koalie

koalie, 7 days ago to Iceland French

Avec ou sans glaçon, votre boisson fraîche ?

📸 moi
📍Islande
🗓️ juillet 2017

#iceland #photography #iPhonePhotography

koalie, 8 days ago to running

Here’s how my “global #running day” 5K jogging will play out:

First minute and a half:
Wow, I feel great, I bet I can run a 10K!This is going to be FUN! 🤪

Immediately followed by:
Jesus, how long has it been? 🥵

At 2K:
Ok! Nearly halfway. You can do it.

At 3.8K:
Why am I doing this to myself? 😩

The last kilometer:
checks distance every 200 meters or so

At 5K:
Finally! #fitness acquired! Take that, reformed couch potato! 💪

koalie, 9 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to TimeTravel

It looks like France, or this particular brand (Balitrand Home Store, which is super expensive) misses the 1950s, where the man of the family, smart and dandy, is in charge of the barbecue, while his wife and their friends enjoy drinks and admire his skills.

But this isn’t representative of most of us, is it? 😳 Even by the standards of the posh and wealthy French Riviera.

What do you think?

#advertisement #BackToTheFuture #meh

koalie, 10 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random French

#3615MaVie

Ça fait 10 ans que je donne mon sang régulièrement à l'EFS.
Mes 19 dons ont déjà permis de soigner 57 malades, d'après mon tableau de bord sur leur site web.

Mes dons d'avant ne sont pas enregistrés (Nice quand j'étais étudiante, Paris quand j'y habitais)

koalie, 10 days ago to random

sigh

I updated my computer's OS to Monterey 12.7.5 and not only did it take one full hour and busted a promising 48-day uptime, BUT now all my emails are empty.

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Stay tuned for more reasons for me to go BACK TO VACATION!

#werk

koalie, 11 days ago to art

I art’ed today! 🤍

Homemade cards (10.5x15.5 cm)

Monstera leaves.

#art #BohoArt #acrylic #AcrylicPainting #AcrylicPaintMarkers #koaliearttank

Abstract art featuring a monstera leaf drawing over overlapping shapes in shades of beige, brown, and terracotta. Text in the bottom right corner reads "coralie - Mai 2024."
Abstract art featuring a monstera leaf drawing over overlapping shapes in shades of orange, blue and green. Text in the bottom right corner reads "coralie - Mai 2024."
Abstract art featuring a monstera leaf drawing over overlapping shapes in shades of pink, orange and green. Text in the bottom right corner reads "coralie - Mai 2024."

koalie, 12 days ago to cycling

#BikeTooter #doofus

I found a lost bell mounted on a dog collar today. It fit my… ankle so I donned it and rode back home with it 🤓

Video of me pedaling away. At some point I wiggle my foot to sound the bell. My foot in a black and red sneaker, on an eMountain bike pedal. A blue dog collar is fastened around my ankle. A large metallic bell dangles from it.

koalie, 15 days ago to random French

Un pâtissier Breton indique dans la même phrase que le Kouign Amann a été inventé suite à une erreur dans une boulangerie et qu’aujourd’hui il est réalisé selon une technique difficile à maîtriser.
Donc, un boulanger s’est dit un jour « Tiens, je vais faire une tartine de beurre salé au sucre en poudre –AH ZUT ! le pain n’est pas encore cuit ! » puis a décidé de tout aplatir, de plier dans un sens et dans l’autre, aplatir encore, replier, mettre dans un moule rond et faire cuire au four.
🤔

koalie, 15 days ago to random

The perks of my dad being friends with a family whose business is growing #roses in Vallauris.

From when I was little I recall they occasionally gave us big eggs from their geese and I wasn’t exactly sure what they actually did for a living 😀

#florespondence #fleuristonfil

koalie, 15 days ago to random

Poppies! 🌸

From my neighbourhood earlier today, in the morning sunlight.

#florespondence #fleuristonfil #poppies

koalie, 17 days ago to aquarium

My friend @danield managed to grab from his pond the one #goldfish I spotted last week! He brought a second one too. This is me transferring them to my #aquarium.
Meet Santa (white and red) and Big T (like Santa, but bigger — a reference to a recent KLR productions short video featuring a very fat cat named Big T)

Me, white middle-aged woman in a casual outfit of loose dark pink t-shirt with white leggings and white sneakers, smiling while reaching up with a black stick in hand, in a room with a wooden staircase and framed artwork on the wall. There is a sofa with a throw blanket and a bicycle wheel visible in the foreground.
Two red and white goldfish swimming in an aquarium with aquatic plants and a rocky substrate.
White and red goldfish in a tank with green plants and rocky substrate. The fish's reflection is visible on the tank's red plexiglass wall.

koalie, 19 days 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, 20 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, 21 days ago (edited 21 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, 22 days ago (edited 22 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, 25 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, 25 days ago to random

#SilentSunday
#lavender

koalie, 26 days ago to Cat

#caturday #cat #siberiancat #MickeyRaccoon

Ah, you’re back.

koalie, 27 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, 30 days ago (edited 30 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, 30 days ago (edited 30 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, 1 month ago (edited 30 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, 1 month ago (edited 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month ago (edited 30 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