morning vent

wanted to wish a happy birthday to a somewhat-estranged friend but she deleted her facebook account and i never had her phone number.

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7 articles en 7 jours

Liked Motivation(s) by Vincent Valentin (vincent-valentin.name) Et voilà : 7 billets en 7 jours ; on peut dire que je me suis pris au jeu.

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joyeux anniversaire le wiktionnaire !

Aujourd’hui le wiktionnaire en français fête ses 20 ans.

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My Interrail trip starts in 9 days

I’ve been preparing for this for a while, and finally, it’s coming up!

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On Community

Read On Community by Casey Plett We need community to live.

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Sorry, Bro

Read Sorry, Bro by Taleen Voskuni When Nar’s non-Armenian boyfriend gets down on one knee and proposes to her in front of a room full of drunk San Francisco tech boys, she realizes it’s time to find someone who shares her idea of romance.

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My web archive, from 2001 to 2022

Finding the Internet Archive link for my 2012 blog made me realize that the Internet Archive (bless them, and of course, support them financially) has a bunch of my 2012 to 2017 blog posts which I mostly considered lost forever.

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The enshittification of the web… in 2012

Liked The Web We Lost by Anil Dash (Anil Dash) The tech industry and its press have treated the rise of billion-scale social networks and ubiquitous smartphone apps as an unadulterated win for regular people, a triumph of usability and empowerment.

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Communication era

Liked Reine #58: Communication Era by Carmen Phillips (Autostraddle) « Oh, I remember sexting on Tumblr!

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james edited wikipedia today!

Liked Seven Days of New Things Day 1: Editing Wikipedia, Sardines by an author (jamesg.blog) The Challenge A few days ago, I remarked the following to a community of which I am a member: « I need to do or learn something new. » This sentence codifies a feeling of unease about not having a novel challenge that I have had recently.

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