Stéphane
Lambion —

I'm a writer and artist shaping words in London.

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Aside from my art practice, my main interest is in degrowth and the constellation of concepts that go with it: anticonsumerism, intentional friction, slowness... I prefer caring over consuming, repairing over replacing, sharing over owning. I am interested in sustainable and communal ways of living.

That also ties into my relationship to technology: I am interested in ways to make it more ethical and sustainable, enhancing human connection rather than replacing it. I believe in s·low tech and I attend the London Permacomputing Club.

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I like old photos, blueprints, maps, handwritten notes, arrows, brutalist architecture, pouches and cases, weird Unicode characters, traditional Georgian music, very tiny things, tracing paper, playing cards, diagrams, instruction manuals, torn pieces of paper and lists.

I like climbing, cycling and cooking.

“If I was a writer, and dead, I would so like my life to be reduced, through the care of a friendly and detached biographer, to a few details, a few tastes, a few inflections - let's call them biographemes.” R.B.

give me three oranges
and I’ll juggle for you

I truly hate
artist statements

I’m still hoping to
finish my PhD someday

ticket inspectors are
the scum of the earth

“my heart is french
but my arse is international”

the coldest winter i’ve known
was in the south of france

my level of happiness
depends on my ability to cycle

why have a cardamom bun when
you can have a cinnamon one

my most listened song lasy year
was white flag by dido (…)

i was born in brussels
but i’ve never lived there

everything i own
fits in one bag

if you see a green jacket
that might be me

Uses

I care about the tools I use. They are (almost) all free, open source, and ethical. My choices are led by a principle of simplicity and resilience: I use as few apps as possible, and I always go for the simplest option. I avoid services based on subscription models (also known as creative rent, preventing you from actually owning your tools).

I have a second-hand MacBook Air running on Linux (Fedora). I have niri as my composer and DMS as my desktop shell. My phone is a second-hand Pixel running on Graphene OS.

I mainly use my computer to edit text and notes, which I do in Vim, running inside Ghostty as my terminal. All my notes are plain Markdown and Yazi is my file manager, though I often use plain bash with fzf.

I use rclone to sync my most frequently used folders on my cloud (Koofr), which doesn't contain more than 5Mb of data. For the other files, I do a weekly backup on a thumb drive. I use Cryptpad when I need to collaborate with people.

All my music is stored as local mp3 files that I play with mpv directly in my terminal. Regularly, I copy my music on my phone, on which I use Auxio. I also listen to podcasts with AntennaPod.

I use Proton for emails (and VPN) and Signal for messagging.

I have Firefox as my main browser on my computer (with uBlock Origin to block ads, I Still Don't Care About Cookies to get rid of those annoying banners, and Bitwarden to store passwords). On my phone, I use Vanadium. My main search engine is No AI DuckDuckGo.

For navigation, I use OpenStreetMap on my computer and CoMaps on my phone, with RHVoice as a text-to-speech synthesiser.

I use GIMP for image editing.

Here are some other utilities I use regularly: tldr for commands I'm not familiar with; topgrade to upgrade everything on my computer with one command; lftp to transfer files to servers; pandoc to convert files via TeX Live.

I use paper and pen for my calendar and my todo lists.

this uses section was last updated on 17.01.26

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This website was made ☞ with my own hands ☜. It uses only valid (vanilla) code and no scripts. The type is set in Sligoil by Ariel Martín Pérez for the body and PicNic by Mariel Nils for the headings.

The concept behind the structure draws inspiration from Doriane's website as well as Benjamin Earl's.

None of your data is being collected and no cookies are stored on your computer. No AI was used to make this website and its carbon footprint is very low. It is hosted on a green server in France.

This website is part of a few webrings: css joy (↶ ? ↷), meta (↶ ? ↷) and XXIIVV.

The current version of this website was made during the winter 2025 in London. It rained a lot—the echo on the warehouse's roof was both beautiful and scary.

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