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Alex<p>May 2025 in review / Récap de mai 2025</p><p>This was a busy month, so I'm once again doing the bare minimum with the monthly recap, sorry! I am, however, catching up on the missing week of April as promised. So you won't get much personal fluff, but you do get all the recommendations and even a bit more!</p><p>What I've read / Texte</p><p>📚 Books / Livres</p><p>In English</p><p>Fiction</p><p>The Evander Mills series by </p><p><a href="https://alexsirac.com/may-2025-in-review-recap-de-mai-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alexsirac.com/may-2025-in-revi</span><span class="invisible">ew-recap-de-mai-2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/en" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>en</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/fr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fr</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MonthlyReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonthlyReview</span></a></p>
Alex<p>April 2024 in review / Récap d’avril 2024</p><p>I'm on holidays right now (yay!), so I've pre-written most of this monthly update before leaving last week and am keeping it shorter than usual. I'll catch up in the May edition!<br>What I've read / Texte<br>📚 Books / Livres<br>Knew that during my holidays I wouldn't be able to read on paper, so I decided to prioritize paper books in the couple of weeks before le</p><p><a href="https://alexsirac.com/april-2024-in-review-recap-davril-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alexsirac.com/april-2024-in-re</span><span class="invisible">view-recap-davril-2024/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/en" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>en</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/fr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fr</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MonthlyReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonthlyReview</span></a></p>
Alex<p>March 2025 in review / Récap de mars 2025</p><p>I am now 31 years old, and the proud owner of a gravel bike and of more equipment than my fitness levels justify. Life is good.</p><p>What I've read / Texte</p><p>📚 Books / Livres</p><p>(Only the ones I liked, as usual.)</p><p>In English</p><p>Fiction</p><p>The Books of Ambha, Tasha Suri, Mughal empire-inspired fantasy with blood magic and, of course, genocide.</p><p>1984 − Ju</p><p><a href="https://alexsirac.com/march-2025-in-review-recap-de-mars-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alexsirac.com/march-2025-in-re</span><span class="invisible">view-recap-de-mars-2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/en" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>en</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/fr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fr</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MonthlyReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonthlyReview</span></a></p>
nemo™ 🇺🇦<p>Did you know Albert Einstein wrote an essay titled "Why Socialism?" in 1949 for the Monthly Review? 🤯 The FBI saw it as confirmation of his "Communist sympathies." 😅 Despite being against totalitarianism, he expressed his views in this essay. Read more about this fascinating piece and its historical context! ➡️ <a href="https://monthlyreview.org/2024/05/01/einsteins-why-socialism-and-monthly-review/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">monthlyreview.org/2024/05/01/e</span><span class="invisible">insteins-why-socialism-and-monthly-review/</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Einstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Einstein</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MonthlyReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonthlyReview</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a></p>
Alex<p>February 2025 in review / Récap de février 2025</p><p>It's been a nice month, with everything going well, and I'm in a good mood!</p><p>What I've read / Texte</p><p>📚 Books / Livres</p><p>In English</p><p>Fiction</p><p>The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy was high-quality fantasy, in which a teenager decides to take her best friend's place and become a witch. The problem is, she's a boy − and the government wou</p><p><a href="https://alexsirac.com/february-2025-in-review-recap-de-fevrier-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alexsirac.com/february-2025-in</span><span class="invisible">-review-recap-de-fevrier-2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/en" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>en</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/fr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fr</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MonthlyReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonthlyReview</span></a></p>
Alex<p>January 2025 in review / Récap de janvier 2025</p><p>January 2025 includes a big win, which is that since Zuckerberg's a little shit and US big tech is somehow worse than before, I've managed to onboard three people I care about very much to Signal.</p><p>It also comes with less-enthusiastic news about my knee, as in, no news. It's not better. It's not worse. It's just painful. At least, I'm getting </p><p><a href="https://alexsirac.com/january-2025-in-review-recap-de-janvier-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alexsirac.com/january-2025-in-</span><span class="invisible">review-recap-de-janvier-2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/en" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>en</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/fr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fr</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MonthlyReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonthlyReview</span></a></p>
Alex<p>December 2024 in review / Récap de décembre 2024</p><p>Hi everyone, and happy last monthly notes of the year! Yearly recaps will follow in early January, so if you've missed some recommendations you can have a shortened list soon!</p><p>I am feeling much better than last month and am very thankful for the people who sent me kind messages after my last update. Now, I'm a bit hazy, but that's what Dec</p><p><a href="https://alexsirac.com/december-2024-in-review-recap-de-decembre-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alexsirac.com/december-2024-in</span><span class="invisible">-review-recap-de-decembre-2024/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/en" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>en</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/fr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fr</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MonthlyReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonthlyReview</span></a></p>
