Joyeux Nouvel An lunaire! Happy Lunar New Year! 🌝

In what universe does "after lunch" mean 12:30?????

[TheyUseAi] Les éditions Gallimard éditent des livres faits par IA générative

Au Québec, on n'hésiterait pas à qualifier une telle chose de gallimarde.

Team #curling starts today at the Olympics! A few things I love about curling: - fair play is an integral part of the sport - it sounds the same in all languages - women are allowed to shout as loud as they want without being called hysterical

Finding joy in small things, such as this very cute fox sticker on a #Postcrossing card received from Germany 🧡

L’avenir des prêts entre établissements inquiète les bibliothèques

What a heartwarming welcome for the Canadians ❤ (Nice beaver pelts 😂)

Hey, Lidia Poët at the Winter Olympics!

Mom 🖤

Disparition de Liam Toman: la SQ établit un poste de commandement à Mont-Tremblant

Harcèlement de 10 présentatrices météo: comment enquêter sur ce type de crime? Même si on trouve de l'ADN ou des empreintes sur l'enveloppe, bien des gens y ont touché, est-ce utile? Et il faut relier l'ADN à quelqu'un Ent. Minh-Tri Truong ex cmdt enquêtes SPVM ici.radio-canada.ca/info/videos/...

🎉 Le service d'intervention psychosociale de la Grande Bibliothèque est prolongé de 2 ans! Ce dernier vise la cohabitation sociale et le soutien des personnes vulnérables. Il reflète notre volonté d’offrir un lieu de répit, d'écoute et d’inclusion au coeur du Quartier Latin. 🤝

Pendant que tous les yeux sont (légitimement) tournés vers ICE et les États-Unis, n'oublions pas que le Canada aussi enferme ses immigrants illégaux dans des centres carcéraux, comme celui de Laval pivot.quebec/2022/10/28/n...

Le froid polaire rappelle de façon cruelle l’urgence d’offrir à chaque personne en situation d’itinérance un toit et de la dignité. Pour les femmes sans-abri souvent forcées de «choisir »entre la violence de la rue ou celle d’un conjoint, les ressources manquent comme jamais. lp.ca/bFoSlU?shari...

Keep calm and soak raisins for tea brack.

My little buddy's gone home 😭 I'll miss hearing his little trills!

Functioning on little sleep today is going to be A CHALLENGE.

Read banned books. Read books that make you cry. Read books written by friends. Read books you don’t quite understand yet. Read books of ancient magic that transform you into a dark being of the cosmos, capable of such wonderful & terrible things.

Spent the morning making soda bread and a cauliflower-based "cheesy" sauce. I really missed spending uninterrupted time in the kitchen while listening to my latest podcast obsession! (Currently: Canadian True Crime.)

This little guy 🥰

Start as you mean to go on, eh?

Traditional New Year's Day re-watch of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this time with a 6-month-old kitten. (They're never too young to be introduced to Jane Austen.)

Seriously considering a new career as cat-sitter...

I'll be catsitting for a couple of weeks starting next weekend! He's the most adorable - and energetic - kitten ever! Prepare for the onslaught of feline content 😺

Comme le veut la tradition... www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NUQ...

Time to get into the Holiday spirit with the Wartime Farm Christmas special: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR74...

Not feeling too great at the moment, but making my way through all the Nadiya Hussein programmes available on CBC Gem is helping a bit.

In my quest to read as an adult all the children's classics I never knew during my typical French Canadian childhood, I've reached the 'Swallows and Amazons' series and am LOVING it ⚓

Not sure why it took me so long to read my first Donna Leon, but I'd say it was worth the wait. Put a hold on the second book in the series before I'd reached the halfway mark in "Death at La Fenice."

Huzzah, this fantastic series is once more airing on the Knowledge Network! www.knowledge.ca/program/bauh...

#MauvaiseTraduction du jour : Sur une montre «intelligente», le mot «Alarm» a été traduit par «Panique». 😂

I'm still working on a translation proposal, this time for a novel (the first in a series), despite none of my past proposals receiving the least acknowledgment from the publishers I contacted. It's discouraging and feels pointless, but the alternative is to sit and wallow.

Was having a migrainy, not-very-good day until I started watching 'Mr. and Mrs. Murder.' It's camp and funny and smart, just the thing for a much-needed giggle.

Don’t allow tech to turn you into an un-person. Refuse to let AI make things you could produce with your own brain. Develop your mental & creative faculties. Read constantly. They want you illiterate, and nothing threatens them more than a brain that is sharp and intact.

Tellement triste de ne plus pouvoir visionner les épisodes de l'excellente émission À la Di Stasio en ligne...

Petite recommandation du jour : si vous le pouvez, évitez d'éternuer alors que vous vous brossez les dents.

My sister sent me this blast from the past and asked if I remembered where this band was from... Germany? Eastern Europe? Nope, the answer is far more surprising! 😲 (Also: holy low-budget video, Batman 😆) www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0or...

God I love Italians. The Turin tennis tournament has an official coffee, official pasta, and official mineral water!

Weekend plans!

Annual The Nightmare Before Christmas viewing done! Now for a few Poe short stories before bed 🦇

Abri tempo time!

If you're looking for something spooky to read, I highly recommend the Mina Scarletti series by Linda Stratmann, set in Victorian Brighton! It features a disabled main character who secretly writes horror & ghost stories under a male pseudonym and gets pulled into investigating hauntings.

A little reminder: I'm currently available for short- or long-term projects!