow worse than before, I’ve managed to onboard three people I care about very much to Signal. It also comes with less-enthusiastic news about my knee, as in, no news. It’s not better. It’s not worse.…

that bob dylan biopic

i was kinda excited about a biopic on bob dylan until i realized timothée chalamet is playing him. i don’t think i can stand the guy anymore − he did nothing wrong, he’s just everywhere.

Alamut, Vladimir Bartol

Around the world reading challenge: Slovénie Il y a très longtemps, Sara m’a conseillé des romans slovènes pour mon challenge Autour du Monde. Je n’en ai trouvé qu’un de sa liste, Alamut, de Vladimir Bartol, et je ne voulais pas le lire parce que quand je lis des romans de pays que je connais mal,…

partage

quelqu’un que je ne connais pas a partagé sur Mastodon une page sur laquelle j’ai pas mal travaillé ✨c’est toujours un boost d’ego et de bonne humeur quand ça arrive.

Likes https://thoughts.uncountable.uk/libraries-and-rss/. Here was I, explaining to a …

Likes https://thoughts.uncountable.uk/libraries-and-rss/. Here was I, explaining to a librarian how to access information. A thought struck me out the blue.All libraries should know about, advocate, signpost and shout about RSS. It’s the only open, federated protocol humanity has for delivering information direct from writers to readers.

Likes Antidote by Elle. for a few years, …

Likes Antidote by Elle. for a few years, it worked.but i think it stopped working in 2024 due to how the internet is evolving. by « online-ness », i’m mainly referring to infinite scroll-type internet like social media. the endless stream easily filled the gaps in my life for a while, overloading me with persistent content that…

re: survival mode

hi Elle, I’ve also felt this fatigue recently, and our elections have gone better than yours, and thank goodness I only have to care for myself right now. I hope things will get better. your homepage is still one of my favourites of the entire internet, and i feel like i should try and make…

joyeuse journée internationale de le pen est mort

il fait beau j’ai la peau douce Jean-Marie le Pen est mort et surtout bonne journée !

Mes lectures de 2024

Note: this article is in French, but there are many recommendations in English. You might want to scroll past the fluff to the Recommandations section if you don’t speak French! Comme chaque année depuis les premiers confinements de 2020 et ma reprise de la lecture intensive, j’ai battu mon record de lecture en 2024 en…

December 2024 in review / Récap de décembre 2024

Hi everyone, and happy last monthly notes of the year! Yearly recaps will follow in early January, so if you’ve missed some recommendations you can have a shortened list soon! I am feeling much better than last month and am very thankful for the people who sent me kind messages after my last update. Now,…