Noice. 😏 #TUNNED

That ref is TINY. I would really like to know how many more steps she has to do to keep up with these mostly giants compared to her. What a powerhouse. 💪👏 #TUNNED

Ok, we'll watch a bit then... #NEDTUN (or is it #TUNNED?)

Your daily reminder that 'Europe' is not a singular entity. I live in Portugal and the last time I checked that's in Europe. We have AC, we have built-in bug screens in all our windows, including roller shutters.

[109] Landelijke hittegolf is een feit

Is this the time to say it's a chilly 20 degrees Celsius here in central Portugal, with some rain incoming perhaps as well, and having 3 days around 23 degrees at the hottest? I put an extra blanket over the duvet cover this morning as it was around 15 degrees...!

And Belgium, the south of the Netherlands, North of Italy... Around Zaragoza in Spain. It's NOT NORMAL. More data centers, less trees, more money to the rich, less quality of life, more false promises, less equality, more division. No world left.

I hope everyone who complains about the #heatwave the upcoming days, yet still uses #GenAI will have their AC units and fans broken, their windows stuck closed, and their fridge broken. Oh, and their thinnest coolest clothes to rip on a random nail sticking out or something. #SorryNotSorry

Portuguese class with a test and early finish. Sushi after with a white Dão wine. Port Wine with the first half of Scotland -Brazil. House cooled down to 22°C. No electrician here tomorrow = no alarm clock during our 'holiday'. Life could be worse. Good night!

Oh Scotland.... #SCOBRA

I hope everyone who complains about the #heatwave the upcoming days, yet still uses #GenAI will have their AC units and fans broken, their windows stuck closed, and their fridge broken. Oh, and their thinnest coolest clothes to rip on a random nail sticking out or something. #SorryNotSorry

Europe is currently experiencing an unprecedented heat wave. The US government is paying companies to stop plans for wind farms. Tech companies are building mountains of energy-sucking data centers. This is unsustainable, literally www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Milhões balões para celebrar #SãoJoão. Os níveis de perigo para incêndios são elevados... Então. Tradições são importantes, são lindas, mas... Epa... Pensa! #Portugal #SaoJoao

Hu-fucking-ray. René's Portuguese driving license request has finally been approved as well. He'll be able to drive again soon. It's just been me for two months now, and while I love driving, I could never be married to someone who doesn't drive because sharing the trips is THE WAY for us...!

A few years ago I was traveling through France with my campervan. We had 2 nights that didn't dip below 28 if I remember well. Absolute hell.. People calling this 'normal summer weather' are either ignorant, stupid or just want to rage bait.

One thing the nay-sayers do not understand when they moan about 'the colours being too alarmist' is that it is not just a colour that reflects a temperature in many mainstream maps now. It reflects the DIFFERENCE to what should be normal for this time of year.

This, combined with one of the images shared in the responses... If I read one more 'THIS IS JUST SUMMER' comment on any of the social media news shares... My gawd it is just so friggin' awful to live in this age seeing people make light of temperatures that are life threatening at a large scale.

I think perimenopause has hit me like a fucking freight train. Not just the anxiety, but my hands are agony the last few weeks. Stiffness and pain in the night and evening that is just fucking terrible and debilitating, easing a bit throughout the day. Doctors appointment not until 6 July though..

The Whitewashing of Starmer begins. Cue all journalists and political commentators to only remember the “good” he has done. Influential white men, are the most protected in this country. Blair, Johnson, Gove, Hannan, Farage, I could go on…

We're hitting 38C next week if the predictions come to reality. And it's still less daunting than having to face anything over 30 in the UK and Netherlands. Thoughts and prayers for you all the upcoming week.

First run outside since April. Just 2km around the house to test the waters. Just had so many other priorities, and with my anxiety peaking I need distraction. Ebike to and from gym, 1hr legs and this run with René to finish. It was good. And a post-run snack from the garden 🍅 #runningpunks

Why do so many boomer-age people put everything in their mobile phone jacket. Credit and debit cards, ID, driver's license... If you lose that you lose EVERYTHING. Including your means to block passes and verify stuff online that a thief could also use to try and get more out of it... ?

Can't wait for the next power hungry white man or pick me white woman to lead the UK Labour Party while continuing to supply Israel with arms, demonising trans folks, and mentioning the phrase 'little boats' every other sentence to make sure the racists keep voting for them too.

