She’s the Man

Liked A Trans Guy Watches ‘She’s the Man’ for the First Time by

Gabe Dunn (autostraddle.com)

I avoided the 2006 teen comedy She’s the Man for almost two decades. Now it was finally time to watch it.

AI election manipulation tracker by Rest of World

Liked Rest of World’s 2024 AI elections tracker by Viola Zhou (Rest of World)

As more than two billion people vote, we’re monitoring the way AI is being used in political campaigns, memes, and misinformation.

I can’t do it all

Liked I want it all, but it is impossible (Jottings from Ana)

Ana’s personal blog

Adding the external link icon on my blog

A CSS snippet to put in the theme editor so that external links have a ⧉ next to them. Replace alexsirac.com with your own domain and add or remove the subdomains at will. Of course you can also easily replace the icon. .entry-content a[href]:not(:where( /* exclude hash only links */ [href^= »# »], /* exclude relative but…

What I brought on my trip

Here’s what I brought with me on my travel through Europe − hope it helps anyone who wants to do a similar trip! Luggage 50L black backpack which I highly recommend. A tote bag for when I wanted to walk around and my fanny pack wasn’t enough (eg. bringing a picnic or sunscreen). Used it…

interrail management update

Done March 31 – April 5 photos, as well as a couple of days around the middle of the month, are now live on Wikimedia Commons. I don’t know how to create a precise Commons album of my uploads but for now checking my recent uploads would normally be enough to follow 🙂 Alt text…

Récap d’avril 2024 / April 2024 in review

Ce mois-ci a été plein d’aventures avec mon voyage en Interrail, dont vous pouvez désormais découvrir tous les détails sur la page qui lui est consacrée. Il me reste encore du travail à faire, notamment ajouter le texte alternatif sur les images, mais ça va ! C’était fantastique, j’ai pris le soleil et la pluie…

Live to work

Replied to Work to Live, Live to Work by Devastatia (devastatia.com)

That said, I have to push back on a suggestion I overheard that one should only have to work twenty-four hours in a week to live comfortably. A popular trope these days goes: « I don’t live to work. I work to live. »

(Note to my readers: Devastatia’s website has mildly erotic content and may not be appropriate for wherever you are right now. I recommend visiting that blog, but make sure you won’t get fired or yelled at over it!) I’m finally at home and ready to engage with other people again, woo! I’m gonna charitably assume…

never give your best at work

Liked Never Give Your Best At Work by Matthew Graybosch (starbreaker.org)

But what we could do, what many of us already do, is do a good enough job. Work just hard enough to earn your pay.

I have a Now page

Liked Now

🤩 Alex
🎂 30 ans
📍 Grenoble, France
📚 J’apprends | Learning CS50 – Introduction to computer science. Coursera: Introduction to technical writing.
🧳Je voyage | Travel Fini : Interrail en avril 2024. Prochain: probablement en juin pour le travail.
🏗️ J’y travaille | Working on…

made myself a now page! J’ai une page « Now » qui résume rapidement ce qu’il se passe dans ma vie !