Anindita Basu Sempere
@anindita.org
PM at Performant Software. PhD & MFA. Digital Humanities, place, poetics, Elizabeth Bishop, poetry, children's lit. She/her. Lived in Lausanne for over a decade and now relearning the US.
Two final photos to close out the night.
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Two final photos to close out the night.
This has been fun.
November 12, 2025 at 1:59 AM
This has been fun.
A little bit of auroral activity visible in the greater Boston area tonight!
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
A little bit of auroral activity visible in the greater Boston area tonight!
AI continues to fail in the most inane ways. This album has been so hyped and so well reviewed. And this is what a search produced.
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
AI continues to fail in the most inane ways. This album has been so hyped and so well reviewed. And this is what a search produced.
Now that Native Bound Unbound has officially launched, please visit the site: nativeboundunbound.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Now that Native Bound Unbound has officially launched, please visit the site: nativeboundunbound.org
Quick and silly projects. When we first moved back, I asked for some craft kits for Christmas to give me a low-key way back into crafting. A got me a 4-pack of crochet kits. I made the final two over the past week — one for M and one for A. The others are in my office. #DHMakes
September 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Quick and silly projects. When we first moved back, I asked for some craft kits for Christmas to give me a low-key way back into crafting. A got me a 4-pack of crochet kits. I made the final two over the past week — one for M and one for A. The others are in my office. #DHMakes
In response to the 39% tariff Trump placed on Swiss good, Swatch released a new watch available only in Switzerland for 139 Swiss francs. The 3 and the 9 on the clock face are reversed.
www.rts.ch/info/economi...
www.rts.ch/info/economi...
September 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
In response to the 39% tariff Trump placed on Swiss good, Swatch released a new watch available only in Switzerland for 139 Swiss francs. The 3 and the 9 on the clock face are reversed.
www.rts.ch/info/economi...
www.rts.ch/info/economi...
Some headlines shouldn’t be combined…
September 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Some headlines shouldn’t be combined…
One of today’s #TinyJoys — M received a postcard from a former French teacher who retired in May and is spending some time back in Switzerland. It was so sweet of her to send a note just ahead of the start of school.
August 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
One of today’s #TinyJoys — M received a postcard from a former French teacher who retired in May and is spending some time back in Switzerland. It was so sweet of her to send a note just ahead of the start of school.
Huh. I got this from Google’s AI mode search — which I used for the first time today.
August 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Huh. I got this from Google’s AI mode search — which I used for the first time today.
We end up in a map restoration room. We’re looking at all of the different maps, and then a staff member says: I do conservation and restoration. Let me know if you have any questions.
Me: Can I touch one?
Him: No.
Fam: *snickers*
Him: Which one?
Me: The relief one. It’s bumpy!
Him: Yes.
Me: Can I touch one?
Him: No.
Fam: *snickers*
Him: Which one?
Me: The relief one. It’s bumpy!
Him: Yes.
July 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
We end up in a map restoration room. We’re looking at all of the different maps, and then a staff member says: I do conservation and restoration. Let me know if you have any questions.
Me: Can I touch one?
Him: No.
Fam: *snickers*
Him: Which one?
Me: The relief one. It’s bumpy!
Him: Yes.
Me: Can I touch one?
Him: No.
Fam: *snickers*
Him: Which one?
Me: The relief one. It’s bumpy!
Him: Yes.
Me: A map store! Can we go in??
Fam: Sure!
We look at maps and globes and exclaim over things. A little later…
A: Uhh… where are you going? That’s a staff area?
Me: It says there’s a *basement*!
A: You can’t just —
Staff member: Go all the way to the back and to your left.
Me: *beams* See???
Fam: Sure!
We look at maps and globes and exclaim over things. A little later…
A: Uhh… where are you going? That’s a staff area?
Me: It says there’s a *basement*!
A: You can’t just —
Staff member: Go all the way to the back and to your left.
Me: *beams* See???
July 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Me: A map store! Can we go in??
Fam: Sure!
We look at maps and globes and exclaim over things. A little later…
A: Uhh… where are you going? That’s a staff area?
Me: It says there’s a *basement*!
A: You can’t just —
Staff member: Go all the way to the back and to your left.
Me: *beams* See???
Fam: Sure!
