Iantila eternal boredom @iantila@rage.love

If you don't bother writing a brief introduction/reasons you want to join the instance, I won't bother approving your signup.

This is a community, not a mall.

If I ever reply to an old toot of yours, it's certainly because I bookmarked it as I was too lazy to phrase my thought at the time you published it.

Let's give this #introduction a try!

I am a French blasian cis man. I do sysadmin and AV archiving stuff on a daily basis. On my free time I start fun projects and generally never finish them.

There is another masto account I have on a mainstream french instance but I am not fond of crowdy places and I got kind of put off by the toxic "libriste" behavior the same way I got put off with rock music.
I have a growing interest in black studies and anti-colonial activism which are, sadly, not really highlighted in France to say the least...

This instance seems like a cool place where I could remember everyone's name and I feel alright with the general stance.
And I must say the domain name is dope.

All the coworkers are off this week, let's use the workplace devices to digitize old family footage because why not?

The emoji galore is getting out of hands around here. I like that.

Did I mention I hate smartphones?

My partner has an iPhone 5c, Signal doesn't upgrade on it anymore because iOS 10 is an obsolete OS.
And ofc, cannot upgrade iOS on it because Apple decided the phone is too old.

L'Élysée, le plus grand symbole à Paris du passé esclavagiste de la France

https://www.franceculture.fr/histoire/lelysee-le-plus-grand-symbole-a-paris-du-passe-esclavagiste-de-la-france

For those that don't speak the stinky cheese language: the official residence of the French President has been built by Antoine Crozat, a slave trader tycoon which was France richest person in the XVIII century.

Follow up of my toot from yesterday.

The head of the French Socialist Party is saying that choosing your doctor according to their skin color is appartheid.
I can't even...

Bonjour

If you don't bother writing a brief introduction/reasons you want to join the instance, I won't bother approving your signup.

This is a community, not a mall.

Another day in France-is-effing-backwards.

Saw on birdsite a French black woman being dogpiled because she shared a list of black doctors/therapists for those that may want safe consultations.

She had to delete her post because of the harassing clueless replies.

Morning.
My vacation ends today.
Hasn't work been abolished yet?

I watched The Piano (French title "La Leçon de Piano") by Jane Campion because I wanted to watch an acclaimed movie directed by a woman.

The movie is indeed beautiful but the depiction of Maori people infuriated me.
Yep, I didn't know the plot takes place in British colonized New Zealand.
Yep, whitegaze.

Found the old SheevaPlug at my parents' home.
I used to use it as a VPN gateway for when they needed remote tech assistance. Sitting in their laundry room for almost a decade without a hitch.

Plug computers/SBC were kind of a nerdy niche before Raspberry Pi got introduced.