ISU European Short Track Championships 2022/23 Trailer

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua-J9F63dVw[/embed] Super excited for the European championships coming up this weekend. There are some really wonderful competitors and the new generation is so interesting to watch!

kobo and kindle

I really am *this* close to buying a Kobo. The Pocket integration would just change my life – I read loads of articles and make a bunch of highlights, and currently I have to grab them by manually connecting my Kindle to my computer, then pulling the Clippings doc, which strips out all formatting, images…

[caption id="attachment_174" align="alignright" width="213"] The CC-BY license I want to apply to my whole life.[/caption] Not sure this has any official value, but I wanted to make the CC-BY license more general than « just » my website. I want everything I create to be CC-BY by default, unless specifically stated otherwise. #creativeCommons #libre #en

Why Are There So Many Confederate Vampires?

Watched

In the late 2000s and 2010s, the three major vampire series of the time: True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, and Twilight—all featured male vampire characters who were members of the Confederacy. Why?

another update already! this is true microblogging

Ok, I made ✨ progress ✨! Installed a small Share to Mastodon plugin which I hope works just fine, we’ll see with this post Figured out a phone shortcut that takes me, through the mobile website, to easy note creation. Once again, the web does what the app failed to do. Guess this afternoon will…

Notes on the blog redesign

Looks like it’s going pretty well, boosts and favs were pulled from Mastodon and show up just fine.

Next steps:

Figure out how to crosspost to Mastodon as this doesn’t seem to have worked
See if I can easily post from mobile (the WordPress app doesn’t let me select my custom Post Kinds)
Write a post outlining everything I did to make this blog as open and federated as possible!

Now on WordPress

Re-did my entire website in Wordpress. This should be pretty well integrated with the #indieWeb and #ActivityPub, feel free to try it out! I’ll be trying to post there more and share on social media, rather than the other way round. Hope it will work well 🙂

Beyond the gender binary

Read Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

In Beyond the Gender Binary, poet, artist, and LGBTQIA+ rights advocate Alok Vaid-Menon deconstructs, demystifies, and reimagines the gender binary.

A very short read that made me feel like I’m going to survive being trans. It’s all going to be ok.

About my name

Hi, I’m Alex! You may have known me earlier as Lexane. My identity My name is Alex, sometimes French’d to Alexandre. In English, I use he/him and they/them pronouns, which means you can use the one you like the most. In French, I use the pronoun il, which is the classic masculine pronoun. In other…

2021 reading recap and recommendations

2021 started slow, and the fall and winter have been intense months of reading 😀 In total, I read 102 books in 2021. I’m not going to share all of them here, but only my favourites. I’ve also made a very conscious effort to diversify my reading in 2021, as you probably will notice from…