We look at maps and globes and exclaim over things. A little later…
A: Uhh… where are you going? That’s a staff area?
Me: It says there’s a *basement*!
A: You can’t just —
Staff member: Go all the way to the back and to your left.
Me: *beams* See???
Umm… excuse you, not a hummingbird!
July 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Umm… excuse you, not a hummingbird!
Also: A got me locally grown flowers and port and vegan chocolate *and* cleaned my car inside and out. It was utterly disgusting after soccer season, and I’d mentioned in passing that I really needed to do this. And he just took care of it!
July 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Also: A got me locally grown flowers and port and vegan chocolate *and* cleaned my car inside and out. It was utterly disgusting after soccer season, and I’d mentioned in passing that I really needed to do this. And he just took care of it!
Basically the same thing! Snapping turtles come up from the pond, lay their eggs, and leave. Usually foxes eat the eggs but a bunch of neighbors have started to rescue them — one is a conservationist, and she’s been instructing folks.
July 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Basically the same thing! Snapping turtles come up from the pond, lay their eggs, and leave. Usually foxes eat the eggs but a bunch of neighbors have started to rescue them — one is a conservationist, and she’s been instructing folks.
From @kkjetelina.bsky.social's newsletter. Just gutting.
![Screenshot of a newsletter. Text says:
Every night, I ask my girls about their day. Most of the time, their answers reflect their innocence and uncomplicated lives ("Someone cut in front of me in the lunch line.") But my daughter's response stopped me.
Daughter: Aiden* was being really mean today.
Me: Well, sometimes when someone is mean, that means they are really
sad inside.
Daughter: That makes sense because he was crying all day.
Me: Why was he crying?
Daughter: Because his parents had to go back to Mexico.
Me: For a summer vacation?
Daughter: No, forever. He doesn't know when he will see them again. He has to live with his grandma. [pause] Are you going to have to go to
Mexico?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:td7yy6xxeziugazxje6eu553/bafkreid7s57e24pggj26fnaeoeft4626niwpidl3xdpkm2ma4enes5gwvi@jpeg)
June 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
From @kkjetelina.bsky.social's newsletter. Just gutting.
Kid yesterday: I have to wear a blue t-shirt to school tomorrow.
Today: I have to wear purple or pink tomorrow.
Last summer’s chess camp t-shirt was purple. And when I took M to the grève féministe in Lausanne, we both got pink union t-shirts. So. We have options 😅
Today: I have to wear purple or pink tomorrow.
Last summer’s chess camp t-shirt was purple. And when I took M to the grève féministe in Lausanne, we both got pink union t-shirts. So. We have options 😅
June 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Kid yesterday: I have to wear a blue t-shirt to school tomorrow.
Today: I have to wear purple or pink tomorrow.
Last summer’s chess camp t-shirt was purple. And when I took M to the grève féministe in Lausanne, we both got pink union t-shirts. So. We have options 😅
Today: I have to wear purple or pink tomorrow.
Last summer’s chess camp t-shirt was purple. And when I took M to the grève féministe in Lausanne, we both got pink union t-shirts. So. We have options 😅
Saw 8 (!!) snapping turtles this morning, talked to 5 neighbors — one of whom was gardening and gave me a fresh strawberry — and picked peonies from my garden.
June 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Saw 8 (!!) snapping turtles this morning, talked to 5 neighbors — one of whom was gardening and gave me a fresh strawberry — and picked peonies from my garden.
They’re here! A neighbor texted the group chat, so before school, M and I went looking for turtles and found three!
June 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
They’re here! A neighbor texted the group chat, so before school, M and I went looking for turtles and found three!
Already got weirder…
May 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Already got weirder…
Made the French school kids *very* happy by sending homemade caracs for their goûter. Penultimate class. They’re working on their final presentations. Even the teacher fist pumped when she saw them 😂 And M was so delighted to be the carac bearer. #TinyJoys
May 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Made the French school kids *very* happy by sending homemade caracs for their goûter. Penultimate class. They’re working on their final presentations. Even the teacher fist pumped when she saw them 😂 And M was so delighted to be the carac bearer. #TinyJoys
I did the viral personality quiz and surprising absolutely no one, I got Belle as my top match 🤷🏾♀️
May 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I did the viral personality quiz and surprising absolutely no one, I got Belle as my top match 🤷🏾♀️