Alex<p>November 2024 in review / Récap de novembre 2024</p><p>Hi! We're getting close to the end of the year!<br>Physically, I am much better than last month. My head is fine, my knee is generally tolerable, I haven't been sick, all is well!<br>Mentally, the lack of sunshine is making everything just a little bit harder to deal with, but I'm generally okay. The month was good overall! Given that my ability t</p><p><a href="https://alexsirac.com/november-2024-in-review-recap-de-novembre-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alexsirac.com/november-2024-in</span><span class="invisible">-review-recap-de-novembre-2024/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/en" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>en</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/fr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fr</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MonthlyReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonthlyReview</span></a></p>
Alex<p>October 2024 in review / Récap d’octobre 2024</p><p>I don't know what happened, but October was a bad health month. It started real nice, with a nice trip to Lisbon for a conference, although I was already pretty tired by then; then coming back to Paris, which was a real morale and health hit as the only thing I wanted by then was to go home.</p><p>And go home I did, and I recovered and was doing wel</p><p><a href="https://alexsirac.com/october-2024-in-review-recap-doctobre-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alexsirac.com/october-2024-in-</span><span class="invisible">review-recap-doctobre-2024/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/en" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>en</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/fr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fr</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MonthlyReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonthlyReview</span></a></p>
Alex<p>September 2024 in review / Récap de septembre 2024</p><p>September has been intense: I started a new job (yay!) as head of content for a pretty technical company, added my first roller derby practice and Italian and German courses, and spent an entire week in Paris to onboard with the team. I haven't yet settled, but then again, I'm only beginning my second week on the job.</p><p>Oh, also, I'm in</p><p><a href="https://alexsirac.com/september-2024-in-review-recap-de-septembre-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alexsirac.com/september-2024-i</span><span class="invisible">n-review-recap-de-septembre-2024/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/en" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>en</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/fr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fr</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MonthlyReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonthlyReview</span></a></p>
Alex<p>August 2024 in review / Récap d’août 2024</p><p>Hi!</p><p>Let's keep the personal updates short this time:</p><p> I have left Meta<br> I'm on holidays and my first week was spent in the Vercors, at a lovely camping<br> I wrote about:</p><p> How decentralization doesn't solve the attention economy (originally a Lemmy comment which I copy-pasted because I want to keep an archive of it)</p><p> J'ai écrit sur :</p><p><a href="https://alexsirac.com/august-2024-in-review-recap-daout-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alexsirac.com/august-2024-in-r</span><span class="invisible">eview-recap-daout-2024/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/en" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>en</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/fr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fr</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MonthlyReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonthlyReview</span></a></p>
Alex<p>Récap de juin 2024 / June 2024 in review</p><p>It's been an intense month − again!<br>The month included a lot of documentation triage, so more papers &amp; blog posts links than usual. This trend should keep going for another ~8 months if I manage to keep this rhythm (which is unlikely).</p><p>During the month of June, here's some stuff that happened:</p><p> I went to Pride in Grenoble and an old man passing by t</p><p><a href="https://alexsirac.com/recap-de-juin-2024-june-2024-in-review/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alexsirac.com/recap-de-juin-20</span><span class="invisible">24-june-2024-in-review/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/en" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>en</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/fr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fr</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MonthlyReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonthlyReview</span></a></p>
Alex<p>Récap de mai 2024 / May 2024 in review</p><p>Hi everyone!</p><p>After the wonderful holidays and Interrail trip, May has been a month of rest, of mostly low energy, and of staying at home and trying not to go anywhere. I didn't read much (compared to usual, that is), and my days were very filled between my job, my freelancing for Hylé (a great startup that just closed its seed round), and life in general</p><p><a href="https://alexsirac.com/recap-de-mai-2024-may-2024-in-review/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alexsirac.com/recap-de-mai-202</span><span class="invisible">4-may-2024-in-review/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/en" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>en</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/fr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fr</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MonthlyReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonthlyReview</span></a></p>
Alice 🛸<p>Reading Roundup: August 2023</p><p>In August I read 4 books and abandoned one - not bad!</p><p><a href="https://thewallflowerdigest.co.uk/books/book-reviews/reading-roudup/reading-roundup-august-2023/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thewallflowerdigest.co.uk/book</span><span class="invisible">s/book-reviews/reading-roudup/reading-roundup-august-2023/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ReadingRoudup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReadingRoudup</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/BookBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookBlog</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MonthlyReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonthlyReview</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ReadIn2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReadIn2023</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ReadingRoundup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReadingRoundup</span></a></p>
Alex<p>July 2023 Review – Récap juillet 2023</p><p>(As usual, this roundup is a mix of French and English. Comme d'habitude, ce récap est un mélange d'anglais et de français.)<br>Quelques nouvelles perso<br>Je commence à être vraiment confortablement installé à Grenoble. Le fait d'avoir mes potes à 10min de vélo, c'est vraiment extraordinaire, et quelque chose que j'avais oublié à Paris : pas besoin de s'organiser plusieur</p><p><a href="https://alexsirac.com/july-2023-review-recap-juillet-2023/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alexsirac.com/july-2023-review</span><span class="invisible">-recap-juillet-2023/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MonthlyReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonthlyReview</span></a></p>
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