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.

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,…

My goals for 2025

I don’t really do goals. Or rather, I make a giant list of more or less important and ambitious goals in December, try things out, and re-prioritize somewhere around my birthday (end of March) for what will be the closest thing there is to an actual yearly goals list. For 2024, I had 8 goals.…

Depart, depart! by Sim Kern

Depart, depart! by Sim Kern is a short novella of a natural disaster. Our narrator, a trans guy who is on hormones and pre-surgery, ends up in a public shelter with no privacy and where nobody seems to get any privacy. Also, the ghost of his grandfather, who narrowly escaped Nazi camps, keeps saving his…