No particular recommendations. They're always affordable. If presented with a couple options, go with the $14 instead of the $12 bottle.

Argentinian white wines made from the Torrontés grape.

A forest floor full of bluebells, with the sun beaming through the trees.

The bluebells were showing off today.

My daughter Pepper has been working hard at gymnastics and winning so many medals that I've been referring to her as Tiny Mister T.

Great progress!

Haha, love the name ALL BLACK

flatwhiteorfckoff.com

Love this concept. We make flat whites. We make them amazingly well. We don't make anything else. If you don't like flat whites, or if you want something else, you're not at the right place (and eff off).

Oh wow, that's a huge change!

That doesn't look like Florida! Where'd y'all move?

My favourite response to an LLM is, "More succinct, less waffle."

You turkey.

Cold plunge in a homemade brine

Woah. Sounds very Stand By Me.

A drawing, hand drawn by a 7 year old, titled "Dances with Wolves, which features a wolf and a human dancing.

Pepper: “Daddy what’s your favorite movie?”

Me: “Hmmmm I think Dances with Wolves”

Pepper: “Okay, let me draw it for you!”

Hey J 👋

Fave quote "I don't want to be everyone's cup of tea. I want to be someone's shot of whiskey."

An AI-generated image of a capybara with long hair wearing a gymnastics outfit.

My daughter Pepper has been using ChatGPT to create images to make her and her friends laugh. For this image she used the prompt, “Generate an image of a capybara with long hair wearing a gymnastics outfit.”

"Temperatures to reach 32C for second day running as heatwave grips UK"

32C = 89.6F

While it's definitely warm here, there's so much drama calling it a heatwave and shutting down half the country.

How is that possible? Did you accidentally travel outside of Berlin and not realize it?

There were also some proper softball questions.

My favorite — ahem, favourite — question on the test:

On what day do Christians annually celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ?

This weekend I passed the Life in the UK test, clearing my path towards UK citizenship.

There were some difficult questions, especially for people who are not native speakers, such as questions on the UK court system, Henry VIII, Elisabeth I, and the Habeus Corpus Act of 1679.

We just converted to an induction hob and are really happy with the change. Gas hobs are great for immediate temperature control, and we don't feel like lost that in the conversion. And, yay for no indoor pollution!

Elon Musk's main aim is 'world domination' | Lewis Goodall on LBC YouTube video by LBC

Watch @lewisgoodall.com's full monologue here ⬇️

You can easily get your 5-a-day from that pack.

Also, my brain somehow translated Secretary of Health as Secretary of Salad.

The Ivy House pub in Amersham, England. A full-ish moon in the sky above it. A cow in a field, looking at whatever the cow is looking at.

The Ivy House pub near Amersham, the moon, and a moo'er.

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no great options until subvert.fm is live

Bandcamp: my go-to for following specific artists, buying music

SoundCloud: stream/discover/mixes

Apple: if I'm in a car/plane

Instagram post from Reggie Watts titled, "Fuck Spotify".

What platform do you use, instead of Spotify, to stream music and properly support artists?

Totally agree — I've started referring to him as John Cooper Jr.

Ugh, sounds like the Vegas lurgy got ya. Hope you're passed it soon!

Hey J — Wife and daughter moving back in after living apart the past 2 months during our home renovation. Anxious, excited, and cleaning like a madman. :) How's you?