koalie

koalie, 23 hours ago to random French

#3615MaVie

J’ai trouvé un tricot à manches suffisamment longues pour mes bras de singe 👌

Ça me change de ces manches longues qui en 38 ou 40 (S ou M) ne me recouvrent que la moitié des avant-bras 😀

Tuyau : Marque Firefly (vendue chez Intersport), Pull Anita, M. Ici couleur framboise. 19,99€

koalie, 2 days ago to random French

« Si on doit tolérer une pollution associée aux vols spatiaux, c’est uniquement pour le bien de l’humanité. Ça peut pas être pour le plaisir de quelques milliardaires. »
— Philippe Perrin, spationaute de l’Agence spatiale européenne, invité de l’émission Affaires Sensibles « l’accident de la navette spatiale Columbia » diffusée le 21 mai 2024.

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/affaires-sensibles/affaires-sensibles-du-mardi-21-mai-2024-5012310

koalie, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

Today I lost track of time in a bookstore doubled with an art store, of course.
I was running errands (literally), and then was running late (literally also) :D

I think time should pass slowly when one is in a book store and/or art store.😊

koalie, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

#AiHell
#ArtificialIntelligence #NaturalNonsense

VISA’s intention to share (sell?) with merchants shoppers’ transaction data(*) may be the best thing that ever happened to MASTERCARD.

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(*) complete with AI-generated insights, to be used with the merchants’ AI models to deliver real-time recommendations to the shoppers

Here’s Visa’s glorious (not) press release for their Payments Forum 2024:

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240515563838/en/

koalie, 6 days ago to random

I would do anything to procrastinate on doing my taxes. Evidence number 3452: I put flowers in an adjacent room, I put some make-up on in the process of putting away the black kohl crayon, I'm now performing all the checks and clean-up on the office printer.
#3615MyLife

koalie, 7 days ago to random

#SilentSunday
#lavender

koalie, 8 days ago to Cat

#caturday #cat #siberiancat #MickeyRaccoon

Ah, you’re back.

koalie, 9 days ago to random

Today I received a delivery of … flowers! ☺️ from a colleague of mine. He wrote, "it’s a pleasure to have you back" ❤️
#florespondence #fleuristonfil #3615MyLife #w3c

A bouquet of various flowers including sunflowers, white roses, and eryngium, with green leaves and water droplets visible on the petals.
A vibrant sunflower with water droplets on its petals, blue thistle flowers, and a pink peony bud partially visible.

koalie, 12 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to random

Petite déception ce matin quand j'ai reçu cet email automatique de chez mon hébergeur Web #infomaniak

> "Bonjour Coralie,
>
> Votre hébergement évolue ! Vous pouvez dès à présent utiliser gratuitement notre IA souveraine pour générer le texte de vos pages créées avec Site Creator.
> [⋯]
> Avec nos meilleures salutations
> Infomaniak | Le Cloud Éthique"

soupir

C'est "gratuit", mais combien ça coûte ?

#LesGens appellent ça IA "souveraine" parce qu'ils se prosternent devant sans conscience

koalie, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to random

#WebSecurity #OnlineFraud

I think I just nearly escaped a fraudulent website, thanks to my bank’s authorization step for a payment in Hong Kong Dollars.

I would have lost €95 euros from the online sale via a probably fake Dr Scholl France website.

Fraudsters would be dumb not to go for it because Dr Scholl apparently has several different websites and the confusion is already high.

Is there a place to report those fake sites?

Edit: reported via https://www.internet-signalement.gouv.fr/

koalie, 13 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to random

#blog RIP Laurence Victoria Taranto Mercier

My mum passed away on Thursday 25 April 2024. She was found on Monday 29 April. She died in her bed, in her sleep, and didn’t suffer. I don’t remember when I last spoke to her. Probably over a year ago. The last time I wrote about her, 8 months ago, to put into words that I had finally given up hope to get along with her, we had stopped speaking to each other 6 or so months prior.

https://blog.koalie.net/2024/05/12/rip-laurence-victoria-taranto-mercier/

koalie, 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to music

#MusicRecommendation

Solaris (08:58), by Juno Reactor from the 2000 album Shango (the other tracks are excellent but this one speaks to me)

https://junoreactor.bandcamp.com/track/solaris

I suggest you immerse yourself in the music to experience the dynamics and progression of the instruments and vocals.

