I spent a week of holidays in Southwest France, at my uncle’s place. He lives off-grid. Going to fetch water at the village every morning, not having electricity and therefore keeping my phone off, and spending our mornings at the closest city’s swimming pool made for a lot of physical activity and psychological healing. It […]| Alex
on the list of « things i’d like to do but that seem like they’re a lot of work so i probably won’t do them but also i wish i did them so who knows »: structuring the history of the lambda literary prize on wikidata.| Alex
Likes 3 Good Things, an exercise in joy – Sylvia’s Noodling Nook. A bit more joy on the Internet, yay! I’m obviously not going to do daily (posting here monthly is already a struggle) but here’s one for this week still: went to my city’s lovely outdoor swimming pool before it closes on September 1st […]| Alex
Likes https://www.soutienstonsportif.fr/. En France, 60% des sportifs de haut niveau vivent sous le seuil de pauvreté. Alors c’est dégueulasse qu’il faille des cagnottes pour manger à sa faim quand on représente notre pays, c’est encore plus dégueulasse que ce soit un projet gouvernemental (même si c’est cool d’avoir la réduction d’impôts qui va avec), mais […]| Alex
All of these websites are great, and congrats for being a nominee, you really really deserve it!| Alex
Likes The 2024 Start Here Page – The Transfeminine Review. As Bethany is preparing to publish her 2025 recommendations, she republished her excellent 2024 « Start Here » page on transfeminine literature. A must-read of must-reads!| Alex
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I’m making an attempt at leaving Mastodon. I’ve set up a redirect from my Mastodon profile to this blog, which auto-posts all new content to federated platforms (at @Alex). Answers to posts will show up as comments for me, and I have a booklet that allows me to answer posts directly from the blog, which I’ll be testing over the coming weeks.| Alex
Another hectic month. What I’ve read / Texte Happy to report that having given up on Grey’s Anatomy (see below), I am back to reading books! 📚 Books / Livres In English En français 📰 Web links / Liens web In English En français What I’ve watched / Vidéo 🎞 Movies / Films I still […]| Alex
Likes P&B: Alex Sirac – Manu. Manu kindly invited me on his blog for an edition of People & Blogs where I talk about my history with blogging. I hope you’ll enjoy this read!| Alex
This blog post was written as part of this month’s IndieWeb carnival, hosted by orchids on the theme of Accessibility in the small web. It was written during the Brighton IndieWebCamp: I’m attending remotely, but having the livestream on makes me feel like I’m sitting with all these productive and likeable people and gives me all the inspiration I need to write!| Alex
I love webmentions. I love the concept of them and I love how they allow for high-quality conversations and sharing.| Alex