Having an early Monday beer (4,7% Helles Lager) at Helsinki Bryggeri, because why the hell not. 🍻🤘

Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice

Taking a break from doomscrolling to finally watch Fallout.

Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state. That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress: Sit back and do absolutely nothing.

BRB. Going to kill slugs for extra beer money.

Sunrise was at 03:53, sunset will be at 22:50, and last light at 00:42. That's roughly 19 hours of daylight here in Helsinki, Finland today. But it's mostly cloudy and rainy, so I'm just going to declare kalsarikännit and call it a day.

JD Vance is now manually blocked by 126,698 users and 770,831 users via lists, making him by far the top blocked account on Bluesky.

Really enjoyed episode #422 of the @techdirt.com podcast w/ @mmasnick.bsky.social + @bencollins.bsky.social discussing the power of mockery, satire, and @theonion.com. I even enjoyed when Ben sounded like a LinkedIn post: "Lean into what you're good at...be unapologetic about it... embrace it."

Hauskaa juhannusta!

Hyvää juhannusaattoa! ☀️🇫🇮

Touched some grass today. Kid insisted that we find and climb the hidden steps at Kaivopuisto. ❤️🇫🇮

Someone just emailed me a list of 550+ recently closed breweries that aren't tagged on BeerAdvocate yet. Just to help. Amazing! But also damn. UK+IE = 200+, US = 120+, AU = 50+, and then the rest are scattered across Europe and the rest of the world. Applying updates now...

Congrats to @jd-vance-1.bsky.social for gaining 63,402 BLOCKS in the last 24 hours (and climbing)! That currently puts the Vice President of the United States of America at the #2 most blocked account on Bluesky. He'll probably reach #1 this weekend. Source: clearsky.app

Happy Father's Day to those who celebrate on the 3rd Sunday in June.

It's only June, but I'm already looking forward to winter in Finland.

Martyn Cornell (RIP, 1952-2025) only wrote for BeerAdvocate magazine once, but I've very much enjoyed his work over the years. Here's his feature from issue #110 (March 2016):

Received the invoice for my recent day surgery here in Finland. 218,70 €

Just deleted the Xe (currency exchange) app from my phone to save my sanity.

Damn! Krusher, a 5.8% Extra Pale Ale brewed by Panimoyhtiö Tuju x Temperance Brewing and hopped with Krush, Mosaic, Columbus, and Centennial, is freaking awesome! Light, crisp, fruity, floral, herbal, and dry. Should be a year-round offering. Kippis! 🍻🤘

From last night... First post-surgery beer after nearly three weeks of no beer: Pumpattava Barbaari (5% Helles Lager) from Panimoyhtiö Tuju in Lappeenranta, Suomi! Tuju has become one of my favorite breweries since moving to Finland. My dream is to do a collab with them one day. Kippis! 🇫🇮🍻🤘

"Norm!" Here's every single time that Norm Peterson walked into Cheers. (RIP: George Wendt)

Update: Took the bus to Porvoo on 12.05.2025 for a 2.5 hour surgery (more complicated than expected), but they let me pick and blend my own drugs during the procedure. Entire thing will only cost me around 200€ + they covered 75% of my taxi back to Helsinki. Still recovering, but doing good. 🤘

Going to miss @kairyssdal.bsky.social on @marketplace.org's Make Me Smart podcast (his last show in next Thursday), but looking forward to where @kimberlyadams.bsky.social and @reema.bsky.social take the show. Also glad to hear that Kai is exploring clear IPAs again.

This is a great listen from @npr.org’s Short Wave podcast for anyone trying to learn a second language as an adult (like me with Finnish).

Working to deGoogle and deApple myself by the end of the year. Mostly involves buying a Fairphone running Murena's /e/OS, building a Linux desktop machine, and replacing apps/services, but the exercise of mapping all of this out alone is already proving to be fun, enlightening, and liberating.

Scattered snow flurries this morning with temps dropping for the week here in Helsinki. Who's ready for third winter in Finland?! 🌨️❄️🥶🇫🇮

“However, it might seem a bit of a paradox to some when people are encouraging others to boycott the US on an American-owned social media platform.”

RIP: Val Kilmer

Believe nothing. Trust no one. Just like any other day of the year. #AprilFoolsDay

I wish Finland would stop messing around with Daylight Saving Time (started today) and adopt "winter time" as the permanent standard.

Went drinking last night and then I get this notification. 😫 @rodneyanonymous.bsky.social

End-to-end encryption is secure because it protects the contents of your communications in transit between the endpoints. If you make one of those endpoints an editor at The Atlantic, no amount of encryption is going to save you from your own stupidity.

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

Report: It Time To Give Up theonion.com/report-...

Good morning from Finland! 🇫🇮 "Finland is named the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 published Thursday."

“People in Finland returned around 2.3 billion deposit-based beverage containers last year, which is the highest number ever recorded.” "Returns increased by a significant 130 million from 2023, with cans being the most commonly recycled item, accounting for over 1.5 billion returns.”

Looming strikes could limit supplies of beer in Finland. “A strike targeting the largest breweries, Hartwall, Olvi and Sinebrychoff, will begin on Sunday if no agreement is reached before then.” "Nearly 1,000 employees would take part in the walkout from Sunday evening until Friday evening.”

Friends don't let friends drink green beer.

Forgot to check earlier this month, but Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A. has renewed ratebeer.com despite killing the platform and its beer community last month, refusing to sell it, and doing absolutely nothing with the domain. I mean, at least redirect it to beeradvocate.com 😘

I'll take “Three new ways to die” for $100, Alex.

“Schools would have the freedom to decide on the use and storage of mobile devices during other parts of the school day, such as breaks and during lunch.” My kid's school (public/Finnish) already has very strict restrictions on the use of mobile devices, so this sounds reasonable.

All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets

Made some updates to BeerAdvocate that impact beer activity, scoring, and ranking… Expanded the active threshold to 5 years, removed the min requirement for scoring, increased the algorithmic min to 20, applied a scaling factor when < min, and more.

Seems legit. Plus they followed me. Should I accept?

Another early morning. Been up since 03:28. Might as well start pouring coffee down my neck and get some work done.

FULL KEYNOTE -- me + Guy K at SXSW on why privacy is a fundamental guarantor of a gorgeous, good life (not an absence, not a vacuum, not abstract). And how AI threatens privacy. And why Signal is so special and why you should use & love & support it ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7...

Congrats to everyone who posts other people's videos without their consent or even a mention. You can now post 3-minute videos on Bluesky!

I’ve got bread in the freezer, just in case. “The industrial action is scheduled to begin at 12:00am on Tuesday, 11 March and continue until 11:59pm on Sunday, March 16.” #Suomi #Finland

Who’s ready for second winter in Finland? 🌨️❄️🥶🇫🇮 #Suomi #Finland #winter