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Entre autres choses, Paul Valéry, Mélange. J’ai pas encore fini de le lire mais ça reste une agréable surprise. J’en parle brièvement ici.

2030 is knocking at the door already ;)

Beside that, to answer your question I would say: I imagine that already there future to be crispy, if not burned.

Thx a lot.

Doesn’t sound crazy to me the slightest ;)

I tried at first but quickly realized I would not be able to walk without spending some money on quality shoes.

Excellent decision :)

Walking. Daily. That, and purchasing good shoes. It changed my life.

At first, I was in such a poor shape (physical and mental) I was barely able to walk more than a few steps, I was also severely ill and was expected to die quickly in not the most tranquil manner. Nowadays, I’m not dead :p, and I walk miles every day and I will do my best to go everywhere I can, walking. I’m still ill (it’s not curable) but it’s stabilized and I feel so much better.

I’m still not an athlete and I’m old enough to realize I’ll never be one but I don’t care: I’m in such a better shape! Both physically and mentally (I feel so much better in my head), my endurance is skyrocketing, and I’ve also lost so much weight I don’t need to wear ‘plus-sized’ clothes anymore.

And it all started by making the first step, one small step. Literally ;)

Edit: clarifications.

ever since Trump got elected in November, my mental health has been slipping.

Trump is a symptom. He (it?) is not the disease.

Try not to fixate too much on the dude, the issue is in how such a frustrated illiterate racist could ever be elected and, even more: how was he able to become a candidate to begin with? That’s the real issue. Not that he is an asshole. There are plenty assholes, in the USA as well as in all other democracies around the world. The issue is when those illiterate assholes are being considered worthy leaders… by the electors in those democracies.

I know doomscrolling makes it worse.

It sure does. I’m not US and I don’t doomscroll. Ever. There is nothing that is that urgent/important that I should stay in the loop real time. Heck, I even started reading print newspapers again, almost 20 years after I gave up on them so I’m able to take some more time to digest the news. And even there, I filter out most of what I consider mere noise and not real information.

Before rejoicing, I’ll wait after Trump announces a 200% tax on EU made products unless we start buying more US digital software and services and we remove rules and regulations, data protection,…

What are you people going to say next? That I’m exaggerating? Open your eyes…

I’ve been moving back more and more of my activities offline for a long time now. My eyes are somewhat open, and I don’t think I’m an exception. It’s just that when you’re online you can only hear… online people ;)

In an hour or so, I will be out walking in the city, with nothing but my small watercolors set, a pencil and a sketchbook. No notifications, no messages, no social, no games, no podcasts, no music,… Just me and the world for me to sketch and paint… very badly… and what’s even better is that I don’t give a crap about that. I just enjoy doing it.

So, now that you realized how screwed up most online activities are, what will you do offline today, if anything? And if there is nothing planned, why not give it a shot? :)

J’utilisais le site Web de Lemmy/Jlail.lu, à présent j’utilise le site Web de piefed ;)

It’s probably my English that is lacking (sorry for that) but I though I just wrote ‘people should not do that, they’re not a products’. Could it be that me using the first person is the main issue, here? Or did I really phrase anything that makes you think I feel ‘special’ (can’t see what)?

If so, I will try to keep that in mind next time.

Thx, that’s nice of you to say, but don’t worry too much about that.

As far as I’m concerned downvotes only start being meaningful the moment a downvoter takes to time to explain their motivation, if they’re too lazy to even do that, well, why should I worry what they may think, or like or dislike? ;)

I would not rate it. My childhood, like myself, is not a product or a service, it’s not even a homework, waiting to be rated ;)

100%. Also true for any craft/DIY/manual hobby activity, art (music, sketching, painting), and so on.

France comes from the ‘franks’ which was both a kingdom and its population, the franks or francs, in French. The word is is supposed to mean ‘free man’ (one of the meanings, at least)

Yep.

It’s not compatible with the real older browsers but since it’s for my personal blog I don’t think it’s a big deal.

AVIF. It’s a video format but it works great for photos too and offers much better compression than jepg or even webp without much noticeable loss. I use it on my blog to make the few images I use as light as possible.

The French Clairefontaine, at least for standard printer paper and thicker papers, no idea if they do vinyl or photo. Their paper is real nice.

Shouldn’t it be flat, too? ;)