CLOSE THE STRAIT UNTIL VAR IS ABOLISHED

Had a rather horrid health anxiety ridden day. Cancelled on going to a party, but kept busy around the house and got a lot done even though it was 34°C. We removed all old water pipes, spliced in two new ones, and cleared out more mess before the electrician comes tomorrow. Beer now. And football.

Ik ga eens kijken of de Portugese overheid ook dit kanjerplan kan promoten.

Here is work showing some of this effect. It is important, however, to see the form that this takes ‘in the wild’ in terms of the erasure of actual women-led scholarship in LLMs by multiple modalities, so I intend to run some bibliometrics myself and put the results out. arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Office for this afternoon...

Ugh, now the confirmed work is not confirmed and we're still in competition... Next week hopefully I'll know more. That's a bit of a bummer going into the weekend.

Need to at some point identify these apples and figure out if cider can be made eventually...

Happy Friday everyone. It's the last day of work before our 'holiday' together, which will be two weeks of laying underfloor heating and tiles, how super relaxing! Some more mowing grass for me today before it gets too hot and then doing some client work before beer o'clock finally arrives.

Just had the most infuriating customer service call in my life, and it already was so warm. I think I need to change clothes before we leave for Portuguese class. I've worked customer service jobs for low pay. YOU STILL DON'T MAKE YOUR LIFE AND THAT OF THE CUSTOMER THIS MISERABLE, FFS.

I'm soon being eaten by a thunderstorm Pacman....

Imagine living in Moscow, wanting NONE of this, yet not having the means to leave, while also feeling the constant guilt of 'your' country trying to destroy the lives of so many innocent Ukrainians that you can't do anything about.

Se vive em #Portugal dê uma vista de olhos a esta nova aplicação de segurança contra incêndios florestais. Baseia-se no trabalho de iniciativas como a fantástica fogos mas inclui muitas funcionalidades personalizáveis, alertas para vários locais! play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Yay, I guess, I won the 7-month project to start in July. Money incoming is good. But I'll miss dearly my time spent working in and around the house as much. To prepare I'll spend most of the day strimming the edges of the olive grove today...!

“Bezorgde Burgers !” De club waar racisme en vrouwenhaat hand in hand gaan! #Racisten #Vrouwenhaat #AZCGepeupel

Harry Kane is a true trooper and captain. He's a bit like Roy Kent: He's here. He's there.. He's every fucking where, Harry Kane. #ENGCRO #WorldCup2026 #WorldCup

Didn't expect anything from England, but this is a rather great match. From both teams. Could have easily been 4-4 and it'd be well-deserved; Croatia absolutely great as well. Apart from that spell from England around the 60th minute they have been pressuring well trying to get equal. #ENGCRO

Yup. Absolute madness.

Well, this is quite the game, innit? #ENGCRO

Really struggling with the Portuguese language course I'm doing now. It's not that it is 3 nights a week 3 hours per night. It's tough, but I can do it because I want to get fluent at some point. But the quality of the classes is so friggin' dire.

The first massive thunderstorm of the season here, and the first time we've had serious rain since the works have been completed.... ...and the new chimney entry leaks massively. Failed at the first test! Luckily the builder will come asap to remediate...

A keynote speaker admits to using Claude to write their paper or a work colleague visibly consults ChatGPT while fielding questions in a meeting (its disproportionately men doing this so far). Understand these acts as about power: the power to refuse to meaningfully engage or listen to others.

Haven't done any outside running since April and haven't been to the gym for 2 weeks. Had to prioritise the work on the house and fire safety on the land, which in many ways is as much of a work out as going to the gym, and yet I still make myself feel guilty for it. Really got to stop doing that.

GDPR? Not even once in our Portuguese language classes, being added without being asked into a whatsapp group with other students...! Wonderful.

Any government which puts such an effort into turning 700 pensioners into terrorists for holding pieces of cardboard is not fit to govern.

Another Monday morning of getting excited about some job postings only to then read they're all with 'AI-first' and 'AI-driven' companies and teams. I am so tired.

How is Starmer still 'in'? And why is every 'solution' to simply 'ban things'. Crime is also banned, but it doesn't keep it from happening. Like, kids will just click 'yes' or fill in a different birth date to register new social media. Or even have parents who don't care/allow it. Dimwit.