#music #electronic #trance #ambientelectronica #psytrance #JunoReactor #shango

koalie, 14 days ago to cycling

Cows in La Creuse are really curious. They largely ignore cars but walk or cycle past them and they will come closer and or follow you as you go! 🥰

They do, in this 20-second video footage!

#LaCreuse #cows #BikeTooter

Sunny day, some clouds in the blue sky, green pastures and trees. In the meadow a large group of brown cows run alongside as I cycle on the road.

koalie, 16 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to hiking

One more batch of pretty photos from the forest here: stream, moss-covered stones, apple blossoms, logs 🤩

#hiking #jogging #DailyExercise #fitness #forest #florespondence #fleuristonfil #photography #iPhonePhotography #LaCreuse

koalie, 17 days ago to martialartsmemes French

#LisonDaniel incarne Clémentine, étudiante en statistiques, et revient sur le sondage où les femmes ont, dans une écrasante majorité, répondu qu'en forêt elles préféraient croiser un ours qu’un homme.

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/le-billet-de-lison-daniel/le-billet-de-lison-daniel-du-mercredi-08-mai-2024-9001886

#humour

koalie, 18 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to cycling

#BikeTooter #DailyExercise #fitness #rainbow #photography #iPhonePhotography #LaCreuse

I was in front of the most striking double rainbow 🌈 I ever saw in my entire life!

A few photos from my astounding evening 50K ride after the rain yesterday 🤩

More pictures here: https://sports-tracker.com/workout/coraliemercier/663aadba5fdb8e5c378a5026

koalie, 20 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to Fitness

Please have 20 seconds of the pleasant forest I jogged in today as I paused by a little stream 😊

#DailyExercise #fitness #jogging #forest #LaCreuse

koalie, 21 days ago to random

#OnThisDay 3 years ago

I chose to become a non-smoker of the filthy and smelly tobacco.

#3615MyLife #NoSmoking

koalie, 28 days ago to california

#OnThisDay 10 years ago

Desert trip in the Death Valley with a Mustang.

#california #nevada #DeathValley #BadWater #photography #iPhonePhotography

A dilapidated two-story wooden building in a desert with mountains in the background and a car parked to the right.
Bad Water. A shallow body of water with salt deposits around it, set against a backdrop of barren, rocky mountains under a clear blue sky.
A blooming cactus with a bright pink flower against a desert background with dry soil and sparse vegetation.

koalie, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

#blog Highlights: “We need to rewild the Internet”

Today I read We Need To Rewild The Internet by Maria Farrell and @robin (Robin Berjon) (April 16, 2024), and I selected personal annotated highlights from it.

https://blog.koalie.net/2024/04/23/highlights-we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

#internet #web #sustainability #commons

koalie, 1 month ago to random

#OnThisDay 9 years ago

Enjoying a coffee in the late afternoon sun, legs propped up on the table!

koalie, 1 month ago to random

This girl bought a summer dress! 😎👌

koalie, 1 month ago to Fitness

Not bad for a Thursday 💪
#bragging #DailyExercise #fitness #strava

koalie, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

From the window of the #Dreamliner at 6am today 🤩

#SunRise #UpInTheAir #photography
#KoalieTravel

koalie, 1 month ago to Japan

More Hiroshima night shots, from last night 🤩

#japan #hiroshima #photography
#KoalieTravel

Nighttime street view in a bustling city with pedestrians and numerous illuminated signboards on buildings.
People socializing in a cupboard-sized dimly lit bar with shelves of bottles in the background.
Stone basin with bamboo spout in a Japanese-style garden at night, surrounded by plants and pebbles.