Budapest

The arrival I get off the train at 11pm after a really nice and smooth ride and only 20 minutes late, which is much better than what everyone has led me to expect from Eastern European trains. From the train station, I make my first terrible mistake: I hail a taxi instead of using an…

radio free fedi

Liked

love this update and I’m floored by the work done on this project. I love Radio Free Fedi and they’ve been my main music entry point for the past few months.

biography of x

Read Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a n…

Who knew reading the biography of a dull and supremely unlikeable person, who doesn’t even exist, would be so gripping. I was definitely more taken with the world-building than I was with the characters. I don’t mind a boring narrator, I even think this one was pretty cool in how she was boring – it’s…

Good Enough

This month’s IndieWeb Carnival topic, "Good enough", is very, very interesting, and I feel like I could write an entire series based on this simple prompt. But since I’m traveling, I’ll try to take it easy and "only" write a two-part post. I hope it will be good enough, hehe. Life isn’t good enough Enshittification…

Zagreb

Going to Zagreb The train from Bled to Zagreb, by way of Ljubljana, is extremely slow. It’s also incredibly beautiful (you might be sick of me calling everything beautiful, but it’s not my fault, everything really is!!). The railway follows a perfectly turquoise river for a solid hour. At one point, the last stop before…

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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends (Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends)

What nail polish, house paint and Crayola crayons say about the shades of online existence

Slovenian lakes

Arrival The Lesce-Bled train station has two quays and you go to the second quay by walking over the first one, which is something I hadn’t seen in a decade and a half. I love it. The walk to the hostel is short, if you don’t get lost. My walk to the hostel includes a…

Big Swiss

Read Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house, built in 1737, is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she affectionately refers to as Big Swiss, since she’s tall, stoic, and originally from Switzerland. Greta is fascinated by Big Swiss’s refreshing attitude toward trauma. They both have dark histories, but Big Swiss chooses to remain unattached to her suffering while Greta continues to be tortured by her past.

One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss’s voice at the dog park. In a panic, she introduces herself with a fake name and they quickly become enmeshed. Although Big Swiss is unaware of Greta’s true identity, Greta has never been more herself with anyone. Her attraction to Big Swiss overrides her guilt, and she’ll do anything to sustain the relationship…

Big Swiss is the unlikeable story of an unlikeable woman who commits identity fraud to sleep with another unlikeable woman, and then other bad things happen. It’s good, but in a repulsive way. I found myself muttering « urgh » to myself every few pages, and yet going to the next page to know what was going…

Ljubljana

As I arrive, exhausted and dehydrated, in Ljubljana, I expect to have the worst possible time going to the train station. Instead, I stroll to the hotel in a 5-minute walk and the first thing that really hits me is the smell – at this hour, without any cars and in empty streets, Ljubljana smells…

when I come back

when I come back from the trip I will: definitely take the time to add alt text to all photos from the trip (very hard with my current setup) definitely take the time to create a nice page with the itinerary and link to the post for each place I visited probably create a download…