Decided to move away from a third-party platform (Tumblr) into a self-hosted static solution (Hugo). I tried to match the old theme I had. All links should still work (Cool URIs don’t change). RSS is still available. Hope everything is working fine.

Now, some particular books I want to read are hard to get. Sometimes they are no longer for sale, or don’t work well on eReaders. Niche ones like art books, which can get quite expensive too. Then I remembered to search to see if my local library had its catalog online, and of course it has. So I got a library card for the first time in my life, and now I’m borrowing 3-4 books per month. For some of those books, I’m the first person taking them home. So in a small part, I’m also preventing those particular books of being decommissioned in the future. So here’s my praise for public libraries. Great for keeping your book budget lower, and getting access to hard-to-find or out-of-sale books. Plus, one of the few remaining places where you can spend time indoors without having to buy anything.

My Internet life started when blogs were at their peak. Now not so much. But I never stop enjoying following personal blogs, or maintaining mine. I still check my RSS feed reader every day.

To spread the word, here’s the list of friends I follow:

• Alcides Fonseca
• Ana “meia de leite”
• António Lima
• Bruno Pedro
• David Francisco
• David Gomes
• Fred Oliveira
• Fred Rocha
• Gonçalo Valério
• Humberto Alves
• Maria Margarida
• Rafaela Ferro
• Ricardo Lafuente
• Winnie Lim

I had my first experience organizing an art exhibition. I invited, together with Coimbr'a Pedal, the artist Xavier Almeida to exhibit on a bike repair shop in downtown Coimbra. It’s part of the convergent event of Coimbra’s Art Bienal.

The full description:

An exhibition focusing on one of the objects of study of the artist Xavier Almeida; the use of the bicycle as a socio-political enabler and transformer.

Not as a “romanticisation” of the bicycle, but as an exercise in implosive revolutionary symbolism in the organisation of cities, as well as its capacity for “decapitalisation” and anti-hygienisation of bodies and urban space.
The exhibition is spread across various media, such as comics, video, sound and installation.

Xavier Almeida (Ovar, Portugal, 1980) lives and works in Lisbon. Transdisciplinary artist, focusing on installation, painting, comics, publishing, sound, performance and social architecture.

Founder of the Estrela Decadente collective, with which he mainly produces fanzines, concerts and actions. Xavier Almeida’s work is linked to the underground and counter-culture side of cities, collaboration with spaces of resistance and an anti-form aesthetic as capitalist and classist dissolution.

It begins with a simple, profound realisation — to quit capitalism, we have to liberate ourselves from its entrenched mindset, beyond economic reform; it demands a fundamental shift in how we perceive success, value community, and envision our role in the future of humanity.

— How to quit capitalism by Joan Westenberg